Secrets Worth Keeping (Finding my Home #2)- Nikita Parmenter Page 0,2
from my side mirrors immediately focusing back on the car in front.
“She looks so much worse closer up, she looks like she’s been dragged across the gravel face down.” I growl out between clenched teeth.
Curses ring out of the Bluetooth, each of us struggling with the fact that she was hurt and we weren’t there to stop it, again. I want to reassure her in some way but I know she won’t be able to see me from this far away. She knows our cars, she won’t know that we’re coming for her. Just as I think about flashing my headlights at her in the vague hope that she understands, her eyes widen in fear and tears start making fresh tracks down her bloodied cheeks as her head snaps back around to face the front.
“I’m going to kill the fucker” I curse harshly as I nudge his bumper when he tries to turn down a sideroad.
“Did you see that?” Riot his voice troubled.
“See what?” Jensen growls. “What the fuck happened?”
“Jeremy obviously just said something to Ever and whatever it was had her terrified, I’ve never seen her look like that before” Riot explains his voice strained.
“Fuck, hurry the fuck up! Let’s fucking end this once and for all” Jensen says coldly, his voice hard.
“We can’t fucking kill him” Rafe warns.
“Why the fuck not” Luc surprisingly growls, he’s normally the more level headed one of us but then again this is Ever, she breaks all the rules.
“Because dumbass, that’s murder and the cops already know that he’s the one stalking Ever. There were too many witnesses at the fucking diner, witnesses that weren’t our people. It’s too fucking messy. I know for a fact we can use force to make him stay put if he tries to escape whilst we are waiting for the police to show up though, especially if he hits first” Rafe growls, a dark glee hidden behind his words.
“Jensen is Matty’s brother still in lock up?” I question suddenly as we enter the first stretch of the back road by October farm.
“Yes.”
“He still owe you a favour?”
“Yep, I think it might be time to collect on the debt owed” he chuckles darkly.
“Where are you guys?” Luc asks.
“Still pulling through the woods about a half a mile out, we going to make it?” Rafe asks.
“Yeah just, thank fuck we had that made.”
“Yeah well it became necessary after someone fucking decided it was fun to get kidnapped” Cash accuses.
“I was bored” Jensen’s defends loudly and like it would actually be a valid argument to explain why he kept letting himself get kidnapped. It’s fucking not.
Through the back window of the car I can just about make out Ever wriggling around in the back seat and I wonder what she’s up to. I know our girl and I know she won’t give up without a fight but I’m also worried that whatever the cunt said to her triggered her on some level. She doesn’t know that we’ve come for her and if she panics I’m worried she might do something impulsive.
“Guys we need to hurry this up, if whatever that cunt fucking said to her triggered her then she might not be thinking clearly, I can see her moving around in the back seat” I warn them.
“Her movements are jerky, it’s a high possibility that when we do get to her she’s going to be in shock or getting there” Riot warns studying Ever's blacked out form intently.
“Got it” the others all confirm together their concern more than evident.
“We’re nearly at the exit onto the road, should be about two minutes, tops” Rafe says.
“Remember high beam, blind the fucker, people automatically stomp on the break when they can’t fucking see” Cash reminds him.
“Luc when he finally stops you pull up on the right, you, Riot and Jensen get Ever” I command before Jensen interrupts me.
“What the fuck, I want to knock the shit outta that fucker” he threatens, rage pulsing in his tone.
“Can you honestly fucking say that you won’t kill him?” I ask seriously.
“No” Jensen bites out harshly.
“Get our girl to safety, Brother” Riot says softly and Jensen just grunts on the other end, but I know he’ll go to Ever.
“Rafe, you me and Cash have got that Jeremy fucker” I sigh heavily, “don’t fucking kill him” I instruct again, they all need to hear it more than once.
“Got it boss” they all echo back to me.
“Rafe I see you, don’t swerve unless it really looks like he won’t