Chapter Chapter Ten

I was with Hayden for a whole year and he had me do mission upon mission. I’d torn apart men, tortured people and done everything he’d asked of me.

Some of his own men looked at me with wonder as they watched, but some, like Marcus, still didn’t trust me. Why would they? I was the leader of the Midnight Rose they knew I wanted Hayden dead and yet I hadn’t touched him.

He touched me…On a daily basis, I felt sick every day from it but learnt to just take it.

My mind had gone so within itself I didn’t know who I was anymore, I just did as I was told and got on with it without question.

I’d given up trying to escape, I’d tried before and that almost cost me a life of someone in my family. He’d come in the day after I tried to escape with photo’s of James beaten to a bloody pulp in the hospital.

“What the fuck!” I screamed at Hayden as he smirked.

“I warned you. You are mine. If you try to escape once more I will have my men kill someone next time. This is your only warning” Hayden had said before slamming the door behind me as Marcus grinned, bruises on his knuckles.

“You did it, didn’t you?” I growled and he just laughed and left.

From then on I kept to doing as I was told. I behaved, I did my job and began to hang out with some of the guys.

“Did you see Samantha tear that guys ear from his head!?” Seb exclaimed as we got back from a job. I was covered in blood as Hayden liked it. He often ordered me to stay like it.

“Nothing sexier than a woman who can handle herself” Greyson winked and nudged me playfully.

“Be careful or I’ll end up handling you” I smirk.

“Damn girl…” He groans lustfully as I laugh.

“You haven’t got a chance” Seb laughs, knowing they weren’t allowed to touch me. I was Hayden’s.

“Where the hell is Marcus? He’s been gone a month now” Kai said as he marched through the door.

“Hopefully dead” I said as the guys snickered. They knew Marcus and I wanted to kill each other and if it wasn’t for Hayden, I’m sure that would have happened already.

“Play nicely Samantha” Seb smirked.

“Where’s the fun in being nice? I gave up being nice the day I got here” I said stabbing my food with my fork.

“I’m sure part of you is still nice…Just a little act isn’t it” Seb replies.

“We all act Seb, some are just better than others. Or are you telling me that Hayden doesn’t have something on all of you” I raise a brow and they all look away.

Of course, Hayden didn’t have followers, he used threats against families and debts he was owed.

“Be careful or you’ll get us all killed Samantha” Greyson sighed.

“I don’t care anymore Greyson, let me die” I sigh and stand up throwing away my food before leaving the room.

“Samantha, my office please before you wash up” Hayden catches me as I walk past his office.

Here we go again, another round of blood-soaked sex with Hayden.

“What can I do for you boss?” I asked as I sat in the chair next to his desk.

“I just wanted to see if you were excited for your birthday tomorrow?” He smiles walking up to me as he picks me up and places me on his lap, making me straddle him.

“Twenty-six…Oh joy…What you getting me?” I ask, kissing his neck like I knew he liked. The quicker I got this done, the quicker I could scold my body of blood in the shower.

“A little fun, you’ll see my little blood-soaked rose” He smirks as he tears my shirt from me and begins licking the blood from my body as I try not to gag.

“I’m definitely blood-soaked” I say as he growls lustfully before pushing me to the ground, ripping my trousers away before plunging himself into me.

“We’ll have little babies soon you’ll have my children and we’ll be the most powerful mafia in the world” He smirks as he continues to thrust into me hard as I pretend to moan.

“I thought family makes you weak” I smirk.

“My family will not be weak. We will kill who needs to be killed, I will do this correct this time. They will not be like my failure of a daughter. They’ll be powerful like you and me” He grunts as he finishes inside me, kissing my breast before chucking me a shirt of his own to cover up. He didn’t like the men gawping at my body.

I was his to look at, his to touch, no one else’s.

“Boss!” Marcus’s voice boomed as he knocked and stormed into the room. His eyes darted over my body as I quickly put the shirt on.

“How dare you enter without permission!” Hayden yells and punches Marcus in the jaw as I hear a crunch and his yell.

“Sorry sir” He murmurs holding his jaw.

“I’ll be going” I said as I rush out the room after quacking putting my trousers back on. I notice Marcus look at me weirdly, not his usual scowl as I left the room.

“Hey Samantha. Hayden needs you on duty in the cells tonight” Seb calls at my door as I come out of the shower.

Oh great, cell duty, in other words, torture someone all night as they scream for help and I get covered in blood…again.

“Fine” I groan as I get dressed in a basic black leggings and t-shirt.

“You’ll like this one” Seb laughs as we head to the cells.

“Will I?” I ask sarcastically.

“Child killer” He smirks as he must have seen the change in my eyes, they knew I hated anything to do with kids being hurt.

“Maybe I will like it” I smirk as he chucks a knuckle duster at me and leaves me at the door with a wink.

That night I tear the guy to pieces as I get information out of him. After finding out all I could I beat the guy within an inch of his life as he crawled on the ground away from me.

“Please don’t! No more!” He cries as I sit on the ground against the wall, covered in blood again.

“You’ll bleed out soon enough” I said as he just sobbed against the wall.

Soon enough, he did just that, slowly he began to drift away from blood loss as I watched the light leave his eyes.

Then, I fell asleep sat up against the wall.

“Wakey, wakey Samantha” Greyson laughed shaking me awake the next morning.

“God damn it, did I really fall asleep in blood?” I growl at the sticky mess around me.

“Oh yeah, it looks like you had your period and it exploded everywhere in here” He laughs and drags me up, chucking a towel at me and a new pair of trousers.

He turns and lets me change my trousers before we leave the room.

“Don’t bother going to your room. Boss wants you in the office” He says as I sigh in frustration.

“Seriously…I just want to shower and go to bed” I groan.

“Good luck with that today birthday girl, happy birthday” He bows as he leaves me at the office door.

“Wow got a little blood there, babe” Seb smirks from inside gesturing my whole body.

“Be you next if you’re not careful” I snap and Hayden laughs.

“Now, now, do play nicely. It’s Samantha’s birthday after all”

“Boss, we got the location!” Marcus comes running in, suddenly stopping with a glare at me.

“Well do tell. Samantha will be joining you on this one, so might as well let us all know” Hayden “No way is she coming! I’ve been working on this for months! He’s my kill!” Marcus growls.

“Looks like you just went down a peg” I smirk as he steps closer to me threateningly.

“I’m not afraid to take you out, no matter what HE says”

“Marcus…Do I need to remind you about your wife and child” Hayden growls as my eyes flick between them.

“No sir. Sorry” He says as his eyes go to the floor.

Did Hayden have his family on him too? Was he using all these people by threatening loved ones.

“Good, now explain the situation to Samantha so she can go shower and join you for more birthday fun” Hayden urges.

“Birthday…” Marcus faces me.

“Get on with it” I growl, and he snaps out of his own thoughts.

“We’ve been keeping an eye on a small gang a few towns over from here, they’ve been pushing their boundaries and lately have come into our town, taking our business. We’ve lost 50% of drug sales and they’ve taken down at least five of our guys. We managed to grab one lately and he’s squealing like a pig” Marcus’s eye glint when he says about the guy squealing, I was pretty sure this guy got off on torture…But something still felt…Off about him.

“So, what’s the plan?” I ask.

“We tear them down. Wipe out the whole lot. Watch them burn” Marcus smirks bringing out a lighter and flicking it on menacingly.

“Make sure it’s bloody” Hayden’s eyes glinted as he looked at me, still covered in blood.

“That’s why you want me to go…” I nod.

“Of course my little blood-soaked rose. We have to make a statement, what better than you to go and destroy them…In fact, don’t shower, stay in those.” He smirks as I grimace.

“I am not ruining my car” Marcus snarls.

“Take the van” Seb says casually.

“You’re seriously making me go out in this?” I ask.

“Yes. Have fun. Now get out” Hayden smirks before shooing us off.

“If you try to run, I’ll shoot you myself” Marcus growls as he leads us down the corridor.

“I have too much to lose” I sigh as I notice his eyes flicker to mine before going back to his evil glare.

“Here, take these” He says as we get to a room filled with weapons, handing me a few long knives.

“Don’t I get a gun too?” I ask pointing to the one he was loading.

“Not a chance” He laughs and drags me out of the room.

“Hold up! It’s just us going?” I stop suddenly as he gets into the van.

“Scared sweetheart?” He raises a brow as I frown and jump in.

“How many people will be in there?” I ask as he begins driving.

“Fifteen maybe” He shrugs.

“Fifteen to two…that sounds fair…”

He huffs and takes out his second gun, handing it to me.

“If you pull that on me…” He growls out.

“Hayden has too much on me for that” I sigh as he nods, and we sit in silence.

What the hell was I doing? I could shoot this guy and drive off!

But Hayden had men on my family, it was like I was stuck!

I had no idea where we were and didn’t recognise anything as we drove through streets before finally pulling to a stop where Marcus brought out a huge duffel bag, unzipping it as I saw the make-shift explosives.

“Which building?” I ask, although there weren’t many as we sat in an industrial estate, it was quiet, business hours weren’t on us yet, the sun barely rising in the sky.

“The one up ahead” He says as I notice it’s a car parts warehouse.

“Lots of places to hide in a place like that” I say.

“Yep” is all he says.

“This is ridiculous, we are going to die” I say as we get out the van and move quickly, if anyone saw the blood on me they’d call the police.

“Shut up and get on” He growls as we get to the front, we creep around the side of the building looking for a way in as I hear shouts come from inside.

“Did you hear that the Midnight Rose girl got taken? Pretty sure she’s dead by now” I heard one say as it piqued my interest.

“No way man, Hayden’s got her locked up somewhere. There’s a bounty out to find her. Man…If only, we’d be done with all this” Another voice said as I noticed a smile on Marcus’s face.

“In you go. Get their trust, that’s our way to do this” He smirks “You’re joking…Putting me straight in the middle of them!” I whisper, shout.

“Can you think of a better way?” He snaps as I sigh.

“Fine” I answer.

“Do play the part. We’ve just escaped from Hayden and need help” He says locking me into his side with a smirk, his hand in the blood as he smears some on himself to make it look like we’d escaped, but barely.

“Hey! Hey! Help me!” I cry out as I bang against the door as Marcus begins pretending to watch our backs.

“What the fuck?” a man answers as his eyes widen.

“Please you have to help us!” I cry as we push our way in.

“Who are you? What happened to you?” He pulls out a gun.

“Please! Don’t! I just want to get to my family!” I cry out as my eyes dart around the room.

“What’s your name?” another asks as people begin flooding into the room.

“Samantha…Samantha Jones” I say, and I hear them gasp.

“You’re the midnight rose girl!” One exclaims.

“Will you hide us? Please, just let us lay low” Marcus asks.

“Who are you boy?” A large man comes out from a door in front as he looks over the pair of us.

“He was locked up with me, please, we need help” I say as I count at least twelve guys around us.

“Come here” The huge guy beckons me forwards.

“Not without me” Marcus growls.

“What will you do boy? You’re outnumbered.” He laughs.

“I don’t see many guns, just this one and you” He nods towards the guy who was at the door.

“We don’t deal with guns, not our thing…” He says.

“That’s a shame…” Marcus smirks and moves off of me as the destruction begins.

Marcus takes out the big guy quickly as I shoot towards the guy at the door.

“Watch it!” Marcus shouts as another man comes from behind me, I knock my head backwards as I hear a crunch.

One by one we take them down as we leave a bloodied trail everywhere.

“Check down there, I’ll finish off up here” Marcus orders as I head for the door where the big guy, who I was guessing was the leader came from.

“Don’t…Please…” He’s not dead! He grabs hold of my trousers.

“I…” I begin as I hear movement downstairs, the man lets go as he dies from blood loss.

I walk slowly down the stairs with my gun raised.

“Daddy! What was that big bang?!” A little girl comes to the bottom of the stairs and looks at me with horror.

She screams and runs off as I run down the stairs.

“Don’t hurt us” A woman cries as the little girl hides behind her.

“Is it clear?!” Marcus calls out.

“Please…” The woman cries.

“Hide…Find the Midnight Rose, tell them Samantha sent you” I say quickly as they quickly move into a cupboard.

“It’s clear down here” I shout as I begin my way up.

“You checked properly?” He raises a brow and pushes past me.

“Seriously, you’re checking my work! There’s no one down here!” I shout as he begins kicking down desks.

I hear a whimper as he kicks another and hope he didn’t hear it.

“What was that?” He swirls around.

“What?” I ask.

“I heard something” He says as he opens the cupboard and grabs the woman and her child out by their hair as they scream.

“It’s just a kid!” I shout as he pushes me away and makes them kneel in front of him.

“You lied…You knew they were there didn’t you?” He says looking from me to them.

“Please, let us go!” The woman cries.

“How the hell are people going to find out what happened here if we kill everyone? You ever think of that?!” I ask as his nostrils flare in anger.

“We were supposed to kill everyone! You disobeyed!” He shouts pointing a gun at me.

“Shoot me I dare you. People will find out about this if we leave them alive” I say stepping in front of him.

“We’ll see what Hayden has to say shall we?” He says with a cocky smirk as he gets out his phone and puts it on loud speaker.

“Is it done?” Hayden calls out, not bothering with pleasantries.

“Not quite, we’ve had a little hiccup with your rose” He says.

“Oh?”

“She hid up a little girl and her mother. She tried to save them.” Marcus says as the phone is silent.

“I only meant it as a way to spread word, if everyone dies in this then how will word spread that you, Hayden, have me as an accomplice. That you have me working for you, taking down your own enemies” I say in hope that I hadn’t fucked up.

“Well, that is a very clever notion…However, I believe that was not what I asked to be done. Kill the woman, leave the child” He says as Marcus gets out his gun and shoots the woman as the kid screams.

“Done” Marcus says as I stand in shock.

“Take a photo, I will make sure to send it to the whole of Midnight Rose” Hayden says before hanging up.

Marcus brings up his camera and takes a photo in front of the child and woman with my gun and knife bloodied up in my hand.