Page 28 of Blade

“It’s okay, Cara.”

Viper pushes Cara out of the way when she makes a move to open the latch. Cara rolls her eyes and aims her gun toward the latch door as Viper opens it.

“Oh, my fuckin’ God. Cara, put your gun down,” Viper orders her. “Bear, call Kevin and tell him to bring one of the SUVs.” Bear rushes off to do what Viper asked. When Cara turns around, the look of rage on her face is scary even to me.

“I need this motherfucker to wake up so I can kick his ass.”

“What’s in the hole, Cara?” Bianca asks.

Cara shakes her head and starts pacing. This isn’t good.

When Sara and Torch go to look into the hole, they have the same reaction. Viper starts searching Finn and finds a set of keys on him. He rushes down into the hole and after about five minutes, three women follow him out of the hole. They look like hell. They’re bloody with cuts all over their body. One looks worse than the others. Her cuts look infected and she’s deathly pale.

This fucker is sick! How long have they been down here? They shrink back from our group, not knowing who we are and what our intentions are. Viper and Torch step back while Cara takes a small step forward. “We’re not going to hurt any of you. We just want to help. Do you have any family you want to call? You can’t tell them about us though,” Cara tells them.

All three shake their heads and one steps forward a little. “We were all homeless when he took us. We have no one. I think that’s why he took us. Nobody knows we’re missing. I’m Nova, and this is Violet and Leah.”

Cara and Sara share a look and the turn their gaze to Viper. We all know what they want, but this could be tricky. They know too much already just by seeing our faces. We never wear our cuts when we do stuff like this, but still, they could identify us if the opportunity presented itself.

Viper sighs and his shoulders drop. My sisters are giving him the biggest puppy dog eyes and the fucker is giving in. I swear kids and marriage has made this man soft. Is this my fate now that I have Bianca and the girls? Viper steps forward and the women jump back again. “No one is going to hurt you. I know we must look intimidating with our height and tattoos, but I promise you we don’t hurt woman.”

They all nod and relax. “What you have seen here today, can’t leave this room, ever.” Viper is putting a lot at risk right now, but what kind of assholes would we be to just dump them back on the streets?

“We would never speak a word of this. You saved our lives. We’ll never be able to repay you for this. If keeping our mouths closed is all you request, then this day never happened,” Nova tells him. Violet and Leah nod in agreement.

Leah’s body shakes and she starts to fall to ground, but Torch catches her before she hits the floor. “We need to get you all to the doctor. Look, we can either drop you three off at a hospital or you can come with us and one of our brothers who is a doctor can look you over,” Viper says.

Nova and Violet look at each other and then back to Viper. “We’ll come with you guys if that’s alright.” Viper nods and we make our way out of the basement.

I have Bianca in my arms. She lays a gentle kiss on my neck. “I love you so much, Cam. I knew you would come for me. I just didn’t know if you would be too late.”

“Don’t talk like that. It would have killed me if something happened to you, Coco. Tomorrow, I’m getting you one of the charm trackers that Cara makes down at her tech shop.” She nods her head and doesn’t argue it. That’s good, because she didn’t have a say in the matter. I give Kevin the keys to my bike. I’ll drive the SUV with Bianca, Nova, Violet, and Leah.

“There better not be one scratch on my bike or that’s your ass, prospect.”

Kevin nods and straddles my bike. We make it to the clubhouse and Doc has us carry all four women to his medical room. Viper spent an insane amount of money putting this room together. After the Knights shot up the clubhouse, several men were injured and it was mayhem for Doc. Viper cleared two bedrooms, knocked out the walls, and let Doc get everything he needed.

Finn has been dragged off to the basement, gagged. I’m glad Sara had that tranq gun. I wanted his ass alive. A bullet to the head would be too gracious of a death for him. As soon as I have my woman settled, I’m going to have my fun. He’ll regret the day he took my woman, but I’ll also get him back for the things he did to the other women. Who knows how long this fucker has been pulling this shit? Tonight, I will end that monster.

ChapterSixteen

BIANCA

I’m so relived Blade and family found me before anything worse could happen. I could see it in Finn’s eyes. He was going to torture me for a long time and after seeing those women come out of that hole in the basement, I know my assumptions were right.

How can someone be that sick? I saw Dice throw Finn in the back of a van and I couldn’t care less what happens to him. I just hope whatever they do doesn’t come back and bite them in the ass. After Doc gets through stitching me and the other ladies up, Viper, Torch, Sara, and Cara walk into the room. Cara looks murderous and I don’t know how to take seeing her this way.

Cara is always the one making people laugh with her antics but, down in that basement, she was downright scary. Sara shocked me the most though. She’s always a sweetheart but seeing her with that gun in her hand and the anger on her face was out of this world. Sitting back, I wonder just how well I really know them.

“So, we have a couple of options for you ladies, and whatever you decide is fine. We can set you all up in a rental and give you some jobs so you won’t be homeless anymore or you can stay at one the houses we have in the back, and we will still get you all employed,” Viper tells them.

They whisper among each other going over their options. After a few minutes, they turn back to us. “We really don’t feel safe being out there. You guys saved us from that monster. I’ve been there the longest. Finn had me for nine months. If it’s alright, we would like to stay. We just want to know whose house we’ll be staying at,” Nova tells him.

“You’ll be staying Torch’s house, but he won’t be living there with you. He stays here in the clubhouse.” They all nod and sigh in relief. This is a really nice thing the MC is doing. I can only imagine how scared the women must be. I know if Finn had me longer than a day, I would never look at the world the same way. Viper tells the ladies to follow him, and he takes them to Torch’s house. Cara goes with them to put the ladies at ease. Cam takes my hand and leads me home. When we get home, Smoke is on the porch looking frustrated.

“What’s going on, Smoke?” I ask him.

“Your mama is pissed at me because I didn’t tell her what happened until after they found you. I didn’t want to panic her more than I already knew she would be if we didn’t know where you were. She just had open-heart surgery three weeks ago, and the doctor said no stress. I just—” I grab Smoke’s arm and cut him off.

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