The Devil's Candy

Chapter 26

The woman I bumped into on my way out of the restaurant, she must have been the one who met with the Purple Rain! I hope she doesn't recognize me.

"Girls what's going on?" Dom's voice came in through the earpiece.

"I'm ready to have some fun!" Jinnie fake slurs, stumbling further into the room. The fake drunk act, pretty smart.

"I can't get into the room. I'll scale the window to get a better look." Noah says.

"This, my friends, is the newest shit that'll rock you in half a second." The redhead pulls out a small baggy from her pocket containing a red gumball. "I give you the Devil's Candy. It has a bit of a kick so take precaution." All the other drunks in the room are amazed by it as it gets passed around to each of them.

"The Devil's Candy?" Jinnie giggles, informing the guys. "That's a funny name."

As a gumball gets passed to me, I catch a glimpse of Noah's head peek from outside the window. How the heck did he get there? We're on the second floor.

"Well isn't this a turn of events," Noah says, "It's Sasha."

"Sasha?!" Eli, Oliver, and Dom shout. Noah sees my confused face through the window. He goes to explain that she used to be their old baiter, the one they said betrayed them.

Looks like she's working for Vince now. Dominic gives us a warning to be careful or she'll catch on to what's going on.

Jinnie, now with her own baggy in hand, looks at me worried. Everyone else in the room was already chewing away. Some looking like they're in a state of bliss, while others have a look of panic.

"Ladies," Sasha comes up to us. "Ready to party till your body starts to break apart?" A devious smirk present on her face. I wouldn't be surprised if she was actually the Devil herself.

Jinnie lets out a nervous laugh, "Ye-yea." She takes a deep breath and pops the gumball in her mouth.

Fuck! Jin! Why did you do that?!

I keep a straight face not trying to break character.

"What about you sweetheart? Came all this way just to watch your friend party for you? Surely, you'd want to journey down the rabbit hole too."

"As the Mad Hatter, I think you should take it as well. If you're going to dress like the part, you must be the part." I wave my hand to the room of people who are beginning to hallucinate, including Jinnie. Sasha hums, narrowing her eyes at me.

"So how does it feel to be their new bitch?" She sneers.

I wondered how she would know so easily. Sasha peers around me and whispers into my ear, "Don't play dumb. I know you're working for them."

"I don't know what you are talking about."

I look at Jinnie seeing her slowly drifting out about to pass out. The irises in her eyes have expanded and her mind has drifted off as if her soul shot out of her body and left its empty vessel on the floor with the many others scattered around the room staring into the light above. Sasha looks at me holding the candy in her palm, waiting to see what I will do next.

"If you're not who I think you are, eat it," she orders.

Don't do it!

If I don't then this whole mission is blown.

Who cares?!

I do! I can't do that to the guys. Especially Dominic.

Looking down at the shiny red gumball, my heart begins to race at the thought. Slowly, I put the candy in my mouth. Maybe I can pretend I chewing it.

It's a huge gumball, how are you going to get away with that?

Taking a bite, the cherry flavor explodes in my mouth. If it wasn't so deadly, I would actually appreciate the sweet treat. I keep chewing until it dissolves into nothing. Breaking into a sweat it feels as though my skin was on fire.

Looking around, the room begins to spin causing me to stumble in my heels. The sound of glass breaking makes me look up and see Noah flying into the room. Before I can catch myself from falling, Sasha punches me in the face then everything goes dark.

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Dominic

"Amelia and Jinnie are down. I'm going in," Noah informs.

My heart races while I rush upstairs at the thought of something bad happening to my Bambi. I leaped up the steps as fast as I could, opening every door on the second level, looking for where the girls were.

Suddenly, the sound of glass breaking and tumbling around as things were being smashed came from around the corner, I rushed into that direction.

The group of influenced party goers exit out of the room, blocking my path. I burst through them and the first thing I notice is blood and shattered glass on the floor. Noah groans from the ground.

"Shit!" I rip off the bottom half of my jersey to apply pressure on the wound in his shoulder. Several glass shards covered in blood surround Noah as I tend to his wound. He looks pale and bruised from the fight.

"I'll be fine. Sasha really improved in her fighting skills.

He groans when I apply pressure and cauterize the wound with a cup of alcohol left on the dresser. Noah takes the rest of it to chug and gestures he's fine. I help him up on his feet as Elijah comes stumbling into the room with a bruise on the side of his face.

"Where are the girls?" I ask him.

"Since when can Sasha fight?" He groans, rubbing his jaw.

"See I'm not the only one thinking this," Noah comments.

"Where are the girls!" I shout. My temper is skyrocketing as we're getting nowhere as Bambi and Jin are in enemy hands. Noah and Elijah look at me understanding the concern on my face.

"I saw two guys carrying Amelia and Jin so I went after them before Sasha came out of nowhere," Elijah says, "Oliver was able to keep tailing as I came to find you. "

I contact Olivier through the earpiece, "Oliver where are you?...Olivier?

Nothing.

"Oliver, where are you?" Listening in the earpiece.

"Still on their tail. I'll send you my location."

I look to Noah and Elijah as I start heading out of the room. I can see on their faces they hope I find them soon and I swear if anything happens to them, the Mephistos will pay. I rush down the stairs and outside to Oliver's location where he's hiding behind bushes several yards away from the house.

"What happened?"

"There's a shed just past these trees here. That's where the signal is emitting from." Oliver points further into the wooded area.

"Signal?"

He grins at me and reveals a tracking monitor showing two beacons blipping on the screen. That son of a bitch put tracking devices into their costumes. I quickly embrace him; I don't know what we would do without that brain of his.

I start heading to the shed with my only task I have at hand: saving Amelia. Oliver follows behind me at a safe distance as I reach the maintenance shed. As I get closer, I have Oliver make a call and keep eyes outside as I head in.

Determined, I walk straight up to the shed to find two members of the Mephistos standing guard by the door. I could easily take them, but the risk of getting caught and having further harm done to the girls is too much of a risk. It's best to bring them down from the inside was a method I was always taught and that man who taught me might be inside.