“Should I…take my bra off?” I ask and thank the lucky stars above that I wore a bra that clasps in the back today.
“Oh yeah, show ole’ Tiny what you got for him.”
He asked right? Deep breath…one…two…My hand goes back as if to unhook my bra, but instead I move it down to grasp the knife. Three…. I tighten my hand up around the knife, praying that it was as big and sharp as it seemed and in my panic I think of three places to stab. Balls are way too low and would take too long and I could miss. Eye, I could hit it but he might have time to block it and he sure is sure to be a lot stronger than me. So I go for the gut. It’s closer, I can reach it easier and he has less time to fight off the attack.
I scream as I stab him, I’m not sure it helps but it makes me feel better. The knife slices in and it takes some force but I manage to get it in deep. Blood spews forth and the sight of it going around my hand and out of the wound is horrible. I want to hold onto the knife, but my hand is so slick that I can’t. As the bastard falls back against the couch cussing and calling me names that would make a sailor blush, I yell at Dani to run. We take off with him cursing in the background. I don’t look back. I read somewhere that looking back is wrong, bad wrong. Besides that, in all of the scary movies the silly bitches that look back always get their throats slashed. We run towards the SUV that Nailer and I rode in. Fuck no fucking keys!
“Tiny has mine!” Dani yells out panicking big time now, but I’m right there with her.
“We have to hit the hills. We’ll circle around and come back out on the main road by Dragon’s compound!”
“Nic! You know what the hills are like it’s impossible to follow a back road!”
“Just do it Dani! Jesus we don’t have time to debate it.”
We take off running towards the hills and I just pray we can get away and to safety before Tiny finds us. While we’re running towards the hills, I hear the front screen door open and I know that’s not good.
Shit.
Chapter 20
Nicole
Okay my plan to hit the hills in hindsight wasn’t a very good one. Dani and I had been on the run now for a good hour and I wasn’t sure how long it would take a person to walk fifteen miles but I was pretty sure we had done it. We’re currently sitting on a log right now trying to catch our breath.
When we first started, I thought I heard Tiny chasing after us, but it has been silent since. I’m hoping the fucker had died from his stab wound, but I’m not holding my breath. It seems my luck is not that great.
I’m freezing. Dani hadn’t been wearing a jacket and while she offered me her shirt, I figured I had more meat on my bones and could withstand the cold longer. I’m starting to think that was a fucked up idea. I’m so cold and tired at this point I’m numb.
“Shit Nic, I’m sorry. It’s just Dragon went so crazy the other night with Skull and then I saw those photos. I was worried about you! You have to understand…”
Dani had been crying and I totally understood what she was saying, but I couldn’t lie and say I wasn’t pissed too.
“It’s okay Dani let’s just concentrate on getting out of this mess.” I say getting up to continue walking, leaving her to follow me.
“You’re still pissed.” She says as we start trudging through the briars and trees.
“You shouldn’t have tried to set me up. You didn’t even know that man! You put both of us in danger without even thinking!”
“He hasn’t been like that before today, I swear Nic.”
“Oh wow so he was like great for a whole freaking day or two and just turned psycho, nutty, crazy the last fucking hour?” I bite back—okay I might be a little madder than first estimated.
“That’s not fair! You haven’t known Dragon that long either and it’s clear he’s a little unhinged. Did you not see those photos?”
“I did, but what I know that you don’t Dani is that Dragon is good to me and he’s a good man. There are things going on at his club. I don’t understand it and we haven’t talked about it, but I know there was a woman raped and beaten and she’s in bad shape. I trust Dragon enough to believe that whatever he did, there was a reason!”
“It still doesn’t make it right!” Dani argued.
“I heard the boys talking Dani, the woman was a sweet, innocent woman that they all thought a lot of. She was beaten unconscious and raped! I don’t care what you think is right. If that had been you, I would have wanted Dragon to get revenge too!”
“You’re freaking whacked. You’re so wrapped up in Dragon you can’t see that he’s not a good guy! You do not need to be mixed up in this shit Nic.”