Page 43 of Dark Prince

“Hard pass.” I say to her as Axel steps between myself and the three of them.

“Turn around.” Axel barks out and I watch as Kenan and the other guy do exactly that. “Do as you're told.” he says to me, turning towards me. “She needs your clothes.”

“What?” This is insane, right? Stripping in front of Cara, again, with Kenan and the other guy in the same room.

“Cordelia, we don't have the time to argue, we’ve been here too long and we need to let them get this cleaned up.”

“How’d she do?” Cara asks, sitting a large black bag down in front of me.

“She did that.” Axel says pointing at Branden.

“Oh, nice.” Cara looks over inspecting my work and smiles when she looks at his balls and penis laying on the ground. “Castration?”

“Apparently he’s a raper and Axel told me at the end. I got a little slice happy.” I shrug, pull my shirt off and hand it to her. She stuffs it into a plastic bag. With a sigh, I finish stepping out of my favorite skirt and kick it to her as I start removing my underwear and bra. She grabs this large white paper body suit thing and hands it to me. “I’m not going to wash off or something?”

“Once you’re back home you can shower, for now you’ll wear this so you don’t get blood in the car.” Cara holds open a foot hole and helps me step into it. I look up to see Axel talking to his brother while Cara helps me get dressed. He’s being awfully relaxed about Cara seeing me fully naked and helping put on this human condom suit thing. “He’s very protective.” Cara whispers, standing up to look at me. Her blonde hair is just like her mothers, and the bluest eyes I’ve ever seen stare at me.

“Then why is he letting you dress me instead of doing it himself or making me do it?”

“You can’t touch the outside of it or you could get blood on the outside. As for him letting me help you, I was your witness when he took you. I’ll probably be the only one he trusts you with. Had Maci stayed, it’d be her here and not me.” She nods, zipping the body condom up. The paper suit feels weird against my now naked and sticky body. “He doesn’t let people in.” She pulls the hood up over my hair and tucks it in behind my ears. “He may enjoy the dark twisted games, but he will be fierce with you. He will keep you safe and make you question your sanity. But he will love you hard.”

“He’s so intense.” I reply, pushing my hand into the black surgical glove.

“We’ve had a wild upbringing.” She grins. “But we’re loyal.” She helps me put the second glove on.

“You say this as if you’re-”

“The over-protective big sister who knows how to get rid of a body without a trace.” She grins sweetly, while threatening me, I think.

“Understood.” I nod and she claps her hands, scaring me for a split second. “Jesus.” I say, taking a step back and away from the blood and plastic sheeting to make sure I don’t get anything on my new human condom paper suit.

“Ready?” Axel asks.

“She’s good to go. We’ll get this cleaned up.” Cara shoves the rest of my clothes into a bag.

“What’ll happen to him?” I ask, nodding towards my victim. I’m so used to cleaning up my own messes so I know it’s taken care of that I feel a little strange about leaving this to them.

“We’ll soak and drop him.” Kenan says, turning back around with his friend as they move through the room collecting things as they go.

“Soak and drop?” I ask, walking towards Axel.

“Don’t worry your pretty little head about it.” Kenan’s stupid friend says.

I start to reach out for him so I can show him what this pretty little head has to say about that when I’m lifted off the ground and everything shifts upside down. “Oh, she’s spicy.” The friend says with a laugh.

“I’d like to remind you that I just cut his balls and penis off!” I shout to him as I’m thrown over Axel’s shoulder. “I kill men like you for fun!” The front door opens and suddenly I’m outside on the front porch.

“The rain!” Cara says, hopping over her bag as she runs out to us. “Here.” She hands Axel something and then we’re running down the stairs. Wait, we had a convertible, it started raining. I’m shoved into the side of a van and I cry out as my hip and head hit the metal. The sliding door is shut and the darkness consumes me.

“Why am I in a van!” I shout as the front door opens.

“Because we can’t take the car.” He says, like it’s obvious.

“Is it because it’s raining and we didn’t put the top up?” I ask, pushing up to sit in the back, looking around to see absolutely nothing back here but me. This is weird, I feel like I’ve stepped into a horror movie where the dumb girl gets kidnapped and will never see the sun again. Although, I guess that has already happened, and I’ve sort of agreed to be all up in this kidnapping story.

“No. I closed the top while you were distracted.” He says, starting the van.

“Then why this weird van?” I almost shout, but refrain from getting mad, because getting mad right now doesn’t seem like the right choice. I may have gone too far by killing Branden a tad bit too quickly and it appears this may have upset Axel. I’m not sure why though, it’s not like Branden actually knew where Paul is.

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