AllFreeNovel
Share Us
Tears fill my eyes and fall to the sides as Gavin starts talking me through the vaginal ultrasound until the only sound we hear is the heartbeat of my child.
“Bullshit!”the sound of Kashton’s bark makes me flinch. “Haidyn wouldn’t do that.”
My watery eyes look up to see Saint glaring at me. I’ve never been more thankful to have duct tape on my face right now. So I don’t have to explain what I did or tell him what Haidyn did.
“No.” Saint shakes his head, also refusing to believe it. “She was never pregnant.”
“Oh, she was.” Ace laughs, and my chest squeezes. “Ashtyn’s mother came to me. Said her daughter was a whore. Addicted to sex. She showed me a picture of her. Then she offered me a job. To fuck her daughter. It wasn’t hard. She liked to party. So I went out, had a friend of hers drug her…” My breathing grows heavy. I wasn’t sure how I never knew it happened. I was sore for days, but I wasn’t sure why. “She bled all over my cock.”
Shame washes over me as I kneel in front of all these men while they talk about me and what I allowed to happen. How stupid I was. Tyson has seen firsthand what the Spade brothers have done to me. No one cares about a woman who spreads her legs for fun. That’s why we’re taught to serve. It’s not about us. It’s about the Lords. My mother tried to explain that to me, but I refused to listen. Thought I’d be different.
“Then Luke fucked everything up when he had that hit put on Adam.” Ace goes on growling. “And you guys brought her to hide her out here.” He shakes his head. “Thankfully I had someone on the inside to keep me updated. Otherwise, I might have never found out she was pregnant.”
Four yearsago
“Congratulations, Ashtyn. You’re pregnant.”
I stare at her, my breath getting caught in my lungs. It can’t be. I don’t believe her.
She tosses the test into the trash can next to her and places her forearms on top of her desk. “What are you going to do if Saint finds out it’s not his?”
“It’s his,” I whisper. I’m a hundred percent sure of that.
She arches a brow at me.
A fresh tear runs down my cheek, and I sniff. “I haven’t been with anyone else.”
“Ashtyn… we need to talk.” Laura sighs. “I didn’t want to tell you this, but you were raped.”
I frown. “No.” I shake my head. “Everything Saint has done to me has been consensual.” I allow him to have his way with me. Even when I fight him, it’s because I want him to overpower me.
“Not by Saint. But a man raped you. In your house before the vow ceremony…”
“No.” I interrupt her. “I bled.” I saw the blood. I was even worried about Saint going down on me afterward.
“I promised your mother I would look after you, and I’m afraid I’ve failed her. I thought…I thought not telling you was the best thing, but you need to know that this baby may very well be from that night.”
Tears burn my eyes, and I drop them to my lap. “I…Saint…”
“He cheated the Lords, Ashtyn. And he will be punished if anyone finds out what he’s done.”
I didn’t wantto believe her. I ran out of her office and into Haidyn. He immediately took me to see Gavin, and the dates lined up. There was no way it could have been Saint’s.
My eyes lift to Saint’s and see he’s facing Ace.
“You’re lying.” Kashton is still in denial. “We were there the night of the ritual. She bled at the ceremony. She hadn’t been with anyone before Saint.”
“That’s what I never figured out…” Ace trails off. “How did you know that I fucked your bitch?” He laughs, and I flinch.
A silence falls over the pits, and the blood rushes in my ears, waiting to see if Saint answers. I never knew how he did it. I never got the chance to ask, and when he brought me back here, I never cared to ask.
“Altus had cameras in her house,” Saint finally answers. “He recorded you raping her and showed it to me.”
What? Cameras in my house? That’s how Saint knew what had happened? Laura said that Saint knew but didn’t tell me how. And that he had cheated at the vow ceremony. That if the Lords knew that I wasn’t a virgin and Saint set it up to look like I was, he’d be stripped of his title. I couldn’t take that chance.
“No.” Ace shakes his head.
Saint fists his hands down by his sides. “I watched it. She was lying on her kitchen floor, begging me to fuck her. Calling out my name while you held her down pretending to be me and fucked her.” Saint shouts, making me flinch, and I cry harder. “I made him a promise that I’d take care of it, and I did.”
