Page 59 of Their Offering

The men laughed, but they had no idea what they were in for. I began to anticipate seeing all the bodies on the floor, and I actually felt a little excited at the thought of the brothers killing for me. It wouldn’t be long now.

I heard the front door smash open as Keir called my name. I bit my lip to avoid smiling any bigger. They were so dead.

The man in charge motioned for two of his men to go take a look. The two men left to inspect the disturbance and soon after, they screamed. Silence followed. Guns were pointed at the door. I wondered if guns hurt the princes. Could they be hurt by mortal guns?

Within seconds, all three brothers stormed into the room. Aiden had fire blazing in his hands, his hair glowing red. Nicholas’s hair had gone white, his hands blue and covered with shards of ice up to his elbows. Keir’s eyes were solid black, his shadows massive around him.

The men shot, but nothing stopped them. One by one, the bad men went down.

Keir looked at the man holding me, and his eyes darkened. “Let. Her. Go.” His shadows grew as he stomped his way over to us.

The man tossed me aside to the man in charge, a man I couldn’t remember the name of, even though he visited me more than any other man and shot at Keir with a pistol.

Keir wasn’t fazed; his hand shot out and grabbed the man by the throat. As he lifted him off the ground, the man clawed at the hand cutting off his oxygen. Keir threw the man against the wall, then reached back and threw a dagger from behind him into the man’s chest, killing him instantly.

The dark prince turned his head sharply and looked at the man holding me.

“You,” he growled. Did he know the man? The fury filling his eyes seemed personal. He took two massive steps forward and stopped right in front of us.

The man holding me held up a gun, then pressed it into my side.Hard. I gasped from the pressure of the barrel digging into my ribs. I felt myself shake as the impending doom set in. He was going to shoot me. I was going to die.

“You’re going to regret ever hurting Lillian,” Keir said slowly, heatedly. “Let her go and face me like the puny man you are.”

The man chuckled, shaking both of us. He only pressed the gun further into my ribs, making me wince. I closed my eyes and shook my head, tears streaming down my cheeks.

Suddenly, the man pulled away from me, screaming and clutching his side. I watched as a stain of red grew around what looked like a shard of glass. No, not glass: ice. Then, I watched in awe as Keir’s shadows surrounded the man.

“You scared her. You touched her. Youhurther. You’re going to suffer in Hell for eternity for the disgusting things you did.” Keir’s voice was filled with anger. “You were the only one I couldn’t find, but it seems fate wanted me to bring about your demise.”

The only one he couldn’t find? What did that mean? “I wish I could torture you like I did the others…” The others? What the fuck was going on? “But I just need you dead, unable to hurt her ever again, Darrell.”

Darrell. The man who hurt me. His name.

I could only stare, his screams filling the room as Keir’s shadows ripped,literallyripped the man apart right before my eyes. Once the pieces of his body fell to the floor, Keir’s shadows disappeared into him.

“You… You knew who he was,” I said quietly.

“Yes,” was all Keir said.The night we found you in the portal, I learned everything I needed to know about you. I saw their faces.Keir still hadn’t turned to face me.All of them, Lillian. Every. Last. One.

I couldn’t move, still processing the information Keir had just admitted. When the brothers all turned to face me, I stepped back.

The trio looked terrifying as they stood together, surveying the destruction they’d caused. I would have let all three of them take me right there, just as they were in that moment.

Seeing Keir kill the demons last night had caught me off guard, but watching the brothers kill these men for me, knowing those who’d hurt me as a child were all dead, made moisture pool between my legs. These princes were mine, and they were willing to kill for me. I felt so powerful,untouchable.

As they seemed to transform back to their more human-like forms, they looked at me all at once. Had I not been used to their intensity already, I would’ve turned and run when they stalked across the room to me.

Keir was the first to reach me, gripping my face in his hands. “Are you okay? Did they hurt you?”

“I’m fine. Really.” I smiled at him, and my heart stopped when he returned the smile. It was small, but it was the first one he’d given me since coming back to Earth.

I was thankful for what Keir had done for me. I wasn’t sure when or how, but revenge had been served thanks to my dark prince. I couldn’t think of a way to thank him, so I just kept smiling.

He turned and faced his brothers. “I told you we should’ve come inside with her.”

The twins pushed him out of the way and fussed over me. I kept telling them I was fine, but they didn’t stop until they’d checked every part of me for any sort of injury.

Once they were sure I wasn’t hurt, we turned our attention to my mom, who was still tied to the chair. She wasn’t sobbing anymore; she was in a state of shock. She kept looking between us and the bodies on the floor.

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