Chapter 65

He kept on driving, the kids screaming for help in the backseat. Mikayla tried wrapping her arms around his neck to strangle him, but that didn't work. He pulled over on the side of the road and got out a role of duct tape.

"Let us go!" They were all kicking and screaming.

He grabbed Brayden by the neck and threw him out of the car. "I have no use for you."

As he was ripping duct tape to put across their mouths, Hannah launched at him and bit his arm.

"You little brat!" He grabbed her by the hair and flung her against the side of the car. She looked up at him, blood pooling from her lip.

She started crying. "I want mommy and daddy!"

"Shut up and get back in that car!"

"NO!" She pushed him and he hit the ground, rocks digging into his hands.

"I've had it with all of you."

He picked her up and tossed her in the car, her head hitting the door. Brayden's hands were tied behind his back and duct tape was placed over his mouth. He took them to his house and threw them in two of the bedrooms upstairs. Brayden in one, the girls in another.

"Our parents will find you! You'll end up in jail like you did before!"

"Oh dear dear child, you've been told lies. I'm the good guy."

"Good guys don't kidnap children!" Hannah stomped on his foot.

He grabbed her by the hair. "I'm not dealing with your little attitude anymore. Sit down, keep quiet and don't say a word. You'll get what's coming to you later."

"What do you mean?"

"Misbehave one more time, I'll make sure it's the last time you ever misbehave. Do you hear me?"

"Yes." She sat next to Mackenzie, both of them shaking and fearing for their lives.

He glared over at Mikayla. "I'm going to hurt you if you say even one word."

"Like I give a crap. You won't get away with this."

"Do you not know how to listen?"

"I know how to listen to my parents and other adults."

"I'm an adult."

"I recall you being a rapist and a kidnapper. That ring a bell?"

"I do that for fun."

"You call kidnapping and rape FUN?! What is wrong with you?!"

"Nothing at all."

"Let us go!"

"I can't do that."

"And why not?"

"Who said I was finished with you yet?"

"Can you speak English please?"

He yanked her arm and pulled her into another room. "I told you to shut up and stay quiet. You're gonna get it now!"

"Get what?"

He threw her down on the bed and got on top of her.

"Get off of me!"

Nadia pulled onto the road that Yates' lived on. She was about a mile from his house when she pulled over, turning her radio on. "Officer Decotis, requesting a callback."

"Yes Officer?" A voice on the other end said.

"I'm on road the tracker caught."

"The road Gregory Yates lives on?"

"Yes sir."

"Wait for backup. I repeat, wait for backup. Do not go in there alone."

"Roger that."

She drove up the road a little ways until she had a visual of his house. She thought not much of it, until a blood curdling scream ripped through the air. Her hand immediately reached for her gun and she jumped out of the car. The trunk was open a tiny bit, so she went to shut it, that was when she caught a glimpse of a crowbar.

"What's that doing there?" She picked it up to look at, when another scream was heard. She grabbed it and snuck into the house, mission impossible style. The screams were coming from the bedroom right next to the top of the stairs. She stood as still as she could on the other side of the door. She creeped in quietly and found Yates on top of Mikayla, ripping her clothes off. Mikayla was fighting, but made no sounds.

"Payback time!"

Nadia lifted the crowbar up, aiming it at his face.

"Oh no." He didn't seem the least bit scared.

Without saying another word, she hit him with full force. He tried to get up, but she just kept beating him over and over. He looked up, his face bruised and bloodied.

"Had enough?!" She yelled, before hitting him another few times.

"You better not try that again!"

"You're not the boss of me!"

She hit him so hard, a huge gash was put in the side of his head. She ran over to Mikayla, giving her clothes back to her. "Did he do something to you?"

"He tried, but no."

"Are the others okay?"

"He didn't touch Brayden, but he..." She turned away.

"Did he do something to the girls?"

She turned back to face her and slowly shook her head yes.

"What did he do?"

"You know that thing mommies and daddies do when they love each other?"

"Yes."

"He did that to them."

"Mother of god..."

They looked out the window and other cruisers were beginning to pull up.

"You come with me."

"Can you get the others?"

"We will."

Mikayla pointed out the bedrooms where he kept them "stashed". Nadia was horrified by what she saw when they came into sight. Mackenzie's clothes were torn and there was blood on the floor where she sat. Hannah kept saying she was hurt, but declined to tell Nadia where.

"We need to know what he did."

"No. I won't tell."

"You have to or we won't know how to help you."

"Mommy and daddy will be mad. I can't say anything."

"They won't be mad, they'll want to help you."

"Daddy said I'm not allowed to do that thing until I'm older."

"You didn't make this choice and didn't have consent."

"He hurt me."

"Tell us how."

"NO!"

Adam and Matt came running up the stairs. When they saw how beaten the girls were, an expression of anger grew across their faces.

"He's going to pay for this!" Matt yelled, picking up Mackenzie. "I'm getting you down to the ambulance."

"Hannah needs to go."

"Her daddy's bringing her."

Chilli came up the stairs, passing Hannah to Kim. Kim went into the bedroom where Yates was hardly conscious.

"What did you do to her?!"

"That little brat doesn't know what respect is."

"My child respects her elders. You are in no place to call yourself one."

"I am one and she needs to respect me."

"Not a chance."

"I raped her, and I did the same to her pretty little friend too."

"Am I hearing correctly?" Adam asked.

"Yeah, you are." She said in an angry and upset tone.

"Get your ass up." He stood over him.

"No."

Kim lifted him up by the shirt collar. "You ever hear of a thing called 'the cage'?"

"No."

"You will." Adam said as they brought him down the stairs.