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Darkness Surrounding

What is this feeling?

Matt’s POV

I could barely contain my anger as I paced outside my office door waiting for Gates. I couldn’t feel my hands from how tightly I was squeezing my fists, willing myself not to hit the wall. Though it wouldn’t be the first time and certainly not the last time for me to express my anger in such a way. I was just seething and I knew I had to calm down before Gates showed up or else I may do something I would regret. With a tight ragged breath I closed my eyes, trying to push the little blonde’s words out of my head.

How the fuck could Emery think I would hurt her sister? I had done nothing but try and help Jo and the thought of her being ill made me sick to my stomach. I cared for the girl and it was killing me not being with her to help her and take care of her right now. And the fact that Emery thought I was hurting her, Christ that pissed me off to no ends! Fucking hell, I wished that I was with her right now instead of waiting to give Gates a piece of my mind. He needed to get that girl under fucking control and teach her a lesson about running her mouth. Let me just fucking say that it was a good thing Gates pulled her away when he did or I might have fucking snapped.

What the hell was Gates thinking bringing Emery to our fucking meeting in the first place? What part of ‘no one is seeing Jolie’ didn’t he understand? I didn’t know what was up with his disobeying orders lately but that was going to change. Not to mention Zack reported Gates was losing his edge on duty. Did it have something to do with watching the Pagano girl? Was it too much for him to fucking handle? Maybe I should change up the guard duty and knock some sense back into his fucking head!

“The meeting hasn’t started yet?” Gates voice suddenly sounded down the hall, pulling me from my aggravated thoughts. Oh if he thought he was off the hook for Emery’s actions he had another fucking thing coming…

“You better start fucking explain what the hell happened back there!” I raged, storming toward him. Just seeing him walking so casually down the hall was making me see red. “Why don’t you have that girl under fucking control?!”

“She is under control, she just fucking got away from me for a minute,” Gates shrugged, trying to walk past me to the office but I stopped him with my arm on the wall, my jaw clenched in anger.

“That wasn’t under fucking control!” I raged, throwing my hands up in the air. “What the fucking is wrong with you lately, Gates?”

“I just thought if Jolie was sick that Emery could help.” Oh don’t act all fucking innocent. It only pissed me off more. I didn’t know what game he was trying to play with that girl but it was about to end here and fucking now! “She just wanted to see her sister. You can’t blame her for that.”

“Cut the fucking crap, Gates,” I bellowed, getting right up in his face. I swear if he smirked at me that I would knock him on his ass. “Since when do you fucking care what a captive wants? I gave you explicit instructions and told you that no one and I fucking repeat no one was seeing Jolie today. And what did you fucking do?!” I yelled. “You fucking disobeyed my orders and brought the little bitch! And for what? What the fuck do you get out of disobeying direct orders?”

“Now just hold on a fucking minute,” Gates shot back, starting to get pissed off too. “You’re the one keeping fucking secrets from all of us about what is going on! Sorry that I was trying to help! I guess I’ll just wait for the order to help fix whatever mess you’ve created!” Gates threw his hands up in air, pushing my anger even further over the edge.

“Watch your fucking mouth, Gates,” I growled, stepping right up into his face and grabbing the front of his shirt with dangerous look in my narrow eyes. I pulled him towards me, my white knuckles cracking from the pressure I was putting on them. If he thought I was going to take his bullshit too, he had another thing coming. I was the fucking boss and no one talk to me like that. “Nothing is fucking going on and if there was something fucking going on that was worth you knowing, I would fucking tell you!! Do you fucking understand me?!”

What happened between Jolie and I was no one’s fucking business. Besides in her state, the last thing she fucking needed was her sister crying and worrying over her. I just hoped she didn’t hear the scene outside of the room. God, all I could do was picture her weak form shivering alone in my bed waiting for my return. She needed me and I had to admit that part of me craved her company too. Just thinking about her made me feel like someone kicked me in the gut. I didn’t want to leave her alone for too long…

Gates glared back at me, his chest heaving up and down. “Pretty tough to run an operation when your best fucking men are going into shit blind!” he said with venom in his tone. “I think you’re fucking hiding something! What the fuck are you hiding!” Gates demanded and I stepped closer, my forehead nearly touching his.

What the hell was he talking about? Had he caught onto what was going on between Jolie and I? Nah, Gates was crafty but he wasn’t fucking that observant. Besides we had been nothing but careful about keeping things private. Unless…fuck! Unless Jolie told her sister and she told Gates. I couldn’t fucking let Gates know or he would be even more defiant toward me then he already was. He needed to be put in his place and now!

“You’ve had some fucking nerve lately and don’t think I wont put you in your fucking place. One more step out of line from you or the girl and she’s gone. Get her under fucking control and teach her a lesson about running her mouth or else you are off the guard! I’ll find someone like Vengeance who will do the job the right way! Do you fucking understand me?!”

Gates’ eyes grew wide before they narrowed. What had I hit a nerve with him? Good, maybe he’d stop his bullshit. “Emery is my fucking responsibility and I will be damned if—“ Gates spat back, grabbing the front of my shirt too just as my office door burst open. We both snapped our heads to see Jimmy looking back and forth between us.

"Um…. sorry to interrupt this little….argument,” Jimmy said motioning between us with a frown. This was not a good fucking time, Jimmy! Gates needed to be taught a lesson. “But we have more important things to talk about..."

What the hell was with my men today? Could no one follow a goddamned order? I swear, these guys all needed their asses kicked back into line!

"What could be more important?!" Gates and I snapped, both of us still on the edge of strangling each other, as it seemed.

Jimmy raised an eyebrow. “Pagano?” he replied like it was the simplest thing in the world.

With just hearing that one name my temper flashed again. With a harsh shove I pushed Gates away as my early morning conversation with Jason Berry came back to me. The fucking the ransom call! With everything going on with Jo, Gates, and Emery this morning, I completely forgot about that. But how did Jimmy find out? Had he talked to the Berry’s?

“What the fuck do you know about Pagano? Did you send the fucking ransom note?” I roared, my anger jumping from Gates to the Rev. Didn’t he say that he took care of the Pagano situation? Fucking hell, he better not have made that call! The goal of this whole fucking kidnapping operation was to make Pagano sweat and pay for the all the back handed dealing he had been doing. Not show our part in the kidnapping this early! Fuck!

Not to mention that there was no way in hell that I was giving Jo back to that slimy bastard. No fucking way! She was staying with me and that was fucking final! Though deep down, I knew that when the deal was done I would have to give her back, no matter how much I didn’t want to. I just wasn’t ready to say goodbye to the beautiful girl that I had such a strong connection with. Sue me for caring about a girl for the first time in forever! And I would be damned if anyone was going to take her away!

“I—“ Jimmy started to answer just as Gates yelled, “Who the hell do you think you are tipping off Pagano?! We said we would let him wait and suffer! You risked the whole operation!” Wait, how did Gates know about this? Was everyone fucking working behind my back?!

“What the hell is going on?” Great now fucking Vengeance was out here too. And Christ? This day was just getting fucking better and better.

“Nothing besides Short Shit and Rev decided to fucking send in a ransom call to fucking Pagano without consulting Shads!” Gates replied, looking more pissed off and worried then I had ever seen him. He looked like he was ready to rip Christ and the Rev a new asshole. What the hell was he pissed about? It wasn’t like he was losing the only women he had ever really cared about! “It’s way to fucking soon to send out a ransom! What were you thinking?!”

“Hey, we never—“ Johnny started but got cut off. So Christ was in on this too? Fucking hell! Now I was beyond pissed.

“They what?” Zack snapped, looking between them incredulously before all hell broke loose. “In what universe would that be a good fucking idea? What the hell were you thinking?” He slapped the back of Johnny’s head as I took over.

“You fucking sent the ransom call to Pagano behind my back?” I raged at the same time Gate said. “We can’t let him win yet! I swear to fucking god if you two blockheads put this whole operation in danger, we’re handing you over first.”

“But we just—“

“There is no we are handing the girls open yet, for any price!” I cut in again, my heart pounding wildly in my chest. The thought of losing Jolie was sending me into a panic. I couldn’t lose her, not when I just got her and certainly not when she was so sick. “The girls are fucking staying until we are good and ready to make a deal!” Gates added.

“I can’t believe you fucking called! This could put all of our lives in danger for even talking to Pagano!” Zack yelled over top of Gates. By now everyone was yelling and talking over each other and I was fuming.

“If you assholes would just listen for one minute and let us explain!” Jimmy said, throwing his hands up in the air.

“Explain what? How you idiots single handedly destroyed this whole fucking mission? And for what? Shits and giggles? Because you were bored?”

“No! Fuck you were the one who told me to take Jimmy so I did! If you would just let us—“

“Pagano could be setting up a barricade now for when we go out on rounds to gun us all down in the fucking street! Then they will come here and drag the girls out by their fucking hair and how much further along will we be then?!”

“You should have fucking waited for direct orders!”

My head was spinning from all the yelling and my boiling temper. I didn’t know who started this shit or who to believe but I wanted some goddamned answers and I wanted them now! “ENOUGH! In my office NOW!” My voice thundered over top of all arguing.

With out a word my men nodded their heads and filled into the room, glaring daggers at each other. “I want some fucking answers Christ and Rev and it better be good or it wont be Pagano you have to worry about. It’ll be me,” I growled as I slammed the office door behind me, causing my men to grimace.

I was so worked up over the fact that I could lose Jo that I wasn’t thinking clearly. I knew I had to tread carefully with where this discussion went because I didn’t want to give anything way about my relationship with Jolie. Come on, Shads, don’t show them how invested in the girl you are. Be the demanding, in charge, ruthless leader that they know. I just had to remember that I wasn’t going to let anything happen to Jo.

“What’s to explain? They fucked everything up!” Gates raged as I held my hand up to him. He was already on my shit list and he needed to back off.

“No we didn’t! Fuck!” Jimmy screamed, sliding down in the leather chair. “All we did last night was get Pagano off our tails!”

I raised my borrow and leaned forward on my desk, my knuckles white from squeezing them out of frustration. “What. Did. You. Two. Idiots. Do?” I hissed in a deadly tone with a tense jaw. I could feel the vein in the side of my neck throbbing and it was taking everything in my power to not strangle all four of them. I was about tired of this game and I had a sick girl to take care of. All I wanted to do was get Jo and hide her away from the world until I knew she was safe.

Johnny sighed and ran his hands over his face. “All we did was offer our services to Pagano. When we met with him, on your behalf,” he said nodding toward me and I instantly stiffened. I hated when they went behind my back to do shit, but that discussion was for another time. “he said that they had received two ransom calls from two different parties and they didn’t know which one actually had the girls,” Johnny explained and I leaned back in my chair, slightly confused.

“So you’re telling us that someone is trying to make bank from our hard work?” Gates asked, looking around wide-eyed.

“They Berry’s called to tell me the same thing this morning,” I sighed, running my hands over my face. “I’ll have to send you out to look into that…but first I want to know exactly what you offered Pagano,” I said, my voice turning dark again.

“We just offered to look into those ransom calls…for a payment of course,” Jimmy replied. “And if you just would have listened to begin with, we would have told you that!”

“Yeah, Pagano wants us to investigate and let him know what we find,” Johnny said and I nodded my head. “Then what the hell are you waiting for? You and Rev go trace the fucking calls,” I ordered, liking the idea of having all of my men out of the house for the afternoon. With the gone, I could have some much needed alone time with Jolie to hopefully help her feel better. “And Vengeance I want you to go out and patrol the southern districts and Gates will the northern ones. Then report back here with your findings. Do you understand?”

“Loud and clear, boss!” Jimmy said with a salute as one by one they filtered out of my office. All I could think about was taking Jo out to the living room, making her some warm soup and wrapping her in my arms for the remainder of the day. Hell, I could even give her a bath. Yeah, that always made me feel better when I was under the weather. I just hated the idea that she got sick on my watch—I felt responsible for her suffering.

With one swift motion, I stood up from my desk and headed toward the door, thoughts of Jolie’s smile in my head. Damn why was she so fucking beautiful? What I would give too—

“Hey Shads, can I talk to you for a minutes?” My body instantly stiffened when I heard Gates’ voice behind me. Fuck! I thought that he left already! “What do you want Gates? You’ve got a job to do,” I snapped, closing the door behind me.

“Look, I apologize for this morning with Emery but don’t punish her for my mistake. She is really worried about her sister and if she’s sick I thought maybe she could help,” Brain said and I sucked in a sharp breath.

“No,” I replied turning my back on him as I walked down the hall, hoping he would take the hint and go do his job. Only I wasn’t so lucky.

“Come on man don’t bet a dick. Just let her see her for five minutes so she will relax and see that she is fine. You know if you were in her shoes you would do the same fucking thing to see one of us,” Gates said and I sighed. I hated when he was right but I still didn’t want anyone to see Jolie. She really was sick and it was my job to nurse her back to health. She didn’t need her sister freaking out over her.

“Look Gates, Jolie is fine. She is resting right now and needs some sleep,” I said, trying to make light of the situation. “Maybe she can see her tomorrow.”

“Come on man just five minutes to get her to relax?” Fucking hell, he couldn’t take no for an answer could he? I sighed and ran my hand over my face. “I promise she’s under control,” he added and let out another sigh. I opened my mouth to tell him that maybe later when a loud alarm broke the silence.

“What the fuck is that?!” I raged, starting down the hall with Gates looking for the source light. Was someone trying to break in?


Emery’s POV

My chest violently heaved up and down as Brian pinned me to the wall: anger, anxiety, and fear about losing Jo coursing through my veins. I was furious and the term upset didn’t even begin to cover what I was feeling! Who the hell did that big brute think he was keeping my sister from me?

What was he hiding? I knew something was up or else he wouldn’t have been so persistent about keep me away. That was the only explanation. So what had he done to her? Was she sick? Did that bastard hurt her? I didn’t trust him from the get go, and now he was public enemy number one on the Emery Jane Pagano hit list! I couldn’t stand the thought of not knowing what was wrong or not being with her right now. I wanted fucking answers!

“Let me go! I need to see Jo! Please! I need to see Jo!” I cried, still thrashing against Brain as he worked to restrain my arms above my head. “I need to know if she is okay!”

I felt sick from the anxiety of it all and I could barely stand to be in my own skin. I knew now more than ever that Jolie and I needed to get out of here. These guys weren’t safe. Jo could be lying on her death bed right now and here these assholes were pretending that everything was fine and dandy! They were brainwashing us into thinking they were trustworthy and not at all like our father said. But in the end, they were just looking for a paycheck and in Brian’s case a good lay. I wasn’t going to be part of that—I was no one’s plaything and neither was Jolie.

With that thought, I struggled even harder against Brian’s strong grip but it was the look in his eyes that made me freeze. It was a mix of concern, sympathy, and something I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Well, if I wasn’t caught off guard by the whole situation before, I certainly was now. What the hell was that look and why did it send shivers down my spine? What was he playing at?

“Listen Emery, I will find out what’s going on, okay?” Brian said, his handsome brown eyes burning into mine with an intensity I wasn’t prepared for. The promise and determination there took my breath away and all I could do was blink at him. “You’re gonna stay put here in the room until I come back. I’ll talk to him again and see what I can do, alright?”

Wait, he was going to help me? Well that was definitely something new, especially when I was just a plaything according to him. So why would he go through all the trouble with his boss if I was just some conquest or paycheck? Was this some kind of trick? Or did he want some kind of sexual favor in return for a good deed? Well I wasn’t going to fall into that trap. I didn’t want to believe him, but the promise I saw in his eyes only added confusion to the mix of anger and sorrow coursing through my system. Did he really care? Or even more so, why did I like the idea that he cared?

I opened and closed my mouth a few times to respond, but nothing would come out. He really wanted to help me? I was so floored by the idea that all I could do was nod my head. Not to mention that this was the second battle I had won today and I didn’t even have to say anything. What was going on? Was I just getting accustom to his brooding ways or was he softening towards me?

“I’ve got to go, Em,” Brain said, looking me up and down as I took in a shaky breath. Something about him leaving me alone right now was causing me to panic again—I didn’t want to be alone. No, that couldn’t be right. It had to be my worry over Jolie because there was no way I would crave his company. Come on brain, snap out of it! He is just filling your head with words! “But I promise that I will get some information for you and talk Shads into letting you see your sister, okay?”

“No, I need to see Jolie now!” I said my brain finally catching up from the shock of it all. It had to be just another trick because the Brian I had come to know didn’t care about anything but himself. Just look at what he did to Jimmy last night! Yeah, I heard his conversation with Christ in the hallway and I would be damned if he thought he was going to pull the wool over my eyes again.

Brian took a step back and rubbed his temples with a sigh. “Em, did you not hear a word I just said? You will see your sister. Let me talk to Shads and I will make this right.” Those brown burned so deeply into mine that my heart seemed to stop in my chest. “You just have to trust me, okay?”

Brian’s hand gently came up and cupped my face, causing me to suck in a breath as an electric spark shot through my body. What the hell was he doing to me? I was supposed to be mad and kicking and screaming my way out of here, not believing every word he told me and longing for him to stay. What kind of power did he have over me? I didn’t know and I didn’t like it. Fuck! Stop it body and let my mind work!

Without thinking, I nodded my head, my thoughts fuzzy from everything that just happened. What was that shock I felt and why did I suddenly feel like everything was going to work out? Only I didn’t have time to think about it because the next thing I knew, Brian had me sitting on the bed and had placed a light kiss upon my lips. I could still feel the lingering pressure there as he spoke.

“I’ll be back soon and we will go see your sister.” Brian placed one last kiss on my forehead before he turned and disappeared through the large metal door, leaving me in shock.

I stared blankly at the door for what seemed like an eternity. I just couldn’t process his sudden kindness or the way his look or his touch made me feel. Hell, I had never felt anything like this before in my life and I had no idea what it was. And why was he being so kind to me all of a sudden? I wasn’t sure if I more stunned by Brian’s sudden softness toward me, considering he had been nothing but rough from the get go, or the strange emotion starting to bubble up inside of me as I thought about him now. What the hell was that? Come on Emery, get your mind away from those thoughts, there is nothing happening!

But the longer I sat, the more confused about Brian and the more worried about Jo I got. Brian said he would be back soon and that had to have been over an hour ago. I mean, how long did it take to talk to Shadows? And that’s when it hit me—Brian said all those things to pacify me, not to actually help. Damn it! I stupidly fell for his dirty rotten trick and Jo could be lying sick on her deathbed all alone. Or even worse, that big brute could have raped and beat her senseless. “Oh, god Jo…” I cried, tears falling from my eyes as the hysteria I was spiraling into took over.

“I need to see her! I need to make sure she is okay! That brute did something to her! I know it! Why else would he be hiding her?!” I cried to myself as I stood up and began pacing the room, becoming more and more hysterical by the second. I couldn’t wait anymore, I needed to get out and find Jolie! I started banging and screaming for help on the metal door, but I knew no one was coming. I was trapped in this hellhole! How could I have been so stupid to believe Brian?

“HELP! PLEASE! No…no…no…come on p-please! Some-something is terribly wrong with Jo…I can feel it. Oh god this is all my fault!” I sobbed, falling down on my knees in front of the handless door. The thought of losing her was becoming more real by the minute. I should have never let her out of my sight last night and demanded that we stay in that cold and damp little room together. At least then I would have known she was safe!

Ever since we were kids, Jo and I always took care of each other when we were hurt or sick. I knew exactly what she needed and how to make her feel better, but I couldn’t do that when I wasn’t around her. That thought killed me and the longer they kept me away from her, the worse my thoughts grew. I was always the one to jump to the worst-case scenario and it was Jo that would real me back in. But one thing was constant—I knew I had to get out of this room to get to Jo. But how?

“I’m coming for you Jo…somehow I’m coming for you!” My tear-filled eyes scanned over every inch of Brian’s room for the hundredth time, trying to think of a way out.

I knew from experience that the only exit in the room was through that big metal door with the keypad. But without a code, there wasn’t shot in hell for me to get out of this room. I knew from my multiple trips out of the room, that first number of the code was 8 but the rest were a mystery. Damn it, why hadn’t I paid closer attention to Brian’s fingers?

It was then that a thought hit me: what if I could correctly guess the key code? That was it! I would try a series of codes until I found the right one. I mean, the keypad only went up to nine so how hard could it be? Besides, I had watched enough to know that an alarm wouldn’t sound for the wrong code. Why didn’t I think of this before?

“Come on…please work,” I muttered, typing in the first line of numbers only to get three beeps telling me I was wrong. “Damn it!” I hissed, wiping the tears from my eyes. I quickly typed another five-digit numbers only for them to come up wrong too. “Come on, Em…think!” I knew I had only tried two different numbers but my logic was flawed in my desperation to get out.

“This has to be it,” I muttered to myself as I typed in a third code and hit enter. But instead of the door unlocking like I had hoped, an ear-piercing alarm cut through the silence with a red flashing light. “Shit!” I hissed, dropping to the ground and covering my ears from the bombastic sound. Now I was never going to get out of here and I surely wouldn’t be allowed to see Jo after this stunt. “No…no…no….” I cried, feeling a wave of defeat and sorrow wash over me.

Wait a minute! Brian or one of the guys would have to come by to turn off the alarm! That was it! Someone would come to the room to see what tripped the alarm and as soon as the door opened, I would make a run for it! Oh, this was brilliant! The guys would be so disoriented by the sound and flashing lights that they wouldn’t even notice my little frame sneak past them. Then I could go to Jo’s room and get us both out of here!

And as if on cue, I heard voices yelling down the hallway but I couldn’t make out their words with the alarm. All I knew was that they were getting closer and closer and soon I would be out of here.

“Gates turn off your fucking alarm!” I heard the big brute yell right outside of the door. I braced myself, ready to pounce as soon as the door opened. This was it. It was my only chance…

As soon as the door burst open, I darted out of Brian’s room, running as fast as I could down the hallway. I didn’t care if they saw me or not, I just knew that I had to get to my sister.

“Fuck! Get back here!” voices screamed after me as the alarm turned off but I didn’t stop. I kept running back to the room where they kept my sister. “Gates! Fucking help me!” the voice thundered behind me, his footsteps echoing in the tall ceilinged hallway. “Stop her! We can’t let her get away! I thought you said you had her under control.”

“I fucking did! Emery! Get back here!” Brian’s voice sounded just as the door came into sight. Yes I was so close to my sister! Now I just had to get in the room and—

Before I could reach the door, a pair of very muscular tattooed arm grabbed me around the waist and pulled me to the ground, knocking the wind out of me. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” Shadow’s voice raged as I was harshly pulled to my feet. I was met with a pair of very angry hazel eyes.

“No! NO! I need to see my sister! Please! Please! I need to see my sister!” I coughed and begged, as I struggled against his hold to get over to the door. “Please I need to make sure she okay!”

“No! No one is going to see Jolie,” Matt said, his eyes dark and his jaw set like steal. “Especially not after this fucking stunt you just pulled,” he growled as I pulled away from him, my anger growing now too. I saw him throw a look over his shoulder at Brian but I didn’t care. I had a bigger concern at the moment. “You’ll be fucking lucky if I let you see her again!”

“NO! I WANT TO SEE MY SISTER NOW! WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?! I KNOW YOU DID SOMETHING!” I screamed, getting right up in the big guys face and not caring about the consequences. I only had one thing in mind and that was to get my sister and get the hell out of here!

“No fucking way. Gates get her out of here before I do something I regret!” Matt growled roughly pushing me toward a very confused looking Brian. “I repeat, NO ONE is going to see Jolie. Do you fucking understand?! NO ONE!” I could see that Shadow’s temper was boiling over from my behavior but I didn’t give a damn because now I was seeing red.

“WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER? YOU FUCKING HURT HER, DIDN’T YOU!” I screamed, launching my petite frame at Shadows and attacking every inch of him I could. “LET ME SEE HER! LET ME SEE HER! YOU FUCKING HURT HER! I KNOW YOU DID!”

“GATES GET HER THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!” the large brute thundered as I hit every inch of him that I could reach. How could he keep Jo from me and not tell me what was going on with her?

“LET ME SEE MY FUCKING SISTER OR I SWEAR TO GOD YOU BASTARDS WILL PAY!!” I hollered back as strong pair of arms wrapped around my waist and pulled me away. “WHEN OUR FATHER GETS AHOLD OF YOU, YOU’LL BE FUCKING SORRY!”

“Get her out of here and lock her in the fucking cell in the basement!” Shadows barked at Brian as I struggled against his hold, punching and kicking in Shadow’s direction with everything my small frame had. I had to get away. I had to find Jo and get out of here!

“Matt we can’t put her down there it’s—“ Brian argued but I barely heard him over my own yelling.

“You fucking heard me! Get her the hell out of my house and teach her a fucking lesson about following the rules! If she acts up again, she will pay and don’t think I’m fucking kidding.”

“But—“ Brian tried to counter as I struggled to get free.

“Get. Her. Out! NOW!” Shadows roared in a deadly tone before he turned and went into the room that I had been trying so hard to get into. No! I had to get in there! I wasn’t leaving my sister here with him.

“LET ME GO! BRIAN! DON’T! I SAID LET ME GO!” I screamed as Brian threw me over his shoulder and carried me down a hallway that I had never been down before. I thrashed and struggled against his hold, wanting nothing more to beat the living shit out of that M. Shadows character. No one hurt my sister and got away with it! He had to have done something to her considering that she was perfectly healthy last night! “I KNOW HE DID SOMETHING TO HER! I WANT TO SEE MY SISTER! LET ME SEE HER!”

“Just calm the fuck down, Em!” Brain hissed over his shoulder at me as I kicked and punched every inch of him I could reach. “Your sister is fine! You were in enough fucking trouble with this little stunt!”

I knew this wasn’t his fault but I was just so angry and upset that I couldn’t control myself. I just wanted to get Jo and get out of this hellhole because it obviously wasn’t safe here. Damn it! I knew no good would come of the way that Shadows was eyeing my sister at the mall and I was stupid enough to let her out of my sight to begin with. I know she was my older sister but she was just too naïve for her own good. And now I didn’t know if she was alive or near death…Oh God, we had to get out of here!

“BULLSHIT! IF SHE WAS FINE FUCK HEAD WOULD LET ME SEE HER! PUT ME DOWN, BRIAN! I FUCKING MEANING IT!” I continued to bellow but nothing I said or did seemed to have any affect on him other than annoyance.

These men had done nothing but brainwash us into trusting them and in my case sleeping with them. It was time to put and end to all of this and get out of here! “Let me go!” I cried, my screaming mixing with sobs. “LET ME GO!”

“Emery! Calm down!” Brian sighed as I struggled even more against him. But he didn’t seem to be phased because his gripped only tightened as he walked down a long flight of stairs. When we reached the bottom he punched in a passcode at the door he stopped at. “If you just would have waited for me—“

“I what?” I half cried, half screamed. I barely noticed the warm breeze and the smell of the ocean that suddenly surrounded us. “I would have got to see my sister? That is a bunch of bullshit! You lied to me! You fucking lied to me! It was all a trick!” I sobbed, still trying to pull free of his strong grip.

“Emery! Stop! I didn’t lie to you!” Brian said indignantly as he tried to keep me from falling off his shoulder as we walked. With one good hit to his bad shoulder Brian let out a groan of pain and a curse. “Fucking hell, Emery! Knock it off!” and with that I tumbled to the ground, hitting the warm sand with thud. Wait? Sand?

My head instantly snapped up and I looked around with tears streaming down my face. We were now outside in a little bungalow on the beach, the ocean and rocky cliffs only a few yards away. The bungalow was filled with decrepit patio furniture and ragged pieces of pale fabric hung down from the sides, blocking out some of the hot California sun. This wasn’t the basement cell that Shadows had been talking about this was…freedom.

“Fucking hell that hurt,” Brian muttered under his breath with a wince as he massaged his bad shoulder. “What the hell has gotten into you? You couldn’t have waited five more minutes for me to get back?” He snapped as I opened my mouth to argue.

“Don’t pull that bullshit on me! You fucking lied to me to shut me up! You had no intentions of helping me and now Jo could be d-dead somewhere!” I sobbed, shaking my head at Brian. “And to think for once you might have car-cared about-about someone more than yourself!” I cried before I could stop myself. God what was wrong with me? Why did I care so much that he lied to me right now? He was my captor for crying out loud!

Brian let out a loud groan. “Goddamn it, Emery! I didn’t fucking lie to you!” Brian shot back, running his hands through his spiked hair. “I fucking talked to Matt just like I promise and he was this close,” he held up his fingers about a centimeter apart. “To agreeing when you set off the alarm!”

I felt my body sink lower into the sand as I let his words sink in. “Oh god…” I said, my voice shaking and barely audible. “This is all my fault…Jo could be dying and it’s all my fault…”

Notes

So Emery almost got away from the guys to get to Jo... Where do you think Brian took her? Did Jo hear the rather loud argument between Emery and Matt? She's really not afraid of any of them anymore, is she?

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Comments

Oh thank his he’s okay! But now Em is not okay. When will this group get a chance to breathe?? Loving it as always ladies!

These cliffhangers are killing me here! Love this story!

Hnybdgr Hnybdgr
7/14/19

Oh god, what’s Matt trying to do now? I support him though, Pagano needs to be punished for treating his daughters like shit.

Holly Holly
4/23/19

Yay!!! They are FINALLY reunited! I’m so happy! But wonder what trouble Matt just got himself into with Pagano. I hope we get to see Jo kick ass and rescue him! As always, I loved the update and i can’t wait for more!

Gah! They still have to get out! Ya killin' me, smalls!!! ;) thx for the update! If Jimmy is hurt I will find you.

violetvictoria violetvictoria
3/16/19