I only hoped Annslee was where her phone was. It fuckin’ sucks relying on a phone to find my woman. I swear to God when I get her back, I’ll never let her out of my sight again.
Following the directions on my phone, it’s brought us all the way to Lake Gaston, North Carolina.
Fuckin’ hell, what the hell would they bring her here for?
Glancing over to Lex, who was riding next to me, he shakes his head. Guess he knew what I was wondering. Sometimes the four of us have a way of knowing what’s in each other’s heads.
I’d been surprised when Twister and Horse didn’t object when I took the lead as we rode together. So, when he’d come up on my other side and motioned for us to slow, I did as he ordered, pulling to a stop on the side of a backroad. Glancing down at the dot on the screen of my phone it seems so close yet so far away. Putting the kickstand down, I pull my helmet off and climb off the back of my bike.
“We still have a bit before we get to where Annslee’s phone is but with it being such a wooded area we go through on foot,” Twister orders.
I get why he chose for us to go the rest of the way on foot, but I still want nothing more than to get to Annslee as fast as I possibly can. Then again, whatever they have planned for my woman could end up being escalated quicker than they plan.
My gut tightens at the idea of what they could be doing to her right now. I hate the fact I’m not with her. If I could trade with her in a heartbeat I would, to take whatever it was she was going through. I’d seen the scars on her body. The faint marks that scatter her torso. I never asked what they were from, but I can only imagine.
“Let’s move quickly, we’re not far. There’s a cabin about half a mile away and the lake is pretty much behind it,” Gadget declares, his face bowed as he stares at his phone.
“Right, let’s get this done. I’m fuckin’ tired of the women in our lives getting fuckin’ hurt by some sick bastard or another,” Burner snarls.
Nodding, I start moving toward the woods.
Hang on Annslee, I’m coming for you.
“You hear that?” I murmur quietly to Tanner as we make our way closer to the cabin. You could see it not far from where we were now.
“Yeah, I hear it,” Tanner grumbles, taking another step forward.
It sounded like water splashing, then it dawned on me.
Fuck, they’re in the lake.
Screw moving quietly anymore.
Taking off, I sprint the rest of the way through the woods, my brothers cursing and following me, not bothering to stop me.
Rounding the cabin, I stop at a man standing there grinning like a loony tune. My gaze goes past him and my heart plummets at what I’m seeing. Pushing myself further, I jump into the water and make my way with a quick pace to the man holding Annslee’s form under water.
Getting close enough, I jump knocking the fucker back away from my woman. Burner and Hades move past me to the asshole, I can only assume is Terry Nelson or Lawrence Richmond. Either way I didn’t care. Right then I needed to see to Annslee. Scooping her into my arms I immediately know she’s not breathing.
Fuckin’ hell. This shit can’t be happening. I can’t lose her. Not now. She’s my everything. I hadn’t gotten the chance to tell her exactly how much she meant to me. How I used to dream of finding her without meaning to, in my dreams I always had her in my arms one way or another. My favorite dream of her is stopping to help her when her car breaks down and taking her home where I consume her all night long. I didn’t care in my dreams she was mine and I finally got her in real life. Acknowledge what I felt for her, yet I didn’t get to tell her the complete depths of my feelings for her.
If there were a God, he needed to answer my prayers for once in my life and not take the woman who holds my heart from me.
Or our son. He doesn’t deserve to go his entire life without his mother. Not after only having her for less than two years of his life.
“Come on get her up here,” Dragon demands coming toward me as I carry my woman. Getting to the edge of the lake, Dragon takes her from me in order to lay her in the grass.
“Brother, watch out for scorpions, I’ve just crushed two with my boot,” Gadget calls out from several feet ahead.
“Fuck, one of you get down here and make sure none get near us. Hunt, I want you to breathe into Annslee’s mouth as I do the compressions,” Dragon commands.
“Yeah,” I mutter. The two of us work together to perform CPR on Annslee. “Come on Dimples, come back to me,” I growl, demanding her prone body to do something, anything.
Finally, after what feels like an eternity, Annslee coughs sucking in a breath, rolling her to her side I hold her as she spits water out of her mouth.
Thank fuck.
Fuckin’ hell. Thank you for bringing her back to me.
“That’s it, Annslee, get it out,” Dragon states from in front of her as I hold her head in my lap stroking her hair with one hand and patting her back with the other. “Fuck, what are all these marks on her stomach?” he rasps furiously.
“I’m betting scorpion stings,” Lex stated, holding a sack up in one of his hands. “Found this up there near the old man, had a couple more scorpions in it. My guess, he let some loose on
