Page 30 of Reign of Royal
He cuts Bishop off before he can continue. “I’m not asking permission. He was given the royal flush and there is no fucking way we are going to let him or Emilio go free. We’ve never let anyone go and we won’t start now.”
“Chanel, mentionedshewas given a card.” Bishop says as he flicks his gaze to me, it’s true, I was given the Queen of Hearts.
Without missing a beat, Royal fires back. “She wasn’t givenmycard.”
Bishop chuckles but it’s dark and mocking. “Oh, let me guess your card is the King?
“Damn fucking right it is, you may be the King of this family but I am the King of mine.” Oh shit, the air just got thicker in here with that declaration, Royal just drew a line between him and his father. Bishop rounds the desk slowly, I turn to my side to keep him and Royal both in my sight. I see Kiara, Chanel, Havoc, Rook, Anya and Allison enter the room. Call me crazy but I have spent years researching these people and only ever seen pictures of them, to be in the same room as them is kind of awe inspiring.
“You think you have what it takes?” Bishop says in a low deadly tone, Royal closes the space between him and his dad. Standing chest to chest, Royal is maybe an inch or two taller than his father and uses that to his advantage to look down his nose.
“I know I do, I did all of this without you. I brought Emilio here.” Bishop scoffs and shakes his head.
“No, you think you did but the truth is, she brought Emilio here.” Bishop turns and looks pointedly at me, Royal slowly follows his father’s line of sight and looks at me with disdain. “Didn’t you, Miss. Vargas?”
“Don’t call me that!” I snap without meaning to, I grind my teeth to keep quiet. I suddenly feel closed in and vulnerable with all of these people surrounding me. I know without a doubt that each and every one of them hate me, I don’t blame them for that but they need to know the feeling is reciprocated I hate everything about them and this fucking family!
“You’re a Vargas.” It’s posed as a question but it isn’t, he just wants me to confirm what he already knows now. So, I do nothing and stand tall holding Royal’s gaze waiting to see what he does next.
“Royal, do it.” Chanel says from behind him, he doesn’t take his blue eyes off me as he answers his father.
“She’s going to be the bait, we’ll get Chaos tonight, kill Chance once Havoc and Sin have finished funneling his accounts and dissolving his assets then we go after Emilio.” He steps away from his father and comes to me, I have to crane my neck back to hold his gaze as he steps into me. He reaches out, grips the back of my neck and pulls me up until I’m on tiptoes, a whimper of pain escapes me but he ignores it. “I’m going to kill every single bastard that shares your blood while you watch, by the time I’m finished with you, you are going to be begging me to fucking kill you.”
“I’ll never beg.” I whisper. “You can’t kill someone who has already been dead inside for years, all you can do is erase the existence of who everyone thinks I am.” His gaze flicks between mine trying to gauge what the fuck I am saying, he can beat me, break my body and patch me up to do it again but he will never break my mind.
“Thing is, I’ve seen who you hid from the world. You showed it to me the night you let me slip between your sheets.” The gasp that comes from behind him makes me want to hide, I know that came from his mother. “You’re like every other bitch, you’ll spread your legs to get what you want.”
My features harden. “No. I spread my legs for you because regardless of everything else that was going on around us, I thought you were different. You’re just like every other male, thinking with your cock instead of your head and that is the reason you will fail.”
A cruel smirk crosses his handsome face as he bends so his lips ghost over mine. “Luckily for you, my cock isn’t hard because the sight of you disgusts me. I’m going to slit your throat in front of him.” Before he or anyone else can move, bat an eyelash or say another word I reach out, pull his gun from the waistband of his pants and hold it to the side of his neck.
ROYAL
The barrel of my gun presses into the side of my neck, chaos erupts around us but I ignore as I stare down at her. Guns are drawn and pointed at her, everyone shouts for her to drop the gun but she hears none of it as she continues to stare at me. I see it in her eyes, she isn’t going to pull the trigger she wants my attention, stupid girl, she didn’t need to hold me at gunpoint to get it.
“You pull that fucking trigger and I swear on my family, I will become your worst fucking nightmare.” Sin yells.
“I am begging you, please don’t hurt my son. No mother should have to witness this–.”
Erika cuts my mother off. “But a child should have to watch both her parents be executed and tortured in front of her?” The tremble in her voice is a dead giveaway that she is talking about herself. The anguish in her hazel eyes has a pang of sadness hitting me in the chest.
“No. No child should have to witness what you did.” Dad answers, a shuddering breath escapes her at the sound of my father’s voice. The anguish evaporates from her eyes and is replaced by hatred. I may be out of my fucking mind but even though we have slept together and I’ve tasted her sweet pussy, this moment feels more intimate than when we fucked. She has dropped her walls and let me see the real her, something about her letting me in has a feeling of protectiveness wash over me.
“Then why the fuck did you do it? Why kill my father and force me to watch as you raped my mother and then killed her? Why?” She screams as tears leaks from her eyes, she sways on her feet and without thought I drop my hold to her waist to keep her steady. I could have easily disarmed her and killed her but I… Can’t.
“I never touched your mother or father.” She spins around in my hold to face my dad with the gun pointed at him, I’m in the perfect position to snap her neck. Chanel and Havoc stare at me, waiting for me to move my hands from her waist to her neck and end this. I told her I’d kill her, promised it even but I can’t force my fucking hands to move!
“Bullshit!” She screams, dad lowers his gun to his side. No one else follows his lead, they all keep their guns trained on the woman in my hold.
“Bishop!” Mom shouts but he ignores her as he looks at Erika.
“I never knew who the fuck your father or mother was until about an hour ago, I may be a lot of things but a rapist isn’t one of them. If I killed your father, I would have owned that shit. In my family, we don’t kill women and children, they are protected above all else.” Erika begins to tremble, she can try and deny it but even I hear the truth in my father’s words. We have all been raised to never harm a woman or children. Which is why I sent Sin in to deal with Erika, I could never lay my hands on her in that way.
Mom darts out in front of my dad, dad’s eyes widen in fear as he reaches out to try to shove my mom out of harm's way. Without a second thought, I strike out and wrangle the gun from her hold, she doesn’t fight me. I place the gun back into my waistband and wrap an arm around her waist gently as she sags into me. My dad has my mom in the position, he may gamble with his own life but he would never do that with my mom’s.
“Kill her!”
“Take her out.” I ignore Sin and Havoc’s pleas.