Page 315 of Boys Who Taint

Tears well up in my eyes as every person in our collective families pays their respects to Mavis. This was the funeral she deserved.

I’m the last one to go, but instead of placing my flowers down on the ground, I throw them to the wind, scattering the petals like her soul got scattered in the wind.

“Fly high.”

Grey

I pluckthe knife from the body and wipe it on my shirt, breathing ragged breaths.

“How many more do you need, man?” Levi asks.

“Until they’re all gone,” I say, wiping the sweat off my face.

The man in front of me is showered in holes, the bloodshed a small victory to my decrepit heart.

“That’s a high goal post, bro,” Apollo says.

“I don’t care. I’m gonna get my revenge, no matter what,” I reply, nostrils flaring. “Those fuckers killed my parents.”

“Understandable.” Levi stabs a Bonesman, who groans from the bullet hole in his chest. “So … this is what you and Aspen were doing the night I found you in Apollo’s bedroom,” Levi says, sucking in a breath through his nose. “Why didn’t you just tell us all the truth?”

“You thought I trusted you? While you were trying to kill me?” I stare him down.

He nods a few times. “Touché.”

“Grey and I first talked while I was grieving over Mavis,” Aspen explains. “We were both hurting when we found each other.”

“Well, I mean … I was stalking you for a while then,” I say, rubbing my lips together.

Levi narrows his eyes. “You stalked her?”

“Don’t act like that’s new information,” I retort. “You’re the one who chased her into the auditorium.”

“That’s different.”

“It’s not, though.”

We both stab the Bonesman a few more times as if we’re both in need of a release.

Aspen snorts. “Sounds like you two have more in common than you’d like.”

“We’re nothing alike,” Levi says.

“Good, then you can both fill a gap in her filthy little heart,” Apollo says. “Are you guys done?”

“Not nearly,” I reply, still feeling my blood boil. “I’m not satiated. I want more fucking bodies to slice up.”

“We can find more, can’t we?” Aspen asks.

“Of course. There’s a ton of Bonesmen Brotherhood locations sprawled across this city,” Apollo says, stomping on one of those fucker’s heads until it’s all blood and brains scattered on the pavement. “Maybe not tonight, though. We’ve got too many bodies to get rid of now.”

“I’m surprised your parents haven’t taken care of them yet,” Levi tells her.

“I don’t think they can,” she says. “They have some sort of truce, I think.”

“Really?” Levi frowns. “That’s odd.”

“Tell me about it,” she says, inspecting one of the dead. “Do you think this’ll come back to bite us in the ass?”

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