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Scarlet stilled and narrowed her eyes at him.

Brent continued to smile. “Only, this time I will make sure I break you completely. Once I’m done with you, not even your PI friend will be able to help you. And after what he’s done, he deserved his fate.”

“What do you mean he deserved his fate? What fate?”

Brent started to slowly pace again. “You see, Little Red, I know you let him fuck you, so, in other words, he touched what is mine. He took what is mine.” His gaze shot up to hers and Scarlet’s body went ice cold when she saw the horrid tableau in his eyes.

“He tried to take you away from me, and now he’s dead because of it.”

Scarlet stopped breathing. There was no longer a heart beating inside of her chest. It was just one giant block of ice lodged behind her ribs.

No, no, no, no…

“You didn’t.”

“Oh, I didn’t, no. But my new friend, Mr. Colton Riggs, did. You see, your boyfriend is dead because you thought he could erase me from your soul. He’s dead because of you.”

Oh my God. No.

More tears streamed down her face, and Scarlet let out another scream as the pain sliced through her heart. She could feel it bleed inside her chest, spreading the pain to every corner of her body, the disease of agony infecting her inch by inch.

“God!” she yelled. “No!” Scarlet couldn’t breathe as the worst pain she had ever felt took ahold of her. She cried while her gut felt like it had been turned inside out, her ribs squeezing every last ounce of breath out of her lungs.

“Oh, don’t worry, Little Red.” Brent placed his hand on her cheek. “I will make sure that I wipe away every trace of him from your mind, your heart…your pussy. You won’t even remember his goddamn name once I’m done with you.”

The threat hung thick in the air, his words holding promises of unrelenting torture, but Scarlet was already dead, rotting from the inside. Every little bit of humanity she had left was now nothing more than decaying pieces of black, darkness filling her to the brim. Hunter was dead…and so was she.

After minutes of crying, screaming, and then crying some more, Scarlet finally managed to bite out the words, “What can you possibly do to me that you haven’t already done?”

His evil smile reached his wicked eyes. “Something I’ve wanted to do for the last seven years. Something I’ve dreamt about doing every night we were apart.” Brent stepped closer, and Scarlet tried to move her body back, but failed.

He placed a finger on the side of her face, and the touch sent violent shudders down her spine. With his eyes glued on hers, he slowly dragged his finger down the side of her face, her neck, down her chest, circling her nipple, and bit into his lower lip. He looked down at where he touched her and dragged his finger to her belly.

“I’m going to plant my seed inside you, Little Red.” His eyes shot up to hers. “I’m going to breed you.”

Chapter 17

“Hunter, wake up. Wake up, man.”

Slowly, painfully Hunter started to wake. His body ached, his head pounded, and his fucking chest felt like it had been split in two.

“Hunter, you need to wake the fuck up.”

Someone jerked him by the shoulder, and he groaned. With a fuck load of effort, Hunter managed to open his eyes. James was crouching down next to him. “You okay?”

“What happened?” Hunter tried to push himself off the ground, but his arms started to shake.

“Take it easy. Here, let me help.” James grabbed his shoulders and helped him sit up with his back against the wall. Hunter pulled his hands down his face, his skull feeling like it was on fucking fire.

“What the hell happened?” Hunter looked up at James, and the men standing behind him. That’s when it all came rushing back, crashing through his mind like a fucking wrecking ball.

“That son of a bitch. We have to find her. We have to find Scarlet.” He struggled to get up, his legs feeling too damn weak. “James, he took her. The motherfucker took her! Riggs—the bastard—he’s a snitch.”

“I know, Hunter.” James helped steady him when Hunter finally managed to get on his feet.

“Then why the fuck are you here and not out there looking for her?”

James looked over his shoulder at the other men before leaning closer to Hunter. “We know where she is.”

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