Page 25 of Save Me Enemy

“It always is,” I smile, my best seductive smile. “Not like a real man, real men never give me problems…” I lean towards him. The best way I know to get out of a situation like this is make him think he’s the sexiest man in the world.

“I should know!” he laughs, and I lean back in my chair, pulling the neck of my shirt down and fanning it over my chest as if I’m hot. “Boy trouble is why I’m here, in fact.”

“Not here for a woman?” I ask, crossing my legs and rubbing them together suggestively.

“Oh, I am,” he answers, his voice flat.

Suddenly the joking tone is gone, and his knuckles are stark white on the steering wheel. The knowledge that I’m in a dangerous situation sinks into my marrow like lead. I wrack my mind, the name Corey bouncing off the walls in recognition but not registering.

“How’s my baby girl, anyway?” he asks, sounding more like a demand.

My heart drops. I feel like I’m going to be sick, my heart is racing, hands trembling, the act is over. For both of us.

The woman’s, the monster’s dying words.

Don’t let him…Corey…get my baby!

“Tell me where you people are hiding Jessica, you can’t protect her forever. Someone will fuck up, someone will lead me to her. When I find her? Ha, she thinks she had it hard before!”

He leans towards me and I recoil in fear, but he reaches underneath my seat and pulls out a pistol. He points it at my face and speeds up the truck, weaving through traffic and taking turns like a race car driver.

“Where did Jessica take my daughter?” he screams, the eyes that I thought looked kind now blazing with a crazy fury that makes my blood run cold.

How am I supposed to tell him the woman, Jessica, is dead?

“I’ll kill you if you don’t talk, but let's be real. I’m going to kill you, anyway. So we can do it the slow way, or the fast way, it’s up to you.”

I guess it isn’t the sickness that’s going to take me out after all. I seal my lips shut, staring at the barrel of the gun fearlessly. This is the most final way to go, murdered. That way I’m not leaving Jax, I was taken. His heart can heal from that, I think.

“Do it then,” I say, sitting up and pressing my head to the barrel. “I’ve got nothing to live for, anyway.”

Corey sneers and reels his hand back to pistol whip me, exploding pain through my skull. My vision blurs on impact, hot blood rushing down my brow before I can make a conscious thought. My head hits the headrest and ricochets forward, the seat belt digging into my neck as I cough and spit blood.

“You’re either an idiot or you have a death wish…” he snarls, slowing as traffic gets too thick for him to dodge.

In the distance I can see the skyscrapers reaching up and clawing at the sky. I never wanted to go back there, never thought I would, but I was on my way. Looks like I’ll be in a body bag in a hospital basement soon.

“Look, I’m never one to destroy a pretty face, but if you don’t start talking? Babe, I’ll make you suck this pistol before I blow your brains out.”

I shudder, leaning towards the door and away from him. I should have stayed in the trailer. Corey reaches out and grabs me by the hair, yanking hard while his other hand unbuckles my seat belt and he yanks me on the ground. The truck swerves dangerously as I fall on my knees and he shoves my face in his lap. He sneers, an oily chuckle coming from his mouth as his shriveled cock hardens in his pants.

“I think you need to know what it’s like to be with a real man, don’t you?”

Vomit rises in my throat, the shakes starting again. I’ve never had two seizures in one day before, guess there’s a first for everything.

As suspected, Corey has a twisted pencil dick. I clamp my mouth shut, kicking and pushing away from him as hard as I can. I was willing to placate him before in a desperate bid to survive, but now…

Now, I’m going down fighting.

He releases me only to slam the butt of his pistol into the top of my head. I fall hard on the floor, seizing on impact, pain crackling like lightning down every nerve. Sorrow fills me.

Regret cripples me.

The call of my heart eclipses it all.

Because before my vision goes dark, I see Jax’s furious face.

Chapter10

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