Twisted Steel: An MC Anthology: Second Edition by Elizabeth Knox (top 5 ebook reader txt) 📕

at his own throat as the poison drips down his airway. He grunts and wheezes for a few seconds before he stops breathing altogether.

Spark runs up behind me. “What the hell happened?” He took a look at the man on the ground. Blood and mucus still trailing out of his mouth and nose as the poison is still running its course through the dead man.

“He killed himself. Cyanide capsule.”

“Oh fuck. These fuckers aren’t playing around.” Spark stretches his arm back.

I turn to look at him for the first time and see that he is bleeding from his head and down his neck. “You good?” I point to his head.

“Yeah, it’s just a fucking scratch.”

“Wyatt!” Brendan calls for me, my eyes dart to him. “Dela!”

My eyes scan the area for her quickly but she’s not there. I see her running down the hill.

“Dela, stop!” I call for her and start to run after her. It takes me only a second to catch up to her. When I do, I can see that she is in hysterics.

“No, get off of me! Get off!” She tries to pull away from me.

“No, Jesus Christ! What are you doing? Where are you going?” I turn her and grab her by her shoulders and hold her steady.

“This is too much! There are too many of them! Didn’t you see what just happened! They would rather kill themselves off then go back to him without bringing me back! They’re too many of them. They will kill all of you. I can’t be responsible for that. I will take my chances alone. Just let me go!” she cries and begs to get away from me.

“Dela, stop! Just stop right now! Where the fuck do you think you’re going to go? Where are you going to hide? You have nothing. They are going to make sure you never have anything. This is my fucking choice. I chose to put my life on the line. My brothers chose to put their lives on the line for you. There is nothing that you can do or anywhere that you can go that will make us just give up. If you run, they will follow you but so will we. You’re family now whether you want to believe it or not and there is no way we are just going to let you go.”

“You don’t mean that. You can’t mean that,” she speaks softly, calming down.

I press my mouth to hers. “The second you laid in my bed and moaned my name you became mine. I mean every fucking word.”

She stares at me for a second before she completely crumbles in my arms. “Wyatt, it’s too much. It’s too much.”

“You let me worry about it being too much. Just stay with me. That is all you have to do, have faith in me.”

“I do.” She nods her head and I walk her back to the cars.

When I get there, I see Brendan down in the ditch taking photos and examining what is now the crime scene. He takes photos of the men that were involved in the highspeed chase. He is the most thorough of all of us. Being in deep cover situations more than the rest of us he is probably the best of everyone here to figure out what’s what.

“Where the fuck did they come from?” Cody comes up next to me.

“From the shopping center. She heard them whistling.”

“Whistling?” Brendan turns from what he is doing.

“Yeah, he whistles when he is near. The fucker paralyzes them before he strikes.”

“What? What does that mean?” Dela asks from my side. “I told you that is his favorite song.”

“Yes, but it also holds a different meaning for you. I’m almost sure that any of the women that are at the compound know what that song means. It’s a scare tactic. It seizes you up when you hear it. Allows fear to take over. It’s a mind game. He knows that when you hear that song you will be easier to catch,” I explain my reasoning to her. Her eyebrows furrow in like she doesn’t believe what I am saying but after working with countless trauma victims, I know it to be true. That song is a trigger for her. Like PTSD. She’ll forever react in some way to that song no matter where she hears it.

“So he knows that we have her?” Cody speaks up.

“You think?” I point to the destroyed truck and cars and the bodies on the road.

“Then we need to get some help. From what Dela has said there are way too many of them and not enough of us. You need to bring this up to the ADD.” Cody looks at me knowing what that means. There is a possibility that I could lose my job, they could suspend me because I’ve been looking into a case that they told me was closed. They told me to fuck off but how could I when the proof was dropped right in my lap.

“You’re right. Let’s call this in. We don’t need a bunch of bodies just lying on the road.”

“What about her?” Winnie speaks up now.

Dela is already stepping away from the scene. She already told us that she couldn’t trust anyone, that meant government officials as well. What the hell could I do to keep her out of the hands of the bureau. They would want her to make an appearance. They would want to question her. I couldn’t let that happen.

“She is going to vanish. Winnie, I want you to take her back to the clubhouse and keep her locked down. No one in and no one out. You understand. At least until we know what the outcome is going to be,” I order.

“Wait, you are locking me up? Isn’t that the same thing as them? I don’t want to be locked up anywhere,” Dela complains.

“I’m not keeping you locked up for shits and giggles. You have the entire world coming for you and the only place that