Cannibalistic (Book Two of A Bloodline's Saga)

New Found Friendships: Part II

Soaked in flames, your skin turns to black

Hell beneath the earth no turning back

No fears

Wipe away your misanthropic tears

No one to deny

It's my time to die

ClawHammer

The door ripping open and my sheets flying from my body has my body jolting awake, Shaun huffing and puffing as if he's just ran from where he was to wake me up, my thoughts going back to Liam and how chilled he was with me when I changed his bandages and hope he's still in the same mood.

"We have a few more people on my list I intend on ticking off before the end of today and it isn't happening when you're in bed. Now get up and get ready, we leave in five minutes." he commands then slams the door behind him on his way out, my body getting into gear in favour of getting my shoes and hoodie on to avoid a scolding or beating from Shaun for not doing as I was told.

Once the items are on I meet Shaun and Liam in the living room, the both halting their conversation so they can escort me to the car.

Wondering how we're going to pull this off when there's still daylight; it dawns on me that I slept through the whole of last night after catching a glimpse of the time on the dashboard and finding that the day has only just begun.

Do you think I'd get away with skipping dinner again? Like it won't be long until Shaun starts waking me up and forcing the food down my throat again, so what's stopping him?

Wiping that from my mind when we aren't on the road long and the announcement of our first destination coming up is in the next hour, my heart leaps to my throat when I think of what happened to Liam and hope it doesn't happen to me.

So making a mental note to keep an eye out for things pointing to pets, I start working down my list of things to ready myself for sneaking into a house, yet my plans are instantly changed when I'm informed that we will be kidnapping this person on their way to school.

"I know where this kid goes because I've had your informants tell me so." Shaun argues with Liam, my mind and eyes too busy casting around my surroundings as I picture how the f**k we're going to be able to pull this off.

Not long after we're now coming to a halt, my heart racing as a figure is pointed out walking alone along the sidewalk we're idling across from.

Looking at the size of the guy and the build of Shaun, I wonder how the f**k he's going to pull this off considering I'm no match for the guy either.

Finding out his name is Lee and that he's the son of Danielle and Hayden, he throws his head over his shoulders when he senses eyes on him, his mousy brown fringe and bangs revealing more of his tannish face considering the rest is covered by his school long sleeve and skinnies.

On further inspection I discover he has stretchers, snakebites and a septum piercing, my thoughts once again lingering around the fact he'd also make a great addition to my friend group back at home yet it isn't for long when my brain is faced with another matter.

Coming to the conclusion that my Mum knew a few metalheads back in her day and are now passing their same tastes onto their children, I hang on to that assumption because for all I know, the cunt could like country.

But I highly doubt that considering he's now pulling out a band hoodie from his backpack to avoid freezing to death.

"So what's our plan of action?" Liam questions when we catch the guy taking a turn into an alley, a shortcut I presume he takes to get to school quicker but little does he know he's about to be kidnapped down it.

"Give me the chloroform and that rag, hurry up! Ida come with me!" Shaun shouts whilst we're in a flurry for the items, my feet out the car and hurrying behind Shaun as we casually dart across the road like a father and daughter would, the way he's pretending to talk to me around the people we pass until cutting the act once we're away.

Making sure we are in the clear and quietening our feet as we approach Lee, Shaun takes it upon himself to go right behind him and go in for the attack, the guy moving around in a flurry of arms and legs with Shaun yelling for me to help steady him.

Rushing over and witnessing Lee's aquamarine eyes with pea green flecks roll to the back of his head before I can even touch him, Shaun sighs in relief as a laugh sounds in the back of his throat and eyes finally land on me.

"Now help me grab the body and load it into the car since I took him down all by myself." he grunts and lifts Lee's heavy build, my eyes rolling at his arrogance and my arms struggling to hold Lee's legs up as we rush to get the guy in the backseat of the car Liam was forced to move closer.

With rope being tossed into the back with me, I'm ordered to tie him up and strap him into one of the seats so Liam can get on the phone to his contacts and see if Lee's parents are home.

Hearing his conversation play out and hoping Lee doesn't wakeup either with me strapping the seatbelt over him once the ropes are fastened around his wrists and ankles, the memories of Shaun making me memorise the way he ties them up surfacing to my mind as I wrap, loop and bound him up.

I wouldn't picture myself only weeks ago learning this type of knot yet here I am, tying up the children of those who escape with my parents in order for those parents who died that night, to finally take our their revenge and get the returned payment Alistair and Ashley left Shaun.

"If they're home then grab them, if not let me know and I'm sure they will come around soon enough when they find that their son is missing." Liam barks into the phone before hanging up, a wince sounding in the back of his throat as he complains about his ankles hurting, butterflies and sickness swirling in the pit of my stomach when last night comes rolling back into my thoughts and wonder if it will be the same.

Will he be weirdly calm to the point of almost seeing that nice side he showed to me and my mates, or will he slip back to his hostile state of rapes and beatings? Like he's only had a few hours to sleep and rethink his approach to me so anything could change in that span of time.

"Alright so we organise a halfway point to get Lee dropped off at so we have a free car, because the next place I have on my list happens to be the homes of Phoenix, Hunter, Jack, Kat, Marie and James. The couples obviously don't live together considering they live at different ends of the town, but the area is big enough for the whole mission to take two hours." Shaun informs us as we head deeper into Lee's town until kissing the exit goodbye and delving further into unknown territory.

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"Alright so here is where we will find Hunter and Phoenix's daughter Nakita wagging school like usual thanks to Liam's informants." Shaun explains with my stomach churning at the fact that Liam's contacts are everywhere, my mind wondering exactly how powerful and rich this guy is.

That or his parents are funding all of this and haven't bothered to show themselves to tell Liam to stop wasting his time and their money, but they haven't and I assume Liam's spent money on minor things prior to this that's worthy of an ass beating.

My thoughts are halted when the girl who I can only think is Nakita, comes rounding a corner and down a few houses until disappearing into one, the car starting up again and slowly approaching the house before Shaun's killing the engine once more.

Finding the car parked across the entrance to her driveway, I wonder if Nakita will notice the unknown car in her driveway and will she make it out of the house in time when we attack?

Swallowing the bile and slipping out of the car without closing the doors due to how close we are, we give it a minute for the girl to settle herself in and do whatever she does when wagging school until it's time for us to sneak into the house after her.

With the chloroform and rag in Shaun's hands, I linger in the back as he approaches the girl from behind while she busies herself on the phone with someone, the girl's muffled screams sounding around the living room cutting off her conversation on the phone and I'm quick to end it.

Wanting to cry for her considering I know exactly what it's like to be going through what Nakita's experiencing right now, I hand the phone over to Shaun for him to pocket in his battle with Nakita's flailing arms, my body standing back and not wanting to get involved seeing as how Shaun appears to be handling the situation well all by himself.

My heart feels like it's going to fall out of my ass however when I catch Nakita's henna fluttering gaze, land on me for a split second until everything is black for her, Shaun congratulating me for acting so quick on ending the phone call whilst he starts tying her up.

"I thought that's what you would've wanted me to do." I grumble shakily and witness him move more of the rope to her feet then deeming her good to be thrown into the car.

Strapping her thin and light skinned frame in, I move her chestnut brown locks from her face to reveal snakebites and stretchers, my thoughts lingering back to Lee and wondering if the two of them will ever meet or if they know of each other.

Throwing that out of my mind completely when I wonder if Alex back with the others wouldn't be such a d**k if he had someone on his mind keeping him happy, I'm once again distracted by their conversations turning to the next person on Shaun's list.

"Should we get my men to meet up with us and take these two back?" Liam suggests after forty or so minutes of debating what route would be best to take.

"That's if you want to, I'm not telling you how to command your men." Shaun murmurs and instantly Liam's getting his back up which means I've obviously missed something going on between these two.

Talk about a lover's affair going on...

"And what the f**k is that supposed to mean?" he snarls with folded arm and a glowering stare in his direction, Shaun moving his eyes to and from the road before replying.

I swear to God if there's punches thrown I'm ducking for cover, I mean these fuckheads might actually run us off the road and I might have a chance to escape. But then that leaves me with the task of getting back to the others before these fuckers do.

Then my mind clicks to the phones in the glove compartment and know for a fact that Nakita's and Lee's phones will be able to reach anyone.

Hoping to God now for a car accident bad enough that they're injured more than me and to the point of them not being able to get out of the car, I also click on to their guns and make that another thing for me to grab off of them prior to me making my escape. 

"Hey I'm just saying I don't want to f*****g tell you what to do!"

"Whatever I'll call my men but make sure you have a f*****g meeting place in mind by the time he answers the phone."

With the hostile conversation coming to an end, I wonder where that came from and think if it's a common topic between these two. I mean you can tell Shaun's a control freak and Liam hates being told what to do. 

How the two ended up working for one another is beyond me, they'll end up killing each other before I'm even presented to Max.

With my thoughts ticking away and Liam's grumbled conversation on the phone filling the awkward silence, we end up pulling over halfway to our next destination and unload the two still unconscious bodies into the van waiting for us.

Watching it drive off and arriving at the place only minutes later, I wonder whose house we're at until the names of Kat, Jack and Raya are passing Shaun's lips.

Checking the time and noticing that they should still be at school and the parents at work, I wonder what we're doing here until finding the door to the house we're watching open up and a girl reveals herself by stepping outside.

Dressed as if she's going out instead of school, I wonder if she is wagging also today or if she was simply given the day off. Either way Lee was the only one to be nabbed in his school uniform so it makes me wonder what's going on.

"Why isn't she at school?" I question more to myself but chide myself for saying it aloud.

"I don't know Ida, want to find out?" Liam snickers with a sickening grin after waving his phone in my face, as if answering my question for me though I'm a little embarrassed to say I don't get it.

What's his phone have to do, oh. Right...

His contacts obviously told him where she was, hence the reason why we aren't going to random houses. Everything is planned and every person on that list is currently under watch by Liam's men.

Not wanting to go into it more, I sit back and wait for the car to turn back on before slowly following the girl, my mind wondering how we're going to get her now considering we're out in the open in broad daylight! 

Continuing to slowly drive the car a few meters behind the girl, we turn onto an industrial estate and find that it's now or never due to the lack of activity that's going on right now.

Shaun is obviously thinking the same thing right now because he's stopping the car and demanding the needed items to render this girl useless, my trembling hands reaching for the car door handle and yanking it open as soon as Shaun's ready.

"You know the drill follow behind me." Shaun grumbles in a low voice as we quickly yet silently sneak our way up to the girl, Shaun taking the lead strongly with chloroform and cloth in hand until deeming it perfect to use it on her, my eyes taking in the girl's struggles which only last for a few agonisingly seconds as Liam shouts for us to hurry the f**k up.

"HEY!" a male screams to Shaun and I, both of us stopping like deer in a set of headlights for a split second before springing into action and taking off in a flurry of smoke once we're all in and accounted for, the men just missing us by inches when they give up on the chase for our car and instantly jumping on their phones to report what's just happened.

"We need to get rid of the car!" Liam shouts over the roaring engine and panicking Liam.

"Do you have another one, I don-"

"Leave it to me, just take a left a few hundred meters off but make it fast, we can't afford to be followed." Liam cuts across him calmly, Shaun inhaling a deep lungful of air then doing as told.

My eyes meet his for a second, the gunmetal blue attempting to pierce their fear into mine only I don't fear nothing, as far as I'm concerned I'm currently being kidnapped too and held hostage on top of that. So get the Police involved, I'm just dying to tell them.