Page 44 of Reaper Released

“Smart choice, kid.” I get near to him. I lunge, grab his wrist with the knife, and he drops it. I spin around him so I’m now behind him, holding his arm across his body and my knife to his throat.

“Scar, I need you to run like fuck back to the club, grab your phone. Call Ares, and lock yourself in Steel’s room… Now!” She doesn’t need telling again. She just runs. I see the headlights coming in the distance around the pond.

“Now listen to me good. She’s gonna tell me to kill you. I can either do it or act it. Either way, she needs to believe I’ve slit your throat. If you wanna live, when I run the knife over your throat, drop your head, and start making choking noises, convulse in my arms for about one minute, then I will drop you to the ground. Stay there! You hear me?”

Wide-eyed, he nods. "Please, just don’t kill me.”

“Don't make me kill you!” He nods as the car slows about twenty feet in front of us, headlights blinding us, but Shay opens the door and steps out behind it.

“Hey, honey, you okay?”

“Shay, she's gonna slit my throat. Help me!”

“Tell him, Shay, that you don’t give a shit about him. You just want Ares back. Well, you ain’t gonna get him, girl!”

“Honey, you know I love you. We’re gonna be together!”

I make a load of retching noises. “Oh, please!” I move the knife to the far side of his throat. “You know you’re living on borrowed time, Shay. I’m fucking coming for you, bitch!”

“You’re a fucking psycho!”

I bark out a laugh at her. “Oh, sweetheart, you have no fucking idea! I’m not just a psycho. I’m one of the psychos, part of the Psycho Six. You may have known them as the Fucked up Five, but they’ve had a little… upgrade!”

Although I can’t see her because of the headlights aimed right at me, I know she has just shat herself. Yeah, you fucking should! “I’ll be coming for you, Shay. If I have to, I will burn the world down, but I am coming!”

“You can go to hell!”

Well, I almost piss myself laughing a psychotic laugh at her. “Oh, sweetheart, didn’t you hear? Hades himself rescinded my invitation, even they don’t want me down there. Who the fuck do you think sent me here?” I smile a manic grin. “I am the motherfucking Reaper!” Everything falls silent. “I’m gonna give you to the count of I’ll slit your boyfriend’s throat, and he’s done gasping and twitching for breath till I come for you, so I suggest you run, and run fast, and run far, and when he’s dead, bitch, there's nothing on this earth stopping me till I rip your soul out!”

I swipe my knife across his throat. He gasps and gargles as he drowns in his own blood, and I smile as he thrashes while Shay stands frozen. He’s trying to grip his throat to hold it together, but it’s no good. He’s dead already. “Run, Forrest, run!” I bellow as she jumps in the car and speeds away.

He sags and gasps before I drop him to his knees then he falls on his face. I grimace. “Shit! Sorry, I forgot not to kill you, oops!” I bend down and wipe my knife on his clothes as I hear footsteps pounding from the clubhouse. “Everyone alright, boys?” They stand looking at me, then the body on the floor, then me again. “Fuck, Ray!” Dice gasps out.

“Jesus!” Tank breathes out.

“Bloody hell, quite literally!” Priest breathes out a solid breath.

Steel’s silent, staring at the body and then at me. He walks over to the body and knocks him onto his back to see the full extent of my handiwork.

“Shay got away!”

Steel glances back at the body and back to me. He sweeps me up into his arms. “Fuck me. You’re fucking perfect!” Sweeping me into his arms, he kisses me like he’s missed me and can’t live without me, and I wrap my legs around him and return it right back.

“Erm, guys… ” Tank trails off.

“Ahem!” Priest coughs out.

“You are two sick motherfuckers. You know that?” I pull back from Steel, smiling at Dice.

“Thanks for noticing, Brother!” I wink at him.

He barks out laughing, shaking his head. “I need a fucking drink!”

“Me too,” Tank chimes in.

“Me blooming three!” Priest turns and struts towards the clubhouse.

“Wanna fuck me against the tree?” I smile against Steel’s mouth, kissing and nipping at his lower lip.

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