Or any of Kay’s guys.
Because they wouldn’t dare touch me without him around.
Chaos. Everything around us erupted into chaos. I heard windows shattering in the distance. Windows that my brother and I painstakingly put into the sills of this home that weren’t standard sizes. The cold, clammy pairs of hands ripped me out of bed, and I fought against them with every ounce of energy my tired, dicked-down body afforded me.
I still felt Bee’s essence dripping down my thighs as I cried out. “Brutuuuus!”
“Let go of her! I said, let her go!” he barked.
I didn’t really understand the nightmare that had descended, however, until I heard the other girls wailing up a storm.
“No! Ghost! What are you doing!? He hasn’t done anything wrong!”
“Don’t you put that gun at her! Put it down right the fuck now!”
“Rangeeeer!”
“No! King! Please! Don’t take him! King! KIIIIING! NOOOO!”
I’d never been frozen in all my life. Never. Every time chaos kicked up, I knew exactly what to do. I knew exactly where to be. I knew exactly what my role was. But as smoke filled my home and doors slammed into the walls so hard that I heard the plaster giving way, I couldn’t shake the reality in front of me.
We were being arrested.
“Anna.”
My own name felt so far away as I tried tugging and yanking out of the grasp that held me firmly in place on my feet.
“Anna!”
“LET THEM GO!” I yelled at the top of my lungs.
“Char!” Kay yelled somewhere. “It’s all right! Anna! It’s going to be all right!”
“He saved me! They all did!” Char panicked at the top of her lungs. “What are you doing to them!?”
“Beeeee!” I shrieked.
“Anna-mine!” he barked.
The world slowly melted into my vision as my darkened room came into view. I heard the crunching of glass as someone’s grip that I didn’t recognize held my arms behind my back. I flicked my hair off my face long enough to see three men wrangled Brutus toward the door.
Locked in handcuffs.
“I’m going to sue the pants off every single one of you!” I yelled. “It’ll be your fucking paycheck that pays to fix my goddamn motherfucking house!”
“Everyone!” Cap called out across the house. “Don’t panic! Stay calm!”
“David! Don’t take him! Where are you taking him!?”
“I want to know the charges right this instant. Read them their fucking rights in front of us, now!” Jasmine demanded.
Jasmine.
Paralegal.
She’d know what the hell was going on.
“Anna,” Brutus said as they shoved him by me.
