Taking Her Down (Savage Brothers Second Generation 1)

“Is that my baby? Oh God, Dragon, is that Kayden?” Mom cries.

“I’m okay, Dad. Chains… he won’t hurt me. He’s just… he’s not taking our breakup well.”

“Breakup? What in the fuck? Did that bastard touch you, Kayden? What in the hell do you mean breakup? Dance said he just came into town.”

“He did… we had a date or two… well one and a half really.”

“Kayden—”

“Dad, I don’t have long to talk. Chains will be back out in a minute and I need to hide the phone. We’re at a gas station, it’s a Double Kwik on the Kentucky, Virginia state line. We passed a road sign a bit ago that had Wise, Virginia on it, but I’m not sure how many miles away it said it was. I don’t know where we’re going, but I’ll try and check in again soon. But, the main thing is I’m fine. Chains won’t hurt me.”

“I’m going to fucking kill him,” Dad yells. “I’ll rip him apart from the inside out with my bare motherfucking hands!”

“Let me talk to my baby,” Mom cries and there’s scuffling over the phone, and I know Dad doesn’t want to give up the phone, but like she always does… Mom wins.

“Kayden baby, are you okay?”

“I’m fine, Mom. I swear. I got to go, though. Just calm Daddy down. I’m fine and Chains won’t hurt me. He’s just upset I broke up with him after seeing him with the Twinkies at the club.”

“Broke up with him? Twinkies? Kayden what exactly is going on here?”

I look over my shoulder and see Chains coming out the door. I turn so all he can see is my back and I hold my head down, letting my hair cover the phone.

“I got to go, Mom. He’s coming back. I’ll check in soon. I love you, tell Dad I love him, too.”

I click the phone off and all but throw it under the passenger seat, turning around just in time for Chains to show up at the door. He watches me closely for a minute, as if trying to figure out what I’ve been doing—or maybe reading the guilt on my face.

The problem is I’m not sure what I feel guilty about…

“Everything okay?” he asks, opening the door.

I move my hand back and forth, looking pointedly at the handcuff.

“Depends on what you mean by okay,” I mumble and he grins.

I ignore that his grin makes my pussy clench with want. I don’t know why I’m still attracted to him. He clearly has some kind of undefined mental damage. Hell, maybe I do too, because I can’t deny he’s sexy or that part of me would really like it if he kissed me again…

Shit…16Dragon“Tell me you managed to trace that fucking call.”

“Dragon—”

“Freak, if you didn’t fucking get me some kind of lead on my daughter, you better be hiding when I get there.”

“Damn it, Dragon.”

“Don’t you Dragon me. How you fucking assholes could let my girl get fucking kidnapped while I was out of town is beyond me. I told you dick-weeds to keep her under surveillance when you told me she moved out!”

“She’d been at your place with Thomas. The minute she left, he called Dom to go make sure she was secure.”

“Where in the fuck was Dom?”

“I don’t think you’ll like that answer. He called Raze, but by the time Raze got there…”

“Christ. Where in the hell was Bull and Dancer during this shit? I didn’t leave the club with wet behind the ear kids, even if some of those kids are my own blood. Where in the fuck were you guys?”

“It was a party. Bull was home because Skye was working graveyard and he needed to be there for Gypsy. Dance stayed at the party, but left before shit got too wild. He didn’t want Carrie giving him shit. She’s already giving him hell over Hawk and him fighting about the club.”

“Jesus. Years ago I thought about striking a match to the whole fucking clubhouse and walking away. Now, here I am, years later, wishing I had fucking done that very thing. You get Gunner on the phone and you conference me in. This is his boy. Kayden told me they were headed toward Wise, Virginia. I want to know who in the fuck this Chains knows in that area and where he might be heading and I want to know it like two minutes ago. You feelin’ me?”

“I’ll call right back,” Freak says and disconnects.

I hang up the phone still full of anger.* * *“Dragon,” Nicole whispers, her voice is full of fear and sadness. It’s a sound that I swore to myself would never come out of her mouth again. I’ve busted my balls since the day she took my sorry ass back to make her nothing but happy. I’d succeeded until today.