Damaged Queen (Darkness Within Duet Book 2) by Sam Crescent

Author:Sam Crescent [Crescent, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 2019-03-02T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Draven piled the wood high and set fire to the papers he’d placed in between, watching as the chemicals he sprayed all over to help with the flame lit up. Blowing out the match, he tossed it into the fire and stepped back, admiring his handiwork.

The whipping post should have been removed years ago, when he’d taken over. After he killed his father, five years ago, he’d taken control of all elements of the business. The whipping post simply didn’t register to him as a problem. He had more important things to deal with. He’d never gotten around to it. Each time he saw it, he thought about taking it down, and something would drag his attention away until it didn’t get done.

He spent a great deal of time wanting to get things done and never actually achieving it.

“This is a little too late,” Axel said.

Draven looked to his only surviving friend. Axel looked tired and worn out.

“Harper did this.”

“Are you going to punish her for it?”

“No, she saved me a job.”

Axel laughed. “That’s like Harper. Saving jobs for people. I take it she’s not a fan of the whipping post.”

“I doubt any woman is a fan of this post.” He stared at the flames watching them burn. Harper was proving to be a problem to him. She had spirit, no doubt about that.

“Did you conclude your business?” Axel asked.

“Yes. One of the girls in Tillie’s club was finally purchased. Her new Master is taking her for a brand-new life.”

“Is she going to end at the bottom of the river for it?”

Draven shook his head. “No. He wants to make a life with her and in turn, get her out of her servitude.”

Axel started chuckling, and it quickly turned into a full-on laugh. He listened to his best friend as he got more and more hysterical.

“I didn’t consider this much of a laughing matter.”

“You’re kidding, right? I don’t know if it’s Harper being here or if I’m finally waking up to what it is we’re fucking doing.”

“I’ve told you not to go there.”

“Go where? Go to the reality that we’re holding men and women’s lives in the palm of our hand. What if that chick didn’t want to go with her master? What if she wanted to stay in Tillie’s brothel, or better yet, what if she wanted to do neither and just go fucking home?”

“We don’t have the luxury of walking away or creating that kind of life.”

“Why not? I for one didn’t sign up for stealing girls and having them earn us money.” Axel stepped right up to him. “We were going to be better than this. You remember that, Draven? Remember when we promised each other a better life?”

“Times change. People change, and we can’t keep looking at the past, for fuck’s sake.”

“We’re too busy repeating our fathers’ mistakes, and one day we’re going to look in the mirror and be exactly like them.”

“We inherited their legacy, and we can’t turn our backs on it, not yet.

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