Page 23 of Collide

Fuck.

Panic began to bubble in my belly. I had been shit scared during our face off in the alley but I thought I had done my best to not let it show. Here now, in the darkness of this small enclosure, panic hit me full force.

I took a couple of calming breaths, trying to reassure myself that Iwould be okay. I had to be okay, for Angel’s sake.

What the fuck did Kai want with me?

If he wanted to kill me for witnessing him murder a man hecould have done it on the spot.

But he hadn’t.

Was he worried I would go to the police? I’d have to convince himone way or another that I wouldn’t tell another soul what I had witnessed.

Bile churned in my belly as rumors of the Wolfe brothers' violenttendencies circled my brain. Kendra had told me about how the Wolfe brothers had warehouses all over the city where they took people to torture them and then dispose of bodies in the most heinous of ways.

Was that my fate?

I couldn’t let that happen, what would happen to my sister?

Angel's face kept appearing in my head, what would she think whenshe woke up in the morning and I wasn’t in my bed? She’d be terrified, and then she wouldn’t be able to communicate with anyone to tell them I was missing.

Fuck, I needed to get back home before she woke up, before sherealized anything was wrong.

The car rumbled along, heading to fuck knows where. I had no clueas to how long I’d been in the trunk, ten minutes, thirty minutes? Time seemed to move differently when you were shit scared and locked up.

Why the hell had I given him back chat and not gone willingly?

Maybe because I wasn’t some servant willing to be ordered around.

I thought back to the moment when I realized it was Kai who wasmy savior from the man who was undoubtedly going to rape me. I had been relieved, but it had been a stronger feeling than just relief.

Excitement maybe, lust even?

I’d forgotten how fucking hot he was, I’d thought about him adozen times in the last week but seeing him in the flesh again,Holy hell.

Whatever the feeling at seeing him again was, I wasn’t sure. What Iwas sure of now though was whatever I had felt, it was long fucking gone, replaced by anger at the man who had thrown me callously into the trunk of the car like some kind of fucking animal.

How dare he.

I needed to have a plan for when we eventually came to a stop. Itwas pointless trying to fight my way out of the trunk and kicking and screaming would only tire me out. I had a feeling I would need all my energy for whatever I was going to face when we got to wherever the fuck we were going.

I needed to be smart, smarter than the man who ran the city.

There were no two ways about it.

I was fucked.

Okay, plan A. When he opens the trunk, I jump out, kick him as hardas I can in the balls and run.

There were several problems with this ridiculous plan, the main onebeing that I had no idea where I was being taken to. I knew the Wolfe brothers lived somewhere in West Bay but that part of Hollows Bay washuge.

It also meant I was at least half an hour away from home. Therewas no way I’d be able to make it back to East Bay without him stopping me, I only had a small amount of change and my crappy phone which had no credit in my bag.

Speaking of which, where the fuck was my bag?

I felt around in the boot but didn’t find it, I must have dropped it whenthat asshole sent me flying into the garbage bags, meaning I really did have no way of getting back home.

Besides, Kai knew where I worked, I’d have to literally get home,gather Angel and whatever shit we could carry, and get the fuck out of Hollows Bay, but where would we go? What would we do to survive?

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