“I’m so sorry,” I say as his pain becomes mine and I place a light kiss at the corner of his mouth. “Let’s go home.”
* * *
Nate
As we make our way back home, I try to expel the anger that still runs rampant through my body.
Lucas.
Jessica.
Zoey.
Kat.
Stefan.
Lucas had been working with Jessica. She turned on me when she knew she couldn’t make me fall for her or let her suck my dick. Woman scorned and all that… except she wasn’t scorned because she was never mine, and I sure as shit was never hers.
When I turned up at The Lodge, making my way as quietly as I could through the place, I knew that I needed to stay focussed to get the two women that mean more than anything to me out alive. Being a hard-faced bastard all of these years came in quite handy, because I was able to turn my emotions down a notch and tap into my deadly side. The side of me that I have perfected over the years. The killer inside of me knew what he had to do in order to save Kat and Zoey and make sure I lived too…
I could hear a female voice as I made my way along the hallway. I had quietly taken out anyone standing guard on my way here, and my men were taking care of the rest that were lurking about the place. The beauty of a silencer is that your enemies don’t even get an inkling of you creeping up behind them to end their life. And Jessica sure as hell will have no idea that she has been left open and unprotected as I come for her.
I pause outside the room as it all goes quiet, and then another voice has rage searing through me like a wildfire.
“Baby sis, I’m sorry it had to end like this… well, actually, I’m not really, and I will take great pleasure in finally bringing Nate to his fucking knees. It’s his turn to beg for mercy, beg for life, but I’ll never give him that.
“I’ll torture him until he struggles to breath, and then I’ll rip out his fucking heart and lodge a bullet in his brain at the same time, because I couldn’t decide which ending was better, so I’ll just go with both.”
Motherfucking Lucas.
“Lucas, you promised me that I could have my fun before you ended him,” I hear Jessica say.
“And you can. You can jump around on his dick as much as you like until I decide that it is enough,” Lucas says, and I can hear the warning in his tone.
“You two are fucking sick,” I hear Zoey say, and my heart thumps a bit harder hearing that she can speak, and I pray like fuck that she is okay.
“You always knew this about me, sis, and I never pretended to be anything else,” Lucas replies, no shame, no fucks given. “And you know what else, dear sister of mine?”
There is a pause and I hear feet shuffling.
“I’m going to make sure that I retell the story to him over and over again about how his pretty little wife was raped repeatedly as she begged for her life.”
That’s it. That’s where my patience fucking ends.
I stand up and move to the doorway, my gun trained in my hands and ready to fucking shoot.
Lucas has his back to me, as does Jessica, neither of them paying the least bit of attention to anything other than Zoey because they think they have this in bag, and it’s made them sloppy.
I would love to torture Lucas, but there is no time. I see that Kat isn’t in here and his words have me desperate to find where she is. So, I aim the gun and pull the trigger, the bullet landing in the back of his head and his body dropping to the floor. Pretty boring ending really, but I had to act fast.
I turn the gun on Jessica as she whirls around, her mouth dropping open and her eyes wide with shock.
“Nate,” she whispers as her hands come up in front of her. “Please… I didn’t… Please don’t…”
“Spare me the fucking pity party,” I spit as I walk into the room, my eyes quickly sweeping behind the door to make sure that no nasty surprises are lurking. “You fucked with the wrong brother,” I say, and I am about to pull the trigger, when Zoey shouts, “No, Nate.”
I pause my finger and move my eyes to my sister, who has been chained up like a fucking animal.
