Page 81 of Sparks of Insanity
I grinned widely. “Precautions, and the only type I’ll be using with you, baby. You guys can come in, but don’t approach us, or shit will get ugly.”
The door opened, because they had the code, hence why I’d been forced to set the trap before. They may not have checked the back door to the property, but I’d glued that fucker closed too. I was smart enough to realise one door needed to be working, if needed for an emergency, even though I was more than prepared for the two of us to die in here.
“Listen, asshole-”
“Gray! Let me handle this,” Dory interrupted, lifting a hand and catching Gray’s shoulder as he advanced on us. Blaze was trailing his eyes over the wires, and leaned around the counter to eye the nearest battery. I could practically see his brain ticking over, and as he met my eyes, he winked. Fucker figured out my bluff already, but for some reason he’s not throwing me under the bus. Interesting.
“Dad, don’t touch those wires, they’re rigged up to give us a shock if we do.”
Gray cursed, pointing a finger right at my face.
“If you think this means you win, you’re so fucking far out of your league, you have no idea. I’ll burn you to death a fucking inch at a time, and make a soundtrack out of your screams.”
“Kinky. Whatever floats your boat though. So here’s how things are going to be, because I have all the power here right now, and we all know it.” I flicked my eyes at Blaze, wondering how long he was going to keep my secret, and let this play out. Probably until he got bored.
“We’re listening, Former Teach, can’t say we’re going to agree, but we’re listening,” Gray said, glaring at me with a savage intensity. Dory, however, was looking at my girl.
“Are you okay, sweetheart? Has he been hurting you? If you want away from him, you just have to say.” Does she? Is she about to shove me away, and let them at me? The wires are a ruse, and if she tries to get away and touches them, she’ll realise that. They’re here to keep her trapped, as much as they are to keep her dads away.
“I told you I’m staying with him. I don’t know why this is so hard for you all to understand. You’ve known for a while that I’m in love with Ethan, and now I’m with him, I know that’s where I want to stay. Just like mum with the two of you, and Anneka with you, Blaze. Love is love, right?” That’s my girl. Playing them at their own game, and you could literally see their realisation of that as they stared back at her.
“This is really what you want?This?”Gray pointed at me as he said ‘this’ the second time, and the look on his face was one of amusement, like I was the worst possible choice, and we all know he’s not wrong.
“She enjoys my cock, what can I say?” Comments like that really seem to rile these guys up, and I love doing it. At some point, I’ll have to be around them without traps and other things to protect me, but I guess I can figure that out as we go.
“You were about to lay down your rules,” Blaze prompted me, folding his arms as he leaned against the wall by the front door. For some reason, he really seemed to be backing us, and I wasn’t sure what it was, or why, but I’d figure it out one day.
“Yeah, ground rules. Check this out, and tell me you agree, and nobody has to die today.”
44
Ember
Ethan was pushing it,but I stood by my man, because that’s what women in love do, right? He was supremely confident, or at least that was what he was projecting, but I could feel the tension in his arm around me.
I knew his trap wouldn’t work, because I saw through his bravado, and I saw Blaze as he clocked it. Blaze knew this was real between us, so he was supporting us the only way he could right now. If we needed to run though, I knew he’d help us with that too.
“Okay, so Em and me, we’re getting married, and we’re having a baby,” Ethan said first, and both of my dads froze, their jaws dropping.
“You’re pregnant? You already got her pregnant?”
Ethan tightened his arm around me.
“We haven’t tested yet, but I’ve been working on it. I’m sure you guys know all the tactics for this, since you’re clearly fuckingobsessed with procreation. Nobody has five kids just for the hell of it.”
“Maybe we’re just really careless when we fuck,” dad Gray said, making me want to gag. Nobody wants to hear about their parents and sex in the same sentence.
“So Em’s mine, and we’re staying together, is what I’m saying. We’re going to have a family, and we’re going to be staying here until we figure out how we’re going to get money coming in again. I have some ideas, but they’ll take time. Until then, I’m sure you’ll make sure we have food and stuff, so your little girl doesn’t starve.”
Dad Dory rested his hands on his hips, glaring at Ethan like he’d just said something worse than the 'marriage, babies, keeping me' thing. How was that worse?
“You’re not even able to support our little girl right now?”
“Well, on account of her and you fuckers getting me blacklisted as a teacher, and losing everything, no, I can’t fucking support her right now, but I will. You’ll agree to these terms, or I’ll take her and disappear, and none of you will see her again. You won’t even know if she’s alive or dead, and you’ll have to explain to Wilma why she won’t be seeing her only little girl again.” Bastard, but he’d just hit the right note with my dads. Mum would be devastated, and they wouldn’t want to be the cause of that, and they knew it. Fists clenched, eyes narrowed, and no bluster came out of their mouths, because he’d won. He’d beaten my dads at their own game.
“Funnily enough, Em said I’d need to set something on fire to keep you distracted enough to win this, but I don’t need to do that, do I, Gray? We understand each other. I’m like you, only now you have to accept a guy like you being with your own daughter. Does that eat you up inside? Does it make you wonder what I’ll do to her, because you know you’re a twisted asshole who’d mistreat his woman?”
“Listen here, fuckhead-”
