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The door next to me yanked open, cold air enveloping me.
‘Hello, darling. Did you miss me?’ Tommy reached in and undid my seatbelt, hauling me out of the car and throwing me to the ground. My phone dropped, and he picked it up, sneering at Mac’s name on the screen.
‘She’s mine. You’ll never get your fucking hands on her again,’ he said into the phone before tossing it on the road and crushing it beneath his boot.
‘No,’ I groaned, dragging myself to my feet and limping toward his car, which was still running.
‘Oh Katie, baby. Don’t you have a kiss for me?’
Tears streaked my cheeks as my leg gave out beneath me. His arms wrapped around me as I fell, flipping me around as he pulled my face to his, crushing his mouth against my lips. I fought him as hard as I could with fists and teeth, but he only laughed.
‘Keep the fight for later. I’ll enjoy fucking you while you beg for your life.’
‘Let me go Tommy,’ I cried as he strong armed me to the trunk of his car. ‘Please let me go.’
He shoved me roughly into the boot before slamming it down above me, sinking me into the darkness.
The tears fell blindly as I shivered in the back of the car.
I was as good as dead.
Being dead would be preferable.
CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT
MAC
Cameron and I arrived at the scene of the accident at the same time, our cars screeching to a halt on the narrow road. Katie’s call pulled me away from Logan and Ewen right as we’d captured Tommy’s agent, and I had to abandon them to holding him. Between Katie’s screams and the gunshot I’d heard, I had to get to her as soon as possible.
Benny’s car was on all four wheels, but with huge dents and scrapes across the metal. Our guys had only taken minutes to track their phones, and defying all speed limit laws, we’d gotten to the car in record time.
Swallowing down bile at the sight of the half-crushed, half-severed body hanging out of a smashed window, I steeled myself for whatever lay inside.
Tommy had taken Katie, but what had he done to Maeve? My baby sister. My best friend growing up.
On shaky legs, I followed Cam as he tore toward the vehicle, pulling open the other back door and disappearing inside.
My world was crumbling. I wasn’t ready to face any more losses.
‘Maeve. Maeve, can you hear me?’ Cameron’s voice broke as he reached in and cradled his wife’s face in his hands. There was blood. So much blood in the car.
‘He... took her...’ Maeve whispered.
‘I’ll find her,’ I said, relief washing through me. My sister was alive. Thank god. I pressed a trembling hand against the car and inhaled deeply before moving to the front door. The window had a bullet hole, the car’s interior sprayed red. Hauling open the dented door, the body of one of Cam’s syndicate men slumped out, half of his head completely missing.
It didn’t matter how many times I’d seen blown out brains; my stomach was never ready for it. A wave of vomit slipped up my throat, and I closed my eyes, forcing it back down. My throat burned at the intrusion.
‘Benny?’ I said, looking past the brainless guy to Katie’s long-time driver.
Nothing.
Fuck.
I tore round to his side of the car and battled with the door, pulling at it until eventually the twisted metal gave way.
A mist of blood covered Benny, but little of it seemed to be his. He would have been straight in the splatter zone from his passenger. I pressed two fingers into his neck, holding my breath until I felt a strong pulsing beneath them.
He was alive.
