formed.
“Fuck, this is gross,” I grouch, moving forward.
Lily whimpers. “I’m stuck.”
I stop, unable to move from my crouched position to turn and help her. It’s so tight down here, my shoulders are grazing the sides.
“Your coat has snagged on some metal, princess. I’ve got it,” Jaxon assures her, before I hear Lily breathe out a sigh of relief.
Moving forward, I can see streams of light coming down from above just ahead. I push myself to move faster.
Luckily, the tunnel becomes wider and I feel like I can breathe more easily. When this is over and I can prove that Black did this, I’m going to destroy everything he holds dear. Nobody fucks with us and gets away with it. We have been lenient so far, not wanting to cause more damage to our business, but all gloves are off now. He is about to witness the destruction we could truly cause him.
We warned him. He should have heeded that warning and gone on his merry way. He didn’t. What happens next will be on him.
Coming to the end of the tunnel, the walls spread out into a square, making enough room for all of us to stand. Roots, ivy, and branches hang down from a metal-barred manhole cover above me. I don’t get a chance to survey the rest before I feel Lily’s hand on my foot. I reach down, grasping her hand and helping her to her feet. She brushes off the wet dirt and cobwebs before huddling close to me.
Jaxon is next out, wiping a hand over his hair like something fell in it. Which wouldn’t surprise me with the amount of crap that is in there.
Reid is next, and as he looks up at the opening, his teeth clench. “What the fuck? It’s blocked.”
“What?” Jaxon and I growl, all of us looking up to the opening.
“It’s not blocked,” I tell him. “It’s a bush that’s overgrown onto it.”
“Yeah? And what about the fucking chain wrapped around it?” Jaxon bites out.
“Give me a leg up,” Reid orders, tapping me on the shoulder.
“You aren’t going to fit through the bars,” Jaxon snaps.
Reid, turning his glare to Jaxon, twists his lips together. “Do you suggest we send a pregnant Lily up there and risk one of those dickheads being up there to see her?”
“I can’t get any signal,” she murmurs, lifting her phone up.
“Call Tim, or Eli,” I order, clasping my hands together and bending.
He puts his boot into my hand, before using my head as support to lift himself up into the tunnel. He grabs onto the bar with one hand, whilst lifting his phone between the bars and hitting call.
“He’s answered,” Reid rushes out. “Eli, we’re trapped in a tunnel—Oh, for fuck’s sake.”
“What?” I yell, straining to keep him upright.
“Fucking signal has gone. Where the fuck is he?”
“Who, me?” Eli asks, and Reid screams, dropping his phone to the floor and landing awkwardly in the corner, his legs up in the air.
“For fuck’s sake,” Reid screams, slamming his fists on the ground beside him.
I smile wide, looking up at my brother. “Fuck, man. It’s good to see you. Can you get us out of here?”
He pulls on the chain, but it doesn’t break or become loose.
“Please tell me you have something to break them,” Jaxon warns, sounding panicked.
“Yeah, the tyre bar a lad tried to smack me over the head with.” He chuckles. “This lock is so old it should… There. Easy,” he breathes out, throwing the chain to the side. “Now stop wasting time standing there. Tim has gone nuclear on some of the lads who were trying to follow me.”
He lifts the metal manhole cover, shoving it to the side before leaning into the tunnel.
“Lily first,” Jaxon orders. “And, Eli, don’t let anyone touch her.”
“I won’t,” he vows, hearing the threat in Jaxon’s tone.
Me and Jaxon lift Lily up into the opening with ease. Eli grabs her hands, pulling her to safety.
“Stay in the bush there,” we hear him order softly.
“You go next,” I order Jaxon, knowing he’ll go crazy with Lily being up there without him.
“Why not me?” Reid bites out, before squealing and backing away from the wall when a large spider crawls up it. “That thing is not right. I thought spiders that big only lived in Australia.”
I roll my eyes, ignoring him as I give Jaxon a lift. Once he has a grip on the ledge, he heaves himself up, moving straight for Lily.
“C’mon on, you big baby, let’s get you out