Page 50 of Rockstar Untamed
He turned to the man waiting. “Blindfold the kid. We need to get to Cedars Sinai.”
Sailor watched the doctor as he wound the last piece of plaster soaked bandage around her arm. “Now, it’s going to be painful for quite a while. Thankfully, it’s a straight break so you should be okay in time. Are you in much pain?”
Sailor nodded. “A little.”
The doctor smiled at her. “I’ll go get you some pain relief. Would you like me to ask Mr. Creed to come in now?”
Sailor swallowed hard. “Not just yet, I need some time.”
The doctor patted her good arm. “Of course. I’ll be right back.”
As soon as he left, Sailor grabbed every sharp implement she could find, a scalpel, scissors, and darted to the door. She could see Bodhi at the end of the hall, talking to the doctor. Quickly, she sped across the hall to the elevator and pressed the call button. She flattened herself against the wall as she waited then darted in and pressed the button to the basement. In the elevator, she shoved the scalpel and scissors down the side of her still malleable cast.
As the elevator reached the basement, she slipped out and waited.
“Sailor!”
She heard Tim’s voice as he was dragged into the light by Bart. Salem, Bart’s main henchman, aimed a gun at her, and Sailor also saw Udo, the security guard Tim had been scared of. Tim looked unharmed, but his eyes were haunted, and he was obviously terrified.
“Send Tim over, and as soon as he’s in the elevator, I’m yours.” Sailor managed to keep her voice steady.
Bart looked amused, but nodded to Udo. The big man walked Tim over to her, and as they reached her, Tim threw his arms around Sailor and burst into tears.
“They killed Auntie Solly,” he sobbed, and she hugged him tightly, her own tears flowing.
“I know, baby, I know…look, Timmy, when you get in the elevator, press number nine and don’t get out or speak to anyone else. Your dad is up there. Tell him,” her voice broke, “Tell him I’m sorry and that I love you both so much. So much.”
“I’m not leaving you,” Tim began to wail but Sailor, barely keeping herself calm, pushed him gently into the elevator.
“You have to, baby, please. I love you.”
“Sailor!”
She couldn’t bear it any longer and pushed the close-door button. “I love you so much,” she repeated as she heard him wailing and screaming her name. She watched as the elevator climbed to floor nine, then felt a pistol being pushed against the small of her back.
“Time to go, Sailor,” Bart said with a slight edge in his voice, and nodding, she was led to his car, and to her certain death.
Bodhi got alarmed when the doctor who was treating Sailor came to see him. “Has Miss King come by here? I can’t find her.”
Bodhi’s heart began thumping. “No…she was in the treatment room…did you leave her alone?”
“Yes, to get some pain medication…where is she?”
Bodhi felt the panic rise up inside of him, but the next moment, he heard the scream of a child, a child screaming for his daddy, and saw Tim rushing towards him. Bodhi ran to sweep Tim up in his arms and hug him tightly. “Oh god, Timbo, Timbo…I love you, I love you.”
“Daddy, my Daddy.” Tim held onto Bodhi’s neck so tightly he was almost strangling him, but Bodhi didn’t care. There was chaos all around him.
“Daddy,” Tim was sobbing, tears and snot dripping down his face, “Sailor. Sailor came and she said to find you and the bad man had a gun and he took her…Daddy…Daddy.”
Bodhi’s blood ran cold, and he closed his eyes.Of course. Of course.Sailor had sacrificed herself for Tim. Why hadn’t he realized? She’d broken her own arm to get here.
Oh, god…
The doctor ushered them into a private room and began to examine Tim. The child wriggled, never taking his eyes off his father. “Daddy, they put a blindfold on me to come here, but it came loose, and I couldsee, Daddy. I could see the way to where they took me.”
Bodhi gaped at his son as the boy recited the journey back to where Bodhi hoped against hope, they would be able to find Sailor before Bart Foy carried out his promise to end her life.
They hadn’t gone far, Sailor realized, as they drove out of the city. They hadn’t blindfolded her, why would they need to blindfold a dead woman? They arrived at a disused airplane hangar just outside the city.
