Page 42 of Sexy Beginnings
I take one careful step forward sliding my foot instead of lifting it trying to feel my way around. A string hits my face and I reach up to pull on it. A dim light sheds a small amount of light on the room. I quickly scan it looking for anyone who may be a threat but I come up empty.
That’s when my eyes focus on something lying on the floor in the corner. My entire body freezes at the sight in front of me. I hear Twisted curse behind me.Lucy.
I run toward her, but once I reach her I can’t move. My body is frozen looking at what those animals did to her. She’s completely naked, blood dripping down almost every inch of her. Her body is bent in such an unnatural way I’m scared that they may have actually killed her.
I kneel down the smell of burning flesh invading my nostrils. What the fuck. I see her body shiver just for a second and a part of me relaxes knowing that she isn’t gone. The anger I had in me before has grown to more than I ever thought humanly possible.
“Her hands are cuffed to this beam. We need something to cut them.” I look back at Twisted.
“No, finding something will take too long.” I stand straight up, delivering a few swift kicks to the wood before it splinters. “We need to get her out of here now.” I take my shirt off and slip it over her head. She doesn’t wake up, but groans a bit as I try to fit it over her body. As we walk up the steps, I have Twisted text the brothers at the clubhouse and make sure Doc is there and ready, and that they have something to take these damn handcuffs off with.
We walk back into the kitchen, Brick is standing with the girl we found still. “Make sure she knows to keep her fucking mouth shut. Send her upstairs then you, Wrench and Torch need to round up the bastard uncle and father. Twisted will be back with the truck to get you and we are gonna make these bastards pay.” The entire time I speak to him, his eyes are focused on Lucy. Her battered face and body is shocking and I can see the fire ignite in my brother’s eyes even more than before.
“I got you.” His voice hard, as he takes the girl by the arm and walks her further into the house.
I follow Twisted outside as he is finishing giving the same instructions to Torch. He, like Brick, can’t take his eyes off Lucy once I walk outside—her face is almost unrecognizable, swelling and bruising covering ninety percent of it. I dread finding out what these sick fuckers did to her when they had her. Holding her closer to me, I make my way to the truck. Climbing into the back, I lay her across the seat her head in my lap.
Twisted starts the truck slowly pulling away from the houses trying to not draw any attention still, since we are not done here. As we drive, I gently rub Lucy’s head trying to give her any possible comfort I can. It hurts to look at her, to know that this happened when I was supposed to be protecting her.
Another groan rolls from her chest and her eyes blink open. “Luce?Relax, baby, I got you. You’re safe.”
A tear falls from her eye as she looks at me but she doesn’t say a word.
“Talk to me, babe.” My hands grasp each side of her face.
She shakes her head.
Confusion is running rampant through me. Why won’t she talk to me? “You’re safe now, Lucy. I swear those asshole are going to fucking pay. They will never touch you again. I just need to hear your voice. I need to know you’re okay.” My thumb rests on her bottom lip pulling at it and she moans and jerks in pain. “What the fuck!”
The truck swerves and I grab onto Lucy. “What the hell, Whip! You can’t fucking scream shit like that!” Twisted shouts at me.
I take a closer look at her mouth, and that’s when I see how tightly closed her lips are. “Lucy, can you open your mouth?” She shakes her head no.
“What’s going on back there?”
I look at the road and see we are only a few minutes away from the clubhouse. Thank God. “They fucking sealed her mouth shut.”
“Shit.”
A sick feeling rolls through my entire body knowing that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
I don’t know that I can take finding out what else happened to her while she was with them.
