33. Chapter Thirty-One
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
KRIK
“ T his was supposed to be a quick trip,” Kirk groaned as he looked at Lino and Taj.
He was supposed to already be back at his apartment with his girl.
“Did you think he was going to put up a fight?” Lino asked.
“No.”
Kirk didn’t think her dad was going to put up a fight at all. He figured he would say things but be too scared to actually do anything. But they were wrong. He was fit and he had charged towards them.
But sadly he lost. Now he was in the trunk of the car as they made their way back to New York.
Taj was driving, allowing Lino and Kirk to relax a little. They had taken the brunt of the hits from her dad.
“What are your plans with him?” Taj asked.
“I’m going to torture him slowly. Give him a little medicine for what he did to her. Make it as slow and painful as possible. I want him to suffer.”
Kirk pulled his phone out and drew his eyebrows in. Several miss calls from Betsy, Rogan, and several texts from Rogan. What was going on?
“Shit. Give me a second,” Kirk said as he called Betsy’s number.
She picked up on the first ring.
“D-Daddy?” she whispered.
“What’s wrong?” he asked.
Her voice was full of fear.
“Where are you?” Kirk asked. “Is Dane with you?”
Silence. That's all he heard.
“Drive faster!” Kirk barked at Taj.
“We can’t drive faster and bring suspicion to us. We have a person in our trunk.”
Kirk closed his eyes. Right. They had a person in their trunk. If they sped, then they could get pulled over and her dad could wake up and bang on the trunk.
“Just go five over,” he commanded. “Baby. Answer Daddy. Put Dane on the phone.”
“Dane isn’t here right now. He went to get cheese.”
Cheese? What?
“Who is there with you?”
“Angelo and Rogan.”
“Put Rogan on the phone.”
“Are you coming home, Daddy?” she asked. “Are you coming back for me?”
His heart broke. “Of course I am, baby. I’m on my way home right now.”
He could hear her sniffling in the background. Right now he wished he could teleport and get to her right away.
“Kirk?” Rogan’s voice came through the phone.
“What the fuck happened?”
“I’ll tell you when you get here.”
Kirk shook his head. “You will fucking not. I want to know right now.”
“Are you driving?”
“No, Taj is.”
“The guy came after her at the corner store while they were buying cheese. Cornered them with several other men. I don’t know how it happened, but she only has a scratch on her arm. Dane got hit in the shoulder, but he managed to take out three of their men.”
His heart stopped beating. She had gotten shot at while he wasn’t there. She had gotten shot at.
“Fuck,” he mumbled.
“We’re at Angelo’s house. Come right away and let Taj and Lino take care of him. She needs you.”
He looked over at Taj’s phone. Two hours.
“I’ll be there in two hours. Keep her safe.”
This was going to be the longest two hours of his life.
“Drive to Angelo’s house.”