18. Chapter 17
Kodi
A commotion catches my attention, stirring me from a painful sleep, and I blink a few times, hearing bangs and shouting, but when I open my eyes, everything is blurry, and I squeeze my eyes tight as the banging gets louder before I open my eyes again, but again, I see nothing but blurriness, just as figures enter my sight, but I can’t make out who they are.
“Chain him to the other end of the cell,” I hear Masters snap, and I squeeze my eyes tight, hoping he thinks that I’m still passed out.
My body feels weak, and I know I can’t cope with another beating, it’s all I’ve had since I was brought here. My body is black, blue, and red, and I hurt so bad and I-I….
Liam, I mean Knuckles, no Liam, my Liam, comes to mind, and my eyes burn.
Masters said he’s moved on from me, he said he was screwing an employee at the club’s strip club and I don’t believe him.
At least I don’t want to believe him but Liam didn’t contact me for two days, he never answered my texts and I-I, I don’t even know how long I’ve been here for, I don’t know how long I’ve suffered the abuse from the man my father wanted me with.
Liam, I want my Liam.
“Fucking hurry up!” Masters snaps, and I flinch, my body beginning to tremble again, even though I can’t feel my arms from where they are handcuffed above my head, and god, I wish I didn’t feel the pain in the rest of my body.
Hours upon hours I have been stabbed, tasered, electrocuted, hit. I vividly remember last night Masters confirmed that today is the day he will have me before allowing the Chargers to do what they please with my body.
I want to fight, but I don’t know how, I’m so tired and I need Liam.
Tears spring, a few falling as shuffling echoes.
“Hurry the fuck up before he wakes!” I hear Masters snap, “I can’t believe you let him get so fucking far into the warehouse without noticing the fucker, no wonder you keep being killed off, you stupid fuckers!”
Wait what?
I blink then blink again as the cage door is slammed shut and their angry voices fade, tears instantly falling, and I look towards the door to see I’m alone again, which confuses me, and I blink yet again, finally clearing my vision before I look around the cage only for my body to grow cold.
No, no, no, no…
“Knuckles,” I croak, my voice barely coming out in a whisper and he doesn’t move, even as the blood drips down his head, he doesn’t stir, he doesn’t even flinch, nothing and panic hits me hard as I yank on the cuffs, not caring if I reopen the cuts from the last time I tried to get my hands out of them.
Panic floods when he still doesn’t move, and I yank on the handcuffs again, harder and choke, “Knuckles!” louder causing him to groan, and my breath stutters as I say, “Knuckles, please, please,” and he slowly lifts his head, his face pale.
My tears fall as he blinks several times before he looks around the cell and curses, but his body tenses when he locks eyes with me, and a sob releases.
Oh god no, he can’t be trapped in here, he can’t be, they’ll kill him…
“Knuckles,” I cry again and try to yank the cuffs again, and he roars out as his eyes take in my bruised, bloodied body, and he yanks hard on his chains, and I pull harder.
I know they’re going to torture him in front of me, that Masters plans to get his way by hurting the man who already owns me and I can’t let that happen.
I feel the blood drip down my arms, but I don’t let up as I try to get out of the cuffs.
“Stop fucking doing that,” he snaps with a croak, “You’re causing more harm to yourself!”
I shake my head and cry, “I can’t, t-they’re going to torture you, they’ll kill you…”
His eyes soften despite the anger as he continues to take in my state, which, I’m not stupid, I know I look bad, but he’s now my main focus, him being here, chained, head bleeding is what will give me the strength to push through, and that will be the downfall Masters doesn’t see coming, because I love this man more than anything.
“I’d rather they torture me than you,” he rasps, and I shake my head, causing a dizzy spell to hit me and I squeeze my eyes tight for a moment.
I haven’t eaten at all, only been given water, but I don’t stop, even as I feel tears falling, I continue to pull on the cuffs.
“No,” I cry, “I won’t let them touch you.”
“Fireball,” he whispers, and I shake my head again as my sobs fall and I yank harder on the cuffs.
“I-I can’t live without you,” I sob as I twist my wrists.
“Yet you applied for a job in Boston,” he says, clearly hoping to distract me, and it works.
I pause and look at him with wide eyes, and realization hits me at the phone call I received before was taken.
“Trick emailed them…” I accuse, and Knuckles doesn’t even look sorry.
“You say you can’t live without me, yet I cannot live without you, so why would you think I’d allow you to move nearly three thousand miles away?” he says softly, and more tears fall.
“I wanted you to come with me,” I choke, and his eyes soften, “I love you.”
“Fuck,” he chokes, and he yanks on his chains again as my bottom lip wobbles, and I try to twist my hands, hoping to use the blood to release my hands.
“Stop, Kodi!” he snaps, but I shake my head again.
“I won’t let them hurt you, I can’t watch that, it’ll kill me, Knuckles,” I choke and he snaps, “Liam, I’m your fucking Liam…”
A sob releases again, my cheeks stinging from my tears hitting the cuts.
“Look at me,” he demands as I twist my hands, then he snaps, “Kodi, look at me!”
I look at him, and he says, “I love you,” and more tears fall, “I fucking love you, and we’ll get out of this even if I have to take the beatings because I won’t lose you.”
“Masters said you moved on,” I choke, and his eyes harden.
“Masters is a lying prick,” he growls, “I spent two days trying to get my head right so I’m enough for you then another two days trying to fucking find you,” his eyes race between mine, “It wasn’t just your virginity that was lost that night, baby.”
My mouth parts in shock just as the door slams open, and I swallow hard as Masters saunters in.
“Well, well, well, look who is awake,” Masters says with glee, and my heart stops as I lock eyes with Liam.
His show of determination, while I know mine shows fear as clanking noises echo and the cage door opens.
Masters walks over to me first, and suddenly, the wand he loves so much is pressed against my already sore side, and I scream as my body jolts with pain.
I hear Liam roar out, “Get the fuck away from her!” and Masters chuckles before the wand is gone, and I slump down, my body shaking, my breathing labored, before my blurry eyes lock with Liam.
“I wonder how your little boyfriend here would feel about the fact that your dad is the one who hit you,” Masters says with glee, and Liam struggles against his chains even more, and even I can feel his anger from here.
“You’re going to die,” I choke as a sharp shooting pain hits my stomach making me scream and I feel like I’m going to be sick.
“Not before your little boyfriend,” Masters sneers, and I yank against the cuffs again, making him chuckle as more men enter the cage.
No, no, no.
I struggle even harder seeing a knife before a grunt echoes, and I look towards Liam to see Masters punching him.
I yank my hands even harder as I scream, “Get away from him,” and fear for the man I love suffocates me, causing me to pull even harder on the cuffs as I twist my wrists.
I hear, “Look at that, she’s making herself bleed,” just as Masters throws a punch into Liams stomach before our eyes lock and Liam commands loudly, “Fucking stop, Kodi!” but I don’t listen, I pull harder just before my head twists to the side, a fist hitting me hard and I choke on a cry as Liam roars out again just as a hand grips my chin tightly and forces my head towards what Masters is doing.
I scream in terror seeing a knife in his hand before he stabs it into Liam’s stomach who tenses but doesn’t shout out and I kick my legs and twist my head before I bite the hand holding my face causing the man to shout out in pain and yank his hand back before he punches me again and dizziness consumes me as I cry out before he grabs my face again and sneers, “You can watch your love bleed and when we come back, you’re going to call your daddy and have him release Cans, otherwise, we’ll kill your precious MC scum! ”
He shoves hard on my face before spitting on me, and I flinch as laughter echoes before I feel someone kneel before me, and a finger runs down my cleavage, making me squeeze my eyes tighter.
“As soon as Cans is released, I'm going to fuck you in front of your biker, I’m going to show him that you were always mine,” Masters whispers before I feel him move and his footsteps disappear.
“Fireball,” Liam chokes, and I let out a sob as I look at him and see the blood on his stomach. “Breathe for me,” he rasps, but I choke, “They’re going to kill you.”
“I’d rather they kill me than let a murderer and a rapist free,” he says softly, and I sob, “What about me?”
“I’m going to get you out of here,” he whispers, but I shake my head and explain, “I don’t mean that, Liam, I can’t live without you.”
My tears fall as his mouth parts with understanding just as a door slams open again, and I tremble at the mind games as Masters cackles, “Times up, love birds, it’s time to get our man released and my cock into that used-up pussy…”