In Silence She Screams (Midnight Mayhem, #3)
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Read between October 13 - October 16, 2022
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“After you. And by the way, if a King ever tells you to run through a forest, you usually would sprint the opposite way.”
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“Maybe, or maybe I’ll kick whoever’s ass it was who hurt you tonight.” His face pales and a flash of something passes over it.
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“Are you going to kiss me?” The corner of his mouth tips upward, flashing teeth that any dentist would be proud of. “Heard someone didn’t, so I guess it’d be a shame not to?” I tilt forward and flick my tongue over his lip teasingly, but when I giggle and start to pull back, he catches my tongue between his teeth, his fingers flexing around the curve of my jaw to keep me in place. My fingers and toes tingle as electricity forces itself to the pit of my belly when he deepens the kiss. Releasing me gently, his mouth tips in a half smile as he watches my lips. “Damn. He’s missing out.”
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“What do you say, boys?” I keep my eyes focused on Dominic. “Should I show him what I’ve got?” I know they catch my double meaning, especially when Eli releases a small cackle. “Yeah, baby… go show him.”
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“Well, I didn’t kill anyone, so there’s that…” I try to joke, nudging him with my arm. “Huh, kinda wished you did.” He rubs his eyes with the backs of his hands. “Which time?” My answer is smooth, almost too casual for the subtle switch of subject. His head whips toward me and his eyes narrow. “Fucking knew it.”
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“And what did she say to that?” “She told them to fuck off.” I chuckle. “She’s become quite fucking feisty. Must be because she’s carrying your child.” “Fuck you.”
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“So beautiful, yet so lost.” The muscles on the side of his jaw tense as he moves out of my touch. Leaning down until his lips brush the shell of my ear, he whispers, “If you think I’m lost, you should see the state of the one who let me go.” My blood turns cold and I step out of his embrace. Before Kyrin can ask what is happening, and before I do something crazy like hit Eli, I head right out the door
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“I don’t trust them, Lilith.”
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“Do you trust me?” I rather ask, looking at her over my shoulder. She pins me to the spot. “At first, no, but only because you seemed so—volatile. Explosive. Mischievous and… crazy.” She winces. “Sorry.” I roll my eyes. “Your intuition is right. I’m absolutely all of those things.” “But now, yes. I do. Probably even more than I do Perse since she’s clearly keeping secrets from me.”
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I took the first step, but just as I was about to make my way to the last man in the group, the fifth, who seemed to be hanging back, stepped between us, closing the gap. I paused. He paused. I tilted my head in an attempt to make out the delicate white skull paint on the edges of his face. With every stroke, as if to emanate the sharp-featured bone on his face. His eyes were white like a wolf’s, and his hoodie closed around his neck. None of the other men had the same face paint on their face, but they watched the exchange, nonetheless.
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He took another step, his hand around my chin to yank my face up to his. He didn’t speak. Didn’t talk. But somehow, the gap that hung between us, that painfully loud silence, felt more like a question. Can I touch you? It said. But I was wrong. It was all in my head, or in the LSD I had dropped before walking in here because it was Bear’s favorite drug. Men didn’t ask—not ever. I took another step toward him, peering up at him behind batted lashes. “Take me.”
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He seems to ponder over my words, but before I can say anything else, his hand is beneath my briefs, fingers flexing around my cock. I groan, falling backward slightly until I hit the wall. “Eli.” “Kyrin…” he says cheekily, biting down on my chest. “If you’ve got your hand around my dick, you better make me come.”
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aside from the fact I told her tonight that she wasn’t to fuck anyone else, deep in the back of my head, I know I didn’t mean Eli. There seems to be an unspoken rule among the three of us,
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“Do you think Lilith and Eli know each other?” His finger works his upper lip. Killian chuckles. “I’m just saying, you getting in there with Lilith was dangerous enough, but oh no, you had to go throw a fucking Elite King on your dick, too, huh? Couldn’t just be satisfied.” I flip him off while keeping my eyes on King. “No. I would have picked it up if they did.”
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“But Ky, you’re fucking fooling yourself if you think those two don’t know each other or that Eli is here for business. Kings do business first, games second, but almost always at the same damn time.” Fuck. He’s right. But that’s also the thing about Kiznitch. We are always right—and we are always ahead. “She doesn’t know you know.” King sits back in his chair, his eyes on me. A pin could drop, that’s how silent it is between all of us. “And more importantly, neither does he.”
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I hadn’t seen her since last year. Since that had happened. Bishop, Brantley, Nate, Hunter, and I were all there for business. To see if Patience had any involvement in my brother Brantley’s father’s sick little obsessions. We knew what the cost of a favor from Patience would be. I just didn’t know it would have involved someone who looked like her.
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“Are you here for me?” My blood turns cold. “What?” The smirk that is always so boldly placed on my mouth has vanished and my teeth clench. She must be sitting on my lap doing fuck knows what because the audience is loving it. I feel her hair brush my knuckles and I squeeze my fist closed to fight, grabbing at her hair and throwing her ass down to ask her what the fuck she means. “Are you here for me?” she repeats, dipping her thumb into my mouth while rolling her hips over my crotch. “Because if you are, you are mistaken. I don’t need saving.”
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“That the best you’ve got?” I lean forward, running my tongue over my lip. “Hate to break it to you, baby girl, but I’ve had better.” Her eyes turn to slits, but she meets my challenge. She flies up from the ground and uses the same tie she just had around my eyes and binds my hands before dragging me to where a coffin stands. I swear to fuck if she plays the whole cut you in half game I’m running, and I don’t care what that looks like to everyone else.
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She pushes the coffin backstage. I figure she did that to get me off stage without a scene, which I appreciate since there was very real potential of us both tearing each other into shreds out there.
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Because instead of me offering the five men my service, the fifth one tried to take me. Buy me. Save me. Whoever they were, they held power, because although the transaction for a favor from Patience didn’t go through, they were still allowed to walk away with their lives. As for me, I’d be left here with his eyes burning into my skull until the day I die, because whoever that was, he would be my undoing.
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Being met with eyes that took ownership of my withered, rotten soul was not something I was used to.
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“Don’t give me that shit, Lilith. You know damn well what you were dreaming about and I want to know right now who the fuck it was that was in the bed with you.” “What?” I search his features. My Eli. So beautifully chaotic. So beautifully perfect. “What do you mean, in bed with me?” Eli huffs, falling onto his back, flustered, his eyes on the ceiling. I reach forward, Kyrin’s hand still in mine as I lean in to press my lips to his cheek. “What are you asking me, Eli?” He shakes his head, swallowing thickly as his Adam’s apple jolts. “I guess I don’t know, Lilith.”
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“Fuck.” Kyrin tears the blankets off his body and shoves on his jeans that were on the ground. I’m back in real time, out of the trance he had me locked in, like his own personal little mini vampire sucking on his blood. “What is it?” Eli asks, keeping his hand secured around my upper arm. “Fuck!” Kyrin swings the door open and it slams behind his departure, jumping me from my daze. “What’d I do?” I ask, turning to face Eli, who’s staring at me closely. “Nothing. Lie down. It’s way too fucking early for this shit.”
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“We can all talk about it maybe later. When the grumpy one has chilled out. Homeboy is scary when he’s mad.” “Something tells me you’d be the same…” I raise an eyebrow. His eyes narrow as he pinches me in the ribs. “Ah, pretty sure you’re the same, baby girl. Miss I Kill Men for Pleasure.”
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“Kyrin. It’s fucking okay to admit shit. She snuck up on me, too. You’re not the only one. You think I came here to find this crazy shit? Fuck no. Fuck. No. Ask any of The Kings and they’ll tell you this is not my vibe.” He snorted. “But there’s another thing…” I ground my teeth, squeezing my eyes closed even though it did nothing because the room was so dark. “She’s not the only fucking one I want.” He paused now. His arm tightened around her chest, but I felt his other arm twitch beneath my pillow. “Yeah,” was all he said. “We can figure all that shit out later. Right now, I have to—” “—no…” ...more
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I’m punishing him by wearing a thousand-dollar hoodie around the house like I would a ten-dollar rag from Walmart.
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I’m also from the Dollhouse. The lead, actually, with my father being the CEO of” —I wave my hands in the air—“whatever he was.” “Why are you here then?” Cartier asks, but it’s not hostile, more confusion. She starts shaking the cocktail mixer, but her eyes stay on mine. When she stops to strain the liquid into the line of glasses, I answer her. “Don’t know.”
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“Ah, I see…” Cartier leans back. “So my glorious brother with commitment issues, mommy issues, brooding issues, murder issues, and psychopathic issues, has decided to collect two new toys.” “Bingo,” Perse murmurs below her breath, rolling her eyes.
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“First of all, I don’t have a heart. My daddy ripped it out the day I was born and buried it in his garden of secrets, and trust me, it is far bigger than Kyrin’s, and two?” I glare between the two of them before finally settling on Cartier. “What makes you think it isn’t me who does the collecting?”
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“You belong here.” A smile touches the side of my lips. “No, I don’t, Saski, but it’s okay because I don’t need to.” Saskia’s bright blue eyes flash with something way too close to sadness. I don’t need her pity or anyone else’s. Before she can say anything further, I shake my head and laugh. “We’re not doing this.” “Okay, right now…” Cartier hands me a fresh drink and I take it. I shake my head at Saskia. “No, ever.”
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I shut the front door behind myself as I hear Saskia start on Perse.
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As soon as our eyes collide, it feels as though a fist is punched through my gut. Shit. What the fuck.
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He’s kissing me.
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“You’re both a fucking pain in my ass.” “Literally?” I joke, wiggling my eyebrows. He pauses before laughing so hard that his head falls into the crook of my neck. “Ah, my Little Devil… once you find out who I am, you’re both going to run.”
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“Can’t say I’ve ever tried, and to be clear, I don’t do relationships, and I’m pretty sure Eli doesn’t—” “—Eli does not,” Eli interrupts from somewhere behind us. We both don’t move, and Kyrin nods in understanding. “Well, were either of you going to ask Lilith? Because Lilith doesn’t either!” I snap at both of them.
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“So we leave this comfortable, but open…” “We leave it as it is,” Kyrin says, standing to his feet. “No one will get hurt.” “What makes you think any of us would?” I ask, turning to face him. He’s kind of pissed me off, I just don’t know why. I don’t want to search for the reason either, afraid of what I might find. He stares down at me, his eyes going between both Eli and me. “Because it’s inevitable.”
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“Kyrin, you cannot choose either of them. You know this…” “Shut up, Cartier.” I don’t bother looking at her when I answer, mainly because I can’t take my eyes off Lilith and Eli, but also because I don’t want to have this conversation with her right now. “I don’t like her.” “You don’t know her,” I snap, and then close my mouth when I realize I may have just given her something to be worried about. “Or him.”
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It’s bad enough that I’ve caught Perse being a bitch to Lilith, but I won’t cop it from someone who shares the same blood as me.
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“First of all, you so much as bat your bitchy little fucking lashes at Lilith and cause any problems with her, you’re fucking dead to me.” She flinches, and I watch as pain flashes over her eyes before finally resting on the color of her cheeks. She’s angry now. Good.
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I finally snap and bring my eyes straight to hers. I keep our contact locked until her lip quivers slightly and she shuffles in her chair. She knows she has pissed me all the way off.
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“You do know Lilith is your cousin, right? Since her dad and yours were brothers.” “Yeah, asshole, pretty sure I know how that works.” He tilts his head. “That’s another reason why Sass and I are looking out for her. Why?” I don’t even bother to elaborate, because the fucker knows exactly where I’m going with this. “Bro…” His hand is on my arm. “It has to be done. You know that, right?” I shake his grip off me and pick up my duffel bag. “I know that.”
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“Cartier already fucking knows!” I yell, squeezing my phone in my hand so hard I actually think I hear it click. Speaking of the devil, she falls down onto the sofa opposite me, biting into an apple. I flip her off. “Well, you can be pissed at Perse for that.” I don’t need another reason to hate her, but I won’t tell King that. Not that I hate Perse. This is a new thing. Like a two-day new thing. “She’s pregnant thou—” I hang up on him, tossing my phone onto the spot beside me. Motherfucker is using her pregnancy as an excuse as to why Perse is failing miserably at being Delila.
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Fuck. Is this what other people feel when they like someone? I shoot up straight, eyes wide. Oh my God, I’m human.
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It’s not until three hours pass and I’m looking back at myself in the reflection that I realize how distant I have been through this whole ordeal. Like a robot, answering yes or no questions. I can feel myself slowly cave in, the walls inside my mind piling up.
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“What’s wrong, Kyrin?” I ask, tilting my head and watching him as his eyes remain on mine. Passive. Like he wants to ask me so many questions but can’t. He reaches forward and presses his thumb to my lip. “Such a shame.” “What is?” I ask, confused. He leans forward, his mouth coming to my ear as his hand remains around my wrist. “That you’re such a fucking liar.” Everything goes black.
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They’re both fire and ice who would most likely straight-up kill each other one of these days.
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“You’re fucked in the head, Kyrin. She won’t want to be back there…” “Yeah?” Kyrin snaps, standing toe to toe and so close to my face that his nose almost touches mine. He smirks, and I swear to fuck my cock is instantly rock hard. “How do you know that, Eli?”
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I still didn’t understand why she didn’t let us carry her ass out of this fucked-up world all those months ago, but I had to come back. To understand.
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Bishop: Bro, you’re the only living Rebellis in your family. We need you alive. Don’t do anything dumb. That is so much easier said than done. Don’t do anything dumb. As if I had any choice at all. Me: I know.
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“Anyone seen Lilith?” I wait for all of their answers, watching how they respond. Keaton shakes his head naturally, whereas Killian’s left eye twitches slightly before he says no. “Kyrin said she went back to Patience.” I wait again, watching their reaction. “Oh,” King says, taking a seat beside me. “She did.”