Page 237 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

“Leave,” Kai orders.

Jax chuckles under his breath. “Yes, run along.”

She takes a stumbling step back, bowing slightly before scurrying away.

“So… How about we go get something to drink?” Jax says, quickly changing the subject, but I wasn’t done with this topic yet. The thought of being in a club where they had fucked other girls makes my skin crawl.

“I get that you’ve been with other girls before…us…this. I understand that. It’s not like I’ve been celibate either, so I’m not judging any of you. But if you brought me to one of the clubs where you—”

Kai turns me to him, cutting off my sentence. “No, we didn’t bring you to a club we used for pleasure, nor would we ever. Weloveyou, Kiarra. We wouldneverdisrespect you like that.” His eyes turn soft, pleading with me to trust him.

I nod at him as the tight knot in my stomach starts to unravel.

Jax’s eyes narrow in the direction she went. “The bitch was stirring up shit andwillbe dealt with.”

He looks back at me, giving me his whole focus. “Now that that’s sorted, tell me who?” Jax raises a brow, expecting an answer, but I don’t have a clue what he’s talking about. “Who, what?” I ask.

“Who fucking touched you before us? Because when I find them, they’re going to wish they never laid their eyes on you,let alone fucking touched you.” Jax’s eyes are murderous as they scan the club before coming back to me.

“You know you sound crazy right now? You’ve basically just admitted that you also had girls before me, but it’s not okay for me to do the same? Fuck that.”

Jax clenches his hands before scrubbing a hand down his face. “That was different.”

“How did you come to that idiotic assumption?” I ask, furious that he thinks he’s allowed to have a past, but I’m not.

“Because they didn’t fucking matter. None of them did.” He raises his voice as he begins to unravel in front of me.

“Well, neither did any of mine,” I tell him, like it should be obvious.

Jax’s eyes grow wide. “There was more than fucking one!?” He clenches his jaw, walking a couple of steps away before turning back to me.

“Just give me their names, and I’ll be back in an hour or two, depending on how fucking pissed I am and how much I want to make them pay. I might let them live…” He narrows his eyes as if rethinking something. “Slash that. Either way, they’re dead. Just give me their fucking names.”

I glance at Kai, hoping he’ll talk some sense into him,

but his whole body is as stiff as a board, his eyes pulsing red.

“Are you both serious right now?” I glance between them. “So, no one’s allowed to touch me now?” I didn’t mean it in a sexual way, but it seems the guys didn’t see it that way as Jax’s and Kai’s eyes narrow on me.

Jax steps in front of me. “Anyone touches you, and I’ll start severing pieces until they have nothing left to touch with. No one gets to touch you but us. No one gets to even fucking look at you. They do and they’re already dead.”

“I didn’t mean it in a sexual way.”

“Neither do we. But anyone, and I meananyone, touches you or looks at you the wrong way and they’re dead.”

I laugh, but no one else joins me. Jax’s jaw clenches as he stares right at me. The dark look in his eyes makes everything inside me heat up.

“You can’t go around hacking people up.”

“You have no idea the lengths I’ll go to or how depraved my mind really is. Don’t push me.”

“Or what?” There was nothing about Jax or any of the guys that scared me, and they knew that. Just like I knew they’d never hurt me.

“You might not like what happens.” His voice turns husky as he looks into my eyes. He can feel the air change around us and knows none of what he’s saying is scaring me, but rather turning me on.

“Maybe, I will.” I bite my lip as the heat in my core expands.

Stepping forward, he grabs my chin, his eyes pulsing gold. “Mm… maybe you will,” he murmurs, licking his lips.

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