Legion MC : A dirty Fae Series

Bloody Bones 10

Tommy

The corridor we teleported into was wide, with thick carpet under our feet and opulent if a little faded wallpaper on the walls. I had expected some kind of warehouse but it looked like a mansion. With my hand still firmly curled around the woman's arms, I pulled her to a stop.

“This is the right place?” I searched her face for any lie and came back blank. She was telling me the truth.

Her thin lips curled up into a sneer. “Of course it's the right place. Blue brought us here didn't he?” She tried to yank her arm out of my grasp and I tightened my grip. The last thing I wanted was for her to get loose and run off to warn this Acco that we were there. I didn't know anything about him but Raze seemed to be wary of him which meant he was powerful.

We had to keep the element of surprise on our side.

“Blue is a coward,” she continued, and behind her, Blue murmured his agreement. Which surprised me. “He wouldn't lie to you. He is too afraid of what you would do to him.”

Her words made my eyebrows shoot up. “And you're not?”

She looked at me blankly.

“Afraid of what I will do to you?” I finished.

She shrugged. “You look like a monster, but you're not.”

I waited silently for her to continue; the only noise was the sound of our breathing. “I'm not?” I asked when the silence had stretched on too long.

“No,” she shook her head. “The real monsters don't try to rescue people. You look like one, but you're not. Somewhere in you there is a heart and a conscience. Now Acco.” She gave a nervous laugh. “He is beautiful to look at, like an angel if you can get past the eyes and the forked tongue, but he doesn't have a nice bone in his body. Not one single one. So to answer your question, no I am not afraid of you Bloody Bones. I am terrified of him though and what he will do to me when he finds out I double crossed him.”

I blinked at her in surprise. Behind me I felt rather than saw Raze shift uncomfortably. I was suddenly uncomfortable as well. The walls seemed to close in around us.

“Then why did you?”

Throwing back her head, she laughed. A loud booming sound that seemed to echo off the walls. “I didn’t double cross him, I brought him two creatures that will fetch a pretty penny for and one that double crossed him.”

“It’s a f*****g trap,” I muttered at the same time as Raze. Blue began to whine like a damn coward.

“Of course it's a trap, do you not think that Acco has prepared for rescue attempts? Granted, they are usually human, but your fate will be the same as theirs. He probably already knows you are here.” She shrugged. “Acco will be pleased with me.”

The woman was mad, absolutely stark raving mad. She was either so far under my dark cousin's spell or totally and hopelessly in love with him. And I didn't know which one was worse. Either way, it made her incredibly dangerous.

“I can guarantee he won't be.” Raze growled.

I threw him a look over my shoulder, my eyes as serious as my face. “Stay alert. And keep hold of Blue. We’ll need him if we are to get a shortcut out of here.”

He nodded once, his legs already half bent into a fighting stance. Raze would have my back, he always did.

“Which way?” I turned my attention to the woman at my side.

She laughed again, louder this time and Raze growled. “You need to shut her the f**k up before someone hears her.”

“You're a fool if you think he doesn't know you are already here.” She retorted. Her eyes scanned him with disdain.

“And you’re a fool if you think I won’t rip your f*****g throat out,” he countered. “Tommy might not be a monster, but believe me, sweetheart, I am.”

Shaking my head, I dragged her in front of me, my grip on her arm cruel. It would leave marks. Normally that would bother me, but it didn't this time. She deserved so much more than a few bruises. Yanking the bandana from around my neck I balled it up in my fist. “If you aren't going to be helpful then you will be quiet,” I warned. The look she gave me in return was full of loathing, but when she opened her mouth to speak, I didn’t let her get a sound out. I rammed the balled up material between her open lips, silencing her.

“That's better.” Turning my attention from her, I rounded on Raze. “Can you find where we need to go?”

He was our only option now, and I had no doubt that his enhanced wolf senses would be more than up for the job.

“The whole place stinks of desperation and fear,” he muttered. His face screwed up as he tried to make sense of the myriad of smells assaulting his sensitive nose. “And s**t,” he grumbled.

“Concentrate. I just need to know which way.” I had powers, many of them, some that I hadn't used in hundreds of years, but I was absolutely no good at tracking. Fear was where my powers lay. That would come in handy later, but it was useless now.

He flashed his wolf eyes at me, and his nostrils flared for a second before he pointed. “End of the hallway and take a left.”

He sounded so sure that for a moment I frowned. “How can you be so sure?”

“I can smell lust. Primal, undeniable lust.”

“Lust?” I echoed dumbly. “Why would anyone here be…”

He cut me off. “A male’s lust, and a woman’s terror.” His voice was deadpan.

“Oh...” I let my words trail off. That made more sense. “You think he is raping them?” I didn't even try to keep the rage out of my voice. It made my words shaky.

“I think he is doing something to one of them, yeah, what an asshole,” he muttered, his anger right there at the surface like mine was.

Rapists were the lowest of the low. Taking with force something that was meant to be given freely. Yes, I used the girls in the clubhouse, but they wanted us as much as we wanted them. It was mutually beneficial. There was no rape.

“You think it's Briella?” I already had a sinking feeling in my gut that it was. I didn’t even know the woman and I cared about her. Her smiling face in the picture I had tucked inside my cut swam before my eyes. “Or does he have a sickness for children?”

Raze met my eyes. “Not that I know of.”

Briella then. Which made things a thousand times harder. If he had taken a fancy to her, then would he sell her? Or try to keep her for himself? If he had forced himself on her body would she even be sellable now?

Not that it mattered to me. I had a job to do. I couldn't let myself be side-tracked, because the thought of someone taking away the trust in Briella’s eyes might keep me from completing my mission.

“Are you ok?”

I shook myself, nodding as I started to stalk the way he had pointed. I kept quiet but I didn't try to hide. It was more than likely that Acco already knew we were coming.

“Stay alert.” Straightening my back, I turned the corner and was greeted by wide double doors made of wood ornately carved.

Something caught my attention. A sweet smell. Like honey buns fresh out the oven. I reeled back as everything else faded to nothing. There was just me and that delicious scent as it swirled around me, wrapping me in a cocoon like a blanket.

“What the hell is wrong with you?” Raze muttered coming up to my side. Still I couldn't speak. I couldn't form into words what I was feeling. It was so new, so unexpected. Like nothing I had ever felt before.

“I can smell her.”

Raze's eyes snapped up to me. “You can…smell who?” His hand paused on the doorknob, waiting for my answer.

“Whoever is in that room. The woman…” I closed in on him, covering the distance between us with one stride. My free hand balled into a fist.

I could smell her. And she smelled delicious. But she was also afraid. Fear and self-loathing mingled in equal measures.

“She’s frightened. Open the damn door and let’s get this over with.” If someone was hurting her, they would die. And it wouldn't be quick. I would make them suffer. Make them feel the same kind of fear she was feeling.

As Briella was feeling. I already knew it was her.

“Dude.” Raze whistled softly. “If you can scent her, it means...”

I didn't let him finish. I knew what it meant. Just like I knew how much more complicated it made matters. Especially with Levi.

“Just open the damn door.” I wanted to, no, I needed to make sure she was ok. And more than anything I wanted to see her in the flesh for the first time.

Raze pushed open the door, no one attacked us. No one even turned to us. The men and women in the chairs in front of us didn't even acknowledge we had entered; their eyes were locked on the front of the room where a small stage had been erected.

Acco stood there. I didn't know him, but it couldn’t be anyone but him. Golden haired and beautiful if somehow you missed the lizard eyes staring back at you, but it wasn't to him that my eyes wandered. It was to the woman standing by his side. Her shoulders were slumped, her hair hanging low to hide her face.

Briella.

Even petrified and broken she was the most beautiful creature in the room. My mouth was suddenly dry. My tongue stuck to the roof of my mouth, making it hard to breathe.

Briella.

Her head snapped up like she had heard me think her name, and our eyes locked. Hers became even more terrified than before as I took a step into the room. She had every right to be afraid. But I hated seeing that look on her face.

This moment should have been wonderful. Full of happiness. Not tainted with terror and shame. Because I was pretty sure she was my mate.