Free Bone and Steel (An Erotic MC Romance) by Talia Day

and proceeded to quietly make my way down the dark corridor and towards the stairs.
     
    At the top of the landing I heard voices below.  I stopped, listening intently to what the unidentified voices had to say. 
     
    "As soon as Trece is done with the girl, we'll go fetch her friends and bring them with us.  Jacob and his gang should be here soon enough, and we might need them as bargaining chips."
     
    "Where are they," another voice inquired.
     
    "In separate cells in the interrogation hall," the other voice responded.
     
    My heart leaped into my throat--I was just in their interrogation room.  Was Chase, Kate and Leah nearby?  I made my way back from where I came.  There were five doors lining the dark hallway; maybe they were they in there. 
     
    I crept close to the door closest to me and whispered, "Kate? Chase? Leah?"  No response, so I continued making my way door-to-door, being careful not to be too loud.  When I got to the last door, the room closest to where Trece and Chico lay, I finally got a response.
     
    "Ally?" Kate's voice came a little too loudly.
     
    "Shhh, quiet Kate.  Yeah it's me, Ally.  Quiet though.  Maybe I can get you out."
     
    Kate started whimpering in celebration, almost crying.  "Fuck Kate, shut up.  Don't say a word!" I scolded as silently as I could.  "If I'm caught we're are fucking dead!"
     
    I started looking for how to open the door.  But from the bottom of the stairs a voice called out, "Hey Chico?"
     
    'Fuck!' I thought to myself.  The goons below were probably wondering where Chico was.  It wouldn't be long before they would be coming up to investigate.  My heart started to race. The hallway was dark, and other than a simple handle to pull open the door, there was no indication that there was a lock.  I pulled frantically at the door, but to no use.
     
    "Hey Chico!  What the fuck you doing up there?  You and Trece having a three-way or something?"  Voices from the bottom of the stairs started chuckling. 
     
    'Shit! Shit! Shit! What the fuck, how does this door open?!' I thought to myself, practically freaking out.  It wouldn't be long now before the others would come searching for Chico.  And sure enough, it was just a second later that we heard the cacophony of about three or four pairs of footsteps pounding up the stairs--I was sure to be caught.  
     
    But at the last moment my fingers found a deadbolt near the top of the door.  Standing on my tiptoes I struggled to wiggle the bolt open, but finally it came.  Pulling the heavy metal door open I slipped inside just as Trece's thugs reached the landing.  Thankfully the corridor was painted dark and poorly lit, because surely they would have seen tiny fingers clasped around the edge of the door, pulling it closed.
     
    "Kate, help me," I demanded.  "The door is too heavy, help me pull it shut!" 
     
    Kate responded, "Leah, help us close the door." I had no idea Leah was in the cell, too, but thankfully she was because we ripped the ends of our fingernails off pulling the heavy door closed as tightly as we could.
     
    The footsteps were only fifteen feet away by the time the door was closed.  We held our collective breath as they passed, hoping they wouldn't notice that the door was slightly ajar.  Luckily they didn't suspect a thing and continued to the final door at the end of the hallway. 
     
    "BAM!  BAM!" went the heavy sound of steel-on-steel, probably a gun, against the door.  "Trece? Chico?  You guys in there?  What's going on?" a gruff voice yelled out.  There was no response.  The big steel door creaked all the way open, and the sound of their footsteps diminished as they proceeded to go inside the other room.
     
    "What the fuck?  Where are you guys?  Trece?  Chico?"
     
    "Shit, bro, look at the blood," another voice said.  There was commotion as the others became alarmed.  The din of voices and footsteps and heavy objects moving filled the air as the men looked for Trece