I know that she will want to know that he’s dead, so I head back down to my brothers to find out if he’s dead or not.
When I get down there, the man is barely hanging on. “What took you so long? Thought we were going to have to kill him without you but thought you might want the last blow.” Prez is looking at me and I see a smirk on his face. He knows, as do my brothers, exactly what I was doing. “She okay?” he asks.
I nod. “She is yes.”
“Fuck, Braxton, she was hot when she was doing that to him, I really thought she was going to ask for a knife and cut his fucking head off,” Knuckles says, laughing. “Just make sure you don’t go to sleep if you’ve pissed her off.”
All my brothers laugh, including me. “Don’t any of you piss her off either.” They all shake their heads and I hear, “No fucking way” from most of them.
“I think I want to do what she wanted.” I look over at the table with all the ‘tools’ on it and pick up a huge hunting knife. It has a serrated edge that is just the perfect weapon for the job. As I walk over to the guy, he is almost losing consciousness, and I know that I need to be quick before he passes out.
“You hurt my woman and her friends. Did you really think we were going to let a scumbag like you live? The world will be a better place without you in it. But I want you to think about what you did to those girls and remember that it’s because of that that you are going to hell. I hope Satan rapes you down there, you deserve it.”
I run the serrated edge along his throat, and he screams. I haven’t gone deep because I want him to feel the pain before he dies. “Every cut she has on her body was caused by someone like you.” I cut him again, slightly deeper this time.
He screams and squirms in his chair. “Do you think you are going to get away from me? Is that why you’re squirming?” I laugh.
This time I take the knife and run it deeper along his neck, through his arteries and jugular. “Don’t forget to say hi to the devil for me.”
I step back and me and my brothers stand there for a few minutes watching him gurgling, struggling to bleed as the blood just flows like a river out of him. He’s not going to hurt another person.
It doesn’t take him long to bleed out and his eyes close as he loses the will to live.
“Right, Knuckles, get Ethan down here to clean this up, get Austin to help him.” Prez says as he puts his hand on my shoulder.
“On it, Prez.” Knuckles leaves the room and we all slowly follow him. We are all covered in blood and the men know that they need to shower before going to see their women, including Prez, so we move upstairs, and I go into my room.
Piper is still sleeping, and I stand in the doorway for a few moments watching her.
“She looks at peace, brother,” Prez says from behind me.
“I just hope it lasts and she doesn’t wake up in the morning as a timid and shy girl. She is so much more than that.”
“You’ve got a good one there, don’t fuck this up, Brax.”
“I don’t intend to, Prez.”
“See you in the morning, we are going to roll out and see if we can find these bastards.”
“See you,” I say as I step inside the room and close the door.
After taking a shower, I climb into the bed next to her and pull her close to me. She snuggles in tight, and I watch her for a while. I don’t see any demons on her face, she is peaceful, and I love that.
Chapter Eight
PIPER
“Get off me, don’t fucking touch me,” I scream. One of the men has found their way into my bed. “Mallory get the fuck away, don’t let him touch you.”
“Baby, Piper, it’s me Brax.” His voice is penetrating the black cloud. “Piper, open your eyes, it’s me, baby.”
I open my eyes and see that I’m not in the dark, dank room filled with girls. Brax is looking at me like he’s so worried about me. I breathe easier, knowing that he will fight any demons for me, with me.
“Sorry, I was having a nightmare,” I sob.
“I’m going to touch you now, is that okay?” he asks, gently.
I nod. He takes me into his arms and pulls me close. I smell him and I feel a sense of calm washing over me.