Page 31 of Sweet Misery

“It’s supposed to get cold tonight,” I added. “Really cold, and you’re only wearing that thin sheet.”

She shivered at my words.

“Tonight, we’re going to play a game,” Mass continued. “We’re going to let you go. If you make it to the highway without one of us catching you, you get to leave.”

She looked up at us, her green eyes wide with shock. And hope. She had so much fucking hope. I glanced to Ren to see his eyes sparkling. He loved to squish the hope out of people. When we did it together? Perfection.

“We’re going to let you go. We will give you a ten minute start on us. Run. Hide. Pray. Whatever you have to do to get away.” Mass reached out and lifted her long, thick braid off her shoulder. I’d braided it for her before leaving. She’d seemed surprised I knew how.

“If we catch you though, whoever gets you first gets to fuck you,” Mass finished. “So if you want to avoid that, best not get caught, little daffodil.”

“Do you have any questions?” I asked.

She visibly swallowed. “C-Can I have shoes? A-And a jacket?”

“No,” I said simply. “If we can’t find you and you don’t reach the highway, you’ll freeze to death and die.”

Her breath caught as she shivered.

“So best be fast and smart,” I said, taking in the way her pert nipples poked the sheet. She had to be freezing. She wouldn’t last long in the woods. No one did. None of the toys ever outsmarted us. We found each and every one of them. Always.

She would be no exception.

I couldn’t wait to find her first.

Although, I knew Sever and Mass were just as good as hunters as me and Ren were. And Ren always hunted with me. We were a team.

Mass leaned forward and placed a kiss on her forehead.

“Run,” he husked out when he pulled a fraction away from her.

She hesitated for all of a minute before she shot up and dashed into the woods, her white sheet bright in the night.

We watched silently as she disappeared into the dark forest and didn’t move a muscle for ten solid minutes.

“Sever,” Ren called out finally.

“What?”

“I’m going to fuck your girl’s ass tonight.” Ren looked over at Sever who glowered back at him. “And Roe is going to fuck her pussy.”

We didn’t wait for Sever’s reaction, but we could hear it as we darted forward together. Sever cursed loudly behind us, his footsteps not far behind.

It sure was fun getting him fueled up.

We rushed into the dark woods, veering off and losing Sever like ghosts in the night.

“She’s this way,” I said to Ren as we huffed through the darkness. I’d noted a small footprint on a sparse spot of snow that managed to collect and survive one of the warmer days we’d had recently.

We continued on for a long time, following the broken branches and listening to the rustling of the brush in the night.

It had to be a good thirty minutes. We had a rule. If we caught our pray, we’d send an alert on our phones to our group chat so the rest of us didn’t end up continuing the hunt.

So far, no one had alerted. We’d never gone longer than twenty minutes without finding one of the toys, so this was different.

“She’s smart,” Ren muttered, looking up at the night sky, his breath puffing out. “No one lasts this long.”

“Well, she beat Sever out of the number one spot in their class, so I’d say we should have taken that into consideration since we know how fucking intelligent and tricky his ass is,” I muttered, wanting to kick myself for not considering that sooner.

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