Ruthless Angel (Gods of Ravencrest University #5)

CHAPTER FIVE

CLOVER

Back at the house Daire ditched his frozen coffee and switched to day drinking. He popped open a bottle of rum and poured a glass full. No mix. He drank down the entire glass in a few swallows while staring out the window into the backyard.

I didn’t think he was seeing the yard. He seemed to be lost in thought. That forty-eight hour notice had rattled all of us.

Cash had produced a bag of white powder and a bottle of pills. After popping a pill, he snorted a white line up his nose. Neither of them were handling this well.

I sat on the couch smoking a joint. I wasn’t into the hard drugs. After my cousin almost died of an overdose when we were teens, I’d sworn to stay away from the stuff.

Watching them get drunk and high made me feel suddenly alone. The two of them were spiraling, sinking into despair and trying to numb out. We couldn’t run from this.

“Maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to imbibe.” I motioned to the two of them. “We need to make a plan. We need to talk about this.”

Daire scoffed. “What’s there to talk about? How screwed we are? How Blaze is a dead man if we can’t find his location in less than two days?”

He chugged back another glass of rum and reached for the bottle. At this rate, Daire was going to die of alcohol poisoning before our time to find Blaze was up.

Cash snorted another line and leaned back against the couch. His head fell back against the cushions as his eyes closed. “We don’t have a lot of options, Sunshine. We’re pretty fucked here.”

I took a long toke off the joint, tapping my fingernails on the arm of the chair. One idea had occurred to me. I didn’t think they’d like it though.

“Use me as bait,” I said, getting it out there before I could change my mind.

Daire whirled to face me. He let out a drunk, bitter laugh. “Are you serious right now? I don’t think you know what you’re saying.”

“Sure I do. They want me for Blaze, right? So tell them you want to meet to make the trade. Then beat their asses and take Blaze. The Gods will help. If Brady and his people are outnumbered, there’s no way it won’t work.” I didn’t know how to convince two guys intent on drinking and drugging themselves into a blackout, but I was willing to try.

“You’ve watched too many movies,” Cash said, his eyes still closed. “That kind of thing never goes down the way you expect it to in real life. Someone will get killed.”

“Probably Blaze,” Daire added. “They’ll be ready for a move like that. They’ll put a bullet in his head and take you anyway if they get the chance. It’s too risky.”

I stubbed out the joint in the ashtray on the side table next to the easy chair. They had a point. Still, I thought it would work if we had the Gods on our side.

“No matter what we do, it’s going to be risky, right?” I shot Daire a pointed look, ignoring his glare. “We’ll have more people. They’ll be surrounded. Killing Blaze would be a death sentence for them.”

Daire shook his head, refusing to entertain my idea. “No. There’s too many chances for something to go wrong. We can’t risk you. Blaze wouldn’t want that.”

“What about you?” I countered, getting annoyed now. “What do you want, Daire? Why not just hand me over for him? It’s not like you give a shit about me. I’m only a toy to you. I’m sure you’ll find a replacement for me in no time.”

Maybe I shouldn’t have been so snarky. We were all on edge. In that moment, watching them lose themselves in booze and narcotics, I was pissed off. They needed to get their shit together. For Blaze.

Daire slammed the rum bottle onto the kitchen counter and stalked toward me. “You’re right, Clover. I don’t have any fucks to give. You’re nothing but a sex doll to use for our own pleasure. Thanks for the reminder.”

As he crossed the distance between us, he unbuckled his belt. I sat up straighter in my seat, bracing myself. I hadn’t meant to antagonize him. No, maybe I had. I needed to get some kind of reaction out of him. We were getting nowhere.

Pulling his belt free, Daire smacked it against his hand. The sound made me jump. I wasn’t ready for it when he looped the belt around my neck and used it to drag me off the chair.

He jerked me down to my knees. Green eyes gleaming with malice, he hissed, “Crawl over to Cash and suck his cock.”

Cash’s head snapped up, his eyes opening in surprise. He watched intently as I was faced with the choice to obey or refuse. Something in Daire’s eyes told me that refusing would be a big mistake.

Firing a hateful glare up at Daire, I began to crawl across the living room to where Cash sat on the couch. Cash watched me with intrigue. He wouldn’t say it but he loved it.

Daire walked beside me, still holding tight to the belt around my neck, using it like a leash. Kneeling in front of Cash, I forced myself to undo his belt and pants. Anger throbbed inside me. We had a serious problem to solve and Daire was taking out his frustrations on me. I wasn’t surprised, just infuriated.

Taking Cash’s hard cock out, I didn’t make eye contact with either of them before sucking it into my mouth. A bead of precum decorated my tongue. I sucked him deep into my mouth, running my tongue along his shaft. He let out a soft groan and reached to fist a handful of my hair.

“That’s right, Clover,” Daire murmured, watching me deepthroat his friend. “You’re such a good little fuck doll.”

I knew he was trying to antagonize me right back. It worked. Daire knew he had me right where he wanted me. There wasn’t a damn thing I could do but be the toy they’d made me agree to be. Every time these dicks showed me a glimpse of a softer side, they steamrolled right over it, quick to remind me that they were stone-cold assholes.

As if trying to bring some softness to the moment to counter Daire’s hard edge, Cash gently touched my cheek. He caressed my face, watching me intently as I bobbed up and down on his shaft.

“You’re so fucking good at that,” he murmured. “I want to see my cum on your tongue before you swallow every drop.”

It took great effort not to roll my eyes. I was angry now. Anything they said or did would only anger me further because it was bullshit. Cash hadn’t done anything to deserve my ire this time. However, he also hadn’t stopped Daire from carrying out this ridiculous show of domination. They were both jerks.

Cash’s breaths came faster, a moan dropping from his lips. He stared me right in the eye when he came in my mouth. As he’d requested, I opened wide to show him the creamy cum before swallowing. He patted my cheek in appreciation.

I jerked back, an annoyed glare stealing over my face. Daire yanked on the belt around my neck, pulling me toward him.

“My turn.” He nodded to the hard outline of his erection in his jeans.

We stared at one another for a long, strained moment. Stifling a sigh, I reached for his jeans, taking out his cock. The silver piercing in the head gave me a focal point, allowing me to break eye contact. The weight of Daire’s gaze fell upon me. I hated it.

I tried to start off slow with teasing licks and sucks. That wasn’t what Daire wanted. He grabbed my hair and shoved my head down on his cock while aggressively thrusting into my mouth.

My shocked gag didn’t deter him. It only encouraged his brutality. Holding tight to my head with both hands, he fucked my mouth with a fierceness that made my jaw ache and my pussy tingle.

I felt disgusted with myself for enjoying it in any way. Daire was sick. An asshole that took whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. I could never have feelings for someone like him.

While his piercing hit the back of my throat over and over, that’s what I kept telling myself. I hated Daire. I shouldn’t even care about Blaze. And Cash was happy to play along with anything the other two came up with. Scum. All of them.

“Jesus, your mouth feels like heaven,” Daire groaned.

He didn’t give me a chance to breathe properly or wipe the drool from the corner of my mouth. He kept thrusting until I was sure I would black out. Just when I thought I may actually do that due to the lack of proper oxygen, he shoved deep in my throat and released a hot spurt of cum.

For a moment, I struggled to swallow without choking. I thought I might cough it up all over him. Thankfully, that didn’t happen.

My face felt red and hot. As soon as he released my head, I shoved to my feet and darted from the room. Taking the stairs two at a time, I ran up to Blaze’s room and slammed the bedroom door shut, turning the lock.

I didn’t know where else to go. I just needed to get away from them. To be alone with my thoughts.

“Where the fuck do you think you’re going?” Daire’s voice grew closer as he raced up the stairs after me.

He tried the door, finding it locked. That didn’t stop him. He kicked the door open with a bang that made me shriek.

“Leave me alone,” I shouted, searching for anything to use as a weapon. “I don’t want to see your face right now, Daire.”

My gaze landed on Blaze’s guitar. Snatching it up, I swung it like a baseball bat. Unfortunately, Daire caught it, tearing it from my grasp.

That didn’t stop me from trying again. I threw anything I could at him. A decorative box filled with loose change and spare keys. A text book from one of Blaze’s classes last semester. Even a half full water bottle. Daire blocked everything except the book which smacked him in the chest before hitting the floor.

Surging forward, Daire grabbed me by both arms. He pulled me against him, trapping me against his chest. “Would you calm the fuck down? What is your problem?”

“You are my problem,” I spat, fighting uselessly to get away. “You’re a controlling asshole who can’t handle a woman with her own thoughts and opinions. I’m not a doll, Daire. I’m not your puppet to control.”

The son of a bitch laughed right in my face. “Are you finished yet?”

“Not even close. I’m sick of having to choose every word carefully so I don’t set you off. I’m done with that shit. Is it really so impossible for you to act like a human being instead of a damn monster all the time?”

Holding tight to my arms, Daire backed me up toward the bed. The smirk he wore never left his face. He shoved me down onto the mattress, pinning my wrists in front of me with one hand while using his other hand to pull my sweatpants down. He flung them onto the floor, my underwear quickly following.

Shoving my legs apart, he buried his face between my thighs, licking my pussy with a shocking hostility. The sudden heat of his mouth against me stole my breath. He tongued my clit with a forceful precision that had me squirming on the bed beneath him.

“Your pussy is pretty damn wet for someone who thinks I’m such a monster.” Daire paused to glance up at me. “Stop pretending you’re such a good girl, Clover. We both know that’s bullshit. You fucking love being our doll.”

“Fuck you.” My words ended on a moan as he sucked my clit into his mouth.

There was no winning this with words. All I could do was take his insistent tongue lashing.

When Daire slid two fingers inside me and curled them just right, my eyes rolled back in my head, and I almost passed out from the sheer pleasure. He went rabid on my clit, licking, biting, and sucking it. My moans grew louder, my hips bucking as I writhed.

“That’s right, Angel. Come all over my tongue.” His demand got inside my head, making me want to obey.

I came with a cry that had Daire chuckling in satisfaction against me. Every orgasmic wave shook me. When they’d subsided, I lay there spent and blissed out. Daire may have been a taker but he sure knew how to give too.

He propped his chin on his hand, peering up at me from between my legs. “Still think I’m a monster?”

My chest heaved as I tried to catch my breath. I met his searching stare, falling into his enchanting green eyes. “Without a doubt.”