Page 98 of Ruthless God

I click on my father’s name and hold the phone to my ear. It rings three times before he picks up.

“I’m not killing Lyrical, and I’ll have your head once I’m done with you.”

I tap the End button.

When I get on the plane, I fly back to North Haven. Once I make it to the mansion on campus, I walk in to find Jameson and Keanu sitting on the couch playing on the PlayStation Five. Keanu takes out his gun and points it at me, but when he realizes who I am, he places his gun back on the coffee table.

“Motherfucker, have you heard of knocking? I could have blown your head off. You’re back early from your honeymoon trip.” He gets up from the couch.

A girl is naked with her hands tied behind her back. A blindfold covers her eyes and a gag is in her mouth. Dried-up residue smears her face and I’m assuming it’s cum. She’s propped up on her knees with her head bowed.

I raise my brow.

“This bitch stole three million dollars from me, so I’m using her body as payment. Before I kill her,” Keanu answers, slapping her across the face.

“How did she get a hold of your bank account information?” I question, folding my arms across my chest and leaning against the wall.

He yanks her by the hair. I realize it’s the same blonde chick who asked to be my pet earlier this semester at a party.

“She waited until I was asleep and stole my credit card.”

Jameson tosses the controller onto the end table and gets up from the couch.

“Where is Lyrical?”

“She’s staying at her parents’ house because we had a fight.”

When I checked the tracker on my phone, that was her last location, and she hasn’t left since.

Has she told her father everything? It doesn’t matter at this point. I’ll have to prepare for the worst, for when her father attacks me, when I show up there begging to talk to her.

I’m not going to tell Jameson and Keanu that she’s threatening me with divorce, because she isn’t going to get it.

“The plan failed. Your father noticed a tracker on his car. I wouldn’t be surprised that he is on to us.” Jameson pulls a bag of Skittles from his pockets and pops one in the mouth.

“He sent me messages saying he’s going to take care of me for marrying her. He knows that since I married her, he can’t touchher unless he wants there to be a full investigation. I’m sure he’s looking for a loophole.”

“I followed your father while you were gone,” Jameson says. “He has been conning the mayor out of money. Screwing over people at the club. And he meets at some mansion out in the middle of nowhere. I can’t get close to it because they have cameras everywhere.”

“We have another problem. Lyrical knows about my father wanting her dead, so she might tell her father and it might start a bloodbath between our families. I don’t want my mother to be caught up in the middle of it, nor her mother. My father won’t hesitate to kill her parents, and her father will do the same thing.”

Keanu removes his gun from the coffee table and scratches his head with the butt of it. “What’s the plan?”

“I’ll talk to Clemon, if he’ll let me. Then we’ll go from there. Until then, keep a lookout for my father. He’s filled with rage and is unpredictable.”

Keanu puts the gun to the girl’s head and pulls the trigger. Her lifeless body hits the floor, getting brain matter on the cream carpet and staining it with blood.

“Got it.”

Lyrical

It’s been two weeks since I broke up with Snow. He sends me text messages every day, telling me how much he misses me and loves me, and he follows me everywhere I go. I almost feel sorry for him, but I remind myself that I have to be strong, and he needs to learn that he can’t keep things from me. That I’m supposed to be first in his life.

When I was out with Winter and Lilac last night, he broke a man’s hand for grabbing my arm. Every time a guy would speak to me, he blocks their view and scares them off with threats. I don’t say anything. I wasn’t entertaining any of the guys, they were only trying to strike a friendly conversation.

I expect this behavior from Snow; he has always been controlling and manipulative—and revengeful. But I thought we agreed that we were a team. I knew he was getting revenge on me by making me his sex doll, but I didn’t know that he had an order to kill me. That he was supposed to marry Savannah. His father wanted to kill me because he wants revenge for Bailey’s death,which makes sense why he looked disgusted at me when it came out that I actually killed her.

I’m always going to be second to Snow.

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