I rained blows down on Chad, who might have been burly, but who was also incredibly slow compared to me. I was used to moving like a panther in the dark in my cage, and I’d already broken his jaw, his nose, and shattered his knee before I could be subdued.
“So you did love her,” Chad said, coughing up blood. I hadn’t killed him, but if I’d had more time, I would have smashed my fists into him until his face looked just like Raelene’s.
I looked at Rails her one last time. There was no point in being upset. I’d mourn her alone, away from these motherfuckers.
“Love her?” I spat, pulling my arms free from Maxi and Ant, who’d pulled me off Chad so I didn’t kill him. “She was a fucking junkie. I didn’t love her.”
“Huh.,” Chad said, cradling his broken jaw as he stared up at me accusingly, “but you’d beat me to fuckin’ death because I shot that junkie?”
I shrugged my shoulders, swiping the pack of cigarettes from Chad’s shirt pocket and lighting one up. “You just wasted pussy,” I said, glaring down at my brother. “You know how tight that was?”
Chad laughed. “Tight as Julz? Guess you’ll never know, huh?”
I didn’t react. I knew this was my test. If I broke down now, I’d be in that cell for the rest of my life, or worse—dead beside Raelene.
“She’s still warm,” I said, kicking Raelene’s limp foot to open her legs wider. “Maybe you should try her out before she goes stiff and let me know. No point in wasting perfectly good pussy just because she’s got no pulse, right?”
Everyone fell silent. The only sounds were Chad’s heavy breathing and the dripdripdrip of blood from his nose onto the dirt ground.
“Guess you are a Gypsy Brother,” Chad said in disbelief, and for the first time, I believed him.
*****
The first few months after Juliette and I found each other again, I didn’t fuck her—I made love to her. I was tender. I was gentle. I loved her, but it killed me to hold back. Now I don’t have to hold back.
Now, she likes it better when I hurt her.
I like that flicker of panic in her eyes as she feels my hand tighten around her neck. I wonder if she thinks about him.
Of course she does. He’s all she thinks about.
Then there’s the moment of recognition; when she remembers it’s me—the one who loves her, Jase—holding her life in my grip, and she relaxes. She trusts me.
I push into her one more time, my greed at getting off even more apparent than hers. I tighten my grip and cut off her air supply, and only then do her eyes roll back in her head as her pussy clenches tight around me and we come together.
She thinks I’m appeasing her by being violent. She doesn’t know about the beast that’s laid dormant in me all this time. If she did, I think she’d leave me, and I couldn’t bear for that to happen. I can’t lose her again … I won’t.
Normal men don’t want to hurt the women they love.
Normal men don’t have this darkness inside them.
But I’m not normal. I never was. I might’ve been patched in by force, but it doesn’t change the fact that I’ve got GYPSY BROTHERS forever etched into my skin. It doesn’t change the fact that I’ve got Ross blood running through my veins.
I might look like a good person on the surface, but it doesn’t change the fact that I’m Dornan Ross’s son.
I’m not sure if that’s the thing that’ll keep us together, or the blow that will force us apart.
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Lili writes dark romance. Her debut novel, Seven Sons, was released in early 2014, with the following books in the series coming out in quick succession. Lili quit corporate life to focus on writing and is loving every minute of it.
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