My stomach churns more and I can’t hold my nausea back. I bend at the waist and vomit all over the floor, hitting Marshall’s shoe at the same time.
“Fuck, nasty bitch,” Marshall snarls, wrenching my head back and slapping me with enough force he sends me backward into the wall where I crumple to the floor.
“What the fuck is going on? Marshall, what the hell are you doing?” my brother demands.
“Marshall, you can’t hurt the merchandise. Now I’ll have to wait and sell her at the next auction or hope the elite will be willing to understand. They want her, cousin,” Lavina states.
“No, Vina. I paid for this cunt. She fuckin’ belongs to me and I will not be selling her. Chigger knows I paid for her and I will not be put off any longer on what I’ve bought and paid for,” Marshall snarls.
“Yes, Marshall, you paid for her for the time you took to rape her. Your words were and I quote ‘I want your sister, Chigger. I don’t care if it’s just a weekend or however long but I want her as mine.’ So, I gave her to you at the price you offered for the time. It was also my punishment to my sister for crossing me,” Warren sneers.
“You fuckin’ asshole,” Marshall growls.
“Business is business my friend. I’m sure Lavina can attest to this.” Warren shrugs at least having pulled on a pair of pants as Lavina wraps a robe around herself. The other two women remain where they are. Cherry still in the sling with the other woman I want to say is Peaches. The woman Lavina mentioned earlier.
“You’re right, Chigger. And I must say though it pains me to say it. Marshall, you’re my blood but you could very well have cost me three million for damaging the merchandise, and I can’t have that,” she mutters.
Lavina lifts her right arm, points a gun at Marshall, and pulls the trigger.
I let out a bloodcurdling scream at the sound of the gun going off and Marshall’s blood splatters all around me. His body drops at my feet and my eyes widen at the sight of his surprised face. He didn’t think Lavina would kill him. You could see it in his expression.
“Now if you’re in here, where is your friend?” Warren demands. “I know you, Parker, you’ve most likely tried to find a place in this warehouse for her to hide from us or even found an escape.”
I shake my head refusing to answer him.
“I suggest you tell me where she is,” Lavina demands. “I will not lose the money I’m to make on you, her, and the other woman I’ve just procured from some very friendly gentlemen.”
Again, I shake my head.
Lavina steps forward at the same time someone knocks on the door.
“What?” my brother snaps.
“Boss man, you’re gonna wanna come out here. One of the women in the cage is acting funny,” one of my brother’s men says through the door.
“Fuckin’ hell,” he snaps and glares at me. “You’re coming with me. Seems I can’t allow you out of my sight.” Roughly he grasps my upper arm in his grip and drags me behind him.
“Why are you doing this?” I ask him quietly in the hallway.
“Because you’re a whiny ungrateful bitch who thinks she can leave me when I’m the one person who’s been there for you your entire life,” Warren snaps, tilting his head down to glare at me as he continues to prowl down the hallway following his man.
“I wasn’t trying to leave you. I wanted to go away for school. I used to look up to you. Love you as only a sister could love her big brother. But you, Warren, you destroyed my faith and trust in you,” I state.
“Whatever, Parker, now shut up,” he growls.
“No, I won’t shut up,” I snap.
I don’t know what it is but something snaps inside me and I start fighting back. I push my brother and he releases his hold on me, surprised by the fact I’d touch him in a way of getting out of his reach.
My brother narrows his gaze on me and strikes me with the back of his hand. “You fucking bitch. You want to fight me. Go ahead, see if you can get past me. I’ll kill you first. Fuck the money I could get with you. There’s dime a dozen women who are worth far more than you. Maybe I’ll take the other women who belong to those scumbags you want to be a whore to.”
He takes a step forward, and I back up a step.
“I’m not an object to be sold, nor am I a whore. I’m a person who only wanted to live her own life. Not to be dictated to by her brother,” I scream.
Chigger goes to hit me when a gun appears out of nowhere at my brother’s head.
“Take another step toward my woman and see if I don’t put a bullet in your head right fuckin’ here,” Cane snarls.
My body sags against the wall and I fall to the floor in relief at knowing he came for me.
Knowing I’m safe.
I close my eyes and block out everything else as my world goes dark.
Chapter Eighteen
Cane
I heard my woman’s screams from outside of the warehouse after a gunshot went off.
Fuck.
Please be okay.
I can’t bear the thought of something happening to her.
“Keep it together, brother,” Venom says from next to me.
“She’s gonna be okay,” Whip mutters from the other side of me.
I know she will be. I’m gonna make sure of it.
Tracker pulls out his phone and nods. “Vi’s inside and in a location filled with a container of women. Said one of them didn’t look too good. There’s about thirty men total inside. Most of them were taking advantage of the women.”
Shit. Shit. Shit.
This is going to be some fucked up bullshit we’re heading into.
“Raven’s saying she’s got eyes on
