Seeing her with Meekan sent me over the fucking edge. I hate that cunt.
He’s a fucking snake and Toren is too fucking stupid to see her best friend’s brother is head over fucking heels in love with her. Cas planted a bug in her phone and thanks to that we were able to track her location this morning. I never expected to see her with the three of them when we pulled up.
The sight of her there with them was enough to have me wanting to cut their fucking lips off and force her to watch as I did it. Cas would love to add their fingernails to his collection. She is mine to fuck with and no one else’s. Masen had his chance to keep her locked away and safe, but he and their piece of shit father chose to throw her to the fucking wolves. Now, we will tear her to shreds and leave them to clean up the pieces.
“How do you know Meekan?” Her question shatters the silence and the urge to lean across the car and wrap my hand around her throat is fucking strong. I white knuckle the steering wheel as I try to tamper down my rage and remind myself that I need her alive. I need to make her suffer like I have for the past twelve fucking months.
“Who I know and don’t know is none of your concern, Tink. The better question is why the fuck are you living in my house and sneaking out to meet those cocksuckers?” I see her flinch from my words out of the corner of my eye.
“I didn’t meet them.”
“Are you fucking stupid?” I snap and shoot her a glare as we pull into the underground parking. When I park the car I turn and face her, only to see her scowling at me. “You were just with them. Cas and I both saw them. So again, are you stupid?”
“No, you dickbag!” she hisses, then tries to get out of the car, but I hit the lock button, trapping her in here with me. Before she can run her fucking mouth again, I snap my arm out and grip her throat. The move has her eyes widening but not in fear… the dirty bitch fucking likes it!
“Call me that again and see what the fuck I do to you, Tink?—”
“Do whatever the hell you want, Xaden! No one will come save me,” she screams. “To make matters worse, the only guy who has actually helped is the guy who fucking hates me and now I’m trapped in the same car with him because he thinks I met up with my brother. Newsflash, I didn’t. When I got home, Meekan knocked on the door?—”
Anger unfurls inside me. “That cunt came tomyhouse?” I grit out through clenched teeth.
“Yes!”
“Why?”
“He asked me to take a walk with him and I did. He told me I didn’t kill his sister and before he could say more, Masen and Kellan just showed up. I didn’t know they would be there, Xaden. After the other night, do you really think I want to speak to my brother right now?”
My grip on her throat tightens and I lean in closer until there is just a sliver of space left between us. “What you want means nothing to me, Tink.” I release her with a shove and unlockthe doors before I step out and head straight for the elevator. I ignore Cas as he calls out to me, he can deal with the pain in the ass that’s still in my car. I have a job from Lorenzo and I need to prepare for that shit.
The anger from this morning is still riding me hard, that girl is fucking with my head and I’m letting her. I knew agreeing to Cas’s plan was a bad idea. My mental state was always fucked but after that night, I’m so much worse. I crave the kill. I long to hear the screams of my victims and enjoy purging all my anger on their sorry asses as I strip them of their flesh.
“Please, I swear I’ll pay him back, my son—” I cut the sniveling fucker off before he can continue to pour his bullshit story out.
“Your reasons for stealing from the Devlin family mean nothing to me. Your sentence has been decided and death is the only way out for you,” I snarl. My mouth waters at the sight of him chained to the ceiling in one of Lorenzo’s old warehouses. He’s completely nude and shivering from the cold.
I peer over at Cas and smirk, the fucker is licking his lips and hungry for the kill. Just like me, he has a lot of pent up stress that he needs to release. I peel my shirt off and place it on the table across the room, then gaze over the tools that are laid out for us. I know Lorenzo is giving all these snitches to me as a punishment. He blames me for him losing his heir. I allow him to think I’m bothered by it, but the truth is, I love doing this shit. Getting to slice through their skin and hear their screams of agony as I play doctor is fucking heady and always turns me on.
Being in control while the balance of someone’s life hangs in your hands is the greatest rush you will ever feel in your life. No drug can compare. This feeling flowing through me right now is what I live for, what I fucking crave. It’s in this moment that everything inside my head is silenced and I think of nothing, feel nothing and that is why I do this job for Lorenzo without question.
All his pleas become white noise as I grab a scalpel and begin slicing through his skin. Tonight I’m aiming to peel the entirety of his skin from his body without him dying. The closest I got was from the torso up before the cunt stroked out on me. I was sorely disappointed, but at least I got his lips to add to my treasure jar.
My blade slices through his skin like butter. There is no way to describe the sound of flesh peeling from bone. The sound of it reminds me of Frank Sinatra, it’s a melody to my ears and helps ease the monster inside me. For a year I have lived in darkness with no end in sight, except for these moments. Cutting the flesh from bones mutes the voices in my head and I go numb to everything. The past is a distant memory. It’s a small reprieve from the daily demons I fight to stay in control. Since Toren arrived in town they have been going berserk, urging me to cut her just to see the color of her blood. I want to add her lips to my treasure jar and stare at them for hours. I want to break her, see her die inside slowly. I want her pain, agony and self-loathing, I fucking need it.
“Xaden, stop!” I grunt when I’m shoved to the side. I snap out of my trance-like state. I shake my head to clear it, then look down at the fucker I was carving and frown. “What the fuck was that?” Cas hisses. I run my gaze over the cunt strapped to the chair and pinch my lips to the side. I was supposed to peel his flesh from his bones, but instead I’ve butchered the bastard. Chunks of skin are flayed open and flapping, his intestines restin his lap and part of them touches the concrete floor. Blood is pooled around him and the sight of it gets me hard. I turn to Cas and shrug.
“I lost control, the job is done regardless,” I say.
He glowers at me. “You never got the fucking intel Lorenzo wanted!”
I shoot the dick a smirk. “I don’t give a fuck. He wanted the cunt dead and he is. If he wants intel, the useless sack of shit can come down here himself and get his own fucking hands dirty.” I turn away from Cas, pinch the dead fuckers lips together and slice them clean from his face, before turning back to my boy and waving them in his face. “Another set to add to my treasure jar.”
Cas shakes his head. “You are one of the baddest motherfuckers I know, but the moment you saytreasure jarI lose all respect for your stupid ass.”
I scoff and pat the dipshit on the chest. “At least I didn’t offer the last fucker to make a mobile out of his finger nails for his unborn kid.” Cas throws his head back and roars with laughter as I stalk out of there.
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
TOREN
