“Fuck as many of my enemies as you like, but it won’t change the fact I am still the one on top. They may think fucking you will get to me andmyfather, but it won’t. You may share our last name but you are nothing to us.” He releases me with a shove and I stumble back a step. “Toren is free game!” Masen yells. Pain erupts inside me. Party goers all cheer and I don’t missDarren grabbing his crotch and licking his lips. Disgust rolls through me.
“Shotgun first ride!” Chester hollers.
I shoot the pig a scowl. “Try it and I’ll slice your fucking dick off, you spineless prick.” Anger darkens his features.
“Let’s go,” Halo snaps, but I don’t move. I’m not backing down from this. If I walk away now, Masen will see me as the same weak child he always saw and I refuse to let that be the case. Feeling bold and clearly suicidal, Chester and Darren move around Masen in an attempt to come to me. Panic rises inside me. I know Carnage and the others are here but I’ve been warned that they can’t intervene in any fights, which is why Carnage is beside himself right now, shouting at me to get my ass over to him so we can go. I brace myself for them to grab me. I plan to fight and show everyone that I’m not weak and I’m not an easy target, but the second the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and I feel an overwhelming amount of heat roll through my body, I know he’s near.
“Touch her and I’ll make what I did to your captain look like a warm up match.” Xaden’s voice is like a caress to my battered soul. He may hate me but he won’t allow anyone else to harm me. I wish I could say it was because he cared, but he and I both know it’s only because he wants to be the one to break me.
Chester and Darren both freeze and look over my head. I feel him drawing closer and I can’t fight my body’s reaction to his nearness. Gooseflesh peppers my skin. I suddenly notice that Carn has fallen silent and everyone around us has taken a step back. Fire burns in Masen’s eyes, Kellan looks ready to fight and I just know this is going to end badly. The second he plasterers himself against my back a gasp escapes me. I tense and pray he doesn’t touch me but God turned his back on me a long time ago.
He pushes his hands into the front pockets of my shorts and rests his chin atop my head. Masen’s upper lip pulls back in a snarl.
“The only enemy she is spreading her legs for isme, Kellar.” The dominance and malice in his tone sends a shiver of dread down my spine. To everyone else it would appear he’s here to defend me but I know the truth, he’s here to fuck with my brother and torment me.
CHAPTER NINE
XADEN
I feel sick having her pressed against me like she means something to me. Cas is at my side, staring down his former team. He wants to make Kellar suffer as much as I do. Kyle stands there with a look of hurt flashing through his eyes. I saw her the moment she stepped out of that car with those four fucking cunts, watching her every move, including the one where she turned to the fucker whose days are numbered for pulling a gun on me and hugged him.
This bitch is mine to taunt.
Mine to break.
Mine to fucking kill.
Her lips will be framed above my bed and displayed for all to see. Her brother’s and father’s will hang in my entryway so the moment you enter my house you will know I am the one who ended their sorry ass excuse for a family and eradicated their bloodline from existence.
Masen claims to not give a fuck about her and swears her being fucked won’t bother him or their scummy piece of shit father, but his eyes betray him. I see the disgust and the hatred he feels, it makes him sick to his stomach seeing me standing here with her. His nostrils flare and I know it’s taking a fuck loadof restraint for him not to charge at me. I smirk, enticing him to come at me and throw the first punch. I beg him without words, relishing the thought of feeling his bones break and hearing his cries of pain as he begs me to stop—but I never will. I’ll drag out his death and make sure it’s slow and he feels every ounce of pain as I peel his skin from his body.
Masen opens his mouth then snaps it closed when Kyle pushes in front of him and tries to stare me down. I scoff at his effort. If that piece of shit thinks he can intimidate me with a look, he is fucking mistaken.
“Leave. We have a game in a couple of weeks and I’m not letting…this,” he motions to me and the bitch in my arms, “ruin our chances of a rematch.” His words strike a chord in me. I hate to admit it but I know if Coach found out I got into another brawl with these cocksuckers, he wouldn’t risk his job by putting me on the ice. He drops his gaze to her and shoots her a look I can’t decipher, which just pisses me off. I pull back, grip her arm and drag her ass away.
When we reach the parking lot my anger has reached it’s peak, I’m fucking livid that I turned my back on a fight. I’m no fucking pussy and never back down, but I did tonight and I fucking hate how that feels. The little bitch tries to yank her arm free, but I don’t release my hold as I continue to drag her toward my car. I hear Cas trailing behind us like I knew he would, he’s always by my side.
“Xaden, let me go,” she shouts.
I don’t look at her as I answer, “Shut the fuck up, Tink.” I’m mere feet from my car when the sound of a gun cocking has me stilling. She slams into my side and I feel her hideous eyes on me but don’t move as I speak.
“Unless you have a death wish and want the Reaper to take you out tonight, you’ll get the fuck in your car and fuck off.” She snaps her head to the side and looks back the way we came. Shestiffens at the sight behind us. I roll my neck side to side and brace for the fight I’m itching to have. I keep my hold on her as I turn to face the cocksuckers who came into my town and think they have the right to challenge me.
The four of them stand there in a line. I spy Cas out of the corner of my eye, moving his arm but that cunt from the other day who showed up to SU shifts his gun toward him making him pause his movements.
“Let her go and no one dies.”
“Carn, put the gun down.” I squeeze the bitch’s hand, loving the sound of the whimper that comes from her. That fucker Carnage snarls at me.
“Hurt her again and it won’t be my brother killing you.” The cunt’s mirror image adds. I look between the both of them and suddenly feel bad for their mother, that she had to be subjected to two of their disgusting faces each day of her life. Carnage is a twin and it appears his brother is fond of the fairy as well.
“She’s mine to do with as I please,” I force out through clenched teeth. “I’m giving you one last chance to walk away in one piece with your lips still attached to your face.” She sucks in a sharp breath beside me. I love the fear I invoke in her.
“Let’s do—” She cuts off one of the other bastards as she spins in my hold and faces me. I refuse to look down at the cunt. I feel sick already touching her and the sight of her face will make it worse.
“I’ll go with you,” she breathes out.
“Toren, that is not the plan.” She looks back over her shoulder at the fucker holding his gun. I could pull my own out and threaten to kill her, but I’m curious to see how far these fuckers are willing to go for this bitch. It seems the cunt has friends after all.
