Total pages in book: 48
Estimated words: 44774 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 224(@200wpm)___ 179(@250wpm)___ 149(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 44774 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 224(@200wpm)___ 179(@250wpm)___ 149(@300wpm)
She shrugged one shoulder. “Don’t take my word for it. Ask any of the other girls. They’ll tell you the same thing. A property patch is like puttin’ a ring on it.”
“Whatever.” I turned back to the window. I needed Styx. Needed his reassurance. I believed him, so if he told me she was lying, I wouldn’t question it. But right now, I was raw. Probably because the men who’d turned my life upside down were in this very place where I needed to find refuge. If it weren’t for Styx, I’d be running as hard as I could go back to the Bones compound. I wouldn’t have Styx, but I knew they’d let me have a home there if I needed it. And no one there had tried to take Styx from me except for this fucking bitch.
But I was built from sterner stuff than that. I might not be what my pap always wanted me to be, but I was Styx’s woman.
Raising my chin I pointed to the door. “I want you out of here. This may not be my room, but I’m living here until Styx says otherwise, and I don’t want to share the place with you.”
She laughed before sitting up. I winced when the heel of her boot scratched the leather of the couch. “Why don’t you make me? Fucking hillbilly.”
Oh… it was on.
* * *
Styx
The confrontation with my half brothers and cousins went better than I’d hoped. That is to say we got them inside the compound almost immediately and carted their asses to our interrogation room. It didn’t take long for them to be sobbing like little babies. I was in great shape, but beating the shit out of seven men was more than I was physically capable of. So all my brothers took a turn. Including Thorn. In fact, Thorn did most of the heavy hitting. He left the little stuff -- like removing fingernails and toenails -- to Beast. I’d never seen the man relish a task so much.
“I’d normally spare you this kind of shit,” Beast had told one of them. Couldn’t remember his name. Tried hard my whole adult life to forget that branch of the family tree. “But any man who takes a gang of men to rape a single, helpless woman deserves every fuckin’ thing we can throw at him. And believe me. What I’m doin’ is a cakewalk compared to what the women are gettin’ ready to do.” He actually chuckled. “And that man over there?” He pointed to Doc, who stood leaning against the wall with his arms crossed, a little grin on his face. “He’s here to make sure you don’t pass out or die before we’re ready.” Yeah. The whimpers and pleas from the seven men were music to my fucking ears.
Then Venus had her turn. She tag-teamed with Millie, Shadow’s woman, even though she and Shadow weren’t patched members of Salvation’s Bane. Venus was a patched member, and the three of them were very close.
Ripper had laid out what he’d dug up on the men, including their rape of Jolene. That included the rapes and deaths of several more women. Apparently, one of the cousins worked in law enforcement in Williamson. He’d managed to steer any investigation away from them, so they’d gotten away with dozens of rapes and more than a few murders. All them women and older girls. Venus hadn’t been as kind as the rest of us. Millie watched on with a bored expression on her face. She supplied the commentary to Venus’s action, recording the entire thing. Not that we’d ever put up evidence of this on the Internet. She just wanted to humiliate the bastards like they’d humiliated and hurt other women like Jolene.
Millie and Venus cackled as they watched the video when Doc called a momentary halt to let them recover with some fluids. Millie had made fun of the men as they described what they looked like in vivid detail.
“Oh, look,” Venus said with fake sympathy in her accented English. “He’s bleeding. I bet that hurt.”
“Did baseball bat hurt, little man?” Millie grinned as she taunted Clyde, my other half-brother. Venus and Millie had taken the serial raping very seriously. They’d said they couldn’t make them experience over and over what it was like to be raped, so they were doing it all at once. The man just whimpered. Blood dripped from his mouth to pool on the floor. Because me, Beast and Poison had pulled out all his teeth. One at a time.
Venus snorted. “Nyet. He can take it. Hand me bat I made special. I think he’s ready for that.”
Milly chuckled. “This should be fun.” She turned to one of the cousins. I think it was Jacob. Hard to tell, he was beaten so badly. “I know you can’t see with your eyes swollen shut, but since your ass is next, I thought you might want to know what’s coming.” She snagged a wooden bat from the stack of implements.