Page 101 of Elicit (Decadence After Dark)

“Yes. I’d hate to miss out on the festivities.” The man steps away from Ellie, but Javier lingers a second longer. He then squeezes her breast, and Ellie whimpers before retreating behind Kayne. Scum of the fucking earth. Hurting Jenna wasn’t enough, he has to fuck with Ellie too?

“Your whore still needs work,” Javier sneers and my anger skyrockets. The only thing that keeps me in check is Kayne’s threatening glare. I think if he could shoot laser beams from his eyes, he would.

“Go,” Jett mouths, delivering one last communicative look before he leads Javier and his companion away. I watch helplessly as they disappear in the crowd, a sickening feeling of dread taking hold.

Confused, worried, and alone, I drop my wings as Jett instructed, slip out of the cage, and head straight for the garage without passing go.

My pulse pounds as I weave through the throngs of people and across the house. The farther away from the great room I get, the quieter my surroundings become. I step into the vast garage filled with all Kayne’s and Jett’s toys. Expensive foreign cars, motorcycles, and four wheelers all lined up on display. All shiny and impressive under the florescent lights.

As I stand in the middle of the garage, headlights suddenly blind me as a sports car pulls out of its spot. I jump back as it rumbles past me and then stops. The driver’s side door swings open and my heart dies in my chest as soon as I see his face.

“Is this some kind of fucking joke?” I snap as Alistair stands next to the sleek black Porsche.

“No, get your ass in the car.”

“I’m not going anywhere with you,” I spit. Has Jett lost his fucking mind? Sending me away with the man who’s the star of my most horrific nightmares?

Alistair snatches me before I even see his hand move.

“You are my little pet,” his tone isn’t threatening, just urgent. It still speaks to all my hostility. My rage flares, and without a second thought I kick him square in the balls. He topples against the car with an agonizing groan as Amber flies out of the passenger side. “London, what the fuck?” she snaps, outraged.

I ignore her imperiously.

“My name isn’t ‘pet’,” I seethe, looking at the man who brought so much pain into my life. I feel like I’m possessed, being forced to confront him now. “I remember every heinous thing you ever did to me.” I shake from the hatred and rage. “I remember the last night I ever spent with you. How you ripped the virginity right from my body.” My angry tears boil over. “I also remember the man my father sold my virginity to, and how when I didn’t bleed, he raped me until I did.” That was the start of my second trek through hell.

“London.” Amber touches me lightly, but I smack her hand away.

“Why would Jett do this? Why would he send me away withyou?”

Alistair looks up at me with a different set of hazel eyes. They’re nowhere near as cold as they used to be, but still just as shrewd.

“Because I’m the only other person he trusts with your life next to Kayne. I’m a solider, London. I have been my entire life. I do as I’m told.”

“What did Jett tell you to do with me?” I ask suspiciously.

“Protect you.”

“From what?”

“The entire world.”

I regard him like he’s crazy.

“Get in the car, London.” Alistair is finally able to stand at his full height, but it’s visible his nuts are still throbbing by the way he cradles his crotch. I wish I could cut his testicles right off.

“Please, we need to go,” Amber adds alarmed.

As much as I don’t want to, it’s Jett’s judgment I trust. So I cautiously open the back door. “You know what I did to my father,” I threaten Alistair. “Tryanythingand I’ll do the same to you.” Then I slip into the back seat, animosity radiating off me like nuclear decay.

Seconds later, Alistair is peeling out of the garage, leaving Mansion, and everything I’ve come to know, behind. The house shrinks away to nothing as we fly down the half mile drive and turn on to the street.

“Where are we going?” I ask guardedly in the darkness.

“Airport.” Alistair hands over an answer with no hesitation.

“And then where?”

“The beach.”

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