UnHinge Me (Savage Beast MC #6) - Hayley Faiman Page 0,2
realizes I’m still in the room. His eyes are glued to her, to the girl who looks exactly like me. He has a predatory gleam in his gaze, and I watch as he licks his lips at the same time, he adjusts his crotch. My stomach lurches. Suddenly that birthday cake from earlier is threatening to reemerge.
Spinning around, I run upstairs, scrambling until I get to my bedroom door. Slipping inside, I pant as I look around the room. I have no lock on my door, my father doesn’t allow them. I’m on the third floor, so I can’t climb out my window.
I’m stuck.
Tears fill my eyes. They fall too fast for me to wipe away, so I don’t bother trying. Walking backward, I only stop when I’ve reached the far corner of my room. Sinking down to my ass, I sit in that corner and watch my bedroom door for the rest of the evening. Waiting for that man to open it.
The next morning, I slink downstairs to breakfast, hoping to be alone, but my father is there, sitting in his usual seat. Wishing that I could run back upstairs, his cold gaze finds mine immediately.
“Sit,” he demands. Sinking down in the chair across from his, I hold my breath waiting for him to speak. “You saw nothing last night, Leighton.”
“Father,” I whisper.
He shakes his head with one quick jerk. “You saw nothing. If you choose to believe that you saw something, you will be punished.”
The way he says punished, I know that my fate will be one that I cannot even fathom. Gulping, I nod my head.
“I saw nothing,” I whisper.
“Good girl, now eat some fruit. It’s good for you. No toast though. You’re fifteen now, it’s time you lose that baby fat.”
That day was the beginning of the end of my childhood. That moment thrust me into adulthood. An ugly, seedy, filthy adulthood that I wished never existed. One that I wished I could change.
But how?
I didn’t know.
MOUNTAIN
TWENTY YEARS OLD
I’ve been watching him for a while. Watching the way he beats on the new bitch he has in his bed. I shouldn’t give a fuck what he does with his time, he’s no longer my keeper, hasn’t been since I started with the Beasts. There’s something about letting him roam around freely, his filth damaging every person who crosses his path that I want to end..
“You gonna do something about that, hermano?” Silver asks.
Jerking my chin, I open my cut to show him the gun in my shoulder holster. “Yeah, I think I will.”
Standing, I throw my leg over my bike and make my way toward the front door of my childhood home. My father took off when I was four. My mother left the week before I did, never coming back, opting for a man with a fat wallet instead of taking care of her kids.
My brother kept the house. It’s paid off and my mother didn’t give a fuck. He’s trashed it of course.
Without knocking, I kick the front door open. The woman screams. She can’t run, he has her by a fist of hair, her eye bruising and swelling as I flick my gaze between them.
“Wondered when you’d show here again,” he simply states. “Want an ass beating after this filthy whore?”
I shake my head once. “Not today, Waker. Do think it’s about time you had one though.”
He snorts, pushing his bitch to the ground. She cries out, but stays in her place, like an animal, like the animal he’s taught her to be. Chuckling, I take my gun from my holster and hold it to his face.
“You wouldn’t, I’m your flesh and blood,” he shouts.
“You ain’t shit,” Silver barks next to me.
I chuckle. “Agreed. You ain’t shit, Waker. Never were, never will be.”
“Help me, please,” the girl whispers.
Flicking my gaze to hers, my heart stops in my chest. She’s beautiful. She has long dark hair, big green eyes, and even with a bruising and swelling eye, she’s just breathtaking. How my brother could beat on her, I’ll never know.
“You aren’t worth it,” I grind out, glancing back to Waker.
He laughs. “All it takes is one little doe-eyed look and you’re sold, huh? Interesting. You can have her. Got everything I wanted from that skank anyway.”
“Get out of town,” I grind out.
“Or?”
Silver takes a step forward. “Or the Savage Beast MC will make sure you leave and you never come back. You ain’t our blood, we have no fucking problem taking care of you.”