Chapter 25 Chapter 25
Gabriel
I’d been away for too long sorting out the never ending drama that seemed to follow my family around and in those few weeks she had forgotten me
Forgotten what I was capable of.
She turned, her eyes scanning the people that dotted the walls until she found me and behind the mask her eyes widened.
I couldn’t help it, I smiled. The scarred side of my face lifting tightly. Maybe she hadn’t forgotten me after all.
She’d felt my presence, and had turned to find me. She might be lifting her face to accept another man’s lips on hers but deep down she was mine and she knew it.
It made me wonder if she had left my brand on her mound uncovered or had she let her hair grow and cover it. Not that it really mattered.
I was back now, and any hair I would easily shave off because she was mine and I wanted everyone to know it.
Again I let my eyes drift over her body, so tight, so tanned, so perfect.
She was a literal angel, so inanely good that I couldn’t wait to sully her with my darkness.
I’d pleasured with my fingers and my mouth, hard and fast so she didn’t have a chance to reject me and tonight would be no different.
Only tonight something would be different because I was tired of playing. Audrey was mine and after tonight I would make sure the whole world knew it. Including my family who seemed hell bent on keeping us apart even though she was the only thing that had kept me alive for the last ten years.
It sure as hell hadn’t been them and their army of shrinks.
But most of all , I would show that man, the one who thought he could kiss and hold what was mine who she really belonged to.
After tonight they would all know.
Leaning against the wall, I watched as she wandered away. Her eyes lingering on him in a clear invitation.
It didn’t take a genius to know what they were planning, and I was betting it was for my benefit.
Audrey was going to fuck him to try and prove to me that she was her own woman.
She was wrong.
He followed after her, two seconds later and that’s when I moved.
Not one person turned to watch me go, why would they? We were just two men in full costume heading towards the bathrooms.
Only neither one of us would get there.
Smiling I closed the gap between us, lashing out before he could even turn towards me and crumbled to his knees. The second blow straight to his windpipe had him falling down in less than a second.
Years of violence had made me good at it. It had made me an efficient killing machine. Only I didn’t want to kill him. Well I did but right now I needed him alive to bare wittiness.
If he didn’t leave her alone after that then I would end him.
I did not share.
In the distance , I heard the sound of voices and quickly caught him under the arm pits and heaved him up.
“Shit brother.” I said loudly as a couple appeared. Stopping dead in the quiet hallway, they stared at us.
“Sorry.” I apologised to them quickly. Keeping my voice quiet and concerned. “He’s had way too much to drink.” I said quickly, half slumped together Johnny groaned. Mumbling something that no one could understand in a slurred voice.
“Yeah, looks like he needs some air.” The man said in front of me and led his date past me, they laughed, I laughed. The only person who didn’t laugh was Johnny.
I moved in the opposite direction, quickly because I didn’t want Audrey to come down here and find me like this. That wouldn’t do at all.
At the bottom of the narrow stone spiralling staircase I paused, he was a big guy and heavy but Audrey was up there.
Was she waiting for him or for me?
Me.
A smile curved my lips under the mask. Her “date” had been heading towards the bathrooms. Which meant she had come up here to be alone with me.
Probably in some lame attempt to tell me to leave her alone before going to him.
Of course I could be wrong. I didn’t think I was but I could be.
Heaving him up over my shoulders like a dead weight I took the stairs two at a time. My lungs burning with the effort.
Not that I minded the exercise.
At the top, just outside the half cracked wooden door. I dropped Johnny nice guy on to his ass. Using the rope I had in my pockets to tie his arms behind his back and his ankles together.
I had bought it just in case Audrey wanted to put up a fight but in a way this was better.
If she needed to be restrained then I would just have to use my imagination.
A scrap of my cloak, would do to gag him.
Stepping back I surveyed my handiwork just as his eyes blinked open and found me in the shadows watching him.
He struggled for a second, his feet kicking at the stone.
“Don’t.” I pressed my boot into his windpipe. Pressing him down onto the floor. “Make a sound.”
His eyes widened, fear making them too bright.
“That’s better , fear might keep you alive. Staying away from her will keep you alive longer.” Bending down I drew my face close to his and lifted my mask.
His mouth opened around the gag and let out a silent scream. I grinned, the ruins of my face were hideous. I knew that.
He fell back, panicked, scared of the monster in front of him.
Grinning, I settled the mask back over my face and straightened. Pressing a finger to my lips. “Sssh now. Not a sound.”
Without looking back I stepped into the room. Once upon a time it had been a chapel. And the remnants of the past were still here. Alter, bible, the giant cross behind it. A little glimpse of history right here in front of me.
Quickly I scanned the area. But I didn’t see the furniture. There was only one thing I was looking for.
I found her almost instantly. She was standing with her back to me. Her white wings making her look more like an angel than before.
She was right next to the most dangerous thing in the room.
I grinned behind the mask. Well maybe the most dangerous thing next to me anyway.
Almost like she had heard my silent footsteps she straightened. Her back going rigid.
“You need to stop-“
I cut her off. “It’s an oubliette.”
“What?” Half turning she froze.
“It’s called an Oubliette.” I said again as I closed the distance between us. Nervously she took a step backwards, the backs of her legs hitting the low stone wall that covered the chute that led to the dungeons far below.
“In the old times, people would be thrown down there.” I said softly.
She glanced behind her nervously before bringing her eyes back to me.
“They would fall and fall and fall until they reached the bottom. A cell,” my hand reached for her hip and drew her into my body with a bump.
She let out a little squeak but didn’t push to get away from me.
“Gabriel you need to stop-“
Again I cut her off. Pinching her chin between my thumb and fingers I tilted her chin up and our eyes clashed.
“It’s a cell without doors or windows. No way out. Sometimes the master would throw food down there but mostly those poor unfortunate people would be left down there to die. Slowly and horribly as a punishment for their crimes.” Cocking my head to the side , I skimmed my fingers up her cheek and then back down and was rewarded by a shiver.
Fear and longing. That’s what I could see in my woman’s eyes and it made my cock ache.
“Do you think your punishment should be as severe?” Gently , oh so fucking gently for me I let my fingers curl around her slender throat and pushed her backwards. Again her legs hit the wall and this time she cried out at the old brick bit into her legs.
“Punishment?” Finally she found her voice , even if it was croaky and full of fear. “I’ve done nothing to be punished for, Gabriel. I’m not yours and anyway you left-“
Her eyes widened and her lips moved almost like she realised too late what she had said.
I couldn’t help it, I grinned. “So, all of this was because you missed me? You dated him, kissed him because you were trying to punish me for leaving you for so long?”
She shook her head but her eyes gave her away.
“Did you let him fuck you?” I shouldn’t have asked it. It only made me angry and I didn’t want to be angry with her. Punish her yes but not in a way I would lose control and actually hurt her.
She shook her head again, her eyes desperate as she whipped her head back and forth.
“What was that, Audrey.” I asked in a mock sweet voice. Keeping a tight grip of her face, I reached for her thighs sliding my fingers up her trembling thighs as I pushed her backwards even more.
“You are going to have to use your words.” Inch by inch I tiptoed up her slender thighs, all the while bending her over the opening. “Did you let him fuck you.”
Audrey’s fingers scrabbled against my dark cloak and slipped inside to grip my naked chest. “No.” She raked her nails down my pectorals, ignoring the leather straps that she could have gripped onto instead of my skin.
My woman, my angel, wanted to touch me. Willingly, and with need.
“What?” I had heard her just fine but I wanted her to say it out loud when her hands were on my naked skin for the first time.
“I didn’t fuck him.”
“Good girl.” Sliding my hand around the back of her neck, I bent over her body. Keeping her steady over the opening. “And why is that?”
“I just-“
I dipped her lower and her nails dug into my skin. Desperately trying to find something to grip on in case I let her fall to her death.
I wasn’t going to let her fall. Not ever.
“Who do you belong to.” It was hard to concentrate when she was so willingly touching my body. Still holding the back of her head, I skimmed my other hand up her skirt and across the tiny lace thong that barely covered her mound.
Anger tightened my chest. Had she worn that scrap of material for him? Or for me in the hopes I would show up.
I wanted to believe it was the second.
“I-“
Gripping the lace in my fist, I yanked at the flimsy material. Tearing it from her body and throwing it behind me to flutter to the floor.
“Who. Do. You. Belong . To?” I asked again.
“You.” She whispered.
I beamed behind the mask.
“Who’s brand marks your pussy.” I rubbed my fingers over the raised mark and her trembling increased. “Say it out loud Audrey. I want to hear you say the words.”
“You.” She said again slightly louder this time. “I belong to you, I have your brand on me.”
“Good girl.”
“Gabriel.” She whimpered. And it didn’t take a genius to know why. My fingers were so close to her pussy and her little kitty was purring for me.
“One last thing angel and I’ll give you exactly what you want.”
Slipping one between her thighs , I coated it in the cream that was leaking from her.
“Did you come up here to be with me Audrey? You knew I would follow you. You knew I wouldn’t let you be with another man. So tell me.” I tested her wetness. “Did you come up here so I could take what has always been mine.”
My finger swirled around her opening, testing, teasing, driving her as crazy as she had always driven me and the entire time I leant her over that opened.
One slip up from me and she would fall into hell.
Although one right word now and I’d drag her there with me anyway.
Either way my angel was damned.
“Yes.” Her hips flexed upwards, almost begging me to breach her body.
“You want me to fuck you don’t you, me, no one else.”
“Yes, it’s only ever you Gabriel. I want you to fuck -“
I’d heard enough, I thrust two fingers inside of her as hard and as far as they would go.