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“Women should stand in solidarity instead of trying to beat them down,” she complains as she uses her knife. Whimpers are all that Vivian can give as Cassidy steadfastly works.

“You’re doing all womankind a favor,” Abbott says, nodding wide-eyed. I think Cassidy is fun, but apparently she’s scaring her alpha a little.

Oh well, we have that in common too. I scare everyone.

Vivian’s tits drop with a plop into the puddles by her feet, and she looks like she may have passed out. Oh, that’s not going to work for me.

There’s a place right behind her right ear where she’s very sensitive. I used to kiss her there while we were married, but now I reach over and pinch the skin hard. Her squeal of pain makes me shrug as I give the floor backto Cassidy.

“You’re just doing the Lord’s work today, aren’t you?” she mutters.

“Something like that,” I agree. “Want to stuff her asshole with fireworks and light them with me?”

“That counts as flirting for Cassidy,” Abbott grumbles as I snort.

“I think she knows I’m not flirting,” I grunt.

“I do,” she says. “I will take that as officially being best friends now, though.”

Shrugging because why not, I rip down Vivian’s panties and get to work. Together, Cassidy and I stuff my ex-wife’s asshole full of fireworks while the other packs grin evilly. If she doesn’t completely combust from this, I’ll happily set her on fire as well. Fuck it, I may do it for the sheer pleasure of knowing she’s ash before we destroy the rest of this house.

Just call us controlled chaos. Ignoring the way Vivian tries to get away from us, Cassidy just uses the blood from cutting out her tongue to lube up the fireworks. I guess that’ll work.

Stepping back once there’s four inserted in her asshole, we step back to enjoy our handiwork.

“This is the best execution I’ve ever been to,” Easton says with a smirk.

“Easton,” Lyle groans. “We need to have a discussion later about giving your lawyer plausible deniability.”

“It’s harder for you to defend me if you don’t know all the shit I get up to,” he retorts. “Here’s a lighter, Cooper.”

Easton hands me the lighter, and I raise my brow at Cassidy. She shrugs and shakes her head, stepping away to strip her gloves off. I suppose that’s pretty handy. The fact that these alphas have no problem doing this says something about the packs in Savannah.

I’m going to enjoy living here again. It’ll be very different from the first time. Flicking the lighter, I smirk as I light the fireworks. As we all give Vivian’s body a wide berth, I watch as shehangs from the chains, exhausted and mute. Her eyes tell me she knows this is the end, and she just gives in.

Everyone cheers as the fireworks explode, blowing apart the lower part of her body. It kills her as it destroys her back, intestines, and lower body, and she barely manages to stay in one mangled piece.

“Let’s light her up, friends,” Abbott says, dragging an old couch over to use as kindling.

“It’s best to call the fire department once the fire spreads to the top floor so it doesn’t spread to the other houses,” Grant says. He’s a policeman funny enough, which means he’d know best about this shit.

I’m proud of myself. I’ve learned new people’s names today. Bonding at its finest.

Leaving them to it, I wash my arms and hands thoroughly before drying off and going upstairs to collect my pack.

“It’s over?” Ethan asks, looking up from where he was starting to doze off. We jumped into the car right after Nina left and flew on a commercial flight back to Savannah.

We are all due for good sleep since we were all too worried to sleep on the plane ride.

“Yes,” I say, moving toward the stairs. “They’re lighting the fire now, which means it’s time to go.”

Ethan and Riley jump up to follow me, and the three of us jog upstairs to Nina’s room. Stepping inside, I find the doors have all been removed just like Nina told me, and I feel myself get angry again.

Her window is open as well, but she’s nowhere to be seen. Where the fuck could she have gone?

“Carter? Nina?” Riley calls out. It’s true that cooler heads prevail, but it’s been much too long since I’ve seen her.

“Outside,” Carter calls out, and I immediately walk to the small balcony where Nina’s asleep against him.