Page 38 of Recovering Ivy (Red Team #4)
Ivy
“Please,” I begged.
“Begging already? We haven’t even gotten to the good stuff yet.”
Before I could say another word, Lance was on the bed and had ripped my shirt open with such violence my head whipped back and my teeth gnashed together.
“Stop!” I screamed and tried to kick him off.
He was too strong, too heavy. I couldn’t stop him when he pulled my shorts down my legs. I kicked out and made contact somewhere on his chest before he caught my ankle and pulled me down the bed.
“Oh, yeah, fight me, Ivy.”
I was on my stomach, my legs dangling off the bed. Lance’s forearm was on the back of my neck and he had a fist full of hair.
“This is gonna hurt.” He laughed, and I felt his bare legs touch the inside of my thighs.
“Please don’t, Lance. Please stop.” I tried to close my legs and wiggle away from him.
“Wanna feel how hard you make me? ”
My stomach lurched and I could taste the bile in my mouth.
This was it, there was nothing I could do to stop him. I wrenched my eyes closed and tried to summon up anything about Zane. Something I could get lost in, anything to take me far away from the here and now. I wouldn’t survive this. I couldn’t. My mother had sealed my fate. She won.
My panties were being torn off and I screamed.
“Zane!”
“No one’s gonna come for you…”
Within seconds, the world around me exploded.
Glass shattered, wood splintered, and light poured into the room.
Five men dressed in black barged into the room like dark avenging angels.
Zane didn’t wait, he lunged at Lance, taking him to the floor.
I tried to scramble up the bed to get away from the two men fighting on the floor.
“I got you, Ivy.” I flinched as Declan reached for me, very aware I was only in my bra and what was left of my torn panties. “I need to get you out of here, the car is right outside the door.”
Leo had already yanked the comforter up and was trying to cover my mostly nude body.
“I’m gonna carry you out of here,” he told me. His voice was soft and reassuring. Why wasn’t I jumping up and running out of the room? I should be. But I was frozen. I didn’t want anyone to touch me but Zane. I wanted him, only him.
“Get her the fuck out of here!” Zane shouted.
“Come on, Ivy.” Declan didn’t give me an option this time. He scooped me up and carried me out of the room. Leo opened the back door and Declan climbed in with me on his lap.
“Zane?” I whispered .
“He’s right behind us. I promise. He just wants you safe.”
Leo climbed in the driver’s seat and took off.
“You’re safe now. No one is going to hurt you,” Dec tried to tell me.
I was so tired, which should’ve been impossible. I’d slept all day it seemed. Leo took a sharp corner and my stomach jolted.
“I’m gonna throw up,” I warned Declan.
“So throw up,” he told me.
“I can’t throw up on you,” I argued.
“Sure you can. You wouldn’t be the first woman and I doubt you’ll be the last. I’m not letting you out of my arms and we’re not stopping. If you have to puke, puke. Get it all out. When we’re far enough away, we’ll toss the blanket and buy new clothes.”
“Is Zane okay?”
“Now that you’re safe, yes.”
“You’re weird,” I told him and settled back now that the feeling had subsided.
“Why’s that?”
“Because you told me to throw up on you.”
Both men chuckled, and we fell into a comfortable silence.
I watched as the trees flew by and realized how lucky I’d been. If the guys had been even a few minutes later, I would’ve been…
“You’re safe, Ivy. Nothing’s gonna touch you.” Declan’s arms tightened around me and he rocked me back and forth.
“Thank you.”
“For?”
“Saving my life. I wouldn’t have lived through that.”
“I don’t mean to make you uncomfortable, but did he touch you?” Leo’s gravelly voice had me jumping in Declan’s lap.
“No. Just what you guys saw. He um… got my clothes off… and was getting himself ready. Then you guys came in before he could.”
“Thank fuck,” Leo huffed.
“Where’s Zane?”
“Taking out the trash. He’ll be right behind us soon enough.”
“The trash?”
I didn’t know what that meant, but by the look on the guys’ faces I was pretty sure I could figure it out. Whatever Zane was doing to Lance, I hoped he made sure he could never hurt another woman again.