Page 31 of Claimed By Shadows

Unknown: Please. We all know you’re desperate to feel my pierced cock balls deep in your arse, Daddy.

A bark of laughter erupts from me at the same time a full-body shiver makes all the hair on my arms stand on end.

Hunter: Not. Fucking. Happening. It’s cute you think you can top from the bottom, but we both know that I’ll put you in your place like my other brats. And if you’re wondering where that is, it’s on your knees, sweetheart.

My eyes widen after I hit send.I didn’t just say that to Nikolai fucking Petrov, did I?I don’t even like the man, let alone want to fuck him, right? My dick twitches, calling me a fucking liar as those blasted bubbles are back.

Unknown: Whatever you need to think to sleep at night, Daddy.

Motherfucker.

A chuckle escapes me as I shut down the message thread, deleting it before opening up the group chat I have with the twins. I roll my eyes at the nicknames Roman has given us.

Big Daddy: I’ll need one of you with me next Saturday. Shit is going down at Depravity, courtesy of our eagle friend, and I need backup.

Evil Twin: I’ll be there. I’ll swap my shift with someone so Roman is still here. Things are fucked up.

I sigh, rubbing my gritty eyes with my hand. When they phoned me about having met Lilly Vanderbilt, telling me their suspicions that she’s being drugged, I wanted to storm that mansion and kill every fucker responsible. What the fuck kind of person drugs their own niece, especially when she’s pregnant? And why?

Evil Twin: Adrian has been sneaking into her room at night.

Bile fills my throat at the message. Rowan doesn’t have to elaborate. It doesn’t take a genius to work out why he’d be drugging her and then sneaking into her room at night. Twisted, sick fuck.

Sunshine Twin: I called Ash. She was hysterical, poor thing. He’s asked us to stay with her at all times, especially at night.

Big Daddy: Good. She stays in your sights until they get there.

I sigh, my mind swirling with images of Iris and another sick fuck taking what doesn’t belong to him. My phone buzzes with an incoming message from Asher, as if I summoned the demon himself, and I rub my face, knowing that this will add to my already heavy load.

Asher Vanderbilt: We’re going in tomorrow evening, Sunday. Have your guys ready. We’ll get Lilly, you detain the dead man walking.

Hunter: Will do. See you there.

Fuck.

What is it about everything happening at once? Saying no to helping the Knights was never an option, especially not after what happened with Iris and with Iris telling us in no uncertain terms that we would help them as much as they needed. I just wish things would ease up, just for once so I can fucking breathe.

Big Daddy: Looks like we’re breaking Lilly out tomorrow evening. Make sure the rest of security isn’t around. We need to minimise any casualties.

Sunshine Twin: It’s my day off tomorrow. I’ll come with you when you visit Iris, then head back for my evening shift.

Big Daddy: Okay. Then we’ll sort out Lilly and the Knights, then deal with the Depravity situation. We need to make sure everyone is evacuated before the bomb goes off, yet make it look like a coincidence.

My body already feels heavy with the weight that is on my shoulders, exhaustion leaving my eyes even more gritty as I start mentally planning what we’ll do tomorrow night and then Saturday.

Evil Twin: Maybe we have issues with the sewage? If it starts backing up, we’d have to empty out the club.

I’m nodding, about to agree when another message pops up.

Evil Twin: Then we all visit on Monday. I need to see her in the flesh.

Sunshine Twin: Thank fuck. At least that means we can all visit Iris together again. I’ve missed our puppy piles.

I huff a laugh at the same time my heart twinges, knowing exactly what he means and agreeing whole-fucking-heartedly. Some of the best moments of my entire life were spent in bed, Iris on top of me and the twins either side of me. All of us together. All of us safe.

He’s been watching the cameras at Serene Haven near enough every night he’s not on shift, barely sleeping, but I understand the obsession. I’ve been able to visit almost every day, see her and hold her, talk to her face-to-face. The twins have only got the odd visit in on their one day a week off, always alternated so Lilly isn’t left without them. That was at Iris’s insistence when she found out about the drugging before this latest shit.

Hunter: We have a plan. See you tomorrow.

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