Chapter 11
Chapter Eleven
AXE
Virgin.
Holy mother fuckin’ shit, CJ had been a virgin and I just took that shit from her.
Oh fuck.
I feel like an ass. I mean, who would have thought she’d be a virgin. Then again, I hadn’t even bothered to talk to her about sex or anything like that. I just fuckin’ took her.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
I’m going to hell for this shit.
Pulling from CJ’s tight pussy, I fall to my side and pull her into my arms. I took care to not hurt her due to her still healing.
I’m an asshole for not taking care. Yeah, her stomach is healing, but I should’ve waited for the doctor to clear her for more strenuous activities.
“Sunbeam.” My throat is tight with emotions I didn’t know I still had in me.
“It’s okay. You don’t have to say anything,” she murmurs sadly.
What does she think I’m going to say?
I don’t know, but whatever it is filling her head so quickly, I need to get it the hell out of there now. “Citrus,” I mutter her name warningly.
“Stop. Please don’t. I don’t need to hear the words. This shouldn’t have happened.” And there it is.
“Oh, it happened, and it’ll happen again, baby.
Over and over again. I’ve got plenty of ways I wanna take you.
First, we’re gonna get you cleaned up and I’m going to hold you as well as keep you near me the rest of the day.
You gotta get it through your head, Citrus, you’re mine. I’m not giving you up,” I declare.
“Why? Why me? I’m nothing and can never be. They’ll come for me and when they do, this time will be the end,” she cries.
“Who are you talking about?” I ask, gently stroking her hair away from her face and trace the scar along her hairline.
“I can’t tell you,” she murmurs with a hitch in her breathing.
“You can, Sunbeam. Told you, you’re safe here. I won’t let anyone harm you. I promise,” I utter the words that come straight from my heart.
“Why?” she whimpers once again.
“Why wouldn’t I?” I retort.
“I’m nothing special. You deserve special.” My chest clenches at the pain radiating off CJ in waves of agony.
“Citrus, you are special to me. I thought it the first time I saw you. I knew it when I claimed you. You drive me insane, and I want you for who you are. Let me in and I’ll help you. Give me the burden that you seem to be weighted down with.”
“Have you heard of ‘The Delivers’?” I don’t move when she asks a question I didn’t expect her to ask.
I know who ‘The Delivers’ are. They fucked up my Prez’s life when they took his brother and kidnapped his niece.
The only one to survive it all had been Hades.
Then come to find out the shit didn’t stop with them.
Casimir and his band of horrors fucked several of the Franklin charters ol’ ladies. They were called the ‘Chosen’.
“What do you know about them?” I ask calmly.
“My uncle is the head of their group since his brother was a few years ago.” Yeah, Casimir is dead, which is a damn good thing. But from what I’m hearing, they’re a fuckin’ Satanic cult of nitwits didn’t come to an end and disperse.
Fuck.
“And what does he have to do with you?” I have a sickening suspicion in my gut that whatever she tells me won’t be good.
CJ pulls from my arms, stands, grabs my shirt off the floor that I’d stripped out of, and puts it on over her naked body. She looks back at me with fear and so many emotions I want to find these people and gut them for what they’ve done to her.
“My uncle’s brother claimed me as the bride for the Dark Lord.
My aunt was jealous of this announcement.
She didn’t like the attention I received, so my uncle, to appease her, let her string me up in the basement of their house to beat.
Once she was done, he’d bend her over and fuck her right there in front of me.
Sometimes when his brother would come, they’d both screw her.
” I stand and start for her, but CJ shakes her head.
“I’ve been trained to become one of the ‘Chosen’ as they called me.
There are others, but with Casimir gone, my uncle has picked others.
He threatens that if I don’t save myself for the Dark Lord, he’ll take my sister in my stead.
I’m supposed to let whatever man they decide to be the vessel of the Dark Lord rape me.
Impregnate me with the next generation of those sick people they want in their group. ”
Oh fuck. It’s worse than I thought it was.
“I ran away and have kept them from taking me since, but I know it’s a cat and mouse game to them.
Soon, they’ll catch up to me and I’ll die before I let them touch me again.
I’ve got the scars marring my skin from them.
The markings of the higher-level assholes put on me claiming they prove I’m a ‘Chosen’. ”
“Fuck, Sunbeam,” I mutter, closing the distance between us, unable to take anymore. CJ’s been through hell, and I can only imagine how bad it’s been for her.
Pulling her into my arms, I hold on tight to her.
No one is going to take her from me. Not one fuckin’ person will get close enough to her again.
Hours after CJ told me about her past and what she’d been keeping close to her chest, I slip out from under her body. She’d finally fallen asleep at my suggestion she nap.
Exhaustion had shown on her face, I ordered a pizza for us to eat in bed. After pizza, she’d laid her head against my chest as I leaned against the headboard and fell asleep in my arms.
I’ve lain here thinking about what she’d been through and figuring out how to break it to Hammer as well as the rest of the club. Does Hammer already know?
Fuck.
Grabbing my phone from my jeans I pulled off when I put CJ in the shower with me.
I cleaned her up and made sure to take care of her in more than one way.
None of them involved me fuckin’ her again.
She’s too tender for something like that.
But I held her to me while showing her in other ways she was mine.
I glance back at the bed one last time before leaving the room. Dialing Hammer’s number, I lift the phone to my ear.
“You good?” he asks, answering after the second ring.
“Yeah, but I need to talk to you. Might need to call church for this,” I murmur, grabbing my pack of smokes by the back door and step out onto the porch where I sit in a chair and light a cigarette needing something to help calm my nerves.
“What’s going on?” he asks more alert than before.
“CJ finally talked to me, Prez. It’s bad and I’m not sure how everyone’s gonna handle it,” I state.
“This about her aunt and uncle?” Of course, Hammer would ask that.
“Yeah, and a hell of a lot more.” Closing my eyes, I brace myself to recap.
“Fuck. Cy looked into them but hasn’t found much on them. I know it’s got something to do with both girls and is connected to the Supreme Masters in some way, but we don’t know how,” Hammer says, confusing me.
“Hold up. You all think they’re connected to the Supreme Masters?” I ask.
“Yeah, I’ll explain it when I get there. This is something you’re gonna want to hear in person and it seems what you’ve got, you’ll want to share in the same way,” Hammer suggests.
“Might want to bring the brothers with you then. After hearing what CJ told me, I’m not leaving her alone at the house anymore. And she’s asleep now. I don’t wanna wake her up,” I mutter.
“Be there soon,” Hammer declares and disconnects.
Sighing, I pull the phone from my ear. This bomb that’s about to drop is going to be one that fucks with everyone. And I’ve got a feeling we’re gonna need to warn the brothers from all the other charters of the potential threat.
Especially Twister’s club.
Besides us, they’re the ones that have the most to lose since several of the ol’ ladies are known as the ‘Chosen’.
Fuck me.
What am I gonna find out next?