make time,” Ranger growls and I slow down marginally.
“What’s up?” I ask.
“Want you to pull off to the side of the road and wait for us. We’re about ten minutes behind you and just so you know, we’ll be having a discussion about the way you drive,” he snaps. Narrowing my gaze, I briefly look at the phone but find he’s hung up on me.
He didn’t do like he was supposed to do.
Damnit.
I don’t know if I should be happy or ticked at him for not listening.
Pulling over to the side of the road, I open my door, pop open my fuse box, and pull out the fuse to the ignition. Once done, I put the fuse in my pocket, so I didn’t lose it, and get out of the car. Moving to the front of the car, I propped the hood up to make it look like I’d broken down. Then I proceed to move off into the woods.
I know Ranger wants me to wait for him, but I can’t.
Trevor had called me ten minutes after I left the clubhouse and reported to me just how fucked up this fucker was. He wasn’t just anyone and it’s no wonder he would go to the house he picked. It was his father’s after all.
I don’t know what’s up with this guy but he was supposedly friends with Nerd growing up. How that happened, I have no clue. Trevor found the mom was raped, became pregnant as a result of this. I’m gathering from the information I can only imagine he’s just like his father besides the sadistic cult part of it.
Shaking my head, I trek the rest of the way to the house, staying just inside the tree line out of sight. Pulling out a pair of goggles I’d had a ‘friend’ design for me, I lift them up and look through them at the house. Thanks to these, I’m about to see infrared forms within. It looked to be about three men standing around. One of them waving their hands around over their head.
“Well okay, mister waving your arms around like an ape in the zoo,” I mutter as I continue to stare through the goggles deciding where to go from here.
“What the hell did I tell you?” Ranger murmurs from directly behind me.
“Shh,” I wave a hand behind me without taking my eyes off the target. “There’s three of them in there. I need to go to the other side and check, confirm those three are all that’s in there.”
“Fuck, is it bad that Ranger’s ol’ lady is turning me on right now with this shit.” I don’t bother paying attention to who made the comment.
“Fucker, shut the hell up.” I knew this was Ranger since it was his voice and I’d know his anywhere.
“Just saying, brother, you’re a lucky bastard.” This time I lower the goggles and glance over my shoulder to find it wasn’t one of the members from Ranger’s charter but the Franklin one. His cut told me his name was Wolf.
“Pipe down and focus,” I snap, turning my attention back to the matter at hand.
“Twister has Rage and Thorn on the other side,” Stoney states.
“They have infrared goggles to see inside that side of the house?” I ask.
“Don’t know but I’ll tell you now this fuckin’ house is getting burned to the fuckin’ ground when we’re done here. Should have done it after the shit went down with Ally.” I’m guessing this was from Burner.
“I’ve got some stuff in the trunk of my car if you want to use it,” I mutter.
“Fuckin’ hell, Ranger you’re a lucky fucker,” Venom states. I knew it was him from the gruffness in his voice.
“Damn right I am,” Ranger growls, placing a hand on the back of my neck. “By the way, baby, that was a nice way of letting us know where you were.”
“It was meant for a decoy,” I shrug. “Couldn’t very well be on the side of the road for no reason.”
“Well, let us take it from here,” he states, giving my neck a squeeze. Lowering the goggles, I look at to him. “Letting you loose, now it’s time we handle it from here, told you I was keeping you with me. This is me doing just that.”
Holding his gaze, I read what his eyes are telling me. This is him taking hold of the fury for me.
Nodding, I step into his arms. “Okay, but you should know Spark is related to the man who