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What will it be like to wake up in the morning with her blue hair all over my pillows? Will she let me hold her? Kiss her?
Brilliant blue eyes lift and meet mine. All the excitement, all the hope and beauty of finally having her come to me evaporates in an instant. The deep ocean color of her gaze is wreathed in rage. A soul-deep anger that I’ve only ever seen in one other person on this Earth. Me.
“If you want me—I’m yours. All you have to do is choose. Me or the Scorpion Kings?”
At five years old, I wanted to marry Juliet Donovan. At nearly nineteen, I’d slit the throat of anyone who thinks to take her away from me.
“You don’t get to move until I say you can. You’re going to lie here and take my cock like a good little girl, and when I let you come…” my lips part at that and he grins. “You’re going to soak my fucking sheets and cock.”
The Scorpion Kings are dangerous. They are monsters wearing masks of civility.
“When it comes to you, there is nothing I wouldn’t give you, baby.” My breath catches as he shifts closer, his chest brushing against mine. “Whether it’s my cock in your tight little pussy or my clothes keeping you warm, whatever I have is yours.”
Fucking her didn’t give me the right to claim her. Nothing did. I simply took it because I wanted it and whether she realizes it or not, Juliet has been mine since we were five. She will be mine until we’re old and gray and then after when we’re rotting in our graves side by fucking side.
“I can show you that all kings were meant to fall eventually, even the three of you.”
No. She can’t. She knows it and so do I. Whether Juliet wants to admit it or not, she’s just like us. Her word means something to her. There is always honor amongst thieves and liars, you just have to find the line you’ll never cross, and this is one for her.
He fucks into me with the handle of the knife over and over again, his eyes moving from me to the mirror.
Oh, she wants it. That’s a fact, but she knows she shouldn’t. What girl wants to get off with a knife in her cunt? The answer is simple: our girl. A Scorpion Girl.
The two of them together—a man I'd die for and a woman I'd kill for—is all kinds of fucked in the head.
I can’t keep this information from him forever, but at least for now, I can hold on to it until he’s in a better place. It’s my responsibility, after all. I made the decision to kill, and they followed me into the dark and depraved violence that now taints our souls. Their sins are mine and their pain is mine.
“Words are the weapons no one even realizes they’re using,” she continues. “They can cut down a person twice your size or lift you up to make you feel like you’re flying. War is not won necessarily by guns and bombs and soldiers, but by words—by the ability of a good leader to inspire their people. So, no, Juliet, I do not curse.” She’s right. Words are dangerous weapons.
“I gotta ask—which one of them are you fucking?” I groan and Mads leans forward, shooting our friend an unimpressed look. “You promised you weren’t going to pressure her,” Mads snaps, more than a little annoyance in her tone. “It’s been weeks since she moved back in with them,” Roquel whines. “I haven’t asked, but I gotta know. It’s killing me inside.” “I can kill you on the outside, if you prefer,” I offer. Mads smacks my side, obviously thinking I’m joking. I’m not. “Enough, both of you,” Mads demands.
I’m not some damsel in distress that they need to fawn over. I can be just as deadly as any scorpion.
“Is that a promise or a threat?” I tease. Without giving him a chance to respond, my lips spread into a smile and I lean towards him. Just before I press my lips back to his, though, he backs his head up and glares down at me. “Both,” he says. “If you kiss me again, then I have to tell you, that’s all the consent I’ll need—alcohol or not. I’ll fuck you until you think you’re going to break, Princess. Then I’ll fuck you until you do break.” “Why haven’t you?”
“They are me,” he whispers against my face. “I am them. Everything I do to you, they will do too. You make this choice and that’s it for you, Jules. We will own you.” “Yeah?” “Yeah.” He nods. “Even with my demons?” I ask. “Princess…” I close my eyes as his fingers graze my cheek. “I’ve been wanting to fuck your demons since the first day you set foot on Silverwood Public’s campus.”
