Slade helped the woman sit back down. Jill pulled him away. “I don’t know if her husband knows what is going on, but please go down there and warn him,” Jill whispered her plea. “Because if he denies her in front of me, I may kill him.”
Nodding, Slade smiled down at her. “I had planned on it.” He turned to leave, but stopped. “You are something else, Jillian.”
For a moment, she was speechless, but then snorted. “That’s what they say. And no one calls me Jillian unless I’m in trouble.”
“I’ll remember that.” He winked, then turned and left.
She wanted to throw something at the back of his damn head. He was hot one minute, then cold and then hot again. Damn it, he was going to cause her to lose her mind changing back and forth like that. Rolling her eyes, she turned back to the women, glancing over to see Steve talking to another woman who had been turned. Only Anne, Angelina and the other woman Steve was talking to were left.
Angelina was staring at her, sadness fresh in her eyes. “So are you really married to that man?” Jill asked, not being able to hold it in any longer.
“No, I’m not,” Angelina replied, a hint of anger edging her voice.
“Yeah, I didn’t think so.” Jill nodded. Taking the paper and pen, she started asking questions they had been taught to ask during investigations. Even though her dyslexia hampered her spelling, she had a system that she understood. Later that night, she would take her time to write it out legibly for anyone else to read it. So far, it had been working for her.
“Have you caught all the men?” Anne’s voice was weak with fatigue, fear still evident in her face.
“Three that I know of,” Jill replied, looking between the two women. “How many were there?”
“We believe five.” Angelina glanced at Anne. “That’s all I’ve seen, but I’ve heard different voices so I don’t know.”
“I need to tell you something,” Anne whispered, looking around nervously. “But they said if I told anyone they would kill my family. Only the ones turned know.”
Anger, hot and strong hit Jill, but she curbed it. “Know what, Anne?” Jill scooted closer, hoping to put the woman at ease; any information could only help them. When the woman still looked around in fear, Jill put herself in her line of vision. “Anne, the Warriors will not let anything happen to you. You’re safe.”
Anne’s head snapped to Jill, searching her eyes for the truth. She looked up at the ceiling seeming to have found what she was looking for. Slowly, Jill’s eyes followed suit. “What’s up there Anne?”
“A nightmare,” was all she said as her eyes lowered to meet Jill’s.
Chapter 11
Adam stood inside the main hallway trying not to think of Angelina or kill the bastard sitting handcuffed next to two other human-trafficking bastards two feet away from him.
Jared walked up next to him and sighed. “You got that killing urge yet?” he said loud enough for the three men to hear.
“Yep.” His eyes never left the bastard Robert.
“It’s pretty strong, isn’t it?” Jared crossed his arms and looked at the three men who were trying to look anywhere other than at him. “I mean look at those three loser assholes. Oh, they’re bad asses with women, but when it comes to men, well, they’re just pussies.”
Adam growled his agreement.
“You know back in the day, we didn’t handcuff them or sit them on a nice comfy couch.” Jared looked over at Adam. “No, we didn’t. We pretty much just took care of them, depending on their crime.”
Knowing what Jared was doing, Adam went along. “So let’s say it’s back in the day. What would happen to these assholes?”
Two uniformed cops stood close, listening with grins.
Jared had a grin of his own; except his grin flashed sharp fangs, which he let grow on purpose. “Rape against a woman is a slow death. First, we beat the shit out of them, and then we take anything dull and cut their dicks off, shove it down their throats and let them bleed out. Of course, the first guy doesn’t know what the hell is going to happen, but the other two, well, they get to watch and know what their punishment is going to be.”
“So that’s it?” Adam frowned, even though hearing about cutting a dick off with a dull instrument made him shift uncomfortably.
“Damn, man.” One of the uniformed officers grimaced. “Isn’t that enough?”
“No,” Adam growled, glaring at Robert.
“Good thing for you guys it’s not back in the day.” The other officer snorted, looking at the three men.
“Yeah, now we just take them back to our compound and do it all human like and legal, before shipping them off to prison.” Jared walked closer to the men, and with a sinister grin, he leaned down and looked at each one of them, making sure they saw his fangs as he sneered, his eyes going black in an instant as he lowered his voice. “Just so you know, you pieces of shit, once you get to the compound, it’s going to be back in the day, you got me?”