Deceptive Beauty by Dawn White

ignition. I put the car into drive and headed off towards the clubhouse. Just as I stopped at the stop sign I felt a trickle of fear run down my spine. Adverting my eyes slowly from the road I glanced into the rearview mirror and was suddenly shocked by the eyes looking back at me in the pitch black.
    Turning in my seat I tried to reach my gun before he reached for me– only I was too late. A flash of light and sliver of silver caught my attention as he thrust it against my throat, a hiss of pain escaped my throat before he said. “Pull over in the Mall parking lot. Carefully open the window and drop your gun out. Did you really think Hammer was smart enough to do everything alone? I mean how could he? I’m going to get Gavin on the phone and we’re going to settle this right now.”
    A tear trickled down my cheek as I shook my head in agreement,carefully pulled over, put the car in park and pulled my gun from my pants and dropped it out the window.
    As I was about to ask him who he was, he screamed, “Put your fucking hands on the wheel!”
    I nodded and did as he said, but instead of lessening the pressure on my neck with his blade he pressed it further and watched me in the mirror as he pulled out his cell. I listened intently as he spoke to Gavin.
    “Hey Prez, there seems to be a problem with your girl over at the Mall parking lot. You might want to get over here as soon as possible. Ok I’ll keep an eye out for you.”  I tried to yell but he cut me off as he pressed the blade in further. I cried out in pain as the blood slowly started to trickle down my neck.
    Reaching deep into my terrified body I said.     “You know I’m an ATF agent right? I promise you before this night is over I will kill you. I will slowly shove that knife through your throat and watch as you slowly drown in your own blood.”
    Letting out a laugh, I smiled but was surprised when he punched me in the eye socket. I felt the swelling and the trickle of warm blood going down my cheek. A tear trickled down my right cheek, mixing with blood and stinging my raw, cut throat. Unfortunately he didn’t remove the knife before he did and the knife pressed deeper into my already bleeding throat.
    He laughed before he said. “You’ll be a dead fed bitch before this night is over. Y’all think you’re so fucking smart, but who has the knife right now? I’m going to kill your lover, after I make him watch me fuck his fed whore. Then I’m going to stick you like the pig you are.”
    Hearing the sound of motorcycles near by I started looking around frantically. He pulled the knife from my throat as he heard the bikes and stepped out of the car. He started waving his hand frantically trying to get their attention, put his knife into its holder on his side and pulled his gun and held it on me, while we waited.
    “Over here!” he yelled to get Gavin’s attention.
    Gavin pulled up, looked through the window at me, and jumped from his bike. He removed his helmet and tossed it to the side.
     
    He stepped in front of my captor and said. “What’s going on Pledge? Who did this to her?”
    Stepping closer to the car so he couldn’t see the gun yet, I saw my chance, and yelled out to Gavin. “Gavin it’s him!”
    He hit me with the butt of his pistol before he turned the gun towards Gavin, who already had his gun drawn. I took the moment of his turn to finagle his hunting knife out of it’s sheath.
    “You just could never treat me right. All you ever did was bitch at me and make me do all of the bitch work. Maybe if you had trained your bitch better, we wouldn’t be in this situation now would we?!”
    Gavin saw I had the knife and slowly started backing up towards his bike to pull him further away. As if sent by god, we heard more motorcycles approaching which drew the pledge’s attention away from us for a split second, which was all I needed to jump out of the car with the knife. I lunged at  him, and before I could strike him in the