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He promised me it’d be our little secret. But I shouldn’t have to keep my mouth shut about him being a piece of shit.” “ELLINGTON!” His face turns red with anger.
“He raped you?” he demands.
“He’s hit you?”
wasn’t going to let him be the one who ended it. I was. My choice, my way. And that’s exactly what I just did.
“It doesn’t matter.” I run a hand through my hair. “Congratulations. You won.” Then I rip my arm free and storm down the hall. “I’m officially no longer his whore.”
My mom is out of town once again. Said she’d be back Monday. At least, that’s what the text she sent me earlier this morning said.
eyes meet mine. Mr. Hamilton is the prop hanging on the wall.
Sin goes on. “Some even underage. He had the videos and pictures to prove it.”
The way he says girls makes my chest tighten and bile rise.
“We vow to never be apart in this world or the next.” He enters a third one, and my teeth sink into the rubber while I inhale sharply through my nose. “Because I will always find you, pet. No matter how far you try to run, how hard you fight me, or how long you live for me. You will never escape me.”
When I burn the world down, and they ask me why, I’ll tell them the devil asked me to do it. And I wanted to make him proud.
Corbin is still typing away on his phone, but he nods.
I don’t miss the tension between Ryat and Matt. I still have no clue what’s going on there.
“Ryat and I will handle it.” Matt speaks before anyone else can say a word.
was from my mom’s second wedding. A gift from my daddy.
know I look like shit. They think it’s because my stepdad is dead, but it’s because I allowed his killer to fuck me with his gun.
To be fucked by the very thing that killed the man I hate?
I didn’t even know Lincoln was attending tonight. I wouldn’t have stayed home if I had. But
“She’s fine,” Lincoln snaps at him, but the officer doesn’t look away from me.
One of those secrets sits across from me, holding my sobbing mother.
Did she really not know what kind of man he was? I thought she put on a show. Pretended to love him because she had to. I guess I was wrong.
He smirks. “Didn’t you see the ring, baby?” I jerk at the nickname. “Daddy’s home. And by the way you’ve been acting, I see you’ve forgotten your lessons.”
“When I get my hands on you, those six years with James will feel like heaven.”
Swallowing, she whispers, “She married him.”
“She’s doing it … again,” she chokes out. “Why him?”
“He’s raped you.” I take a guess.
Her bottom lip trembles, and she whispers, “I didn’t say no.”
“What did he say?” I shrug as if I don’t care. But I do. He’s the one I want.
learned at a young age that lust makes men primal. They’re fucking animals when they see something they want.
Too bad I’m not allowed to fuck anyone else other than the man looking at me right now.
“Fuck her mouth, Lincoln. Until she’s throwing up whatever she swallowed,” James commands,
“I’ll never set you free, little demon. It’s best you understand that now.” She licks her wet lips. “Because I’d hate to have to kill us both.” If I can’t have her, no one will. But I also would never want to survive in a world where she doesn’t exist. Death would be heaven compared to a life without her being mine.
I step farther into her room. “What’s going on?” I ask.
My sister isn’t one to hide things.
Her bathroom door opens, and her eyes go wide as she snaps her head over to watch the man exit. “Hey, babe …” His eyes meet mine, and he curses under his breath. “Shit.”
It looks like my best friend is fucking my sister. And that is definitely wrong.
“I’m Corbin’s chosen.”
whirl around on her, and I want to strangle her. He won’t love her. My sister isn’t like other chosens.
She was a fucking virgin saving herself for marriage.
“Tell that to Tyson Crawford,” I bark, remembering what he went through his senior year.
I can’t wait till we get Tyson’s story.
Now I know why he didn’t care to push me to go. He knew all along he’d be fucking my sister in front of the Lords.
“Did you know that she’s been raped? For years?” His jaw clenches. “James was grooming her. She was a child, for fuck’s sake,” I snap.
“Who do you think put the hit on James?”
“But I got these in the mail one day. Anonymously. I made copies and sent those to a founding family member with the request to have him terminated.”
He fists his hands. “Nicholas would have burned the world down if he had been alive. He wouldn’t allow anyone to hurt her. And I promised I’d take care of her. I failed him.” He hangs his head.
I look at my father. “Did you request me to have the assignment?”
“No.
“Maybe they knew he had evidence on his phone,” my father offers as an explanation. “I deleted them,” I announce. “You what?” he barks. “Easton, you can’t tamper with what they want.” “I wasn’t going to hand a phone over with inappropriate pictures of her on it. She was underage in some of them.” I shake my head.
“So you don’t care if Corbin knocks up Kira, but you care if I get the woman I love pregnant. Got it.”
“Why do you think Linc married Laura?”
Sit down and shut up cause I need to know.
