Page 274 of Boys Who Taint

He punches me again and again, but all I do is laugh.

If I can’t win this fight, then neither can he.

“What are you fucking laughing about?” he screams in my face.

“Too late,” I mutter under my breath.

“Too latefor what?”

I look up at him from underneath my eyelashes. “Aspen is already mine.”

His whole face slowly begins to twitch as he leans away, fingers quaking around the knife. “Youfuckedmy sister?”

And I don’t think I’ve ever heard his voice become more unhinged.

He grabs the bat again, fingers curling around the handle so tightly I wonder if the wood is going to break, his eyes bloodshot, lethal, and bone-chilling in a way I’ve never seen before.

So this is what he looks like when he truly intends to kill.

He raises the bat and swings, so I close my eyes and think of her.

CHAPTER 63

Apollo

I kickopen the front door, aim, and shoot.

BANG!

The bat is knocked out of his hand.

“What the—” Silas turns, gaze blinded by hatred. “How the fuck did you—”

“Step away from him,” I growl. “Now.”

Behind me, Max’s motorcycle comes to a grinding halt, and he casts his helmet aside as he runs up to me. “Levi? Silas? Are you in here?”

“What the fuck?” Silas grits at me. “You brought him here?”

“I did what I had to do,” I reply, walking closer.

“I think the fuck not,” Silas warns, picking up his bat again so he can point it at me.

I swiftly look over Levi, but he’s in such bad shape that I wonder if he’s even going to be able to walk out of here. “Levi? Levi!”

He’s not answering.

Goddammit.

“Oh my God,” Max says, as he grabs his own hair. “What have you done?”

“I gave him the pain he deserves,” Silas responds.

“Oh God …” Cecelia muffles her own mouth out of shock.

“Sisi, free Levi,” I bark. “I’ll take care of him.”

“The fuck you will,” Silas warns, pointing a knife at Levi’s eye. “Stay where you are, or I will make sure he never sees the light of day again.”

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