“I… I… what… Don’t hurt me,” she stammered.
“Are these scumbags holding a woman here?” he repeated.
“I don’t know. I don’t…. No, I haven’t seen anyone but… please, please, oh God don’t kill me.”
While he was talking I grabbed the guy War knocked out and dragged him away from the building. Last thing we needed was him waking up, but I had no way to easily subdue him. We needed to make this quick. Spotting another dumpster that had a catch on the outside, I pulled him over there. It took a while, but I got him thrown inside and locked the lid down.
When I got back to them, the girl was on her feet and no longer had a gun to her head. War held it down at his side. She was shaking so bad, I thought she might pass out. “Look, we’re not going to hurtyou but we need to know if the Kingsmen are holding a woman here? Dark hair, about five ten. They’ve kidnapped her, okay? We’re just trying to find her, get her back safely.”
“Did you kill Ant?”
War gave me a look. “Ant?” he shook his head. “No, we don’t kill people for no reason.”
“What’s your name?” I asked her, trying to calm her down but she refused to tell me. “If you have seen a woman they’re hiding, you need to tell us? We’ll let you go.”
She shook her head. “I didn’t see anyone… I just came here with my friend tonight… to party and get some…. dr-drugs. He said I had to do…thatto get it,” she sobbed.
“Take it from someone who knows,” War told her. “Hanging around guys like this is not safe for you. He was abusing you, for drugs. You’re young, don’t be stupid. Stay away from them.”
“My friend is in there,” she sobbed. “She went with one of them to another room.”
God knew what was happening to her. “We’ll make sure she’s safe,” I reassured her but doubted that would be the case.
“Just get the fuck out of here,” War said. She started to walk away but he stopped her, took her purse and pulled out her phone. She protested so he showed her the gun. Her friend and her phone forgotten, she ran away. War rolled his eyes. “She’ll be back.”
I shrugged. “Do we really give a shit?”
He blew out a sigh. “Where’d you put the guy?”
“Locked him in a dumpster. But he’ll make noise when he wakes up. They’ll also want to know where he went eventually.”
A sound behind us had us both spinning around. Dirt came out of the darkness with Ink and a few other guys, there were now twelve of us. I recognized some of the guys from the Middletown Chapter in Delaware, who’d stuck around after the funeral. He looked like he wanted to beat the shit out of us. War had them come over and filled them in on what we knew, he wasn’t about to explain himself.
Dirt took a call and told whoever it was we needed a diversion so we could go in while they were confused, and we’d hit them from all sides. After listening Dirt’s face broke into a smile. I kept my eyes out on thearea beyond us and noticed another person jogging closer to the main warehouse. I’d recognize that head of white hair anywhere.
“Not very stealthy,” I commented dryly.
“It keeps him happy…” Dirt grinned. “Everyone ready?”
Casper used that precise moment to detonate a bomb he planted on one of the bikes, a nice touch, especially as it blew up more than half of the bikes parked beside it. After a moment, there was some shouting from inside and the doors pulled open, men spilling out shouting about the bikes. They weren’t paying attention to anything else.
I only hoped we managed to find someone who could tell us where Waverley was. Or we would find her in here. A horrible thought suddenly hit me that if she was here, they might do something to her. We all ran at the men who had come outside, easily taking them out, I punched one guy so hard he bounced off the wall and slammed onto the ground.
The fire was still raging, and I wondered what the hell Casper had used, it brought back memories of another time, when Casper blew up a bunch of high school kids cars. Now I knew we’d made an enemy of Andrew Reinhart that night and that thought pissed me off even more.
Gunshots filled the air and I ducked back to find cover, holding my gun up. It was hard to differentiate between our guys and theirs, I didn’t want to hit anyone on our side by mistake.
All around me I could hear shouting and guns firing. I sprinted past the bikes on fire and a small part of me wept for their ruin, but it wasn’t enough to stop me in my tracks. I got to the door and ducked my head quickly around to see what was inside. I counted at least six men out here so that meant there were two more and the girl, if what the other girl said was true.
I held my gun up next to my shoulder, finger through the trigger guard. War stopped on the other side of the door and looked at me. He started counting down from three using his fingers then we both ran inside. We weren’t alone. The men outside were all down so the rest of us spilled into the room.
I followed him inside and immediately had to take cover as a guy standing in the middle of the vast space fired wildly around himself.
“Fuck,” I grunted, dropping to my knees behind a huge metal box.
The place was set up with couches and tables, and there was a kitchen area near the back of the room. I didn’t see anyone but there were a few doors off the room. We spread out to start checking them, both for Kingsmen and Wave.
Another explosion rocked the side of the building and debris from the ceiling rained down around me. Jesus Christ, Casper needed to chill the fuck out before he collapsed the damn place with us inside.
