Page 45 of Scarred Queen

Real fear flashed through his eyes an instant before Casey filled his head and torso with holes, emptying her gun. Reyes dropped to his knees behind her and wrapped his arms around her, ignoring the spray of blood across her dress, face and hair. He kissed the back of her head and whispered, “What about the children? Do we take the entire line as he tried to do toyours?”

She shook her head. “No, Reyes. We don’t killchildren.”

He grunted and she knew he had his own opinions, probably ones they wouldn’t agree on, but this was her party and he’d already agreed to let her make therules.

“Are you done yet,nena, or do you want to kill more of them?” he asked, gripping her hair and tilting her head to the side so he could kiss her neck. She knew it turned him on to watch her shoot. He was a merciless, sadistic son-of-a-bitch. And she lovedhim.

She tilted her head further to the side, giving him better access, which he immediately took advantage of, heedless of their rapt audience; half of which were pissing themselves in terror and the other half wondering where the insane, ethereal blond came from and where they could getone.

“Maybe one more,” she finally said. “For goodmeasure!”

“Okay,cariña,” Reyes chuckled and helped her to her feet. “Which one do youwant?”

She turned her sharp eyes back to the table and immediately pointed at a man she’d recognized the moment she walked into the room. “I know that mean son of a bitch from my Ignacio days,” she smiled coldly as he squirmed in his chair. “And he knows me, he’s a disgusting piece of shit that would try to put his hands on me every time he thought my bodyguard wasn’t looking. I think I’ll play with him a littlefirst…”

Casey trailed her gun along the back of the other men’s chairs,thunkingit satisfyingly against the wood, as she approached the one she wanted. He tried pleading with her. “Mrs. Hernandez, C-Casey, so good to see you and looking so fine,” he said in a high-pitched voice. “I never meant nothing by it, youknow?”

“But it’s not nice to terrorize women, Stephan,” Casey scolded him, pressing the muzzle of her gun hard against his wrist where it rested on the arm of his chair. She pulled the trigger but nothinghappened.

She looked surprised and then giggled and shrugged her shoulders. “Used them all onBenny.”

Alejandro came up behind her, squeezed her shoulder and offered his weapon. She grinned at him and shook her head, her blond hair, now liberally streaked with blood, swaying with the movement. “No thank you,” she whispered loudly, “just make sure he suffers. Not just for me, but for every woman that didn’t have a bodyguard to protect her from this disgusting piece ofwork.”

She turned to Reyes who was at her back, always at her back. “I think I’m done. Can we gohome?”

Reyes grinned and wrapped an arm around her waist. “Anything you want,mireina.”

CHAPTER THRITY-FOUR

Reyes turned to Alejandro, his voice full of death. “You know what to do.” Then he escorted Casey from the diningroom.

They walked side by side through Benito’s hacienda. Despite the bloody evening Casey had both instigated and endured she felt a sense of peace wash over her. She walked tall next to a man that wanted her height and her power to equal his. She knew she would never match his level of brutality and blood lust, but she was a match for him in every other way. She was his queen and now she’d proved it. She’d avenged her family in spectacularfashion.

The clip of her heels against the stone pavement was the only sound that followed them as they made their way through hall after hall toward the garden where their vehicles waited to take them back to the airplane. The bottom floor of the hacienda was glowing beautifully in the rising moonlight. Casey glanced down at her dress, now covered in blood, completely ruined. It looked beautiful toher.

“I’m all… red,” she whispered, flaring the skirt out away from her thighs as theywalked.

Reyes looked at her, his face filled with dark hunger. “You can see it,nena? You can see thiscolour?”

She smiled over at him and let the fabric flutter between her fingertips. “I can see it if you ask me to, see the things you do. I see them through your eyes, Reyes.” She stopped walking, turned and tugged him against her. He stepped easily into her, wrapping his broad hands around her slimhips.

Casey shoved her fingers into his hair and abruptly brought her lips to his, stopping just short of touching them. “You want me, you take me,” she whispered, her breath rushing over him. His fingers clenched hard against her, biting into her flesh through the thin fabric of her dress. It felt so fucking good with the fresh rush of vengeance coursing through her veins. “Take everything foryou.”

With a growl Reyes lifted her slightly and shoved her backwards into the shadows, slamming her against something hard, but he softened the blow with a hand at her back. He wrapped that hand around her neck and forced her head into the perfect angle for the harsh, brutal kiss he took. He ground his hips into hers lifting her body slightly until she was riding his erection. Casey moaned into his mouth as he fucked her with his tongue, stealing her breath until she began to feel faint. She could only clutch his shoulders and take quick breaths when he allowed her tosurface.

The moment he released her lips, he attacked her neck with sharp stinging bites. He didn’t even pretend he was kissing her flesh, he marked as much of her as he could, fisting her blood-soaked hair in one hand and wrenching it to the side so he could have betteraccess.

“Love you so fucking much, Casey,mi amor,mi reina. So fucking much more than I ever thought possible,” he snarled against her throat. “I will take everything for myself and I will give you the world in return. I amelrey.”

Casey cried out, her entire body quaking with the fierce emotion ricocheting through both of them. Reyes wrenched her skirt up her body and tore her panties away in one swift move. She screamed at the sting left behind across her thigh and then moaned into his mouth as he shoved his fingers deep into her pussy. She widened her legs, giving him better access. She had no idea how long she’d been wet for, but she was betting it was the moment she walked in on that cozy little dinner scene and set eyes on her man sprawled in his chair like the king he was, owning the dangerous men that sat all aroundhim.

She screamed into his mouth as he pumped his fingers in and out of her, driving her higher and higher, brushing his thumb across her clit with each stroke. Before she could peak he pulled his fingers out and pushed them into her mouth, forcing her to taste herself. He enjoyed doing that, showing her how much he turned her on. She sucked his fingers deep into her mouth, wrapping her tongue around each one, licking the taste of her pussy off his strong fingers while he unzipped his pants and freed hiscock.

He shoved her skirt back up around her waist, lifted her right up off the ground and growled, “Legs around my waist,nena.”

Casey clung to his shoulders and did as he ordered, lifting and wrapping her legs around his waist with his help, then he brought her down on his thick cock, filling her inch by inch. She flung her head back, pressing it against the wall behind her and opened her mouth in a silent scream of joy and pain. Fuck, it was the best thing she ever felt in her life and she wanted it to go onforever.

He wanted her hard and he wanted it rough. He wrapped his arm around her waist, snaked one hand up her back, took a fistful of her hair, forced her head back so he could bite down on her neck and began fucking her hard. He slammed her back against the wall repeatedly, forcing his cock in and out of her. It was like being repeatedly impaled with thick, warm steel. Reyes took her to the edge of her endurance and then pushed herover.

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