20. WINTER
WINTER
“Alright let’s go.I guess there’s no time like the present,” Mason says, before getting to his feet and then pulling me up on mine. He walks out of my room with my hand in his, as he leads us down to the basement.
I’mnervous at the thought of seeing Antonio again. I still have a lot to work through where he’s concerned and I’m so angry with myself at the thought. Why the hell am I still letting him have all this power over me, by letting it all consume me so much?
Iblame myself for what happened sometimes. Logically, I know that none of what he did to me was my fault, but it’s sometimes difficult to actually believe that. What if I wasn’t friends with him, would that have helped somehow? I wonder what would have happened if I didn’t let him into my life. Then again, being friends with him may have helped me since he was hired to kill me but didn’t because he got infatuated with me. Those are some of the thoughts that torture my mind constantly.
Ihear my brother and Grayson’s footsteps behind me, so I know they’re following along too. No doubt they don’t want to miss the show. As soon as we make it down the last step, I see Antonio there. I can’t help but look over at him with nothing but disgust and hatred.
He’strussed up on a platform, kneeling in the middle of the room. His entire face is a bloody mess right now and he’s passed out. I’d feel sympathy if I saw someone looking like this, but the asshole deserves it.
“Damn, bro, looks like you were busy down here earlier,” Grayson says, breaking the silence between us all.
“Meh. That was just a tap. The real fun is about to begin now. This is his last day on earth. I’m not letting this asshole breathe any more of the same air that we are,” Mason says and then he turns to look at me. “Do you want to hurt him too or are you going to just watch?”
“Um…”
“Before you answer, can I just tell you what I want?” he questions. Not knowing what to say, since I never really thought I’d get the chance to see Antonio tortured, much less torture him myself, I just nod my head at him. “I want you to sit there and watch. I don’t want you to lift a finger to touch this asshole. You’ve been through enough and I want to be the one to carry this burden for you.”
“Sure. Uh, I’ll just watch then,” I murmur with a lump in my throat.
Hewalks over to me and grabs my face with both of his hands and rests his forehead against mine.
“I’ll fight all your battles from now on. I swear to fuck I won’t let anything happen to you ever again. I’ll do my best to protect you or die trying, but just know you’re not alone anymore. I am so fucking sorry that my hate and disregard for you and our relationship caused so many unthinkable things to happen to you, but I’m going to make it all right,” he says before giving me a kiss and then leaving me to walk across the room.
Hegoes to the table while I take a seat. Hunter and Gray also take a seat on the chairs not too far from me. Mason grabs a small packet of something and then walks back over to where Antonio is slumped on his knees.
Heopens the packet and brings it up to his nose and that’s when I realize that the packet contains smelling salts. Antonio is instantly awake and he groans in agony. From the way he’s moaning and groaning I can tell that he’s in unbearable pain. Then for the first time in what feels like forever, I feel a smile cross my face. Seeing him in this much pain just soothed a tiny bit of my soul.
“Oh, hey there asshole. It’s me again. Glad you could join us. We’re about to have some more fun,” Mason says. I glance up at the same time he turns my way and there’s what I can only call a sinister smirk on his face.
“What the fuck is your problem asshole? Just get it over with already,” Antonio wheezes out.
“I’m not ready yet, but soon. I have to fuck you up some more to appease my girl’s bloodthirstiness,” Mase says with a smirk. Just then Antonio lifts his head and looks past Mason directing a bloody smile my way. A shiver races across my body, but I stare right back at him, trying to hide the fact that I’m terrified.
“Hey there babe,” Antonio says. “A little help here would be nice. You know we had something special there for a while.” I just look at him with disgust on my face.
“You don’t get to talk to her asshole!” Mason snaps and punches him hard in the face causing his head to twist to the side, while he lets out another groan of pain.
“What the hell did you do to me, asshole!” Antonio suddenly yells. “It feels like something is crawling on me!”
“Oh, those are probably the maggots,” Mason tells him gleefully.
“Wha-what?”
“Maggots. Not sure if they’ll eat your flesh now or wait until you’re dead and rotting. ButI figured I’d use them now, just to make you uncomfortable,” Mason moves to grab a pair of scissors, then begins stripping him. He cuts off his shirt and then turns to Hunter. “I need some help to get him to stand up.
“Sure thing, bro. Always happy to help.” Hunter says as he gets up off his chair and walks over to them. When he’s standing in front of Antonio, he punches him in the face and then kicks him in the balls. Antonio lets out a scream and I wince. Damn that must’ve hurt terribly. “That was for all the shit you did to my sister. It’s not nearly enough but be glad that you only got a few taps, and I wasn’t the one really torturing you because I would’ve done a whole lot worse.”
Theythen work on standing him up, making sure his arms are still secured to the posts. Now that he’s standing up fully, I see the white gauze that’s covering his side. Mason rips it off a second later and I see there’s a large cut there and I can see something crawling around at the top of it.
“Eww,” I mutter.
Masonthen moves to put on a pair of gloves and uses the same scissors to cut Antonio’s pants and briefs off, leaving him completely naked in front of everyone. He then walks back over to the table of equipment as my brother comes back and takes his seat. I see Mase grab what looks to be a small round metal rod. It’s long and thin and I wonder what the hell he’s going to do with that, as he walks back over to his prey.
“I hope you enjoy this,” he says as he grabs Antonio’s dick in his gloved hand. He holds it so that it’s straight out and then takes the rod and places it on the tip at his pee hole. Not waiting a second more, he shoves it right up inside.
Holyfucking shit! I wince, as Antonio screams so loud it’s almost deafening. Once the rod is fully inside, Mason drops his dick and moves to take his gloves off, all the while Antonio is still screaming in pain. Mase turns to look at me and winks.
“Ooh, does it hurt?” I ask Antonio in a voice filled with glee as I see blood dripping from the end of the rod.
“Fucking bitch!” he snaps, panting hard.
“Hmm, I guess it does. You know, when I told you that I hope you have a horrible death when the time comes, and I hope you suffer more than every person you’ve ever had there, did. I wasn’t really expecting that I’d be here to see it and looking at you now it’s more than I could have ever hoped for. You look like shit and it’s exactly what you deserve,” I say, while I smile at him.
“You stupid fucking bitch! You’re going to pay for this!”
“Who’s going to make that happen? Your boss? You think he’d avenge your death when he hears how you’ve been using his name to do all your sick side jobs?” I ask and see Antonio visibly stiffen. I got some information from that guy who was there for Scarlett so I know Alister isn’t his boss. Speaking of Scarlett, I’ll have to remember to get the guys to help me find her since I don’t know where that asshole took her. “Ah, so I was right. He doesn’t know what you’ve been doing behind his back. Don’t worry. I’ll let him know everything when you’re dead and gone.”
Hestarts thrashing around attempting to wiggle, trying to get the ropes off but they’re tied pretty tight around his wrists, which means he’s not getting out of them at all.
“I should have fucking killed you!”
“Too bad you didn’t and you won’t get the chance either. You’re going to rot in hell and no one will even remember who you are because you’re nothing but a shit stain. How does it feel knowing that no one will care about your death?” I ask and he just laughs.
“I might be dead soon, but I’m always going to be in your head sweetheart,” he mumbles through bloody teeth once he can speak, after Mason just clocked him in the face.
“You think it bothers me?” I ask in a snide tone, hiding how I really feel from this asshole because he will never get to see me scared again. “IfI was scared of you or was even thinking about you, would I be down here right now? And since I am, what does that tell you? It should tell you that you’re nothing but an insignificant piece of shit!”
“She’s a thousand times stronger than you’ll ever be, asshole,” Mason tells him as he moves to grab a knife from the table before going back to Antonio. “She’s surrounded by people who wouldn’t bat an eye at killing assholes like you for messing with her, while you have nothing. She’ll be so happy in the many years to come that you won’t even be a speck of a thought to her.”
Antoniois still in that standing position and Mason smacks his dick with the rod still inside his urethra and he screams in pain again. ThenI watch mesmerized as Mason starts to make cuts on his skin at the front before going to his back.
There’ssomething about the wounds that have my attention and when it finally clicks what it is a gasp leaves me, as tears begin to fill my eyes. I suddenly get off my chair and walk to Antonio’s back and it’s just as I thought.
Thecuts are deep, deeper than mine ever were. The pattern of the cuts on his skin are exactly like the ones on mine. I know because I’ve stared at them so many times already that I’ve memorized them. I look up at Mason, only to see that he’s already looking at me.
“I did it for you baby. A scar on his body for every single one that he put on you. I wanted him to feel exactly how you felt, but I wanted him to be in more pain than you ever were,” he says, and I can imagine that it’s excruciating because I can see down to some of the muscle, with how deep they are and Antonio’s screams echoing around the room attests to that until they eventually quiet down. “ThoughI do have one question for you. Do you want to be the one to give him a bullet in the leg?”
He’seven bloodier now but that doesn’t seem to matter to either of us as tears fill my eyes.
“Yes,” I say, barely above a whisper.
Hedoesn’t say anything, just walks over to the table to grab a gun before coming back to me. He stands behind me, walking us a bit closer to Antonio. When we’re in the position he wants us in, he puts the gun in my hand.
Stillholding onto it and me, he raises our clasped hands aims and fires it. The bullet goes right into Antonio’s leg and then Mason is firing again into his other one. Holy shit! I just shot someone! ButI can’t bring myself to feel bad at all.
Inthe next moment, we drop the gun and Mason spins me around, grabs a hold of my face and pulls me in for a kiss as the tears start to trail down my cheeks. I can feel the blood on his hands staining my cheeks. I don’t hear a peep from Antonio for a few and when we break our kiss, I look over at him to see him slumped a little, as he’s currently passed out.
“Tha-thank you.”
“Time to end this,” he says.
Hepoints for me to take my seat and I move away as he takes a bigger knife than the one that he was using before. I watch as he wakes Antonio up with some smelling salts under his nose. Once he’s awake again and conscious of everything going on around him, Mason holds his head back and then he plunges the knife into the front of his throat and then drags it all the way down until it stops at his pelvis.
Hecan’t make a sound except for gurgling on his own blood. Mason then grabs a small ax and slams it into his chest, breaking the bones there since the knife didn’t crack them, it just left a long cut there. He keeps going with the ax until Antonio’s insides start to spill out more.
Holyshit! Is all I can think at the moment.
Hethen turns to me with a wild and fierce expression on his face and I gulp as he drops the ax and walks over to me. Without a word he pulls me up into his arms and I have to wrap my legs around his waist. His hands are on my ass holding me up as he starts to make his way up the stairs with me.
“Don’t worry I’ll do the cleanup,” I barely hear Hunter yell after us because I’m still consumed with the look in Mason’s eyes right now.
Hewalks all the way back up to my room and heads straight into the bathroom. He puts me down onto the counter but he doesn’t move, he stays there between my spread thighs. We’re chest to chest with his face in my hair as he hugs me to him.
Thereare so many emotions rolling through me that I’m at a loss on what to say or do at the moment. We’re both covered in blood but somehow neither one of us seem to care about that. I can’t even compute the fact that my monster is no longer alive to torture me. I’m glad he’s dead. So, he won’t be able to hurt anyone else anymore.
“It’s over now,” he whispers.
“I know… it’s hard to believe that, when I still feel so much inside,” I sigh. “Why did you do it? When did you become a killer?”
“I love you so fucking much baby. I had to be the one to do it because you’re mine, so it was mine to do. I became one when he decided to hurt you. I killed for you and I’d kill for you again if it means protecting you.”
“I’m scared…”
“If you’re scared of me, you don’t have to be. I’d never hurt you.”
“But you already have. You were the one person I didn’t think would ever hurt me but you’re the one who caused the most pain I’ve ever felt in my life. Yeah, what he did to me hurt but it was nothing compared to what you did to me,” I say on a sob, my emotions unexpectedly coming to the surface.
“AndI’ll spend the rest of my life making it up to you. I’m going to love you so hard all you’re going to feel is happiness. I want what I said to that asshole to be true. I want you to be so happy that he’ll just be a blip in your memory,” he says, with determination in his voice.
“And what about what you’ve done?”
“Same deal. I’m going to pour all my love into you that you’ll be so full of it the past won’t have any leg to stand on to hurt you again,”
“Sounds good in theory but I don’t know…”
“Don’t worry about it. It’s my job to change your mind.”
“I’m sure you know by now that it was your father and Emilia who was behind this whole mess.”
“Yes, and I’m going to be dealing with them both when we get home.”
“What are you going to do?” I ask.
“Don’t worry about it, baby. This is mine to take care of and I don’t want you worrying about any of this. I’ve got you covered,” he says, before raising up to his full height and looking down at me. He wraps a hand around my neck and pulls me in as he leans down and kisses me. I taste the metallic taste of blood and a moment later he pulls away. “Please don’t let any of this define you. You are good, the only light in my life and I don’t want you to lose any of that.”
Feelingtoo much and not wanting to talk anymore because that just makes me feel more things that I don’t want to, I pull him in for another kiss to shut him up.
“Shut up and fuck me. I don’t want to talk anymore,” I growl at him.
“Are you sure, baby? I don’t want to hur?—”
“Yes. I’m sure,” I tell him. He wants me to start forgetting what Antonio did to me? Well, this might be the only way to start. IfI start being afraid of sex by constantly thinking of what Antonio did to me, then I’ll never get over it.
Ilet out a squeak into his mouth as he picks me up off the counter and spins us around so that I’m pressed against the wall. His kiss is intense, hard, and bruising. I let out a groan at how good it feels.
Agush of wetness slips out of my pussy and into my panties, making them wet instantly, as I feel how hard his cock is already from him grinding against me. He licks, kisses, and sucks my neck, causing desire to course through my veins.
“Ahhh,” I groan out when he sucks on my neck hard enough to give me a hickey.
“Fuck, baby! You taste so good,” he moans out before moving us back to the counter.
Assoon as my butt is on the counter again, he pulls away from my lips and grabs the hem of my shirt before pulling it over my head, my bare breasts coming into view. He bends his head down and takes a nipple into his mouth and sucks on it while using his fingers to pinch the other one.
“Oh, that feels so good,” I whimper.
“Perfect fucking tits baby,” he murmurs. “Look at us, covered in his blood. I want you to revel in the fact that he’s dead and can’t hurt you anymore. I want you to enjoy this baby and take some of your power back from that asshole.”
Thereare just spots of blood on me from where I’ve been touching his body, he’s the one who’s mostly covered in it. ButI instantly feel a tingle in my pussy at his words. I want to revel in the fact that Antonio is dead. I want to fuck Mason while he’s covered in his blood, to be secure in the knowledge that he got rid of my stalker and my attacker.
“I want that too,” I eventually say.
Hepulls my leggings off of me as well as my panties and he spreads my legs further apart as he just stops and stares at my pussy. I start to feel a bit self-conscious; I mean, I’m still pretty much covered in fading bruises but the look on his face, well it looks like he wants to devour me whole.
“Perfect fucking pussy babe. It feels like it’s been forever since I’ve been inside her. I can’t wait to feel your heat around my cock. Can’t wait to stretch your tight little hole baby,” he groans as he kneels down in front of me. He pulls my hips so that they’re at the edge of the counter and then he dives right into my pussy.
Helicks from my hole all the way up to my clit. He goes back and forth for a few seconds before his lips clamp down onto my clit and I let out a scream at how good the pleasure running through my body feels.
“Oh, fuck yes! Eat my pussy!” I groan.
“You taste like paradise. No, like my whole fucking world. Yep, my whole world is between your legs, all wrapped up with the beautiful package that is you baby and there’s no way in hell I’m ever giving it up,” he growls as he sticks his tongue right into my hole.
Hebegins to pump his tongue in and out of me, while he uses one of his hands to begin circling my clit. The sensation is too much and in no time, I’m coming on his face. He continues to lick and suck my pussy, drinking down all of my juices.
Mylegs are still trembling when he stands up a moment later, his face glistening with my pussy juice. He strips out of his shirt and pants and I watch as he strokes his thick cock for a few moments, before moving closer to me.
Heholds onto my waist with one hand while using the other to guide his cock toward my pussy. My body responds, twitching a little as he rubs the head of his cock up and down my pussy lips.
“Ooh, that feels so good,” I gasp, breathless.
“What do you want right now?”
“You.”
“You have me baby. What else?” the jerk asks. He’s gonna make me say it. As he just looks at me intently, while still rubbing his head against me. The pleasure is making me go nuts, by not having him inside me yet.
“Your cock! I fucking want your cock inside me!” I snap.
“Yeah, mine, baby. My cock is the only one you’ll ever need,” he says as he slams into me, his cock going all the way to the hilt inside me.
“Oh, my fucking God!” I scream. “That feels so good.”
Heuses both his hands to hold on to my hips, keeping me in place as he pounds my pussy. It’s too much and I clench hard around his fat cock, as he continues to move it in and out of me.
“God baby. This tight hole was made for me,” he moans out before bringing his lips down to mine. He moves one of his hands from my hip and grips the back of my head. Holding me how he wants me, as he pumps his hips, pummeling away at my pussy.
“Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!” I scream as my belly tightens and a wave of ecstasy crashes over me, causing me to squirt on his cock. My legs are trembling as my orgasm continues. Mason pulls away from my mouth and looks down at me with a wild expression in his eyes. He puts his hand around my neck, squeezing lightly, not adding enough pressure to hurt and then really starts to thrust inside me. He fucks my pussy and in no time I’m coming again.
“Take my fucking cum in your tight as fuck hole baby! Take what belongs to you,” he babbles as I feel the warmth of his cum spread inside me. Spurt after spurt fills me and it feels so fucking good.
Weboth stop moving, and just stare at each other. I can feel his cum starting to run out of my pussy and I moan at how it feels. We’re both panting and breathing hard, trying to catch our breath again.
“I love you so fucking much baby. That was amazing,” he says, resting his forehead against mine and giving me a soft and gentle kiss.
Onceour breathing has slowed, he pulls out of me slowly. I feel more of his cum start to flow out of me and my face turns red. He looks at me and smiles that smile that always made me go weak in the knees. It’s his proud but boyish one and I feel my heart hurt at all the confusion that’s still inside me. He’s still staring at me and it’s so powerful I have to close my eyes for a moment to break the intensity. He places a soft kiss on my forehead before he moves away and I hear the tub being filled with water.
Whenthe water turns off, I finally open my eyes to see him throwing a bath bomb and some bubble bath into the tub. He moves back over to me a moment later gently picking me up and placing me in the tub.
Thehot water stings a little but then it starts to soothe. Mason gets in behind me, grabbing the loofah and starts to wash my skin. He takes his time and is gentle as he rubs the loofah across my entire body. The water is tinged with red now as we wash off the blood that covered us both.
I’mquiet as he continues to wash me, my mind a million miles away. This is soft and intimate, neither one of us saying a word to break whatever it is that’s happening right now. BeforeI even know what’s happening or how it even happened, tears are sliding down my cheeks and my body shakes with the silent sobs. He wraps his arms around me from behind soothing me.
“Shh,” he whispers. “I’ve got you baby. Let it all out, I’ve got you.”
Ihave no idea when we even changed positions but the next moment, I’m aware of is that I’m lying on my back in the tub with Mason on top of me. His arms are behind my shoulders holding me up so my head isn’t in the water, while mine are around his. He has his face buried in my neck and my legs are wrapped around his waist. A moment later he gently slips his cock into me again and slowly starts to grind his hips into mine, his cock pumping away inside me softly.
“I know what you want, but I can’t give it to you baby. I just can’t…” he says, as a sob leaves me because I know he’s talking about me wanting him out of my life and I know for a fact that he won’t leave…