Page 129 of Merciless

She taps the screen a few times before turning the phone toward me.

My stomach drops, and I cover my mouth to keep from retching.

It’s a short video clip of me on all fours. Elijah and Asher are behind me, both of them fucking me at the same time. One pulls out, and the other rams forward. I’m pushed harder into the bed, my face scrunching up in pleasure. The clip plays for ten seconds before starting over again. It takes a moment for me to see the big white letters at the top of the screen.

“Astar Elite slut fucks her brothers ”

I stumble backward and grab the collar of my uniform shirt to loosen it.

Katie lowers the phone and looks down at it with a smirk, still watching the clip of me getting railed by my stepbrothers.

“That’s you, right?” she says. “Fucking your brothers?”

I swallow hard and swipe away more tears. “How did that⁠—”

“So it is true.” She laughs. “It seems like your stepbrothers don’t really care about you, since they recorded this. I heard you don’t even look at the camera once. It must’ve been that good, huh?”

She locks the phone and slips it back into her purse before looking up at me with a deviant smile. Gone is the nice, friendly Katie. The bitch that I know her as—the bitch that she is—is back.

“That’s really messed up, you know?”

“That’s cruel,” I say, my words coming out in a croak.

“Oh, no.” She touches her chest with mock sympathy. “I didn’t mean the video was messed up. I meant you fucking your brothers is messed up. How could you do something like that? With them, of all people?” She snorts a laugh.

“I thought . . .”

“You thought, what? That you meant something to them?” She shakes her head and takes a menacing step toward me. “Elijah can be convincing if he wants to be, can’t he? He convinced me that he liked me at first. That he wanted to be with me. It seems you fell for the act, too.”

“He cares.”

She lets out a loud laugh and tosses her hair over her shoulder. “No, he doesn’t. Elijah is merciless. Asher is the same. Did you forget that they’re called the Merciless Twins for a reason? They don’t feel anything but hatred.”

“He—” I choke on my words.

Elijah and Asher said they wanted to be with me. They said I was theirs. I didn’t think this would happen. I didn’t realize they were even recording us last night.

I’m such an idiot for falling for their lies. For falling for them.

“Don’t look at me like that.” Katie rolls her eyes. “You really thought your stepbrothers would be into you like that? Did you think they’d fall for a girl like you?”

She laughs, piercing my ears with the annoying, high-pitched sound.

“It all happened because of a bet Elijah made with Derrick.” She smirks and checks her nails. “And look at that. You fell right into Elijah’s trap.”

“A bet?”

“Elijah bet Derrick he could make you sleep with him in seven days. You stupid fucking girl. He doesn’t want you.”

I stumble back a step and glance at the classroom door. There’s no way I can go back in there. I want to get the dead bird, but I can’t bring myself to save it if it means enduring the jokes and insults.

I can’t show my face around here anymore.

Everyone knows.

They all saw the clip.

I spin around and bolt away from Katie.