Shades brows rose as he looked over at Ghost. “Everything okay?”
“Yup.”
They could hear screaming and yelling coming from down the hall.
“Don’t sound like it.”
Ghost tipped his head down to light up a smoke, then he tossed the lighter on the bar, blew out a pissed off stream of smoke and admitted, “I cuffed her to the bed.”
Shades cocked a brow. “You what?”
“Only way to keep her in the room.”
They heard a crash.
“What was that?” Shades asked him.
Ghost took a sip of his drink. “Probably a half empty bottle of Jack.”
Shades nodded. “Well, as long as it was half empty and all.”
Ghost grinned. “Shut up.”
“She scare you, Ghost? ‘Cause if she doesn’t scare the hell out of you a little, she’s not the one.”
“She scares the shit out of me.”
Shades laughed.
“Skylar scare you?”
“Every damn day, bro.”
“Women.”
“Yup. We got some business to take care of. You gonna leave her in there?”
“Yup.”
Shades laughed. “Somehow I don’t think Butcher’s gonna like hearing all that caterwaulin’ going on all day.”
“Guess it sucks to be him, then. He wanted her locked down. She’s locked down.”
“Okay, then. Let’s roll.”
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Hours passed as Jessie lie on the bed, one wrist cuffed to the bedpost, silently fuming.
She’d broken just about everything in sight. The bottle of booze she’d smashed against the door. The lamp, she’d thrown at the window, cracking it. She’d even flung the rickety table across the room. The only thing she hadn’t smashed was the framed photo of Ghost and Robert. Partly because she couldn’t reach it and partly because she wasn’t sure she could bring herself to smash it.
She stared at it now as she lie there. It must have been taken back in High School, but by whom, she wondered. They looked so happy, the best of buds.
She was shaken from her musing by the sound of the doorknob rattling. A moment later, it was flung open, and there stood Blood, of all people.
Jessie instinctively scooted back against the headboard as fear shot through her. She watched as he folded his arms and leaned against the doorframe, his eyes scanning the room, taking in the ca
rnage.