“Dillon, I know you’re in there! I told you to get the damn doorbell fixed! I forgot my keeeeeeey!”
The sound of Piper screaming like a loon outside my front door pulled me from my dream. A dream I knew was seconds away from becoming a nightmare. Taking a deep breath, I yelled, “Hang on a minute! Let me get some shorts on!” Rolling out of bed, I snagged my shorts off the floor and headed for the bathroom to splash cold water on my face.
“Awww, don’t go and ruin my one chance to see you’re giant…” her voice trailed off into a squeal, followed by a series of bumps and brushes against the door, then a muttered, “I hate spiders.” I couldn’t help but chuckle. The girl was seriously tweaked, but I loved her.
Piper O’Connell was the closest thing to a best friend I had. She and three other friends, Ellie, Reyn and Bobby were kidnapped six weeks ago and almost killed. At the time of the kidnapping, Ellie was a little over eight months pregnant. Once we figured out they had been taken, all hell broke loose. Cas and I had to practically hold down Ellie’s husband, Max and Piper’s man, Gage, while we waited for Garrett to locate them. When we finally got to them, it was bad. Reyn had been shot in the gut by her ex-boyfriend, Zeke and was barely alive. Piper had been shot twice, once in the shoulder by a psycho woman named Selina, who was stalking Gage, and once in the calf by Zeke. She was bleeding profusely and slowly losing consciousness. Ellie managed to shoot and kill Zeke, but that tipped her over the edge and into full blown labor. Thankfully, she delivered a perfectly healthy boy.
Shortly after being released from the hospital, Reyn decided to move to Virginia to live with her parents. Tonight is her going away party and I promised Piper I would help with preparations.
“Hurry, Dillon! This spider is freaking huge!” Piper shouted through the door.
I groggily made my way across the apartment and opened the door. Piper bolted past me and slammed it behind her.
“Damn!” she shouted. As she jumped up and down, frantically rubbing her hands all over her body, I tried not to laugh. “You’ll have to get a can of hairspray and a blowtorch to get rid of that thing,” she panted.
“I’ll get right on that.” She dangerously narrowed her eyes at me and I laughed. My sarcasm clearly was not lost on Piper.
As she followed me into the kitchen for some much needed caffeine, I asked where Gage was.
“At the garage. He had a special order come in and needed to get started on it,” she answered.
“I’m surprised he let you out of the compound.”
Gage had not recovered well from the kidnapping incident. We had all tried to talk to him about it, but it was something he was just going to have to work out in his own time. Guilt can mess with your head, and Gage Blackwell definitely felt all kinds of guilty.
Gage and Piper met in Austin, Texas. At the time they met, Gage was working for a guy named Dooley Shane. While pretending to be a friend and mentor to Gage, Dooley fixated on Piper and began stalking her. He went as far as to send Gage on a bogus job, kidnap Piper, and almost rape her. He then convinced Piper that Gage had been cheating on her throughout their entire relationship. By the time Piper got around to finally explaining everything to us, she and Gage were long over, but not because they didn’t love each other. Shortly after the truth came out, Piper and Gage managed to clear the air and patch things up. That’s when Dooley had his henchmen, Lester, Zeke and Selina kidnap her again. As it turned out, they also took Bobby, Ellie and Reyn. In the end, Selina, Zeke, Dooley and Lester all lost their lives and, in the process, Gage almost lost his girl. I didn’t blame him one bit for being a suffocating assclown.
Piper rolled her eyes and snorted. “Trust me, Gage will be calling you any second now to check up on me.”
I poured two cups of coffee and glanced over at her.
The sound of Piper screaming like a loon outside my front door pulled me from my dream. A dream I knew was seconds away from becoming a nightmare. Taking a deep breath, I yelled, “Hang on a minute! Let me get some shorts on!” Rolling out of bed, I snagged my shorts off the floor and headed for the bathroom to splash cold water on my face.
“Awww, don’t go and ruin my one chance to see you’re giant…” her voice trailed off into a squeal, followed by a series of bumps and brushes against the door, then a muttered, “I hate spiders.” I couldn’t help but chuckle. The girl was seriously tweaked, but I loved her.
Piper O’Connell was the closest thing to a best friend I had. She and three other friends, Ellie, Reyn and Bobby were kidnapped six weeks ago and almost killed. At the time of the kidnapping, Ellie was a little over eight months pregnant. Once we figured out they had been taken, all hell broke loose. Cas and I had to practically hold down Ellie’s husband, Max and Piper’s man, Gage, while we waited for Garrett to locate them. When we finally got to them, it was bad. Reyn had been shot in the gut by her ex-boyfriend, Zeke and was barely alive. Piper had been shot twice, once in the shoulder by a psycho woman named Selina, who was stalking Gage, and once in the calf by Zeke. She was bleeding profusely and slowly losing consciousness. Ellie managed to shoot and kill Zeke, but that tipped her over the edge and into full blown labor. Thankfully, she delivered a perfectly healthy boy.
Shortly after being released from the hospital, Reyn decided to move to Virginia to live with her parents. Tonight is her going away party and I promised Piper I would help with preparations.
“Hurry, Dillon! This spider is freaking huge!” Piper shouted through the door.
I groggily made my way across the apartment and opened the door. Piper bolted past me and slammed it behind her.
“Damn!” she shouted. As she jumped up and down, frantically rubbing her hands all over her body, I tried not to laugh. “You’ll have to get a can of hairspray and a blowtorch to get rid of that thing,” she panted.
“I’ll get right on that.” She dangerously narrowed her eyes at me and I laughed. My sarcasm clearly was not lost on Piper.
As she followed me into the kitchen for some much needed caffeine, I asked where Gage was.
“At the garage. He had a special order come in and needed to get started on it,” she answered.
“I’m surprised he let you out of the compound.”
Gage had not recovered well from the kidnapping incident. We had all tried to talk to him about it, but it was something he was just going to have to work out in his own time. Guilt can mess with your head, and Gage Blackwell definitely felt all kinds of guilty.
Gage and Piper met in Austin, Texas. At the time they met, Gage was working for a guy named Dooley Shane. While pretending to be a friend and mentor to Gage, Dooley fixated on Piper and began stalking her. He went as far as to send Gage on a bogus job, kidnap Piper, and almost rape her. He then convinced Piper that Gage had been cheating on her throughout their entire relationship. By the time Piper got around to finally explaining everything to us, she and Gage were long over, but not because they didn’t love each other. Shortly after the truth came out, Piper and Gage managed to clear the air and patch things up. That’s when Dooley had his henchmen, Lester, Zeke and Selina kidnap her again. As it turned out, they also took Bobby, Ellie and Reyn. In the end, Selina, Zeke, Dooley and Lester all lost their lives and, in the process, Gage almost lost his girl. I didn’t blame him one bit for being a suffocating assclown.
Piper rolled her eyes and snorted. “Trust me, Gage will be calling you any second now to check up on me.”
I poured two cups of coffee and glanced over at her.
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