“Stop! I can give you whatever you want. Money? I’ve got that,” he said as desperation settled in.
“I don’t need your money,” I said quietly. “This wasneverabout that.”
“Victor Crow sends his regards,” Ronan added as he stepped up next to me. Everyone knew Victor’s face and Ronan looked a lot like his father.
“No,” Elias breathed as he stared down the barrel of the gun pointed at his face.
“Anyone else want a turn?” I asked, holding out the knife toward the omegas.
Most of them blanched and shook their heads. The reaction I expected but they deserved the chance.
Only one nodded yes and stepped forward. Her chain dragged on the floor behind her as she stepped toward Eli.
“What’s your name?” Ronan asked as her length ran out.
“Thea,” she said.
He handed the gun to me to keep Eli in his place while he dug keys off the guards’ corpses and unlocked her restraints.
She walked toward me, head held high. She had a calm to her that was out of place in the situation. It was something I could relate to.
Sometimes that calm numbness is how you survived.
Thea gingerly took the knife from my hand. Her delicate fingers wrapped around the hilt as she stared down at him.
Then she struck, the knife turned backwards so the hilt cracked into his nose. The bone crunched underneath it, blood pouring out of him and splashing her naked legs and feet.
Then she reared back, plunging the knife into his stomach. Her breath echoed out in frantic huffs as she stabbed him over and over with more strength than I expected.
She didn’t stay at his stomach, she aimed right for his dick, stabbing it as he howled in panic and pain.
Even after he was silent she took her pound of flesh. Bits of flesh and meat flung across the room as she lost control. The other omegas that didn’t take up our offer didn’t look away, they watched as Thea took every bit of flesh for all of them. We didn’t rush her, we simply waited until she finished.
When it was done, she handed the blade back to me. It was as coated in his blood as she was but I didn’t flinch as I took it and cleaned it before sliding it back into its sheath.
“Thank you,” she said, already turning toward the other girls Ronan was unlocking from their chains.
“We have a safe house nearby,” Ronan said. “We’ll get you clothes, medical care, and help you find your families.”
“Who are you?” someone asked.
“We’re not the good guys,” Ronan said without hesitation. He wasn’t the type to sugarcoat things. “But we have boundaries and we don’t hurt omegas.”
“Good enough for me,” Thea said. “But I don’t need a safe house. Can you get me to Colorado?”
Something in the way she said it made me go still.
“What’s in Colorado?” I asked.
“A town,” she said as she looked back at me now. “A safe place for omegas like us. A girl who I shared a cell with a few years ago told me about it. Its name is whispered through places like this.”
“Who?” Ronan asked sharply.
“They all use code names,” she said. I wanted to ask how she knew so much about it but I was too curious now to interrupt. “There’s Lark and something to do with the zodiac. Oh!”
She snapped her fingers.
“Aries.”
