Page 53 of Absentia Mori

Her fingers shake, and she won’t look up from the floor. Fuck. She’s having a fucking panic attack. I know them all too well.

“Libra, look at me. You’re safe now. I promise you. Go get my knife out of the top drawer. You can hold it to my throat while you untie me if it makes you feel better.” I won’t allow her to fall apart. Not now.

“I-I’ve done enough. I just need to go before I get you into any more trouble. The guards won’t hurt you.” She inches back toward the door.

“But they’ll hurtyou,” Raithe growls. “Let us protect you like we failed to do back at Tenebrose.”

“We’re going to destroy everyone who’s ever hurt us. Together,” Fabien adds.

A loud bang erupts next door. Libra’s room. Fuck. One of the orderlies yells, “Where the fuck is she?”

My heart pounds. I have one hand free but I can’t let her see that or she won’t trust me. So I keep it in the strap. “They will come in here next. Please. Just cut one of my wrists loose and I’ll do the rest.”

She jumps as they bang on our door.

Fabien hisses. “Let’s go, little freak. Snap the fuck out of it and cut us free. Then I’ll show you what happens to those who hurt our girl.”

She sucks in a deep breath and a light comes back on in her eyes. “Fuck. Shit.” She rushes over to me and unbuckles the strap that holds my left wrist. Before she can see, I pretend to undo my right one while she works on my ankles.

As I throw my clothes on, I nod toward the beds. “Get Raithe and Fabien out. Now.”

And she does.

Fabien grabs her and tilts her back. “Fuck, you’re one crazy bitch. I think I’m in love.” She whimpers as he plants a deep kiss on her lips.

After they both scramble to put on their pants, Raithe charges toward the door and yanks it open, not waiting for them to break it down. The orderlies barrel in and all hell breaks fucking loose.

I snap one of the orderlies’ necks before he’s taken two steps inside our room. Four more file in behind him. I don’t wait for them to come to me. With swift steps, I take out another one with my bare hands, punching my thumbs through his eye sockets. I spin him around to meet Mordecai’s knife, impaling his neck on it.

“Let’s fucking go.”

The walls are splattered with blood. So much fucking blood. It soaks my hands red. The next one towers over me, but I’m not concerned. I punch him in the throat, staggering him back. He grunts through it and charges forward again. I duck as he takes a lazy swing at my head. Fucking brute might be big, but he’s slow and unsteady on his feet.

I grab him by the head and jam my fingers in his ears, squeezing until blood drips from his eyes. He roars as he fallsto the floor, writhing in agony on his way to meet the reaper. I stomp on his head to finish the job.

Fabien laughs and hollers as he pins one to the floor. He butchers him with his own knife, stabbing him over and over again, far past the man’s expiration. Blood streaks his face, making him look like a demon from your worst nightmare. He smears it all over him, wearing it like warrior paint.

Mordecai moves with eloquence. He spins like a dancer, making small vicious cuts on the remaining two as they circle him. They can’t get close to him no matter how hard they try. He wields his knife with expert force and precision. “Come here, prick,” he snarls as he thrusts the blade into one of their stomachs.

Libra cries out and charges forward, jumping on the back of the other one. She rakes her nails down his face, streaking him with blood, offering him up to Mordecai like a holy sacrament. It’s a fucking blood bath.

Their gurgled cries ring out as we massacre each one of them. Mordecai tosses her the knife as another one approaches. He grips the shorter orderly in a headlock from behind. Libra jams the knife into his puffed-out chest. She screams in his face as she uses all her strength to drive it in deep. I jump to her side and wrap my hands around hers, giving her my strength too. The orderly’s eyes bulge as blood spurts from his mouth. It lands on her face, but she doesn’t flinch. Her eyes are wild, and she smiles as the life leaves his eyes.

My beautiful bloody vixen. Our little freak.

I clasp my fingers through hers and pull her to my chest. “Such a good fucking girl.”

She whimpers at my approval, her blue-green eyes sparkling amidst a sea of red. “I fight for what’smine.”

My cock hardens at her words. The possessive way she claims us. It’s all I can do from slamming her up against the wall andfucking her senseless. I nuzzle her neck, planting kisses up her jaw. “Keep that pussy nice and wet for me.”

She literally fucking purrs into my chest. I look down to see her hard nipples and piercing rings pressing out from her thin cotton tank top. Fuck. She’s the sexiest goddamn woman I’ve ever seen.

“More are coming. Let’s get the fuck out of here,” Mordecai calls out.

Fabien laughs again. “Good. I’m gonna slaughter every last one of them.”

We can’t leave any of them alive. Not after what they’ve done to all of us. To the ones who haunt these halls. I nod in agreement. “Fabien’s right. Let’s kill them all.”

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