The door banged, Russell’s voice saying nasty shit coming from behind.
The boy pushed the wardrobe and came with me through the secret door. I guided him to the right tile in the ceiling. Then he lifted me and placed me up there. “I’ll go take care of the son of a bitch.”
“No, no. Come hide with me. Slasher will be here any minute.”
“The least I can do is off the bastard who did this to you on my watch.”
“What fucking watch? You’re the one who were supposed to be watched. Come up.”
“I can’t, Miss Legend. I don’t trust myself clustered with you and all that blood. Stay alive.” He put the tile back.
I inspected the stab. No more blood was coming out. Was it vampire blood working to heal it? The last time it took hours for my wound to close. It didn’t work momentarily like they show in movies.
I tilted my head back in despair, holding my breath and my belly.I just have to stay up. Slasher will be here. And you have to stay in until he comes for us.
The drowsiness hit hard. My head was swimming. Then another pain shot down my pelvis, threatening to knock me out.
This isn’t just pain. This is a contraction. I’m having the fucking contractions.
“Just in time.”
A wild gasp rattled in my throat when I saw Damien sitting right next to me.
“Hello, Vixen.”
“This is not real. I passed out, and you’re in my head again.” I hoped.
“Does this feel unreal to you?”
Suddenly, I was dragged and laid on my back. A sharp pain horizontally slashed the skin under the bulge of my belly where my uterus was supposed to be. A bellowing scream ripped from my lungs. “Don’t touch me!”
“You left me no choice, darling.”
I tried to kick him, do anything, but I was paralyzed. Yet I felt every shred of pain tearing my body and heart. “Please, don’t hurt my baby.”
“Of course not. I will take very good care of your precious children. I’ll treat the girls as my own. You’re having twin girls, by the way. And when they grow up, and their future mother finally knows they are beautifully evil, she will forsake the other three hideous mates and come live with us, her real family, where we truly belonged.”
“What are you talking about?” I blubbered.
“My Isabella is…a bit difficult. Don’t get me wrong, I love her to flames, but she’s…good. It irritates me to a great extent. The plan I had for her was to rule the underworld together, but like you, she had fallen for four at once, and tricked me into this happy life together on earth charade.
“I couldn’t just say no. when your queen is finally in your arms, you don’t push her away. So I came up with another plan. It involved an evil bitch like you and a bunch of horny monsters that are no less terrible. Seduce them into giving me their spawn so I can make Isabella see the future through my eyes.”
I wanted to spit in his face, but my mouth was too dry. “I thought you only wanted to give your barren woman a baby. I thought you were quitting, making me the new devil. Wasn’t that what you were offering me?”
“You know better than to believe the devil, don’t you? Isn’t that what you told the idiot who has made my plan much easier to achieve? Again, don’t get me wrong, I was going to give you the kingdom until Isabella came back to her senses. I truly admire you, Vixen. But I was going to take it back, of course.”
He glanced at my abdomen. “Sorry to interrupt our conversation. With vampire blood in your system, I have to go in before the incision closes.” He pushed his hand inside me, and I shrieked in pain. “Now about what you were saying… You refused the offer. I’m glad you did, though. Because now that you’re going to die, Isabella won’t show any resistance taking the girls, unlike when she knows their real mother abandoned them for a piece of hell. She is so good she might have tried to sway your mind and give them back to you.” He rolled his eyes as if he couldn’t believe anyone would do that. “Okay, deep breath. I’m taking them out.”
I screamed at the top of my lungs and screamed again and again to no avail. He snatched my babies out of me. They were covered in blood as the devil held them in his arms. Then he touched their faces, and they began to cry.
Tears blurred my vision. I wished for death to come swallow me. This pain in my body couldn’t begin to compare to the one in my soul. It was unbearable on all levels.
“I’m not evil, Damien. If I was, I would have accepted your fucking offer, but I didn’t. I’ve made so many mistakes, I know. But I tried to set everything right again. Even if I was a miserable bitch as you say, my babies aren’t evil. They don’t deserve this. They don’t deserve this, Goddamn you!”
“Oh, Vixen, you are so dark and hideous on the inside it’s heart-melting. You’re just not aware of your potential yet.” He gazed at the babies with admiration. “Or theirs. Don’t worry. They will blossom with me.”
“Fuck you!”
