Page 63 of The Darkest Prince

I curl my fingers around her throat, forcing my Pet to submit to her master. “You’re whatever I want you to be, Pet. Get out of line this time, and your brother will pay the price.”

Her long fingernails dig into my forearm, but I embrace the pain and refuse to loosen my grip on her.

“Let me go, psycho.”

“Now, now, Pet.” I stroke the side of her face, smirking. “It’s not nice to call your owner names. You know why we’re here. Now be a good girl and go pack your shit.”

“It’s time to choose, Drea.”

Only Luca calls her that. He’s never admitted to us why he does. Just told us to fuck off when we asked him.

Why would he give the woman he hates a nickname? It’s so out of character for my brother. And yet, he did.

Luca moves beside me, glaring at Alex with pure hatred. “We let you off your leash long enough. You’re coming with us to Devil’s Creek.”

I hold her tighter, my breath warming her cheek. “This time, we’re keeping you.”

She gasps. “I’m not yours to keep.”

“When you sign a contract with the devil,” Bastian says, shoving his fingers roughly through her hair, “your soul belongs to him.”

She raises her hand to slap him, but he catches her arm in midair.

“Don’t test me, Cherry. I’ll bend you over my knee and spank your ass until it’s black and blue.”

Full of fire and spite, she rolls her eyes. “Your threats don’t scare me.”

I’m turned on by her anger and want to pin her to the floor and fuck her senseless. If not for the deal I made with my brothers, I would. But Luca made us agree not to fuck her. We have to do it together or not at all.

Alex walks away like she doesn’t have to listen to us. She’s been ours since we were eighteen. I don’t know why she tries to deny it. Sure, she’s pissed about us letting her live her life in peace for the past two years. Without us around, she was safer.

I’m annoyed with Alex’s attitude,so I lift her in my arms, throwing her onto the living room couch. “I see you’re going to be a pain in my ass, Pet.”

I shove her face into the cushion and hold her down while I yank the skirt up her thighs. I’m surprised to see our girl is wearing a thong. She didn’t wear them back in high school. Only when I ripped off her panties and gave her new ones.

I snap the string so it slaps her skin. “Such a dirty little whore. This skirt barely covers your ass.”

Bastian sits on the cushion beside her head, running his fingers through her curls. “We’re not sharing you with the world, Cherry.” He slides his hand down her back and over her ass, grabbing her cheek. “This is ours. And you better remember that the next time you leave the house dressed like a slut.”

“I’m not dressed like a slut. Fuck you.”

Bastian looks at me with a wild expression on his face. “You want to go first?”

Alex wiggles beneath us, kicking her legs, but it only encourages me to press down on her with my weight. I bend down and bite her earlobe. “Time to take your punishment.”

“Punishment for what?”

“For talking back,” I say as my palm crashes down on her backside.

She’s taken plenty of our punishments before. And no matter how many times she pretends to hate it, she’s always wet for us. Always begging us for more.

I missed this.

Missedher.

My pretty little Pet is about to be mine in a more permanent way. She’s ours to share and break. And despite her attitude, she wants this, too. Alex satiates a sick need inside me.

Luca and Marcello watch as I dole out her punishment. I give her exactly three whacks before I switch places with Bastian. He spanks her three times before reaching between her legs to test her wetness.

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