And I’m a fucking goner. Her cum-painted lips are too much for me, and I come hard, taking her again with me. She milks my cock and brings me to heaven, and then there’s Orion, roaring his pleasure like a beast.
Damn, how didthisbecome my favorite place to be?
CHAPTER 56
SABLE
I’ma big fan of the boy pretzel, I have to say. I wake up in one once again. Lex at my back, Orion at my front, and my leg over Soren. They are warm and delicious, but I have classes to go to. Without waking them up, I get up, put my nightgown back on, and grab my bag before I sneak away.
It’s getting harder to hide where I’m sleeping. Time is ticking until I’ll have to reveal all my secrets. Soren already knows, but it’s eventually something I will have to share with the rest of them. As I’m thinking about all this, I hear someone coming down the hall. My steps stall. Not wanting Parker or Hadrian to catch me red-handed, I put the key back into my small bag and school my expression. A little excitement sits in my chest as I round the bend. I missed them last night, and I really want to see them.
The smile dies on my lips, and I stop dead when I see Arabella instead.
Rage and a thousand other traces of emotion rush through me at the sight of her long brown hair and dark eyes. The murderous rage I felt while watching that video rises, and I believe without a doubt I could rip her throat out with my teeth. I could end this right now. She places her hand on the touchpadand opens it. Her hand is programmed in. I wonder why she got that privilege when no one else has.
“Sable,” she says with a mocking tone as she turns and finds me standing there. I say nothing, feeling locked inside my body by my own need to harm her.
“Is something wrong?” she asks. “You know you don’t live in this hall anymore, don’t you?”
I try to open my mouth and say something, but the only thing that comes out is a guttural scream as my body unlocks, and I charge her. Images from that video are hot and thick in my mind. She sees and hears my intention, turning to run from me, but it’s not going to work. I grab her by the strands of hair flying behind her and yank her back. I swing as she’s falling, punching her in the face and winding up on top of her as we topple to the floor.
“Dirty, fucking bitch,” I scream as I swing, striking her again and again. She’s nothing compared to the strength of Uncle Carl, so her attempts to fight back are so pitiful that I laugh. My fist connects with her face again and again, switching between landing on soft tissue and bone. Each time she yelps and welts rain across her skin, but it isn’t enough.
Memories of the time they tried to drown me in a bucket fill my mind. Nina’s involvement in that burns, but I understand the importance of a con. Haven’t I run enough of them myself to get how imperative they can be to a person’s survival? I pretended I wanted to fuck Carl before I ended him. I face the ugly truth for the first time as I pummel Arabella, screaming like I’m possessed. Her body goes limp as I strike her. She’s unconscious, and this isn’t sportsmanly, but I can’t pull myself off her.
“Sable!”
My name echoes in the hall, but I can’t stop. Arabella should know this is where we were headed when she fucking raped one of the men I loved and then came back here. Strong arms pull meoff her, and I fight to keep beating the shit out of her. There’s too much rage inside me, and this bitch went down too quickly.
“Stop!” someone shouts as they hold my full body against their warm chest.
Through my tears, I watch Parker kneeling over Arabella, followed by Hadrian, Lex, and Orion.
“What are you doing?” Soren asks as he holds me tight.
Him? He stopped me? His interference is like a dagger to the heart. Is he really choosing her after everything? Does he really care for her enough not to want to see her hurt? Tears spring into my eyes at the mere thought, and I start to wail. Pain from a million sources overwhelms me. I want to kill her, to feel her blood run through my hands, but the only warmth I feel is my own tears dripping down my face.
“Why do you want me to stop? You care about her all of a sudden,” I demand.
“Is she alive, Lex?” Hadrian asks.
Lex kneels and checks her pulse. “Yes.”
“So let me fucking finish!” I try to get away from Soren, but he holds me back firmly.
“I do not care about her. I fucking hate her, but this is not like killing Carl out in the woods where no one will ever even bother to look for him. She is a popular cheerleader from an affluent family, and we do not need another body to get rid of.”
“We shouldn’t be talking about this here,” Hadrian says, looking around the hall, even if the only rooms up here are ours.
“Let me go!” I scream. “I’m not going to kill her, if that’s what you want to hear.” I finally wiggle free and march to my door.
“Sable, come to—” Lex trails off when I turn around and go straight to my door and open it with the ancient key. If I can’t kill her, then they all need to leave me alone before I kill them.
“Sable, talk to me.” Soren follows me.
I pierce him with a look. “You know I’m not going to feel better until she’s dead.”
“Then we’re not going to feel better for a while,” he agrees with me. “Because we have to wait. We cannot kill prominent people with no plan.”
