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Maybe another person could have looked at the situation calmly and rationalized the situation. They just happened to be going in the same direction as he was. The rest of the guys were probably all upstairs and Cain was just headed up there to join them. They were desperate for him, and he probably didn’t even notice them.
But in this moment, I was definitely not a rational person. In my mind, I could still feel the cold rough stone underneath my knees as he’d fucked my mouth. I could still taste his cum in the back of my throat. I could still feel the fear battering around in my chest as they’d chased me around in the dark like animals.
A bite was still seared into my neck like he was a fucking wolf who’d just marked me for eternity.
They’d all made it clear over and over that I belonged to them. That my body belonged to them. My soul belonged to them. Everything about me belonged to them.
And here was Cain fucking Hamilton, thinking I didn’t own him right back.
He was in for the biggest fucking wake-up call of his life.
The best way to explain what happened to me then was that I’d lost my grip on humanity. The girl that the Demon had carefully crafted from the desolate misery of my childhood came fully to the surface, pushing away any remnant of the girl I’d been trying so hard to be when I’d first started my new life. Ice leached through my veins, freezing any feelings that could possibly be classified as good.
I grabbed Jenna’s hand. “I’m about to do something completely bat shit crazy. Are you in?”
Jenna’s mouth opened and closed like a fish as she tried to adjust from the whiplash of dancing toEverybodyand then me going allExorciston her.
“Um…yes?” she responded hesitantly.
“Perfect,” I told her calmly as I began to stride through the crowd towards the door.
“Where are we going? What happened? Are you okay?” Jenna whispered urgently as she trotted along beside me.
“You know what’s wrong with men like Cain, Jenna?”
“Ummm…everything?”
“That no one has ever held them accountable for anything. Men like Cain take and they take until you have nothing left to give. And when they’re finally done with you—there’s nothing left of you but a dried-out husk of a person. A corpse.”
“I feel like I’m missing so much,” she mused as we pushed through the front door, out to the porch where a long line was still stretched out down the sidewalk.
It didn’t feel cold anymore. There was so much blind rage flaring through my bloodstream that I probably could have survived walking through Antarctica butt naked if I needed to.
I began to jog down the street, and Jenna huffed as she tried to catch up. “Wait a second,” she called out as she stopped and pulled off the wedges she’d been sporting. She winced as she began to hustle down the sidewalk.
“Just wait here. Or go back to the party. I have to get some…supplies,” I told her, not wanting to be slowed down at all. Not when the need to get back at him was a blinding pulse in my head.
“Is this something I should talk you out of?” she called after me as I sprinted away.
“You couldn’t if you tried,” I responded over my shoulder.
It was like the universe was behind my plan, because one of the Sphinx guys was coming out as I got to the door and I was able to slip in.
I might have had to knock him out in order to stop him from giving me a hard time, but sometimes a little violence was necessary.
The Demon had been a genius. Spawned by the devil for sure. But still a genius. The poison that he’d created that kept his victims awake but paralyzed had taken years to perfect, and I happened to have stolen some before I’d gotten him locked away.
I walked into my closet and reached behind some of the hung clothes, to the back corner, where I’d cut into the thick carpet and the wood underneath to create a little hiding spot. I cackled a bit like a freaking witch from Snow White as I grabbed the vial of the poison and tucked it into my bra. The line separating me from villain status had already been crossed a million times in my life, but I’d felt like I’d done a good job of keeping the evil inside of me tucked away.
Clearly, the box I’d been storing my crazy in had burst right open, because I could feel it rolling across my skin.
At the end of this, only one of us would be standing. The kings or me. But I wondered, if I was the winner, would there be anything left to make the victory even worth it?
I stared at the small bottle in my hand. I didn’t really have a plan; I was kind of just going with whatever popped in my head at the moment, but even if I didn’t come up with anything else, this poison would at least have him feeling helpless for a moment. I wanted him to feel the blind panic that I’d experienced. I wanted him to feel like I held his existence in my hand for just a second.
Yes, I was fully aware of how crazy that all sounded.
I shrugged off the self-doubt as I left the Sphinx and headed back to the party. I was surprised to see Jenna still waiting practically where I’d left her, looking a little blue-tinted from the cold.
