Page 39 of Cruel (Brutal Academy)

"I would have helped them eat and drink it," Slade said. "It might have been the thing that forced her to step aside and stop competing with you. It might have prevented whatever she might do after this. There may come a day when you wish it happened."

I chewed over that thought for a moment. Long enough to realise he was right. If I was going to win this thing, I was going to have to toughen the fuck up. Whatever that took.

I should have been horrified that the guys would let my twin sister be raped, but it cemented the fact there was nothing they wouldn't do for me. No length they wouldn't go to.

"It makes you feel any better, I wouldn't have touched her," Hunter said.

"Me either," Parker agreed.

"Me three." Slade nodded firmly. "Not unless that was something you needed me to do." I couldn't tell what he thought of that idea.

There was no way that should have been hot, but it fucking was. For half a second I enjoyed the thought of Slade holding Chloe down and ramming himself into her. Her cries of pain and anguish…

Yeah, I was as fucked up as they were.

CHAPTER15

LILA

I didn't see Zachary before he grabbed me from behind, whirled me around and pressed me against the corridor wall, his body against mine. His hand closed around my throat.

"Fucking psycho bitch," he growled. "Don't think I don't know what you did to Chloe." His breath was hot on my cheek.

"I didn't do anything to Chloe," I said as evenly as I could with my heart racing. I hated the fact he took me by surprise, but I composed myself. My father would be proud of me for recovering so quickly.

“Never show them fear, or they know they have you by the balls,” he would have said.

I tipped my chin up and stared Zachary down, unflinching. "You're the one who seems to enjoy spiking people's drinks."

His hand tightened. "I didn't do anything to her. I sure as fuck didn'tdrugher."

"Says you," I retorted. "What's wrong? Chloe and Dane don't believe you're not involved?" Judging by the flicker of anger on his face, that was exactly the case. Exactly what the twins and Slade wanted.

"Don't tell me, Chloe won't suck your dick anymore?" I gave him a smile laced with sarcasm.

He glared at me. "Maybe I should make you suck my dick instead."

"Only if you want me to bite it off." There was no way my mouth was going anywhere near his cock.

He pressed me harder into the wall, then stepped back and crossed his arms.

"It's a shame Chloe's plan didn't work. I would have paid money to watch whoever bought you break you. Hell, I would have settled for photos of the mascara running down your face."

"And you call me a fucking psycho," I retorted. "What sort of sick fuck arranges for women to be abducted and sold?"

"Your father," he suggested. "Have you ever done anything to stop him? Have you ever said a single fucking word? Or have you let it go on for years and years? How many women have been raped while you did nothing?"

I managed to contain a flinch. "I didn't know any better. Now I do. It won't be happening when I take over the family. I sure as hell wouldn't organise for someone to be taken just to get them out of the way."

"No, you'd organise for your sister to be drugged and raped by her classmates for your own amusement. Let me guess, Hunter, Parker and Slade were going to take their turns with her too. You're all as fucked up in the head as each other."

"Hypocrisy isn't a good look for you," I told him. "I did nothing to Chloe. If Dane hadn't stepped in when he did, I would have."

Zachary gave a bitter laugh. "Bullshit. You wouldn't have done a single thing."

"What would you have done?" I asked. "Like I said, you're the one who likes to spike drinks. Did you drug hers just to see if you could have some fun with her? Maybe you like fucking women when they're unconscious."

He dropped his hands, lunged towards me and pinned me to the wall again. "Maybe I should find out." He pressed his growing erection into the side of my hip.

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