Page 22 of Echoes From Within
“Miss me?” I manage to smirk.
“Ma said she’d kill me if I didn’t bring you back home,” he says, not smirking.
I shove thoughts of Ma to the back of my head as I step back from my brother’s embrace and head for the door.
“The basement,” I tell them. “From what I understand, there are pregnant women down there. And Sophia. We need to get them out.”
I don’t bother looking back. I know my brothers are just as eager to save the women here.
Once outside of the room, I lean down and kick one of the guards in the side.
“Where the fuck is she?” I demand as he groans.
“Don’t kill him, Venom,” Ghost tells me. “We’re only here as a curtesy. The FBI won’t take too kindly to you killing one of their prisoners.”
“I don’t give a fuck,” I growl, gripping the guard by his forehead and lifting his head back. “You tell me where cellblock X is or I kick your fucking face in.”
The guard lifts a shaky hand and points to the door at the other end of the hall.
Standing, I pull my leg back and kick him in his fucking face.
“Are you sure that’s not Xander?” I hear Blaze ask.
“I think our baby brother has just found his person and he is fucking pissed that she’s been hurt,” Steel says. “Let’s help him kick some fucking faces in.”
Not bothering with the handle, I kick open the door and make my way down to the dark basement.
“Fuck,” I hear Ghost say. “Find the lights. There are people in these cells.”
Moments later, the room is flooded with light and my stomach sours. There are about nine women, one in each cage, and all heavily pregnant.”
“Fucking monster,” I mutter. “You guys get the detectives down here and help them. I need to find Sophia.”
“Sophia,” one of the women whispers. Her voice was soft. Innocent.
There’s one empty cell but the voice came from the one right next to it.
“Fuck. She’s just a fucking girl.”
“Hi sweetheart,” I say, crouching down near her cage. I don’t want to scare her. “Do you know where Sophia is?”
“The breeding room,” another female answers.
“She’s not there,” I say. “That’s where they had us. But we didn’t do what they wanted us to and now they’re going to punish her.”
“I saw them take her to cellblock X,” the young girl responds, her eyes wide with fear. “Please, get her out of there. It’s worse than the breeding room.”
“Where is it, sweetheart?”
“She’s in rough shape,”Doc says. “They all are. Too skinny to be so pregnant.”
“It’s behind that black door,” she answers, pointing to the back of the room. “All the way underground. I heard her screaming a few times.”
“I’ve got her, brother,” Steel says. “You and Ghost head down that way. Here, take my gun.”
Grabbing Steel’s gun, I race for the solid black door. The young girl was right about it leading underground. I’m surrounded by soil instead of brick walls.
A high-pitched scream pierces the room. The soil is preventing it from reaching very far. Gaining speed, I hit the bottom step, aim my gun, and shoot the fucking bastard laughing as he tortures my woman. Well, she’s notmywoman. She’s spent the better part of a year being raped. I need to find out who the fuck raped her, too. He’s dead.