Keyboard in her left hand, she followed Dani down the hallway.
A week without some kind of crisis. Was that too much to ask?
Chapter52
Taryn walkedthrough the door to the bar and into the middle of a brawl.
Someone took a swing before she was halfway through.
She grabbed the door with her free hand and shoved it into his face. With the power of her cyberarm behind it, she knocked him out cold.
Taryn looked down as she stepped over him. One of the pimp’s buddies.
Sonofabitch. The whole place was chaos.
Jed and a few other old timers sat at a high table at the edge of the action. He saw her and raised his glass in a salute.
Taryn would’ve smiled if she hadn’t needed to duck.
Another fist flew at her.
This time she raised her left forearm deflect the blow.
Tiny keys scattered all over the floor as the keyboard caught the punch.
Fuck!
Taryn dropped the keyboard frame. She’d find another for Ash later.
Right now, she had to end this motherfucking brawl in her goddamn bar.
Broken keyboard guy came at Taryn again. This time she was ready for him.
A right cross shattered his jaw. A knee to the balls dropped him to the floor.
He curled into a fetal position, easy to step over as she advanced toward the bar.
Another black-clad figure charged her.
She sidestepped and he rammed into a table.
Idiot.
Taryn dodged, punched, and kicked her way to the center of the brawl.
Like the eye of a hurricane, nothing was happening there. The pimp stood in the middle, Giselle’s beautiful dark hair wrapped around his hand.
He watched the chaos around him, a smirk on his face.
“Let her go.”
He turned a quarter way around to look at Taryn. The movement put Giselle’s head at a sharp angle and she cried out in pain.
The sound amped up Taryn’s rage, but she couldn’t let concern for Giselle distract her. All her attention had to be on the monster hurting the girl. “Let her go,” she repeated, her voice soft and cold.
“No. She’s mine,” he said with a sneer.
His words took Taryn back to a time and place she thought she’d escaped. The previous Jack had done the same to her. Claimed her like a piece of property.
