Tink
I hear the rumble of the bikes coming down the street. I lay there and just stare at the ceiling. It's only been a few days since the night Markus attacked me and everything is still painful, it takes me a while to do anything. Lilly has still been trying to convince me to go to the police, but there's no point. I just want to move on with my life recover and get back to work. I hear the door open and close and people talking the sound of them coming up the stairs has my heart racing. I wonder what Stryker and Tiny would do to Markus if they knew and then I think of Jaxson, would he care what happened. The footsteps pass my room, and I hear doors opening and closing within minutes I can hear Lilly moan, I grab my earbuds and turn my iPod on. There’s no way I'm in the mood to hear Lilly orgasm.
*
I wake up with my earbuds still in and the sun shining through the window. When I hobble into the kitchen, Tiny is sitting at the table, and I stop and lean against the counter “Heard you fell over” Tiny says, and I nod.
“Yeah clumsy me,” I say trying to smile.
“Sit down,” he tells me, and I grab the chair and lower myself gently as Tiny gets up and puts a cup of coffee in front of me.
“Thanks” we sit in silence as Lilly and Stryker come walking down the stairs.
“Morning Tink, heard you've hurt yourself,” Stryker says
“Yeah” is all I say; Lilly and I had come up with a story that the new shoes that the douche bought me made me fall over and that's how my arm got dislocated and my hips hurt.
“You ok,” he asks me” I try to smile, but I feel tears prickle my eyes, and I look down at my coffee. I hate lying to them, but I'm scared that they'll do something and then we'll lose them, and I'm not risking that not for anything in the world. Stryker sits down telling us all about the run and about Sturgis, he looks so excited Tiny interrupting every now and then and then they both laugh, it all sounded like so much fun.
“Did the twins patch in?” I ask and Stryker nods
“Yeah they got their patches and a few loose teeth” I frown.
“Loose teeth,” I ask, and he laughs.
“Yeah, Saint looks like a Jack-o-Lantern” him and Tiny smile.
“Saint”
“Yeah, they've earned their road names.”
“What are they?” I ask
“Saint is Jordan and Jaxson is...”
“Sinner,” I say finishing Stryker's sentence.
“Yeah Sinner,” he says, and I smile.
“I'm going back to bed my leg is killing me,” I tell them, I go to stand when there’s a knock at the door.
“Who the fuck is that?” Tiny says getting up to answer the door; we hear him say loudly “What the fuck do you want?” I try and see if I can see who’s standing there” (god I hope it’s not Markus) we hear footsteps, and Tiny comes walking in with two police officers, Lilly looks at me getting up
“What the fuck do you want?” Stryker says annoyed, but both offices look at me, and I feel Lilly’s hands on my shoulders (fuck)
“KC McKinnon,” the female officer asks, and I nod.
“Tink Lilly,” Stryker says, and I look at him, tears in my eyes “What the fuck happened?” he asks.
“Maybe it would be good if I could speak to Ms. McKinnon alone,” the female officer says, and Stryker shakes his head.
“No,” Stryker says
“Stryker, we sho….” Lilly go to say, but he stops her
“What the fuck happened?” he says again, and I look at Lilly, she squeezes my shoulder.
“Sir”
“I better not have to ask again,” Stryker says placing his knuckles on the table and leaning over to stare at me.
“Boy,” Tiny says, and we all turn to look at him “Tink,” he says as a tear slides down my cheek
“Let’s all sit,” the female officer says” Lilly stays behind me, and Stryker stands back as the two officers and Tiny sit “Ms. McKinnon.”
“It’s just Tink,” I tell her and she smiles
“Tink as you know we were informed by the hospital of your sexual assault.”
“What? When? Who?” Stryker says
“Shut it,” Tiny tells Stryker
“We're here to see if you wanted to go ahead with the complaint,” she says, and I shake my head “Tink your injuries where extensive, you need to make a complaint against your attacker” I shake my head
“I just want to forget it,” I tell her
“Tink” Lilly says, and I look up at her she nods, and I look back at the two officers
“I’m not making a complaint,” I tell the officers and the female takes a deep breath
“With the damage that you sustained, we can have him up on rape and assault charges.”
“No, I want to forget it,” I tell her feeling pressured
“Ok Tink, this is my card if you change your mind, but I really wish you would reconsider.”
“I’m not changing my mind,” I tell her, her frustrated look telling me I’m an idiot
“I’ll see you out,” Tiny says, and the three of them get up Stryker just stands there watching us. Tiny comes back in and looks at Tink
“I want to know everything,” he says, and I shake my head.
“I can’t.”
“Why not” I bite my lip again
“I don’t want anything to happen to you either of you,” I tell him and Tiny runs his hand down his face
“Tink nothin’ is gonna happen, now tell me.”
“But…. please” I beg starting to cry.
“That’s enough she’s been through too much already,” Lilly says
“Baby” Stryker says
“No, this is Tink’s decision,” Lilly says firmly
“I can’t just sit here and do nothing knowing that fucker raped her,” Stryker says looking really pissed off.
“He didn’t,” I tell him
“The fuckin’ cop said he did.”
“He just touched her ok” Lilly tells them making me cringe.
“Tink,” Tiny says, and I look up at him “Did her rape you,” Tiny asks, but I just shake my head “Then please darlin’ tell me because I got all these things going through my mind and they ain’t good.”
“He punched me in the face and slapped me and pulled my panties off.”
“And,” he says
“He put his fingers in me.” I cringe feeling even more embarrassed
“What else?”
“That’s it, he was going to rape me, but I kicked him in the balls and ran”
“You did good darlin’,” Tiny says
“How about we get you back up to bed, and I’ll bring you up some breakfast,” Lilly says, and I look at Tiny than Stryker
“Please don’t do anything stupid.”
“Go on darlin’,” Tiny says, but Stryker looks ready to explode
As I stand each step is like a jolt of electricity running up my leg and the constant ache in my arm is pissing me off, I can't even draw to pass the time. I make it to my room and just lay down just being off of my leg feels like heaven. I can hear Stryker going off downstairs and I start to panic that he’s going to do something stupid “Here ya go Tink” Lilly says handing me a painkiller
“He’s really mad.”
“He just doesn’t know what to do,” Lilly tells me
“Do you think they’ll do something stupid.”
“I don’t know Tink, I hope not, but I won’t hold my breath” I lay back down as the pain pill starts to kick in and I close my eyes, hoping Stryker and Tiny don’t do anything stupid.