Breaking Beauty: Devils Aces MC Part 16

Kyle and Cutler sped up, beginning to weave in and out of the few cars that were on the road. Maybe they'd be able to lose the car, Addison thought hopefully. She looked behind them. The town car had also sped up and was gaining on them.

"Hurry!" she shouted. "They're getting closer!" She felt Cutler's back muscles tense through his jacket.

Addison looked ahead to the road in front of them, and saw three cars traveling close together on the two-lane highway. Kyle and Salem crouched low over the bike, and Cutler followed suit, so Addison matched him. Sticking close together, they squeezed in between two of the cars. Addison looked to her side and saw the man driving the van they were pa.s.sing look confused, then begin to swear at them. When they cleared the cars, she turned to see how the town car would react.

It had almost reached the cars when she saw it turn to the right until its wheels were straddling the shoulder and the gravel next to it. Dust and small rocks flew into the air as the town car kept coming, barely losing any speed.

Kyle and Cutler were driving as fast as they could now, and the road was empty of cars in front of them. Addison watched in horror as the car still gained on them, pulling up until it was just a couple car lengths behind. She saw the window on the pa.s.senger side of the car open, and a long black cylinder pop out. What was she looking at?

"Gun!" She screamed, realizing. She saw a white man lean out of the car window and take aim at her and Cutler. At the last second, Cutler decelerated, and she heard a shot ring out. She felt him reach down to his right foot as he kept the bike steady and pulled toward the driver's side of the car. The man shot again, but wasn't able to get a good shot off because of the angle Cutler had created.

Addison watched as he refocused on Kyle and Salem, who were still ahead of them. Oh, G.o.d, she thought. He can't tell which one I am because Salem and I are both wearing helmets.

She saw Cutler bring his arm out to the side in a straight line and realized he must have pulled a handgun out of a leg holster. Aiming at the front tire on the driver's side, he fired off a shot. Addison saw the tire puncture and collapse. The town car swerved but the driver managed to maintain a mostly straight line and keep going. Cutler dropped back further and took aim at the rear tire.

Addison watched Kyle and Salem over Cutler's shoulder. They were swerving back and forth, trying to create a difficult moving target. She heard another shot ring out from the other side of the car, and saw Salem slump over.

"No!" She screamed. She watched as Kyle tried to reach an arm around Salem to keep her on the bike, but then she heard another shot. Kyle collapsed onto Salem, and together they toppled off the bike and rolled onto the highway.

Cutler fired another two rounds into the rear tire, and it popped. The driver swerved again, and Salem watched in horror as the car rode over Salem and Kyle's bodies. The town car swerved dangerously close to them, and Cutler pulled away from it. She could feel his body register what had happened to Kyle and Salem. He began firing and firing into the driver's side window, and the gla.s.s of the window shattered.

Out of control, the car veered off the side of the road and into the sand. Hitting a small rocky outcropping, it flipped over spectacularly, and landed on its top. Addison watched over her shoulder as a small fire broke out, and then with a pop and a roar, the car exploded in a fireball.

Cutler slowed slightly, still glancing behind them to make sure no one else was following them. The road looked clear except for the wreckage. Addison watched as Kyle and Salem's bodies got smaller and smaller and finally disappeared from view. She turned back to Cutler and allowed herself to collapse against him.

She didn't think she could have felt anymore empty than she had last night, but here she was. Because of her, Salem and Kyle were dead. The only people she knew to turn to in her crisis, and who had been so open and generous in extending a hand to her. Her eyes glazed over and she fell into a trance. She didn't know how much time had pa.s.sed when she felt Cutler slowing and turning onto an off-ramp. They exited the highway, and she saw they were in an industrial neighborhood. She looked around at the old, abandoned factories, and wondered where they were going, though she didn't have the heart to care.

They made a few turns, and Cutler pulled up next to an abandoned building. He turned off the bike and Addison sat up. Without a word, he knocked down his kick stand, and Addison let her legs fall to the street for support. She watched him wordlessly disappear into the building, and then heard what sounded like demolition, as though someone were trying to break down the building from inside. Suddenly, she heard screaming.

"f.u.c.k!" Cutler yelled. "f.u.c.k!" Addison pulled off her helmet and walked to the door of the building. She saw him inside swinging a wooden beam wildly against a metal support, his helmet on the ground next to him. He kept swinging until the beam began to splinter in his hands. His yelling became wordless screams of pain, until the beam was mere tinder in his hands. He dropped what remained of it and sunk to his knees, his screams subsided. He knelt over himself, his fists mashed into the ground beneath him.

Addison stood frozen in the doorway, her heart torn. Should she comfort this man, still a stranger to her? Would she be an intruder in his grief? And what had happened was her fault anyway. She was probably the last person he wanted around.

Cutler's muscles slowly began to ease and he started to rise back to his feet. Addison quickly returned to the bike, so he wouldn't know she'd been watching him. After a moment he came out of the building, his eyes cast to the side, not making eye contact with her.

"I'm sorry. I know this was my fault." Cutler still would not meet her eyes.

"We have to warn the rest of the Devil's Reapers. They'll come after all of us now," he said.

"But how will they know it was you? Won't they still just be after me?" Addison asked. Cutler turned, and pointing at the skull with horns emblazoned in white on the back of his leather cut.

"That's the Reaper's patch. Before they died, they would have let the rest of their crew know they found you, and who you were with. And since I killed those men, the rest of the Devil's Reapers will be considered responsible. They're all in danger now."

Addison could only stare at him. She had no words left.

"Get on," he said, nodding toward the bike. "We have to go to the clubhouse and warn everyone to get out of there and go underground." He got on the bike, and Addison sat behind him again. She felt guilty sliding her hands around his torso. She was a sickness, and she had infected him too.

Cutler gunned the bike and pulled away. Addison closed her eyes, feeling the hum of the motorcycle beneath her. She felt the vibration from the road course through her body, and wished it could purge her of everything she was feeling right now.

After what seemed like a short time, Cutler slowed again, and Addison opened her eyes. It looked like they were still in the same part of town, and they were pulling up to a building with a dozen motorcycles parked out front. Cutler pulled in to the end of the row of bikes and cut the engine. Standing, he pulled off his helmet and strode quickly inside. Addison hesitated, then followed him.

Stay tuned for Wrecking Beauty (Devil's Reapers MC) - Coming Soon!.

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