“Sweetheart, we’re not leaving. Everything we need to do we can do from this room. Promise.” Ramsey leans down and kisses her cheek, I do the same. She flinches a little and it makes me even angrier.

She closes her eyes, and it doesn’t take long before we hear her breathing even out.

Stepping into the bathroom, we leave the door slightly ajar just in case she wakes.

“What the fuck did that bastard do to her? Did you see those marks on her back?” Ramsey is barely holding it together.

“I’m going to do the same to him, the fucker”

We both take deep breaths. “You know we need to ring Razor, right?” Ramsey gets his phone out of his pocket and hands it to me. “He’ll listen to you.”

I laugh. “Yeah right. At least we have her so that’s something. But we are not leaving here for a few days until the mountain is passable. That gives us a few days before our brothers are here to help us. We are going to have to do this alone.”

“I know, Cash. But what about Meg, we can’t leave her on her own here. How is this going to work?”

I dial Razor’s number and it only rings once. “Where the fuck are you two bastards?” Yes, he’s angry.

“Raze, we couldn’t wait and do nothing when we knew where she was. The snow has closed the mountains, we only just made it in time. It was treacherous. But we’ve got her.”

“What the fuck did you say? How did you get her that quick?”

“Raze, man. She escaped by herself, and just turned up at the hotel where we had just arrived. They weren’t going to give her a room so she’s sleeping now. We gave her a bath because she was frozen brother.”

“You got her? Fuck.”

I can hear all the brothers in the background talking about her.

“Cash, how is she?”

“She’s in a bad way, brother. She’s been beaten, whipped and even though she’s not said anything we think she’s been abused.”

“Fuck!”

I hear some shuffling and then Knuckles’ voice comes on the phone. “Thanks to both of you. I’m glad you didn’t listen to Prez. Thanks guys. When she’s awake I want to talk to her.”

“Of course.”

Razor takes the phone again. “Thanks guys, my little witch will be happy to know she’s safe. When do you think you’ll be able to come back?”

“I’m not sure. They’re saying a few days.”

“Cash?”

“Yes.”

“Don’t go after him. Just bring her home. We can’t risk losing one of you now.”

“There’s no way we are leaving here without him being six feet under.”

“Cash. You didn’t listen to my instructions earlier, which I’m gonna let slide because you found her. But you keep her safe and bring her home to us as soon as the mountains open and then we find him and kill the fucking bastard together. Do you understand me?”

It goes against everything in me to leave town without finding the bastard. But I know that if I break his rules again there will be serious repercussions and if Ricky is really in with the Black Stallions MC then we will need more than me and Ramsey to fight them.

“I hear you, Prez.”

Ramsey grabs the phone. “I hear you too. We are going to be holed up for a couple of days, but as soon as that mountain path is passable, we are going to be leaving here and making our way back. We are bringing our girl home for Christmas.”

Chapter 6