The sound of the basement door opening again so shortly after Danielle’s departure had Trey flooded with apprehension. Especially when he saw who had stepped over the threshold.
It was one of Chip’s men looking down at him like he was an animal in a zoo. Not the one Trey had wrestled with on his attempted escape. Trey hoped that the thug still had a massive headache from all the head-bashing he had given him. He would actually hope a brain bleed was also in the options.
But that thug wasn’t the one staring down at him. Trey had seen him before during his interactions with Chip and when he had been dragged back into the house after his failed escape. The man wore his long hair in a ponytail at the base of his skull and had a tattoo of a lion’s open mouth around his throat. He had more m
