Page 26 of Acceptance
A tall man walks over and laughs. “Look, man. You’re old. We’re young. You’re small. We’re big. There ain’t no way you’re getting out of here alive, and you’ve just ensured we all fuck that little bitch of yours before we kill her.”
Undertaker steps up, casting a shadow on him as he has at least four inches on the man, and crosses his large arms over his chest. “You’re big, and I’m small? Are you sure that’s the stance you wanna stick with?”
“Jesus,” someone mutters from the sea of men.
Beckett Cohen walks up to a man nearly double his size, and he drops him to the ground with little effort. Two hits and a kick, and the man lays unconscious on the ground.
“I’m not sure how valid that argument is, chief,” he says. “Anyone else want some?”
“Where is she?” Colt growls as he pops Mel’s shoulder out of its socket, earning him a cry of pain. “Either I get my daughter and her roommate back, or I rip every fucking limb off until someone speaks.”
“Don’t you fucking tell them,” Mel orders.
Laughing, Venom sounds like a maniac as he steps up beside Mel. “I think I’m going to chop your fingers off and make you eat them.”
“What the fuck did you just say?” someone calls out.
Whipping around, Venom takes the man’s head between his hands and twists, snapping his neck before letting him drop to the ground. “I said that I’m going to chop off your boss’s fingers and make him eat every fucking knuckle.”
“Yeah, being smaller than the bitch boys here is just so fucking difficult,” Psycho sneers. “You must be beat, Venom. Need a break?”
“Take Gavin,” Ky says as the lanky man takes off running with another man. “We’ve got it covered down here, and the rest of Black Valley’s outside to catch anyone who runs.”
Shoving Mel towards his best friend, Colt runs towards the stairs with Gavin. He stops on the second floor to see exactly what these guys planned to do with Hailey. Every room has no door, and all he sees is men having their way with women who look completely blitzed out of their minds.
“What are you doing? I thought you said she was on the fifth floor,” Gavin says.
The rooms are filthy, and the women look like they’ve been beaten into submission. All of them could run away at any time,but they don’t. They know what would happen if they did, so they self-medicate to drown out the horrors.
“There’s not a single one over the age of twenty-five in here,” he mutters.
Gunshot from the floor below catches their attention, as well as the johns who walk out into the hallway with their dicks hanging out.
“What the fuck was that?” asks an older man who wears half of a rather expensive suit.
Pulling out his gun, Colt aims it at him. “Whatever you paid, call it good. Get the fuck out of here before I put a bullet in your skull for what you’re doing.”
He runs out without hesitation, not bothering to grab his pants. The girl stumbles into the hallway completely naked. “Are you here to kill me?”
Lowering his gun, he shakes his head. “No, sweetheart, I’m looking for my daughter.”
“Who are you looking for?” a mousy woman asks wearing lingerie that barely hides anything on her skinny body.
“Hailey,” Gavin says.
“Fifth floor. Come with me,” she says. “They’re planning to move her to the fourth floor in a few hours to start servicing men.”
They follow her into the stairwell, and Colt finds it hard to breathe.Servicing men?His dinner threatens to give him a second chance to chew it, but he follows her quickly up to the fifth floor. She pulls the chain from her neck and unlocks the door.
“I saw Gary and Jules head up the back way. You’ll have to hurry.”
“Let me go!” an unfamiliar voice screams.
The cries push Colt and Gavin to run down the hallway as Hailey shouts, “Don’t touch her! Gary, I swear to God, I’ll make sure you die!”
“Did you forget I’ve already touched every part of her, you stupid slut? She has to pay for lying to me. Jules, warm the bitch up for me. I plan to have a lot of fun with Hailey when I’m done here. I think I’ll have so much fun that I’ll split her in two.”
Colt aims his gun as he sees Hailey fighting against zip ties strapping her to a makeshift bedframe. A fair-haired woman tries to fight the lanky man he now knows is Gary, but she’s too small to fight him off with her restraints.
