Chapter 5: Confrontations

~Liam POV~

Searing pain rocks my body as it rips through my body like a hot poker sears flesh. I will open my eyes and blink a few times when I see I am floating through the air. My eyes look down and land on a set of muscular denim-clad legs beneath me, and I realize I am being carried. At first, I’m impressed. I’m not sure I’ve been carried like this ever in my life and I’m not a small guy.

Then he missteps with a grunt and the air whooshes out of me as pain dots my eyes and I press my arms on his back, trying to ease off the wound on my side. He stops and lowers me down, and I stagger when my thigh revolts from the sudden weight on it. I breathe through the pain and focus my eyes on the behemoth of a man in front of me, and I instantly frown. All the while, he glowers at me and reaches up to fix his long hair that had fallen out of his signature buns.

“Billy?” I ask, confused, and quickly spin to look around. If Billy is here, Axel can’t be far, which means Adriana is near–

“Liam”