Warped Minds (Boys of Briar Hall, #4)

by Elena Lawson

Her eyes shot open at his touch, and heat flooded my veins.

“Oh,” Drake said, a smile widening on his lips as he crooned in Ava Jade’s ear. “He doesn’t like that, does he? That’s right. He’s the jealous one. Can’t stand to have anyone else l...

He snatched her chin, his tongue flicking out from between his lips like a snake to lic...

her body convulsed in...

“You know, you were right,” he said, releasing her chin, his eyes on me while he reached lower, fingers dipping below the neckline of the t-shirt. “I won’t kill her. And it ...

he found her breast and the thin t-shirt material shifted as h...

My breaths came hot and ragged. The ground beneath my fee...

I couldn’t look away, forcing myself to watch what I ...

“But there are other things I can do,” Drake continued, flicking his hair back from his face as he withdrew his hand only to snatch the collar of the shirt and tear it clean down t...

Her lower abdomen was a map of purple, black, yellow, and blue. Swollen. I shut my eyes against a wave of vertigo.

“I was going to wait until she begged me for it, but maybe I’ll sample her now.” “Don’t touch her.”

“Unless…” Drake looked at me expectantly. My eyes tracked to the edge of ...

I needed to end this bastard, and I couldn’t do that from si...

“Then just remember,” Drake said, his smug expression souring with impatience. “...

He bit his lower lip, his dirty hands finding her breasts again, twisting her nipple...

“Tell him how good it feels, Angel,” Drake crooned, removing her gag as he twisted her left nipple ...

“Fuck you,” she hissed through gritted teeth, her eyes lifting to the phone. To me. “I don’t care what he does to me. Hang u...

Drake rounded the chair, kneeling in front of her, between her splayed legs, leaning to one side so I would have a better view ...

My knees hit hard...

“Just don’t look,” she urged me, the fire in her voice almost enough to cover the edge of panic.

“Stop.” He did as I asked but didn’t remove his filthy hands from my woman.

“Jump now and I promise you I will not touch her again until she ask...

“How can I trus...

“You can’t,” Drake said with a smile. “But you can watch me fuck...

Ava Jade gasped as Drake drove two fingers into her pussy, her jaw clenched so tight I could see every edge of the angled bone. “Stop. I’ll do it.” “No!”

He withdrew. My Sparrow continued in an onslaught of threats and curses, all of them aimed at me. I deserved it. I deserved it all.

I would rather die than watch him touch her for another second. I would rather spend eternity in the fiery pits of hell than see the strain in her eyes. Hear the fear she worked so hard to hide in her voice.

Numb, I lifted the phone to my face, hating that I’d never see hers again, but my brothers would.

“Rook and Grey will find you,” I promised her, speaking over her broken, shouting voice.

I looked at Drake now, who pushed himself to his feet, the triumph in his eyes making my chest burn with rage. “I’ll see you...

“I hate you!” she screamed at me. “Don’t do this!”

But I was already walking to the edge, stepping up to the plate. Batting my last fucking round.

“I’m sorry, Sparrow. For everything.” I dropped my phone onto the gravel and turned away from the view of the city I’d come to call home, shutting my eyes. Spreading my wings wide. My heels shuffled beyond the ledge, hanging over empty air. …and I fell.

When I turned away to rush out the door, the shadow of something blocking the sunrise darted down the wall. No.

The unmistakable crunch of metal was followed by the blare of a car alarm and a woman screaming far below.

“Grey!” I shouted uselessly, knowing he couldn’t hear me. I could only see him through the live camera feeds Drake left open on the screen. “Don’t look!”

He tripped against the ledge, throwing his upper body over to look down, and froze.

I watched him take in Corvus far below. Grey staggered back from the edge, his eyes blinking, face white.

His head shook. His palms went to his knees as he bent his head, unsteady, lips moving wordlessly.

He rose up suddenly and kicked the gravel, arching his back, his mouth open in a scream I couldn’t hear but that still shattered my heart all the same.

Grey’s lower lip trembled as he fell to his knees, eyes shut, face tipped up to the cloudless sky. Hands limp in his lap. His grief filled me, doubling my own,

Nurse,” Rook called, his voice back to the dead tone I knew meant nothing good. “Knock his ass out before he bleeds to death.”

I twisted to glare at him. He glared right back.

The nurse came forward with a syringe and I gave her a withering stare t...

Rook stood, snatching the syrin...

Don’t make me use it.” “You...

He flipped the syringe around in his fingers, a sly smirk twisting one corner of his ...

I woke from a forced sleep sometime later, and if it weren’t for Diesel sitting there beside the hospital bed with a shotgun across his lap and thunder in his eyes, I might’ve tried to escape.

Don’t even think about it.” “I wasn’t thinking of shit.” “Sure, you weren’t.”

Promise me he’ll suffer.” My vision darkened as I threaded my fingers through hers, gripping tight. “No one will ever suffer more.”