She didn’t feel a thing. though — didn’t show it at least. She bounded up the stairs two at a time, her grip iron tight on my thighs. “Keep fighting it, Viper, but you can’t run this time.”
“Help me!” I shrieked, catching one last glimpse of Leo and Spencer as we crested the staircase. But all they could offer me were remorseful gazes as Dom carried me around the corner to my room.
My blood pulsed red hot in my throat as I tried to guess what this murderer might do to me. Would she kill me here and nowto get rid of the threat? Cut out my tongue? Toss me through the window?
Instead, she kicked my door open and flung me onto the bed. Her breath came ragged as she towered over me, and I couldn’t help but shrink as I watched her seethe.
I didn’t have a chance to even try running past her before she kicked my bedframe with cracking force. I flinched, pulling my knees to my chest as she hissed. “You thought this was bad before? Welcome to fucking hell.”
With that, she turned on her heel, slamming and locking the door behind her. My phone was still in the duffel downstairs. There wasn’t a shot of making it out the window without breaking a bone.
Which meant I was stuck here in the middle of the woods, completely at the will of three homicidal bikers. The truth hammered through me with each thundering footstep Dom took down the hall. I’d thought they were my saviors, but now, I was their captive.
51
SPENCER
I could ripher fucking head off.
My blood was still boiling as I heard Dom’s heavy steps trudging down the stairs.
What the fuck is she thinking, hauling that poor girl off like that?
At the thought of everything Kiera had been through tonight — the vast majority of which was my and Leo’s fault — my chest tightened. I couldn’t believe I’d let her see The Gauntlet. She wasn’t supposed to know about any of this.
When Dom reached the landing, Leo was quick to jump down her throat. “What the actual fuck, Dom?”
“What?” Dom growled, evaluating her escape routes. As large as Dom was, hulking even, Leo was just as huge and had a military background. I wouldn’t want to put money on that fight.
“You know what, asshole. You can’t touch a woman like that.” Stepping forward, Leo started to minimize Dom’s exits. She wasn’t going to let her get away with that shit.
Dom rolled her eyes, puffing out her chest as she closed the distance between them. “I’ll do as I please in my house. So long asshe’sin my house, she’s my property.”
Even from across the room, I could see Leo’s nose lifting into a snarl. A dog fight was about to break out and someone had to break it up before skulls got crushed.
“What does The Oracle want with her? Why aren’t they letting her leave?” I pushed myself into the conversation.
Based on how Dom had been acting, she would have given anything to get Kiera out of here. God only knows why. But that meant The Oracle had put their foot down. Something Dom rarely tolerated.
“Just be happy they agree with you two fuckers.” Dom whipped her icy blue eyes toward mine.
Something in Leo’s face softened. “It’s not safe for her with Gabe.”
Crossing her arms, Dom stood in silence, letting the two of us work through what was happening.
But I couldn’t make the connection. Something was missing.
“Dom, why is she so important to them? She’s just some girl we grabbed at a bar.” I put my hands on my hips, desperate to understand the woman upstairs — who was almost certainly pacing her bedroom, trying to figure out how to run.
I hadn't known Kiera long, but I could tell from a mile away that she was not one to be caged.
With a shrug, Dom scoffed. “It’s The Oracle. They’re all cloaks and daggers. Who fucking knows what their motive is.”
Liar.Behind her eyes, I saw everything. The Dom I knew, who took me in when I had nothing, wouldn’t let The Oracle tell her what to do. Not if she didn’t agree with their logic, with their reasoning.
Unlike the rest of us, Dom had some way of working around the higher ups. Leo and I followed orders. But Dom? Dom made them.
Leo’s shoulders dropped, disarmed by all of it.
