Page 154 of Five Brothers

What the hell? I gasp, catching myself with my hands, and hurry to flip over, looking up at my attacker.

Milo stands there, then squats down. “You okay?”

Three girls flank him, all four of them looking down at me.

Oh shit.

18

Krisjen

I stare up at Milo, Cate Laurel, Emaline Truax, and Antoinette Viega—the seniors from Marymount—standing behind him. My fingers dig into the dirt behind me. “You want to do this here?”

His grin is in his eyes, mouth set in a straight line. “I’ll be quick.”

He grabs me by the front of my hoodie and hauls me off the ground, twists me around, and grips my ponytail at the scalp. I grunt at the burn.

“Milo …” one of the girls chides.

But he throws me into the wall of the restroom, and I stop myself before my face hits.

“Swamp slut,” he growls, flipping me back around. “His cum still inside you?” He grabs me between the legs. “Which one has his smell all over you?”

I breathe hard. “Um …” I search my brain. “I don’t know. I didn’t shower between the one last night and the one this morning.”

He throws me into the lime-green wall again, and I see his hand fly with only enough time to brace myself before it lands. Fire spreads across my cheek, and he squeezes a fistful of skin from my stomach so hard a cry crawls up my throat.

But before I can let it out, he throws me to the ground.

I land on my stomach, a sharp pebble digging into my palm.

“Enough!” the same voice says. I recognize it as Toni Viega now.

“She can take a man’s hands on her,” Milo tells the girl. “Haven’t you heard?”

I raise my eyes to look for the Jaegers. I see Trace. Beyond the game booths, in the crowd. I don’t want any of them to see. Not here. Not in St. Carmen.

Turning over, I keep my eyes locked on Milo as I rise to my feet.

I used to hit him back. He liked that, because it made him angrier.

But he doesn’t matter enough anymore. Let’s see if he can make me scream.

“Should we be gentler?” he asks me.

He comes in close, Cate and Emaline following as he grabs me by the collar again.

But Toni shoves off. “I’m out of here.”

She leaves, and I smile through the pain in my face, the skin feeling like it’s ripping.

“Should we take her somewhere?” Milo asks them.

Cate grins. “We should.”

My chest rises and falls with quick breaths. “Yeah, so you can do what men do to women to show what men they are, right?” I feel the fire in my eyes as I goad my ex. “Trace’s tongue between my legs. Iron’s hands squeezing my hips as I rocked on top of him. Army’s mouth sucking me so hard,” I taunt. “They have me coming when called and doing what I’m told, and all they do when they raise a hand to me is crook their finger.”

His eyes flare.