Page 181 of Ruptured
Johnnie and Ryan cried in humiliation.
“More,” he begged after the fourth hit.
“I told you to leave Cee Cee alone.”
Another whack. “I didn’t expect him to win, Daddy!”
“He’s fucking pissed that you gambled his son’s life, motherfucker.”
“I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”
“You are barely back in my good graces, and you fuck up again?”
“Forgive me!” he screamed. “Daddy, please.”
“Who’s the…?”
Ryan’s jaw dropped at Sharper’s full question.
“Not you, Daddy! Please, not you! I won’t say that anymore.”
Sharper hit him again. “You fucking humiliated me,” he screamed. “Your words in those letters. Your disobeying me with Cee Cee. Your drugging Joe. You might be angry with him overChristopher, but you hate him because he wouldn’t let you fuck him! You’re repaying him by slowly killing him!”
Logan’s back was a mass of bloody welts; Ryan heaved in breaths, barely able to think clearly or see straight.
“Do you fucking know the havoc Patricia caused because of Zoann?” Sharper demanded, hitting Logan again, wild with rage and lust. “That crazy bitch stabbed Rack! Joe got the knife from her in Zoann’s room, but she tried to gut that motherfucker! She wanted to castrate Cee Cee! She fucked him, then tried to poison him because of Zoann.”
Uncle Christopher smiled, satisfied with the story, but still unaware. Suddenly, icy terror seized Ryan, and he thought about blurting everything he knew and begging for his life. Yet,Molly…
“Daddy, please!” Logan yelled. “I got ahead of myself.”
Breathless from exertion, Sharper threw the belt aside and started pacing. “They think she’s a saint, when we all know she’s a lunatic,” he snarled. “What the fuck were you thinking, you miserable motherfucker? If Joe hadn’t intervened, Cee Cee would’ve fuckingkilledPatricia. Then what would’ve happened? Everything would’ve been fucked!”
Logan started to rise.
“Your daddy didn’t say to move.”
Immediately, Logan froze.
“YouknowJoe always resented you for selling your fucking daughters to Cee Cee, then yougambledZoann’s pussy to that motherfucker? And why? To kill Christopher? Do you fucking know how brutal he was with your granddaughter?”
A growl escaped Pops. Ryan tried to process the words, allow it to sink in that what he’d heard at Nyx’s initiation had most likely been true. His mother had been raped.
At her grandfather’s, thegreatLogan’s, schemes?
“I love Joe,” Logan sniffled.
“Well, motherfucker, he hatesyou.Youlive because he was once loyal to the pact we made in the boys’ home, but you’ve fucked up royally. That’s why you’re here in Colombia. Joe didn’t want to look at you.”
“No!”
“Are you fucking stupid? His fucking heart is broken for what hehadto do to Zoann and Christopher. Come between them to keep all our secrets under wraps. He doesn’t fucking know about the doctored titles. Do you think he’d put his baby cunt at risk? As much as he loves Christopher, Meggie is his heart and soul, you stupid motherfucker.”
“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’d never do anything to hurt him.”
“Well, you fucking have because he had to hurt his precious Christopher. Joey and Rack have caught himcryingover Zoann. Patricia found her fucking suicide note and broke into the bathroom before she hurt herself.”
“Puff,” Val…Pops…Val murmured.
