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I don’t think, I don’t breathe, I launch out of that fucking truck so fast I stumble over my own feet as I charge in the direction of the roaring inferno.
I know she’s here.
I know it the second I see the barn on fire, and that insane fucker standing outside, watching.
He doesn’t expect us.
I know it the moment we arrive because he turns and he fucking runs.
He meets my eyes, and offers me a slow, sick smile before disappearing into the thick trees surrounding us.
I don’t have time for him. I don’t have a fucking second to think. I need to get Ciara out of there.
The fear gripping my chest is crippling, and I can think of nothing but diving into those flames to get her out. With every passing second, her life is getting closer and closer to being snuffed out.
I can’t let that happen.
“Spike, it’s too fuckin’ dangerous,” Jackson barks as he pulls up beside me and launches out, Serenity by his side.
“I don’t fucking care,” I bellow. “I’ll die saving her. Do not fuckin’ stop me.”
Trucks continue to pull in, and I lose focus on anything else but getting her out alive. I run towards the burning barn and with every step closer, I feel the scorching heat blowing off it. The roof creaks as flames lick up the walls and catch on, forcing its structure to grow weak.
I have seconds if I’m lucky.
“Ciara!” I roar.
Nothing but eerie silence.
“Ciara, fuck,” I bellow, louder as I kick a piece of flaming wood out of my way.
“Spike?”
It’s barely there, just a whisper, but I hear it.
I hear her.
She’s alive.
I have never felt so much relief in a single fucking moment then I do in this one.
“I’m comin’.”
Her coughing intensifies and I know she must gather all of her strength to yell out the next words.
“I’m cuffed to a pole,” she cries out, then chokes again on the smoke that is no doubt filling her lungs.
Fuck.
Turning, I run back to the truck and rip open the back, pulling out a large set of bolt cutters. Without pausing, I charge back toward the barn and find a spot on the side I can kick in. It’s already buckling, so with one hard kick, the entire wall creaks and then falls, causing the roof to begin falling in large chunks.
I’m nearly out of time.
Taking a deep breath, I shove through the gap I created by kicking the wall in. Thick black smoke fills the run-down old barn, and the creaking sounds tell me the roof is about to go completely. If the roof goes, we’ll both die in here. There will be no way out.
“Where are you?” I roar, the inferno roaring around me.
“Here.”
