AllFreeNovel
Share Us
He’d see. It was agreatidea.
I owed Corvus a mountain of vengeance after the way he’d been treating me. I was only just getting started.
I took a few slow, shallow breaths as the front door opened, willing my body into stillness.I am dead.
I am dead.
Dead girls don’t breathe.
Dead girls don’t move.
My body grew heavier, each limb forced into a state of relaxation. Limp. Numb. I got ready to only permit myself the shallowest, tiniest of breaths.
“I need a real bed,” I heard Grey mutter from the doorway, continuing their muffled conversation from outside. “I have bruises on top of bruises from that floor.”
“So buy a mattress.”
A pause.
Clearly Grey hadn’t considered that as an option.
Corvus sighed. “Fine. I’ll stay at Briar Hall with her tonight. Tomorrow we’ll go get a fucking cot or some shit. Sound good?”
“Yeah. Thanks, man.”
“I still say it’d be easier to chain her up here.”
Grey chuckled and a wicked sense of satisfaction raced through me.
My blood sang with anticipation, making it almost impossible to stay still as their footfalls echoed down the hall, coming closer.
Oh my god.
This was going to be fuckingpriceless.
They entered the kitchen.
Don’t breathe.
“Good luck with tha—”
Grey’s words abruptly cut off, along with the sound of their footsteps.
“AJ…” Grey’s voice was no more than a whisper. A rough exhalation of air.
He flew into action a split second later. Uncoordinated footfalls pounding on the floor as he rushed to me.
“AJ!”
I could sense him at my side, my heart pounding so loudly in my ears it was a wonder he couldn’t hear it as his hands hovered over me, brushing over the surface of my skin, my clothing, as though he were too afraid to touch me.
A playful whistled tune drifted into the room, along with the sound of crinkling plastic as Rook dragged a tarp into the kitchen as we planned.
But, unlike we planned, his whistled song paused. So did the sound of the tarp dragging over the tile floor. It took everything within me not to open my eyes and see what made him stop.
“Corvus…” Rook trailed off, his brother’s name on his lips almost a question. Confusion evident in his tone.
“What…” Corvus snarled, trailing off as he struggled to inhale. “What did you do?”
