Unraveled (Bound and Bared Book 2)

by Christine Monroe

  Val retreated, wrapping an arm around Miranda as he relaxed.

  “Sorry.” Emily apologized her voice cracking as her chin quivered.

  Val nodded.

  Emily broke into sobs, “I didn’t mean it, Miranda,” her arms wrapping around her sister hugging her tight. Val’s hug came next, quicker than Mirandas.

  Val sighed releasing Emily from the hug, “Can we try to go a week before you want to kill me again?”

  Emily rolled her eyes. “You do know that you are a giant pain in the ass right?”

  Val shrugged.

  Emily tried hiding a smile. “We’ll see, but I’m not making any promises.”

  “Would it help to know that I put a bullet into the head of the asshole that took her? His brains and shit went everywhere.”

  The color that had returned to Miranda’s face once again vanished. Raising her hand, she slapped Val across the arm.

  “You’ll pay for that later.” Val threatened.

  Miranda didn’t even flinch. “You think you’re spending the night in our bed? Your ass is sleeping on the couch.

  Val went to reply but was cut off.

  “Hey, don’t forget about me I helped too!” Thorn shouted from behind me. “Two bullets are better than one!”

  Whipping around I saw Thorn jumping up and down like a child, his hand waving in the air a look of sheer pride on his face.

  Emily couldn’t help it her face finally broke out into a grin. “It does.”

  Emily leaned over placing a kiss on Miranda’s cheek, “It’s okay sis. I’m not little anymore. Monsters deserve what they get. I’m going to go cheek on Selena.”

  “Does that mean I don’t have to sleep on the couch?” Val winked at Miranda.

  Miranda glared at him before marching away. Looking over her shoulder, she added, “You’re not forgiven that easily.”

  Val watching for a few steps before following her. “I’ll be in our bed trust me. She’s due for punishment.” Winking again he stalked off after her.

  One thing was for sure my life would never be boring. I hadn’t fully committed to riding this crazy train, but for some strange reason, all this was beginning to feel normal. Even though the train was racing a thousand miles per hour, no headlights lighting its way and heading down a track that might end at any moment still had me feeling like was home.

  I released the final breath I had been holding. “I think I’ve had enough excitement for one day.” Throwing an arm around my shoulder, Thorn planted a kiss on my cheek.

  “It’s still early.”

  Thorn’s voice sounding almost giddy at the thought all hell could break loose at any moment.

  Chapter Twenty

  Heading to Selena’s room fully expecting a few sharp things to be tossed at my head. I couldn’t blame her for wanting some vengeance. I had been the one responsible for her being taken.

  My hand shook slightly as I tapped softly on her door. Sweat prickled against the back of my neck my stomach rolling as I stood in the hallway waiting.

  “Thorn that better be you.” Selena’s voice coming through the door horse and raw.

  Entering the room my eyes directly fell on her. A heavy weight settling in my chest making it impossible to speak. Every inch of Selena was covered in black and blue. Fading red handprints stood out against the pale skin of her neck. I saw her dangling from Marcus’s hand her limp body pressed to the wall as the bastards’ hands choked the very life out of her.

  Every hurt, every bruise, every horror filled memory was all my fault. Paralyzed I didn’t move.

  Selena reached out her hand towards me, and all I did was stare at it. I couldn’t touch her. I couldn’t feel the weight of her hand in mine without my heart collapsing.

  Selena let her hand fall. “You can’t just avoid me you know?”

  “You should be the one to avoid me, in fact, I hope you hate me. Bite me, shoot me, throw something sharp and I won’t even duck. Hurt me. Hate me. Just don’t sit there holding out your hand and asking me to take it. I don’t deserve to touch you and me sure as hell don’t deserve your forgiveness.”

  “You are a dumbass Thorn Emery, but I don’t want to hurt you, and I can never hate you. Get your stupid ass over here right now, or I will get out of this bed and get you. Don’t let my appearance fool you I can still knock you on your ass.”

  Selena’s use of my last name told me she meant business. No one used it. Well, she was the only one who even knew what it was. A night spent getting drunk together, and she managed to get it out of me. My last name part of a past that far better off dead and buried.

  “Bringing up my last name huh?”

  A tiny smile crept across her face. “You needed it.”

  “I won’t argue that.” A shaky laugh escaped me. Briefly closing my eyes as my body sagged against the door frame.

  Selena put out her hand for the second time and this time I didn’t refuse the offer. Taking her hand, she allowed me to curl my fingers around hers. Flopping down into the chair next to the bed I sat there holding tight to Selena’s hand in mine wondering where we would go from here.

  *

  Thorn walked to sit down on the bed beside me. “How did it go?”

  “She didn’t bite me this time.” Thorn’s eyes appearing glossy as he lowered his head to rest on my shoulder.

  “She also used my full name.”

  “Wait? What is your full name?” The question sounding silly to my even my ears. Thorn was the man sharing my bed, the man who had found me in my weakest moment and yet I didn’t even know his full name. Whoops.

  Thorn raised his head. “Thorn James Emery.”

  Thorn James Emery. The name bouncing around in my head like a ping pong ball. Case Emery popped up in my head. Oh god, I had become a desperate school girl. If I had a notebook, I would probably be scrawling our names across it in fancy letters.

  “I like it. It fits.” Nudging him with my shoulder Thorn barely budged. His body was like hitting a wall coiled and tight with tension. His jaw clenched as I heard his teeth grind. Thorn was not a fan.

  Knowing all too well what was it like to hate your last name I didn’t ask him why. I hated being known as the girl whose sister was abducted and whose parents decided to burn rather live with it. I hated the whispers, the small talk gossip turning to into a media frenzy once my story got out.

  Trailing my fingers over his cheek, I whispered, “Don’t worry I won’t tell anyone.”

  Cupping his jaw, I turned his face to mine feeling the tension drain away his jaw relaxing in my hold. Peering into his eyes, concluding I had been a fool. While I had been worried about falling in love with him, I hadn’t noticed he had already fallen. Thorn spent his life lost to every war darkening his doorstep. I was a disaster of a girl, fumbling and falling to pieces too terrified of the world to keep breathing. Landing in Thorn’s lap like a place dropping from the sky he wasn’t afraid of the crash, falling in love with me even with all my twisted fragments and fractured faith.

  Panic broke me.

  Fear nearly killed me.

  Thorn Emery caught me.

  And love…. Well, it was love that brought me back to life.

  Chapter Twenty-One

  Case’s breath picked up speed as her lips struck mine with deadly intentions. Love sealing our fate with not time to guess second or worry about what lied ahead.

  Putting her on my lap, her legs draping over mine her body a perfect fit every time. Her hands tangling in my hair trying to get me even closer.

  Breathless her hands dipped low brushing my cock through the tight denim. My dick wasted no time growing so hard it bordered on pain. I had never been this hard in my whole life.

  “Your turn. I’m all yours.” Five words. Five fucking words and I was lost.

  Gripping her waist, I lifted off and set her down in front of me. “Strip.” My voice guttural as I issued the command. I felt primal, the need for her to belong to me, tossing me closer to the edge
. My eyes fixed on Case as one by one every piece of clothing fell from her body revealing inches of pure perfection.

  “Get on your hands and knees,” I ordered licking my lips in anticipation.

  *

  Thorn commanded, and I obeyed. Getting on the bed, crawling up and presenting my ass in the air. My fingers clutching soft cotton as my pussy wept. A button popped open as a zipper fell, the thought of Thorn undressing had my mouth running dry. Imagining the sight of his cock. How much harder it could grow at sight of my ass in the air. Sliding my thighs wider, an open invitation for his cock to fuck me any way he wanted.

  Strong hands grasping my hips as the force of his first thrust sent my ass rocking forward, and then backward my pussy slamming back down on his cock. Thorn ramming into my dripping pussy without remorse. His hands reaching up to play with my breasts. His fingers squeezing the tender flesh finding a direct line to my pussy causing it to tighten even further around his cock.

  “These are mine,” Thorn growled squeezing my breasts again before taking a hand and placing it on his cock so I could feel it slid in and out as it fucked me.

  Pulling his cock out completely my hand and pussy were left empty, and I whimpered at a loss.

  “Thorn. Please baby.” I panted pushing my hips back trying to reclaim his cock.

  A smack to my ass cheek sent my pussy clenching around air before the tip of Thorn’s cock rubbed my clit spreading my slickness over the sensitive nub.

  “Oh God.” I felt my thighs shake the need to come so strong I didn’t know how much more I could take.

  “This is mine.” His fingers taking the place of his cock in my pussy, knuckle deep his two fingers spread me wide. Withdrawing them quickly, the blunt tip of his cock replacing them as buried himself as deep as I could take him. His arms wrapping around my waist holding me to him as he rained kisses along my spine.

  *

  I was on the edge of madness. Case’s body held so tight against my chest I could hear every sharp breath and frantic beat of her heart. Her pussy fastened airtight around my cock it’s liquid heat taking every inch of me. Case had granted me full access. Every part of her yielding to me without hesitation. Claiming her body but needing her heart I pressed my palm the racing beat beneath her skin.

  “This is mine. I want it’s every beat. You already have mine Case my heart was yours the very first time I held you in my arms. It will only ever beat for you.”

  One woman unraveled me. Becoming nothing but frayed threads, bits, and pieces tangled around her. Case keeping me together, calling me home from the land of the lost.

  *

  Thorn’s words struck with such force rocking me to the core. My heart fluttering awakening the butterflies from the dark, taking their first breath as they soared. Thorn’s love allowing them to fly. No longer would I let them die in the dark. Slaying every monster, his weapon simple words but they had deadly aim.

  My pulse quickening in my veins, heat sliding through my body as my thoughts scattered.

  “Thorn.” His name broken syllables as I burned.

  “You are mine.” His tongue licked the fast beat of my pulse beneath my skin.

  “Say it.” Thorn’s teeth scrapped across my neck.

  “Say it Case.”

  “I’m yours.” The words sent his hips thrusting upward, fucking me, owning all the parts of me he had declared were his.

  “Again.” Thorn’s voice raw and guttural, his cock thrusting hard enough to send my ass bouncing on top of his thighs.

  “I’M YOURS!” I shouted, the words echoing off the cool cotton sheets.

  My breasts bouncing joining my ass as Thorn kept fucking me so hard I couldn’t catch my breath. The ache between my thighs a steady pulse of heat, my pussy craving relief, clenching tighter around Thorn’s cock, demanding to get what it wanted. One more hard thrust and I came dousing Thorn’s cock with wetness.

  “That’s my girl.” The words landing in my ear and I wondered how Thorn could even manage them. My head hazy, my body rung dry from the way he had fucked me and how he had made me come.

  *

  Stilling my thrusts I loved the torture, the feeling of Case falling apart around my cock. I wanted every second of her pleasure, wanting to her to find joy with the way our bodies came together as she let me love her.

  Love. Four letters with the ability to annihilate a heart or save it. Case holding me captive, I had fallen, willingly tossing myself off the ledge not giving a fuck if I shattered when I hit bottom.

  Withdrawing my cock one more time I licked the shell of her ear before whispering. “I want to see you.”

  Case twisting in my arms to lay down on her back as I settled between her thighs and slid back inside her. Her arms wrapping around my neck her heels digging into my ass, pulling my body even closer. Her eyes locking on mine matching my rhythm, her hips rocking against mine in beautiful motion. She loved me, every inch of my battle-torn body, every piece of my weary heart. I had never been so close to heaven, her holy skin washing away my every sin.

  Her lips closing over mine dragging the breath from my lungs. The kiss the last thing I needed to push me over the edge as I came, my dick burying itself deep inside her warm heat, my lips sealed over hers.

  Case was everywhere, my blood stream coursing with her taste, my heart expanding with her love.

  *

  Thorn’s face held a thousand emotions. Brushing the hair from his face, he caught my fingers. His lips ghosting my skin.

  “Can I keep you?” He asked, his voice so sweet and filled with longing.

  “As long as you’d like,” I replied believing we had all the time in the world to figure us out. Plenty of time to navigate the new road ahead of us. I could have never guessed an enemy was lurking in the shadows ready to steal every fragile drop of hope and destroy all we had found.

  A monster who would catch every single beautiful butterfly leaving them to die broken in the dark.

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  “Selena?” Keeping my voice quiet, not wanting to disturb her if she wasn’t awake.

  “Get your ass in here Case,” Selena ordered.

  Her voice may be raw and gritty, but she was still Selena. Giving orders like she took breaths.

  “I wanted to check on you.” Sitting on the bed and I tried not to notice the dark bruises marring her skin.

  “I am big girl Case; you don’t need to worry about me.” Selena offering a small smile but it didn’t reach her eyes.

  “No one needs to worry about you, but that doesn’t stop us. We have each other’s back when shit hits the fan we take care of our family when they hurt. I won’t lie all of you are insane still I fell in love with single one of you. It’s been so long since I had a family, a group of people I could count on and trust.”

  Giving her hand a gentle squeeze Selena sighed before squeezing back.

  “What I am going to do with all of you? I’m not used to all this touchy feely shit.”

  I shrugged, “Get better and whip us into shape?”

  “I plan to hold you to that Case, Bennet.” Selena quipped in return.

  “You said we are the first family you’ve had in a while what happened?” She asked.

  Selena had switched the subject without skipping a beat. Turning the topic of conversation back to me while taking every bit of focus off her.

  “You are good you know that?” I shook my head my eyes my eyes narrowing.

  Selena shrugged, the action causing a tiny flutter of pain to flitter across her face. The sight sending my ghosts rising from the grave, faint specters circling my memory. Focusing my attention back to Selena I sighed.

  “Are you sure you want to hear this?”

  Selena nodded as she squeezed my hand once again, an act of reassurance giving me the courage to spill my secrets. Closing my eyes, I drudged up the shadows of my past.

  “I haven’t had a family since I lost mine. A few years ago, my sister was kidnapped on her way ho
me from school. Despite all the searches, police leads and sightings we never found her. My parents couldn’t handle the loss, taking their life a year later. Everything I loved went up in flames.”

  The familiar ache pounded inside my chest. My sister’s face pulled from the wreckage as tears swam in my eyes. For so long I had just wanted to forget now I couldn’t help but wish I could remember. The sound of my sister’s voice. The words to the song my used to sing to me when she tucked me in at night. The way my father’s arms would swing me high into the air before he hugged me close.

  “She looked just like me Selena. Everyone used to call her my mini me. After she was gone, I couldn’t stand looking in the mirror. I knew every time my parents saw me they were reminded of her. I tried to enough for them, tried filling the void she left, but it was impossible. When they were gone, I fled trying to outrun it all. I found myself a new town, changed my name and ended up in broke thinking I finally had some good luck since Connor Price wanted me to work for him. You know the rest.”

  The words fell so fast the past returning in screaming color. I waited for the fall, for the regret and heartbreak to take me under, but it didn’t come. Telling Selena felt like a purge. A sweet, sharp cut, slicing through all the shackles giving me a breath of freedom.

  My fingers trembled slightly within Selena’s grasp as she remained silent before tugging my hand and slowly scooting over to make space for me next to her on the bed. Climbing on the bed next to her I leaned my head gently on her shoulder. The lack of conversation should have unnerving. I had spilled some of my secrets and Selena had offered nothing but silence. Instead, it let me remember, her actions reminding me what it felt like to have a sister, but Selena and I were so much more than sisters. Tied together by pain, horror, and tragedy we had survived it all, and for now, that was enough.

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  “How is she?” Thorn’s voice was so quiet I barely heard him.

  “Better. I think. It’s hard to tell with Selena, but I know she is strong and she’ll make it through this.”