Stuck between two bad boys

My eyes glinted open and I felt a sharp pain. I could feel the chill from the breeze cutting straight through my damp body.

I felt a metallic taste in my mouth, I turned and realized where I was. I was in a room with no ventilation. My face was bruised and I could feel the dried blood clot on my body. I tied to move but realized my hands were still tied to the pole and I couldn’t move.

My eyes turned to the growling sound and I saw the hefty man who injected Devin beating him up. He was growling as the punches landed on his body.

On the other side of the room, a bloodied man was laying on the floor. Devin was getting beaten for doing that to the man. Couldn’t he just wait till we realized where the fuck we were?

I scoffed and struggled to break free but the ropes holding my hands together had a grip hold. I paused after several trials and just looked at Devin who looked like he was about to die. He needed to get treated because his wounds were susceptible and they looked like it was going to get infected.

“Come out.”

“Fucking come out and face me!” He yelled again.

Was he out of his mind? He was yelling in the darkness and I just remained calm. He was badly wounded and his face was swollen but he was still yelling.

Heavy footsteps followed and James walked out.

“No way,” I blurted to myself and closed my eyes. I pretended like I was asleep so I didn’t draw attention to myself.

“Fuck you, James!” Devin yelled at him.

James lowered his stance to meet Devin who was struggling to break loose. He was drenched in sweat and blood.

“You’re stubborn, ain’t you?”

Silence fell and I didn’t hear anything else. I opened my eyes intending to see what was happening and my jaw dropped open when James shoved out a gun from his pocket.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

He pointed the gun at Devin and the gun clicked.

“James No!!!!!!” I screamed with fear.

“Please don’t kill him! Please don’t shoot.”

My pleas fell on deaf ears as he ignored everything I said and walked closer to Devin.

“James please,” I pleaded again. “He’s a good kid, he’ll never get in your way! He won’t say a word about this.”

He still ignored me, pointing the gun at Devin and my heartbeat raced faster. I couldn’t let James kill him, it was going to haunt time for the rest of my life.

“If you kill him I’ll make sure you go down with him,” I threatened, not sure how I would do that.

He turned his head in my direction and I could see he looked pissed. He gave a slight nod to the man who stood beside me and he used the gun to hit me.

“Ourgh!!” I screamed in pain. I turned my eyes back to meet James’ and a small smirk tugged on his lips.

“You don’t get to threaten me,” he remarked and I huffed. I was going to threaten him again if he didn’t stop pointing the gun at Devin.

“Don’t kill him.”

“Is that an order?” He smirked and used the gun to trace Devin’s jawline. “Your friend says I shouldn’t kill you. How come you both have the brother’s keeper type of relationship now?”

I didn’t say anything and Devin didn’t respond either. He just kept growling in pain and I remained where I was, recovering from the pain.

“If you kill him the police will find you.”

He turned to me. “Aww, will they? I mean, who knows you’re with me?”

“They’ll find you!”

“I’ll leave no trace, never mind about that.”

I had no idea how to react to such words, if he was going to leave no trace, it meant he was going to kill us. Good lord, not today. I can’t die right now, not right here, in these clothes.

“Someone has your picture,” I blurted.

I didn’t give the lie many thoughts but I just needed to say something real quick.

“What picture?” He asked with interest.

“A picture of you with us. It’s going to implicate you because you’d be the suspect. What business could we be having to be seen in such a deserted area?”

My question threw him off balance for a second before he turned back.

“Why are you doing this?” I swallowed the lump in my throat and a frown spread across my face. “You are her father, you didn’t have to do this.”

“You think so?” He asked blatantly. “Over to you Xavier. What would you do if you had every single thing you want in the world except the people you love? What would you do if you had enough grand to spend but your children are not in your life?”

“Children?”

I raised my brows in confusion trying to process his question. How did that relate to the situation? He kidnapped us and was asking what I would do.

I didn’t have an answer to his question I was silent.

“No reply,” he smiled. “As expected, you have no fucking reply.”

Devin wailed on the floor and James spun to him.

“You have a day left.”

I had no idea what day he was talking about but I just remained quiet.

“I’ll let you live till you run out of time and die slowly like I love to see.”

“You wanted to kill me asshole!” Devin yelled with his last strength.

James gave a nod. “I still will, just not now. You have one day left so enjoy.”

With that, he stood up and walked to the doorframe.

“Someone will be sent to clean you up.”

I was glad I was going to get cleaned up or something. I was stinking and it wasn’t even funny.

Devin frowned and growled at him as he turned away to leave. Devin threw a glance at me but turned his eyes away when I returned his look.

I wasn’t about to start a fucking argument with him. He should have prepared himself and braced up for possible danger but he didn’t. He made us walk into the danger zone unprepared all in the name of having a fucking plan!

The door slightly opened a few minutes later. I looked at the door and looked at the figure that walked in. I remember her face, I once saw her with Devin and she also claimed he raped her.

She walked inside the room and looked at Devin and then turned her face in my direction.