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What the fuck just happened? A second ago the three of them were professing to have my back and offering to help me commit triple murder and now…this?
I’m still on my knees on the floor when Axel bends down before me.
“I’m the one supposed to be kneeling for this, but this works too. You can spend a lifetime thanking me for everything I’ve done for you. Starting now.” He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a small black box, tossing it into my lap. I fumble but manage to catch it.
“What is this?” I ask, staring at what’s inside.
I mean, I know what it is. But he must have lost all his fucking faculties if he thinks he can give me this and I’ll justacceptit.
“You know what it is, Odile. Put it on.”
“No.”
“Put it the fuck on. Now, Odi!” he barks.
“No. Fuck you.” I shake my head. There’s no heat to my words, because frankly, his audacity has stolen my power of speech. He’s just told the other two to lock me in a box, and he thinks I’m going to willingly wear hisringon my finger? He’s fucking insane.
“Yes.” He grabs my left hand, and although I screw my fingers into the tightest fist I can manage, he easily uncurls them and wrenches the ring onto my fourth finger. I feel sick. My stomach lurches and I swallow hard to keep the bile down. I won’t give him the satisfaction. “And keep it on or so help me god I will find a way to fuse it to your bone so that it can never be removed.”
“Why are you doing this?” I demand through my clenched teeth. The urge to lash out at him is overwhelming. But he still had hold of my left hand and I can’t reach my blade with my right in this position.
“Because you need to be mine. Because you, Rose, and that unborn baby remain my father’s property until the hunting games are complete with the ceremony that will bind you to me forever. The wedding is in a weeks’ time. We probably could have waited longer, given you time to get used to the idea, but now with a bun in the oven, it can’t wait. You’ll meet with the wedding planner at the house tomorrow.”
How can I belong to Axel’s father? This makes no sense. There’s no way in hell I’m switching one captor for another though. If Axel thinks he can own me, he has a rude awakening coming.
“Over my dead body, will I,” I snap, still reeling from all the things he’s said.
Still crouching down before me, he reaches out and runs a gentle hand down my face before grabbing my chin and forcing me to look at him. His grip is bruising, brutal. He’s a stranger,not the man who vowed to help me kill everyone who wronged me. Does he put himself on that list? Does it even matter?
“I haven’t kept you alive all these years just to kill you, but if you push me on this Odile, once we are married and you’re mine to do what I want with you, I might just arrange it. Once you’ve given me a son to continue my legacy, that is. Seeing as a daughter is fucking useless to me.”
He releases my face with such force that I fall back on my ass as he walks away, telling the others, “Now get her out of my sight. And don’t fucking talk to her!”
“Do you hear me, boy?” My father snarls. Even the woman – a new one – below him tenses and quiets.
We can all sense the danger in the room.
I nod.
“What did you say? Speak up, boy!”
“Y-yes sir.”
“Fucking pathetic!”
I wince at the venom in his voice. I shouldn’t have hesitated. He hates weakness. I need to be stronger.
“Look at me!”
My eyes snap to his, the fury in his features unmissable. “This is on you. I want you to remember this, boy.Youdid this!” He waves his knife at me with every word, still slamming into the woman bent before him.
Does she know? She’s so quiet. So still. There’s absolute terror on her face. Denial in her eyes. She must still be hoping?—
My father slowly draws the blade across her throat and her eyes widen in shock. Disbelief. There’s no acceptance because it doesn’t have time to register.
My father carries on thrusting, eventually shoving the corpse away when he’s unable to find his release.
It’s only once she’s lifeless on the floor and staring up at me with wide, dead eyes, that my dick twitches in interest.
