Page 106 of Massacre Monday
Nodding, I hope that will suffice, but another blow lands on my other cheek.
“Break his finger,” the second voice commands from several feet away.
Fuck.
“You can break them. Not sure why you want to. I literally just told you where I got my orders.”
It doesn’t matter. A tight grip tugs my ring finger to the side on my left hand, and I scream with anguish. That was the hand I’ll wear my wedding ring on, the one Pippi will give me during our wedding, and I’ll never take it off. Will it still fit?
A shuffle echoes across the floor and a door opens.
“Better hurry. Y-you need to wrap this up.” It’s a young man’s voice, but still unrecognizable.
“We’ll take care of it. Distract her,” the man behind me says.
“Distract her how?”
“Figure it out! Now get the fuck out of here.”
The door slams again.
Wait…
Roadway.
Young guys who don’t want their voices to be distinguished. A hood to keep their appearances hidden.
Her, he said.
Am I at the Maned Marauder’s hangout? The Underpass?
If so, that means this could be Apollo Griffin or any of theDeltas. Why wouldDeltabe asking me about the senator’s orders?
Unless…
“Is this about Pippi?”
Another finger cracks as the man behind me snaps it. A wail surges from my chest in response. If I squeeze my eyes shut, the pain seems…less?
No, it still really fucking hurts.
“Don’t say her name.”
It wouldn’t be Mitch. He wouldn’t have the balls to do something like this. Nor the knowledge ofhowto break fingers.Betasare all about mending things.
“I mean, she’s my appointed, so I will definitely be saying her name,” I manage to say between halting breaths.
“Not anymore.”
My heart skips a beat. “What do you mean?”
“You’re going to reverse that. Whoever gave you the order to fuck with her, to force you to get appointed to her… Whatever you did to get her, you’re going to change it back, you piece of shit. You don’t deserve her.”
Voice modulators… Who would have the money for that andwhywould they use them unless I wouldrecognizethe voice.
“I’ll tell you right now, and you better listen to these words. You’ll have to kill me before I let her go, Adal.”
There’s a long pause, and all I hear are cars above me.
