“Asshole, mouth, or the hole Lark left in Gideon’s pelvis,” I suggest immediately.
“A dickless death sounds about right,” Aries chuckles. “I vote for that.”
“Second!” Lark yells out.
“Motion approved?” Silva smirks.
The room unanimously agrees to death by grenade, making my black heart happy.
“Has everyone made their statement on Gideon’s body?” I ask. “Anything else that comes to mind?”
“Devil,” Silva says, looking as if she’s in pain again. “Would someone like to do the honors for me? I’m not feeling so hot.”
“I got you,” Lexi promises, glancing at me expectantly.
Picking up the brand left on the table, I change out the letters.
“Aries,” I drawl. “Would you mind setting the old bags on fire for me after I’m done with my fun?”
Grinning, Aries nods. “That sounds like a great idea.”
Once I give her the brand, Lexi pushes it into an unruined part of Gideon’s body. He screams half heartedly, telling me that it’s time to blow up the human piñata. Too bad there won’t be anything cool inside of him. Just a bag of bones.
I think I’ll need a chocolate bar after this. I’m getting hungry.
Taking down Viv and Beth’s body, I move them to a different part of the basement so as not to accidentally blast them with the grenade. I’m fairly sure that Gideon’s body will absorb it when he explodes, but you can never be too careful.
“You can watch from there,” I tell the girls, pointing to the other side of the basement.
Silva drags herself to a chair over there, hissing as she sits. Yep, my girl needs to go home. She probably needs an x-ray too. I’ll buy a damn machine if I have to.
Gideon makes gurgled noises as I use a knife to scrape out a place in his pelvis for the grenade. He remains alive the entire time, though he’s probably wishing for death.
Life’s a bitch, and only then do you die. Sounds like I’m right on schedule then.
Finding a new home for the grenade in Gideon’s pelvis, I pull the pin and run. The explosion lifts me off my feet, only to make me crash back down several feet away.
“Holy shit!” Briar yells. “Ding, dong, the limpless dick is dead.”
Turning, I grin happily at the mess of body parts I’m leaving behind.
“Maybe we need to burn the whole basement,” Aries suggests.
“That’s what I was thinking,” I agree.
Now that that’s settled, I find the gasoline I left upstairs, away from our fun, and come back to drench everything in the liquid.
“Start with Beth,” I tell Aries. “We’re going to have to run after.”
“That’s fine,” she says, making Beth swallow gasoline as she sputters and wails. “I don’t need long to enjoy this.”
Flicking the lighter, she shoves it into Beth’s mouth, lighting the old girl from the inside out.
“Very nice,” I praise, tossing my lit blow torch in the other direction. “Time to go!”
Picking up Silva carefully in my arms, I run up the stairs with the girls and Sloane right behind me. Unlocking the door at the top of the stairs, we all bail outside as the fire begins to rage in the basement. Slamming the door shut once we’re all out, I blow out a breath.
“Such a great exit,” Aiden says, joining us. “Let’s get the fuck out of here before anyone asks questions. Is she okay?”
