Page 104 of Taunt Me (Dark Odyssey 2)

This vile, vile man who stinks of death. He sniffs the finger and scrunches up his face.

“This tasted like shit earlier, like the whore this woman was. Fuck. Considering this woman only just died she tastes like she’s been dead for a week.” His words are already enough to make me vomit but I actually heave when he holds the finger out to me. “Want some? Maybe you’ll think it tastes better, you’re a whore too, you know it takes one to know one. Maybe it’s the same with taste. Ittastesone to know one.” He laughs and sits back.

Fucking hell. This man is more than insane and evil.

He’s a monster. A living monster and my heart shatters at his words.

He tosses the finger on the ground like it’s nothing.

No one sees it,yet,but I know when someone does, and realizes what it is, it’s going to cause a stir.

“Are you going to ask me how my dick is? It’s getting better thank you very much, although your boyfriend destroyed the left testicle, in a few weeks I’ll be able to fuck you. Possibly not as good as last time, but I promise to make it good.”

“Leave me alone. You got paid. Now leave me.” I’m trying to find strength. I’m trying to find my feet to show him I can be strong although tears flow from my eyes.

When he shakes his head my stomach twists into knots. “No, I don’t think so. What I am is pissed as fuck. Pissed at myself for not making copies of my tape of us and pissed as fuck at what your boy did to me.” He gives me a maddening laugh. “Fuck, I have one testicle.Fucking hell. You people won’t get away with that. I’m here today to remind you I’m still around. I’m just warming up. screwing with you.”

“Fuck off and die,” I cry and people from the tables nearby look at me.

He answers with a laugh. “I don’t think soMiss Revello.” He stands. “You know it’s amazing, considering I nearly gunned down that boy of yours the other day it’s odd you’re out here unprotected. “

“What?” Gabe was gunned down? My throat tightens. He never told me.

“Ahhh you didn’t know… He’s got this figured all wrong. Protecting you from knowledge and special events isn’t where his focus should lie. It’s moments like this when the big bad wolf comes to get the pretty little school teacher with her perfectly big tits that you need to worry about.” He laughs, making me feel even more sick when he runs his tongue over my lips. “Our next meeting is going to be very interesting. Very interesting indeed. Let the games begin.”

Someone screams when they see the finger and he walks off laughing.

Cordelia rushes over to me. She saw him when she came through the doors and sees me crying.

“Charlotte are you okay? Who was that?”

I hear her speaking but I can’t answer. I can’t talk. That shell of a person I was when I got back has taken up residence in me again.

Tobias …

What’s he going to do?

What the fuck is he going to do?

What fucking game is he playing now?

When will I see him again?

I burst into tears, crying with everything inside me.

I cry and I can’t stop.

* * *

Cordelia took me home.

Home to Gabe.

It’s night now and I remember falling asleep. I was crying. I’ve been awake for a little while just staring up at the ceiling and not moving. I know Gabe is outside on the balcony, smoking.

He’s been doing that a lot for the last few nights and I noticed he does that when he’s worried.

The guys came by to check on me. it was sweet of them. It felt like I had my brothers again except Gabe’s brothers are probably three of the roughest gangsters on the street. Nick looked the most worried and I heard Gabe in the kitchen trying to talk him out of some plan. I remember how Nick was in the past. Gabe and Salvatore were always trying to talk him out of something that could get him killed.

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