Page 104 of Explode
Ignoring the ache in my legs, I sprinted through the penthouse toRiley’s old bedroom, when her piercing scream stopped me in my tracks. Fear crawled down my spine at the thought of what the cunt was doing to her. Remembering what Ernie had told us about the extra lock on the door, I didn’t bother trying to get into her room that way.
Instead, I sprinted to my old room, bursting in and checking the roomwas clear before making my way to my closet where I slid a panel across to reveal a small passageway that led to her room.
I’d had the secret passageway built in case enemies managed tobreach my security systems and get as far as my bedroom, and I needed an escape route. An idea inspired by my great-grandfather after he had secret tunnels put in at the family home.
I was the only one who knew about the passageway in my room, noteven Miles knew. I’d used it when Riley was pissed at me after I killed Toby, and I’d been desperate to see her even though she thought she had locked me out.
Reaching the panel, I slid it open. Immediately, my eyes landed onRiley who was pressed against the door, knife in hand, and with a determined look on her face. Fury swamped my body when I caught sight of her split lip and the bright red mark on her cheek.
Hendrix’s back was to me, his hand clutching his side, his shirtstained red. I looked at the knife in Riley’s hand to see the blade was covered in blood, and pride filled me that my girl had protected herself when she needed to.
But now I was here to take care of her.
Hendrix hadn’t noticed I’d snuck into the room. But Riley had. Herchocolate orbs landed on me, and her brows pulled together in confusion before a relieved look took over her face, and her lips pulled into a smile.
“What the fuck are you smirking at?” Hendrix said.
I gave her a nod. It would have been easy to kill the cunt on the spotright this second. I could have reached out and snapped his neck without him ever knowing who was responsible for his death. But I wanted him to know.
I wanted my face to be the last thing he ever saw before his eyesclosed forever.
“My husband,” Riley said, the relief evident in her tone.
“Oh, princess. It’s going to be a long time before you join Kai in thepits of hell,” Hendrix chuckled.
“I wouldn’t be so sure about that, fuckface,” I said, grabbing hisshoulder, and spinning him around. I saw the briefest glimpse of surprise on his face before I threw a punch, putting my full body weight behind it. His nose exploded in a burst of bright red blood, and he stumbled backward, disorientated.
“K-Kai, you’re alive?” he said through his hands which had come upto cup his nose. Disbelief shone in his watery eyes as he stared, looking at me as if he’d seen a ghost.
“No thanks to you,” I replied, throwing another punch to his face. Thesound of bone cracking told me I’d just shattered his eye socket. He fell against the window, his eye swelling instantly.
My hands shook with the need to end him. I had spent monthsplanning on ways I was going to torture the cunt, but now I was in front of him, I wanted nothing more than to rip his heart out.
“You died! You were gone!” he bellowed, dropping his hands. Bloodpoured down his throat, and his nose was bent where my punch had broken it. “I killed you!”
“Did you really think I’d leave my wife?” I chuckled before I hit himagain, this time to the jaw, and several teeth flew from his mouth.
He fell to the floor, and when I reached over to grab him, his jaw hungat a sickening angle. Evidently dislocated, he tried to speak but his words came out garbled.
I held him by the throat and slammed him against the window,squeezing hard. His eyes bulged, and he tried to pull my hands away, but with the blood loss from the injury Riley had caused, and the damage to his face, he didn’t have the strength.
“I had so much planned for you,” I snarled, my face only an inch awayfrom his. “But you don’t deserve to breathe for one more minute. Knowing your body is rotting six feet underground will be enough for me.” He tried to speak, but my grip around his throat was too strong to force words out. Staring into his eyes, there was nothing but hatred in them.
They were eyes I never wanted to see again.
“Riley, give me the knife.”
Without taking my eyes from my former 2IC, the man I’d grown upwith and considered my best friend, I waited for Riley to bring me the knife.
“For Danny and Theo,” she whispered as she handed the blade tome. I took it from her, and instead of stepping away like I thought she might, my brave Star stood right by my side.
“For Danny and Theo,” I echoed. Taking my hand from Hendrix’sneck, and not giving him a second to move, I pressed the knife against his throat, and swiped it across, pressing as fucking hard as I could so the blade went in deep, exposing his vocal chords.
The same way he’d killed Theo.
When I moved the knife away, his body fell to the floor, a crimsonriver pouring from the wound, and within a few seconds, his lifeless eyes were staring up at the ceiling.
I threw the knife down on his body, and for a minute, neither Riley norI moved. We stared down at the body of the man who had brought so much fucking misery to our lives, all because he was a greedy cunt.
