Page 21 of Dusty and Dented
“And what will you do to them when you find out?”
He glanced her way, then turned his gaze back to the road.
“I can’t tell you that.”
She pulled her hand out of his and folded her arms across her chest.They were still keeping her on the outside.still blocking her from knowing what was going on and what kind of justice her brother’s murderers would get.
“Won’t you mean.”
“Okay, won’t.But that’s because I can’t.”
She narrowed her eyes at him, unhappy that he was giving a circular non-answer and not what she wanted to hear.
“That makes no sense.’
Dagger took a deep breath and let it out in a rush.
“I want to tell you.But I can’t.It’s club business, but that’s not the only reason I can’t tell you.It’s for your own protection.”
“I don’t need you protecting me.”She wanted to yell, to scream that she’s a big girl and could take care of herself, but she didn’t.It was hard to ignore that if the Angels weren’t around, if they weren’t doing their best to protect her, then she would even now be tied up in the back of that van or worse.
Dagger lifted his brows and glanced at her but didn’t argue.
“Do you know who they were?”her voice was soft as she asked a question she wasn’t sure she wanted to know the answer to.
“I just told you,” he frowned and glanced over at her, “we don’t know yet, but we’ll find out.”
“Not who killed Travis, but the guys today.The ones who took me.”
“Oh.”He fell silent for a moment, then spoke again.“I know who one of them is, and we know what club they’re with, if that’s what you mean.We’ll find out why they came after you, though.And we’ll do our best to make sure that never happens again.How did they manage to get you?Did you open the door for them?”
Andy rolled her shoulders, still keeping her arms crossed as she looked away.
“Yeah, I opened the door.I looked out the window and saw someone in a vest,” she reached over, hooked one finger into the arm of the vest he wore and tugged before releasing it, “and thought he was an Angel.You’d just told me someone was coming and bringing some stuff.”
“Did he say anything?What did you do when you realized he wasn’t an Angel?”Dagger turned over the hand she’d pulled away from, so it lay extended towards her, palm up, silently asking her to put her hand back.
Andy stared at the hand for a few seconds.She didn’t take his hand again, but she did loosen her arms where they were still crossed over her chest.
“No, he didn’t say anything, just picked me up over his shoulder, and carried me out to the van.He dropped me inside, then there was a pain in my head and everything went black.”
Dagger didn’t say anything, but she could feel the tension radiating off him.She couldn’t help but wonder what he was thinking but she wasn’t ready to ask.Not yet.
