The Rise (The Kings and Gods #3)

Chapter 19

Hunter

The days have passed slower than usual, and I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I’m so amped up I can barely stand still. I’ve taken my aggression out on Lana, just like I’m doing now. I have her chained to my favorite spot on the wall, this time facing away from me.

I raise the whip and then snap it across her ass, listening to her scream from every hit. My mind is a mess, and I can feel myself slowly slipping away. There’s no bringing me back, either. It’s the mess that is my mind taking me to a dark place.

I raise the whip and do it again and again before changing it up to the paddle. The little round globes of her ass glow red, and that’s all I can see. Red. I can see Hoax out of the corner of my eye, pretending to be on his phone, but I know he’s watching me.

I drop the paddle and unhook her arms and legs, letting her stand on the floor before she turns to look at me with tears running down her cheeks. I cock my head to the side and study her face. She’s so goddamn beautiful when she’s crying for me.

“I’m only going to say this once, so make sure you listen to me.” Lana watches me closely as my hands begin to tremble. Hoax knows it’s coming, but she doesn’t. And I almost feel bad for her about that.

“Hunter, you’re shaking,” she says looking at my body as it all begins to tremble.

“Run, little rebel. You need to run and hide because if I find you, I’m going to hurt you,” I tell her truthfully. I’m crumbling. I’m falling apart, and there’s no stopping it. There’s no stopping me. Just like Hoax said, we all break at some point, and this is mine.

“You won’t hurt me,” she denies, pressing her hands to my chest. Fuck, it feels like fire burning straight through me. Hoax gets up and leaves the room.

“I will, Lana. I will fucking hurt you so badly you’ll hate me. Now go! Fucking hide!” I roar, this time startling her. She pushes away from me, seeing the look in my eyes. Her lips part before she turns and takes off running. I walk toward the wall, pressing my hands against it, trying to calm my rapid breathing. This is too much. It’s been too long since I’ve reached this point. My whole body trembles as I crack my neck from side to side. Then I turn, ready to hunt her down.

Lana hasn’t been here long enough to know all the places to hide. She hasn’t explored the rooms or know which are the fake ducts she could get into.

Now I’m the fucking hunter, and she’s my prey. I almost feel bad for what’s about to happen to her. My mindset is skewed. After what I found out today, I can’t make it stop. I can’t think straight. I can’t look at her and not be pissed and want to hurt her.

“I’m going to find you, Lana!” I yell as I stalk down the hallway naked. My cock is hard as hell, and it’s going to be her pussy I wreck when I get my hands on her. I check all the obvious spots first before going into my room. This is the only room she has access to. I didn’t give her the codes to the other doors.

I walk into the bathroom, but she isn’t in there, and that only leaves one other place. Walking back out of the bathroom, I slam the door closed and pull open the closet door behind it. She’s in there, just like I knew she’d be.

“Such a bad hider, little rebel. It almost makes me sad.” Her eyes are wild as she looks up at me, but that doesn’t stop me from grabbing her around the neck and pulling her toward me. Her body slams into mine, knocking the air from her lungs. My fingers tighten around her throat as I lower my head and rest my forehead against hers.

“Don’t hate me later, little rebel.” She’s about to open her mouth when I reach up and cover it with my hand. I spin her around and slam her chest down onto the bed, grabbing the gag from the bedside table. I stuff the gag in her mouth and secure it around her head so she can’t make a sound.

Then without warning or even seeing if she’s ready, I spread her pussy wide open for me and slam into her. She screams around the gag as I take her harder and faster. What she didn’t realize was I changed out my piercings to those which have spikes on them. They aren’t spikes that would hurt her, but enough to cause some discomfort.

I reach forward and press down on the back of her head, keeping her face smashed to the bed as I fuck her harder and rougher. Then I pull out of her and find her ass. She screams again, feeling me press against it, but she can’t do shit when I plunge into her. I raise my hand and slap her ass so hard that almost immediately, my red handprint appears.

“You’re going to hurt her,” I hear Hoax behind me.

“She can take it,” I growl as I pull out and wipe my cock on the sheet before thrusting back into her pussy.

“Not like that, Hunter. And you know it,” he warns as I keep going. I pull out of her and pull her off the bed before I sit on the edge and position her on my cock. Then I shove her down my length as she tries to scream again. I don’t need her to ride me. I’ll make her fucking do it. I grab her ribs in my hands roughly and force her up and down on my cock.

“Hunter,” Hoax warns me, but I ignore his ass. I’m lost in my head, and that’s not a good place to be. I reach up and wrap my hand around her throat and squeeze until she can’t breathe. I feel her body tense as I thrust up into her. Her hands are clawing at mine, but I don’t let go. When I do, I lift her off me and slam her onto the bed before I climb between her thighs. Spit runs down her chin, mixing with the tears that have fallen, but I can’t stop myself.

I get in between her thighs and thrust into her once more. This time, I reach up with both hands and wrap them around her neck.

“That’s enough, Hunter!” I hear Hoax yell for me, but I don’t listen. I keep going, shoving my cock as far into her waiting pussy as I can get. Her eyes are bulging and starting to roll back in her head when I feel it. I didn’t see him coming. I didn’t see them come in, either. My hands slowly open, releasing my hold, and I’m ripped away from her.

I see Silas move toward her, taking the gag out of her mouth and helping her sit up, and I want to scream at him. I want to beat his ass for even touching her, but I can’t move. Hoax hit me with the good shit. I can sit here and see it all, but I can’t fucking move. That bastard.

And when I look over, I see her crying as she pulls a shirt over her head to hide her body from them.

“He didn’t want to tell you this,” Hoax says as he steps closer to her. In my head I’m yelling at him not to do it, not to tell her. I can’t fucking do that to her. I didn’t want to do that to her and here he is doing it anyway.

“What?” she asks as she swipes at the tears on her cheeks.

“The little girl, the one he told you about? Her body was dumped at the front gates of Chaos yesterday.” Inside, I’m screaming. Inside, I’m falling apart, but outside, there’s nothing.

“They know we’re here?”

“Yeah, they know where we are. They left her as a warning,” he tells her. I see her lips part before she looks at me. I wish I could say something, but I can’t.

“What did you give him?” she asks Hoax.

“Something to calm him down.”

“He isn’t speaking. Why?”

“It’s what the drugs do,” Hoax tells her. “He can hear everything, though. He’s in there just not able to respond.” I watch her stand and walk toward me before slapping me across the face. I want to smile at how bold she’s being, but I also want to strangle her.

“You forced me to speak. You forced me to say things I didn’t want to say, and then you hid things from me? How fucking dare you, Hunter?” she screams at me. “You think you just get to use me however you want just because you’re having a bad fucking day?” she screams before looking at Hoax and Rylan.

“Put him on the bed,” she orders, nodding toward it. The guys lift me and lay me on the bed on my back before she speaks again. “How long does this shit last?”

“He’ll eventually fall asleep, but it’ll wear off by the morning.”

“Is he okay like this?” she asks. Fuck, she’s worried about me.

“He’s fine. Like I said, he’ll fall asleep.” She nods her head and then sends them all out of the room. She locks the door behind them, walks over to the bed, and climbs on next to me.

“You thought you were in charge tonight, didn’t you?” she taunts as she smiles at me, knowing I can’t move or say shit. “Oh, how wrong you were.” Then I feel her hand on my cock. That fucker is still hard as she strokes it a few times. My breathing picks up, my chest rises and falls rapidly.

“You wanted to hurt me tonight, didn’t you?” she asks before climbing up and straddling my hips. Then she lowers herself down my length, and God fucking help me, I want to reach for her.

“Now it’s my turn, Hunter. It’s my fucking turn to hurt you,” she declares as she begins to ride my cock. At first, she’s going so slow I feel like I’m dying. I can’t reach for her, grab her, or move my fucking hips. I’m forced to take it, just like I forced her to take me.

Lana rolls her hips, and fuck does it feel good. When she raises and falls back down my cock, it’s like heaven and hell all in one. She’s fucking me hard, and she knows it. She wants to make me hurt. She wants to make me feel, and that’s exactly what she’s doing. Lana slows down and leans her head down to my chest, where she sinks her teeth into me.

Internally, I’m growling but she wouldn’t know that right now. She’s giving me as good as I gave her. She sits back up and rides me hard again, playing with her nipples while she clenches around me. Her hands land on my chest as she slowly drags her nails over my flesh, causing bumps to form.

“Do you like that, Hunter? You like me marking you the way you do me?” she asks in a sultry tone before she gets back to work. It doesn’t take much longer for me to feel her pussy clench and my cock to swell. She comes, screaming my name as I come inside her. The pain, the pleasure, I never knew it would feel like this.

When Lana is finished, she presses her lips to mine softly. “Next time, just tell me the truth, Hunter. We vowed, right?” she asks. I want to fucking kiss her, hold her right now, but I can’t, and that’s probably for the best.

Lana climbs off me, my limp cock falling to the side as she pulls the blankets up over both of us and snuggles into my side exactly where I want her. Then I hear the words she whispers.

“Sleep, Hunter. You can punish me tomorrow.”