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He could have me for a million different reasons.
Right now, the one I cared most about was that this had been my decision. Even if he said I’d never had a choice, he let me choose this.
He thrust one last time, hitting a spot I didn’t know existed. I tore my arms free from his grasp and clung to him, feeling his cock empty inside me.
A kiss came to my forehead before he rolled off, the action unexpectedly sweet. He hooked an arm around my body and dragged me to his side, neither of us speaking. That was okay with me. I didn’t need words with him. Silence could say enough. I shut my eyes and concentrated on regaining control of my breathing.
I didn’t know what would happen between us now. Whatever this was, we’d just taken it one step further. It went beyond allowing him inside me.
This was the catalyst for what would be the end of one part of my life and the beginning of the next.
I should have known that falling in love would be inevitable. Our story wouldn’t be one of love, though. It was a tale of possession and carnal passion weaved with a scarlet string of fate that refused to break. It was the forming of a bond between three fucked-up souls.
And if I’d known what was coming, I still wouldn’t have changed a thing.
The road to hell was paved with blood and sorrow.
But at the end of that road was an empire, the devil, and my salvation.
TWO
They saw me as a light in the dark, not realizing that the darkness they feared was me all along.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
I left her sleeping in my bed.
I’d be back before she woke up. If I could have watched her sleep all night, I would have. It was hard not to stare at her. Star wasn’t just gorgeous. Something primal inside me had woken up. He and I met about the same time I took Kevin’s eye out. I’d had to welcome his ass to the fucking party of me and my new personalities.
Slipping out into the hall, I made my way downstairs to where Cam and Ice would be. The compound was quiet, but I knew acolytes were patrolling the outside of the building.
I keyed in the code for the playroom and went inside. Cam hadn’t had an issue with pulling his scarecrow down so I could hang Kevin up. There were still pieces of her flesh rotted to the meat hook when I placed it through Kevin’s back.
Ice was positioned by the makeshift investigation board he’d pieced together with Maliki. I had decided to put it in here to prevent Star from coming across this information prematurely. Some of it she didn’t need to know at all.
“Have fun?” Ice asked, shooting me a smug grin.
I flipped him off. They knew I was going to fuck her, but what was originally part of a grand scheme to enrage the factions after her had been replaced by my carnal need to possess her. Knowing that I was her first and last… that was deeply satisfying.
“You’re going to start a riot over this,” Cam joked.
“That’s the plan.”
“This is going awfully far for just a plan,” Ice remarked.
“We already discussed this. Star isn’t a loose end. She’s mine. Plan or no plan, she was mine.”
I circled around Butcher and went to get a smelling salt so I could wake Kevin up.
He was in worse shape than I’d ever seen him.
There’d been so many holes drilled and cauterized that his legs were two rotting puss sticks. Why the fuck couldn’t he just die? He was more resilient than an armored cockroach.
I held the smelling salt beneath Kevin’s nose and waited for him to rouse. His head lifted with a groan. I nudged his body so the meat hook would swing, and the pain that caused did a fine job of waking him the rest of the way. He cried out, turning his head left to right, looking fucking ridiculous.
One side of his face was crusted with blood, his empty eye socket a round, gaping hole.
“We need to have a chat.”
