Page 55 of Where Sinners Repent

Her hands fly up. “I thought you knew. How could you not know?”

Inhaling, I try to steady the heat flowing through me.

“Oh, I don’t know,” the fake smile stretches on my lips. “Someone must have forgotten to mention this very important fact.”

Ash snorts again, coughing to cover his laugh. “Okay, okay, I’m going,” he chokes out, eyes watering with amusement. He pauses before turning suddenly. “Wait, no, I have questions.”

“Babe, the pancake,” Maddy murmurs, pointing to the smoking pan.

“Tough guy, running his tough club making pancakes,” I mumble, knowing I’m being petulant but completely unable to stop myself.

Maddy bites her lip, stifling her own giggle, and Ash shrugs.

“Hey, these hands are good at many things. Snapping people’s necks, making my old lady cum, and making breakfast.”

His grin is pure evil, knowing he’s won that one.

“I am not an old lady, nor will I ever be an old lady,” Maddy grumbles, crossing her arms.

Ash winks at her, and their love fills the space in a sickening pink cloud.

“Can we get back to what I came here for?” I huff, shoulders sagging as I plop myself into a stool. “They tricked me!”

Maddy returns to her stool and looks at me curiously. “You slept with them?”

Groaning, my head falls against the cool island.

“The worst part is that their dicks are literally identical!” My voice is muffled, but Ash still huffs anyway.

“She knows!”

My head swings up, and all I see is a blushing Maddy.

“Holy fuck, have you slept with everybody in this club?” I grumble, before quickly adding, “don’t answer that.”

Planting my elbows on the island, I bury my face in my hands. My head is spinning.

The worst part of it all? Is that hearing that Maddy slept with them makes my stomach twist into an uncomfortable knot.

My jealousy is so unbelievably out of place right now, yet here we are.

“I’m sorry, Roxy,” Maddy rubs her hand over my back. “Obviously it doesn’t mean anything between me and them. And I’m sorry for not realising you didn’t know they were twins. I just, don’t know how you didn’t know that. But that’s my bad.”

“Those fuckers,” Ash chuckles to himself, shaking his head as he discards the burnt pancake into the trash and pours some new batter into the sizzling pan.

My whole body feels heavy, stiff, and sore. Strapped to that cross, eye to eye with that man, who I now know wasn’t Kai… I thought that I was going to die. And then he made me feel everything so torturous that I almost did die.

“Roxy,” Maddy shakes my hand, pulling my attention. “They aren’t hurting you or anything, are they?”

Flashes of molten heat spreads through my body. Glinting silver needles. Dark, cold eyes. My body and mind coming undone in ways I didn’t know were possible.

I swallow, pushing it all away. “No, of course not,” I reply, though the words come out raspy.

As if on cue, my nipples tighten, reminding me of my new jewellery.

Does it make me sick that I love them?

After my initial shock this morning, I found myself unable to stop staring at them. They look so pretty. I was always too scared to bite the bullet and get them. Turns out, when you don’t have a choice, it weirdly makes it easier.