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“Aye, sir!” A collective agreement shakes through the house followed by hefty footsteps clamouring outside.
As I load my guns and sheath my knives, I swear. This must have been her and her father’s plan all along. The deceptive witch! It sickens me to think that I wasted one second comparing her to my mother. Of course, her actions weren’t selfless. She’d already concocted a plan of escape. Together, they sat in that cellar, conspiring and laughing at me. They put on quite the show and again, like the bloody idiot that I’m continuously proved to be, I bought into their charade. I knew she was too good to be true.
Heat stings my eyes and blazes through my fingertips. I can’t promise to hold myself back from killing her at first sight, but if I can manage to be smart enough just this once, she might lead us to her father. Then I’ll kill her. And him.
Taking the stairs a few at a time, I rush through the already opened door. I don’t know why seeing my guards still standing at their posts shocks me. But of course, they are. It makes sense. The house is in the perfect position to be robbed and seized with everyone, but the housekeeper’s gone. But I don’t feel gratitude or pride in their sense of duty. Instead, I march around to the side of the house to find the guards who let her escape.
The two numb sculls straighten when they see me. In a few seconds, I register the growing redness of their skin before I blast them with my fists, knocking them out cold. As I slap one of them awake, he mutters his apologies to me.
I pull my pistol from my waist and press it to his skull. “Did you aid her escape?” I shout in his face.
He tries to shake his head, but my hand holds him still. “N-n-no, sir.” He forces out the words through his seized jaw.
Lies. She must have gotten help from someone. It’s far too convenient for her to disappear without either of these two ass wipes seeing her. I hit him with the butt of my gun, and as he reaches for his own, I slam his body into the ground, before pulling it from his waist and tossing it away from him. He groans.
“What did she offer you to get you to betray me?” I ask. Sharp edges of pins and needles drag along my bones, my veins, and my organs. The pain is excruciating as I think about them having her before me. Is she even a virgin? Is she pretending to not know what she’s doing with my cock in her mouth? Internally, I yell. I could rip her apart! How stupid can I get? She’ll pay for her bloody deception.
“Nothing!” he yells. “I didn’t touch her.”
My hand tightens around his neck. I can barely hear him as the greens and blues of the outside fade to red. I don’t see him anymore, only the images of them together playing out in my mind. “Did she allow you to taste her? Sex her?” I growl. The veins on my forearms bulge as I press deeper into his neck.
He wheezes and claws at my hands, but I don’t stop until he’s unconscious, and his bones crack. Blazes! Hovering over him with my hands still on his neck, I loosen my hold in my realization that I can’t feel a pulse. I think he’s dead. Ah, cocksucker!
Groaning and hopping over to the other one, I slap him awake. “Sir!” He jumps up. “I’m so sorry. I don’t know what happened,” he starts.
Restraining myself from murdering him too, I slap him again. “Shut up. Where did she go?”
“I-I-I don’t know,” he says.
My teeth press into my lips to hold it together. “What do you mean, you don’t know? It’s your job to know. Did she sex you, too?” I yell.
“What? No!” he says. “I barely even know what she looks like.” He looks genuinely alarmed. I wonder whether the other guy was also telling the truth. My head is spinning. I don’t know what to think.
“Oh,” I mock. “You don’t know what she looks like? Is that what prevented you from seeing her climb out of the friggin’ window and bolt into the woods? Did you think she felt particularly adventurous and chose the window, twenty feet in the air, instead of the door like any other woman you’ve seen dash from here?”
He swallows. “I didn’t see her! I’m telling you the truth. I don’t know how she did it,” he says.
“Oh, I suppose she made herself invisible, then. Did she? She must be quite skilled in the art of magic,” I jeer.
“Sir, by the time I saw the silks, I alerted Lucian…” he continues.
“Ah, so I suppose you did your job then, didn’t you? You’re sticking with your story. You don’t know where she went?” I ask again.
He lowers his head before shaking it. “Sir, if I knew where she went, you know I’d tell you.”
I nod. “Correct me if I’m wrong, here, but you’re pretty bad at your job, aren’t you?” I ask.
“Sir, I didn’t mean to… I don’t know what happened,” he starts. “It was one mistake.”
I rise to my feet. “A very bad mistake.” I shrug before pulling out my weapon and pointing at him.
“No! Sir, ple—” he starts, but his pleas are cut short with the blast of my gun.
For good measure, I shoot the other one as well. He may already have been dead, but it serves me to make sure. It’s clear that under their watch, anyone can slip by. They’re terrible guards and well, I can’t fire them, lest they go out into the world and report all the things they’ve seen. Plus, they had to die, if at least to serve as a lesson to the other guards to always keep their eyes and ears open.
I gather a couple of male servants to carry their bodies toward the stables, with specific instructions to take them past the other guards. It’s a reckless act on my part as I walk alongside the bodies while the other guards watch me. Should they think it noble to retaliate against me, they’d outnumber me as all my men are in the forest searching for Olivia. They all have loaded pistols, but I don’t care. The only thing I care about is making Olivia pay for tricking me and punishing anyone who facilitated her.
Fortunately for me, whether it’s out of respect for my authority or fear of what would happen if my men returned to find me dead, the guards keep their heads held high as if they’ve seen or heard nothing. The dead bodies are placed in the stables for my men to take out back and burn later. In the meantime, I mount Midnight, allowing him to sniff one of the silks before setting out after Olivia.
