Chapter 25 I'd share my cake with you. -Creole to Audric CREOLE I was hesitant to answer the door, but when I saw the police officers through the peep hole, I did it despite my better judgment telling me to keep it closed and pretend like I wasn't there. I smiled hesitantly at the officers as I opened the door and said, "How can I help you officers?" "Ms. Williams? Creole Williams?" the officer on the right asked. "That's me," I confirmed. "How can I help you?" The officers glanced at each other, then they reached for me at the same time. I didn't even have time to react before I was being grabbed by both. In one breath, I had my hands shoved behind my back. In the next, there were cuffs being placed around my wrists. "What is going on?" I heard cried. I looked up to see Eedie marching across the yard looking angry as hell. "Who are you?" the cops asked at the same time. "Eedie Webb," she snarled. "This is my friend. What are you doing with her?" "She's being detained on a forty-eight-hour psych hold," the officer to my right said. "She is very uneasy around men due to a previous sexual assault, and they sent two men to do a psych hold on her when she's fucking terrified? Look at her, she's freaking the fuck out!" Both men shifted uneasily. "I would highly, and I do mean highly, suggest that y'all let her go. If she's really under a psych hold, then send two female officers out here to do this," Eedie, my new best friend, ordered. I was about to have a panic attack, though. All the good that Audric did, giving me the confidence to exist in a world with so many men all around me, went flying right out the window. I was nauseous. I was sweating bullets. And I was crying. I was literally so fucking scared that I was about to pee all over myself. The only thing saving me was that I had just gone before answering the door. "If you don't let her go in the next sixty seconds, I'm literally going to have every goddamn Truth Teller in the city of Dallas so far up your ass that you'll be seeing light through your asshole." Eedie stomped. "Let her go!" I saw the man on my right visibly stiffen. The one on my left, however, got cocky, thinking just because he was a police officer that he couldn't be touched. "No can do, ma'am." The officer on my right yanked me to the side, throwing me off balance. I fell to my knee, and felt the gravel dig hard into my skin. "Hey!" Eedie crie out. "You're hurting her! It's a psych hold, not a goddamn criminal offense! Put one more scratch on her and you'll be sorry." I wanted to tell her to stop, to not put herself into any situation she couldn't get herself out of, but my mouth wasn't working right. "Think that was a threat, Boyd," the one on my right said. "Guess we need to take her in, too." "Gladly," the one on my left grumbled. "But, man, if they're Truth Tellers..." "You're currently holding on to the arm, and hurting, the enforcer's old lady. And just sayin', but I'm the president's daughter. I'm literally the princess. Trust me when I say, I can back up any threat I'm handing you." The two exchanged looks over my body. Then I was yanked up and herded to the back of the cruiser. The door was yanked open, and I was all but thrown inside. Eedie screeched in anger as my knee, the good one, slammed into the side of the cruiser's frame. "You are so going to pay for that!" Eedie snarled. She had her phone out in the next instant, and she was yelling into the phone as the car door slammed between us. My heart was pounding so hard that I had to close my eyes and tell myself to calm down. It didn't work. In fact, when both men got into the cruiser and started to drive away, it only got worse. At some point, I passed out, because when I next woke I heard them talking. "...terrible idea. Can't believe that we were forced to do this pickup," one of the officers said. "Knew there was something wrong with this one as soon as we got the call," the other one agreed. "Fuckin' awesome. Just what I want, the whole goddamn Truth Tellers MC to be up my ass." "Do you think she was serious?" the other one asked as he turned to look over his shoulder at me. "She passed out, man. That's not normal behavior." "Doc said she was combative and a danger to herself and others. Nothing was said about her being scared of her own shadow." I closed my eyes and tried to count in my head down from one hundred. Hopefully I could calm myself down without passing out again, but I could already feel the blackness starting to nose its way in. Ninety-seven. Ninety-six. Ninety-five. The blackness took over once again. The second time I woke up from passing out I was being lifted onto a gurney at the hospital. Again, all men were surrounding me. This time I didn't hesitate. I kicked and screamed, fighting for all I was worth. The men converged, and the last thing I heard was "sedate her." I woke up next in a hospital room with my hands strapped to the bed. "There she is." I whipped my head to the side to see Dr. Stoker standing at my bedside, clipboard in hand, staring down at me with his mouth shut. He started to speak again, but he didn't open his mouth to do it. "Ahh, I'm sure you're wondering about my speech." He narrowed his eyes. "Your boyfriend punched me in the jaw today." "Fiancé," I corrected him. "He's my fiancé. And if he hurt your jaw, you probably deserved it." His eyes narrowed. "I most certainly did not." "Sure." I rolled my eyes. "Let me go now." "Sorry, no can do." He smiled, baring his teeth. "You're mine for the next forty-eight hours. What shall I do with you?" My heart started to pound, and the sound of my elevated heart rate could be heard through the monitor above my head. The doctor's eyes sparkled. "Ah, the sweet sound of fear." I willed my heart to slow, but it didn't listen to my silent plea. "Let's have some fun."