Souls Unfractured (Hades Hangmen, #3)(67)

Mae had turned to Styx. “No! Please! Do not go after him. He did not plan this. And he let us go. I spoke to him. He seemed confused and lost… but he let us go.”

“Why the f*ck did he just f*cking let you go?” Ky exclaimed.

Mae, who was under Styx’s arm, shrugged. “It was his twin brother who organized for Sarai to pretend to have escaped. Everything she said was a lie, designed to work out a way to get us alone and away from the compound. Church was the perfect excuse. I think… it appeared as though Cain did not know of any of it. He was angry with his brother. He was livid with Sarai for bringing us here.”

“And Sarai killed Pastor James. She just shot her in the head, with no remorse,” Lilah added, her voice quiet and shaking with shock.

Ky held her to his chest. “So we’ve now got f*cking child soldiers to contend with? Fucking perfect!”

Styx’s hands worked at Mae and I watched him ask, “I just don’t get why the f*ck Rider let you go? He’s wanted you for months. Isn’t that why we’re getting f*cking attacked at drop offs and shit? What’s his f*cking deal?”

Lilah’s attention snapped to Mae. Mae stood back from Styx and pushed the hair from her face. Styx focused on his bitch. “Because I told him something that changed the prophecy of my becoming his wife. In fact, it has completely destroyed it.”

“And what the f*ck was that?” Ky asked, frowning.

Mae took a deep breath, and reaching down for Styx’s hand, she pressed it flat to her stomach. “That I am with child.”

My eyes darted to Styx and his face had blanked. His eyes lowered to meet his hand over Mae’s stomach. He swallowed.

“Fuck, Styx,” Ky whispered. Styx then looked back at Mae’s face. His mouth spread into the biggest smile I’d ever seen, and he wrapped his arm around Mae’s neck and crushed her to his front. I could hear him whispering something into her ear and Mae began to sob.

I squeezed Maddie tighter, feeling every ounce of their emotion in my chest. Then my eyes closed as Maddie’s hand began stroking along my stomach, and I froze when her warm lips pressed a single kiss to my chest.

All the brothers embraced Styx, but I wouldn’t, and even if I could touch the Prez, I wasn’t f*cking letting go of Maddie for shit. I wanted to get her home to our cabin, and I wanted to kiss her some more… I wanted to…. I wanted to…

“So we gotta just wait for them to attack again?” Ky asked Mae. She shook her head.

“I do not think Rider will return for us. I know him and I could see it in his eyes. I do not think that his life at New Zion is all it is supposed to be.” Mae took a deep breath, and looking up at Styx, who was still holding his hand against her stomach, his face f*cking blank, said, “I think it could finally be over for us and The Order. I feel that Rider will not come for us again. I feel he may have seen the error of his ways.”

“The cunt still deserves to die,” Ky said darkly. I nodded my agreement, my back teeth grinding together just imagining stabbing that f*cker in his face.

But Styx didn’t answer, instead he wrapped his arm around his bitch and hurried the f*ck back to his bike.

Ky turned to the brothers. “Think that’s our cue to get the f*ck on. Prez wants his knocked up bitch back home and in his f*cking bed!”

I wasted no time. Lifting Maddie in my arms, I cut across the tall grass to my bike and placed her down beside it. Smiler and Bull were dragging the bodies away in the distance, and I was f*cking glad Maddie didn’t see what I’d done.

Climbing on the bike, I nudged my chin at the seat behind. “Get on.”

Maddie stared at the seat and shook her head. “I have never been on one before.”

I took my hand in hers and said, “Just climb on and wrap your hands around my waist. I’ll ride slow. You’ll be safe. I won’t let you get hurt.”

Maddie’s shoulders sagged, and meeting my eyes, she said quietly, “I know.”

My heart started to pound again as Maddie climbed on the back. Her long dress lifted up, and her bare legs sat next to mine. And I couldn’t look away. I couldn’t stop looking at her bare legs, my cock hardening and pushing against my leathers. And then her small hands wrapped around my waist and I groaned out loud.

I heard Maddie inhale a quick gasp. Then she pressed a kiss to my shoulder, and gripped my waist harder. My eyes closed and I had to ball my hands into fists to calm down.

I was so confused. I didn’t understand these feelings ripping through my f*cking body. All I knew was that Maddie never felt so perfect as she did right now, hugging my waist. And my blood was hot for another reason now. There were no flames, but there was heat. Heat shooting straight to my cock.

Maddie dragged in a stuttered breath and whispered, “Flame...” I tensed as the tone of her voice changed and my lungs squeezed so f*cking tight.

Kicking the bike to start, I pulled out onto the road. I traveled slowly with Maddie on the back. My brothers had long disappeared, and here on this road there was just Maddie and me. Maddie’s hands flat to the bare skin of my stomach, her warm breath blowing in my ear.

I gritted my teeth, trying to focus and to catch my breath, but all I could think of was getting Maddie’s lips on mine… of feeling those bare legs. The legs that I’d never seen under her long dresses. Then I wondered what she’d look like without the dress at all. If her skin was smooth everywhere, and what it would feel like with her naked body pressed against mine.