Page 230 of A Love Like Venom

I fucking love her even more for it.

“I promise you, angel.” My voice is guff as I continue, “he’ll experience everything you want.”

She presses a light kiss to my neck. The simple act making my heart race and my blood rush.

“I’m ready to finish this. I want this behind me. Behindus.”

I squeeze her hand and then bring it up to kiss the back of it. “If you’re ready, angel, then I see no point in us waiting any longer.”

Keeping her hand in mine I swing my leg over the bike and come to a stand. Then she hops off and stands right in front of me.

My hazel eyes meet her honey brown.

“There’s just one more thing I need to do before we go in there.”

Her brows furrow. “What?”

Before I release her hand, I press another kiss to her smooth skin. “I should have done this a long fucking time ago,” I begin gruffly. Then I shrug my Vipers MC cut off my shoulders. Her eyes go wide as a gasp leaves her lips. I place the cut over her shoulders where it belongs. Where it hasalwaysbelonged.

“Reed,” my name is whispered on a breath.

“You are my Old Lady, Alice Hall but you are so much fucking more than that. My blood I bleed for you. My heart beats for you. Every breath that I take is because of you. There is nomewithoutyou.You’re the other half of me, angel. I would be so fucking lost without you.” I pause, my heart hammering.I declare fiercely, “So you see, you are my Old Lady, not his. You’re mine.”

Her eyes go soft as does the smile on her face. “I’ve always been yours, Reed Carter.”

“And I have always been yours. I just wasn’t fucking strong enough to do anything about it.”

Going on her tip toes she loops her arms around my neck. “That’s in the past where it belongs. You’re with me now, Reed, and that’s all that matters.”

I let out a breath and stare at her with wonder and amazement. “You’re too fucking good for me but I’m a selfish man. There is no way I’m ever letting you go.”

Leaning in she presses a kiss to each corner of my lips before planting a gentle one on my lips. “I don’t want you to.”

I press an opened mouth kiss to her lips to be continued later. Much, much later.

Taking her hand in mine I lead her to the building that has been abandoned for three years now. The building is out of jurisdiction for the Stonesville Sheriff’s Department. That way Sheriff Crow doesn’t have to pursue our case if we did this in his territory. And after I learned what he did for Alice and me, I can extend him the courtesy of not spilling blood on his soil.

What Blake Crow doesn’t know won’t hurt him. Or at the very least this is out of his fucking hands.

This is the first time Alice has joined me in coming here. I’ve been spending time here for the last two months torturing Razor in all the ways that I deem are fit.

Let’s just say the devil himself would wince at the sight of my work.

My true masterpiece will be watching this building along with him go up in flames.

I have everything all set up. All the kerosene I need and explosives that line each corner of the building.

Pulling the key from my front pocket I unlock the door. When Oak set this up for me when he and the others found Fiend and Razor, he took it upon himself to secure the area. No means of escape for either of them.

With the disclosed isolated location where it takes miles to get back to civilization no one can hear any cries or screams.

The door shuts behind us. I already hear the whimpers of the motherfucker. And I can’t help the smile it brings to my face.

This is deserved. It’s just.

Clearing the corner to enter the open room there he sits.

Tied up with unbreakable chains weaved with barbwire around his torso keeping him bound to the steel chair that is nailed into the ground. He could thrash around all he wanted, and the chair wouldn’t budge. His ankles are bound to the front legs as are his forearms to the arms of the chair.

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