Page 32 of Beautiful Beasts

“Wait…fuck, please. His name is Bruce. Bruce Wells,” the club owner cries, stopping Harley before he can stab him again.

“And where does Mr. Wells live?” Harley asks nicely.

“I…I don’t know,” the man stammers. For fuck sake, dude.

Harley slams the knife back into a different spot on the fuckers thigh, making him scream again.

“I don’t fucking believe you,” Harley says as he twists the blade.

“High street, he lives on High Street,” he yells like a little bitch.

“Was that so hard?” Harley asks, ripping the knife from his leg.

“Tell me more, Browning,” Harley says with amusement.

“I got nothing else,” he says, but he’s fucking lying. He’s such a bad liar; they all are. The truth always comes out at the end.

“I don’t fucking believe you,” Harley screams as he slices across the man’s chest.

I look down at Bella; she is sitting on the edge of her seat with her eyes glued on Harley, watching him circle the man again.

I bend down and whisper in her ear. “There is nothing we won’t do for you, Sweetheart.”

She releases her grip on my arm as I release her hand. I remove my jacket, placing it around her shoulders before I slowly make my way over to stand in front of the man.

I roll up my sleeves, and his eyes widen. “Your boy fucked with the wrong family, Browning,” I say calmly.

“He isn’t my boy,” he urges. But we aren’t fucking convinced.

“But you give him girls and drugs, don’t you?” I ask, tilting my head to the side.

The blood drains from his face. “How do you know that?’ He asks.

“Nothing happens in this city that doesn’t come across my desk first, you know that,” I explain the obvious.

“Sometimes,” he replies quickly.

Yeah, way more than sometimes asswipe.

“Liar…Liar,” I say in a low, dark voice.

Harley punches him in the face, busting his nose with a crunch.

This is going to be fun. I like it when they try to be tough.

22

Bella

“Hypnotic” by Zella Day

I sit back in the chair as I watch Harley and Dante torture the piece of shit who is chained to the chair. He isn’t giving them what they want, no matter how hard they go at him. He finally gave up Bruce’s full name and address, but Dante and Harley were still looking for more information.

It seems this man knows more about Bruce than I thought. I only know what he said when he was raping and abusing me, and he made sure to be careful with what he told me and how he said it. Which now makes sense if he is telling the truth about Griffin leaving me to him.

I don’t understand why my father thought he had the right to give me to another person like I was a piece of property to be owned. But I shouldn’t be surprised; Griffin always believed that he owned me and would remind me in one way or another every day of my life.

We have already been here a few hours, and I am surprised the man hasn’t passed out from blood loss. I hope it happens soon because I don’t know how much more of this I can watch.

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