Chapter 18

She doesn't even have to touch me to make me cum. I feel it spill out at the sight of her standing over Fabien, scalpel in hand, dripping in blood. I wish I'd seen her kill Gorman. To see her carve him up like the pig he was . She's our little freak. No one else's. I'll murder whoever tries to touch her again. We underestimated that bastard. We shouldn't have left her alone in the courtyard.

Her eyes are wild, her hair disheveled with bits of leaves and mud entangled between her blonde strands. But it's the blood that makes me hard again. It stains her fingers and cheeks. It's splattered across her chest and belly. She's my beautiful villain now. And a far cry from the spoiled princess I once believed her to be.

This woman gets down and dirty. She has more fight in her than anyone I've ever met. As much fight as the three of us have. More than even her own father gives her credit for. But that fucker doesn't know her at all. If he did, he wouldn't have forced us to follow her to Tenebrose Academy. He wouldn't have put her in the middle of a war between two of the most powerful families in Melancholia.

She laughs as she carves her name into Fabien's thigh. "Such a good boy for me, aren't you?"

I want to stroke his cock with her lips around it. "You're going to regret that when we get you back on your leash, little pet," I taunt. I crave her mania. Obsessed with pushing her over the edge because I know she'll pull me down with her. And I want to fall and break with her. I want to take her trauma and give her mine.

"I warned you about pulling a knife on me, little freak," Fabien rasps, his voice full of violent ache.

She licks his scar like a pussy cat lapping at a bowl of milk. "No, you said not to use your knife. This one's mine."

Fabien moans as she licks everywhere but his cock. "I want you to ride the fuck out of me."

But she leaves him there panting, hard, and throbbing.

And when she finally turns to face me again, I see that edge in her gaze. The one she wants to pull me off.

"Let me lick the blood off you… let me taste your kill." The second we get out of here, I'm going to fuck every single one of her puckered holes.

She grins as she climbs up my body until she's sitting on my chest. I almost cum again as I feel the wetness of her bare cunt against my skin. "How about you start by licking my pussy?"

I will fucking devour her.

"Sit on my face," I order. Even restrained, I hold power over her.

Her throat bobs as she lifts up and uses the iron headboard to steady herself. I breathe in the sweet scent of her arousal as she lowers herself onto my face. "Mmm," I moan. "Hold yourself right there. Just like that."

I thrust my tongue all the way inside her warm wet entrance, relishing how her pussy lips rub against my nose. I roll my tongue in circles up and around her clit, back and forth between it and her core. Her juices spill out and drip down my face.

"You both look so fucking hot," Raithe rasps.

Her eyes light up. She didn't know that we like to play with each other too. I chuckle and bite down hard on her inner thigh, drawing blood.

She gasps but doesn't pull away. "Fuck…"

That's right, baby girl. You're mine . "You will never have control over me, Lib. You will always give it up for this ." I plunge my tongue back inside her pussy, flicking it wildly against her trembling walls.

She fists my hair as she grinds down hard on my face, bucking her hips like she's trying to stay on a bull. She moans and grunts and clenches as I work her body like a fucking puppet.

"She's coming," Fabien murmurs.

I know.

I'm drenched in seconds, drowning in a steady burst of cream. She cries out and grinds harder. I lick and suck and nibble every inch of her aching cunt. "Now turn around so I can do the same to the other side."

She trembles as she slides down me and rests on my chest, panting for air. Her juices trickle down my belly. "I hate you."

"No, you don't. No more than I hate you," I whisper back.

She gets up and puts her clothes back on. "I'm getting out of here tonight. I'll leave the scalpel so you can get out of your restraints. But I need a head start."

"Lib, wait. You need us," Raithe pleads.

"Your games aren't fun anymore." She looks at me, her gaze hardening. "You left me in the courtyard. Just like my father left me here to rot. You think I live this great life because I have money. But it's not my money. It's my father's. And he holds it over my head like a ticking time bomb. All I ever wanted was his love and attention."

Fuck. Something isn't right. A feeling in my gut. "Libra—"

"No," she cuts me off. "You're going to listen. I was sixteen when he started offering me as a gift to potential business partners. Sixteen . I didn't want to be pretty. I thought that maybe if they were repulsed by me, then he would stop sending me off with them. My brother doesn't know. They told Aries that I was away on another shopping trip with my friends."

"Fucking hell… Libra, that is so fucked up," Fabien squeaks.

She glares at him. "They were always careful not to get me pregnant. The second time it happened, the guy tied me to a pillar in his hotel suite so all of his friends could touch me whenever they wanted… After that weekend… I started starving myself. I thought that would make my father embarrassed to offer me up. All it did was piss him off. He sent me to rehab for six months. It was a nice break. But when I got back, it started up again."

I've already snapped through one of my wrist restraints. The fucking rage coursing through my body is enough to start a fire. All this time, while we were working for her bastard father in the poison fields, his precious daughter was working for him in the beds of his business partners. Gemini Thorn is a true fucking monster.

"Let me up so I can go with you and help you murder him." I can't keep the edge out of my voice. I sound demonic, but I don't care.

She hangs her head. "Tenebrose Academy was my only escape. I applied without telling him, knowing my name alone would get me in, and he'd be too embarrassed to publicly deny me. He was furious that I backed him into a corner. So much so that he made me a pawn in the war between the Blackwells and the Graves. And now that has landed me here. With three psychos who want to kill me for what he's done to them too."

I was so fucking wrong, I feel sick.

"Your father forced us to go to Tenebrose to keep an eye on you," Raithe bursts out.

"What?" Her face twists in horror.

"We even had to join Nocturnus once you started hanging around them," Fabien adds.

She drops the scalpel. "So it is my fault. Raithe, your eye…" She looks back and forth between the three of us. "All your scars… and all you got in return was a spoiled little rich girl dancing on tables and fucking her life up. Fuck me. I'd hate me too."

I'm torn between wanting to wrap my arms around her and slapping her to make her snap out of this stupor of self-loathing. "We were wrong," I grit out. "We didn't know you. I should have seen through your act. I should have known that you were lashing out because you were in pain. Baby girl, please untie us so we can all get the fuck out of here."

Her fingers shake, and she won't look up from the floor. Fuck. She's having a fucking panic attack. I know them all too well.

"Libra, look at me. You're safe now. I promise you. Go get my knife out of the top drawer. You can hold it to my throat while you untie me if it makes you feel better." I won't allow her to fall apart. Not now.

"I-I've done enough. I just need to go before I get you into any more trouble. The guards won't hurt you." She inches back toward the door.

"But they'll hurt you ," Raithe growls. "Let us protect you like we failed to do back at Tenebrose."

"We're going to destroy everyone who's ever hurt us. Together," Fabien adds.

A loud bang erupts next door. Libra's room. Fuck. One of the orderlies yells, " Where the fuck is she? "

My heart pounds. I have one hand free but I can't let her see that or she won't trust me. So I keep it in the strap. "They will come in here next. Please. Just cut one of my wrists loose and I'll do the rest."

She jumps as they bang on our door.

Fabien hisses. "Let's go, little freak. Snap the fuck out of it and cut us free. Then I'll show you what happens to those who hurt our girl."

She sucks in a deep breath and a light comes back on in her eyes. "Fuck. Shit." She rushes over to me and unbuckles the strap that holds my left wrist. Before she can see, I pretend to undo my right one while she works on my ankles.

As I throw my clothes on, I nod toward the beds. "Get Raithe and Fabien out. Now."

And she does.

Fabien grabs her and tilts her back. "Fuck, you're one crazy bitch. I think I'm in love." She whimpers as he plants a deep kiss on her lips.

After they both scramble to put on their pants, Raithe charges toward the door and yanks it open, not waiting for them to break it down. The orderlies barrel in and all hell breaks fucking loose.