“Dani! How the fuck do you know anything is going on? You spent what? A couple nights with this asshole and decide everything he’s telling you is the fucking truth?”
“He had pictures Nic. You should see what Dragon did to his own man! Here look at them! You can’t stay with him Nic, he’ll hurt you!”
I hear the panic in her voice so I try to count to ten and calm my temper. Then I take the camera she’s pushing at me. I click the review button on the back and scan through the photos captured on the little screen.
Okay my stomach knots up at what I see. Dragon is torturing some man lying in a …bathtub? The man is badly beaten. There’s one picture where it appears that Dragon was cutting off his fingers maybe? It’s hard to tell and the picture is obviously taken through a window and at a good distance away.
“Why do you have these pictures?” I ask Dani and the man I remembered Skull called Tiny the other night. He has a smug ass look on his face. I don’t like him. That thought rings clear over a myriad of emotions hammering through me at the moment. Dani looks at me like I have three heads.
“That’s all you have to say? Did you see what he was doing to that poor man?”
Good question, I guess. I mean I did see it, but I had also seen pictures at the club of the girl that had been beaten. I knew this was the club business Dragon had been handling. If this man had been the one who had done that to the girl, and if he had also been one of Dragon’s men like Dani insinuated it didn’t excuse him, but it sure as hell put a different light on the situation.
“I’m not discussing Dragon’s business with you Dani I’m asking why the fuck these pictures were taken in the first place?”
“Tiny is in charge of following Dragon and his crew when they are in Skull’s city to make sure they don’t do shit LIKE THIS! Nic you can’t be so far gone over Dragon that you can’t see how wrong this is? Jesus.”
I act like I’m going through the pictures, but instead eject the memory card out the side and slide it into my pants pocket. Maybe I am a fool, but I believe in him and I’m not about to leave anything that might be used against him.
“Get the fuck out of my house.” I yell when I finish, turning the camera off and tossing it across the room.
“Not going to happen bitch,” Tiny smugly says. It’s then I notice the look on his face. Yeah, I don’t like him was understating shit—like a lot.
“What do you want from me?” I ask with a disgusted snarl trying to figure out how in the hell to get out of this mess.
“To play with you sweet cheeks, maybe I’ll do you and your girl at the same time. Dani here likes to party. The more the merrier, right baby?”
God he makes my stomach turn. I watch Dani’s face as it goes white. Dani has some amazing qualities, but when it comes to men she’s worse than me. The thought of letting this man anywhere near me makes me gag.
“You touch me and Dragon will feed you your dick and balls on a silver platter.”
“Think you’re overestimating your appeal puta. Dragon’s known for liking lots of pussy, you’re just the flavor of the day.
You’re not my type so much, but I’ll fuck your ass while you’re eating out your girl. Now enough of this shit. Strip before I decide your fat ass is more trouble than it’s worth.”
“Tiny baby stop it you’re going to scare Nic. Besides, I told you I don’t party with other women,” Dani said. I could tell she was trying to distract him so I could get away, the panicked look in her eyes when she shot me a pleading glance told me so. I couldn’t leave her and Nailer here alone though. I move my body so I’m blocking Nailer’s torso, then use my hand to see if he had any kind of weapon on him I could use.
I might have thrown up in my mouth a little when Dani actually kisses the creep. Ugh, I would have to gargle twenty times a day for the rest of my life.
Still when she hikes her leg up on his hip and starts taking his shirt off, I figure I might have a shot of getting us out of this fucked up mess, if Nailer just had something I could use…
Eureka! A knife, I would have much rather had a gun. Dragon should really talk to his men about carrying weapons at all times. I mean seriously, what kind of bad ass protector didn’t have a freaking gun???
I palm the knife and hide it behind my back. I’m trying to come up with a plan as I watch Dani practically mouth raping Tiny. Ugh, I’m suddenly glad I didn’t eat anything more than toast.