Page 56 of Kings of Lust
‘What did you do with the governor today?’ I asked as he lifted me on his hips and placed me back on the edge of the couch’s backrest.
‘Who cares right now?’ The rest of the world held no importance when it came to his needs.
There was something utterly wrong with the evening, and I was just about to find out howincredibly wrongit was. ‘I want you,’ he bit my lower lip so passionately that I immediately recognized there was no escape from his yearnings.
On a normal day, his declaration could sound flattering, even arousing, but the pitch-black darkness in his eyes, for some reason, made me fear it.
‘I want to have you on my balcony.’ And I was right. I had every reason to fear him as his monsters came out to play.
The balcony, the railway trim, the knife— all flashbacks that made me jump from the couch and take a few steps away from him.
‘Ferris, are you ok?’ I stuttered, glancing at the irritation growing in his gaze. I was saying no to him without actually saying it, leaving my actions to replace any words.
‘Do I not look ok?’ He took a step in my direction with that specific madness scribbled on each one of his facial expressions. And that was terrifying me!
‘Am I interrupting something?’ Brax’s familiar voice was bringing me my salvation as he just entered the room somewhere from another door behind me.
‘No. We’re good,’ Ferris grumbled looking at me as if I had an unpaid policy with him.
‘Since I’m notinterruptinganything, I came here to learn what you did today. I didn’t really get a chance to ask you earlier between Cole doing my head in with his party and all the people coming in.’
Indeed Brax probably wanted to know how Ferris handled things today, but there was something more too. He caught a glimpse of the madness trying to surface and I’m not sure if he was trying to either prevent or control it.
‘I didn’t get much. But he asked me for funding. For a special project, he said. Not too much info though.’ Ferris took a seat on the couch, preparing for Brax’s questioning.
‘When are you meeting him again?’ Brax took his role seriously enough.
‘Next Wednesday. He said it’s an urgent matter. I think he wants to convince me to sponsor some of his actions. Give him money to hire enough mercenaries.’
‘Perfect. Just try and stall the payment and see how you can get more info out of him. Dates, contractors, affiliates. Whatever you can find out.’ We were in desperate need of information and Brax was perfectly aware of that.
‘What if we don’t get anything on the governor? Any info to bring him down?’ I asked Brax, trying to see where we could go from there.
‘Then we’ll have to set him a trap. Invent something. If it was up to me, I would come to your meeting spot and kill him myself. But you’d only go on and on with that making him a martyr shit.’
‘I think you’ve done enough killing,’ the sentence involuntarily slipped my mouth.
‘What is she talking about?’ Ferris also seemed to be interested in what I had to say.
I had just fucked up big time. So big that I didn’t even dare to think of the consequences.
‘Will you tell him how we met? Or will I?’ Brax looked straight at me with the most pissed-off gaze I had ever seen.
‘I....I-,’ I was out of words, so lost that I had no idea what I was doing or saying anymore. My temper got the best of me again, though this time it had managed to bring thecriminalto light.
‘Come,’ Brax gestured me to join him as my feet could hardly crawl to follow his command.
With agonizing steps, I found a place next to him while my body was shaking so fiercely that I thought something within me was about to break.
‘I did it, Ferris. I paid my debt. I killed Benjamin, the man that murdered your parents.’
Brax’s confession seemed to petrify Ferris on the sofa. Not a single word came from his lips or any kind of other gesture that could betray a reaction.
It was as if the news left him cold. Dead-cold.
‘I got the revenge for them.’ Brax was looking directly into Ferris’s eyes while with one hand he pulled me against his chest. ‘And this fox was my cover for that night. Although I see she’s unable to keep her little mouth shut.’
To my surprise, Brax suddenly lost focus on Ferris, probably giving him time to adjust. Though that wasn’t my main problem any longer. My problem was that all of Brax’s attention was now dedicated tome.
