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PROLOGUE
8 years ago
The unmistakable crack of bones twists the sound waves, gripping my muscles in a wince, my teeth clenching as a sharp vibration taints the air. We watch as he grabs onto his jaw on a pain-filled bellow, but the enraged curses she spits at him almost shadow it.
His screams fuel her, her eyes filling with a familiar madness, yet… so much richer than what looks back at me in the mirror. She’s a fucking tornado of punches, hits and kicks, as her small body shoves him in a frenzied attack.
It’s goddamn mesmerizing… Even Madds just stands there, admiring the image with starry eyes. And he never admires anything…
But when she throws herself on top of the kid, her knee digging in his stomach, as she leans onto the forearm she’s locked onto his throat, it’s time to stop her.
I step forward, sliding my hands under her armpits to pull her off the guy who’s at the brink of tears, his nose a bleeding mess, but she pushes me back with more force than should reside in her slim frame.
Madds replaces me just as she pulls back her elbow, grabbing her before that small fist lands in the asshole’s face once again. He yanks her back as she kicks her legs, screeching at the intrusion, but he doesn’t flinch, lifting her small body to his tall one, wrapping a strong arm around her as she hits his chest to let her go. He doesn’t. He lets her get it all out as I stalk toward the mangled piece of crap lying on the floor.
“I’m gonna fucking ruin y’all! Send your asses to jail, fucking white trash!” He spits blood onto the tiled floor, the words slurred through the pain in his jaw, as he pushes his broken body to get up. My foot lands on his throat in the next second and something in my gaze makes him pause, his eyes growing wider as his body stills and tenses.
There’s fear in those dilating pupils, and it takes one glimpse at my reflection in the window before me, to realize what he sees there—it’s the sort of malice that makes angels fall, villains rise, and summons armies.
Ourarmyhas been assembling for a while, and he’s exactly the type of person that would be a target. Only this pathetic pussy right here poses no advantage to our less than charitable cause. His daddy though, yeah… we could entice him with a deal he definitely couldn’t refuse, since he holds some information we could exploit. But maybe his kid is not that useless after all…
“I wonder what your daddy would think if we threatened to expose his only son, the future of his name, the heir of his business, as a rapist…” I press a little harder on his trachea as those words spill calmly off my tongue, and when his hands grab onto my leg, I increase the pressure. “Get your filthy hands off me,” I bite out in a low, guttural voice.
His mouth moves and some gurgling sounds come out just as he taps his palm on the floor.
“Give him a chance, Vin.” Madds laughs in the background, the girl’s screeches now having quieted.
I shrug and take my foot off his throat, his following coughs getting a bit boring after a few seconds.
“Spit it the fuck out!” I rasp, enjoying the wince that crumples his face.
“I didn’t ra…” He all but whispers as he rolls onto his front, pushing his aching body on all fours so he can get up.
“Speak up, motherfucker!”
“I didn’t rape her.” He spits blood onto the floor, rising and sitting on his heels.
“Who the fuck do you think you’re playing?! I got one word for you: Rose.” The seconds stretch as his shoulders tense and he slowly turns his head toward me. “She couldn’t go to the police. There wouldn’t be enough evidence for them, but there’s more than enough for her father and us, motherfucker. We were coming for you, catching you on Lover’s Lane, with your tiny dick in your hand as you were about to force yourself on yet another girl, who was clearly refusing you… was just our motherfucking luck, and you…”
But I don’t get a chance to finish…
“I’ll fucking kill you, motherfucker! I’ll chop off your dick and shove it up your ass, you goddamn son of a bitch!” the girl shrieks in her sharp, angry voice, the words making me cringe, but I resist the urge to cup my own dick at the disturbing thought.
She escapes Madds’ hold, rushing to the guy. Her foot lands on his back, pushing him to the floor, and it’s followed by a strong kick between his legs, just as he curls into a fetal position.
I reach over, my hands on her waist attempting to pull her back, and in the next second, my ear is ringing, the shock of the hit knocking me backward a couple of steps, before I realize the back of her elbow collided with the side of my face.
“Jesus fuck!” I rasp, ready to haul her ass over my shoulder and leave before she kills the guy. But I pause… trapped in her gaze, the fury so fucking pretty in her green eyes. There’s no trace of remorse looking back at me. It’s in this moment, before she lands one last punch in the guy’s ribs, with her gaze on me the whole time, that something far more shattering hits me. Only it doesn’t land on my flesh, nor on my bones, but in my fucking heart and soul, and I know… I’m ruined.
CHAPTERONE
MORRIGAN
Present Day
Ifelt the air shift before my eyes caught on to the silent disturbance. The skin of my back prickled with an uncomfortable chill, even in this sticky humidity. It’s spreading up my spine, onto my shoulders and grips my neck, forcing my body to turn, as one by one, the people around me change their tune, either to silence or whispers, just as my gaze slowly lands onthem.
It’s almost impossible to think of the men as individuals at this moment, or any other—they almost present as one entity, yet the shift in the air would make one feel they are a legion, commanding the attention of all who are around.
