Page 79 of Ride Hard
Why did I take him at face value? Why didn’t I press him about it? Because I was too damn infatuated with him. I was too desperate to fall in love to see the big picture. I should’ve focused on how I was going to survive on my own rather than latch onto a man who nevercared.
I was such an idiot, and now I was in the hands of theenemy.
“He got what was coming to him,” Bailey said with a smirk, adjusting his cock as he gawped at me. “Eye for aneye.”
I went to stand up, my lip curling in a snarl, but Blue Eyes pushed me backdown.
“There’s no getting out of this, Betty,” he said calmly. “Your father fucked with us, Gunnar screwed us over, and now we have to take payment. This is for their own good even if you can’t see it. Six men.” He counted them on his fingers. “It was going to be a clean death, but the repayments just gained a lot of interest.” He eyed me, his gaze raking over my body, taking in every bump and curve. “We’re not the kind of men who show mercy. Mercy is not in our vocabulary. Violence, pain, blood, death, murder… Those are words weunderstand.”
I tensed, my throat constricting. Why weren’t they finishing me off? Why weren’t they putting a bullet in my head and throwing my limp body off the train? Chaser wasn’t coming—they’d made that clear. Whichmeant…
Chaser wasdead.
Chaser wasdead.
I swallowed a wail of despair. What was the point? I could run from him all I wanted, but it would never erase how I felt about him. His secrets were hung up for all to see, his dead wife was more than out there, and now I was locked in a room with a rapist and a career killer, and he was dead. There was no way out. Not thistime.
There was nothingleft.
“Just end it,” I managed to croakout.
Blue Eyes smirked, and Bailey laughed as he reached out and grasped my breast. Jerking away, I kicked out, but he only grabbed my ankle and forced my legsapart.
“We have unfinished business, you and me,” he drawled. “Balls deep,bitch.”
He raised his hand and struck me. I fell back into the seat, my cheekthrobbing.
“We’ve got twenty minutes,” Blue Eyessaid.
“Give meten.”
“No.”
“C’mon, just let me finger her alittle.”
Blue Eyes glared at him inwarning.
Chaser… Fuck, he was so right. I was too stupid tolive.
“Once we leave the train, we’ve got a long road back to the Strip,” Blue Eyes said. “Once we’re there, it’s openseason.”
Bailey’s eyes lit up, and he grasped his cock through his jeans. “Yeehaw!”
“I’ll kill you.” I hissed, seething. “I’ll cut your filthy cock off and ram it up your asshole while you beg formercy.”
Blue Eyes snorted and raised his eyebrows. “Hear that? That sounds like aparty.”
“She’s got fight in her,” Bailey said, practically bursting from his jeans inexcitement.
“You’ll neverwin.”
Blue Eye’s hand grasped my face and forced me towardhim.
“Oh, sweetheart…we alreadyhave.”
