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Story: Saige

“Bex, we’ve to get out of here. I know my dad and club are looking for us. I just hope they find us soon.” She just leans into me. We’ve learned a lot about each other, and I really like her. Bexley has beautiful ginger hair, blue eyes, and a kickass attitude. We are quickly becoming friends, and when we get out of here, I’m having her brought into the clubhouse for safety. Sloane and Stella will love her. Just as I go to ask her a question the door opens again. I look up, only to see Pyro. What the fuck?! He comes in the room and sits right in front of me.

“Hey, Saige. See what happens when you don’t listen to me? If you would’ve just listened to me, you’d be safe. But no. You had to defy me, make me look like a fool, again!”

“Pyro, what the hell are you doing with them, here?”

“Hmph, that’s what you’re worried about? Well seeing as how you’re going to be sold, and I get a lot of money out of it, and you’ll not be seen or heard from again…. Rancor is my half-brother. Several years older than me, as you can tell. I found out from Mom when she was on her death bed. I reached out to him, we talked. Got to know each other. I saw what they were doing, the money that they were making. I wanted in. All I had to do was spy on the Vipers. Easy enough, seeing as how I am one. If you’d just go along with my plan, you would be my old lady, and we would be rolling in the dough right now, figuratively and literally. But now, I get to watch and hear you beg me to help you. And believe me, Saige, you’ll start begging soon enough.” With that he grabs me by the hair, smashing his mouth onto mine. I try to turn away from him. Pyro gets angry, and bites my lip, making it bleed, before he walks out of the room, slamming the door behind him, laughing the whole time. For the first time, I let my fear show a little.

“Saige, we’ll get out of here, somehow, together. Can you untie the knots behind me?” I look at Bexley and grin. She turns away from me and I get to work trying to undo the knot in the rope that had her arms tied behind her. She keeps listening to see if she hears anyone coming near the door. There’s a knock at the door, so we hurry and turn towards it, right as it opens. This is the first time someone has knocked. The blonde woman from the diner walks in, carrying food. “Saige, you look so much like your father. You’ve grown to be such a beautiful woman,” she says.

“Who are you?” I ask, as she unties us both. I notice the gun in the back of her jeans, so I don’t try anything yet.

She smiles and whispers, “I’m Tonya, your mother. Rancor doesn’t know, no one here does. I left you with Stone, I had to get away before anyone found out about you. You see, I wasn’t one of those women that was being abused that your dad and his club saved. I used them as a way out. I pretended to be scared and clung to your dad. I really fell for him, I knew I was safe there with him. That is until I saw Rancor one day. He didn’t see me, and I thank God for that. I was about ready to have you. I always told him I couldn’t have kids. I made up my mind then and there, that I had to leave to keep you safe. I never wanted to leave you, but I knew your dad could do it on his own. He was a wonderful father to Cooper already. So, I told the doctor and nurse when I went into labor that I was a surrogate for him. I left not long after you were born. I left town, went to a doctor who did a hysterectomy for me for the right amount of money, when I was healed up from that, I was going to leave, go west. But Rancor found me. I’ve been stuck ever since. I did what I felt I had to do to keep you safe.” I am staring at this woman, and I can see a slight resemblance.

“So, what was that at the diner, talking to me? Were you helping them to get me? And how did you know who I was?”

She gasps, “NO! I would never have helped them to getyou. I saw you, I just had to hear your voice, see if that little girl was my granddaughter. My cousin is a member of the MC and has sent me pictures of you throughout the years. Your dad doesn’t know that Grange is related to me. I’m going to do my best to get you girls out of here. I found your phone in your clothes, and I called Stone. I told him where we were, that I was going to help. You’re my daughter, I’ll not see you sold or hurt by that bastard.” Bexley looks at her, then at me.

Bexley gives me an encouraging smile, “I know this is a lot Saige, but I believe her. I see it in her eyes.”

“Okay, Tonya, we’ll take all the help we can get.”

She smiles, her eyes teary. “How is your dad doing? Has he moved on?”

“Umm. Yeah. He’s good. He is dating a wonderful lady that Cooper and I both adore. Cooper is great too. Owns his own garage, makes custom bikes and repairs.”

Tonya grins. “He was always tinkering with things when he was little, and man could that boy draw. What about you? Do you have a special someone?”

I look at her. I’m still having trouble trusting her completely. “No. There is a guy that I like, but it isn’t leading anywhere. And you saw the bakery.” She looks atme. “Yeah, I saw you there, then you took off without coming in. You saw Dad, didn’t you?”

“Yes, I couldn’t let him see me. If Rancor saw or knew…. anyways, I’m going to go get you both some clothes, and try to get ahold of Stone again. Act the part they expect. I’ll have you both out of here soon.” She ties us up loosely, hands in front of us, after we eat, and with that she leaves the room.

“Bexley, I don’t know if my head can handle much more today. I meet my mother, and to know that someone that I grew up with and cared about did this to me….” A tear slips from my eye.

She hugs up against me close. “It’s going to be okay. I’ll help you out any way I can. I don’t have many friends; I hope we are for a long time after we get out of here.”

“Are you kidding? You and I are bffs always.” We both laugh. “Bex, I want you to come stay at the clubhouse with us when we get out. I want to know that you are safe.”

She nods. “I would like that. Maybe I can switch jobs to be closer too. Hey, are there any hot guys there?”

I laugh. “Hell yeah! I have a thing for Cotton. He has snow white hair, and the grayest eyes you have ever seen. I think my brother would try to go for you. And as for ajob, I need someone to do my books for me at the bakery. You can even help baking or out front too, if you want to. I can teach you all the tricks.”

“That’s settled then. Let’s hope Tonya gets back to us to fast.”

I nod in agreement. This has been two long weeks from hell.

Thirteen

Stone

I look downat my ringing phone to see Saige’s number. I pull Tires, Cotton, Cruz, and Tech into the room with me, and put it on speaker. “Saige, baby girl, is that you?”

“No, Stone. But I can help you get her and that other girl out, but it has to be soon.”

My eyes go wide as I look at Cruz. “Tonya?”

Sighing she says, “Yes, it’s me. Rancor has our girl. He doesn’t know that she is my daughter, and in order to keep us all alive, it must stay that way. I need you to listen to me. They’re being held at the old Boston warehouse. He’s started the auction already, and the bidding is going crazy. I’m going to try to sneak them in someclothes and have them ready to get out of there. You have to go through the back. It’s not protected. The front is where the whole gang is. Hurry!” The phone goes dead.

Tech grins, “I got it, Pres. They’re at the old Boston warehouse like she said. I also have hacked into the camera on Saige’s phone. We can see and hear everything that the camera does.”