Page 7 of Two Chambered Heart

In the rearview mirror, Kayden watched the girl glaring at the two of them from the backseat.

“That man you hit will die,” Jase said as he drove, just to be cruel, just to crack her. But she looked like a girl that did what she needed to survive, and a girl that wouldn’t break over it.

She just turned her steely gaze away from the front seat and looked out the window, not responding to his brother’s jeer.

Chapter six

- Corey -

They drove for an hour on the country road in silence. The quiet made it hard for Corey to wrangle her racing thoughts, and though the views were very nice out there, dense forest giving way to silver lakes reflecting the grey sky above, she needed some other stimulation to keep her from truly appreciating the fucked up situation she’d landed in. She could tell she was on the brink of a meltdown, and that would not help her at all.

“Can you at least put some music on?” Corey asked the guys, keeping her eyes fixed out the window.

“Tell us your name and we’ll turn the music on,” Jason said from the driver’s seat.

“Fuck you,” Corey said, rolling her eyes at her own childish behaviour, and looking to see Jason’s reaction in the rearview mirror. He stared straight ahead at the road, but his face was twisted into a snarl. She could hear Kayden laughing from the passenger seat. For some reason, she didn’t feel like he was laughing ather.

A few moments later, another metal song started playing through the speakers. She recognized the song immediately—one of her favourites, “The Drain” by Bad Omens and Health. She had the same taste in music as these two psychos. She tried to fight the smile that was threatening to appear on her face.

She shouldn’t be surprised she had something in common with these guys, since lately, the men she’d been tangled up with had turned out to be complete shit. What was two more to add to the track record? Kayden’s hand reached out to turn the music up, and he caught her eye in the rearview mirror. He winked at her, and she had to fight harder to stop the smile from forming.

Corey pulled her hood up and leaned back into the big leather seat, closing her eyes, letting the beat of the guitar fill her veins. She dozed off a few minutes later, all the adrenaline from the morning draining from her system.

“We’re here.” A gravelly voice woke her up. She blinked her eyes open slowly, trying to hold on to the void of sleep rather than letting reality crash down on her. Her head was pounding.

Finally, Corey opened her eyes fully and took in the twins looking back at her. They both still had blood smeared across their face and dried up in their long, dark hair.

“You have blood in your hair,” she said, to neither one of them in particular. She could see the red motorcycles parked in front of the Range Rover, and she pieced together that they were the two bikers she’d seen coming and going yesterday.

“Do you always say the first thing that comes to your mind?” Kayden asked her. His eyes were just slightly lighter than his brothers, but she could only tell because the overhead lights of the car were on and the guys had put their faces so close to her. She figured it would be impossible to tell them apart in most lighting.

“Do you always kidnap girls?” she retorted.

“No,” Jason smirked. “The girls usually come home willingly. But you were the one hitching a ride inourcar, so really, we just brought you back to where you came from.”

“Then I’m free to go?” she said, reaching for the door handle.

Jason grabbed the rope still tied to her neck, his eyes narrowing at her.

“That’s not what I said, dog. I’m not sure if you noticed, but you just took part in a rather illegal activity. You know we can’t let you walk out of here.”

“So youarekidnapping me.” Corey mustered up all the bravado she had left. “I guess this is your first kidnapping, because you don’t seem to be too good at it. I could start screaming right now.”

Jason’s lips turned up in a vicious smile. “Go ahead and scream. You’re the one who tried to steal our Rover, and I’m sure the cameras from last night will show that.” Jason cocked a brow.

Shit.Corey hadn’t thought about the cameras. “Besides, security knows us quite well.”

“I wasn’t trying to steal your precious Range Rover,” Corey bit out.

Kayden was still watching her from the front seat. Up until now, he’d seemingly been okay with Jason leading the charge, but he intervened with a simple question. “Why were you sleeping in our car, Little Fox?”

“I didn’t choose it because it wasyourcar,” Corey said in exasperation.

“Then why did you choose it?”

“Range Rovers are easy to hot-wire and unlock, and all the new ones are a push-to-start.”

“Not your first car heist, then?” Kayden said, pressing his face closer to her.

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