I pull my costume back on minus my ripped fishnets and turn back around to my men, who are now fully dressed. Well, obviously, they will never be mine, so maybe I should stop referring to them as my men. “Lead the way,” I say, gesturing to the exit.
They both walk over to me and wrap their fingers through mine on each side of me. “We won’t be able to make it to the store without touching you, so we might as well do it in a way that won’t get us all arrested.” I shake my head and begin walking, pulling them along behind me. If this is all I get from them, I would rather it end sooner rather than later.
We make it to the center of town, and the store is now within view. It is going to break my heart to walk in there and let these two walk away from me. The only sounds coming from any of us are the sound of leaves crunching under our shoes. “It was nice to meet both of you,” I say, trying to sound casual. Well, as casual as a person can sound after getting railed by two men like them all night.
We stop in front of my store, and they turn me to look at them. In the daylight, they are more heart-stopping than I could have imagined. “We really don’t want you to hate us after we leave here today,” Skull says.
“It might suck, but I could never hate either of you.” I give them a halfhearted smile. “If either or both of you ever change your mind about your one night only rule, youknow where to find me.” I say, gesturing to the sign that reads Black Cat Bookstore above us.
They both nod their head and Skull leans down and places a gentle kiss on my lips, followed by Ghost. “Thank you for giving us the opportunity to worship you,” Skull says.
All I can do is nod because I already feel the tears pricking at my eyes. I turn and pull the keys out of my purse to unlock the front door. I look over my shoulder one last time and smile before I pull the door open and hear the familiar jingle of the bell. Nova jumps down off of one of the shelves and follows me into the back room of the store.
I walk over to my backpack I left here last night and pull out an acceptable outfit for today and slide out of my costume.
I really hope Jacob is out of my house when I go home because I need to actually get some sleep tonight. I pull fresh clothes on and walk back towards the front door to turn the open lights on to officially start my day.
That was the best Halloween night of my life.
Epilogue
Jackson
BREAKING NEWS NOVEMBER 8TH
“Hello and welcome to Salem News tonight. My name is Hunter Macalester. The search continues for the twenty nine year old adult male Jacob Smith. Detectives have been searching for a week now with no findings. Smith was last heard from on the morning of November 1 by his assumed girlfriend Amelia Lenix. If anyone knows any information about where Jacob couldbe,we encourage you to reach out to the Salem police department.
“The departments are utilizing all available resources to track tips, possible leads, and find suspects. We urge anyone with any type of information to please contact the police department immediately. The quicker we are able to findhim,the more likely we are to find him alive.”
I switch off the TV and walk back over to the chair where we have Jacob bound and gagged. Beau is standing over him, twirling a knife around his fingers while Jacob tries to scream, with tears running down his cheeks.
“You know, if you weren’t such a scum bag you wouldn’t find yourself in situations like this. Now that we know there are people out in the city looking for you, we might want to hurry and get rid of you before you get us into trouble.” I say, making a slow circle around the chair he is sitting in.
Jacob tries to fight the restraints we have tied around his wrists and ankles, but he isn’t having much luck. The tight gag traps all of his pleas to keep himself alive. “Calm down, we have had you for a week and haven’t even gotten to the fun part yet.”
He continues whimpering and whining. I can feel the fear radiating off of him in waves. When we snatched him the night after Halloween, we never told him who we were or why we were taking him. We figured we would clue him in on that right before we took his miserable life. No one gets to hurt Aria the way he did and just gets away with it. We made it our mission to make sure he rots in hell where he should be.
Beau crouches down and looks Jacob straight in the eyes, “Don’t worry, we will try to make this as fun as we possibly can. Well, for us anyway.” He slides the knife along the back of his left ankle, cutting his Achilles heel. Jacob tries to scream around the gag, but all that comes out is pitiful cries.
The terror in his eyes is the best part. This is the same high I got the night we dragged one of our enemies to his clubhouse after beating him to death. His face is starting to turn pale, probably from blood loss or maybe fear. Either way, we might want to hurry this the fuck up before we lose our chance to tell him who we are.
“We know that you have no clue who we are, but we know exactly who you are. We also know your ex-girlfriend, Aria. You know, the one you hurt by cheating on with her best friend. Thank you for that, by the way. If it wasn’t for you fucking up the best thing that ever happened to you, we wouldn’t have had our chance to worship her the way she deserves.” I say, coming around to crouch down next to Beau in front of Jacob.
His bloodshot eyes look between both of us and it takes him a second, but he finally realizes just who we are and where he has seen us before. His eyes grow wide with recognition and he starts shaking his head. I nod and smile up at him. “Yeah, we figured you would get it eventually. We are the guys who got to leave the Halloween party that night with her. Let me just tell you, I would do anything in this world for that girl. You and your little slut might have been too busy that night to see the hurt and pain in Aria’s eyes when you both showed up in the costumes she bought, but we saw it. That’s the last time you will everdo anything that stupid again. We won’t give you another chance to make her life hell.” I say and Beau stands up to get inches away from his face.
He’s crying so hard now that no sound comes out. Beau brings the knife up to his throat and Jacob shakes his head one more time before Beau slices straight across his throat. Blood starts to pool down his bare chest from the cut and Beau looks at me. “What do you say we get rid of dick face, clean ourselves up, and go get our girl? I don’t think I can wait any longer to taste her again.”
I smile. “That sounds like the perfect plan to me.” He reaches down to help me up and we get to work, cutting up his body to bring to the newest addition to our land in the woods. The hogs will love to take care of him for us.
“I knew we couldn’t have her for just one night.” He says.
“Yeah, well, we might just have to trust our little rabbit with a lot of secrets, but I trust her enough to let her in. There is no one else I would rather spend this life with. We have been safe here for over a year now. I think we are in the clear and can give her the life she deserves.”
“I couldn’t agree more.”
THE END
