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Gideon

Addilyn blinked. Stared from the shed’s doorway.

“The fuck is this?” Lloyd cursed, yanking on the binds he’d never be able to break.

“It’s called revenge, asshole.” I shot him a glare, my desire for blood rousing again. “You really think I would give up the most precious thing in my life to you? Are you really that fucking stupid to believe I don’t know when you’re lying? You uncovered my juvie records, Lloyd. Without those, I never would’ve been convicted.”

“It was her words that got you locked up.”

The fuckface didn’t argue the truth I’d stated.

“My princess was an innocent,” I said, the growing rage in my gut wanting to unleash. Stalking forward, I held his gaze and fed off the fear budding in his eyes. “Was,” I repeated with emphasis, “until you helped send me away so you could steal that innocence from her.”

My fist shot out without thought, smashing into his cheek.

Blood sprayed across the floor, but it was his grunt and Addilyn’s gasp that fed my bloodlust. Rage no longer simmered—it flared to life.

I turned to find her watching me heave for breath, my hands fisted at my sides.

No fucking trace of horror or disgust shone in her wide blue eyes.

My strong princess…fuck did she know how to light up my insides.

“I’m going to make him pay for what he did to you, Addilyn,” I promised with a harsh, guttural tone. “He’s going to hurt like you did. Beg for mercy.”

“But you won’t give it,” she whispered.

I grinned at her statement, how she was unaffected by what I had planned. “Fuck no.”

Lips pressing in a tight line, she turned to watch Lloyd bleed. “Good.”

“You make me hard as hell, Addilyn Jane Reed.” Without waiting for a response to what she already knew to be true, I shifted my focus back on Lloyd. “Sick fucks like you don’t deserve to live.”

Lloyd spat out blood, still having the balls to glare at me. “She’s only using you, son.”

“I’m not your son,” I hollered, my short fingernails digging into my palms.

“She’ll get what she wants from you then leave you hanging, desperate for more like she did with me.”

“I never wanted you!” Addilyn shrieked from behind me. “You lying fuck!”

“She was a cock hungry little girl,” Lloyd continued, ignoring her and holding my stare, “lusting to fulfill all the fantasies she cooked up in her head because of the porn she’d been watching.”

“Liar!” she screamed, her anger, her pain feeding the beast inside me.

“Every day she pleaded for my dick.” Lloyd sneered. “To give her the kind of pain that she craved.”

My gut simmered as I listened to his lies, but I needed him to keep on…giving me a reason to bleed him out. To watch the life fade from his eyes after the hours of torture he fucking deserved.

“She. Got. Off.” Lloyd bit out each word with a sick smirk on his mouth. “Begged for me to take her ass. Got on her knees, asking me to fuck her face with my dick.”

Addilyn choked on a sob but didn’t refute his claims.

“She wanted my dick every day,” Lloyd continued. “Cried whenever she got her period and I denied her.”

Still Addilyn stood silent behind me.

“And when she found out that last time I’d emptied my balls inside her mother rather than her needy little cunt?” Lloyd snorted, shaking his head. “My wife needed surgery to repair the scars on her cheek from Addilyn’s fingernails.”

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