Saving Della Ray

At the sound of the door, I rushed away from the window, my heart in my throat that Michael had returned. It was not Michael, but one of the other men. This one was as bald as an egg and tattooed with the image of Gollum holding the ring. He shut the door behind him. He let his hand make a crude stroke of his crotch and when I jumped to my feet with fear, a sick smile spread across his face with excitement. “Time to play, bitch,” he called mockingly.

I plastered my back to the wall. If only it would swallow me up. “Don’t come any closer to me,” I warned. “Michael will be very angry. I’m his woman. He wants me for himself.”

“Well, not so much after the way you attacked him. He was gonna share you with us when he was finished, anyway. You’re going to be sucking a lot of dicks, sweetheart. So you better get used to the idea. Me, I just can’t fucking wait anymore.”

“I’ll hurt you,” I snarled. “I swear.”

“Try that same wildcat shit on me that you did to Michael and watch me dig your pretty eyes out.” Out of nowhere, he produced a knife and held the shining blade in the air. “I will carve my initials on your face and kill you myself if even your teeth graze me. Get on the bed, bitch.”

He was no Michael. I realized now that it had all come to an end for me.

Gage

-I will be there, I will be there-

After a short copter and car ride that seemed to take forever we arrived at the agreed upon meeting point.

Jeremiah met us down the road from the house. The moment I jumped out of the car, he appeared from the trees and hurried up to us.

“Where is she?” I asked.

“She is locked in one of the rooms. One of our members, Bull has his eye on her, but it looks like the men are starting to get restless. They haven’t had fresh meat like this for a long time. What’s your plan?”

I felt as if my brain was on fire. Without answering him, I began to hurry forward, but he stopped me. “What is your plan, Gage? Otherwise, I’ll be in deep shit.”

“You fucking left my girl alone with those monsters.”

“Yuri!” he said through gritted teeth.

Yuri locked his hand around my wrist. “Gage, we have to do this right or we could implicate him. He’s spent four years in there. I’m not giving him up for anything. Not even your girl.”

I forced myself to calm down, my gaze on the cabin in the distance as they conversed.

“Michael and Tav will be back any moment now from his treatment,” Jeremiah said in low tones. “You both need to either be gone by then or—”

Suddenly, her high scream pierced the afternoon air.

I tore Yuri’s hold away and sprang into a dead run. I readied my gun the moment I arrived at the house and kicked my way through the front door. There was only one closed door in the whole room so I rammed myself against it. The wood gave away immediately on impact with my bulk and I burst into the room.

At the sudden intrusion, the beast that had been on top of her turned around in shock.

His pants were around his knees with his dick out and ready for the assault. My gaze fleeted over to hers and I felt something in my chest shatter at the bruised and battered woman that I was supposed to protect.

“Gage!” Yuri called in warning as I aimed my gun, but I was past reason.

“What the fuck is going—” The first shot blasted into his crotch and an agonized scream tore from him as blood splattered everywhere.

“Get her!” I yelled.

Yuri hurried over to help her off from the bed.

Without blinking, I pointed my gun at his chest and blasted two more bullets into him. He had a leg in death’s door but he wasn’t dead like I needed him to be. I could feel tears rolling down my face as I blasted one more, straight into the middle of his forehead.

I could hear her cries and screams as she was pulled out of the room by Yuri, and soon I was left with only Jeremiah as he gazed at the carnage of human flesh before me. I couldn’t move … I didn’t know how I was ever going to face her.

“What the fuck, Gage? How are we going to explain this one?”

Shutting my gaze, I reigned in my ragged breath, and put the gun away.

She was standing outside the cabin. She looked numb. No expression showed on her battered face.

I stopped in front of her.

She raised her head to gaze at me.

The ache I felt for the state she was in was soul deep. I couldn’t understand how she could ever forgive me for bringing her into this danger.