Page 48 of Reign of the Queen
"Let this be a lesson to the rest of you. You're wealthy, yes, but none of you are immune to my Stratford wrath. I'll bring the end of the world to your door if any of you pull shit like this." I run the blade down the other side of Chad's cheek, causing blood trickles to appear. Grabbing the hilt of the blade tightly in my hand I stab the blade into Chad’s hand that's trying to dislodge Carter’s grip. He lets out a deafening scream, and the vultures around us take another step back and away from their reigning queen. Pulling out the blade, I wipe it on Chad’s pants, only to notice the fucker has pissed himself.Fucking gross.
I signal my head to Carter, and he immediately tightens his grip on Chad, effectively cutting off his air and knocking him out cold. Once Chad passes out, Carter lets his head drop to the ground like a sack of garbage, giving off a thick sickening thud.
"From now on, the kings will be enforcing all my rules. I suggest none of you fuckers be brazen like this piece of shit. DO NOT TEST ME!" I shout out at the stunned crowd.
"You two"—I point to two juniors standing by—“take this garbage and dispose of him out in the front quad." I motion to Chad, and they immediately move to grab and drag him between them.
The rest of the crowd whispers amongst themselves and eye the kings speculatively.
"Raegan, take Candance to the school nurse and get her checked out; I'll see you in last period."
Raegan tries to soothe Candance as they move away from the crowd and us. She gets a firm grip on Candance and starts moving toward the cafeteria entrance. "Yup, come on Candance, let's go see the nurse."
My gaze hones in on Theo, his body is still filled with rage. His jaw is tight, and his hands are clenching and unclenching. He's ready to explode and lose control, whether from the situation with Chad or the fact that I just announced that the kings would be glorified bouncers on my behalf.
Carter's face seems to show a maniac's glee. He obviously enjoyed his spurt of violence. The other two are more guarded. Finn won't meet my eyes, and Mateo looks at me like he's trying to see inside my mind.
I don't bother to acknowledge them any further, walking away and pulling out my phone to cause the next family's destruction. "Grandmother, I need you to take apart another family for me."
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The end of this day can’t come swiftly enough. After the shit show at lunch, it should have been a walk in the park, but of course, Carter the douche had other ideas. The short walk to our last period was spent getting Carter to keep his damn hands to himself and not on me. You would think he would have been wary of me with my example of Chad, but this is Carter after all. He finally got the message as we entered class when I grabbed a fist full of his balls and squeezed till he couldn’t breathe and could be a soloist in the school choir.This motherfucker just keeps testing me.
The high-pitched screech he let out made me feel all warm and happy inside. Violence is becoming my happy place. I wonder if I should start to be concerned.Yeah, no, totally normal eighteen-year-old female behavior.
Political science was another tense nightmare. All four kings in one confined space, either glaring at me or flirting with me in the case of psycho Carter. Thank God for Raegan’s presence; otherwise, I think I might have murdered one of them.
I step out of class and head to my locker with my shadow Carter faithfully in tow. This crap is getting on my last nerve. I can’t breathe or turn around without one of them in my face today. I know I need to keep them distracted, so they don’t see the moves I’m making behind their backs. I’m on edge, tense, and miserable. I should have had the damn brownie or at least let Carter give me that orgasm.Fuck my life.
As I open my locker, Carter’s hand again finds its way to my lower back. The temptation to pull my knife from my pocket and stab him with it is almost irresistible. I stiffen my body and grit my teeth. At this point, I will need dental work with how hard my teeth have been grinding.
“Babe, can you give me a ride?” Carter questions, drawing shapes on my back with his finger. The sensation sends tingles down my limbs.
I shrug him off and turn around, suspicion moving through me. “Why would I do that?”
“Because I need a ride home.” He makes a show of pouting his full lips.Yeah no, that isn’t going to work on me.
“Why would I give you a ride home, Carter? You can go with Theo or Finn. I cross my arms across my chest, effectively capturing all of Carter’s attention to my cleavage area. He is so easily distracted.
“You’re my girl,” he responds like that should explain it.
I use my forefinger to lift his chin to my face and away from my breasts. “I am not your girl, Carter.”
“What do you mean?” He gives me a perplexed look.
“Then what are you?” The question comes from the silent statue to my side. It’s eerie how quiet Theo’s approach always is. He’s an apex predator hunting his prey, namely me. A shiver runs down my body at the thought.
I angle my body toward him. “I am your mother fucking queen, asshat, not your equal, and definitely notyour girl,” I spit out the last part and stare him down unwavering.
“We are your kings,” he points out, his posture menacing and invading my personal space.
“No, you are just kings, not mine specifically.” I sneer at him.
“It’s one and the same, Mia.” He moves closer until I can feel the heat radiating off his body and across my arm. His cloves and sandalwood scent immediately engulfs my senses, and his violent ocean blues eyes storm with aggression.Someone needs to get laid, besides me, that is.
“Have you ever played chess, Theo?” I question and allow my arms to drop from across my chest, turning my body until I’ve given Carter my side profile and invading Theo’s personal space right back.
He raises an eyebrow in question but doesn’t respond. I let my fingers move across his arm, my fingertips skating across his shirt in the slightest whisper of a movement. Reaching the collar of his open shirt, I let a long red fingernail trail across the exposed skin, A light tremor making its way across his body. The marks from our previous interaction on display.Hmm, I guess someone is affected by me after all.
