Running Scared by Velvet Vaughn

Author:Velvet Vaughn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic suspense, romance suspense, romance series, romance and suspense, romantic suspense novel, romantic suspense ebook, romatic suspense series
Publisher: Velvet Vaughn

Chapter Thirteen

Eric came awake slowly, his head pounding like the jackhammer that had been running outside of his office for a week. He hadn’t felt this bad since he arrived at the foster home where he’d met Declan. The man of the house had beaten him so badly the first day, he didn’t think he’d survive. He’d been a runt, short for his age and skinny. The man used him like a punching bag until he passed out from pain. When he woke up, he found another boy standing over him. Eric prepared for him to take a few shots at him, too. That’s how it seemed to work. Everyone beat him, even his biological father and mother. But instead of hitting him, this boy was patching him up and tending to his wounds. He fed him, watched over him and became his protector, his best friend, his brother. He wasn’t sure he’d have made it to his next birthday if not for Declan Elliot.

From that day on, no one picked on him again. If they tried, his brother stepped in and that’s all it took. Even the man of the house left him alone. He was able to finally concentrate on school and for the first time in his young existence, he felt hope of a better life.

He cracked a lid open, the bright lights making the pain pound harder in his skull. He couldn’t remember what happened, but he recognized his surroundings. He was in his condo, though it looked like a tornado had swept through. The room had been tossed. Trashed. Cushions had been shredded, pictures ripped off the walls, drawers overturned. Had he walked in on a burglar?

He tried to move, only to discover he was sitting on a hardback chair from his kitchen nook, his hands tied behind his back and his feet bound.

“You finally awake?”

He blinked up at the two men in front of him. One’s head was shaved, and a brown goatee covered his face. He had numbers tattooed beneath one eye. The other wore a bandanna and the same eighty-six on his face.

“You sure this is the right guy?” Bandanna asked. “He’s black like me. Elliot’s not.”

Eric and Declan had been dealing with the same questions since the night they slit their thumbs open and pressed them together, declaring themselves blood brothers for life.

“You Declan Elliot’s brother?” Baldy questioned.

“What’s it to you?”

Bandanna slugged him in the gut and Eric wheezed out a breath. “Answer the question.”

“Yes,” he pushed out between gritted teeth.

“Where is he?”

“I have no idea,” he rasped.

Baldy held out a phone. “Call him.”

“I’ve been trying to reach him, but his phone is turned off.” There was no way he was telling these men about the other cell, the one Declan called him from yesterday. Declan had warned him to keep an eye out for trouble and he didn’t listen. He should’ve paid more attention to his surroundings. He recalled the broken light over the door and then the men approaching him.

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