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My nostrils flare, and I march over to him and set him back down on the floor so I can look at him while I seethe with rage. “You’re not keeping a dime of that money. Not a single fucking penny is yours.” I point at Aurora. “She’s the one who gets to decide.”
CHAPTER26
Aurora
I clutchthe bathrobe I stole closer and tie the knot around my waist so no one sees my breasts or pussy before I approach my father. He shivers in his seat, sweat drops rolling down his thick forehead.
He looks broken.
Just like I once did when I spent those nights in that cell, wondering if I’d ever see the light of day again.
“Please … Aurora … Help me out of here.”
His begging does nothing for me. Not anymore. Not since he chose to rat out our position and sell me to save his life.
“You tried to get me to fuck him and his wife,” I say, grinding my teeth so hard I feel like I might break some. “Just to save your own skin.”
Suddenly, a hand is planted on my shoulder. Beast leans over me, holding out his last gun. “I kept this last bullet … for you.” He pushes it into the palm of my hand like it’s his gift to me. Just like I once gave him the gift of hope in the form of a flower, he now gifts me revenge.
My body stiffens under the weight of the weapon.
And slowly but surely, I raise it to my father’s forehead.
“No, no, please, don’t do this,” my father begs, his voice squeaky like a mouse.
Tiny. Insignificant.
Just as how he made me feel for all those years. All those years, locked up in his home like some princess in an ivory tower. All those years of subjugation and humiliation for the simple act of existing the way I am.
“Please, you’re better than this, Aurora,” he murmurs. “I love you.”
“You don’t know what love is,” I hiss back, pulling off the safety. “I loved you with all my heart, and you broke me.”
“I didn’t mean to, but what else was I supposed to do? You would’ve never have been accepted by society,” he mutters.
“Heaccepts me the way I am!” I scream, pointing at Beast.
My father looks defeated. It suits him well. “I only wanted to help.”
“Help?” I parrot. My finger rests on the trigger, my mind reeling with all the suffering he’s put me through. “You call forcing me to wear these gloves ‘help’? You call giving me to the enemy like something to fuck ‘help’?” Boiling with anger, I shake my head. “You sold me out and betrayed me!”
So this is how it feels. This is the kind of power that courses through Beast’s veins.
I shove the gun farther into his head until the skin begins to ripple around the metal.
Years of misery I endured for this moment. This moment where I could punish him for all of the pain he inflicted on me out of his self-absorbed need to make me into something I never was.
He deserves it.
He deserves every inch of pain.
But to end it now would mean silence.
No more revenge.
No more suffering.
And that … that’s a fate too easy for him.
