Page 44 of Restitution

Barry huffs and pulls the chair up before going back to his corner.

Chris moves his head from side to side, cracking his neck, then glares. “Do you really need to keep hitting me? What are you getting out of being violent?”

“Joy,” Tobias replies, crossing his arms. “I like watching you bleed. I’ll enjoy it a whole lot more when I kill you.”

Chris pales and looks over at me desperately. “Are you letting this happen?” His eyes find Kyle. “And you? You’re my fucking brother.”

“I’m out,” is all Kyle says, leaving as Tobias pulls a gun from his waistband and points it at Chris.

He cocks it. “What information did you have on Bernadette Sawyer that she wanted?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Tobias forces the muzzle of the gun into his cheek, pressing hard. “The USB you made Stacey give to her as a trade. What was on it?”

When Chris stays silent, Barry steps forward. “You broke into her system?”

“Maybe.”

“How?” Tobias pushes. “How did you break in?”

“Because, unlike you, you fucking psycho, I have a brain.”

The insult doesn’t faze Tobias. “Are you still in her system?”

“Yes.” He raises a brow. “Why? You want to trade information?” He grins. “I must admit, I wouldn’t mind giving you some codes if it meant seeing Luciella and getting between her legs again.”

My eyes widen.Again?

For the first time in forever, Tobias has no immediate response. His anger slips just enough to reveal his shock. Then: “What did you just say?”

“Your daughter moans like a fucking angel.”

Tobias smacks the side of his head with the gun.

Chris screws his eyes shut, a trickle of blood trailing down hisneck from the gash on his head. “That wasn’t very nice. I was good to her, I promise. Just like I was good to Stacey. You know what my sister feels like, don’t you? Have you been inside her? Warm. Soft. Fuckingused. Luciella was the same.”

Tobias goes to step forward, but Ewan gets there first.

He grabs him by the throat, cutting off his air supply. “Stop fucking talking about my daughter like that, you piece of shit!”

Barry tries to pry him off Chris and fails. They need him alive for a little longer – information about the Sawyers at this point could change everything.

Then we can kill him.

Ewan releases him when his eyes begin to bulge, and he gasps before chuckling at Tobias. “I thought she wasyourdaughter? Man, you are all a bunch of inbred fucks. But you didn’t answer my question, big guy. Are you or are you not fucking Stacey?”

Aria is upstairs cleaning the kitchen, or she’d be as mortified as I am right now.

Tobias glances at me. “This is what you’ve had to deal with all these years? He’s annoying.”

“Yep.”

“I knew it,” Chris says, blood trickling from his mouth, his teeth red. He licks them. “You’ve been fucking my sister.”

Tobias grimaces. “Don’t call her your sister.”

“You didn’t deny it.”