Total pages in book: 181
Estimated words: 181613 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 908(@200wpm)___ 726(@250wpm)___ 605(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 181613 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 908(@200wpm)___ 726(@250wpm)___ 605(@300wpm)
Grey screams into the shirt that muffles his mouth, his hands jerking at the ropes in an attempt to be freed.
“No,” I say, shaking my head as tears well up in my eyes.
“No?” He tilts his head a faint smile appearing in a flash before it disappears again.
Dread begins to fill my veins. There’s no way we’re getting out of this. They made that pretty clear. Not without a sacrifice from either Grey … or me.
“What do you want?” I ask.
“Isn’t it fucking obvious?” Levi pulls off his mask, briefly showing the diabolical grin on his face along with the murderous glint in his eyes. “The end of you as he knows it.”
I shiver in place as all the hairs on my body stand up.
He pulls the mask back down and pulls up his balaclava until it covers his mouth. “Now make your fucking choice, my little Firefly.”
Grey…
He’s innocent and he’s here, trapped in this hellhole, because of me.
I have to save him, no matter what it costs me.
Levi
I’ve lost it. Completely lost it, and I don’t even fucking care anymore.
I had no other choice.
That fucker has been flaunting her in my face, pretending to be a saint when he’s the devil incarnate. He lies to her about something so fucking vile, and she doesn’t even believe it.
But she will after tonight.
I will fucking make it so.
My nostrils flare as I glare at her through my mask, the disdain in her eyes not easy to miss.
I have nothing left to lose.
Hatred is all she has left to give, and it’s all I have left to yearn for. I destroyed everything I was, everything I will ever be, because of her. She is my obsession, my sole reason for existing, and I don’t care how badly the world hates me for it.
She averts her eyes. “Fine.”
Even now, she’s still willing to go off the deep end … for him.
I approach her and tilt her chin up with her own damn knife I picked up from the ground. “How far are you willing to go for him?”
“I’ll do anything,” she replies.
Of course she will.
I force her to look me in the eyes. God, those pure blue eyes will be the last thing I’ll see while on this earth. “For a liar?”
She grimaces. “He’s not a liar. You don’t know him like I do.”
“No … but I will,” Apollo muses, as he grips Grey’s face and squeezes his cheeks together. “We’re going to have so much fun together, aren’t we? Just you and I.”
“Don’t touch—”
I grab her cheeks the same way. “You answer to me now.”
“Fuck you,” she hisses.
Still so fucking fiery, even in the face of evil. “Fuck me? I can grant you that wish. But you won’t like how and I’ll make sure you fucking know whose cock has a chokehold on that fucking pussy of yours.”
She gasps at my words.
She’s only ever seen me as some kind of nice friend she had somewhere deep inside her memories, a distant past where everything was easier. Fake.
She never truly knew me.
Not really.
Not like this…
Obsessed.
I could never show her, could never put my finger on it or describe it in a way where she wouldn’t run like hell. I’m obsessed with the idea of breaking her … so she’ll fit me.
My thumb slides across her lip slowly, meticulously. “You said it yourself … you were willing to do anything to save your boyfriend. I want to see how far you’ll go for him.” My jaw tenses. “Do you love him?”
She nods without hesitation.
Brave girl.
A filthy smirk grows across my face. “Then show me. Show me how much … and I might let him live.”
Apollo slaps Grey. “This fucker here is eager to please, aren’t you?”
Grey screams through the cloth in his mouth, like he wants to say something, and I’m so glad we decided to muzzle him like the dog he is.
Anything he says is poison straight into her veins.
She sucks in a breath. “Whatever you want. I’ll do it. And you let us both go.”
“So easily persuaded to give your all for a liar,” I say, sliding the knife down her pretty neck, hovering dangerously close to her veins. I could pierce her within a second and put an end to it all, just like that.
The true end of Levi Torres and Aspen Caruso.
Just like we fucking deserve.
“Fine … I’ll grant you your fucking wish.”
Fuck it.
SLICE!
CHAPTER 35
Levi
I cut through one of her dress straps, and it falls down her shoulder, revealing the flimsy red lace bra beneath along with her naked skin, and I suck in a breath during a moment of silence.
“Skimpy dress … red lace …” My eyes narrow as I slide the knife across her clavicles, watching her suck in short breaths. “Were you planning something, Firefly?”
“None of your business,” she says through gritted teeth.