Adlet smiles down at me. “You didn’t think you were the only one, did you?”
He laughs when his words hit me.
“Who?” I rasp.
“You’ll find out soon enough, little girl. Now, hurry the fuck up. We need to get to the others,” he says, pulling on me once again.
As we stumble through the woods, my mind races.
Maggie. I know he has Maggie. She makes the most sense. He’s obsessed with her. He’s always wanted her for himself.
He said others, as in more than one.
Is he talking about the guys who are helping him? Asher told me that they knew they didn’t take down the club completely, and they didn’t know how deeply Adlet’s connections went.
But what if they grabbed someone else? Who would they have grabbed?
Rain?
She would make sense. She’s young and attractive. An easy bargaining chip.
My stomach rolls as I think about my friend as a pawn. It’s fucked up, but that’s the way his mind works.
What if it’s not her, though? Could it be one of the guys’ old ladies? Kim?
Grabbing Kim wouldn’t necessarily make sense.
I don’t know why, but my gut says it isn’t her.
Who else? Who could it be?
“Here we are,” Adlet says as we step into a clearing.
I look up and freeze, the knife slicing into my skin once again.
“Tell me, Aspen, do you like my marks on your body? Is that why you keep walking into my blade?” Adlet asks.
His voice sounds like he’s underwater, and his words don’t quite make sense. I’m too busy staring at the people in front of me.
Maggie’s shoulders drop when she sees me, and even from a distance, I can see the tears streak down her cheeks.
It’s the woman next to her, though, that makes my blood go cold.
Ashley.
How did I not think about her?
How did I not think about Asher’s own twin sister?
Logically, she makes sense. Not only is she Asher’s sister, but she is the least likely one we would have considered. The one person they were never supposed to know about.
But they found out because of me. Because I let her come to the club, I brought her into the world.
Asher told me we had targets on our backs, but I didn’t take his concerns seriously, and now his sister’s life is on the line.
He’s going to hate me.
When they find us, he’s going to be furious. I know it.
