Page 38 of Chaos (Deathstalkers MC)
Viper pulls a bunch of rope from under the jacket he has on. “Turn around.” Nikki does as she is told and he ties her wrists together before knocking her to the ground and doing the same with her ankles. “Your turn.” He looks over at Lucy. Her bottom lip trembles as she walks over to the man with his gun trained on her. She knows firsthand how dangerous Viper is. He repeats the same process leaving her on the floor next to Nikki.
Turning to me he smiles. “Now you get the rope too, but you get to come have fun with me.” He twirls his finger in a circle letting me know he wants me to turn around. I slowly do as he says while every inch of me is screaming at me to fight. I know that he won’t hesitate to shoot me though. At least if I cooperate with him then maybe it will give the guys time to find us.
He opens the door, the entire time his gun is trained on me making sure that I don’t try to do anything. With one hand he pulls something into view.
Oh God.
It’s Tommy.
His throat is slashed and there is blood everywhere. Viper picks him up almost tossing him inside. He reaches for something else and when I see it I immediately feel sick.
Gasoline.
“Don’t do this.” It’s the first time I’ve spoken since I saw him. “Just take me and leave them alone, please.”
He smiles at me and strokes my cheek with his finger. My skin crawls in his wake.
He walks around the living room, lining the walls with the gas. When he walks back over to Lucy and Nikki I scream, “No!”
Luckily as he turns the can over there is almost nothing left.
I breathe a sigh of relief that maybe by some miracle when we leave they can find a way out of this.
Viper grips my arm. “Well, ladies, it’s too bad that things had to end this way.” He pulls a match out of his pocket and strikes it against the doorframe.
He pulls me down the few steps with him before tossing the match into the house. I collapse onto the ground as the flames ignite.
The girls are crying.
I can hear them as Viper drags me to his car.
***
Torch
We are the last car to get to the warehouse and when I notice that the girls still aren’t here I get a bad feeling. After everyone gets out, I pull out of the lot and speed toward my house. Maybe they are just doing their hair or some shit and I’m overreacting. I didn’t even notice that the battery on my cell was so low and it’s dead so I can’t call them. My heart races faster with each minute that passes.
As I turn onto the road that leads to my house, it is my worst fear all over again. The house is in flames. It’s just like all those years ago. I jump out of my car, seeing flames coming from the entrance of the house. I can hear the girls yelling for help from inside the house. I will not let people I love down again. This time I will save them.
I look around in the car finding a black hoodie that one of the guys had left. Wrapping it around me I take a deep breath and run as fast as I can through the doorway immediately dropping to the floor and rolling to put out any flames that might have caught onto the fabric. Standing up, I immediately see Lucy and Nikki tied up on the floor.
“Shit!” I look around for a way to get them out. “Where is Tracie?”
Lucy coughs before her eyes meet mine. Then she utters the words I never thought I would hear. “Viper took her.”
No.
It’s not possible.
I need to get these girls out of here and then find Tracie. I see one window where the flames aren’t as high. “Where are your cell phones?”
“My bag is on the couch,” Nikki sputters out. I see it and as I take a few steps I notice Tommy’s body on the floor. Shit.
I cough a few times, the smoke starting to get to me. I grab Nikki’s bag and also pick up one of the kitchen stools. The rest of the kitchen is full of flames or I would grab something to cut their ropes with.
Using every ounce of strength I have, I toss the stool through the window. I run back grabbing another one and quickly using it to clear some of the jagged glass. “Okay. I can’t carry you guys through the front door. Both of us won’t make it through those flames like I did. Unfortunately, my best bet is to toss you. It’s only about a ten-foot drop so I’m hoping it won’t be too bad.”
Their eyes grow wide as I tell them I’m about to toss them out a window. I grab Lucy first hoping that I can do this the way I’m envisioning it. “When you land I need you to roll away so that I can toss Nikki after you.” She nods as she coughs in my arms.
