Page 23 of Her Vicious Beasts: The Beginning
I all but storm back to the security desk, snatching my handbag when Beak holds it out. I stomp back to my car and gun the engine. I wonder why my three mates are suddenly able to move about in the mansion in their astral forms, and a dark feeling slides through me.
As soon as I’m past the boom gate and back on the road, I slap my steering wheel in anger.
Who the fuck does my father think he is, selling me like this? As the King of Serpents, he can do as he pleases with me and no one will question it. No one will care. I am actually powerless here. I was so close to going to college, so close to freedom! Angry tears trickle down my cheeks and I aggressively swipe them away.
I’ve been terribly naïve thinking my father wouldn’t sell me at the first chance. I need to get as far away from here possible—far from my mates, from my father.
I’d fantasised about running away ever since he’d kicked me out. I’d planned the movements in my head, thought about the best places to go to hide from him. I’d just never had the gall to actually do it. But now? Now things are slipping out of my control so badly I’m thinking I have no other choice. If I want to take my life in my own?—
“You’re angry,” comes a male voice.
I almost run my car off the road.
“Fucking genius, do you know that, Sav?” comes Xander’s voice.
In my rear-view mirror are the astral forms of the three males, sitting there like we’re going on a school field trip.
“Fuck!” I choke out, indicating, then carefully navigating onto the gravel shoulder on the side of the road.
I pull up my handbrake and swing around to glare at them.
“Just what the hell do you think you’re doing?” I cry.
Savage gives me a sheepish smile. “Sorry, princess, but I think you only have yourself to blame for this one. I think it’s because of last night that?—”
“What?” I exclaim. “You think just because you had your fingers in me you can just follow me around now?”
All three men glower at me.
“Well,” says Savage, running a hand through his dark waves. “Ididmake you come.”
“Just barely,” I snap. “Get out of my car.”
They all scowl in unison like they’re triplets. Three, murderous, scary as all hell triplets.
“Leave!” I gesture to the doors.
“But this is too much fun, snake girl,” Xander deadpans. “I’m not going anywhere until you tell us what you’re hiding from your mates.”
Oh, so I wasn’t‘hatchling’anymore. That stings more than it should. I turn back to face the front window and pinch the bridge of my nose, sighing deeply. Things couldn’t get any worse. How am I supposed to run away with these three following me around?
My phone pings and I pull it out of my handbag to see a message from my father’s assistant.
Chapter 16
Aurelia
Dad’s Fucking Lackey
What is your ring size?
How am I supposed to know? I don’t even own any valuable jewellery, only the cheap kind I treat myself to each birthday.
Swearing under my breath, I glance back to see the three males sitting there and watching me as if they’re deciding how they’re going to kill me. If looks could kill, I’d be cinders already. Frozen cinders.
I think Savage is the only one who has any sort of positive feeling towards me right now. We are a right old happy family.
“Can’t you guys go travelling somewhere else?” I say irritably. “If you want to be out of your prison, then go wandering elsewhere.”
