Page 65 of Deadlier Obsessions

Maverick holds the blade under his eye and presses in slightly, not enough to cut him yet but enough for him to feel it. “Tell me what the plan is with the containers of acid.”

He trembles in the chair; you can see he’s fighting to hold still but the fear is taking over.

Mav repeats himself when he doesn’t get a response, “What’s the acid for, asshole?”

Tears trickle down his cheeks as he admits, “For the women. Easy disposal.”

Lucy and I both gasp in unison as all three of our men look at us, and suddenly I wonder if Gage Rage is contagious, because all three of them have it. Gage and Sebastian ball up their fists, as their faces turn red, both sets of eyes darken with fury I’ve never witnessed on anyone, and Gage growls, causing a rumbling through the room like an angry animal. “Make it fucking hurt, Mav. I want to hear his screams.”

Some people might think we’re terrible human beings for the pain Andy is going to go through, but I don’t think so. He brought this all on himself. The things he was going to do to us are unforgivable. What he did to poor Abigail was unforgivable.

Andy squeaks out, “Please. I know you’re going to kill me, but is this necessary?”

Mav chuckles. “Yeah, it’s fucking necessary. You do not get the privilege of seeing our women naked. Every ounce of pain you planned for them is coming to you.”

If Gage wanted screams, he should be very happy, because the sounds coming from Andy are loud and almost painful to hear, as Mav pushes the blade in and carves out his eye. Blood squirts onto Mav’s chest, and suddenly I know it was the right call to do this without clothing. When he starts on his other eye, Andy pisses himself and Gage and Sebastian both roar with laughter. As more blood and fluid squirts from what was his eyes, I do feel a little nauseous. I wasn’t feeling well to begin with, and Gagewas right, this is gross, but I won’t leave the room. I want to watch him suffer.

Sebastian turns to us with a grin. “Clothing off, Mamas.”

I arch an eyebrow at him. “Now is not the time to make me swoon, Pretty Boy.”

Gage runs his tongue over his lip piercing, while Sebastian stares at me with a heated expression. “Would you two focus?” I scold them, while I get undressed, and Lucy does the same.

Andy continues to sit screeching in his chair, and I wonder momentarily if they should kill him quickly to get this over with and stop the noise that’s giving me a headache. Then I remember what he was going to do to us, me specifically; he was going to start with raping me. The flash of him placing the gun barrel inside my mouth, him pulling his pants down, and then him choking me. That must be when I passed out.Oh my God.

Gage must see my expression because he rushes over to me, cups my cheek, and stares at me tenderly. “Stella. What’s wrong?”

My stomach rolls as I even say the words, “Did he? Oh my God, was he inside me?”

He shakes his head. “No, baby. I came in before he got the chance. He planned to, but it didn’t happen.”

I release a sigh as relief floods my system. “Thank you.”

I don’t honestly know if I am thanking him for telling me or saving me, maybe both. The thought of that bastard raping me was devastating. Sickening. Gage leans down and kisses me softly. “You’re welcome.”

There’s no more room left for doubt. It’s clear as day. Maybe he’s a monster, but he’s mine. They all are.

MAV

I’ve never blinded a guy before, and it’s pretty gross, but it also serves two purposes, because firstly it protects our ladies from this fucker’s eyes, but also it makes it all the more painful and terrifying for him, because he’ll have no idea what we’re going to do to him. He deserves that fear, that unknown, because he’d planned to do these things to the women I love. That cowardly fucking asshole had things in place to hurt our women, and I can’t wait to make him pay for it.

“Say, Andy, what were your plans for our ladies before you got to the killing part? You were gonna rape them? Maybe torture them? I wonder how much of that we’re gonna do to you. How does it feel to not know? How does it feel to know we can do whatever the fuck we want to you, and even if you had your sight and you weren’t tied up, you’d still be outmatched.”

“Can I kick him in the nuts?” Lucy asks, and you know what? That, I wanna see. I glance at Gage, because this is always his show, and I’m okay with that. I kinda want to wipe the crap off my hands from what I did to his eyes anyway. Gage nods, winking at Lucy.

I back up and turn to the girls as I grab a spare bottle of water and pour it over my hands, wiping them on that fucker’s discarded t-shirt.

“Who wants first kick at his nuts, ladies? You should both have a go, right, Gage?”

Gage grabs my arm and drags me over to join him and Pretty Boy, as the girls approach chair guy.

“This fucker had acid in there? How much?”

Yeah, that part bothers me too. I jerk my head at the kitchen, because I found it in a small utility room off that disgustingly dirty room.

“Enough to do some real damage. He has a stack of bottles of some shit I can’t pronounce, but it says it’s corrosive to skin, so yeah… guess he was trying not to end up on some watchlist, and he really fucking should be on them.” Huh. So should we, really.

A new high-pitched scream comes from our future dead guy, and we all turn to see Stella stepping back from him with that savage grin back on her face. The poor baby needs tending to after this, because he’s clearly hit her in the fucking face.

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