Page 76 of Anathema Codex

“Psychosis?” he grumbles.

I reach over and smack him one. When he gives me a dirty stare, I smirk and continue my little anecdote. “What I saw in those big, blue eyes of hers. It was like looking into the eyes of evil and sheer insanity all at once, and I’d never seen that before. I knew she’d be much more fun to play with than anyone else I’d take back to the hotel I was staying in for the night.”

I take a deep breath as the thoughts of how Trixie looked that night come flooding back to me. So fucking young, clearly not old enough to be in a place like that, and casing me likeIwas the prey instead of her.

“Hey, before you keep going, can you be anymore cliché?” he asks. I glance at him and when I see the smirk on his face, mine drops instantly.

“Meaning?” I ask, knowing I’m not going to like the answer.

“Picking up a blonde with blue eyes in a bar? I thought that the Great Lakyn Meyer would have been cooler than that. Guess you’re just a legend in your own head.”

I let out a good-natured laugh. Apparently, he thinks his attempt at a barb is going to hurt my feelings, but I’m not done yet.

“Shut your mouth and listen. You may learn something, little boy,” I reply smugly as I accelerate toward the car in front of us. When he lets out a strangled scream, I swerve around them at the last moment.

Glancing in the rearview, I see that Red is still nursing her superficial wounds, but she’s gone back to taunting Satan’s Next Great Wannabe Bitch so at least she’ll keep out of trouble for now.

“We introduce ourselves to each other as responsible adults tend to do.” I say, taking a swipe at his childish bullshit. “I struck up as much small talk as I could with her, but honestly all I could think about was how tight her pussy had to be and how bad I wanted to stretch it out, you know? Oh, this is agreatsong!” I say, dialing up the volume again. I was never a huge fan of Whitesnake but watching that redhead roll around on the hood of the car was always nice. “Let me cut to the chase of this story because I kind of feel like I’m dragging it out.”

“Coulda fooled me,” the kid mutters.

I cast a sidelong glance in his direction, “Was your mother this much of a whiny bitch too?”

When he gives me a death stare, I shrug. I’m genuinely curious because fuck if I remember her.

“God, I hate you,” he says through grit teeth.

“Take a number,” I reply breezily.Where the fuck was I? Oh yeah, the good part.“She ended up talking me into going back to her church. It’s where we had our first party favor together.” A wistful smile creeps over my lips as finally, a memory of Trixie makes me smile instead of sets my teeth on edge. “You know that little underground room you wandered into? That’s where we had her. I guess Trixie was on the eve of becoming some kind of superhero for her goat and she needed a sacrifice or some shit. I don’t know how it works; I never cared really, but there was free pussy to be had and she did the dirty work of getting rid of her, so I figured why the fuck not? Anyway, I fucked the party favor senseless. To the point where I think she forgot her own goddamn name. Trixie played with her pussy while she watched us and even though I had already promised her that I wouldn’t fuck her that night, the thought never left me.” I pause to take another drag of my smoke before I flick it out the window and finish the story. “She slit her throat after she had me come into some chalice thing. Then we went and knelt by that banister thing where her picture was hanging and she said some weird prayer thing, drank the essence of life, and that was it. We somehow became tied together forever.”

When the kid doesn’t say anything, I glance over to see what the fuck he’s doing, then blow out my breath in exasperation. I reach over and unclip his seatbelt, then remove the child-lock on his door. Seems that I lost him somewhere between a hard, vicious fuck and a sacrifice and he’s been trying to get out of the truck.

“Go ahead and jump,” I dare him with a smirk. Actually, wait.”

I crack my neck as I grip the steering wheel tightly and press down on the gas pedal as far as it will go, lurching the truck forward and intense speed.

“Woo!” I shout out as my hair begins to whip around my face. It’s actually quite exhilarating, but when I glance at the waste of a fuck, he looks like he’s about to piss his pants.

Rolling my eyes, I ease up on the speed and shrug.

“Thought you wanted to jump? If you’re going to take a tumble, may as well make it a good one. Granted, I’m not one for cleaning up roadkill so if you thought I was going to stop and see if you were okay, it wasn’t going to happen. Now why don’t you buckle that seatbelt back up, behave for a few more hours, and smile at your Aunt Trixie when you meet her, eh? She’s gonna be confused enough as it is when I show up.”

The kid uses the back of his hand to wipe the tears from his face and I sigh loudly. How? How the fuck is it possible that this scared, passive aggressive little shit came out of my sac?

Ah well.

Taking a deep breath, I lean my elbow on the window frame and keep driving. We’ll catch up to Trixie soon, and when we do, things will finally fucking go my way for once.

THIRTEEN

Blonde Damsels and Demons

AFTYN

I don't know why I got back in this fucking truck.

Lakyn is a complete and total asshole and all I want right now is to get the hell away from him. Unfortunately, the urge to literally jump out of a moving car just seemed to entertain him, and as I rub the sleeve of my shirt over my cheek again, I can hear him chuckling under his breath.

All of this is just too much.

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