“Think about it, you took her out of there what four, five days ago? From what little I gathered so far, losing her could mean big trouble for the aunt and uncle and whoever is running this shit. They’re gonna be holed up looking for trouble so we wait.”
“What hills, where?” I looked beyond the walls he’d built around his place towards the hills running along the horizon in the distance. He could wait I wasn’t about to. I needed to talk to those two and find out how far this shit had gone. If money had changed hands then the shit could get ugly.
If some fuck somewhere was already fixated on her as it appeared might be the case from all the fucking notations referring to her, then there was no telling what he would do. I’d seen it all already and not my fucking babygirl. The mere thought that someone was even out there thinking he had any rights to her burned my ass.
My experience, some of these sick fucks actually started believing that they owned the people they paid for whether that person had anything to do with what the fuck was going on or not. If I have to hop on a plane and head to the desert to put a hole in some fuck’s head for being stupid, I’d rather know right fucking now.
I was on the move, wasn’t sure where the fuck I was going but I’d figure it out since Law wasn’t looking like he was about to help. “Chaz hold the gate closed, don’t let him through.” Law gave his guy that order and almost lost his fucking head for his efforts. “You better rescind that order brother.” I turned to glare at him.
“Justice stand the fuck down would ya, I said we wait, they’re gonna be expecting this shit.”
“No.” I didn’t even stop walking. Law might know his shit, but I know he’d never seen this side of evil before so he could have no clue as to the lengths these fuckers would go to.
“ I will level this whole fucking town to kill that one cockroach Law. Unless you want me to go through your crew first you’d better tell these fucks not to fuck with me or I’ll make you look like a choir boy.”
“Calm your ass down. Why the fuck am I saddled with hot headed fucks? You can’t go after them this hot, let things cool down for a day or two. I’ve asked around, it seems this shit is running rampant in these parts, fucking breeding programs or some shit. Girls have been going missing going back years. There’s more going on here than we know. We go in now before we know more we’re putting a lot of fucking lives at stake.”
“Besides, I’m waiting on another call before we move. I think this shit might be tied into something else that runs through a big chunk of the country.”
“What the fuck are you talking about Law?”
“You remember Lo and his boys, got out and settled somewhere in Georgia?”
“I heard something about that so what does that have to do with this?”
What the fuck do the SEALs have to do with this shit? As far as I know those guys never ran Ops on domestic soil. But then again they were part of an elite squad so who knows what the fuck.
“Seems it might be connected. One of their birds flew down here, or they think they’ve traced him down here somewhere, after he worked over Ty’s woman or some shit. It was their digging on an Op that discovered the album.”
“They know I’m from down this way, and when they saw the references to this place they asked me to look into it until they can get here.”
I saw him flex because I don’t think those boys had any idea just who was in that little ledger when they sent it to him. I knew those boys, had gone on Ops with them more than once, stand up guys but crazy as fuck.
Still, I couldn’t wait around for them to get here to deal with this shit, and I’m a hundred percent sure that if the tables were turned they would feel the same.
“Wasn’t your wife on that list, how the fuck can you think of waiting around?”
“She wasn’t mine then or the fucks would already be six feet deep.” He folded his fists and I just quirked my brow at him. Who’s hotheaded now?
“As it stands I’m gonna make them bleed for even thinking about putting her in there, but we’re gonna do this right. The fact that she’s in there has given me a string I can tug, but I gotta give it some thought. But back to those fuckers in the hills and the rest of your boy Sal’s pals.
The fucking sheriff is in their pockets and he already has a hard on for me, which I don’t give a fuck about, but if he fucks with you I’m gonna lose my shit and I’ve got shit to do.
Not to mention a wife that was looking kinda green this morning when I rolled out of bed, which tells me she might be breeding or some fuck. Like my life isn’t fucked six ways from Sunday already. I need this shit.”
I found my first laugh in a long time. “Hey congrats brother, may the little fucker be just like you.” I could take a minute to be happy for my boy. After the fucked up year he’d had with his family being slaughtered while he was off fighting a war, he deserved some happy.
“Fuck you asshole, then again that might not be so bad. Heaven forbid any of them should come out like Dana Sue, fuck me.” He actually looked horrified at the thought and I couldn’t believe I could find anything to laugh about at a time like this.
“A handful is she?”
“You laugh now but I’m telling you, that sweet little thing you got over there is gonna be a whole new person any day now. I don’t know if it’s the ring on the finger, or taking them to our beds, but they change overnight on your ass and life as you know it is at a fucking end. Look at this shit.”
We watched as the women walked from one of the set up tables to the other laughing and hooting at who the fuck knows what. I saw my little one in the middle of the pack holding her own, and my heart did its crazy dance.
“I think we’re already there brother and I think it has to do with them feeling confident after they’ve caught their man.” I thought of the shit she’d been through this morning and the words she’d said to me in anger.
Now knowing that the ones I’d entrusted her to had put her in danger, had my temperature rising again, and just that easy my mood switched back to dark.
“You said this fuck messed with Ty’s girl? And he’s still breathing? Those boys get soft stateside or what?” Didn’t sound like the Ty I knew. I wonder how they got him to stand the fuck down?
“Nope, I’m pretty sure his ass is still as hotheaded as yours, but we have to play this shit right. We don’t know who all is involved as yet and how far it reaches. From what little those boys shared with me, there’re some heavy hitters involved. I’ll wait until they get here and see, but I smell a shit storm.
And let’s not forget there’re about two hundred girls in there that we have to account for before this shit is all said and done.”
What he was saying made sense, but it went against the grain to let this shit slide for even a second more. She was safe now that’s true. No one was gonna get anywhere near her that’s for sure, but I needed this shit dealt with yesterday for my own peace of mind.
How had I not known this shit was going on? How had I left her in danger so long? I didn’t like feeling like a fucking tool. Somebody’s ass was gonna burn.
“Fine, if we’re gonna find out who those kids are we’re gonna have to put them through the special identifier. I didn’t bring mine with me obviously…”
“We’ve got one here brother the fuck you think I am a slacker?” He clapped me on the shoulder as we headed back to the clubhouse. The women were still gathered around gabbing and laughing and who the fuck knows what, but there was no danger, and Law had men on patrol, good enough.
“Rog, eyes on mine.” He stayed back to protect her. Not that I didn’t trust Law, far from it, but I don’t take chances where she’s concerned. I wasn’t expecting anything to happen here, but I hadn’t expected to find her in a flesh catalog either so what the fuck, who knows?
It was with a heavy heart that I went back to that room and picked up that damn book. There were a million thoughts going through my mind. This shit looked like the sixteen year old Jessie
, so that would make it five years ago.
Most pedophiles didn’t like women that old, they were more into younger innocents. So what was the real deal here? Had Law said something about breeding programs?
“Law what was that about breeding programs?” He turned from setting up the machine. “That’s what Clay and Brand said it looked like. Apparently they dealt with something like this a while back as part of a sting, and the set up was pretty much the same.
If the girls were younger it would’ve been a pedophile ring, but because of the fact that the girls are a little older and it has obviously been some time since those pictures were taken, they’ve surmised that they were chosen for the magazine for rich men to choose from.”
“And when you said Dana Sue being in there gave you an idea, a string to tug on, what did you mean?” He took a minute to compose himself before answering.
“I meant I think I have an idea of how this shit works. Her father all but sold her to someone, who sent her to some fancy school to train her to be the perfect wife or some fuck. So I’m wondering if the others were chosen the same way and already have a fucking buyer.”
I took a moment to let that shit sink in. “I gotta say, if you want me to leave your little town standing that was not the right thing to say to me at this fucking juncture.”
“Take it easy, it’s just a theory we don’t know that that’s how it’s done for sure. Until we know one way or the other I’m not going to be comfortable going in.
You think I don’t want to go up there and have my boys smoke these fuckers out and pick them off one by one as they scatter like roaches? But that’s not gonna get me any answers.
I know the fucker who ‘bought’ my woman already bled out, but I don’t know about the others. So we chill until we know and then we move and take out the whole fucking program once and for all.”
“I’m giving this shit until tomorrow and then I’m going to find answers my way. All I need is two minutes with one of those fucks and they’ll talk.”
I turned back to the fuckery on the screen and left him to his mumbling about hardheaded fucks. If he thought I was bad, I wonder which planet he was on when we were dealing with the SEALs in the past. And just what the fuck he thought they were coming here to do.
We’d both ran special Ops with those boys when we were in. They’re the fucking elite’s elite of Special Forces. The motherfuckers you call in when you want to snatch a fly off of dog shit at high noon in the middle of Abbottabad.
I knew if they were involved then the shit must be really bad, and my baby was caught in the middle of it. Was this on me too? Fuck!
“Just be cool for me brother. I know how hard that shit is, seeing your woman in some shit like that. But like I said, we’ve got all those young girls in there that might be in danger. Ours is safe for now and they’ll stay that way. Let’s try to give them that.”
Fucking right they’ll stay that way. I scrolled through the pictures with a bad taste in my mouth. It wasn’t the first time I’d done this, but it was the first time it had ever hit this close to home.
Chapter 19
Creed
I didn’t know any of the other faces staring back at me thank fuck, but they were still someone’s kid, so he had me there. There was no way of telling if they’d already been snatched, or if they were still home tucked up warm in bed, with no idea that their lives were in danger.
The book was obviously a few years old because of the wear on the plastic, and the fact that I knew babygirl’s picture was at least five years old. Whether that was a good thing or not remained to be seen.
It was painstaking work, running each one through the system, because some of them weren’t in there, unless they’d committed a crime or some shit. So there was no real way of knowing since there were just numbers in the book with their stats listed.
Lately though, or in the last ten years or so, some states had been making it a law that you had to have your kids taken to a local precinct to get printed and photographed. With technology being what it is, there’s a lot you can do with that shit.
Still I wasn’t holding out much hope, especially if most of these kids were from these parts. We’re not exactly known for following the pack.
Sometimes living here can feel like you’re separated from the rest of the country, our way of life is so different here. Is that why some son of a bitch had chosen to use it as his playing field?
“Oh fuck!” I looked up at Law’s exclamation. “What is it?” His face was almost white, what the fuck?
“This shit just got a fuck of a lot more complicated.” How the fuck was that even possible? I stood to move over to his side.
“How so?” He pointed at the screen where a young blonde kid in her early teens stared back at me. Her face didn’t really ring any bells even though there was something vaguely familiar about her. “Do we know her?” I squinted for a better look but nothing doing.
“No, but we know her father, he made our bikes.”
“Oh fuck.”
“Are we calling him in?” I was trying to calculate in my head if we had enough manpower to keep this fucker in check. He wasn’t army, navy or none of that shit, but what he was is fuck mean when it came to his woman, so I could only imagine how he felt about his little girl.
“Have to, he’s one of us.” That would be the brotherhood of motherfuckers who got shit done. “We might have to tap that tree of yours before it’s all said and done since this is your thing Creed.”
“You’re cool with Blade right?” He asked me about another ex soldier turn cop turn restaurateur who we both knew, that was also into doing the ride-along with abused kids the same as my crew and I were.
“Yeah we were supposed to have a meet at Jake’s with some other crews who’re down with what we do but I couldn’t make it, had a job come up last minute.”
“Jake, shit, forgot about him. We might need to tug on that string since he’s law enforcement. I better make those fucking calls. My little town is about to be overrun with crazy fucks.” Yeah cause he was sane.
Shit, in all this fuckery I hadn’t even asked about his parents and I knew he was still raw from that shit. I heard his voice drone on as he made his calls and I watched the screen as more and more information poured out.
“Lo wants to talk to you since you know more about this shit than I do.” He passed me the phone and took over watching the monitor. “Yo.”
“Creed, how’s it hanging brother, heard you got hitched congrats.”
“Yeah thanks, word is you’re not too far behind.”
“Nope, but we got some shit going on down here that may be tied in to what you boys uncovered in your neck of the woods and it’s putting our shit on hold.”
“Explain that to me, Law didn’t go into detail.”
“Long and short, that book we sent him was taken from the personal library of one asshole who resided in our little town up to about a couple weeks ago. He grabbed Ty’s woman…”
“How the fuck did y’all let that happen?”
“She wasn’t his yet, well not all the way. Anyway he pulled a runner soon after and we did a little B and E, that’s where we found the book. I saw the reference to the place in the back and we happened to trace him there afterwards. And since Law’s down there and it’s gonna take us a few to get down that way, we figured we’d give him a head start.
We had no idea though what the shit was about, we just knew it wasn’t good. Now he tells me your woman is in there.”
“Did he tell you who else is in there?”
“No who?”
“His wife and the daughter of the guy who built our rides.”
“Shit; Law doesn’t have a bead on our guy but we’re heading out tomorrow should be there around midday. Stand down ‘til we get there soldier, let’s run this shit like an Op.”
Law and his snitching ass probably ratted me out for wanting to go in hot. I realized it had been a couple hours since I’d had eye
s on her and that it was now full dark outside and it was her wedding night.
I hung up the phone and stood to stretch. I missed my babygirl. I wish shit would stop getting in the way of my fucking joy. “I gotta go see to my woman, not much we can do tonight since you’ve got me on a fucking leash, so we can just leave this running for now and see what we see in the morning.”
“Sounds good.” He handed me a set of keys.
“What’s this?”
“Keys to the cabin, it’s your wedding night you need your privacy. Your guys can bed down here there’s plenty of room and I think some of the sheep already got them on lock.”
“Am I supposed to know where this cabin is?”
“Yeah it’s the same one we used to escape to when shit got to be too much.” Damn, I’d forgotten all about that place.
“Fine I’ll take your truck because if I remember correctly that’ll be a ways out otherwise.”
“Key’s on there truck’s out front waiting.”
“Had it all planned out did you?”
“Just had my own wedding night not too long ago, I’m an old hand at this shit.”
I went to collect my woman who was drooping by the time I reached her. “Grab your stuff baby let’s go.” She rested against my chest as I kissed her hair before going to get our shit and heading out after the long ass goodbyes. I had to browbeat fucking Max into staying put since he gets antsy whenever I’m out of his sight in unknown territory.
“Max the place is still on Law’s land, I use to go there when I’d come back here with him on leave chill.” He grumbled some but in the end one of the skirts sidetracked him and I was able to slip away without my watchman.
“You tired baby?” I squeezed her hand as we drove along over the terrain. It wasn’t that late yet, it just gets dark here sooner than most places because of the locale, but she’d had a long day nonetheless.
“Not anymore.” She sure didn’t seem tired anymore when I glanced her way. Her eyes were bright with excitement all of a sudden. I wondered what the hell that was about but put it down to wedding day bullshit.
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