In Silence She Screams (Midnight Mayhem, #3)
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“Where is she?” I ask, even though I know she’s in the RV. “I sent her to get a tattoo. Figured it would give you enough time to get your ass down here and claim what is by far the hottest piece of ass I have ever seen.” Luce tilts his head.
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“Kennedy doesn’t just have information that she’s using to blackmail Eli with. She has someone she’s blackmailing Eli with.” “Who?” Lilith asks, and I know that once I say these next words, everything I just asked her to do is going to fly right out the window. “His child.”
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“What? I didn’t know he had a child.” I wrap my fingers around hers. “That’s interesting that you say that, but comforting, nonetheless.” “Why?” She gazes up at me in the way I’ve come to crave. I need her. To be around her, beneath her, inside her. Lilith is worse than poison. She’s venom straight from a snake bite. “Because, baby…” I wrap my arm around her lower back. “You’re the mother.”
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The three things that every King has are their will to die for the people they love, the will to kill for the people they love, and the will to do absolutely whatever is necessary when it comes to the people they love. It has even passed down to the girls of the EKC. Madison, Bishop’s woman, for one.
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I went into Midnight Mayhem, under the guise of working for The Kings, knowing they wouldn’t question it at all—all to see her again. Find our child, and kill her for hiding it from me, only what I found instead was even more alarming. She didn’t know anything.
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“And don’t try anything stupid. She may only be five months old, but I have no problem harming a child.” The door slams closed and I sink to the floor, my hands on my face. She. We have a daughter.
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“I’m sorry. I knew about Eli’s child but didn’t know that it had anything to do with you.” “You knew?” Kyrin glares at his sister. “You wanna tell me how you knew?” Cartier chews on her lip, tossing her hands in the air. “Fine. I knew because Eli and I have been close friends since you stuck him to me like a fucking babysitter.”
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“Fuck, I’m sorry, Lilith.” “Don’t be.” My tone is bland, tasteless—emotionless. “It’s not the first thing they took from me, but it will be the last.”
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Do you want to know why we’re letting you keep this baby to full-term?” She leans closer, her cherry-red lips glowing against the hanging light. “I’ll tell you a secret. The Elite Kings are the most feared and powerful organization in the United States. We need them. You having this child?” She stands with a chuckle, stepping backward and looking down at me like disposed trash. “Is promising Patience never dies.
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The last little bit to this puzzle was getting you pregnant with Eli’s child.”
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Killian’s gentle voice filters through. “I’m going to push through now, okay? She’s put a barrier around these memories inside your head, which is why you’re half here and half there. She’s good.” Fire explodes around my skull. “But I’m better.”
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“Bitch, it is too early. This baby will not survive.” She lowered herself off the bed to pick up her phone, keeping her eyes on mine. “It will. You may not.”
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“You gave birth, and then I performed your hysterectomy.”
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“Lilith, bro. I just spoke with Kyrin, and the shit they put her through at that place is far worse than you can imagine. A lot of that has to do with Kennedy. She needs this kill.”
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B: We got her, E. We fucking got her. Lil and the gang on the way.
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“We didn’t push you on Eli’s dick, Lilith. You climbed on him all on your own.” “But you knew I was getting pregnant… you fed me fertility drugs. You knew what you were doing.” “Ahhh…” Her eyes flash with recognition. “I see someone broke down the barriers I built inside your head.” “That’d be me, and you’re not that good…” Killian prowls slowly from behind them.
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“I love you, too, Lilith. His eyes are barely open, but he manages to swing them up to Kyrin. “I love you. Look after her and our child.”
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Fresh tears come as Bishop kneels beside Eli, with Nate, who has his face buried in his hands. It’s Brantley who has my breath caught, the way he’s staring down at Eli with a harrowing expression that will be burned into the back of my mind forever.
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“I’ll call our mortuary to come and collect him. There’s a process that needs to happen since he was a King. There are—rituals—” Bishop chokes on his words. “Fuck!” he roars, spinning around and breathing heavily, his shoulders rising and falling. “This isn’t your fault, B,” Brantley says. “The little shit is always quick to save the people he loves. He never thinks before he does anything, much less that.”
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I’ve never what? Cartier? What? Lost someone I love? No, I can’t say that I fucking have.” Taking a drag of my cigarette, I blow out a cloud of smoke while leaning back to look up at the ceiling. “You know I didn’t even tell him that? That I love him? I was too busy being fucking angry at him—which I still fucking am—for being there, that I didn’t.”
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I’m about to stand and run when something heavy is placed on my lap. That heavy thing is moving. Instinctively, my arms wrap around the child. Full head of raven hair, pale skin with pink cheeks, and eyes the color of lavender. She must only be three months old. She raises her little hand to my cheek, before a smile flashes across her face. The wind gets knocked out of me because she definitely got her daddy’s smile.
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The pain that was inside of me, crippling and unbearable, suddenly has metal claws closing in on it—containing the pain. For now, I can do it. For her.
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I can feel all of the protective instincts that I’ve had for my sister multiply the longer she’s in my arms. I would kill for my sister, but for this child right here, I’d burn the entire world to the ground just to make sure she’s safe.
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I don’t care who’s here and watching me as I finally let it all go, because he’s gone. I loved him and he’s gone.
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I turn around to search for Kill, wondering why he’s not helping me. I find him hiding behind his hand, and—“Are you fucking laughing?” Killian waves his hands up in surrender. “Wow, hey, this wasn’t my idea, but—” He shrugs, casting a look between The Four Fathers of Fuckwits and my personal Fuckwit that’s bleeding out on the ground. “—a blood oath is a blood oath. He had to do it.”
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“Chill, Lil. It’s only a flesh wound.” “Really?” I growl, squeezing his wound. He yelps out in pain, his back arching off the ground around his laughter. “Baby, okay, I’m sorry! Okay, I’m sorry!” he surrenders around his laughter, and I push up from his leg once more, standing to my feet.
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If you had told me months ago that we would be where we are today, I would have cut your tongue out of your mouth. Not just Lilith being a mother, but me being a fucking— “—there’s Daddy.” Lilith’s voice filters through my thoughts as she bounces my fucking heart on her hip. At the sight of them both, a smile stretches wide on my lips.
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Some would say they couldn’t imagine me falling in love with anyone, so I didn’t. I fell in love with two. We may have lost the other half of our soul mate, but he lives on in each of us, and definitely in Luna.
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With a full head of dark hair and dark lashes, she reminds me more and more of her father every day. I’ll guard her with my life, Eli. She is mine, as were you.
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Luna-Nox Rebellis. Her name came naturally. We wanted to keep in theme with Lilith’s name, while staying true to her King and family heritage. So we got Luna, meaning moon goddess in ancient Roman mythology, and Nox, Latin for goddess of the night (her King family). She’s a complete cut down between The Elite Kings and Midnight Mayhem.
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There were no second guesses what playing field she would be on, though. She is a King, after all.
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Cartier has gone, which is going to be my tomorrow issue, considering I’m almost certain the girl is acting up on purpose. If one more tabloid runs a story on the “Instagram influencer/bike stunt rider who has been caught in bed with a royal prince”, I’m flying to Europe myself and dragging her ass back home, maybe with a trail of dead royal dukes and princes behind me.
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Through the opening doors that lead out onto the patio, I can see Bishop and Nate walking up with Brantley in tow behind him. Everyone stops their talking, suddenly the music too loud. Lilith squeezes my hand as the door opens and The Elite Kings walk through, shaking the snow out of their hair. “So…” Bishop grins up at me, his eyes on Luna. “She ready to meet her future best friends?”
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“Oh!” a girl’s voice comes through, and I see Madison Montgomery push past the wall of muscle in front of her, carrying hers and Bishop’s twins. One boy and one girl. Around the same age as Luna-Nox, but younger—by months, I’d say. Madison comes straight for me, holding her two little royal children side-by-side. “Priest! Look! Isn’t she cute!”
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She had a baby; they were happy. I could be happy about that. Just not now. Not right now because I always had her. She made me feel good, see the good, despite her being far from good. Now with her gone, it was me alone with my thoughts, desperate to keep myself in line.
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My eyes swung up to the same way I came in and I stopped in my tracks. He hadn’t changed much, still looked the same. Dark hair, green eyes, and a hard jaw. He’s bigger now, though, obviously, and—grown. He smudged eyeliner around his eyes and wore ripped jean overalls with suspenders clipped to the front. He pushed his glasses down the bridge of his nose, flashing me an evil smirk. “You didn’t really think you could run from me forever, did you?”
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I didn’t speak. I didn’t want him to know I was alive, but I knew that once he knew, I would be fucked. He took a step closer to me. “Perse is hurt that you don’t want to see her, but I’m just—” He looked off into the distance. “Surprised.” I took a step closer to him, trapped in the history our souls had explored together. “Kohen…” “Dove,” he replied with a gentleness I was sure only I would ever see. “What do you say, Little Bird? Wanna run away with me and break the law?” “I don’t know,” I answered sadly, guilt tearing at my heart. “I did something bad. I’ve caused so much hurt.” Kohen’s ...more
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Holidays are supposed to be peaceful. That quiet time between your everyday routine and the dream of being away. At least, that’s the case when you’re not surrounded by the EKC and their entire fucking gang.
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The girls all cooked up this holiday and have made it a pact that every year we all go on family vacations. Ding, ding! They also get to pick. Love that for all of us boys.
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“Yeah. I swear I feel him some days, just—there. Existing with us. Watching. Probably laughing at both of us fucking it all up.”
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As I place my glass into the sink, movement outside catches my eye, like a shadow moving from out of the shrubs. A shadow. Hoodie over his head, a bandana covering the bottom half of his face. I freeze, falling backward while scrubbing my eyes with the back of my hand. “Like he’s always there…” Brantley whispers quietly from behind me,
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The hoodie falls around the back of his neck and my heart fucking flatlines. Stumbling backward, I reach for the railing to break my fall when the smirk I’ve fucking bled for every night since he has been gone flashes in front of me. Not in a memory. In real fucking time. He tugs down the bandana. “You’re right. I do laugh at you both. Often.” And just like that, I want to hit him.
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“We don’t have time. You need to listen. I shouldn’t even be here right now, and I don’t have any time to explain it all. There’s a reason why they chose Aspen for this trip. I’m technically not in the US right now, but Aspen is far enough away to not draw attention.”
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“I can’t explain that all right now, and she can’t know right now. When it’s time, I will let you know, okay? For now, take this—” He pulls out a white envelope with the words Luna-Nox Rebellis. “If you don’t see me during the family vacations every year, then I’m dead and they got me.” His words hit me all at once. He’s fucking leaving again. My cheek stings when he slaps me. “Ky, I don’t have fucking time. This time next year, I’ll be here again. But for now—she cannot know that I’m alive. This—this is massive. Do you understand?”
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“Would anything else ever be able to keep me away from you all?” I know the answer to that. Eli is a King first, even if he may not want it to be that way. He’ll always protect us at all costs, so whatever he’s doing, he’s doing it for us—or Luna, at least. The idea of Luna being in danger makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand, and that same anger that was running rampant inside of me since seeing Eli coming dangerously close to exploding. “No,” I say, my shoulders relaxing. “Next year.” Slowly, he pulls the bandana back over his mouth. “Next year…” I whisper hoarsely, choking on the ...more
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Whatever is happening, The Kings know about it. None of it makes sense, but if I’ve learned anything when it comes to EKC, it’s that they do things for a reason. They’re always three steps ahead, so whatever is happening, he’s doing it for Luna. It has to be Luna. He knows I’d kill or be killed for him.
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Lilith places a deck of cards on my lap. The deck of cards. “Let me guess… Cartier gave these to you…” I roll my eyes and start shuffling. “She did.” Lilith nods, leaning forward to place her empty mug onto the coffee table. “So come on, then… let’s see if I’m your Ace.” The truth is, I never needed to play this stupid fucking game with either of them to know that they were my soul mates. Our love wasn’t the kind of love that was written in the cards… It was the kind of love that burned them.
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