Page 59 of My Alpha Stepbrother's Dirty Secret 2

And then I saw it.

My whole body froze.

There were marks on her back.Whip marks.Still fresh but already beginning to heal.

"What the hell...?"I breathed, walking toward her slowly.I couldn't stop staring."Liana...what's this?"

She turned her head to look down at her skin, as if just noticing them."They were worse before," she murmured."I don't know how, but...they're healing on their own..."

I clenched my fists so tight my nails dug into my palms."Who did this to you?"

She hesitated.

"Liana," I said again, my voice cold.

She finally looked up, and her lips trembled as she said the name I'd been dreading."Cynthia."

I snapped.

My fist slammed into the tiled wall, cracking it from the impact.My chest was heaving.I could feel the beast in me rising, violent, wild, furious.

"She whipped you?"I asked through gritted teeth.

She nodded slowly, wrapping her arms around her chest."Please...don't do anything rash."

I looked at her, really looked at her, this woman I loved more than anything, standing there with bruises and whip marks on her skin, still trying to protect me from doing something crazy.

But it was already too late for that.

"I'm sorry, baby," I said quietly."Take your bath.I'll send my mom in to help you."

She grabbed my wrist gently."Killian, where are you going?"

"I'll be back.Just stay here.Don't leave this house.Don't even step outside, you hear me?"

"Please don't do anything reckless," she begged, but I was already moving.

I picked up my jacket, my keys, my phone, my mind completely focused on one thing.

Cynthia.

She was done.This time, she wouldn't walk away.This time, I was going to find her.And when I did, she was going to regret ever laying a hand on Liana.

I slammed the door so hard the entire hallway shook.My mom and Liana's dad were standing outside the room with Ryan.All three of them looked startled.

"Killian?"my mom called."What's going on?What happened to Liana?"

But I didn't answer.I couldn't.My blood was boiling.All I could think about was Cynthia's face and all the pain she had caused.

She was going to pay.She was going to beg for death.

CHAPTER 81

Killian's POV

It didn't take long for me to get to the warehouse.My chest was tight the whole drive.I didn't even realize how hard I was gripping the steering wheel until I pulled up and saw my knuckles had gone pale.The second I stepped inside, the place reeked of blood, sweat, and tears, but I didn't care.My eyes immediately found Logan and Steve, standing over the three bastards who had dared to lay their hands on Liana.

Their wrists were tied together, hung high above their heads, stretched out by thick ropes fastened to an iron ring bolted deep into a concrete pillar.Their clothes were torn, blood already soaking parts of their shirts from the beating they had taken.Logan had a leather whip in one hand, while Steve used a rusted metal rod he'd picked from the floor.