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“Mav, come on,” she begs.
Her eyes are filled with tears, her distress over all this clear, but I’m struggling to get past everything else.
The swollen lips, the love bites, the blood stain around her throat.
For a few seconds, I thought it was her blood. But one glance at Reid and I knew exactly who it belonged to. And it quickly became clear what they’d been doing.
I’ve hated him all my life. But I have never hated him as much as I did in that moment, realizing that while I was locked down here, he was upstairs with his hands all over my wife.
Has every motherfucker in this shithole town had a taste of my wife aside from me?
I shake my head, refusing to focus on that question. I don’t need to. I already know the answer.
“He’ll lock you back up in here,” she continues.
“Surprised you don’t want that,” I mutter, hating the level of self-loathing I’ve been reduced to.
“W-what?” she stutters, twisting around to look at me, her brows pinched together.
“You seem to be having plenty of fun without me.” I sound like a little bitch. But I can’t help it. I’m starving, I fucking stink and my mind is spinning at a million miles an hour.
I want answers, but as desperate as I am to hear them, I’m equally as terrified.
What if she’s found a better life here with these two assholes than she’s had with me over the past five years? They sure seem to be giving her something I haven’t.
“No, Mav.” She lowers her head in shame and runs her fingers through her hair. “Please.” She tries to get me moving again. “Just come up and we can talk.”
Unable to ignore the lure of a shower and a real bed, I find my legs moving, and before I know it, I’m out of the cell, my muscles screaming from lack of use as I climb the stairs.
“What room?” Alana asks once we emerge from the basement to find Dumb and Dumber waiting for us in the hallway.
Reid’s hand is still dripping blood. It should give me some kind of satisfaction that he’s hurting. But knowing that hand has been around my wife’s throat wipes that out quite effectively.
“Door opposite mine, little dove,” JD says.
Little dove?
The fuck is that?
“Do you need anything?” he asks, attempting to look like he cares.
Alana’s blue eyes meet mine. I assume she’s waiting for me to say something, but she’s going to be waiting a while. Only one of us needs to do any talking, and it’s not me.
“Food?” she finally says after discovering I’m not going to respond.
“Reid will sort us out a nice family meal,” JD says with a smirk that makes me grunt.“A prawn-free one,” he adds like an asshole.
Alana rolls her eyes at his lame attempt at a joke before tugging on my arm. “Come on.”
With a sigh, I follow her up the stairs, my eyes darting left and right, taking in every inch of the enemy’s house as I can.
Honestly, it’s pretty boring. It looks like… well, a house.
I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting, but this wasn’t it.
When we get to the top of the stairs, hallways spread out to both our left and right, ensuring I don’t miss just how colossal the devil’s home is compared to ours. Or is it just mine now since she’s got herself settled here?
My eyes linger on the door opposite the one she leads me to. Is that where she’s been sleeping? In JD’s bed. Or has she been jumping between the two of them?
