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But when I walked into the Sphinx, one of the boots looked at me with something like pity, then scurried away as if he worried I’d hit him.
Then Stellan stepped into the room, and he had a look on his face too.
A pit opened in my stomach. Something was wrong.
“It’s your grades,” he told me.
Fuck, if something was wrong with my grades…my father always felt I was an embarrassment, but as he told people, I might not have “any fucking common sense but he’s book smart as hell.” He used to punish me whenever he thought I wasn’t trying hard enough.
Now, it was my little siblings he punished for any misdeeds, although now those sins were never about my grades. If I were perfect, I could protect them.
“What about my grades?” I ground out, turning to face Aurora, who looked wide-eyed, innocent, and completely unconvincing.
Chapter8
Aurora
The moment Remington saw his grades splashed across social media and the internet, his eyes went clear and steely. He looked up and his eyes met mine, pure, unadulterated rage icy in his gaze.
“They were obviously doctored,” Stellan said. “You’ll get them off the internet.”
“Of course,” Remington said, his voice dark. It didn’t matter to Remington. My friend made it look as if hisrealgrades, the ones he’d worked for, the ones he was proud of, were the ones that had been doctored.
Remington could fix the trail on the internet–but for him, many of the people who mattered would already think he cheated. He couldn’t undo the loss of his reputation and pride.
The next second, his hand was in my hair, his fingers twining into it at the base of my skull. “What is wrong with you?” he said, his voice flat. “I was almost starting to like you…are you really going to try to fuck with all of us?”
“I still don’t like you, Remington.”
“Stellan must be next,” Cain said from the doorway.
Stellan already lost his sister.
“What are you going to do with her?” Cain asked as Remington tightened his grip on my hair, dragging me against his body. My eyes watered as he pulled me tightly against his hard-muscled frame, but I smiled up at him like I didn’t give a damn.
I’d hurt him, and he could hurt me back, but I had a lot more practice taking damage. These boys would never outlast me.
Remington took so long to answer that I thought he didn’t even know. Then he said, “Since Aurora loves playing games so much…I think Aurora and I are going to play a little game.”
He dragged me toward the door. I had to rise onto my tiptoes as my scalp ached under his rough touch, and he yanked me along without acting as if he cared if he ripped my hair out.
“Remy,” Cain said. There was a note in his voice that almost seemed like concern, and when Remington turned to face him, I caught a glimpse of his face too. Cain was almost frowning. “Don’t make her ugly.”
“I’ll make sure all the ugly stays on the inside,” Remington promised, but his grip on my scalp relaxed…just slightly. His gaze met mine again, the promise of pain glinting in his eyes. “After all, you’re very pretty, Aurora. Like Nerium Oleander. Do you know anything about flowers?”
He answered his own question, muttering, “No, of course you don’t. Everyone in this house except me is an uneducated moron.”
He was wrong, though. I’d learned all about poisonous plants when I was a kid and I first considered killing the Demon.
“Why the fuck are you talking about flowers right now?” Cain looked bored.
Remington must have decided he was bored too, because he dragged me toward the stairs down to the basement. I tried to fight, afraid he was going to imprison me in one of those crypts, that he would leave me there to die.
Remington looked toward Cain, and Cain suddenly grabbed my ankles. Remington whipped his belt off, the leather whispering through his trouser loops. If this was just going to be another spanking, I wassoready for my punishment, but I didn’t get the feeling it was going to be that fun this time.
I kicked Cain, breaking his grip on my ankles, and flipped up to my feet. Had they forgotten who the fuck I was?
Remington slipped his belt around my throat and reeled me in close to him, cutting off my airway as I slammed against his chest. I was trapped against the hard length of his body, his cock jutting hard against my ass, as he held me there. The edges of my vision faded to black the more I struggled, the two of us locked together and breathing hard.
