Stripping Callum (Last Hangman MC Book 6)(69)
“We met with Alina and told her to leave you and take Billy with her. She didn’t want to leave you as she really loved you in the end. Which was messing up with what we wanted to happen. So, we did what we had to do. We killed her and Billy. We thought that you’d be too much of a mess to stay alive, but you surprised us both. It was touch and go for a while, but you pulled through. Which was a massive bonus for us because it meant we could have some more fun.
“We’ve kept an eye on you. We were always in the shadow lurking. We know everything about Nancy, how you met her, what she was. We know all about your life in the MC, all the f*cked up shit you’ve done. We were there or we had someone watching you. See, we’d left you alone for a while, but with Annabella in the picture now, we can have more fun. I do have to say, it was fun to see you struggle with relationships, being unsure of what would happen to a woman if you were to get too close to her. We almost had Lewis to teach you a lesson and really make you feel cursed, but someone else got her before us. Such a shame.
“As I was saying about Annabella, she’s going to get it good. I mean, she has more fight in her than Alina ever did, so it’ll be fun to see how she does. We even have a little throwback to the past for you!” He walks a bit further away and removes a dark cover that was over a car. The same car Alina was driving. “Does this bring back memories?” He smirks.
“Screw you.” My eyes are fixed on the car; I can only see it. Everything around us fades into nothing. I can’t believe what this piece of shit just told me. All of it was just a setup. Alina might have fallen in love with me, but she was paid for it. How can I be sure that she really loved me or just wanted a safe life? He could also be lying about the whole thing to hurt me some more.
My head is spinning with all this new information when a loud noise resonates from behind me. Light engulfs the warehouse, and I hear soft footsteps. You know when you are familiar with someone, you are accustomed to the way they walk and recognize their footsteps. In that moment, I know Annabella just walked in, and I want to scream at her to leave.
She walks toward us and plants herself to my right. I look at her and see from my one good eye that she’s f*cking furious at Shane.
“Leave,” I tell her through gritted teeth.
“I’m not leaving without you,” she says, glaring at me now.
“I’ve got this. This is my fate. There’s still time for you.”
“You shut up, I’m not letting you die!” she yells at me, making Shane laugh.
“She’s a little spitfire.”
“You shut up, too. I’m not going to let you come into my life and f*ck with it, much less with the safety of my kid!” she says oddly calm with Shane.
“Interesting. You might be worth a lot more than Alina ever was.” Shane smirks, and my world fades to black again.
Annabella
What the f*ck is this man’s problem?
“I’m not here to listen to your bullshit. I’m here to take Callum home,” I tell him, and he laughs again. I want to seriously kick his ass.
“Yeah, about that. I don’t think that’s gonna happen. See that car? That’s where you and Callum are going to spend your last moment, but not together, it wouldn’t be fun if he didn’t get to see you be burned alive, too.”
“Seriously, what the f*ck is your problem? Do you have mommy issues? Did she not give you enough attention? Did she drop you on your head one too many times? Seriously? What is it? Enlighten me!”
“You’ve got some nerves.” He glares at me, the muscles in his jaw tensing.
“I’m just trying to wrap my head around why someone is as f*cked up as you are.” I shrug, and he proceeds to tell me his ‘master plan’ which is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. “You are one of a kind. So, let me get this straight, because someone stole your car and punched you in the face, you try to ruin their life? You willingly killed people for a car? God, you’re worse than I thought!”
“Shut up!” he yells at me.
“No, you shut up and listen to me. You’re going to let us walk out of here and disappear from our lives. You’ve done enough damage for a lifetime. You don’t need to do more. If you try to hurt us again, you’ll be the one ending up dead.”
“You’re funny.” He chuckles.
“Oh, because you think I’m joking?”
“I’m not scared of a little mouse.” He comes closer to me, and two men I didn’t see come closer. What he didn’t expect is that I also have my own men with me. Jase and Bennett come out of the darkness they were hiding in after they blew up the door. Kind of a weird plan, but now I realize how effective it is. As his attention is drawn to Jase and Bennett, I pull out the gun and aim it at his head.
“Little mouse got back up.” I smirk as he realizes I’m armed and ready to shoot.
“You wouldn’t dare. You don’t have it in you.”
“Oh really?” I smirk and aim at his shoulder to start. He howls in pain and falls to the ground while Jase and Bennett take care of the other two men.
“You can’t aim, I knew it.”
“That’s where you’re wrong, I was aiming for your shoulder.” I smirk and shoot a bullet in his head. I’m not a sadistic person nor did I ever imagine I’d kill someone, but I wasn’t going to let him hurt us again in the future.