Then she smirked, hell he would never survive if Cassie got to him first.She didn’t get her club name for nothing.
Banger saw the smirk and his patience ended as he swung on her.
Pain exploded when he slugged her and Peaches tasted metallic iron when blood spilled inside her mouth.She spit out the blood and it stained the dusty floor.She just glared at him as blood ran down from the corner of her mouth.“Only a true coward hits a woman.”
Banger pushed his fingers through his hair as he looked frustrated.“I was never that kind of man before I went to prison.I never hit a woman in my whole fucking life!”He turned in a seemingly lost circle.“Fuck!”He lifted her off the bike and slammed her down onto the cement floor.
Peaches cried out as her hip hit the floor hard.She was tied up and didn’t expect to be tossed.She lay there while groaning.
Banger paced the floor beside her as he muttered to himself.He said things like the devil on his shoulder and his family honor.
Her breathing slowed down as she lay there listening to him muttering under his breath.He was crazy, she saw that now.He hit her then seemed to regret it then lost his temper again.She had seen this kind of thing before.Funny thing about that, it had been Robbie that acted this way.The same man who had supposedly done this to him.
She closed her eyes again then just breathed in and out slowly.The pain from his fist and treatment was settling down some.Then she heard slow footsteps coming her way.She felt the air shift around her but she didn’t open her eyes.She couldn’t.There weren’t many options to reason with someone who had lost their mind.She needed to be careful here.
The footsteps stopped and he squatted beside her.Then he leaned closer to gently cup her cheek with his large hand and directed her head toward him.
She opened her eyes slowly and found herself face to face with him.Up close and personal.Yes, his eyes seemed dilated as if he was on something.Hell, maybe he was.If so, that made this one hundred times worse.
“Can you contact Cassie?”He growled softly.
She looked at him and pursed her lips tightly.
His grip on her jaw tightened as his eyes looked crazed again.“You see that I’m not messing around with this.So can you call her?”
Peaches didn’t want to answer him but his fingers were gripping her jaw hard and the longer she hesitated the tighter they became.Finally, she nodded.
He dropped his hand then reached for his phone and held it out to her.
She shook her head.“I haven’t memorized her number.I need my own phone.”
Banger growled and reached for her back pocket.Her phone seemingly survived the throw to the floor.Now he pushed her over on her side and used her thumb to open the device.He scrolled for Cassie’s number, tapped the screen and put the call on speaker.It was answered on the third ring and then he put it close to Peaches’s mouth.
Peaches felt so happy to hear her voice over the line.“Oh Cassie, thank God you answered,” she whispered.
“What’s going on Peaches?Where are you?”
“Tell her you’re in trouble but don’t give her any details,” Banger whispered as he put his hand over the speaker.
Peaches nodded and went on, “I’m in trouble and I need you.”
“Where are you?”Cassie asked her.
Peaches could read the worry in her voice but then she had known Cassie for most of her life.“You know I’m not really sure at the moment.”
Banger growled at her.“Don’t get cute.”
Cassie went quiet on the other end of the phone call as she must have heard him.
He took over the call now, “This is Virgil, I’m sure you know who I am.”
“I do,” Cassie told him coldly.“What do you want?”
“I want the same thing I wanted before,” Banger snapped.“I want what Robbie stole from me ten years ago.And I think you know exactly what that is.”
“Yeah, I know what that is,” Cassie snapped back.“Is Peaches okay?You haven’t hurt her, have you?”
Banger snorted.“She got slapped, but if you don’t tell me what I want to know, she’ll get worse,” he threatened.
