Total pages in book: 65
Estimated words: 61101 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 306(@200wpm)___ 244(@250wpm)___ 204(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 61101 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 306(@200wpm)___ 244(@250wpm)___ 204(@300wpm)
“What the fuck are you doing?” I no longer care about my safety or my life. Rae has taken this too far. No one comes after my family. “Where is Dante? Why have you brought Rayne here?”
“Dante is incapacitated for now. But I’m looking forward to meeting the Savage.” Her voice is low and menacing. “And Rayne? She’s here for me to toy with. She is my daughter after all,” Rae tells me with a shrug. “You think you’ve kept her safe, but my power reaches far beyond anything you can imagine. Over the past few months, you’ve killed a number of my associates. A couple of them linked back to the child I gave birth to, so I decided I wanted to see her.”
Rae pushes to her feet and makes her way over to the men holding Rayne hostage. I don’t look at Bane, but I can sense he’s watching me intently.
“Let me go!” Rayne’s voice is shrill as her mother stops in front of her.
“You’re a little firecracker, darling,” Rae tells her daughter. “I’ve thought about you over the years. You look just like me.”
“Fuck you!” The feral side of Rayne is showing, and I know she’s going to lose control soon.
When they found her chained in Thanos’s cell, she was like a rabid animal. It was only when River recognized her and made himself known to her that something clicked in Rayne and she calmed down.
“Quite the mouth on you.” Rae looks at her daughter as if she’s intrigued. “Take her to the dungeons, along with her little friend here. We’ll enjoy some games later.”
Unable to fight the attack of hands on me, I’m dragged away from the woman in the white suit and the man of my nightmares. Rayne is still screaming, and I wish I could calm her down, but she’s not looking my way.
I’ve never seen Rayne like this before, and it hurts to watch her suffer. If I could take her pain away, I would. Instead of keeping her and Dante safe, I’ve ended up putting them in worse danger.
And now, I doubt we’ll ever be saved.
14
DANTE
When I open my eyes, my head is pounding.
I’d woken earlier to discover Harper was no longer in bed with us, and I’d just got up to look for her when I was ambushed. No one’s ever been able to overpower me before, but the men sent to take Rayne were ready and waiting for me. The fucking taser they used hit me right in the gut, and I can still feel its aftereffects.
Rising to my full height, I hold my head for a moment as the dizziness slowly ebbs away. I glance down at my phone and notice there’s a brand-new message waiting for me.
Come for me, Savage. I’ve got your two pets. Let’s see if you can win this war. Bane.
I should’ve realized Bane was behind all of this. He must have known who we were from the moment we walked into the gala dinner. After we took Rayne’s mother, he must have had his men follow us back here, to rescue her.
Now he has Harper and Rayne.
Once I’ve saved my girls, I will make Bane bleed in ways he didn’t think possible.
Rage fuels me as I make my way to the office. My movements are slow. I’m still feeling sluggish from the effect of the taser, which is frustrating me. I hate feeling helpless. There were too many times as a child when I couldn’t fight back. I vowed to myself I’d never allow anyone to make me feel like that again.
I move the mouse on my desk to wake my computer, and as soon as I’m illuminated by the glow of the screen, I double click on the tracking app.
When the girls and I first got together, I asked them if a tracker was something they wanted me to insert. I didn’t expect them to agree, but now I’m thankful they said yes.
The small red dots, representing my girls, are flickering on the map I open. Now all I need to do is pinpoint their exact location, which shouldn’t be difficult. The problem is, I can’t go in there alone with just my guns blazing. I need backup.
Picking up my cell phone, I scroll to Crow’s number and hit dial. The chances of rescuing the girls will be far greater with the help of The Fallen. My greatest fear is that we’ll get there too late. Bane sent a message telling me to come for him, but I don’t know what he intends to do with Rayne and Harper. If he discovers the trackers, he could have them removed and ship the girls to somewhere much harder to infiltrate.
“What’s up, Dante?” Crow’s voice comes from the other end of the line, and I breathe a sigh of relief.