@rxmandrake
The moment she’d pulled into their parking space, she’d seen them. Four hulking men glad in leather and covered in tattoos, loitering around an SUV, eyes on the apartment building at first, but then on her. Heart pounding so hard in her chest as she sat in her car, she’d turned off the engine and cut the lights, hoping they’d leave before she had to get out. It didn’t seem likely, though, they’d obviously been there for some time already.
Fumbling in the dark of the car for her phone, she hit the button to call upstairs to Roman, their balcony overlooking the parking lot. “Roman, he’s-...hey! no!” Realizing only too late that she hadn’t locked the door properly, it was already opened and a hand reaching in before she’d gotten to finish her boyfriend’s name. The first fist hit her then and there, knocking her phone to the floor of the car as a second hand reached in and yanked her from the vehicle by her ponytail.
Three of the four men around her, one of which was her own brother, shouts of bitch, traitor, slut... horrible words rained down on her along with blows that she could only curl up on herself to avoid, even as one of them tried to yank her to her feet. Cries and screams for help and mercy constantly interrupted by a fresh explosion of sparks behind her eyes.














