Spawn & A Spitfire Returns (Sin’s Bastards Trilogy #1)

Chapter 1 Robbie’s Revenge

From Revenge & Retribution

Robbie’s Revenge...Six years ago

Robbie dragged Cassie deep into the woods.

He’d already picked out the spot he’d been looking for.

It was far enough away from the compound and he was sure no one would hear her screams. It was also in the path of some very predatory night creatures.

He’d seen them the night before. Several large gray wolves roamed this part of the woods.

He jerked her over to a nearby tree he’d already prepared.

A rope was strung around the trunk and he’d found several wolf prints in the area.

He wrapped the rope around her waist and throat and when he was done, he tightened the knot.

He ripped the gag out of her mouth and appreciated the blood dripping from her lip.

“What the hell are you doing Robbie?” Cassie snarled. “How did you get inside the clubhouse without being seen?”

“I got in last night,” Robbie told her. “I followed the FBI guys when they came to talk to you and I’ve been watching you for days. When everything was quiet, I came through the window and I hid until you were alone.”

“So, what are you going to do now?”

“Just giving you a taste of what you turned my life into.” Robbie growled.

“The night you cut me ...you ruined my life. When the doctors told me and my mother I could never live like a real man, she began to hate me. For the first time in my life, she gave me rules. She’d been a cruel bitch to everyone but me until that day. ”

“You poor little monster you.” Cassie sneered.

Robbie backhanded her face hard. “Shut the fuck up bitch.” He snarled.

Her eye instantly swelled and blood ran down her cheek from the cut on her cheek.

This didn’t stop her from what she wanted to say, “I saw the autopsy photos of what was supposed to be you.” She stared at him steadily as if he didn’t just hit her.

“Why did you have to kill Willy? What the hell did he ever do to you?”

Robbie tipped his head back and laughed.

“You knew that wasn’t me, huh? He was my way out.

I made a vow the day I came home from the hospital.

I vowed that one day I would find you and make you pay for what you did to me.

For every time you cut me, I’d cut you back three times.

That was the day I began to actually hate you. ”

“And now that you’ve found me?”

Robbie smiled. His eyes grew cold and his lip curled. “You’ll still die but this is going to mean a whole lot more. You found love and now you carry the King of the Bastard’s baby. I can get my revenge by taking not only your worthless life but also your child.”

“What are you going to do?” Cassie asked calmly.

“My mother actually came up with the plan to use Will as my surrogate. She thought if we killed him and pretended he was me I could find you one day and get our revenge,” he explained as he paced in front of her.

“We had it planned very carefully. Once she killed Will, I had to stay out of sight until I was old enough to start hunting for you.” He paused, then looked at her carefully.

“Do you remember that hidden room off the kitchen? That’s where she forced me to live.

I could see everything that happened in that house but no one knew I was even there.

She thought I was her prisoner but I soon found a way to get out.

I’d leave the house after dark and come back just before dawn. She never knew I was gone.”

“Where did you go?”

“I went into the city,” he admitted. “I told you, I was hunting for you.” Robbie shrugged. “I almost had you one night. This creep was beating hell out of you and I just stood there watching.”

“You’re the one who killed Jeremy aren’t you?”

“Was that his name?” Robbie asked. “I never knew who he was. I stopped him a couple of nights later and wanted to thank him but he took a swing at me. It pissed me off and I lost control. He was dead before I knew it.”

“Who were the other two you buried in the woods behind the house?”

Robbie sneered. “I watched you rebury the brats, did you know that? I used to watch you all the time and I’ll bet you never saw me do it either, did you?”

Cassie shook her head.

Robbie gave her a cold grin. “You were the only one in that house that ever came close to breaking her, you know? My mother was a horrible bitch. She bullied everyone. She could break the hardest of the men that came around there, but there was something about you, a snot nosed little kid, she never could break you.”

“It wasn’t as if she didn’t try,” Cassie whispered.

“It made me almost respect you, almost.” Robbie began to pace again.

“Anyway, about six years ago I was out looking for you, walking the streets of Boston when this young chick stopped me. She said she was hungry and asked if I would buy her a sandwich. She kept looking around almost like she was waiting for someone else. When she got me in an alley, someone jumped me. I got mad and killed them both but not before the other guy hit me several times. I always carried a knife back then. I stabbed them both and carried their bodies back to the woods with me.” He shrugged.

“It was easy enough to bury them beside the others my mother killed in her business. I never asked her name and she didn’t give it either. I simply didn’t care who she was.”

“Why did you leave my locket there?”

“I took that locket from my mother and I carried it with me for years. After you and Peaches left, I wanted something of yours, so I wouldn’t forget how much I hate you.” He shook his head. “It slipped out of my pocket and I didn’t even know until it was too late.”

“The police know you’re still alive,” Cassie informed him.

He stared at her. “Now how would they know that? I’ve taken care not to get caught. No one has seen me during the daytime in years. I only go out at night and stay close to the shadows.”

“They brought your autopsy photos with them. Peaches and I told them the body wasn’t yours.”

He raised his hand and slapped her again. “You bitch!” he shouted at her.

Cassie screamed.

Robbie laughed. “Scream all you want, bitch! No one can hear you. No one that is on two legs, but you are attracting the attention of the four-legged variety of male persuasion.”

Cassie turned her head and looked around the area. At first, she didn’t see anything. She almost called him on it when she noticed dark eyes staring back at her. The eyes were set on either side of a long snout, above a mouth full of snarling teeth. She swallowed hard.

“You woke them up.” Robbie laughed. “I’ve been watching them and they aren’t usually up and moving this early.” He turned and watched the wolf. When he turned back to Cassie he said, “I guess we’ll wait for his brothers and sisters to get here.”

“What are you going to do?”

Robbie nodded and stared at her. “I’ve been thinking about that for a while now. I thought about killing you slowly and I’ve thought about the many ways I could kill you. Then...” He turned and stared at the wolf again. “...Then I thought about something else entirely.”

“And what would that be?” Cassie asked.

“When we die, we all become food for the worms and other creatures that live underground. Why should they be the only creatures that eat you? So, I found a place that was perfect for what I had in mind.” He raised his arms and swung around in a circle.

“I brought you here to this spot, so you could become dinner for the wolves.”

“So you’re going to leave me tied to a tree in the belief that the wolves will eat me?” Cassie asked.

“Wolves are drawn to their prey sometimes by the scent of blood and the promise of fresh meat,” he explained.

“Did you know that? Anyway, I plan to leave you for them, heavy with the scent of fresh blood and unable to get away.” He smiled again without humor.

His eyes were cold and soulless as insanity filled his expression.

“They won’t be able to resist tearing you apart.

They will dig their very sharp teeth into your flesh, tearing big strips of it off your bones.

You can scream if you like, but no one will hear you. ”

“You are one sick fuck, you know that?”

“Thank you for the compliment.” He nodded in acknowledgement. “My mother would be so proud to know I have lived up to all of her expectations.”

“Oh, I think you have passed her expectations by a long shot.”

Robbie knelt in the dirt beside her. He reached out and brushed the hair away from her face.

He touched her bruises carefully. “I think you could be right about that. Mom has been avoiding me for some time now. When the police came to arrest her that day, she never even gave me a thought. All she could do was worry about herself. She’s a very selfish woman, you know.

” He sat back again. “I’ll have to track her down and have a word with her before I’m done. ”

“You won’t find her.” Cassie shook her head. “She’s dead, you know.”

Robbie smiled softly. “Really? That’s news to me but I’m not surprised.” He carried on a casual conversation, like only the insane could do. “Who got her? The cops or a disgruntled customer?”

“Leon Vincinti.”

“Ahh...” He nodded. “I supposed this had to do with her role in Peaches’ kidnapping and the murder of his daughter in law.

Mother was very happy to do her part. Of course, your father did most of the work.

Mother was fairly disappointed when poor Peaches couldn’t remember her own name.

Tell me, did she ever remember who she was? ”

“Yeah, she remembered. Both Leon and Calderone got retribution from her. I heard that Janelle died screaming.”

“Mother was always better at dishing out punishment rather than taking it.” He reached for his knife and wiped the blade on his pants. “It’s almost time. When I get done here, I have more work to do.”

“What are you going to do after this?”