Forbidden - Page 167

Desperation roared at the sight of him. I lunged forward, kicking and bucking, screaming his name. But the guard’s hold was like a steel band wrapped around my face and my body, smothering my howls and binding me against him.

Kane and Thomas rushed toward the edge of the dock, searching the faces of the Daughters in the truck for mine. But they couldn’t see me. They couldn’t…see…me.

Darkness descended, cleaving across the heads of the Daughters in front of me until there was nothing but blackness, and the truck’s doors locked with athud.

“No!” I bucked, dislodging his hand from my nose.“No!”

“You think you have it bad now?” The bastard grunted in my ear. “Just you fucking wait.”

The truck lurched forward. I stumbled with the movement, trying to keep my balance.

“Watch this.” The guard shoved me forward, barging me through the others as the truck picked up pace.

I stumbled forward then sideways, careening into the others until I slammed against the rear door of the truck. Through the vented metal slats, I caught glimpses of the carnage unfolding.

Most of our guards were dead.

Riven lifted his gaze as a gun was pressed against his head.

That emptiness found me now as it had last night.

It wasn’t real. None of this…was…real.

I waited for the blinding bright light inside my head to find me now as it had last night as I watched Riven fall to his knees.

“You think you’ve had the worst of us?” Those cold, sickening words breathed into my ear. “It’s only just started. Harmon doesn’t care if your mind’s shattered. Lots of men like to hold women like you down. Men like me.”

He thrust his hardening cock against me, punching my hips against the hated steel door. The bite of agony came, but I didn’t care. All I saw was the loading dock growing further away.

Bang.

I flinched, almost hearing the sound as Walker slumped forward to the ground next to Riven.

There was no escaping this.

Not anymore.

Maybe there never had been?

My body shuddered as that hollow emptiness grew. Fate whispered in my ear, telling me all the sickening things he was going to do to me.

I closed my eyes.

Closed my heart.

Closedeverything.

The truck swayed, throwing all of us sideways as we turned hard. Tires squealed and as I shoved against the door, finding my feet, I caught sight of the towering fence line of The Order.

We were out.

We were out. I clenched my fists and swallowed the scream in the back of my throat. We were out and all I wanted was to be back there. The last vision of Riven burned inside my mind.Did I really wantto watch him as the gun kicked in Coulter’s hand and his life was over?

A cry tore free as the fence line blurred amongst the crowded forest, then faded away. I stared as The Order slipped from view until there was nothing but the road stretching out behind us and the forest at our side.

The panicked cries of the other Daughters pushed in.

“Shut the fuck up.” Another guard grunted and slowly I became aware there was more than one.