Song: Fire meets Fate by Ruelle

Scarlett's POV:

We arrive in front of the building. We grab our supplies and go in the side door. I let Atticus and Kwan go in front of me to check out the surroundings. "Clear." They both say about the same time. I go in and we all look around at the damage.

"What is this place?" I look around at a few cages in one corner. There is dead body in one of them. "My god it smells horrific in here." Not sure how long the girl has been dead. And it's not just one there are two other girls.

One is on a couch that was placed out in the open and the other on the floor behind her. Both with a gunshot straight through the chest. In the next room there are a few mattress just laying on the floor, covered in blood and whatever else that was spilt on it...looks to be urine and I don't want to know what else. The guy that called wants everything cleaned completely out.

Ether this was a place where homeless girls came to or one of those sex trafficking places and if I had to guess it would be the second one. I let the guys do the nasty shit of taking out the mattress...not my thing. I would rather deal with the bodies. I get out the plastic wrap and start wrapping up the one girl. Once she is all tucked in, I drag her to the side and leave her by the door. I go back and get the girl off the couch and start wrapping up her body. They have been dead for some time now, so we are not able to use the organs.

The guys are still cleaning out the one room. They have all the mattress in the back of the truck to be taken off. We will have to find a place where we can just burn them along with the couch. As the guys as carrying out the couch, I go to the girl in the cage. The smell is worse in here. I try so hard not to breathe in the stench. Human feces all over the place and look to be like vomit in one corner.  I turn her over to drag her out and her insides have been gutted out already. That didn't bother me but what did get me were the maggots eating on her body. I feel my insides turn and stand up quickly to run out the door to puke.

"Hey you alright." Kwan comes up behind me.

"Yeah...just wasn't expecting that. I'm fine. God it smells so rank in here." I pat him on the back as I go back in. The guys pull her out and wrap up her body.

Atticus ties the wrap up and shakes his head. "What a fucking shame...Wonder what the hell happened here?"

"Looks like someone wanted to leave in a hurry if you ask me," says Kwan.

"I don't really want to know what the hell happened...if you guys are ready let's finish up the floors and get the hell out of here."We all chip in and clean the place down making it spotless like new.

"What do we do with the cages?" Kwan points to them.""I guess tear them down...we will have to get rid of them too."As we get ready to leave I notice the guys talking and Atticus is not agreeing with whatever Kwan is saying to him.

I walk up and both get quite. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing...Do you want to ride with me. I got to drop off the shit and burn it." Kwan points to the back of the truck.

Before I can say anything Atticus glares at him. "I told you she needs to go back to the Crematory to get rid of the bodies. " He looks back over at Kwan. "You drop this stuff off and then you can meet us back at the house."

"He is right...I need to do this. So Kwan please take care of this and I will see we will see you later."

"Fine...whatever." He jumps in the truck and takes off.

I turn to Atticus. "What was that all about?"

"Nothing. Come on let's get out of here." He opens the door for me and I slide in. He gets in and shuts the door and Ashton drives us back.

"Atticus...is everything all right. I feel like something is going on and no one wants to tell me anything."

"Look I was told to stay with you. Kwan is just pissed off because he wanted you to go with him. I told him you had more work to do as does he."

"Is that it...he just wants to be by my side?"

"Yeah...he will be fine." He doesn't say anything else so I don't either. I do notice him texting someone but I don't say anything because more than likely it is Mekhi he is texting.

Once we get to the Crematory he picks up the bodies one at a time and brings them in for me. I fire up the pit and toss all three at one time. When we get home I run up and take a hot steaming shower. I get out and text Mekhi.

Scarlett: I'm home now

Mekhi: Good...I will be home in a few. Love you

Scarlett: Love you more

I throw on some sweats and run down the stairs. Atticus is at the table pouring him a drink. "You should go take a shower you know. That place was disgusting."

"Yeah...I should do that." He smiles. "You staying home right. I don't want to get in the shower and you decide to take off on me."

"I'm not going anywhere. Beside Mekhi is on his way home."

"Good...maybe I will wait till he gets here."

"Nonsense...go take a freaking shower."

Rebel comes sniffing me and I bend down to pat his head. "Besides I have Rebel her to protect me."

"That you do." He pats him on the head and then walks down the hall towards his room.

I walk over to the cabinet and pull out some food for Rebel. "Here you go my friend." Apparently Sadie hears me opening up the can of food and comes running in there too. "There you are...of course you can have some too." I pour her some in her own bowl.

I turn to grab a glass out of the cabinet and then grab a bottle of wine and pour a glass. As I walk over to the living room I see a shadow in the corner of my eye that startles me at first. "Oh...hi. Did you take care of everything?"

"Yes just like you asked me to." He walks over closer to me.

I take a sip of my wine. "Great...you are free to go home if you want. I will see you tomorrow."

He looks around as if trying to see if we are the only ones in there. "I thought maybe you might want to check out the club again tonight."

"Maybe another night; Mekhi should be here in a few minutes."

"Why do you stay with that dick...it's not like he really loves you. If you were mine I would never show you off the way he did."He says kind of rudely.

If I was his...and since when did Mekhi become a dick...I let out a laugh"No you just take me to an underground fighting ring to watch me. Either way you are both showing me off so how does that make Mekhi a dick?"

"What is so wrong in that...you know how to hold your own in the ring?"

I don't know where this is going but I feel awkward all of a sudden being in here alone with him. I wish Mekhi wouldn't have put other thought about him into my head. Maybe it is the way he keeps looking at me or maybe it's the tone in his voice. I get up and walk back to the kitchen. "Would you like a drink?" I change the subject.

"Sure." He walks close behind me.

I feel my body starting to tense up the closer he gets to me. I grab him a glass and pour him a drink. I turn back to hand it to him to find his fist against my face.

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Author's Note: Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving...if you are here in America that is. I decided to give you two chapters today and sorry for the cliffhanger...

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