Page 69 of Blood Claims
“Easy, for fuck sake! I can walk myself!” I shouted, making whoever it was behind me just push me toward a blacked-out van as the side door slide open and I was practically tossed inside, making me go sprawling on the hard floor. Then before I could say a single word of protest, a flash of movement was all I saw. In fact, it was the last thing I saw before I waspunched across the face, making me fall hard enough that I was suddenly…
Knocked out cold.
The next timeI came to, I instantly knew I was in trouble. Especially seeing as my arms were raised up above my head and my feet were minus any shoes with my toes barely just touching the ground. My face hurt like a mother fucker and the second I tried to move, my whole body ached.
“Ah, finally, the blood bitch is awake.”
I couldn’t help but flinch the second I heard the same voice from the phone call. But if I had hoped that keeping my eyes closed and my head hanging down would save me from this new nightmare, I was wrong. I ended up crying out the second my hair was gripped tight and my head was forced up, making me cry out at the pain.
“There you are… now it’s time to make the brothers pay and let them know my boss is the new player in this city,” the man said as I took in my first look of him. He clearly made no attempts at hiding he was a Vampire. His fangs were out and were so long that they were dimpling his lower lip. His stark white hair was shaved short, with his eyes matching as they were currently glowing silver. He was about six-feet tall with a muscular frame that stretched his tight black T-shirt. He had tattoos that were deep red swirls up both arms, as if he had been injected with blood not ink. He also had one ear missing, as if it had been cut off at some point.
I swallowed hard as I looked around the room, seeing I was in an office of some kind. The dirty windows showed the glimpseof a warehouse beyond, and there were crates all stacked up with the hint of a forklift in the corner.
I looked up to see my hands were tied with rope and looped over a hook, hanging from a chain, that was fixed around an iron girder. The industrial building showed the bare bones of its construction, with ducting and cables hanging down like dust-coated spider webs.
The single desk held stacks of paper, as well as guns, ammo, and what looked like lines of coke that had been cut on a broken glass panel. The floor was cracked, dirty concrete that made my eyes widen when I noticed the stains of blood that no one had cared to clean. As if cleaning up the evidence of a crime wasn’t on their important shit list of things to do. But kidnapping the Vampire Mafia crime boss’s new girlfriend most certainly was.
The man in front of me clicked his fingers an inch from my face before he snapped,
“Time to make you look pretty for your pictures.”
Then before I could prepare for it, I was punched in the gut, making me cough through the jarring pain as I swung on the chain.
“That won’t help with evidence, dickhead,” a new voice said as another man entered the room.
“Sorry, boss,” the white-haired henchman said.
As for the newcomer, he was a much older man, with a gut that hung over the waistband of his gray slacks, with his black shirt rolled up at the arms and the knot of his gray tie pulled down from his neck. His hair was peppered gray against the black, with the side parts losing its dark color first. But his eyes were the most startling part. They were bloodshot red, like he had been sprayed in the face with something. Even his skin was blotchy, with red patches that marred his face and neck.
“I must say, I was skeptical when I heard the news that the Erebus brothers had found their Fated.Their Moirai Theía,” hesaid in a mocking way, using the same name I had heard Victor and Tal both call me.
“But then when I saw evidence of it myself, I knew I had just been handed the weakness I had been hoping for. The one I thought would never come. The untouchable, finally in my…grasp to break,”he said, his hand making its way around my throat and squeezing so hard, it made me choke for breath.
“And it was sooo easy. Just a few pictures of your little friend roughed up before their guard dog had come biting, ruining all the fun… and fucking everything up!” he taunted, but then his eyes narrowed as he said the last part in a furious tone. As for me, I started to panic. But then just before I could pass out, he let me go, making everything burn in my throat as I coughed when dragging in precious air.
“Ah so you were right, she did believe it.”
“Just like I told you she would,” his goon said to the one who was clearly in charge and who, unfortunately, now held my life in his hands. The man who started laughing, the mockery in it was one that grated on every nerve, turning my fear into anger.
“Stacey, where is she!?” I shouted, making him stop, yet his sinister grin didn’t leave his face as he told me,
“She is precisely where your Vampires most likely said she would be. At some unknown location, taken there after their dog saved her and killed all my men. After he…killed my oldest son!”he snarled this last part, but my relief far outweighed my fear. Because at the very least, I knew she was safe and that was all I had cared about when giving myself up. Although, I also now knew that I had been fooled… and that part unfortunately started to sink in.
Because I had believed the brothers had lied, when in actual fact they had only told me the truth. I had seen that picture and panicked, knowing that I would do anything to save Stacey.
And now I was going to die because of it.
Because this man wanted one thing… revenge.
I could see it in his bloodshot eyes.
“And now, my dear… now I get to deliver you back to them in pieces, after I first drain you dry!”
I gasped, shaking and trying to get away from him, no matter how much it made my wrists bleed as I struggled. Yet despite knowing it was useless, it was like my body didn’t want to give up the fight. Didn’t want to throw away the maybe. The chance that I would slip free and get the chance to run.
But that hope was short lived when he suddenly fisted my hair and wrenched my neck to the side.
“And who knows, maybe once I’ve had a taste, maybe I too will want to fuck you raw and break you in with a real cock!” he taunted against my cheek, making me flinch.
