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Chapter 23

Ashmine

I was warm, dried off, and laying across three men’s laps on the small couch in the living room of the cabin.

My three men.

“Do you understand now?” Ace asked as he focused his attention on me, his hands finding their way into my hair.

“We do,” Silas said as his fingers trailed across my naked stomach leaving goosebumps in their wake. He leaned against Hawk. “I’m sorry brother, I didn’t mean to leave you the way I did. I wasn’t thinking. I should have known better.”

The men were all clothed, but I deemed to remain naked. For now, at least. I had another plan in mind for later.

“I know you didn’t, it’s in the past. We can’t leave each other again. We need each other,” Hawk muttered.

“I’m sorry to you too, little girl.” Silas fingers flexed across my stomach, shifting downwards. “But I want the baby you promised me. I will be filling you with my cum until this is swollen with my child.”

I chuckled. “And what if it’s Ace’s or Hawk’s?”

“Then it will still be mine. But why did you even have that IUD? If you have waited for us…” Silas asked.

“Because I knew it would set you off. If you removed it, I knew there was hope.” I hummed softly. Contentedly.

Silas grumbled but didn’t say anything else.

“I missed you all. Every day was an uphill battle to simply make it to the next. I held onto the hope that I would reunite with you two. That you would both make it back to me again.”

“What’s the plan now?” Hawk rested his arms across my legs, his striking blue eyes meeting mine.

“We leave.” It was time for us all to find our way outside of this horrible town and all the memories that came with it.

“How?” Silas’s voice was stern, critical.

“With what money?” Hawk cut in. “I understand now why you didn’t want to use William’s.” His voice broke in the middle.

“Ashmine has been funneling her uncle’s money away,” Ace said on my behalf.

He was correct. I knew that we would need to facilitate our escape. Knew that William’s money would be traceable. Knew that I would need to stash money away that wasn’t as easy to follow.

Plan ahead.

“We have money,” I agreed. “We can leave. Have a fresh start, not let the demons of this town overpower our future.”

“The body,” Silas commented.

“We’ll bury it. Nobody knew about my ties to Kristoff. If he goes missing, they won’t look for me. And if we go missing together? They’ll just blame the university. It has a history of mysterious disappearances. They won’t look too hard.” The only one that might want to find me would be my uncle. But I guessed he wouldn’t risk his reputation for it. He hadn’t even made it public that I was his niece.

“Look”–Ace’s hand was massaging my scalp now–“we’ll figure it out. We always did before. And at the end of it, we all have each other.”

“Okay.” Silas relaxed back into the couch. “Where are we going?”

“Florida!” I exclaimed. “I’m tired of this snow.”

“Wherever you go, I will follow. From here on out you won’t be able to escape from me.” Hawk’s words landed in my heart.

I loved my sweet boys. Loved being fucked by them. Loved killing with them. Loved being wrapped in their orbit of insanity.

My attention shifted in the direction of one of their masks.

“There’s one last thing I want to do before we bury the body.”

Ace smirked; he already knew what I had in mind.

“Ashmine…” Silas warned.

“Will you three be my Valentines? And ch—”

“It’s not Valentine’s Day,” Hawk said, cutting me off.

“Yes, we will be,” Ace agreed, reaching over and lightly punching Hawk. “Continue.”

The sun would be rising in the next few hours, and I wanted to do this before it did.

“Will you three be my Valentines and chase me through the woods in masks?” I cackled, jumping off their laps and into a pair of stolen pants and jacket. “First one to catch me gets to fuck me!” I exclaimed.

I didn’t wait for a reply, maneuvering into my shoes before running out the door. The cold air slapped me in the face, but I paid it no mind. Ace had already gained his bearings and was throwing on the closest mask.

“Here I come! You better run or I will throw you back in here!” Ace yelled from behind me.

Too close.

Side stepping the operation table, I sprinted towards the forest.

Adrenaline pumped through my veins with every slap of my shoes against the snow-covered ground.

My plan had worked.

My family was back together again.

We would figure this out.

For all our imperfections and insanity, it was what would keep us together.

After all we’d been through, I deserved to have some of the fun we’d missed out on for too long. To be chased in the woods by three masked men and fucked against the trees and snowy ground.

By my three Vengeful Valentines.