Chapter 245
CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE
AKIO
“Get out of here,” I hissed at Carter once he finished with Nicole’s father.
Nicole had left about thirty minutes ago after telling me that she wanted to be finished with this for good and never wanted to see her father again, but I had let Carter continue because I wanted to see him pay.
Carter refastened his pants, his wound still open and bleeding, but he didn’t seem to even notice. His eyes were hazy with pleasure, and he had a different kind of smirk on his face than I had seen when he came out of the restroom with some girls.
“Didn’t think you were this crazy, kid,” Carter called, shrugging on his clothes and sauntering to the exit of the warehouse, where Kai stood with his arms crossed. Carter said a few words to him, then left.
I growled underneath my breath, hating that Nicole still talked to Carter. But at the same time, I didn’t mind because he wasn’t into her and he preferred men like her father instead. It’d made tonight so much better for Nicole.
“He’s still alive,” Kai noted.
“I know.”
“You gonna kill him?”
“No,” I said.
Kai paused beside me. “You’re not going to kill him after that?”
“No,” I repeated, unfastening his binds. “That’s enough torture for tonight.”
“Where the fuck are you taking him?” Kai said, placing a hand on my chest. “I thought—”
“I’m going to bury him alive.”
After staring at me in shock for a few moments, Kai pulled his arm away from me and then turned back to the exit of the warehouse. “I’ll bring Poison’s van around back. It’s easier to clean than trying to get blood out of car cushions.”
My lips curled into a smirk, and I dragged Nicole’s father’s body across the warehouse to the exit, creating a trail of deep sanguine blood after him. Her father had lost a lot of blood tonight, but he was still alive. And I wanted his last moments to be wonderful.
Just like the life he had given Nicole.
A moment later, Kai pulled up and hopped out of the driver’s seat. I hadn’t known that they had another car, but I guessed they used it to take care of business like this. Maybe they’d used this van to dispose of Principal Vaughn’s body too.
After opening the back, we stuffed in Nicole’s father and slammed the door. I slipped into the passenger seat and clicked on my seat belt—can’t break any more laws tonight—and then we took off through Redwood.
“I know a place,” Kai said, turning onto the highway.
I stared emptily through the windshield, listening to the rain pattering against it and the sweet sounds of Nicole’s father’s grunts in the back. The melody was a nice one that I would burn into my memory forever.
About fifty minutes later, Kai pulled into a wooded area way outside Redwood. We exited the car. While I opened the back and pulled Nicole’s father’s body out of it, Kai retrieved two shovels from somewhere deep in the woods.
We found a spot that hadn’t had the dirt pulled up yet, and I dropped Nicole’s father on the ground to start digging. After forty-five minutes of us digging a hole deep enough for his body, I rolled him deep down into it and listened to the thud as he dropped.
A grunt left his mouth, and he fluttered his eyes open, his body still tied.
“What’s going on?” he asked, his voice groggy. “What happened? I feel like—”
I dropped some dirt onto his wound, and he winced. Then, he stared up at me as if all the memories were flooding back through his head. My lips curled into a smirk as he screamed and shouted for someone to help.
But I continued filling the hole with dirt until everything but his face was covered.
“Let me out! Someone, please—”
I scooped up some more dirt and dropped it into his mouth, filling it completely. And even when he stopped screaming, when he stopped moving underneath the dirt, we finished until there was no more dirt left.
Until I knew he was dead.