“Setting a young, innocent girl up to be abused and slaughtered by Maddox would have shown you we deserve to lead the fucking Mafia? Have you heard yourselves?”
“Maddox?”
All our attention is drawn to Arlo when he says his name, but Reign’s father simply cocks his gun back and aims it at us and Reign stands straight with a sigh beside me.
“Now listen here, Reign. You will do as you are told.”
“Put the fucking gun down.”
Anton freezes from Arlo’s demand, but he does not do it. He is too in the moment and his eyes are burning into Reign’s, ready to kill his own son over his controlling bullshit.
“Anton, put the gun down or this will get messy once I get involved and trust me, you don’t fucking want that.”
Arlo's threat drips off his tongue like deadly venom, and I'm not sure how to react. I always knew this conversation would be shit, but right now, I am suddenly grateful Arlo is in the room. Without him, Reign would have undoubtedly gotten a bullet by now.
“Let’s just calm this shit the fuck down.”
Arlo pulls out a cigarette and lights the end as my uncle Anton finally lowers his gun, and my father points his finger between both of us.
“Do as you’re told, boys. Stick with the fucking plan; it has gone too far ahead to back out now. He now knows who she is; he knows what the fuck this is, and he will get her regardless.”
Reign looks my way and I keep my focus on our fathers as I respond.
“Not if we protect her, he won’t.”
My father raises his beastly voice at me as soon as I speak, spouting his authority.
“If you do that, I will fucking kill her and then I will kill you two fucks as well. How about that?”
“You boys are turning weak over a bit of enemy pussy? What the fuck has gotten in to you?”
Anton shakes his head in disappointment and my jaw tightens. It’s in this moment in time, that I know we’re about to go to war with our fathers over this chick. Well, I don’t know about Reign, but I fucking am.
“She does not know what the fuck is going on. She—”
Reign suddenly slams his fist on the table with a mighty blow that shakes it, drawing everyone's attention and cutting me off. He points his finger at our fathers while speaking through gritted teeth, his anger palpable.
“Nothing good will come out of this, you stupid, vengeful old fucks. To get to her, you will have to get through me. Make your fucking choice.”
My eyes widen on Reign as I have never heard him speak like that to our fathers; he is pissed, and every single one of us heard the seriousness in his voice. He wasn't fucking around; he's going to protect her, or he would have never said it.
“Maddox is fucking dead as soon as I get my hands on him.”
After he says that, Reign gives Arlo a nod of respect before turning around and walking toward the door. As I follow suit, I hear Anton speak behind us.
“Apologies about that, Arlo. Family is not what it once was, it seems.”
“Nah, it isn’t, Anton; my father is proof of that”
Feeling trapped within this damn mansion for over a week since being stabbed in that haunted house, I find myself suffocating. Reign will not let me out of their sight, and I cannot stand it. I am craving fresh air, the freedom to go to school, or just to wander into the city. I have never been the type to enjoy socializing or going out much, but it's crazy how being locked up like this makes me want the opposite.
Chaos and Reign have been good to me, and I value that, yet I feel like something is up. They are not fucking me anymore, they aren't acting themselves, and I have the impression that I am being kept in the dark about something.
Maybe they have found out who has been doing all this. Yet why wouldn’t they tell me? No, it can’t be that. Maybe they are just worried. Well, whatever it is, I don’t like it. I do not like feeling like I am not being told what is happening and I certainly hate not being fucked when I want it. I have become greedy for dick and their attention, so it seems. I wonder if they have had enough of me or this scenario and now, they do not want me anymore.
Lying on Chaos’s bed, I gaze at the ceiling above me, lost in my own thoughts about everything, with the door wide open, until I suddenly notice Reign stroll by shirtless.
“Hey!”
