vra
ld without knocking, letting the
e embroidered Southern Alliance skull crest glaring across the back. On her right index fin
Clink
gainst her manicured acrylic nails, filling thet glee. "I see you managed to drag yourself out of the ER after all. Quite the
n't a
d packing my duffel. My movements were unhurried, measured, and completely relaxe
r than a shouted insult. The s
me invaded the room, mingling sickeningly with the scent of leather. "Did you hear what Father said? You're being shipped off to the desert
ng her arms and sticking her chin out,
rn Alliance council. The presidents and road captains of six chartered clubs are riding in. Father is paying for an open bar from sunset to dawn. Tomo
the screaming, or another
it neatly along the seams, and placed
her furious. A violent red flush crept
lawing into the sleeve of my jacket, yanking hard to
ed with pure spite. The keys in her ha
lar war chest into Father's offshore account yesterday! You're not going there to be a queen-you're the five-million-dollar scapegoat Father sold to take the fall for Erik's a
king laugh, her hot brea
m that chewed straight through his nerves and internal organs. The club's underground medics say he won't survive the month. You're not going to California to
ng, waiting for the devastating
her with fla
y lower lip. Not even a b
little control she had left. She shoved my shoulder
rincess? Your dead mother was nothing but a low-class whore who bought h
in the r
lowly, inch by inch
d instantly by a pitch-black, bottomless fury that
s in my gaze. Her hand flew off my jacket as
could process t
right hand shot out like an iron clamp, locking onto h
et. I drove her backward with brutal force, slamm
A
tled violently aga
e floorboards like a discarded rag. The heavy brass Harley keys slipped
lungs. Her eyes bulged in pure, unadulterated terror. The sister she had bullied and mo
off blood flow through the carotid arteries with terrifying anat
w, rough as gravel grinding under ir
awed frantically at my wrist, tearing at my skin, but my arm didn't budge a
enough to crush her pathetic whimper, "and I won't just break you
error streamed down her flushed cheeks, ruining her makeup. Her right hand
remaining consciousness, my left hand brus
my knuckles punctured the soft skin direct
, silent
An endocrine disruptor with a twenty-four-hour incubation window, set to detonate into violent epi
nconsciousness cooled the
ould be far too qu
ed my
. She curled into a ball, clutching her bruised throat, coughing and retching violently
ooking down with co
t o
ck up the leather jacket or the keys she had been gloating over a minute ago. She stumbled toward the do
al, terrified glance over her shoulder, her voice crac
n smile touched the
and bolted down the corridor, her frantic, uneven footsteps slamming
clicked shut. S
d a sterile wipe from my pocket, and slowly, methodically
looked at my finger
remor. Complet
tasted violence for
as only th
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