Page 47 of Protected By the Bikers Next Door
“Yes, anything, just give me my phone and I’ll call them. I’ll tell them to stop. Just please leave the children out of it.”
Susan, still drugged but more lucid, looks up in alarm. “You never said anything about hurting no kids.”
Viktor hits her hard across the face with his pistol, splitting her cheek, “Shut up, you junkie whore. You got what you wanted. Harper’s out of the picture you can keep whatever’s left of your men. Though I doubt there’ll be anything worth salvaging by the time my men are finished with them.”
“You bastard!” Susan cries, lashing out with nails like claws, scratching his face. The guard intervenes, pulling her back.
“Touch me again, whore, and I’ll kill you,” he threatens, his voice low and calm.
While he’s distracted, I’ve noticed Paul slowly inching his way toward the table where a gun has been left. I do my best to distract Viktor and keep his focus on me.
“Please, let me call them off. I’ll do anything you say, just please don’t harm Jenny.”
With a triumphant smirk, Viktor pulls my phone out of his pocket and dials, putting the phone on speaker as he gestures for his guard to bring me closer to him.
Wolf answers the phone after a couple of rings. He sounds out of breath from fighting. “Harper?”
“Yes, it’s—”
Viktor’s free hand snaps out, grabbing me tightly by the throat, crushing my windpipe so I can’t speak. “She’s here, and so far, unharmed. I have hostages, including little Jenny. So I advise that you call your men off.”
He releases his grip on my throat, and I choke out, “Please, Wolf, stand down. They’re at Pam’s house.”
“Harper, listen to me. Jenny is fine. We’re coming for you.”
“No, you don’t understand—”
“Tell that asshole to check his cameras,” Wolf says confidently.
With a frown, Viktor gestures for the man with the tablet, who strides over and holds the footage up. It’s the same as before, but after a moment, the camera turns around to show the face of the person holding it. My heart leaps out of my chest with relief and confusion when I see Hawk smiling and waving, the body of one of Viktor’s men on the floor behind him.
“Surprise, asshole.”
I don’t get to hear anything else because Viktor throws the tablet on the floor with such force that it smashes into pieces. “Fuck!” he screams before composing himself, straightening his tie.
“Alright, so you have the girl. But I still have your pregnant whore. You gonna come and rescue your damsel in distress?” Viktor taunts Wolf.
Wolf chuckles, the sound almost a growl. “You clearly don’t know Harper very well. Our woman is no damsel in distress. You should have realized six years ago that you fucked with the wrong girl. Harper, we’re coming, but in the meantime, remember who you are.”
Viktor snorts with derision. “You’re even stupider than you look, Mr. Wolf,” he says, ending the call.
Now I know Jenny’s safe and Hawk is there with her, nothing is going to hold me back. Wolf is right. I came here intending to take Viktor down alone. I don’t need to wait for rescue. I can take on the bad guy myself.
My hands are only loosely tied at the front, and Viktor is currently unarmed as he’s still holding the phone. Viktor thinks I’m helpless. That we all are. He’s spent so long being alone, selfishly putting himself first, he’s forgotten that families lookout for each other. That we’re stronger together than we are alone.
The sound of Wolf and the others breaking down the door is our cue to act.
“Now, Paul!” I yell.
Chapter 27
Bear
Chaos explodes the second we breach the room. Gunfire cracks off the walls, the air instantly thick with smoke and cordite.
Harper is right in the center of it all—fearless, beautiful, goddamn unstoppable. She lunges forward, driving her forehead into Viktor’s face. The crunch of bone carries even over the gunfire, and Viktor staggers back, blood pouring from his nose.
Paul makes a grab for the gun left on the table. His hands shake, but somehow, against all odds, he squeezes the trigger and the shot lands. Viktor jerks as the bullet punches into his shoulder. Another round grazes past him, sending him sprawling to the floor.
