Page 203 of A Love Like Venom

That none of them will break me.

They need to know I will get out of the shackles that have me bound and when I do I’m going to kill every last one of them. I won’t be satisfied until all their blood is shed, to the very last drop. And I will smile and have the last laugh as my hands will be stained crimson.

“Why can’t we just fucking kill him?” The one with brass knuckles questions irritated.

“Because.” Bigger guy smirks. The blade dancing between his fingers. “His time will come soon. He’ll be dying inside as we all fuck his sweet little innocent Alice.”

His words ring in my ears making them feel like they’re bleeding. But it’s the way he phrased it, the exact words he spoke that has my eyes widening.

“Caitlin.” Her name slips pass my lips on a shocked breath.

Just how much involved was she in this diabolical plan?

The man who holds the blade laughs. “Sweet little innocent Alice is what she called her. Said that she had what was coming to her. Told us she was with you and then set us up with Jessica. You want to know the craziest thing?” He pauses for dramatic effect. “She didn’t even want the money we were offering. Only told us to make sure she suffers. That you both suffer. I’ll tell you; Snake I would’ve done that regardless. But hearing it from her own sister’s lips . . . well I’ll make sure she suffers.” It’s a promise to me. One that I’m going to force him to break.

Then he takes the knife and slashes it across my chest. My lips stay glued shut in a firm line as I throw daggers at him with my eyes. Next the smaller one punches me hard in the kidneys. My back bowels over. When he punches me again it causes me to swing back and forth on the chains.

Bringing the blade to my neck my breathing becomes hard. “I wonder how sweet she tastes.” He licks his lips deliberately. His tongue will be the first thing I cut off. “You think I’ll be ableto make her come?” He chuckles and then nicks the knife on my neck. I feel the small trickle of blood travel to my chest. I buck against the restraints but with how they have me hung I have hardly any momentum.

He then drags the knife down my body, not enough pressure to pierce the skin but enough to let me know he can at any given moment.

Stopping below my ribs he says lowly, “I bet I’ll make her come the hardest she ever has in her life. And it will taste sweet but what will taste sweeter is her tears while I shove my dick so deep inside her that it tears her in fucking two.”

Right when I’m about to lash out he plunges the knife below my ribs. When he twists it while it’s inside of me I lose my breath. For a second my vision goes fucking black.

I need to get out of here.

I need to save Alice.

I have to find a way to fucking save her from these monsters.

As he takes the blade out blood pulls and spills down my torso. My eyes flutter and my mouth opens to take a large breath.

Not allowing me a moment of rest the one punches me in the face. I hear the bone crack in my nose. Blood begins to run like a faucet down my face.

As they each take their turns, both of them hitting and tearing apart my skin my mind dissociates itself from reality. It drifts me away from the pain my body is enduring. It allows me to survive through the torture.

My mind takes me to a different place and time. It takes me to her. The only person who has the power to save me.

I’m with her.

My beautiful angel.

I smile lazily, blood spilling from my lips, my eyes in a happy daze.

I see her before me. And I know she’ll keep me safe.

Her hair is fanned around her like a halo. A beautiful smile plays on her lips. She’s staring up at me with those beautiful honey brown eyes that I can’t ignore.

God knows I have been trying to.

The sinner in me can’t resist staring at her natural angelic beauty. How someone can be so simply stunning?

And I should’ve known this is the moment I would start falling for her.

Right here on top of my trailer gazing up at the stars. Stars that don’t shine as bright as her smile. Stars that don’t twinkle like her eyes.

This moment right here, with our pinkies intertwined and our hearts feeling like they are beating at the same time is the moment I have fallen.

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