She did, but you claimed her anyway,Ares’ voice floated in my mind.You’ve always been an asshole like that.
I chuckled, finally realizing the extent of my insanity.
She cradled my face, pulling me onto her lap, her falling tears wetting my face. I closed my eyes and let out a harsh exhale, glad knowing she was alright.
“Where the hell is Vanessa?” Carson barked out, fury lacing his tone.
“She was watching my back when I took aim. She’s behind the trees, safe. I made sure she was safe,” she whispered, running her fingers through my hair, pushing it out of my face.
Oh, how the tables have turned.
She leaned in and placed her lips on my forehead. My mind and body was battling to stay awake, battling as it tried to decipher every emotion that ran through me.
“Vik, you asshole. You’re no longer one person anymore. You are the other half of me. You’re going to have to accept it because right now? I just about burned the world down to get back to you. I shot your own fucking brother to bring you back to me.”
Epilogue
Five months later - Inés
“What the helldo you think you’re doing?” I yelled.
“What does it look like I’m doing? I’m building a damn house.”
We made our new home a few miles from the western beaches. Carson decided to settle another mile out from us, while Amir told us he needed to find another purpose in life. I think he just couldn’t handle all the sex that was happening around him constantly.
“A house… for a cat? Why can’t the cat just live inside with us?”
He turned to look at me as if I lost my mind when the truth was, he had lost his mind the moment we relocated and came across a lost kitten in the woods, stuck in the brushes.
He named her Angel. He claimed that was why she came to him when it was all done. When Black Hollow was no more. We heard from some vagabonds we crossed that Clan Shay and Letos took over the territory much to Clan Disaris’ dismay.
Not that it mattered to us anymore. It took me weeks to convince Vik to leave that life behind, the one that took him away from my arms. We were given a second chance at life, and I wasn’t going to pass it up.
We left his brother amongst the corpses as Carson and Amir carried Vik’s body to a safer location to tend to his wound and splint his fracture. They created makeshift crutches for him until we came across an abandoned town on our travels where we found metal ones for him to use.
It took him a few more weeks until he was willing to part from the mask—his ex wife’s mask. It took much convincing in the middle of the night that I needed access to his mouth without being hindered by an old beat up piece of cloth.
“I’m tired of this shit, Vik,” I complained, touching his mask.
“You shouldn’t be,” he snarked.
I tore off his mask and he growled but I cut it off by licking him across the lips. His breath stuttered as I caressed his face, then climbed to sit on top of it.
“I need a doctor to give me a check up. Do you happen to know of any?” I whispered as I lowered my naked pussy onto his face.
He groaned, grabbing my ass roughly and pulling it closer to his mouth so that he could get a taste.
The other men were sleeping about five feet away, the fires of our camp having died a few hours ago. We were able to scavenge some tents from the abandoned stores, so it provided us with a small semblance of privacy for perfect moments like these when we stopped for the night.
“Why do you need a checkup? Have you been bad? Have you been doing naughty things to this pussy here?” he asked as his tongue swiped up to my clit, swirling and sucking it into his mouth.
I gasped and leaned over his head with my hands against the ground, trying not to suffocate him.
He was doing wicked things with his tongue as he pretended to ‘check out’ my troubles.
“It’s been feeling, I don’t know… empty. What should I do, doctor?” I whined softly as he dove his tongue inside of me, flicking it up against my g spot.
“You know I take payment before I can see you,” he mouthed against my skin.
