As they came closer, I looked her up and down. The clothes she was wearing were oversized and looked weird on her. She was short and had a smaller frame than her sister. Full lips, heart-shaped face, dimples, everything that I liked in a woman had been put together in one person and shoved in my face. Then, to top it off, she was covered in tattoos. Her arms, legs, and even her neck had various designs and words inked on them. The one girl I couldn't have was fucking gorgeous.
"She's got the camera," Swayze said. My eyes drifted to the black strap hanging down over her breasts. I remembered that. She'd taken a photo of us right before climbing the fence. "Still."
And she had a dog with her.
I'd seen it briefly last night, but I hadn't given it a second thought. The black lab bounced beside her dutifully, as if he had no idea his owner was someone important.
My desire turned into fury. I watched them walk by us all and head toward Dennis's cabin. They went inside, and I grabbed Swayze, pulling him along. Together, we stormed over to it and waited for them to come out. While we waited, others came to stand behind us. Everyone knew what this cabin meant to us, and why it wasn't used.
Mattias finally opened the cabin door, and as he came down, he froze.
Domino bumped into him, and her large, doe brown eyes widened with surprise. Her long eyelashes batted rapidly.
“What’s going on here?” Swayze demanded.
“What were you doing in Dennis’s cabin?” I asked.
Her dog came up behind her and pushed through them, bounding down the steps. Chitra caught him and bent down to pet him. Mattias cleared his throat.
“Domino is staying at the camp. This is the only empty cabin left.”
“Why can’t she bunk with some of the other staff?” Swayze demanded. “That cabin has always stayed empty.”
"What is this?" Mattias growled at the staff who were all still hovering. "A fucking show? Go find work to do before I call Marisol in and she gives you something to do."
Everyone but Swayze and I started wandering off, grumbling about missing out on the drama. Once everyone was gone, Mattias stepped down.
"Why doesn't she just stay at the house like you do?" I asked.
"She doesn't want to stay there. Look, I know it's hard, but eventually, we knew we were gonna have to use this cabin. The nearest hotel is still a pain in the ass to get to and from every day, and I'm not driving to go get her. It's not a big deal."
“It’s not a big deal?” I stepped forward, and Domino flinched from behind Mattias. “Our best friend dying because everyone was too busy looking for a girl who didn’t want to be found is no big deal?” I spat on the ground directly in front of her feet. “And now you’re putting her up in the last place he stayed before they took him to the crematorium?”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t know,” she responded. “I can room with someone else.”
Her voice doused my anger. I blinked and stepped back. I looked her over. She was almost cowering. She was so small, she couldn't hurt a fly.
“Domino.” Mattias sighed and stepped between her and me. “Guys, look. Let’s talk. What if we do something nice for Dennis? Memorialize him somehow in the park. What about a sign over at the Gallows?”
I was hearing him, but the words weren't translating. My mind was elsewhere, directly behind him in fact. Domino, the pretty girl with the bright hair, camera around her neck, and dog at her side, was staring at me and blushing. And in return, my heart was pounding faster than usual.
I should hate her, right off the bat, but... I didn't. This wasn't good. As she offered a crooked smile, I could hear the half a million being flushed down the drain. The deviant in me was already imagining her bent over, stripped bare, with my cock in her pussy and Swayze's in her mouth. Fuck Marisol and her plan to see her sister dead. I couldn't kill her, but I could break her.
Rule 9 - Domino
Let people grieve.
Istared at Koi from behind the safety of my brother's shoulder. His gray eyes had only grown more intense with age, and his hair blonder. He had it styled long, but pushed back, with a backward baseball cap covering it all.
Much like me, tattoos covered his skin all over. He was built like it was his job to look hotter than sin.
I’d imagined him many times over the years, but seeing him in person, all grown up was…
My stomach fluttered and only grew worse when I broke eye contact to look over at Swayze. He crossed his arms and glared at me, causing me to duck further behind Mattias.
"I'm glad I caught you guys because I wanted to talk to you about my sister," Mattias said. "Can we go somewhere?"
"What about me?" I piped up.
