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“Don’t be such a fucking ballsack, Lilly,” I hiss, because we all know pussies are the stronger of the two appendages.
Amen!
Couple destined for great things: Adrian ‘Ace’ Ramsey with his fiancée, Violet Rochester, pictured here at a gala celebrating the announcement of their engagement.
“Let’s go get our girl back so we can spank her ass for being such a naughty girl and leaving us with blue balls for this long.”
Oh Loki 🤣
As we turn to go, Kai and I in front, I hear a sharp slap and Loki’s protest behind me. My lips split into a grin at the sound. “What the fuck was that for?” he asks Jax in a disgruntled voice. “Disrespecting Baby Girl,” Jax replies, and although Loki grumbles, he doesn’t argue with the big guy. “Don’t worry, Jax,” Kai says as we leave the dorm, walking down the hall towards Willow’s. “By the time we finish telling Lilly about what Loki said, his balls will be frozen solid before she’ll touch them again.”
I know that he hates this just as much as we do. His controlling nature won’t allow anything less than everyone he cares about being within arm’s reach, safe and protected by him. But more than that, our fearless leader loves our girl with all his dark and wicked soul. He needs her light, just as we all do. We can no longer survive without it.
Hold on, my love, we’re coming for you. Just a little longer now.
“I told you that we were bound for all eternity, my darling. We were always going to find you. You’re our beating heart,”
“I swear to you on my blackened heart and all that is left of my soul that we will come for you, and fucking dance in the blood of those that have harmed you, my love,”
We stay that way for a long time, drinking in the sight of the girl who stole our hearts, our souls, before we’d even realised what she was doing.
“I will fucking chain you to my bed if I have to, Baby Girl, but you are never to leave us again. Got it?”
“You boys think you know everything! Well, I'll tell you one thing. That good-for-nothing slut got herself knocked up with some other cunt’s baby. Lilly is no more my daughter than she’s my niece. The paternity test last year proved that.”
Thank god for that!
“I would do all this and more for you, Baby Girl. I’d burn the whole motherfucking world to the ground if you asked me to,” he confesses against my tingling lips as we part, his free hand coming up to cup my face, the blood staining my skin. “And I will always love you for it, no matter what you do,” I whisper back, pulling away slightly so that he can see the truth in my eyes. “You belong to me, Jax Griffiths, and I belong to you.”
Adrian doesn’t know how lucky he really is; if we’d let Kai loose on him, he’d be in much worse shape than he is now.
Pretty Girl, I hope you’re ready for the wrath of your Knights.
“I’ll bring you to the surface, my love. Or drown with you. But you are not alone. You don’t need to fight this by yourself.”
I go to sit up straighter, but Jax keeps a firm grip around me so that I can’t fucking budge. Stupid man muscles being used against me.
“You’re smart, beautiful, funny, and a wonderful person who isn’t afraid to take on four broken boys and make them into men.”
“I just want to be able to make my own decisions, choose my own destiny. Is that too much to ask?”
“We are all fucking pawns to them, my darling,” he tells me, his own voice growling with frustration. He pulls back a little, placing a finger under my chin and raising it to meet his gaze. “But I swear to you on everything that I am, you will get your pound of flesh. You will be free, we all will.”
“That’s because you are a warrior queen, made to shed the blood of our enemies,” he tells me, a fierce pride in his tone as one hand comes up to stroke down the side of my face. “And you are perfect, Lilly Vanderbilt. Just right for us.” A shiver runs down my spine at his words, my inner demon preening at his praise and acceptance. After all, what better way to defeat the monsters that plague us than by becoming monstrous ourselves?
Shaking my head, I wrap my arm around her and breathe the sweet scent of her hair in. Well, Ash’s ginger scent as she’s still using his shampoo, which the asshole lords over the rest of us at every opportunity. I’m waiting to point out to him that she may use his shampoo and be his wife, but I was the one to put a baby in her. Not sure I’ll be able to run fast enough when I do remind him of that little fact.
Fuck, I would go all Hannibal on her if cannibalism didn't mean that she’d be dead.
Fuck them all to hell in a handcart.
If fairies come with Jax’s voice, they die with that smile of Ash’s.
“We will never stop loving you, Baby Girl,” Jax tells me, his fingers grazing my pulse point. “That dead man cunt does not own any part of you. Julian does not own any part of you. We do. We own all of you, just like you own all of us, and that will never change, precious.”
My Knights own me, body and soul, and no one can take that away from me.
“We are fused and nothing can tear us apart. Not my father. Not the rest of the board. Not even the devil him-fucking-self.”
“Violet,” I reply, not taking my eyes off her, my hand gently stroking her soft head. “Her name is Violet.”
“You were shot,” Ash tells him, and Loki’s forehead creases, then his eyes widen as he remembers. “By Rafe!” he exclaims, though his voice is no more than a cracked mumble. “Yeah,” I reply, then give a smile that I know is pure evil as I recall what the cops told us when we woke up a couple of hours ago. “Turns out he fell back down the basement stairs, cracked his head open like Humpty fucking Dumpty, and died in a pool of blood and piss at the bottom.”
Karma 🤣🥳
I did push a baby out of Her Vagisty, and I’m not sure she’s forgiven me yet.
We’re finally free to live, and I intend on doing just that with my brothers and our woman and child.
“Do you know what time he’s being released?” I ask, and they all look at me then, even Jax, blinking. “Uh, midday I think,” Ash answers. “Why, Princess?” “We best be there to greet him, don’t you think?” I answer, not saying anything more as I stride from the room and up the stairs to get changed. “Why do I feel like there’s something she’s not telling us?” I hear Loki ask the others, and a smirk curves my lips as I make my way upstairs. A lady never divulges all her secrets now, does she?
I look at my brothers and see matching looks of sheer fucking awe on their faces that I know is reflected in mine. She’s a Queen alright, and we best not forget it.
I like to call it the sunshine bus, and much to Jax’s annoyance but to my delight, Loki paid some kid—Jude Taylor I think his name was—to cover the outside with suns, rainbows, and unicorns one night. Jax was so pissed when he saw it in the morning I thought he was going to strangle Loki until I begged him not to as I loved it. I also may have burst into tears at the idea of it being painted over, so here we are, driving in the sunshine bus, complete with motherfucking unicorns.
Jude! And motherfucking unicorns!
“Happy?” he asks, his voice low and gruff as usual. “So fucking happy,” I reply, hugging his forearms to me. We stand like that for a moment, soaking in each other's embrace, and as I look at my daughter, father, aunt, and uncle, then around at my Knights, I feel like I’m about to burst with sheer happiness. My family is finally all together. Both my biological and chosen family. We're all together now, and my heart has never felt so full.
‘These are the hands of your best friend, young and strong and full of love for you, that are holding yours on your wedding day, as you promise to love each other today, tomorrow, and forever. These are the hands that will work alongside yours, as together you build your future. These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years, and with the slightest touch, will comfort you like no other. These are the hands that will hold you when fear or grief fills your mind. These are the hands that will countless times wipe the tears from your eyes; tears of sorrow,
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“You were my light when there was only darkness, Sweetheart,” Kai begins, and my eyes stare into his honey brown ones, the image wavering at the edges with my unshed tears. “You showed me that there was something to hope for, that I could be loved. You are my soul, my heart, and my light.”
“I knew that you would change my life, our lives, from the first moment that you stepped out of that shower,” he tells me, his emerald eyes glowing in the sun. “I just never knew how much you would become a part of me. You are buried so deep inside, Pretty Girl, that if they were to cut me in half you would be there too, in every part of me.”
“You are mine, Baby Girl, and I am yours until we draw our last breaths on this cursed earth. And even then I’ll fucking hold your soul to ransom and I dare anyone to take it away from me.”
“You are the best part of me, Princess. You taught me how to love again, how to live again, how to breathe again. You arrived like a shooting star, burning all the bad that came your way and leaving only good. We were destined, it was written in the stars that we would be together, and I will never stop worshipping you, never stop thanking whatever god decided that I was worthy of you.”
“You all gave me love at a time when I’d lost everything. You gave me hope when I felt hopeless. You gave me back the parts of myself that I never knew were missing. You captured my heart, we are all bound together for eternity, and I never want to be released from your love.”
I can’t help but think that maybe, just maybe, it was all worth it. All the pain, all the uncertainty, all the heartache and trauma. Because all of that led me to them. To my Knights. To the other parts of my soul. And I wouldn’t be without them for any-fucking-thing.
“We are your Knights,” Ash states, and I open my closed lids to look at him above me. “But you are our fucking Queen,” Jax adds, his fingers caressing my cheek until my head turns to him. “And we will always love you,” Loki whispers beneath me, placing a kiss on my neck, my cheek, and my temple. “And we will always be yours to command,” Kai adds, and I gasp as he pulls out of me, Loki slipping out at the same time. “And I will love you for all eternity,” I tell them in a breathless whisper, gazing around at the three Knights above me, Loki pulling me closer to him beneath me.
Somehow, we found each other, and amongst all of the terrible things that have happened to each of us, we found ourselves too. We discovered a love that defies all the monsters of the world, that dares them to try and rip us apart, to break our bond. We brought new life into a world that was full of darkness, and now as the sun rises I can’t help but think of all the light that is to follow, chasing away the dark, until it is all that is left. We have been released from our shackles and bound ourselves together, our hearts captured in a love so strong that it can never be broken.
