Bash, Volume II (18 page)

Maybe I was too relaxed, too happy, too complacent, when I came out with the silly disposable flip-flops on, carrying my shoes carefully so I didn’t mess up my fingernails. Or, maybe I was just too far into girly-girl mode, but I didn’t see or smell the bad guys until they grabbed me and tossed me into their van.

In my defense, they drove up in the van, opened the side door, pulled me in, and took off, so there’s no way I could’ve smelled them. However, if I’d have been paying attention and been aware of my surroundings, I’d have stayed back on the sidewalk until the van passed.

Whoever was driving knew what he was doing, because he made sharp right and left turns, tossing me around so I couldn’t get my bearings enough to sit up, much less punch anyone and try to get away.

By the time he was driving straight, my arms were bound behind my back and my feet were trussed together.

“So,” I asked, my cheek pressed into nasty, smelly, scratchy carpet, “which of you is Dash?”

“Shut your mouth, cunt. No talking.”

I took stock of my situation. A driver, plus four guys in the back. They were all black, which is why I’d asked about Dash. I was assuming these were the Disciples, but they weren’t wearing any kind of colors to verify my assumption.

Trying to
change
when your arms are bound behind your back is beyond tricky. If you can
change
just your hands, you can get them out of their bondage. However, if the
change
makes it to your shoulders before you get out, they dislocate, because a wolf’s front legs can’t physically be bound this way. When we shapeshift naturally, it starts at the core and moves out. So, shifting the hands first takes a great deal of concentration.

And, no way could I do it lying on my stomach so they could see my hands. The Concilio’s rules said I had to kill them if they saw any part of me as wolf, and I wasn’t positive I could kill all five men while one of them was driving. Plus, I didn’t know for a fact this wasn’t being recorded.

I stayed still and quiet, and took in all of the scents around me. The men were amped up on adrenaline, and at least one of them was high on something — or a combination of somethings. Two were horny. More than horny… they were expecting to get a piece of me, thinking about it already,
imagining
it.

I didn’t see my purse, and worried it was on the ground. If it was in the van, Brain would find me through the app he’d put on my cellphone, and he would send the cavalry. If it was still outside the nail place, I was on my own.

I needed a game plan, but nothing came to me so I breathed through the panic threatening to encroach, and tried to keep track of how fast it sounded like we were going, and thus about how many miles we traveled.

“Yo, man, she way too calm for a bitch just got nabbed!”

One of them stuck his face in front of mine, looked me in the eyes a few seconds, and moved away. “She in shock, maybe? So scared she can’t freak?”

“Just leave her be ‘til we get there.”

Minutes later, the van pulled off pavement onto gravel, and I heard a slider gate opening, and then closing again once we were through. The van parked, the back doors opened, and I smelled a whole shitload of people I couldn’t see.

Fuck, now I had to fight a whole helluva lot more than five guys, if I was going to escape.

Bash, Volume III
releases November 20, 2015

If you’re enjoying Bash’s story, you may also like the other books set in the same universe, though in different series.

Chattanooga Supernaturals
series, paranormal romance:

• The Dragon King
  (
  Aaron Drake’s story, and the first time we meet Duke and Brain
  )
  
• Riding the Storm
  
• Acceptable Risk
  

Only Human series, urban fantasy

• Only Human
  
•  
  

Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Series

• Duke
  
• Brain
  
• Bash Volume I
  
• Bash Volume II
  
• Bash Volume III
  (November 20)
  

Erotica Shorts from the world of The Chattanooga Supernaturals

• Pride
  
• Indentured Freedom
  (Teresa’s story, Nov 2015)
  

The Safeword series, intense BDSM contemporary romance

• Safeword Rainbow
  
• Safeword: Davenport
  
• Safewords: Davenport and Chiffon
  
• Safeword: Quinacridone
  
• Safeword: Matte
  
• Safeword: Matte – In Training
  
• No Safeword: Matte – The Honeymoon
  
• No Safeword: Matte – Happily Ever After
  
• Safeword: Arabesque
  

Check out other books by Candace Blevins at
candaceblevins.com
.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Candace Blevins is a southern girl who loves to travel the world. She lives with her husband of 17 years and their two daughters. When not working or driving kids all over the place she can be found reading, writing, meditating, or swimming.

Candace writes BDSM Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, and is currently writing a Motorcycle Club series.

Her Safeword Series gives us characters who happen to have some extreme kinks. Relationships can be difficult enough without throwing power exchange into the mix, and her books show characters who care enough about each other to fight to make the relationship work. Each book in the Safeword series highlights a couple with a different BDSM issue to resolve.

Her urban fantasy series,
Only Human
, gives us a world where weredragons, werewolves, werelions, three different species of vampires, as well as a variety of other mythological beings exist.

Candace's two paranormal romance series,
The Chattanooga Supernaturals
and
The Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club
, are both sister series to the
Only Human
series, and give some secondary characters their happily ever after.

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