Page 136 of The King of Hearts

My eyes narrow on his hand holding the gun, laser-focused on the finger that’s tracing the trigger. Every goddamn muscle in my body goes rigid and my bones creak beneath my skin.

“Hey, Dad, grab that gun from him.”

Theo comes to me. I don’t offer the gun, but he pulls it from my hand anyway. I’m tempted to lift it and unload the clip in his face, but that’ll get Savina hurt, or even worse, killed.

He doesn’t say anything as he backs away from me, and I’m pretty confident he can’t because his face is all kinds of fucked up. But I see the sadistic light in his eyes.

“Take your clothes off.”

I snap my attention back to my brother. “Why?”

My fucking heart drops like lead to my feet, leaving a bloody empty space in my chest, when I hear the sound. My world tilts, and for a brief moment, a wave of dense fog clouds my vision.

It’s the click of a trigger being pulled. But there isn’t the loud bang that follows. Just a dry, hollow click of the hammer slamming against the firing pin. That low sound echoes like drum beats in my ears over and over again.

“She was lucky. The next pull maybe not so much. You’ve got five more chances. You want to continue to test her luck?”

My molars grind together as I immediately reach for the bottom of my shirt. Fire rushes through my veins, heating my entire body with a rage so potent it blisters my skin. Once the material is over my head, I toss it to the side.

Just as I reach down to work on my jeans, Savina’s eyes crack open, and I pause. Her gaze is unfocused and hazy at first. I continue with my pants, but my movements are slow, and I keep my eyes on her. It takes her less than a minute to focus on me.

“R-Ryker?” she croaks. Her arms jerk against the ropes holding her in place..

“It’s okay, baby,” I say quietly. “Just keep your eyes on me. Don’t look away, okay?”

Her throat convulses when she swallows and a tear slides down her pale cheek.

“You’ve got two fucking seconds to finish getting undressed,” Aiden says, ramming the gun inside her. Savina lets out a cry as she tries to jerk away from the intrusive weapon.

I don’t acknowledge his demand verbally, and I don’t look away from Savina as I quickly remove my shoes and shed my pants. I still don’t look away, and neither does she when I’m standing in front of them naked.

“Now what?” I grit out.

“Come closer,” Aiden orders.

Like a puppet on fucking strings, because I’ve got no goddamn choice, I approach the bed. It’s situated so I’m facing the side of it. Savina lays on the center of the mattress with Aiden between her legs. When I stop, I’m only an arm’s length away. I can easily reach out and touch her, but I keep my hands at my sides.

“Dad,” Aiden calls.

The sound of clothes being removed comes from behind me, and a second later, footsteps move closer. He’s not touching me yet, but I feel the heat of his body, so I know he’s close.

“What the fuck is happening here, Aiden?”

His lecherous eyes move to Savina, and he slowly thrusts the gun in and out of her. He still has his dick in his other hand. “You want to save your wife? I want you to experience what I felt those first few months after I was taken. Experience every painful fucking inch I felt. Every hard thrust. Being ripped apart from the inside. I want you to fucking bleed just like I did. To hear his grunts in your ear as he destroys your hole and makes you his bitch.”

“Let Savina go, and you both can do whatever you want to me. You want me willing? I’ll even fucking beg. But you let her go first.”

There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for the woman on the bed, staring up at me with eyes filled with so much pain and fear.Taking a dick up my ass will be a fucking cakewalk compared to witnessing her being raped by this man.

“No. She’s a part of this. I don’t want you begging for it. I want you desperate for it to stop, just like I was. I want her to see you break. I want you torn to fucking shreds on the inside and out.”

A sinister light twinkles in his eyes. Eyes that look far too similar to my own. “Unless you want to watch me fuck her instead. If not, then you’ll lie there and fucking take it.”

The words are barely out of his mouth before heat hits my back, and my neck is grabbed from behind. I resist at first, my shoulder blades locking together and my back going ramrod straight. From the grunt coming from behind me, there’s no doubt I can overpower Theo. His weakened state from the beating my father gave him and his age prevents him from forcing me to his will.

“I’m going to enjoy tearing through your ass,” his deep voice vibrates in my ear. “You won’t be as tight as Aiden’s when I first took his little boy ass, but I bet it’ll still feel just as good.”

I grit my teeth and my hands ball into fists at my sides.

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