Their Hallowed Queen: Part Two by Carly Claire

Author:Carly Claire [Claire, Carly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

14

Present Day

I almost expect Tripp to close his arms around me, to protect me, to choose me. But he doesn’t fight Rev as he spins me to face his friend. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that he supports Rev—the one who has been by his side for the last three years. I forgot them. But they didn’t forget me. They took every ounce of sorrow, regret, and malice that I ever caused them and tripled it before giving it back to me.

I’m dizzy being spun around between them, taking shallow breaths, trying to reconcile the fact that my entire life has been a lie.

Rev’s eyes aren’t full of malice as he takes me in, swathed in the blanket they gave me. He presses forward, his touch gentle as his hands slip under the cover, skating along my thighs and coming to a rest on my hips. There’s nothing overtly sexual in the touch, but it laces my skin with goosebumps that erupt into icy hot chills when he speaks. I’m not sure what he says, or if the words are for me or them. His touch is almost painful at first.

But as that sensation fades and the warmth seeps into my skin, a thick and syrupy sort of feeling spreads through my limbs, down to my fingers and my toes. I don’t know what his touch was laced with, but I expect the world to pull away from me and the edges of my vision to go dark.

They don’t.

When he lets go of me, I see the smile on his soft lips and the pride in his eyes. It’s too gentle compared to everything else. “Better?”

I don’t answer. They don’t seem to expect me to. Rev presses a kiss to my forehead, and I only want to cry harder. But the pain is gone—the physical kind, anyway. My bleeding knee, the cold that settled into my bones, my aching ribs and searing lungs, the agonizing tightness in my spine from trembling so hard for so long…

It all stops at once, leaving me confused, warm, dry… but still hollow.

“You let them touch her.” Tripp accuses, turning on Colton with a ferocity I’ve never seen from him. “You let Mark kiss her, let him inside of her.” His voice is full of rage I’ve never heard from him before.

“You knew we were using her as bait,” Colton says coolly. I can feel his eyes on me, but I keep mine focused on the ground, afraid that if I look at any of them, I’ll break down again. I’m at their mercy now, just waiting for them to finish what they started all those years ago. “You knew that was the only way to put an end to this.”

“I knew,” Tripp says. “And I told you we’d find another way. But you told me that no one would touch her.”

I look up now, slowly, to see Colton’s head in his hands, his fingers curling against his scalp, pulling tufts of his sandy hair between his fingers.

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