Page 71 of Broken Surrender
“I know.”
“You’re mine, Lena.Allmine. Forever.”
“I know—”
I closed my lips around hers before she could finish her sentence, pulling her in close. My tongue danced in her mouth, devouring her. She was covered in bruises—some were my marks, but others weren’t. And until the day I died, I was going to make sure that no one else hurt her, besides me. She was mine now. My better half.
And I was hers.
“I love you,” she said.
“And I love you, Milena,” I said. “Thank you.”
***
A few weeks later, Shin & Co Inc was under my control, and I had gutted the company, selling off research to the competitors and transferring the valuable employees to other Universal Medical Industries subsidiaries. Soon, the property would be sold, and the place where my sister’s innocence was stolen would be replaced with something else. We could finally move on.
The laboratory had long since gone dark. And now, most of the offices in the main building were empty, a few last employees roaming about. Not everyone had jumped at the opportunity to work for my company. I didn’t blame them.
“Where is everyone?” Lena asked me. I gestured at the people that remained; I could tell her my own answer later, but it wasn’t right to speak for them. A man lifted his head. When he saw me, he flinched away.
“Some of us went to Shin’s Manor,” he said.
“Shin’s Manor?”
He blinked twice at her, then picked up his box. “Not me,” he said.
She widened her eyes, but I shook my head. The Institute at Shin’s Manor was another project by the Shin family, but as far as I could tell, the Manor had always been a rumor. Whispers of a campus where men experimented on women in seclusion and isolation had danced around the seedy side of the medical world for years, but no one could pinpoint its exact location. If it were real, Shin would have made more money by selling it, like he had sold his pharmaceutical company to John Dalton.
Once everything was truly settled, we packed our bags and visited a private island in the Caribbean. Another billionaire was selling it, and I saw no point in wasting time. We signed with the realtor that day. Corinne ran down the white beach, her toes in the sand, while Lena and I stayed back, watching Corinne enjoy herself.
“How does it feel?” Lena asked. She gestured at Corinne. “Your family is finally free.”
Corinne spun in the water, the waves splashing her legs, and when I looked at Lena, I knew I had everything I wanted. The person who made the future seem possible, who made me care about growing with each other. Despite how timid she had been when we had first met, my instincts had told me she was fierce, and I was right. She was my rock.
I lifted her hand, kissing it. “It feels perfect.”
Corinne stomped past us. “Get a room,” she muttered. She went inside of the beachfront house, then unzipped one of the bags. “Where did you put the sunscreen? I thought—” She pulled out my white and black masks, holding them up to the light. “What are these for? And where’s mine? How come you two are the only ones who get them?”
I gave a sideways glance to Lena, who was blushing furiously. I had a plug hidden in my other bag, one that was locked away from my little sister, and later, I planned to use the toy on Lena. To see how long she could last, relaxing on a private island with her ass full, with me teasing her at every chance.
“Is this something weird?” Corinne asked. “Do I want to know?”
“We went to a costume party,” I said.
Corinne snickered. “Sure, you did.”
I grabbed Lena’s hand, pulling her back up to the house. Inside, we went to the balcony together, watching the water crashing on the shore.
And for once, everything was complete.
EPILOGUE
a year later
Desmond
Life never turns out the way we expect it. You predict you’re always going to be the dark cloud that follows your sister, but sometimes, you give her a private beachfront house of her own. You hide rat poison in a garden shed, wondering if it’s the better tool to kill your enemy, but sometimes,someone elsetakes the matter into their own hands. You may even think that you’re going to die alone, that solitude is the only option, but then you decide to marry that someone else.
