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“You think he'll come for her?” the one I noas the new recruit asked, and I froze in case he glanced at ain

“Oh… yeah He sure as fuck will With these creatures, they live and die for their ht the one back at the house fighting us fucking naked like a beast was dangerous, the one co for his woman will be one vicious motherfucker”

My breath hitched and heart raced as I heard theet out of here I had to stop this before theto fall for very hard and very fast caot hurt or, worse, killed

For the next five or so minutes, the ride was silent, and I was thankful I kept working at the rope on o slow so I wasn't heard Once ether so it would still look like they were bound if they glanced back at ainst the side of the vehicle and froze But thankfully the two men up front didn’t notice

Still being as quiet as possible, I liftede bodies sitting in the front seats I glanced around the vehicle, and as I suspected, I was in a van I didn't see s across from me

We went over a bumy teeth in pain, I kept ain, looked at the other end of the van, and held in ainst the back doors

He was still naked, blood covering his body, the cuts and scrapes on his form so numerous I felt tears fill s as well But what kept him secured wasn’t the same rope they used on me The cuffs werehim out of those

Thankfully he was alive, his chest rising and falling slowly I was grateful he was also unconscious, because the amount of pain he had to be in from the wounds would be monumental

I didn’t knoas going to stop this, but I had to do soot to wherever the drop-off point was, the harder it was going to be for us I had to catch theuard, like they were now, their attention not on me because they didn’t see me as a threat

A crash

I had to et to the destination I knew Cian was no doubt coht now I couldn’t think about whether Odhran or I would get harmed in the process, didn’t think about pain or injury I couldn’t, not if I wanted us to make it out alive

While I keptand let it drop to the van floor Then I slowly—God, so slowly and silently—pushed myself up so I could look around for any kind of weapon and stopped as aze landed on the duffels I held my breath as I reached for the strap of one

But just before I had it, the driver barked, “What the fuck are you doing?”

I froze,to the front

“What?” Jack replied as he reached for the radio “We have a little bit of tionna say no to the radio? Come on, man”

The driver snorted and shook his head but said nothing else, and that was the only approval Jack needed to click the radio on The low sounds of classic rock filtered through the van, and I watched Jack get comfortable in his seat

I exhaled slowly, thankful the extra noise was now filtering throughout the van to cancel out any sound I ers on the handle and pulled one of the duffelsin front ofmy breath intermittently the entire time

I grabbed the zipper and started slowly pulling it down Once the bag was three-fourths of the way open, I pulled one of the sides open and looked at the contents I could’ve laughed at what lay inside Weapons These ht eren’t a threat