Page 51 of Madness Behind the Mask
“I know.”
My throat works as I struggle to work through what my brother is telling me. I’ve never been foolish enough to believe the Shadow Domain appreciates me as Boss. I am and always will be an outsider. But I was foolish enough to think that they understood the choices I’ve been forced to make to save more than we’ve lost.
“So if David just wants to kill me, why would he need to have others rape Sau?” I finally ask, breathing out as I find my control. My logic. A calculating Boss rather than a grieving father.
Myers releases his grip on my shoulder and puts it back on the wheel. We turn onto our street, the dark of the night only broken by the cut of our lights. “Bert said he was approached, right?”
“Yes, but he still had to pay for it.”
“Like an exclusiveclub fee?”
I swear, then silence descends, heavy and thick with the warning of a storm. “We have to be sure about this,” I finally say. If I kill David and he’s innocent, I’ll lose a valuable advisor and whatever support I have left in this Family. Hel, I’ll probably lose that support regardless of his innocence or not. If Myers kills him, as reaper, he will be trusted to have made the right choice… Or feared too much to speak up against. But I will not let David die by another’s hands. If his crimes are true, I will avenge my wifeand deal with the fallout later.
Pulling onto our drive, he cuts off the lights. “How do you want to do this?”
“Gather the evidence, then we’ll hold a trial.”
“You could lose. Charisma matters more than facts.”
He speaksa truththat’s beenrepeated time over timethroughout Earth’s history, and my jaw locks. “It’ll be a family trial only then,” I say. “Sau, Leon, Jonathan, Molly, Bonnie, and I, plus the six capos. I’ll call them in once we have the evidence.” I pause for only a second. “And find out which of the capos are working with him. There’s no way he’s been doing this alone.’”
He nods, and I open the car door. Leaning down, I add one final thing. “I don’t care how many are left standing in this fucking Family, Myers. I want them all dead. If that does what the werewolves and vampires cannot, then so fucking be it.”
His lips tighten. His responsibility as reaper says he should kill me for even voicing how little I care about the lives of this Family. But they crossed a line selling my wife. And I will fight even my brother to protect her.
He holds my gaze, both of our bodies tense, seeing which way this will go.
Then he exhales.
“Family first,” he murmurs.
I nod. “To the end, brother.”
Clasping him on the shoulder, I head in to see my wife.
Nineteen
CADEN
14August1947
I’m not surprised to seeshe’sawake when I enter our bedroom(she’s been struggling to sleep), but I’m surprised to see her down on her knees in front of the door. Before I can say a word, shegrabs my waistband and fumbles with my button and zipper.
“Sau, what are you –”
She pulls me out at the same time I grab her shoulders. But she’s already leaning forward and opening her mouth.
Panic fills me at the sight of her desperation to please. A complete change from how she was only a few hours ago when she lay still beneath me, her only movement the trembling of her limbs.I hold her back before she can suck me into her wide lips.
“Sau,stop,” I say, digging my fingers into her shoulders. I don’t want her like this, where she is acting like a paid whore with fake enthusiasm behind the glimmer of tears.
“But I am good for this.”
The strength goes out of my armsatherwhispered plea, and she is against me in an instant.Her lips close around the head of my cock as her tongue swirls beneath the foreskin. Pleasure pulls a groan from my lips as I haul her close and shove deeper into her mouth. My eyes close half-hooded as she sucks me deep, her nose pressing into my stomach without so much as a gag. Alarm bells ring inside me even as the desire to fuck her pretty little mouth hard and fasthas me thrusting into her.
She cups my balls as shestarts to bob up and down, dragging out my pleasure with each stroke of her tongue. She sucks the tip of my cock hard, humming vibrations down its length as her fingers stroke between my thighs. I widen my stance with a grunt, then hit the back of her throat on the next thrust.
She teases me, skilled in the ways of her mouth.
