Banger stood there and he held Peaches up in front of him by her hair.
Cassie looked her friend over carefully.She noted the bruises on her face and the fact that her hands were still tied behind her back.Then she asked, “Peaches, you okay?”
Peaches scoffed as she winced hard.“No sister, I’m really not.”
Now Banger broke in, “Ok you’ve seen her, now tell me what I want to know,” he shouted and tightened his grip on Peaches’ hair.
Peaches rose on her tiptoes and tried not to scream.
He forced her to step through the doorway.Moving his hand from behind his back he showed his gun to Cassie.Showing her that he would shoot Peaches if she didn’t tell him what he wanted to know.
Cassie’s eyes narrowed on the gun then she looked him right in the eyes.“There’s a small house on the end of Winser Street on the west side of Boston.The number on the door is 520.It looks abandoned because it is, but that’s where Robbie ran to when he didn’t want to go home.He had been seen moving some heavy stuff there with an old truck.”
Banger sneered at her.“Now was that so hard?”He raised the gun higher.
Sucking her breath in, Cassie could see his finger slowly tightening on the trigger.
The eerie tense silence was shattered by the sound of a gunshot and Banger was flung back from the door.The gun in his hand flew out the door and bounced to the ground.
It landed right in front of Peaches’ feet.She didn’t move for a moment.
That was all it took for Iceman to grab her from the doorway.He held her close for a long minute then he looked down at his woman and gently brushed the hair away from her face.“I’m here, baby girl.”
Peaches looked up at him and when she saw his face she burst into tears.“I thought I’d never see you again!”She sobbed and buried her face in his chest.
“Are you ok, baby?”Iceman whispered to her.
She didn’t reply as she kept crying.
Deke came up and pulled his knife out to cut the zip ties from her wrists.
Peaches cried out in pain when she was finally free.
Deke studied the raw broken skin around her wrists.He looked up at Iceman and shook his head slightly.Then he turned to glare at Banger.
He was lying there as crimson stained his shirt.He had taken the bullet to his shoulder but the shot had frozen him.He finally gained his senses back and glared up at the man standing in the doorway.“What the hell?”Banger shouted.“Why are you here?Cassie was supposed to be the only one that came.”
Deke smirked at him.“Man, I don’t know how you dumbass Falcons do your business but my woman doesn’t go anyplace where she could be in danger without me.What?Were you planning on killing them both once she told you where to go?”
“Whatever.”Banger grunted.“She broke her word and you all know it.But you got Peaches back in one piece, didn’t you?”
“Yeah, we did but you aren’t going to be in one piece when we get through.”Deke walked over to where Banger was laying on the floor.He stepped on the other man’s hand and began grinding his boot down hard.“This is the hand you raised with that fucking gun to our women with.”
Banger screamed and tried to pull his hand free but Deke wasn’t going to allow that.By the time he removed his foot Banger’s hand looked mangled and useless.
Banger raised his injured hand and held it to his chest.Tears of pain were rolling down his cheeks and he looked at Deke and snarled.“You’ll pay for that.”
Deke just shook his head.“Damn, you are just so fucking stupid!Better men than you have uttered that very same phrase and yet I’m still here and very much alive.You are about to find out that the Sin’s Bastards don’t appreciate men like you.We firmly believe that a real man would never hit a woman.You dared to beat one of ours.I just softened you up, so don’t sweat it.Now it’s his turn to teach you a lesson.”Deke moved over a bit.
Iceman turned Peaches over to Cassie then he stared through the open doorway straight into Banger’s eyes.With not a word from him, he swiftly stepped inside and shut the door behind him.
About the same time Sam joined the rest of the group with his rifle in his hands.He checked on the women and shook his head.He then glanced at the closed door.“What’s going on?”he asked quietly.
Cassie turned to look at him and saw the rifle in his hand.“You took that shot?”she whispered.
Sam raised his head slowly and answered, “Damn right I did.I wasn’t about to let him shoot Peaches.And I wasn’t about to let this shit go on any fucking further.But not to worry, I did this for a living once upon a time.I know how to shoot crazyass men who shouldn’t be running loose.”
Both Cassie and Peaches grabbed him and hugged him.
