Page 100 of The Colour of Revenge
I see the way her fingers twitch like she's stopping herself from tearing his throat out with her bare hands.
My blood turns to fire.
"Don't fucking talk to her." My voice is low, guttural, shaking with rage. "Don't even fucking look at her."
Edward scoffs, his lip curling, his next words dripping with poison. "I've done more than that, Nathaniel. Your whore of a girlfriend gave it up to me long before you."
Something snaps inside me.
Blind fury floods my vision, and I move without thought.
I lunge.
The impact is bone-crushing, both of us crashing to the ground with a sickening crack. The chairs splinter beneath us, shards of wood digging into my skin, but I don't feel it.
I feel only rage.
My hands are still tied before me, but it's enough.
I bring them down—
Once.
Twice.
Again.
Blood sprays across my skin, my clothes, and the floor.
Edward doesn't even fight back.
I keep going.
Fists colliding with bone, cartilage, teeth—again and again until I can't even tell what I'm hitting anymore.
"Nate!" Carina's voice pierces through the haze, but I can't stop. The fury, the betrayal, the sheer hatred fuel me, and I keep hitting him.
"Nate! Stop!" she screams, rushing to my side. "He's dead. He's dead. You can stop."
Her hands grab mine, soaked in blood, shaking as they grip me tightly.
I freeze.
My chest heaves, my vision blurring. I look down at the carnage I've created.
Edward's face is unrecognisable, a grotesque, caved-in mess of blood and bone. The scent of iron is thick in the air, cloying, suffocating.
A single word slips from my lips, barely above a whisper.
"Fuck.”
"Nate—" Carina's voice cracks, and when I look up at her, my vision blurs as tears begin to fall.
"Princess," I whisper hoarsely, falling to my knees in front of her. I press my forehead against her stomach, my bloodied hands trembling as they rest on her hips, the restraints still around my wrists digging painfully into my skin. "Please... baby. I love you. I didn't know. I swear I didn't know. I love you."
"Nate—"
"You have to believe me." My voice breaks as the tears spill over, my body wracked with desperation.
