Reserved for special occasions like this.
Matching both of their stances, I fold my arms across my chest, crossing my foot across my ankle. “What makes you so sure it’s Regina that killed them?” I ask, my gaze shifting from my sister to Barry.
Louisa barks out a weak laugh, but it’s shaky as she looks me up and down. “Oh please.”
I wet my lip and cock my head, my glare lazily going back to my sister. I hope I’m about to rock her fucking world, the same way her secrets did to mine.
“If I’m not mistaken, Clarke White did some testing for the Omnia, didn’t he? The women you abduct and abuse? When you found him, I bet his results showed drugs were in his system along with a stab wound to his left side, from a five-inch blade.Not to mention his ass was handled a little bit before he got that injury.”
I release a bored-sounding sigh. “Then there’s your Sumus members, the ones that seem to never have gone far enough to meet your elite standards. Still considered clients, but you’re missing around…eight of them over five years, am I right? I can rhyme the names and causes of death if you’d like? You wouldn’t even need to put a gun to my head for me to tell you.”
His movements are fast.
But not fast enough.
Barry’s face is inches from mine within a second, seemingly looking to test my reflexes.
Throwing my elbow upwards, I catch him right in the nose before he can grab me, flipping him around and taking his feet out beneath him with one hard kick from mine.
He drops to his knees as blood splatters across the floor, and I grip him against my thighs in a head lock, my forearm clamped against his windpipe. “However, ifIhad a gun, it would have already sent your brain matter over mysister. But bullets often bore me. The fun’s over too quickly in my experience. Now, if I had a blade, you’d be dead the way I prefer, Barry.” I tighten the pressure as he chokes. “Don’t fuck with me. I fuck back twice as hard.”
I lazily drag my gaze up towards the source of the gasp. Louisa’s bottom lip has a tinge of a tremble when she whispers, “Oh my God.”
Yeah, I hope you’re fucking seeing me for who I am, Louisa.
I’m the one responsible for fucking up your society’s plans. Who’s been plotting to take you all down for years.
That’s the biggest puzzle of them all.
I’m certain the smirk that creeps up my face would send the devil quivering. I’ll have to show Saint it when I make it back.“That’s right, Louisa. I’ve got a few secrets just like you. Guess it’s in our DNA?”
Barry’s strangled laughter sounds beneath me. “You Kent women, always causing fucking trouble.”
I ignore him and tighten my arm against him as he pathetically struggles. My grip doesn’t loosen up, even when his nails bite into my forearms.
I’m lapping up the opportunity to witness firsthand my sister falling from her stride, her eyes wide and wild as she stares at me. Like she doesn’t know who I am.
“Take a good fucking look, Louisa. It wasmewho joined Saint for your sick fucking event. It wasmeyou spoke to sending out a hit on him. And it wasmewho’s killed every single one of your fucked-up followers you’ve lost these past five years. You knew all along that Conrad raped me, and you saidnothing. You didnothing. When Saint and I tear your society apart, I’m going to make sure I engrave the look on your face to my memory. You’re already fucking dead to me, Louisa.”
My forearm relaxes off Barry’s neck, and I take a fistful of his hair to yank his head back to me. “You get all that, Barry?”
He sucks through the oxygen getting back into his lungs. “You seem to like keeping yourself busy, Indie. And that’sgood. Keep it up for when Conrad pays you a visit. Lord knows the man loves nothing more than spending time down here with his new pets.”
I didn’t want it to be like this. I had plans for so much more.
The moment I saw what he did to my mom, I had a wrath surge through me that would have put Saint’s to shame.
He doesn’t deserve this, but it’s my one and only chance.
Both my hands grip his head, twisting it so hard his eyes almost meet mine, and I could bet a whole number of the vertebrae snap as his skull disconnects with his spine.
The crack that thuds through the cell makes me shudder; it almost sounds like a muffled thump of stone. I feel it vibrate through my bones.
And when his lifeless body slumps forward, I let my potent gaze wander to my sibling.
The colour in her normally warm face has left the room, and another first is gifted to me.
She’s stunned into a deathly silence.
