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Corvus didn’t give him a reply, his eyes tracking Kit’s every movement.
“You don’t want to do this, man,” he told Corvus, letting out an exasperated sigh, like he was dealing with a fired up toddler rather than one of the most deadly men in the state. “How old are you? Eighteen? Twenty? You’ve got too much to live for. Let it go, man. I’ll crush you.”
A hysterical laugh rose from my throat unbidden, and I hunched over at the force of it, sides aching as tears welled in my eyes.
“What’s so fucking funny?” Kit asked, looking offended.
Dom grabbed Kit’s shoulder, trying to pull him back toward the car. “Come on, Kit. Let’s just go.”
“No,” he said, rolling his shoulders back, shucking Dom off. “I want to know what’s so fucking funny?”
I swiped a tear away from my eye with my knuckle and leaned back against the wall, tugging out a cigarette to put it to my lips. “You should listen to your friend,” I said through the last of the dark laughter still shuddering in my lungs. “Get the fuck out of here.”
Kit looked between Corvus and me. “You know what, fine. I don’t have time for this shit.”
He shook his head, jabbing two fingers in Corvus’ direction. “When you see Ava Jade, tell her I’ll be waiting when she’s ready to come back to a real man.”
Ope.
Corvus rushed him. The self-defense instructor managed to dodge the first swing of his fist, but wasn’t fast enough to evade everything else.
My brother kicked his legs out from under him and he went down hard, eyes wide and empty from the knock to the back of his head.
Corvus crouched over him, not wasting a second before snatching up a fistful of t-shirt to drag him up only to knock him back down with a beautiful throw of his fist.
Kit’s head jerked back, blood spurting from his mouth.
I took a drag of my cigarette.
Corvus hit him again.
Dominique screamed.
Again.
My cock hardened.
Again.
Kit’s eyes rolled back.
“Stop it!” Dominique screamed. “You’re killing him!”
Blood sprayed over my brother’s blackout face. The beast inside on full display.
I shook my head, in awe of him. Aching to join him. But he needed this. This one was his and only his.
Dominique raced in, throwing a roundhouse kick to Corvus’ head. He was knocked to the side for an instant, but it didn’t stop him from getting right back on that motherfucking horse, pummeling him into the flagstone. Painting the entryway red.
Dominique tried again, jumping on his back only to be thrown off, her eyes wet with tears as she coughed, inhaling dirt.
“Please!” she shrieked, and I realized the plea was for me. “Make him stop.”
I took another drag and butted out the cigarette beneath my boot. “Sorry, love. This one’s between my brother and that sorry bastard there.”
Corvus hit Kit once more before dropping his limp body to the ground to lift his chest to the sky, tipping his head back in a feral roar. Breath so hot I could see the faint cloud of it in the night air.
He looked down at his handiwork, upper lip curling, hard breaths expanding his entire torso as he rose back to his full height, fist still clenched like he wasn’t sure if he was done.
