Chapter 27

Aurora

I've been alone in this basement for a couple of hours when I finally hear the locks beeping, letting me know that someone is trying to unlock the door. After the first few codes are successful, I relax a little bit.

"It's just us, Peach." Mateo yells from the top of the stairs.

Walking around the corner, I look up the steps, smiling when I see Rune and Karrion dragging Mathias through the doorway. I watch as Lorenzo, Mateo, Drew, Rae and Alaric come down the stairs behind them.

Nobody looks happy, and that scares the shit out of me. They managed to grab the man that's made our lives hell for the past seven years, I thought they would be on cloud nine.

"Mateo!" I call out, waiting for him to look at me. "Where's Luna?"

"She went upstairs with Silas, he was stabbed." He walks toward me, kissing my forehead as he pulls me against him. "She needs you right now, Rory." Pulling away to look at me, I notice the unshed tears in his eyes. "They killed Leo."

"Oh god, no!" I gasp, stepping away from him.

A tear falls down his cheek before he has the chance to swipe it away. "You should go to her."

Nodding, I turn and quickly make my way up the stairs. On the main floor, there are a few people that I'm not familiar with, but I ignore them and head up to our bedroom. When I reach the top of the steps, I can hear Luna shouting at someone.

The door swings open and Silas stomps out of the room, mumbling under his breath. When he notices me, he stops and leans against the wall.

"She's really pissed off right now, I'm sorry." He quips, running his hand through his hair. "She asked me to fuck her."

"She's just looking for a distraction so she doesn't hurt for a while." Leaning next to him, I rub his arm that's now in a sling. "What's this for?"

"It's a sling." He smiles, pulling his arm away from his torso. "It stops my arm from moving too much until the doc patches me up." I playfully roll my eyes at his stupid joke. "I'm fucking with you. I got stabbed in the shoulder. Doc was about to fix me, but Luna tried to take my pants off, so he stepped out of the room."

"I need to get in there with her." Stepping away from the wall, I walk into our room, and my jaw drops. She's broken pretty much everything in here that she can get her hands on. "Luna?" I call out as I approach the bathroom door.

She storms out of the bathroom, tears streaming down her face. "You can get the fuck out, too." She shouts in my face while pushing me backwards. "I don't fucking need anything from any of you!"

"Ok, I'll be downstairs if you need me." I put my hands up in surrender and start to back away from her.

"I'm packing my shit and I'm fucking leaving." She grabs a suitcase from the closet, opening it up and laying it on the floor. She crouches next to it, starting to throw clothing inside. "I can't do this shit anymore."

"Just let us be here for you." I kneel on the floor in front of her. "We love you, Luna. I know you're hurting, just-"

"Fucking stop, Aurora!" She screams, standing to her full height. "None of you know anything about how I fucking feel!"

"Good thing I don't really care how you feel." Karrion smirks as he stalks toward Luna. "I only care about getting my dick wet right now."

"And what?" She snorts, placing her hands on her hips. "You think I'm supposed to care about your tiny dick?"

He comes to a stop in front of her, wrapping his hand around her throat and squeezing. "Get on your knees and show me how much you don't care about my tiny dick." He demands before releasing his grip on her. She immediately drops to her knees and starts unbuttoning his pants.

I stand, making my way out of the room. Hopefully, Karrion can give her the distraction she needs for a little while, and doesn't send her spiraling in the process.

I'm walking down the stairs to the basement when Mathias' screams reach my ears. I've never been fond of the shit that happens down here, but something tells me that this is where I need to be.

They have Mathias stripped naked and chained to the wall. He hasn't stopped screaming about how he's going to kill everyone in this room. Sitting on the bottom step, I tune out his screams and think about some of the happy times we've had, allowing the memories to take my mind off the stress of the day.

"You're all a bunch of fucking cheaters." Mateo laughs, handing another million dollars to Enzo.

"We're not cheating!" I chuckle, picking up the dice. "It's called working together to take down a common enemy."

"And why am I the enemy?" He cocks his head to the side, waiting for me to answer.

"Because you actually DO cheat." Luna chimes in, trying to stop the smile from spreading across her face as she passes me a card under the table. I quickly add it to my hand, never taking my eyes off of Mateo.

We don't play by the proper rules; this is like a Monopoly/UNO mash-up that we play sometimes on game nights.

"I need another hotel on Park Place." I smile at him over my cards, laying my sixes down on the table. He eyes me warily for a second before tossing another hotel at me. "Your turn, Daddy." I taunt, passing him the dice.

He rolls a seven and I quickly count spaces in my head. That will put him right on Park Place.

He grabs the little car, moving it six spaces before glaring at me while he slams the car down on my space. I'm no longer able to stop the smile from spreading across my face as he glances around the table at the three of us. "That'll be four million dollars, please."

He grabs the corner of the table, flipping it to the side before yanking my cards from my hands and throwing them. Grabbing my leg, he drags me across the floor and I wrap my legs around his waist. "Fucking cheaters." He grumbles, kissing his way up my chest.

"You think I couldn't see you two passing cards under the table?"

"We would never!" I fake a gasp, wrapping my arms around him.

"Of course you wouldn't. Not my perfect girls." He smirks, running his hand down my stomach until he reaches the waistband of my panties.

The basement door opens so fast that it bangs off the wall. When I turn to look up the stairs, Luna is standing there with Karrion right behind her, whispering something in her ear.

They both have wet hair, and Luna is wearing clean clothes. They must have gotten a shower in after they fucked. She stomps down the stairs, heading straight toward Mathias with a glint in her eyes that I've never seen before.