Total pages in book: 164
Estimated words: 157308 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 787(@200wpm)___ 629(@250wpm)___ 524(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 157308 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 787(@200wpm)___ 629(@250wpm)___ 524(@300wpm)
“Nothing to— Let her go!” She charged my captors and was caught by Silas and Caleb. They handled her a lot less roughly than they did me, but from her bucking and cursing, their grips were iron. “Get the fuck off me, Madden, or your dad’s company is going to know what it’s like to be fucked up the ass too. Oops—was the Dom that ties him up and fucks him in the House of Pain supposed to be a secret?”
Caleb paled. Seems it was a secret to him.
“Let her go, you rapist cunts!”
“Calm down, Katie,” Levi snapped. “It’s not what you think.”
“No one is going to rape her,” Owen said. “We’re just teaching her a lesson. Payback for what she did to me in the cafeteria.”
“In the cafeteria? Are you insane?” Katie got free and smacked Caleb across the face. He stumbled into my desk, looking dazed from more than the slap. I guess he really did not have a clue about his dad or the House of Pain.
Silas was left to wrangle her arms behind her back. “How is she supposed to have strung you to the ceiling, Owen? That skinny bitch can barely lift a potato chip to her mouth.”
She was trying to help me. In her mean Katie way, she fought to make them question how I could’ve pulled off something so masterful. And she was right. I couldn’t pull that off if I had ten years to plan my revenge. I weaved my vengeance on a keyboard. The Rogues trumpeted his humiliation with a fifty-member orchestra.
“No one else would dare,” Owen replied. “The Dregs—”
Katie scoffed, rolling her eyes like him, we, and all of this was an annoyance out of her day. “You can look further than the Dregs, honey. Girls talk, Owen. By now, every Royal with a vagina knows you’re a sleezy bastard. After Lindsay, you pissed off the last one willing to have anything to do with you. Trust me, there are dozens of people on this campus that ache for you to get yours.” She stuck out her lips, fake pouting. “Or did you think all those women pelting you with paintballs were trying to help you down?”
Owen’s mouth turned down as she landed the first blow in his self-assured armor. Oh no, maybe there were other people who hated his rapey, women-hating ass.
“So let her go,” Katie ordered. “Going after some random Dreg to prove you’re the big Royal on campus is too little, too late. We’ve already seen your little winkie.”
I snorted—a short, muffled sound. But it whirled Owen to me, him flushing a deeper shade of red at me on my knees, exposed... and laughing at him.
“Shut up!” He snatched Katie’s throat, wiping the smirk off her lips. “That’s always been your problem, Langford, you’ve never known when to shut the hell up. You say the girls talk? They talk about you too. So do the guys.
“Literally everyone thinks you’re a bitchy slut who’s so in love with yourself, you’d fall down a manhole while walking down the street, admiring yourself in the shop windows. None of the Royals like you. And here’s a perfect reason why: if Sinclair is just a random Dreg, what are you doing knocking on her door and going against us to protect her?”
Katie kicked him in the shin. He howled, releasing her to grab his leg and then letting go as his grip hurt his welts. Owen fell on his ass, bleeding shouts through his teeth.
“Enough!” Levi twisted my hair, springing tears to my eyes. “I don’t know what you’re doing here, Katie, and I don’t care. She attacked one of us. What comes next has to happen and you know that. She’s a Dreg and we’re Royals. If you’re one of us, you’ll turn around and walk out. If you don’t, we don’t care who your parents are—you can say goodbye to your Royal status, and end up on your knees next to her.
“Please, pick choice number two.” I heard the leer in his voice. “It’s been so long since I’ve seen those yummy tits.”
Just like that, Silas let her go. Katie stumbled over her high heels.
“What’s it going to be, Katie?” Owen pushed himself up, and drew something out of the duffel back. He aimed the paintball gun at her head. “You joining the party?”
Katie looked from him to my bulging eyes. I saw the second she made up her mind.
“No!” I shouted through his hand. “Katie, please. Don’t leave me here with them!”
She backed away, reaching behind her for the doorknob. Katie opened her mouth to say something.
Caleb yanked the knob from her grasp. “Get out!”
Turning tail, she ran.
My cries stopped. I stared in disbelief as the door slammed against the frame. She left me. Katie just... left me.
“All right, boys.” Owen’s grin returned as he dumped out the contents of the duffel bag. “Where were we?”