Shady: MC Romance (20 page)

Shady made eye contact with the girl and nodded. Shady saw the fear in her eyes and wanted so badly to run to her and grab her out of the man's hands, but she couldn’t. The girl could get hurt worse than what she already was. Shady could see the bruises on her arms and legs, the fucking pricks were going to die.

“Not lettin’ ‘em go,” the large man ground out, he was holding the girl with the dark hair.
He was the leader
, Cajun thought and turned a little to Slider who was reading his cues perfectly.

“Listen,” Slider said talking to the large man. “There is only one way this is gonna go, bud. You need to let them go and get the fuck out of here. In about five minutes a whole bunch of pissed off bikers are going to come roaring down the road. Now, we are willing to let you have a fair chance to get the fuck out of here and leave the girls with us. If you wait—they will kill you.”

“Right, like you are going to let us leave,” the man spat.

“We will,” Slider said firmly, pulled up his hand with the gun, and held the end in the air. With his other hand, he held it up as if to tell him that he was safe. Cajun lowered his weapon but didn’t put it away or anything. Shady stood ridged and waited.

The large man glared at the trio but looked at his friend and said, “Ricky, back away to the door. Hold her in front of you until you get there. We will let them go when we have a clear path to the car.”

“Okay, man,” Slider said softly and shuffled his feet a little, so there was a path in between Cajun and him to get to the door. The smaller, skittish man’s eyes darted back and forth and he didn’t move.

“Rick, move your ass,” the large man ground out and the smaller man jumped. He pulled the unconscious female up and held her close to him, making sure that Cajun and Slider couldn’t get to him unless they hurt the girl.

Shady kept her eyes on the girl who was awake, she didn’t break the contact at all, the girl seemed to hold onto Shady’s eyes in desperation. She whimpered again when the man holding her pulled her closer and his friend moved. The large man shifted so he was in a better position, dragging the female with him. She stared in panic at Shady who nodded again, trying to tell her it would be okay. They girl tried to nod back but couldn’t.

Now Ricky was at the door with his back to the opening and the large man was across the room with Cajun and Slider in the middle. Shady was standing off to the side, neither man looking at her. Dipshits, they didn’t consider her a threat. Hell, she was probably the biggest threat in the room because of the rage she was feeling, these two men weren’t walking out of here alive, she was going to see to that.

“Let her go and walk out the fucking door,” Cajun growled and Ricky looked at the large man and asked.

“Gary?”

“Go,” the man growled and Ricky nodded slowly and then squatted and put the girl on the floor, moving quickly out the door. They could hear him moving toward the SUV. The larger man nodded and then took a hesitant step, obviously he thought they were actually going to let them go. It was a joke, because they weren’t letting these two motherfuckers go anywhere.

The man took another step when Cajun and Slider did not move a muscle. Slowly he made his way across the room, dragging the poor girl with him. She struggled a little but Shady shook her head briefly, keeping eye contact.

The large man got to the door and realized that Ricky had left the girl in the doorway. He had to step over her, which was hard with the girl he was holding. He cursed under his breath. Shady looked out the window and almost laughed. Ricky was standing next to the SUV trying to open the doors. Apparently, Gary had the keys. Her gaze went back to the girl and she grinned a little and then motioned slightly with her head to duck. The girl frowned but then nodded briefly when Gary tried to pull her with him but was losing his grip and she was sliding down lower.

Cajun and Slider were tense, but Shady could tell they were ready to move when the time came. It was going to come down to who had the best shot.

Shady took a deep breath, she was hoping the girl would give them the opportunity to take Gary boy out, and she wasn’t wrong. Because when Gary tried to step his other foot over the unconscious girl's body, the girl he was hanging onto went lax in his arms and slipped. She ducked her head and brought up her hands to cover her head as Gary dropped her to the ground on top of the other girl.

“Fuck,” Gary bellowed and Cajun raised his hand and fired the shot. It hit the guy in the shoulder and he fell back into the doo jam.

“Gary,” they heard Ricky yell and Shady stepped to the window, knocked it out with her elbow, and aimed, then fired. She shot him in the leg as he tried to come and help his friend.

Slider and Cajun moved to secure both men, they were going to have to be questioned. Shady moved to the girls and pulled the one with the long dark hair off the other one.

“You okay?” Shady said gruffly to the girl who was whimpering as she ran her hands over the unconscious one. Shady didn’t do the whole touchy feely thing she was sure these two needed.

“No,” the girl mumbled. “Who are you?”

“Name’s Shady, this is Cajun and Slider. We are here to get you the fuck outta here,” Shady said with a snap.

“My sister,” the girl said sadly. “I need to call my sister. She has no idea where I am, I was supposed to be going to school,” the girl cried.

“We will take care of that in a while, first we need to get you somewhere safe, and then we will call everyone we need to,” Shay said briskly.

“I have been gone for a week,” the girl sniffled and Shady turned and looked at her.

“Listen, I know this sucks and is rough, but we need to get the fuck outta here before someone else comes. Once we are gone, I promise I will call your sister myself. What is your name?” Shady asked.

“Tami,” the girl whispered. “That is Jas,” she continued and pointed to the unconscious girl. “She has been here for a lot longer than me. She told me what they were going to do to me. I cried and screamed hoping they would get pissed off and let me go.”

“That is good,” Shady said and checked Jas’s pulse, it was weak but it was there.

“I made myself sick, threw up on some guy's shirt to get sent here. He was going to do things to me,” the girl whispered. “He scared me.”

“Yeah,” Shady whispered. “He scared me too, when I was younger.”

Tami looked at Shady, “Are you Francesca?”

Shady looked up surprised and then slowly nodded her head.

“I'm so sorry,” the girl whispered.

Shady closed her eyes and then nodded, “Let’s talk later.”

“Okay,” Tami said and Shady heard the sound bikes coming up the road.

They were here.

Chapter Eighteen

“Dehydration, drugged, and beaten. Lucky she is still alive, I hope you killed the bastards responsible?” the doc said as he explained to Shady what Jas’s condition was. Although Shady looked like Tami, she felt a connection with Jas; there was something about the girl. Slider and Cajun had questioned her briefly about it but Shady hadn’t been able to explain it.

Tami had already been checked out. Other than being slapped around a few times, nothing had happened to her physically. Mentally, she was a mess. Dom had shown her videos of Shady when she was younger, demanding she behave just like her. It was creepy Tami said to her. Some of them Shady had just been sitting in her room, talking on the phone with what she guessed were her school friends.

It had been hard for Shady to listen to, and she had given the girl the sympathy that she needed, but then Freedom had taken over thankfully. It reminded Shady too much of what had gone on when she was younger. She couldn’t let that seep in again. Not when she had let so much of the hurt go.

Shady had then gone into Jas’s room and waited while the doc examined her. The older man had been disgusted with the old injuries he found and made note of all of them. Shady sat with the girl through the entire exam while the girl remained unconscious.

“When will she wake up?” Shady asked.

“Don’t know,” the doc said and pointed to the bags of liquid he had hooked up to her arm. “Hopefully once she starts getting the fluid restored and the drugs get out of her system. Beware though, she will go through withdrawals, it looks to me like they had her drugged up a lot, probably addicted by now. That is how they controlled her.”

Shady nodded and pushed a lock of blond hair back on the young girl's head and said, “Will help her.”

The doctor looked at Shady and then smiled. He knew her story, he wasn't surprised that Shady was helping this girl out. “I know you will,” he said softly and then put his hand on her shoulder and patted her.

Cajun and Slider were standing in the doorway watching Shady intently. Both of them were worried about her. The guys were talking to Tami right now, trying to get the whole story. It was difficult making her go through it, especially when the girl kept breaking down.

“Shay,” Cajun said softly and Shady turned and looked at them. They saw the lost young girl in her eyes, and it almost broke their hearts to see her in pain.

“I'm staying,” she said firmly and both men nodded. “Until she wakes up. I don’t want her to wake alone.”

“You want us to keep you updated?” Cajun asked. There was no way he was going to cut her out of this now.

“Yeah,” she said softly and then turned back to Jas and leaned back in her chair. The guys silently left the room as she focused on the young girl lying in the bed.

*****

Tami turned to Freedom and smiled, “Thank you.”

“Oh, darlin’,” Freedom said and kissed her forehead. “No need to thank us.”

“You guys saved me,” Tami whispered and looked around the room. They had allowed her to get up and go into the kitchen to eat. She was starving, the last actual meal she had eaten had been a week ago.

Since then, she had been living off the scraps they gave her. It was disgusting. “You saved yourself. Now, who are we going to call?” Freedom said, picking up her cell phone.

“My sister,” Tami said eagerly.

“Where is she at?” Freedom asked softly.

“Pinessee,” Tami said. “She runs with the Savages.”

Everyone in the room froze and Creed stalked over to Tami.

“Why didn’t you tell us that before?”

“'Cause I wasn’t sure who you were. I saw the patches and didn’t know if you were friendly with the Savages or not. I mean, I have heard stories about stuff like this,” the young girl gushed. Apparently, now that she was safe, she was free to be the bubbly girl she had been. The club was a little shocked, they figured she would be traumatized, but she had given them all the information needed about the men who held her. Then she expressed interest in helping them kill the ‘bad guys’. The Warriors had all shook their heads and moved on from the obviously bloodthirsty girl.

“I mean, Rose’s sisters said that they were told that if another club got a hold of them it would be bad because they could use them against the Savages. I didn’t want to do anything that would hurt my sister, she is kinda protective of the Savages,” Tami explained with a rush. “I tried to go to one of their parties once, because you know all my friends at school think it is so bad ass that my sister hangs with them. I mean,
have
you seen Tonto, he is gooorrrrgggeeeeooous. Everyone thinks so, he rides by, and all the girls drool. When he claimed Rose everyone was like sad.”

“Does she ever stop talking?” Fork whispered as the girl continued to ramble on.

“I don’t think so, maybe we should just call Tonto and ask who she belongs to. He would know if one of the girls was missing a sister,” Creed whispered back.

“Yeah, may be quicker,” Fork replied, folded his arms, and pretended to pay attention. Creed rolled his eyes and turned to Easy and Poke who were trying to follow the girl.

“So my sister, Heaven, is gonna be PISSED OFF,” Tami finished off her ramble with.

“Your sister's name is Heaven?” Creed said quickly.

“Oh yeah, didn’t I tell you that?” Tami asked with a smile. “Can I have some more ice cream?”

“Sure,” Freedom said and laughed at the guys who were trying to get away from the teen girl. “Just wait,” she called to Poke and Easy who were walking quickly. “When you have a daughter…”

Both men froze and turned around. Easy snapped at Freedom. “No girls, we don’t have enough protection for a girl, has to be a boy.”

Freedom giggled and looked at her men. “I think that is your job to determine the sex of a child.”

“Yeah, well,” Poke said and looked down at his crotch. “I only have male swimmers so if it a girl it is Easy’s fault.”

The men in the room laughed and shook their heads, at least they had something to laugh about, because right now the tension was running really high.

*****

“Did you lose something?” Creed said into the phone to Tonto, the Prez of the Devil Savages.

There was silence on the other end for a moment. “It depends,” finally, Tonto said warily.

“How about a fifteen-year-old girl whose sister’s name is Heaven?” Creed said.

“Shit,” Tonto said into the phone and then he heard some whispering. “We will be there in an hour.”

“Good, and hey,” Creed said.

“Yeah?” Tonto said.

“I am happy to hear that you are ggggoooooorrrrrggggeeeous on the back of your bike,” Creed laughed and Tonto cursed into the phone.

“Do not repeat that shit,” Tonto growled.

“But all the girls were so sad when they found out you were off the market,” Creed roared.

“I am gonna kick your ass when I see you,” Tonto barked, but Creed heard female laughter in the background.

“Bring it,” Creed snorted and then hung up the phone.

“That was just mean,” Fork laughed.

“We all needed a laugh,” Creed said and leaned back in his chair. “Don’t think we are gonna get much of that in the next few days.”

*****

Shady stared out the window of the room Jas was in. She was thinking about her mother and father. What the fuck had gone so wrong? She was going to drive herself crazy thinking about this. She needed to stop. What was she going to do about Jas? A new focus, someone who needed her.