Page 201 of Dirty Deadly & Mine
My brows shoot up.
I didn’t know my sisters knew I’d been basically cast out.
“Jen is right.” My mother takes my father’s hand in both of hers, looking at him hopefully. “It’s all in the past. Lily has returned. The twins are grown men now. They can join the family business.”
“Absolutely not.” I stand abruptly, and my father raises a single brow.
“You can’t have it both ways, Lilian.” My father reminds me, and the cold edge in his tone sounds so much like Ewan’s voice I have to stop myself from looking over my shoulder to see if he’s right behind me.
But I know he’s not. The head of the family doesn’t come to these lunches. They are just for my immediate family.
I know I have to play into this charade in order to get closer to the man worse than the devil. Unfortunately, that means involving my sons, too.
“Fine, but give us some time to settle into it. The boys have only recently learned about this family. They weren’t raised around made men.”
The single nod my father gives is all the approval I need, and I finally start to relax.
“It’s settled then.” Devon chimes in, his lazy smile warmingmy heart since he rarely gives it. “Lily’s return will be kept secret from everyone outside this room until Gracie’s party.”
Guilt gnaws at me knowing I’m lying to him too. No one knows why I’m really here, aside from Asher and AJ. Not that I know what AJ has planned exactly, but all he needs me to do is shock Ewan by showing up. Throw him off his game.
So that’s exactly what I plan to do.
EPILOGUE 1
ASHER
“Please stop! I’ll never do it again!”
The high-pitched cry coming from our captive doesn’t suit his brawny build and the deep voice I heard him speak earlier. I guess having your skin shredded off will do that to even the butchiest of men. Nevertheless, his screams are like music to my ears, and I can tell by Lily’s wild smile, she feels the same.
Thankfully, the basement in the abandoned building is well away from any ears that can overhear the torture my Angel is inflicting. No one is coming to save him. Not now that we have our hands on him.
This sick fuck likes to spend his time selling explicit pictures and videos of him and his own little girls, and Lily decided those poor children are better off without their scum dad.
I have to agree.
Our only problem is that right now, we should be on our way to Gracie’s party.
Lily’s mood plummeted throughout the week, and it was clear she needed to unleash her building anger linked to the fact she is about to come face to face with a man she loathes later today.
All it took was a quiet word with Barrett and he found this sick cunt for Lily to slaughter.
“Stop! Please!” he cries, tears streaming down his blood-soaked cheeks. “I will do anything you want. Just please stop!”
“Hmmm, is that so? You will doanything?” Lily asks, not able to hide her smirk.
“Yes. Yes. Please. Anything,” he begs, and I snicker, momentarily gaining his attention over Lily’s shoulder.
“You’re already doing what I want.” Lily steps forward, gaining his attention again. “You’re suffering.” She digs the long edge of her blade into the flesh of his chest and, ever so slowly, drags it, peeling his flesh like the skin of an apple.
His screams rip through the air again, and I suck in a breath, trying to stay calm. I need to restrain myself from attacking her and leave her to her work.
She needs this. Needs to expel this anger before the party, but fuck… watching her work gets me fucking hard as stone.
The prissy fuck she’s torturing passes out from the pain, and she turns back to look at me over her shoulder, rolling her eyes with annoyance.
“I was hoping he’d be tougher than that.” She throws up her hand in exasperation, and I chuckle, moving forward to glide my hands over the sexy as sin black latex hugging her curves, pressing my body flush with her back, making sure she can feel what she does to me.
