It had to be closing in on seven-thirty, and if they knocked Ivy out soon after hitting me, then she was past the half-hour point.She had to wake up soon.Otherwise, I was going to raise holy hell to get her an ambulance because she definitely had a concussion.
Pots clanged in the kitchen – or it sounded like pots, then I heard male voices and the sound of a door slamming.
I heard Boyd’s muffled voice from outside.“Yeah, we got two of his kids.”
“One of his kids, that bitch isn’t his sister,” Campbell said.
“Shut it, Camp,” Boyd hissed.
Just when I thought they couldn’t be more ignorant, they proved me wrong.To be fair, though, I could see it.But only because I was young enough to be Lark’s kid.
Still, assumptions led to trouble.
When I heard him again, Boyd had raised his voice.“What the hell do you mean we weren’t supposed to take anyone yet?You don’t have any way of—” He paused abruptly, then said, “Contact the club, man.”
After a much shorter pause, he said, “Then call the bar.”
“What’s the problem?”Campbell asked.
From Boyd’s response, I guessed he ignored Campbell.“Too bad, we’ve got them at the old house.We can’t let them go now.You said we’d get paid no matter who we took.Make those bikers pay.We’ve got one of the sons and his girlfriend.”
That was so fucked up.
I couldn’t think of another group of bikers who would pay these men to take me, Mickayla, or Killian.They would just do it themselves.
“What do you mean they want the fuckin’ old man?”Boyd yelled loud enough it made me jolt.
Another short pause.
“We could still ransom these two back to Lark,” Boyd said in a normal voice.
There was a much longer pause after that.
Then I heard Boyd speak again.“Come on, Campbell.Rusty wants us back in town.”
“We’re just gonna leave them here?He isn’t tied up,” Campbell said.
“So what?We locked them in that room.Even if they get out, they don’t know where they are, it’s gonna be dark in under an hour, and we have his cell phone.If they leave, they’ll have to walk, and they won’t get far before we come back.”
My head twisted toward Ivy when she made a moaning sound and shifted on the mattress.Her eyes weren’t open yet.
I heard the truck start and then the engine noise quickly faded away.
We were alone, which ought to be good, but Ivy needed to wake up if we had a shot at getting out of here.
Chapter 5
Bouncer School
Ivy
Iblinked,thenwincedin pain.I had one helluva headache.Chad got migraines any time the weather changed.Everything I felt made me think of him, though I wasn’t nauseous.
I took a deep breath and opened my eyes.The room was dim with only a sliver of yellowish-orange light coming in under the door.Then I remembered I’d been taken.My entire frame tensed and I heard someone shush me.I looked in that direction and saw Ryan sitting on the floor with his back against the wall.
“Where are we?”I whispered, sitting up on a thin, bare mattress.
“No fucking clue.I came to in the truck and we were rambling down a long-ass dirt road in the middle of the woods to this house.We could be anywhere within a forty-five minute radius of the bar.”
