OWN HER: A Dark Mafia Romance(167)

The silence in the car had become another passenger. It seemed to eat the rest of Fang’s words before he could say them, leaving him speechless in the dark and giving me time to recover from what he’d said. I knew he didn’t mean it, but still, he knew those could have been some of the last words he said to me. Once we made it to the cabin, he and the other two were going to take care of me, and I was going to be put down like some wounded animal.



I carefully glanced out the window. Hope sparked briefly as I saw headlights in the distance. They didn’t look like motorcycles, though, so my excitement passed pretty quickly.



“Still think there’s another way to work things out?” Fang asked me.



I didn’t answer. I looked at my ghostly reflection in the window and let that be my answer.



“I mean, I might take you up on the offer,” he continued. “You have turned into quite the nice young woman. I liked what I saw in those videos I received of you. Maybe I will see for myself what’s driving all these other bosses crazy about you. And if you’re lucky, it’ll change my mind.”



I shook my head. He was so sleazy, and he just wouldn’t quit.



Suddenly glass shattered as one of the windows was shot out.



“What the…?” Fang jerked the wheel and the car darted off in one direction, then the other, slinging me side to side in the back.



More shots rang out and I ducked down.



Suddenly, shots were ringing out all around me. Glass was shattering everywhere, letting air burst into the car. I could hear motorcycle engines outside. They were here! They’d made it! But we hadn’t seen any headlights.



Of course, I wouldn’t have put it past Cole and the rest of Hell’s Overlords to ride up on us in complete darkness without headlights. That definitely seemed like the kind of thing he would have “had the balls” to do, to use his words.



Fang cursed as the other two men drew their weapons and fired blindly into the night.



Then, there was a shot, and something blew out in the front of the car. It sounded like a tire, but the next thing I knew, we were flipping over onto the shoulder of the highway.



Glass went everywhere. I knew I wasn’t going to make it to the cabin at that point. I didn’t know if I would even make it out of the car unless I was thrown out by the flipping, and that seemed like a distinct possibility with my hands and feet tied together and no seatbelt holding me in place.



How ironic. Cole shows up to save me and ends up killing me in the process.



I closed my eyes as I tumbled inside the car.



Well, at least Fang didn’t get the satisfaction, I thought before something hit the back of my head and took all my thoughts away.





Chapter 22




Cole



I told her I would protect her. I’d told her that on multiple occasions. I had offered to help her walk away from Fang and the life she had been living for so long. I promised her I would take care of her.



The words I had pledged to Sasha weighed heavily on my mind as I rode into the darkness with my brothers around me. We rode like bats out of hell. We were on a mission, and we didn’t have a whole lot of time to waste trying to catch up to Fang and his men. We weren’t exactly sure what we were riding into. We didn’t know what kind of fight lay up ahead waiting for us, but we were determined to take him down.



I was determined to bring Sasha back unharmed and make her mine. Against everyone else’s best advice, I had already forgiven her for the things she had done and for the trouble she had caused. No matter what had happened so far, the fact remained that I had promised to protect her and to keep her safe from harm. I had learned at an early age in this MC that we always honored our word. People were far more important than the business.



There wasn’t much traffic on the highway, which I figured would help us spot Fang’s car, but it also meant that he would be able to spot us more easily as well. I began to worry that we’d lost him as the light began to fade around us.



I had no idea where this fabled upstate hideout of Fang’s was supposed to be, so if we weren’t able to track him down on the interstate before he got there, our chances of catching up to him were slim to none. It would take days to track him down through our usual street networks. We didn’t have days. The longer it took, the more danger Sasha would be in. Not catching up with him was not an option.



I gunned my engine, pulling ahead of the rest of the pack. Everyone sped up to keep up with me. I was pushing the old Roadster as hard as I could, and probably harder than I should have been, but if I had to sacrifice her to finish this job, so be it. It was worth it to me. Sasha was worth it to me. Getting Fang out of the picture was worth it.