Chapter One
The next day...
Banger rode into Troy again.He knew where the club compound was and he rode over to it.Parking under some trees, he slipped into the woods.He found a place where he could watch the goings on beyond the chain link fence without being seen himself.
He watched the compound for a few hours as the shadows of the night moved in.When the outside lights came on, he watched some more.Finally, he saw a door opening on a house to the back of the clubhouse.
A blonde woman came out as she said, “Goodnight Cassie.”Then she turned and walked toward the clubhouse.For that brief time, she was alone.
He had already cut through the chain link and he knew that face.
Peaches Vincinti, Calderone’s daughter.Dressed in jeans and a tank top, she wore a jean vest with theSin’s Bastardspatch.Now, he made his move.He rushed in behind her and wrapped his hand over her mouth so she couldn’t scream out and alert anyone else.He grabbed her upper arm, dragging her backward toward the fenceline.
As soon as they got deep inside the woods he released her long enough to wrap her arms behind her back.
She shook her head and whispered, “Who the hell are you and what do you want with me?My husband will hunt you down and he will kill you for this.”
Banger scoffed.“Oh, yeah?Well, he has to find me first.”He reached for her and told her, “You might have a chance to get out of this alive if you follow orders.Get on my bike.You and me are gonna have acome to Jesusmeeting but not here.And lady, I have no time for any shenanigans.”He tugged her along to his bike.Yanking her hands behind her back, he tied her wrists together.“And I wouldn’t try anything while I’m driving either.If we roll, you probably won’t survive.I sure would hate for your people to have to go to your funeral.”
Peaches shook her head and asked, “How do you expect me to hang on if my hands are tied behind me?”
Banger smiled.“Don’t worry about that, I have a back bar.”
The bar would only go so far up her back but when she got on the bike he placed her hands behind the bar and then he ziptied her wrists to the bar itself.She couldn’t move, nor could she get off the bike.He swung his leg over the engine and started the bike up.
Peaches gripped the low bar with her fingers in order to stabilize herself on the seat as he took off.When they came out of the woods and onto the highway she steadied herself on the bike as he tore off down the road.
They rode to the warehouse district to an abandoned building.He drove through the open doorway and once they were inside he shut the engine down.Getting off the bike, he quickly dragged the door down.
The door was old and the loud screech it made as it came down made Peaches shiver as she looked around.In the dim moonlight she could barely see right in front of her but as the door came down it shut out whatever light there was and it went completely dark inside.Peaches froze and her breathing sped up.Before she could get herself worked up a camp lantern came on.She immediately looked over to see him lighting another camp light.When he got done he had lit several camp lights and she could see the inside fairly well.
The room was huge, everything inside was covered in years of dust and falling debris.The whole place was disgusting but Banger moved through the room like he was expecting something.Peaches watched him carefully and thanked Cassie in silence.She had taken her friend’s warning seriously and was wearing the old vest Zipper had given them years ago.It seemed Cassie was aware something like this would happen and now all she had to do was wait for Iceman to come and get her.
She studied the man carefully as she sat on the back of his bike.
He paced the rim of the room and when he reached her he glared at her for a moment, then he shook his head and muttered under his breath, “This got so far screwed up when it didn’t have to be that way.”
Peaches shook her head.“You should have just sat down and talked to Cassie.You didn’t have to kidnap her.”
Banger looked disgusted.“I didn’t take her.Rodney took her against orders.”
Peaches nodded.“Then you tied her up and slapped her.”
Banger shook his head.“I did not.”
“Then why did she have those bruises?”
“Rodney slapped her, said she was mouthy and tried to scare us all with her list of people she knew that would kill us for napping her.”
Peaches nodded as she couldn’t hide her smirk.“Yeah, that sounds like Cassie, but you’d have been better off just sitting down and talking to her in the first place.”Shrugging she said, “She might have even told you what you wanted to know.Now you don’t have a chance to find out, especially since you grabbed me.All you got now is a lot of pissed off bikers after you, not to mention my father and grandfather.”
Banger scoffed at this, “Yeah?Well, your family already hit us.They blew up our clubhouse.What more can they do to us?”
Peaches froze at his words then she shook her head.“That was because you took Cassie.But when they hear you’ve taken me?You’ll be lucky to be alive when they are done.”
Banger shrugged.“I ain’t worried about your family.I spent ten years behind bars for a crime I didn’t commit.I survived the voices of dead men and living next to monsters and beasts.How bad can they be?I think I can survive them.”
Peaches just shook her head.This man was completely unconcerned and stupid.He might be insane too, she suddenly realized.Her father would take complete pleasure in teaching him some manners though.Sane or not.She knew he wouldn’t survive her father...if Iceman didn’t get to him first.
