Chapter 14
Previously:
"Daze?" I asked, surprised.
"Got that right sweetcheeks."
Currently:
"But you were just back at the dance hall."
He just stood there and laughed. "Girls are so stupid sometimes."
This got me mad. I pushed myself off the ground and tried to punch again. He caught my hand and swung me into the brick wall. He grasped a section of my hair and roughly held me against the wall with it.
"Ya see, I was playin ya the whole time. Ya thought I was your friend?" He started to laugh again. "No, I was getting information from ya. I've been on their side the whole time. How do you think they got the stuff for the newspaper article from? They offered me real cash to work for them. Now all I gots to do is turn ya in to that old boss of yours. An' if you won't come alive I can sure as hell bring ya there dead."
"Oh, an maybe you should considah keepin' ya diary in a safer place, " he added as an afterthought.
"I thought we were friends!" I yelled back, spitting blood in his face. "How'd ya even know we where going tonight?"
"C'mon, Kate. I know'se you're smartah than that. You should pay more attention to whether or not people are followin' ya." And with that he punched me in the ribs, which would definitely have a bad bruise there tomorrow.
"What about Cryptic? Did you have anything to do with him not showing up tonight?"
"Let's just say he's takin' a little break from Brooklyn right now." He had a knowing glint in his eye.
"Why'd ya come to my rescue the other time the Delanceys had me cornered a couple weeks back, then?"
"Well ya would have never taken that drink I gave ya tonight if ya didn't like me. "
"Wait," I interrupted, " is that why I passed out? You spiked my drink."
"Oscar, bring out the brass knuckles" I overheard one of the other figures say near Skittery, before I could finish my thought. Of course, Morris and Oscar Delancey were in on this too. I cringed at hearing the skin on metal contact.
"Stop! You're gonna kill him!" I screamed at the brothers along with other obscenities.
All I wanted to do now was hurt Daze in the worst way I knew how, so I kneed him in the groin using as much force a possible. Unfortunately, I hadn't seen the Delanceys coming up behind him, Skittery passed out behind some crates, so when Daze fell Oscar came at me with the brass knuckles. I tried to fight back at each blow, but I was just too tired. Once again, I dropped to the ground trying to resist the temptation of the blackness promising to take away the pain.
"People will betray ya, but money never will," Daze whispered from beside me, my consciousness continually slipping deeper into darkness.
Before I blacked out, I felt someone pick me up and I knew wherever we were going that it wasn't going to be good.
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