Page 30 of The Vipers and Their Venom

I pick my tablet up and write on it quickly.What do you think about Lex’s plan to get what we want from Vani?

Saint shrugs. “I think it will work, because it seems she really doesn't want anyone to know she was in the dean's office. The only problem I see with it is if we push it too far, too fast, and she goes running to Daddy.” He smiles, a shark’s grin. “She’s going to need some finessing.”

I nod because I agree. Everyone has a breaking point, and we don't want to push her beyond hers. If she goes running to the club, then not only will we lose the most interesting thing to happen to this place in a long time, but we will risk igniting a warwith the biker club. I'm already fighting a war on one front, so I don't need one on another.

Her father’s right-hand man has pissed me off, but the best way to get back at him is by doing the exact opposite of what he commanded. I’m looking forward to it, too.

We can start gentle, I write. Yes, we don't have to pretend to be nice, because this way this is all out in the open that we're getting what we want in order to give her what she wants. It still doesn't mean that we have to start full on with her, though, does it?You know, they say the best way to break a horse and to have it do whatever you want is with kindness.I push the tablet at him.

“Or in her case, kindness and lots of orgasms until we addle her brain,” Saint says, his smile turning positively sadistic.

I’ve seen him make women come so much they’re sobbing messes and seem genuinely scared of the painful pleasure he’s wringing from their bodies. We tend not to mess around with the girls from the college and go for older women from the nearby towns. They’re often married, up for some fun, and won’t talk. I assume that Saint and Lex are as hard for Vani as I am. If they hadn’t been, I’d maybe have pursued her on my own. I fuck women without them being there, but I must admit I prefer the dynamic of the three of us.

We will start gently with Vani, but I bet at some point, she taps out. Saint, especially, has very particular interests. Until I met him, I thoughtIwas a deviant. Now I think I'm one of the most upstanding members of the community. In comparison, at least. He loves to make the girls cry, and I think he loves it even more when Lex swoops in to save them with his soft act. Something about the way they play off one another is a twisted dynamic but they both feed off it and love it. The women do too, but they aren’t like Vani. She’s younger, and so much softer than the kind we normally play with.

The door bursts open, and Lex walks in.

“Yo,” he says with a smirk. “Not long now.”

“How do you want to play this?” Saint asks. “Straight up tell her, ‘Suck our dicks and we won’t tell’?”

Lex shrugs. “I mean, it works for me. She has a choice. She can say no. Walk away.”

“If she refuses, will we tell Nathaniele what she was doing?” Saint muses.

A thought hits me, and I wince. Shit, there’s something Lex hasn’t considered, Vani too, possibly. I slam my hand on the table to get their attention and shake my head. I sign,no. Then I write.Want her here. She’s fun.

“Fine, so no telling on her even if she says no.” Saint sighs.

I write faster.She’s going to get caught anyway.

Lex frowns.

The cameras! So are you.

“Fuck,” Lex says. “Shit, I never even thought, I was so intrigued by what she was doing.” He thinks for a moment. “Although, if Nathaniele doesn’t know anything’s been taken, then he won’t have a reason to look at the footage. She relocked the door after she left.”

“What did she take?” his twin asks.

“Paperwork of some kind.” Lex punches his fist into his palm. “Fuck, I should have told her to hand it over, find out what’s so interesting that she needs to break into the dean’s office less than twenty-four hours after she arrives.”

“We can always break into her room sometime,” Saint says. “If it’s that important, it’s unlikely she’ll have destroyed them.”

He nods. “You’re right. And maybe Nathaniele won’t notice his paperwork is missing, but we don’t know if the lock held or shows any signs of damage.”

Lex is right.

I scribble down a couple of lines.If the lock is fucked, he’ll check the cameras, but he might check them anyway, every morning.

Saint bites the inside of his lip. “So, why hasn’t he come for me or Lex already? He’d have seen us on the camera but wouldn’t know which one of us it is.”

“Maybe he just hasn’t gotten around to checking them yet,” Lex adds. “Or else he’s letting us sweat.”

Can we hack the cameras?Wipe the footage before he thinks to check?I pass the tablet to them.

Lex shrugs. “I mean, I can try. I’m pretty good at the basic stuff. We ought to get on it soon, because I don’t want Rossi hauling me up in front of him. That just leaves the issue of getting her to agree to some fun with us.”

“Could just force her.” Saint takes the vodka out of the freezer and pours us all a shot.

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