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“Well… I’m in support of this. If you can’t handle your own, you have no business going head-on with those fuckers,” Volis says.

“How is Sylvie?” Striker asks.

“She’s good. She dropped her ice cream today and said fuck, but good,” he laughs

“Y’all are corrupting my child,” Striker sighs.

“Oh… Everyone knows I am a succubus,” I say. “Zypher is telling everyone that I’m a demon that can drain someone’s life.”

“I mean… It’s not entirely untrue,” Volis says. “You can definitely fuck someone to death.”

“Interesting,” I laugh. “But I was honest with everyone, and they were receptive to it.”

“That’s good,” he says. “I think you’ll be a great leader.”

“I hope so,” I say. “I feel like I was just locked in Zypher’s home getting assaulted by everything with a heartbeat.”

“That’s a morbid way of saying that,” Volis laughs.

“Fair, but true. Anyone who came into that house…” I say.

“Came in you too?” Leli says nonchalantly.

“Yeah,” I laugh.

“What?” Vash asks with a frown. “Weren’t you with him?”

“For a day, yeah,” Leli says.

“You have never said what happened,” I say. “Although I have a good idea.”

“Well… Right after you left, he fucked me for, like, six hours, I think. It was messy and… well… sticky,” she says, and Vash growls. She ignores him and continues to talk but looks at just me. I know she wants to get it off her chest, but I’m the only one who can relate. “After that, he called some guy and said he had a new maiden. The guy asked… And I quote… ‘If the pussy was as good as the other fox whore.’ Zypher said no, but I could take just as much. He told the guy what he did and said that it was time to break me in. I had no idea what that meant because it was my understanding that Zypher wasn’t allowed to let anyone else touch me. When everyone showed up…”

“What?” Vash says with a snarl.

“Vash,” I say softly. He nods and just holds her while she fights back tears. I glance at Dad, and his eyes are bright red. He’s given up on trying to hide his anger.

“Zypher told me to get naked. I made the mistake of telling him no because no one was allowed to touch me… so, he uhm… He ripped them off of me, and… Fuck, I hate this,” she says as she closes her eyes for a moment, as tears threaten to fall.

“You don’t have to say it, Leli,” I say. “Only say what you’re comfortable with us knowing.”

“No, I need to,” she says, opening her eyes. “He and some guy tied me to a table so that I was like… bent over it… Then one by one, they all raped me. Thirty-seven. He had thirty-seven of them take their turn with me. When they were done, they did it again. And again. And again. For a while, I tried to fight. I screamed at Zypher and begged him to make them stop. It didn’t hurt, luckily, but he just… he just laughed.” She shakes her head in disbelief as she continues. “Every time someone would finish, he would make some disgusting comment about how I took their come just like you did. He said I sounded just like you when I screamed at him. He never said your name, but some part of me knew it was you. I didn’t know you were my sister yet. Not until the next day but I realized how wrong I was about what the maidens went through. Especially when he would force himself down my throat and violently get himself off using my mouth as if I were just an object. He did that at least ten times over the evening. If he didn’t force me to swallow, he’d just get it all over me. And I do meanallover me. All of them did that. If it wasn’t in me, it was on me. It just went on forever. I knew shifters could go multiple times and for ridiculously long periods, but it was an awful way to get first-hand experience. Even once they left, though, Zypher just kept going. He didn’t sleep, nor did I. He just wouldn’t stop. When he finally did, he made me clean everything up. I took a shower, and when I went back to the room to get dressed, he came into the room. He caught me off guard, and when he pinned me down on my stomach… it actually hurt me that time. It’s like my screaming in pain fueled him more. He didn’t take nearly as long because I guess he liked that I was screaming. I cleaned up and got dressed, and that was when you showed up with the guys,” she says.

When she gets done explaining, everyone is in tears but me. It’s something that I am all too familiar with. Everything she said he did, I experienced and was brainwashed into seeing as normal. “I’m sorry he did that to you,” I say. “As morbid and twisted as this is… I am honestly not surprised.”

“Oh, I know,” she says, sniffing back tears. “It’s fucked up, but when I found out that you were who I was looking for, I was legitimately happy. After having gone through that, I was so fucking relieved to know that I would have someone to talk to about it, and that they would actually understand just how fucking awful that house was. I would take getting raped by Morwen ten times over than to ever be alone with Zypher again. He is sadistic and cruel.”

“Yeah, I agree,” I say. “Morwen is nothing compared to Zypher. I think it hurt me emotionally more with Morwen because…” I stop when I realize I’ve never actually said it out loud.

“What?” she asks.

“I’ve never said it before,” I say.

“Do you want to say it?” she asks.

“I feel like I should, but it will make me feel fucking stupid,” I frown.

“I doubt that,” she says. “Just say it to me, not them.”