By Fate I Conquer Cora Reilly Read Online chapter – 36 “Now to you, Mad.
I was thinking what to do to you, if I should have you watch the whore getting f*cked by each of us before killing you, but I realized keeping you alive at this point is a risk I just can’t take.”
I turned my head to the side until I could see everything. Earl unlocked the cage door and Cody removed the other dog from the cage. Earl unleashed Satan. “I think we both know it has to end like this.” Earl’s smile was cruel. He locked Satan in the cage with Maddox, who slowly turned around so his back was pressed against the bars.
My blood turned cold, realizing what Earl was about to do. But Maddox knew the dogs… Satan wouldn’t attack him… right? “Satan, kill,” Earl shouted. I pushed up despite the pain in my back. Satan hesitated a moment before she charged at Maddox and lunged at him. Maddox brought up his arms to protect his face and throat. Satan barked and bared her teeth but didn’t bite Maddox yet.
“Kill him!” Earl growled. I stumbled to my feet and toward the bars, clutching them. “No, Satan, stop!” “Release!” Maddox screamed. “No!” Satan dropped back on her paws and turned around herself, obviously confused by the myriad of orders. Earl might have been her owner but he’d never treated her how a dog was supposed to be treated. Maybe that would bite him in the ass now.
“Stupid bitch,” Cody hissed. Earl stalked toward another cage with a big male Rottweiler and grabbed him by the neck, dragging him toward Maddox’s cage. “No,” I whispered. Blood rushed in my ears. I was starting to feel nauseous from fear and the inking, but I clung to the bars despite my wobbly legs.
Earl unlocked the door again and thrust the other dog inside. Satan whirled around, baring her teeth. These dogs were trained to fight against each other. “Kill,” Earl ordered, pointing at Maddox, and the male dog didn’t hesitate. He charged at Maddox but Satan obviously wanted to defend her territory and collided with him.
Earl shrugged. “He’s got twenty-five pounds on her. When he’s killed her, he can chew off your face, Mad. Enjoy the show, whore.” Cody and Earl turned around and left. The bigger dog was on top of Satan, but it was difficult to follow their vicious fight as they snarled and bit and struggled. Satan yelped in pain. “Maddox!”
“F*ck,” Maddox muttered. He removed his belt and wrapped it around his hand so the buckle covered his knuckles then he stalked toward the fighting dogs, grabbed the bigger male by the collar and jerked him back.
The animal was heavy so it didn’t fly very far and quickly turned back on Maddox who aimed a punch with the buckle at the dog’s snout.
With a loud whine, the dog jumped away, shaking its head. Maddox towered over it. “Down, now!” The dog laid down, panting heavily, its muzzle covered in blood. Probably Satan’s. She laid on her side, breathing heavily.
I sank down on my knees, feeling shaky. My back throbbed and I was terrified. For myself, for Maddox, even for Satan. It was too much to stomach. Everything caught up with me in that moment and part of me wanted to curl up in the corner. “Snow White?” Maddox murmured, his voice laced with concern. “Marcella?”
I lifted my head too quickly and regretted it almost instantly as a sharp pain shot through my back. My skin felt as if it was too small for my body and might tear at any moment. Ignoring this, I straightened fully again then perched on the edge of the hut. When my vertigo had disappeared, I locked gazes with Maddox.
“Is Satan injured badly?” He shook his head. “Don’t think about it now. We have to get you out of here alive.” His gaze darted to my exposed back. Guilt and fury created a potent combination in his eyes. “What does the tattoo say?” I asked, surprised at how raw and dry my voice sounded.
“Don’t think about it now. There are more important things to worry about.” “Don’t tell me what to worry about, Maddox. I want to know.” I needed to know. Everything was better than this soul-crushing uncertainty. My mind would conjure the worst scenarios.
“Marcella,” he rasped, his eyes urging me to let it drop. “Tell me,” I growled. “I’m not breakable, so don’t treat me like that!” “Vitiello whore.” I nodded, then shoved to my feet and briefly turned my back on Maddox to hide my expression from him. I was so mad at him. This was his fault.
“I’m f*cking sorry. This was never supposed to happen. I swear. If I’d known—” “Then what?” I asked harshly, whirling on him. “You wouldn’t have kidnapped me?” Maddox dropped his forehead against the bars. “Yes. And I would have done everything in my power to stop Earl from letting anyone else kidnap you either.”
I gave him a disbelieving look. “You hate my father more than anything in the world. You said it yourself. You would have done anything to get revenge on him. What do you care about a lost earlobe and an insulting tattoo for the daughter of your worst enemy?”
“Sometimes priorities shift. You don’t have to believe me but it is the goddamn truth.”
I walked closer to him. The wind picked up, touching my aching back. “And what are your priorities now, Maddox?”
Maddox stretched out a tattooed arm, his palm upward, waiting for me to take it.
I didn’t budge.
“I betrayed my brothers for you. Maybe I’ll die for you once your father gets his hands on me.”
“You brought this upon yourself, not me.”
“If someone had killed your father right before your eyes, wouldn’t your brother have wanted revenge?”
“Not just my brother,” I admitted.
Maddox nodded grimly.
I put my hand in his and his fingers closed around mine. “You want to kill my father. As long as that’s the case, we’re lost.”
“I’ve lived for revenge for so long, it’s difficult to let go of something like that. But if there’s anyone I’d do it for, then it’s you, Snow White. I’d do anything for you.”
I wanted to believe him. But after everything that had happened, I wasn’t willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
“Attack!” someone screamed.
Maddox’s hand around mine tightened. “Your father is here to save you and kill me, Snow White.”
“Unless one of your biker brothers kills me first,” I said.
He tugged me toward him, his eyes burning with emotion. “I’m going to make sure you’ll get to your father safely. Now give a dying man his last kiss.”
I allowed him to pull me even closer until my lips touched his through the bars. He deepened the kiss, filling it with longing and desire. I sunk into him even as more screams rang out, as the world around us exploded into war. Shots cut through the yelling. The quick-fire of machine guns. Like a drowning man coming up for air, Maddox ripped away from me and released me. “Press against the wall until I tell you to move or you see your father. Now!”
I did what he asked and stumbled toward the back of the kennel.
Maddox and I looked at each other again, and this felt like a goodbye. One of us would likely die, maybe even the both of us. My heart clenched thinking this was the end for us, for a love that was never meant to be, a love without a chance at a happy end.
I needed to make sure Marcella got out of this alive. I’d die either way, either by the hands of my club brothers or by her father. There was a strange sense of relief in the knowledge of certain death.
I scanned our surroundings, hoping for Gray to dash past. He was our only hope. None of the other men, not even Gunnar would help me escape. I wasn’t even sure if Gray would do it. The rift between us had grown in the past weeks. Gunfire sounded down at the fence. Our gun power would keep Vitiello and his army back for a while. I wouldn’t wait here like a mouse in the trap.
I tried not to glance at Marcella who was pressed to the wall of her kennel. I wanted her out of harm’s way. The chances of being hit by a stray bullet were just way too high. Not to mention that Earl might still kill her to punish Vitiello.
I cast a cautious glance at the dog. It hadn’t moved from its place, but it was watching me. I hoped it had forgotten Earl’s orders. Being torn apart by teeth wasn’t my wish for death. Not that death at Luca’s hands would be much better. Satan was still breathing but blood had gathered under her hind leg. I doubted she’d make it.
And then I spotted a flash of bright blond hair and the matching cut. “Gray!” I shouted.
His eyes darted to me, wide with disorientation and anxiety. He bowed down to escape the bullets.
“Gray! Come here!”
He glanced my way once more, conflict reflecting on his face. When Earl had been off with his club brothers, getting drunk or pussy, and Mom had been down with a bout of depression, I had taken care of him, had held him at night when he’d been scared of the monsters of the dark.
Then he dashed toward me, his head low. I wasn’t sure if Luca and his men had breached the fence yet, but I suspected they had. A wire-mesh fence wouldn’t hold them back for long but getting past our armed guards would take longer.
When Gray finally arrived in front of my cage, I breathed a sigh of relief.
“What happened to the dogs?”
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