Chapter 27
(Authors warning-this chapter contains graphic description of rape. Readers have been warned!)
“Goddamnshitmutherfucker!” The expletives coming from Derrick were bad enough to make a seasoned sailor blush horribly. His fist clenched tightly around his phone, his eyes still locked on the blank screen. The call had ended so abruptly he hadn’t gotten a chance to really look at the phone number.
“What’s up?” Butler asked from the driver’s seat. Their little slice of heaven, compete with its own mind numbing silence, had been interrupted by the ringing of Derrick’s phone and the intense look that know graced the man’s face worried Butler.
“He’s got her. Vasquez.” Derrick felt his head start to spin and his chest immediately felt heavy, his heart thumping away much too quickly. “He’s got her.”
“Where?” Butler was immediately on his phone, calling Hughes. “Where is she?” He asked again when Derrick remained silent.
“Buford Hotel.” Derrick finally replied, his tone even and flat.
“Fuck.” Butler cursed loudly and hit redial. Hughes had rejected his call and would likely reject a second call. Butler hit redial a second time and this time it went straight to voice mail. “Call me back. Danmark’s been kidnapped.” Simply hearing those words almost made Derrick loose it and tears formed in his eyes. With his heart beating wildly, it was all he could do to stay conscious, and he focused on the wood grain on the dash, his eyes wandering back and forth over the gentle swirl of the wood. “Hey, listen to me!” Butler snapped his fingers in front of Derrick’s face, finally gathering his attention. “We’ll get her. Don’t worry.”
“How did he get her?”
“Not really what I’m concerned about right now.” Butler threw the SUV into drive and peeled out of the parking spot, barely missing an oncoming car as he barreled down the small side road. When his phone chimed, he hit the call answer button on his steering wheel. “Butler.”
“Where the fuck are they?” Hughes voice flooded the car. Derrick could hear the man scrambling around in the background, attempting to get dressed.
“Buford Hotel. You know where that is?”
“Yeah, some shit hole in D.C.” Both men were silent for a moment. “Fuck it. What are they going to do? Arrest us cause we’re trying to save her life?”
“D.C. isn’t state, you know that. It’s international. Goulding is the least of our issues.” Derrick tore his eyes from the dash and looked at Butler, puzzled. “If we cross state lines, we have to deal with the individual consults of each state. They consider D.C. to be international because of the politics and everything. We’d have to answer directly to the King and to the Consult.”
“But you’re still going to get her, right?” Derrick asked, intense worry lacing his words.
“Yeah, we are.”
“I sense some hesitation though.”
“Imagine having to answer to the president for your actions. Wouldn’t you be a little worried?”
“About breaking a law to save his daughter? Not one bit.”
“Man’s got a point.” Hughes chimed in, the sound of his car door slamming reverberating through the SUV’s speakers. “Hell, we could kill someone and as long as his little girl is returned to him, I doubt he’ll care.”
“I’m worried about the Consult, Rhoby. They weren’t so kind to us last time.”
“Fuck the Consult.” Hughes shot back. “It’s their queen. Their niece. If they do something to us, then they really are the heartless bastards everyone thinks they are and the world deserves to know it.”
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Vampire“We both know I did what I had to do. You are mine to protect and that’s what I did. I protected you by getting rid of those who had hurt you. I remember you thanking me in your own special way.” His lips turned up in a sneer, turning her stomach. ...
