Chapter 34
Chapter Thirty-Four
ANNIKA
“No, you can’t use your hands!” Serafina cries out and giggles.
“It’s too big for my mouth,” I say to her. “I need to stabilize it.”
“You have a small mouth.”
“Or maybe it’s just too big…”
We both start to laugh.
I turn my body an inch and my ass slides off the bed and I hit the floor with a hard thud. Pain shoots up my back to my neck as I cry out, still laughing.
“Annika!” Serafina drops down to her knees in front of me. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah,” I say. “I’ve had worse pain back there.”
“From Perilous?”
I place my right pointer finger to my lips and smile. There’s something about Serafina that’s just so… natural.
I mean, she gets it. She’s living in this insane, dark world too. And honestly, we just click.
She wanted me to take a shot of vodka without using my hands. I watched her wrap her mouth around the shot glass with ease, lift her head and throw it back.
For my turn, I kept trying to use my hand.
Look. I’m drunk. Okay?
And it feels good to be drunk right now. It’s not a bad drunk. It’s a fun drunk. A happy drunk.
Serafina touches my left shoulder. “We have to crash some parties together soon. Just to get them all fired up. I love watching Ty get violent. Is that wrong?”
I lean toward her. “No. I never knew how much I enjoyed this stuff. Is that wrong?”
“Yeah. It’s so wrong. Like really, badly wrong.”
Her words are slurred but we get each other. We’re connected. Connecting. This is just…
“You get me,” I whisper. “I think I’m in love with you.”
“You can’t have me. I’m claimed.”
“So am I. Two claimed ones… negate the whole thing…?”
“Oh yeah? Is that how you feel?”
“I feel a lot right now, Serafina. Like so much at once. Like I want to scream. Like I want to jump out of a window. Like I want Peri to tie me down, blindfold me, and fuck every hole he wants. Like I want to…”
Serafina leans toward me and her lips touch mine. The kiss catches me off guard. But I don’t pull away. I actually kiss her back. Our lips then slightly open at the same time. We kiss each other again at the same time. We pull away with a gentle kissing sound.
I instantly lick my lips.
“What the fuck are we doing?” I ask.
“I don’t know. I never kissed a girl before. At least if we get caught we’ll both enjoy the punishment.”
I throw my head back and start to laugh.
The bedroom door opens and both Serafina and I look to see Tyrant and Perilous entering the bedroom. They look confused, then angry when they see us on the bedroom floor.
“Nothing happened,” I blurt out.
“It was just a harmless kiss,” Serafina adds before giggling.
“Shut up,” I say to her, thinking I’m whispering, but I’m not.
We both giggle again.
Tyrant stomps over, all big and burly, and picks up Serafina like she’s a toy. He tosses her over his shoulder and smacks her ass so hard, my butt stings a little. Then he leaves.
Perilous walks to me and reaches down, grabbing my hair.
“You’re drunk,” he says.
“Yeah,” I say. “Serafina is a riot.”
I lick my lips, my mind three steps ahead, suddenly wanting to taste Peri’s cock.
I wait for permission, which presents itself in the form of him opening the zipper on his jeans and pulling his cock out for me to admire. A loud groan escapes my lips at the beautiful sight and thickness of him.
He’s way thicker than that shot glass Serafina wanted me to drink without using my hands.
I think of her for a second as I keep my hands at my sides and chase down Peri’s cock, gently licking him until I reach the huge head of his cock. I open wide, shake my head and groan, fitting him into my mouth.
Using no hands.
I take him and groan again.
He pulls at the back of my head and thrusts forward, driving his cock deep into my throat, forcing my toes to curl and my body to shiver with threatening delight.
Who doesn’t love a drunk, sloppy blow job?
* * *
He finishes hard, spilling warm cum against the back of my tongue and down into my throat.
I freeze in place and memorize the pulsing of his cock, telling myself I’ve now felt it in my pussy, in my ass , and now in my mouth.
He offers me an endless supply, filling my belly with his seed. Fucking my mouth as I groan, swallow, blink fast, and repeat the same over and over. By the time he slides his cock from my mouth, my jaw aches.
Peri then picks me up and throws me onto my bed.
He wrestles his spit and cum-stained cock back into his jeans and zips up. I can easily see the massive bulge that remains. In fact, you could see the bulge of his cock inside his jeans from outer space.
Peri gets into my bed, scoops me up and holds me close against his body.
He doesn’t speak a word.
But I know something big is about to happen.
* * *
Morning greets me with the smell of fresh coffee. It’s not homemade coffee either. It’s that powerful hot smell of coffee, with freshly roasted, ground up beans. Knowing the coffee will have a bubbly surface and the perfect amount of cream to help calm some of the bitterness.
I sit up in bed, see the coffee and know Peri has done this for me. He’s taking care of me.
I love how he can fuck my throat and fill my stomach with cum, then hold me until I fall asleep. Then wake up before me, get out of bed and get me coffee.
My body ripples with chills and butterflies attack my heart.
The coffee is hot but not too hot to sip. It’s perfect too. Heavenly caffeine working through my body as I stare at the door, waiting for it to open.
My mind is a little hazy and when I remember the part of last night when Serafina and I kissed, I start to blush. That’s the exact moment Peri opens the bedroom door.
Standing in black jeans and a dark gray T-shirt, looking big, violent, and so sexy that you can hear the wetness trickling out from between my legs.
“Holy fuck,” I whisper, unable to keep my words to myself.
“Coffee, get dressed, we have somewhere to be,” he says in a deep voice.
“Peri,” I call out. “Last night…”
“Has nothing to do with last night,” he says. “You want to tongue Tyrant’s girl? Go for it. But he’s possessive. Very possessive. Not sure you want me and him in a war.”
I blush even harder. “It was just being funny and stupid. We needed it.”
“No more talking about it, doll. We have to meet with someone. Soon.”
He shuts the door.
Meet with someone? Who?
My appetite for coffee disappears, but not for good. I’m dressed and fully caffeinated as Peri waits for me at the door. He’s acting suspicious and it heightens my worry.
“ Perilous ,” I say to him as we leave my apartment.
He wraps his right arm around me and covers my mouth. That’s my cue to shut up.
We’re already off campus and I can see Sinners Academy in the distance. I’m so connected to that place yet I feel like I’m already a million miles away. Maybe right now Peri is surprising me and he’s taking me to an airport and we’re going to fly somewhere else together. Just me and him.
I know that’s not going to happen. There’s another part of his plan. Well, our plan. My stomach drops.
We’re going to kill my father now, aren’t we?
This is it.
He’s taking me…
I grab for his hand and my knees start to wobble.
“Peri, please,” I whisper to him. “Please just…”
My jaw starts to quiver and he stops walking and faces me.
He touches my chin. “Everything in order, doll.”
I open my mouth when I hear a noise behind me.
“Annika? Is that you?”
It’s a woman’s voice and it just does something to me. I quickly spin around and see my mother standing no more than ten feet away from me.
She looks the same as I’ve seen in memories and dreams. Yeah, she’s older, but she’s…
I start to fall and Peri catches me. I lean against him and his hands hold my sides.
“You have to do this, Annika. There’s no other choice.”
I grab behind myself at Peri.
This can’t be real. I’ve spent my life thinking my mother was dead. And yeah, I believed Peri when he said she was alive. But believing she was alive and seeing her in person are two different things.
“You are so beautiful, Annika,” my mother says. “More beautiful than I could have ever imagined you to be.”
I start to shake my head. A part of me believes a ghost is walking toward me right now. I want to jump and scream and run away. Another part of me feels such an intense connection right now. It’s my mother…
“Would it be okay if we talked?”
Her voice is soft, soothing, and nervous.
“Yes,” Peri answers for me. “She needs to hear everything before we move forward.”
“You’re… he tracked me down,” my mother says. “Him and the others. And I know all about it. About who they are. I’ve known all along.”
“H-h-how?” I manage to ask. “H-h-he said you were d-d-dead.”
“In some ways I was. I was lost. I’m an addict, Annika.”
“What?” My legs find some strength. I step away from Peri.
“It was a terrible life to have lived,” my mother says. “I had plans to escape. But I got pregnant. I knew then if I left it would be bad for everyone. Especially you. You were my light, Annika. You were my everything.”
“Don’t say stuff like that right now. You can’t just show up and just… and…”
“I went to rehab three times when you were younger. I just couldn’t stop. I couldn’t figure out what was making it happen. I didn’t want it, Annika. I never wanted it. He convinced me to leave to get better help. Across the country. He promised me…” Her eyes well with tears. Now she’s shaking her head. “He promised me a billion dollars. I would be set for life. Nothing to ever worry about. Just so I could get cleaned up for good. And now it looks like I gave up my life for that money. He faked my death. Convinced me I was nothing but an insane addict.”
“Yeah? Well what were you then?”
“I wasn’t around,” she says. “I was always good on it. It. What was it ? I didn’t know, Annika. He was drugging me the entire time. To keep me away.”
Silence enters the frame. I absorb her words. I have no idea what’s real or fake.
Peri’s hand touches me. Holding me. He’s my strength. My rock.
“I have a million things to say to you, Annika, but I don’t know where to begin or how. I’ve been a shell of myself for a very long time because of him.”
“So why is it different now?” I ask.
“He’s broke. Suddenly there were no more issues in my life. Other than withdrawal. A sudden withdrawal. I thought I was dying. I thought I was having a heart attack. I was in the hospital. Then everything started making sense to me.”
“So because he’s broke you’re back? For what? Revenge? You want money that doesn’t exist?”
“I want a relationship with my daughter. I want the chance to start over. I want to be me. And I want you to be you. I wrote you letters all the time. I knew in my heart he was never going to show them to you.”
I look back at Peri.
I think about the letter I saw from my mother. The one Peri stole from my father’s place the night he drugged him.
“This is too fucking much,” I say, lowering my head.
Peri lifts his left hand to my chin and lifts my gaze. He holds my chin. Tight. Controlling. Possessive.
“I’m in this world now too,” I tell her. “Is this what you want for me?”
“If you’re happy.”
“Want to know what he does to me? What Perilous does to me?”
“No, Annika,” my mother says. “That’s between you and him. He’s claimed you.”
I swallow hard. “So you were… claimed…?”
“Not the same as you,” she says. “There’s not much more I can say about it.”
“There are rules,” Peri whispers with a long growl. “What can be said and what cannot be said. Best to leave that part be, doll.”
“You know, I was the one who helped him get started,” my mother says. “I helped to build his first hedge fund. That was what I wanted to do. I fucked my boss. How’s that for truth?”
“So I get my brains from you?” I ask.
“And your beauty, if I may say so,” Peri adds.
“Are you fucking flirting with my mother?” I growl at him.
“Annika,” my mother says, laughing.
I smile. It’s hard to contain the sense of love and excitement I feel right now.
My mother! She’s really here! She’s alive!
My heart twists with crushing pain.
The realization of just how fucked up my father is and how fucked up my life…
“Mom,” I whisper.
My eyes fill with tears.
“I have so much to tell you,” she whispers and steps toward me. “There’s never enough apologies. Time can’t be erased.”
Peri steps away from behind me. He’s now standing at my left side. My mother stands just a foot away from me. All I can think about is hugging her. Jumping at her. Telling her I love her. But I don’t understand my feelings.
“Might as well just get this over with,” Peri says.
I turn my head. “Get what…?”
“Sorry, doll,” he growls.
Before I can even blink, there’s a needle in my arm. My mother makes a noise and I see there’s a needle in her arm too.
I open my mouth but can’t speak Peri’s name. I manage to blink once and I turn my head to the right. Everything is getting blurry. I’m woozy.
I…
Wait…
Is that my father walking toward us right now?