The Tormentor
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🩸THE TORMENTOR🩸
( Blêed•For•Me, Ixora )
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Copyright © 2025 by Naomi Cindy B.
Book 1 in the Mindfûck Trilogy
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CHAPTER 21&22
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The only person who knows every detail about Ixora would be Stonia, her mum.
Despite her suffocating closeness with Evelyn when she was still alive, she has never dressed up in front of her cos Evelyn was a judgemental bitch, so she didn't even know about her love for g-strings.
Besides Stonia, only Nadine knows, and that's because they got closer after Evelyn's death.
No guy has seen her nakedness except the one who accidentally took her virginity.
He's the one and only.
But now this Lucifer from the hot pit of hell is chanting all her body details like a mantra?
She was stunned as she finally looked up, her eyes still wide as they met with Warren's in the front mirror again.
Anastasia must have noticed the shift in the air too cos she turned back to look at her, and she immediately saw all the qualities in her.
The fact that she's got pointed nose, thick thighs, full lips and blonde hair only means she likes g-strings too.
And if Warren is aware that she wears g-strings, then he probably has...
Fucked her?
"It's you?" Anastasia seethed.
"Me what? I don't wear g-strings" Ixora lied, and Anastasia jumped from the front seat to the backseat like a mad woman.
She sniffed Ixora, smelling Warren's earthly scent on her jersey plus her original fruity scent on her shorts.
"You're wearing his team jersey? And you smell fruity so don't deny! You definitely wear g-strings!" She accused.
"Can you... like... Get off me?" Ixora frowned.
"We're not done yet" Anastasia replied and began trying to lower Ixora's shorts to confirm the g-strings.
All along, Warren stayed still in the front, and he's not watching through the mirror anymore.
His focus is fully on the road, but he's hyper-aware of what's happening at the backseat.
"Are you insane? Get away from me!" Ixora kneeled Anastasia in the tummy.
Anastasia fell against the door, and at the same time, Warren opened the backdoor suddenly.
Anastasia slipped out of the car, landing on the asphalt, and he automatically shut the door back.
"The hell! Why would you throw her out she might get crushed by another car" Ixora shouted.
"Y'all need to stop asking WHY every damn time, it's boring. If I tell you why, will it boost your CGPA?" He replied acidly.
Ixora knelt on the backseat and looked out at the road.
She saw Anastasia standing in the middle of the road already, looking at the car with tears on her face and wounds on her knees and arms.
"You wounded her!" Ixora shouted.
"Perfect" he replied, and she immediately jumped to the front, taking Anastasia's place beside him.
"Stop the car" she said, but it's like talking to the wind.
"Stop the damn car, I need to go check on her" she said, and that was the last straw.
He stepped on the gas again till the last point, and the car went from riding to floating on the road, causing her to glue herself to the seat.
"I'm the only child of my parents yunno? Even if I'll die it shouldn't be by accident so stop right now!" She shouted at him.
He kept going, overtaking cars and making trucks crash into each other, causing serious commotion on the road with each kilometer he covered.
"Warren!!!" She yelled, feeling like throwing up as all her stomach components slammed on each other.
His forearm veins stood out, a testament to his intense grip on the wheel as he drove her mad, and she suddenly grabbed his arm, trying to force it away from the steering.
Her fingers curled on his bracelet in the process — the Satan's Heirs bracelet.
The bracelet cut into two, falling from his wrist to the car ground, and that was when he stopped the drive.
Ixora quickly opened the door and jumped out for fresh air to ease her queasiness, and she vomited some stomach fluid.
She was still vomiting when Warren came out of the car too, taking her hand from behind and swirling her around to face him before grabbing her tight by the throat.
She didn't wait before raising her hand to his neck too, but her height fucked her up as she couldn't reach him even when she stood on her toes.
She gave up, allowing the venom in his eyes to sink into her body as he choked her, banging her back to the car body.
The fluid stained her lips so bad, and her face changed colour as he glared down at her, bolting his grip on her neck.
"S...stop" she struggled to speak, but he wasn't ready to do that.
When he was in highschool with the guys, the bracelet was built with expensive meteorite, split into four portions for each of them, and since then, they've protected it just the way they protected their friendship.
Now, a lying wench is here for the ruins?
Should he just fûck his plan up and kill her on this road?
No one knows she's with him anyways, so it'd be a successful kill.
He was a minute away from doing that, and her eyes were already rolling up when his phone rang, interrupting him.
He let go of her, and she staggered, vomiting more fluid which even stained the jersey she's wearing.
It's Capri calling Warren, and he didn't even pick, he just knows it's because he's not in campus yet.
He got back in his car and drove away, leaving Ixora.
She was rubbing her chest as she vomited, but suddenly, someone rubbed her back.
She turned around to see a rough looking thuggish guy, smiling at her.
"Get your hands off me!" She pushed him off weakly, but he slipped his arm on her waist.
She tried pushing him off again, but he held her so intimately.
If she was in her right health and strength, she'd be killing him right now, but it's like the fluid she vomited took her energy, so she's lax.
"Get your hands...away" She tried again, and he laughed.
"I've always heard of how Stonia's daughter is just as pretty as her, so it's true. Gawd, you're hot" he said, bringing his chapped lips closer to her neck.
He was about to kiss her there when a plank was hit on his head from behind, and he groaned.
He let go of Ixora to deal with whoever it is, but he was given a brutal uppercut which sent him crashing to the ground.
It's Monty.
She was on her way to the campus with Tina when they saw the scene, and she decided to intervene.
Tina is not in support cos she's still in the car, rolling eyes at Ixora.
"You ok?" Monty asked, sweeping her hair back habitually with her palm.
"Yeah, thank you, Monty" Ixora breathed, resting her hands on her knees sickly.
"Last time I checked, you have three cars, so what are you doing here alone, vomiting? Even wearing Satan's Heirs team jersey?" Monty replied.
"It's a long story, can you give me a lift to school?" Ixora asked.
"That's not gonna happen, you're not entering my car I don't like you! You and Evelyn were like the biggest bitçhes when she was still alive, and Evelyn was my enemy like you know, which makes you my enemy too." Tina said, coming down.
Her tennis skirt barely covered her arse, and Ixora clearly saw her panty when the wind blew.
"I don't like you too, it's balanced" Ixora said, standing straight.
She's starting to regain her lost stamina.
"We'll give you a lift, but you're not entering the car wearing that jersey. Tina is for Romeo so I'm for Romeo too, I'm playing" Monty said.
Tina brought out an extra ILC team jersey out of the car.
"What do you say?" Monty offered.
"Deal" Ixora replied, peeling off the Satan's Heirs jersey on her body.
She threw it on the road and put on Romeo's team's, then Monty gave her bottled water to rinse her mouth before she got in the car with them.
Being in the same car with Tina is poisonous, but she has no choice after what Warren did.
She badly wants to hate him.
Like very excruciatingly bad, but the guilt of her past testimony keeps choking her.
It makes her feel so fuckin hopeless, every fuckin time.
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[Rhodes Corporations]
"My daughter's monthly Hockey Meet is tonight, tell me there's enough time for me to attend with her" Rafael said as he came out of a presentation with his chief director.
"You still have to meet with the TV host by 7 for an interview, sir. That's in like ten minutes from now, and the host is already at the lounge. You've been postponing it since last week so it has to be now" the director replied.
"That's bad" Rafael replied, taking off his suit.
"Sir!" His secretary came rushing down the lane, and Rafael grimaced.
"Your wife, I mean... You're ex-wife is here" he reported.
"Stonia? Here?" Rafael scoffed.
"Yes sir" the secretary nodded, taking Rafael's suit from him.
Rafael rushed down the lane, coming out to his office hall.
He opened the door and met Stonia waiting in the middle of his office, as dominant as ever.
"What are you doing here?" He queried, lessening the tightness of his tie
"Reduce the way you call Ixxie, and the gifts too, they aren't necessary. I'm rich enough to buy her all she wants" Stonia replied, keeping her distance.
"I haven't even started with the gifts and you're already complaining? I'm thinking of gifting her a private jet on her 20th birthday, plus a departmental store" Rafael smirked.
"She choose to stay with me after our divorce for a reason, can you stop being extra?" Stonia replied, walking closer.
"She's staying with you, and I'm not complaining, but you complaining when I gift or call her is crazy" he replied, and she chuckled.
"Lower your ego, Rafael. It doesn't suit you. This is the same reason i divorced you"
"Thanks for the reminder, now can you take your leave? You're forgetting that if I didn't secretly pour my seed inside you that night, there'd be no Ixora! You were against pregnancy remember? You said pregnancy would ruin your curves but I had to force you to have her. Now that the pretty girl is all grown up, you wanna claim you love her more than me? She's my life, and I'd do anything to protect her, no matter what you say. You should even be grateful I let her stay with you" Rafael replied angrily.
Stonia threw her phone at him, and he caught it before walking fast to her.
He took her hand and placed the phone on her palm.
"Leave" he muttered, and she huffed in rage.
"Man-whore!" She snapped and took her bag, slamming the door behind her as she stepped away.
Rafael placed his right hand on his face, sighing out, then his secretary came in.
"Time for the interview, sir" he said.
"I should work hard for my daughter, isn't it?" Rafael smiled, redoing his tie.
"Of course, boss" the secretary chuckled, leading him out of the office.
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[Creed's Family House]
"Mrs. Ortega has been missing since yesterday" Lydia said as she set dinner on the table for Elder Creed.
Whenever Matron goes on her day off like this, she takes over the kitchen too.
Lydia is multi-talented.
Pushing the wheelchair around is a coverup, she's originally a Sniper, and sometimes a chef.
"And I'm guessing Warren took her" Elder Creed said with much delight in his voice as he picked his cutlery.
"The cops suspect him, but they have no evidence, and that got their cuffs in a rust" Lydia replied, taking her seat too.
She's allowed to eat on the same table with the Elder, that's how close they are.
"Three years ago, I was the good person to them for letting a devilish son rot in jail, but now I'm gonna be the bad person and watch the devilish son kill as many as he wants." Elder Creed replied.
"Hawke forced him to kill ten people in jail, that opened the gate of his killings, I think" Lydia said.
"The ten people he killed in jail were serial killers, weren't they?" Elder Creed nodded, eating from his eggplant parmesan already.
"Yes, but then he killed a lady in a cabin when he got released, making 11, I dunno her identity but I'm guessing she's not innocent too" Lydia said, digging into her meal.
"I don't care if they're innocent or not, so far he kills, it's fine" Elder Creed said.
"Do you think Matron was right? About telling him the reason I left him in jail?" He asked.
Lydia dropped her cutlery at this point.
"She's wrong, sire. The hate in his mind for you, and the hate in his heart for Rafael's daughter is all he needs. He needs to keep feeling the hate to function better for what's coming" she said.
"And I hope the hate never finishes" Elder Creed raised his glass of cold choco.
Lydia clinked her wine glass with it, and they drank to hatred multiplication.
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[Imperial Levels College]
It's 7pm when Ixora came out of Monty's car at the park, and Nadine was more than shocked to see her.
"I thought you wouldn't be coming anymore and I was already planning to go back home!" She jumped on her to hug her tight.
"Ew! Clinginess is disgusting" Tina commented.
"Why did you come in their car?" Nadine muttered.
"We offered her a lift cos she was abandoned on the pavement" Monty replied, inserting her hands in her jacket pockets.
"Of course, ring it around the campus" Ixora replied casually, facing Tina.
"And clinginess is never disgusting, she's my friend you naked witch" she told her, and Tina combusted.
"You little —"
Tina was almost with her when Monty pulled her back.
"I'm playing for the ILC team remember? Don't waste our time on them" she said, taking Tina away.
"Mean girls!!" Nadine shouted after they've left, and Ixora laughed at her cuteness, then she noticed she did the same two-bun hairstyle as her.
"We're pretty" she said.
"Yes, if there's a competition for the two prettiest girls in this campus, we're bringing the cup home sweetie" Nadine replied, and Ixora chuckled.
"By the way why did you come in their car? Why are you wearing Romeo's team instead of Warren's? And what's with the fingerprints on your neck?" Nadine asked.
Ixora took her time to tell the whole story, and Nadine's mouth couldn't even close when she was done.
"That guy is seriously bipolar and he needs rehabilitation, but yunno what? Even better, their jersey isn't as attractive as Romeo's team anyways, but make sure you cover your red neck cos Romeo would surely worry if he sees it" she said.
"I know" Ixora replied, and they held hands as they began walking out of the park, into the campus.
That's when Ixora had time to take a good look around, sighing new faces she hasn't seen on campus before.
The white campus lights are off tonight, replaced by the rainbow colour lights rotation just like the school management does on every Hockey Meet night.
The blasting music from the stadium was deafening, indicating that the game is yet to start, and the campus was pulsating with the loud music.
There are new stands surrounding the campus where students can get treats and snacks and drinks.
Ixora and Nadine got themselves a large bag of snacks and drinks from one of the stands.
This night's game would surely hit different majorly because Satan's Heirs are involved.
Ixora was bubbling with excitement as she got closer and closer to the stadium with Nadine.
"But...how did he find out you wear g-strings?" Nadine suddenly asked.
"He probably stalked the store I get my undies from" Ixora shrugged.
"He's in a competition with the devil at this rate" Nadine made faces as they entered the filled stadium.
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[Ice Hockey Locker Room]
Only twelve players will be on the ice tonight — six players per team, so it's only those twelve people in the room plus the coaches.
In Satan's Heirs team, there are the four devils' plus two additional students from medicine and surgery faculty who joined the game just to get on Warren's good side.
In the ILC team, there's Romeo, Bronx, Monty, and three other players.
Yeah, Monty plays hockey despite being a girl. Her tomboy figure helps her a lot.
Warren came out to sit on a chair after strapping his shoulder pads on, his brows knotted.
He had branched at an accessories shop on his way here and dropped the bracelet for repair.
He was told to come back tomorrow morning, and he's hoping none of the guys would notice since they attach too much importance to it as they should.
Also, he's so not ready to banter.
"Weren't you supposed to bring pet girl to campus and play Romeo?" Konstantin appeared, wearing his gloves.
"Didn't you hear his narration? She got on his nerves and he almost choked her to death, but thanks to Capri's call" Ashton replied, wearing his own helmet.
"And why the fûck would Cap call at that moment? I love blood" Konstantin said, his dissatisfaction obvious.
Capri was already fully dressed when he came out to them, and as Warren suspected, he's the first one to notice.
"Where the hell is your meteorite?" He asked, and the eyes of the rest went to his wrist immediately.
"Let me guess, she broke it and that's why you almost killed her?" Konstantine's eyes reddened so fast.
"Will be fixed before tomorrow" Warren replied.
"I promise to wound her friend for that" Konstantin said, leaving the room.
"Man, is your blood on a stove? Why always fuckin boiling?" Ashton said, following him out.
"As much as I badly wanna wound her friend too, I don't wanna ruin your plan, so I'mma wait" Capri said, leaving too.
Warren stood to his feet, and his eyes met with Romeo's at the end of the room.
Romeo is glaring at him, but that's all he can do, isn't it?
Glare till his eyes fall off, but he still won't be able to come close to him.
He badly wants him to come close though.
There's no fun in the distance between them, but one thing is sure;
The next time Romeo crosses him, he's gonna make him bleed to death without caring about his connection with Matron.
Warren left the room after getting the hockey puck and stick, then Bethel came in with a bowl of candies.
"Romeo!!" She shouted, and Romeo rolled eyes as she shoved a candy into his mouth.
"Mum brought lots of it from the Creed's family house" she said, and he immediately spat it away from his mouth.
"But mum said it brings good luck" Bethel said.
"Nothing good comes from the Creed's family house, so spare me your candy and go out" he replied, pushing her.
"But Romeo... Romeo!"
He pushed her out before she could shout for the third time.
"Your sister is an headache" Bronx said, walking past him.
"Don't mind that dîck" Monty said, and Romeo turned around with a slight smile.
Monty might be Tina's bestie, but their personalities differ by far.
They left the room together.
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[Stadium]
The stadium is in two parts right now.
One angle cheering for ILC team while the other is cheering for Satan's Heirs.
It's a wild night, and Tina felt so alone in the crowd since Monty is playing too, but when the two teams stepped into the ice, her boredom flew outta the window.
Romeo looks hot in the hockey gear and paddings every time, and it's doing things to her senses as she screamed his name so loud that her throat almost tore apart.
Bethel suddenly joined her, but Tina pretended not to see her, they just continued screaming for Romeo together.
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Kelsey and Serena are at the Satan's Heirs angle., their bum shorts are micro, showing their linen pockets in the front and their panties at the back.
Kelsey is desperately screaming for Warren too as his height towered above the others.
He's insanely tall, and the gear just outlines everything with his glistening taut arm muscles and tendons.
Serena was licking her lips as she stared at one of the guys, but it's a secret she's keeping.
Even Kelsey doesn't know who her crush is, and she's not planning to reveal it anytime soon.
Kelsey was still screaming when someone slipped an hand between her legs from the back.
She froze as her body got pumped with a rush of sugar, but when the person shifted her bum shorts and panties together and drove three finger inside her, she didn't even bother to look back to know who it is.
She rested back on the person, enjoying the fingers as the screams from the crowd drowned her slutty moans.
Her juices leaked down her thighs, and she shamelessly scooped with her fingers, licking as the person added another finger, making four.
She cried out.
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Ixora and Nadine are in Romeo's angle angle too, both still holding hands while screaming the loudest for Romeo.
Their bag of snacks is already on the floor even when they've barely eaten half, but the excitement thrumming in the air is enough to fill them.
Ixora got a microphone she has prepared to cheer Warren with before, then she screamed loudly.
"Romeo Ford!!! Make sure you win the cup, I gat your back!!" She shouted, giggling.
Romeo's eyes found her from the ice, and the handsome smile that graced his face afterwards was priceless.
Warren remained calm under his helmet when he saw the jersey she's wearing.
He didn't smirk or get weirdly dark eyes like he does when he's intrigued or mad, he stayed chill.
"Yo, she's cheering for Romeo with a microphone?" Ashton said.
"Bold of her" Capri commented, re-strapping his helmet.
Konstantin stayed silent just like Warren, and then the commencement bell came, signifying the start of the game.
Everyone took their spots but particularly, Warren is center for his team.
Romeo is the center for his team too.
The game started off with much intensity between the two teams, and the cheers formed a cacophony, racing in the cochleas of everyone.
In the first twenty me minutes, none of the team scored one goal, it was too tough as none was letting go for another.
But the noticeable thing is that Satan's Heirs aren't even trying to score, they're like playing around the ice while Ashton who's the Goaltender tries his best to block all the attempted scores from Romeo's team.
All attempt from Romeo's team to score were wild too, but they couldn't get their puck in the net.
Slowly, the cheers from the crowd began dissipating, and Kelsey's moans got louder as she's still getting fingered.
The crowd aren't even looking at her when when they're hearing the moans, they're too focused on the ongoing heated game.
Serena is swallowing hard as intervals like half of the crowd.
Tina's hands are clasped together as the third half of the game started, and Bethel was praying inwardly.
Romeo has never lost before, vitg academically and in games like this.
"Why do I feel like these devils' are doing this on purpose?" Ixora muttered.
She already dropped her microphone.
"You mean playing around the ice and not even attempting to score?" Nadine replied.
Ixora couldn't even reply anymore as she watched with undivided attention.
The stadium is as silent as a graveyard right now as everyone held their breaths.
It's five minutes before the end of the game right now, and there's still no goal.
Ixora's chest was slamming dangerously till it was two minutes before the end of the game.
Capri passed the puck to Konstantin, then from Konstantin to one of the other team members who gave it to Warren.
From Warren, it went straight without hitch into Romeo's team net.
A chaos of screams erupted in the stadium as the students in the Satan's Heirs angle nearly went crazy.
No, they actually went mad as their screams deafened everyone.
It's like everyone has been hiding their banners before cos they all pulled out their banners which has the names of the guys.
War
Ash
Konstant
Cap.
The joy was unlimited as they ran down the bleachers.
Every of the Satan's Heirs dropped their sticks, and Romeo's defeated eyes met with Warren's.
Warren's eyes finally darkened like 12 midnight, and he almost said something to Romeo, but the sudden echo of gunshots made everywhere scatter.
It happened so fast and everyone began running for their lives, out of the stadium.
Some went flat under the chairs to avoid stray bullets as it flew around.
Ashton got hit on his back, and he groaned out.
"Ash!! Fûck!" Konstantin began racing to him.
Capri is already climbing the barricades, jumping down and racing up the stairs to get the shooter.
Amidst the chaos, Ixora suddenly couldn't find Nadine anymore, and her eyes came wide as she stood from under the chair she's hiding at.
"Nad!!" She hollered.
She was suddenly pulled down by someone, and she was forced to squat while the person covered her with his own body.
A bullet came flying in that direction immediately, but instead of hitting her, it hit the chair in front of them.
The gunshots kept coming, ramming into that particular chair repeatedly.
Ixora gasped, but her protector pinned her down, tightly.
"But...but Nadine is out—"
"Stay under my damn arms, Ixora. You're going nowhere." He cut her off.
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The only moment which shook Ixora as much as it's doing right now was when Stonia and Rafael—her parents, got divorced.
When Stonia was still the vice president back then, Rafael was the secretary to the president.
Stonia earned more than him by far, but they still supported each other, and they were so in love that Ixora watched them like a romantic movie whenever they kissed in the living room of their former mansion which they lived in together.
But then... Overnight, Rafael resigned as the president's secretary, and afterwards,, Ixora noticed their love began shaking.
Rafael established Rhodes Corporations that time, and he made it better than he expected, becoming one of the richest men in the US.
Some years later, Stonia was dragged for bribery, and Stonia didn't even deny or hire a lawyer, which means it's true, so she was stepped down from the office.
For a day, Ixora couldn't go to school cos of shame.
Yes, a day.
It'd have taken months if she was the daughter of a normal mother, but Stonia is part of the one percent of people who don't care about what people say or think, so she made sure Ixora returned to school after one day of hiding behind the curtains of her room.
What she told Ixora was that... "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, but a single wrong doesn't mean the end of the world"
Ixora returned to school, and thanks to Nadine and Evelyn, she was able to get past it.
But then,, last year during her last exam in highschool, her parents got divorce documents.
The day she was informed about the divorce was the day she experienced raw fear last, and she never thought she'd experience it again tonight.
As she hid under the stadium chair with her protector, her heart was slamming hard against her ribcage at the thought of losing Nadine.
If she loses Nadine, then she won't be able to survive it the way she survived her parents divorce.
She tried once again to stand despite the rush of gunshots, but the protector pinned her down again.
"Stay down, Xora" his voice came calmly this time, and that was when her ears recognized the voice and her nose perceived his cologne.
"Dad?" She muttered.
"Just stay still, baby. Nadine is fine at the back" Rafael replied, and that calmed her.
She threw her arms around Rafael, and the man held her tighter too, rubbing her hair.
"Thanks for coming, dad" she muttered.
"Glad I came, had to cancel my TV interview again" he replied, and she smiled lightly.
By now, the gunshots has suddenly stopped coming, so Rafael lifted his body from her own.
He stood and helped her up, then she looked around to see Nadine at the back, just standing from under a chair too with tears in her eyes.
"Xoxo!" She shouted, coming down to them.
Ixora also rushed up, and they met in the middle, hugging tight.
"I held the wrong hand when I was rushing out, I didn't know it wasn't yours till I got to the back, and when I wanted to come back, that was when your dad came in and shoved me under the chair before coming for you" Nadine explained.
"Stop the tears, Nad" Ixora smiled, breaking the hug to wipe them for her.
Nadine nodded with a sniffle, then they both turned to the ice and saw Capri jumping back on it.
He wasn't able to catch the shooter, and a stretcher is already there which they placed Ashton on.
He was made to lay on his stomach cos his back received the bullet.
His blood was crawling down the stretcher metals as Warren pushed it out while Konstantin and Capri rushed after them.
Ixora's eyes caught their wrists, and she noticed they're all wearing the meteorite bracelet except Warren.
And it's definitely because she broke it earlier, so she swallowed.
They're like brothers, and it's enviable to people who don't know the kind of devils' they are.
"Why would the school even still allow them when they're so notorious" Rafael said.
"Family history, sir. The fact that Warren is Elder Creed's son will get him anything he wants in any country he steps, I mean ... That crippled man is madly rich with insane connections, and Konstantin's father doesn't only own a conglomerate in Russia, I heard he's connected to the Bratva too. Those two are like the alpha of the group, and the other two have generational wealths which I can't even start talking about cos it's long" Nadine explained.
"Oh... intriguing" Rafael said.
"I wonder how you get these info" Ixora said.
"Cos my parents are business moguls, and I know stories from them" Nadine winked, and Ixora chuckled.
Rafael led the girls out of the stadium, and that was when Kelsey and Serena stood from under the chair they're hiding.
Serena slumped on the chair dejectedly with a pained look on her face.
"He came for his daughter but not his ex-wife's sister? I can't believe it, so he doesn't care if I die?" She said in a pained voice.
"Just give up on Rafael and find a way to get on Stonia's good side." Kelsey replied, covering herself up better.
"Can't believe I got the best fingers of my life but I don't even know who fingered me in the crowd, geez" she said, looking around the now empty stadium.
"You're a whore, do you know that?" Serena looked up
"Don't even start, I've never denied being a slut, so why making a big deal cos someone unknown fingered me? If the game wasn't ruined, I'd have let him eat my puxxy too" Kelsey said shamelessly.
"I hate you" Serena stood, walking out of the stadium.
"Wait for me!" Kelsey ran after her.
Immediately they left, Romeo ran into the stadium, breathing incoherently.
When he saw the place is empty, he took a deep exhale, sweat falling from his chin to the ground.
Bethel actually got pushed during the gunshots rush, and she had passed out on a chair.
He'd have gone to Ixora first, but he saw Rafael in the hall, and that gave him the courage that Rafael would protect her.
He took Bethel to the school clinic, and immediately Bethel woke up, he rushed here.
He fished his phone from his pocket, dialling Ixora's line.
She picked up, and he sat on a chair.
"I'm sorry, very sorry for not coming for you. I'm sorry, ok? Please —"
"Can you just...stop? I told you to stop saying sorry when when you're not at fault. I'm fine" Ixora interrupted.
"Bethel actually passed out and —"
"What! Did she get shot?" She gasped.
"No. She was pushed and she lost consciousness, but she's awake now" he replied, and he heard her breathe out in relief.
"Where are you?" He asked.
"With my dad, he's taking me home" she replied.
"We'll see tomorrow then?" He stood.
"Yeah, bye" she said, hanging up.
He clicked his phone back to home screen, and her picture displayed.
He smiled as he viewed it, and the tingles he felt in the pit of his stomach afterwards was beautiful.
He was still staring as he walked out of the stadium, back to the school clinic where Bethel is laying in bed with Tina beside her.
Tina actually followed them to the clinic earlier.
"The nurse said she's fine, she only has to rest at home" Tina said.
"Can you walk?" Romeo asked Bethel, and though her legs are fine, she shook her head.
Romeo carried her on his back and began walking out of the clinic.
"I'll give you both a ride, my car is comfy" Tina offered.
"No, thanks. We'll ride the taxi" Romeo replied, stepping out.
"But Romeo we can save the taxi fare for something else and go with her" Bethel said on his back.
"Shut up" Romeo replied, and she pouted.
"But she's right, push your ego aside and let me drive you both." Tina said.
Romeo stopped and faced her, making Tina stop too.
"It's not my ego, I just don't like being in the same space as you. Coming to your party the other time was because Bethel wanted to came, not because I wanted to, so don't get weird ideas and just leave " he replied.
Tina stood speechlessly till he left completely, then Monty joined her.
"What's up with you and your hardheaded crush?" She asked.
"Can we not talk about him? I hate him now, maybe I should dye my hair blonde and he'd notice me then" Tina replied, and Monty laughed as they walked towards the park.
Her phone chimed in her pocket, and she hissed out when she viewed the message and saw it's nothing close to what she's expecting.
"Are you still investigating the coffin burner?" Tina asked.
"Of course, I'm never stopping till I get my hands on the culprit, and...kill whoever it is." Monty replied as they entered their individual cars.
--
[Satan's Heirs Hideaway]
Instead of going to the hospital, the guys brought Ashton home, and Warren handled the bullet removal since it's not very fatal.
The bullet didn't penetrate too deep into Ashton's skin, and that only means the shooter had no intentions of killing him.
Whoever did it only wanted attention, and now he has gotten it.
Capri is seated, holding their golden trophy which they won in the game. One of the coaches had dropped it on Ashton's stretcher when they were leaving the school.
Konstantin is with a laptop which has the footage of the stadium during the game, and he's currently trying to sight where the shooter shot from.
Ashton didn't allow himself to be sedated, he stayed conscious throughout the bullet removal process, and as Warren's scalpel met with the bullet metal, he momentarily stopped moving, remembering something.
When Ashton was shot in the stadium earlier and everyone was running for their lives, Romeo didn't move an inch for the first one minute.
He stood still like he was paused with a remote or something, and as he watched the blood rushing out of Ashton's back, he smirked.
Romeo might keep a pure font, but he has his own demons too which he's keeping under wraps, away from the eyes of people like Ixora who still see him as pure.
Romeo has calm eyes and stance, but the calmness doesn't reach his insides.
Warren can't wait for the day Romeo's demons would come out, he'd love to see how dark they are, compared to his own.
He finally removed the bullet from Ashton's back and threw it in an heart bowl before dropping the scalpel inside water, then he cleaned the wound and dressed it up.
"It was hard to stay still and let you remove the bullet when I know you're obsessed with human insides. My life was literally in your hands" Ashton said as he sat up.
Warren immediately picked the scalpel back from the water.
"Should we try it out?" He said blankly.
"You bloody wacko!" Ashton punched the scalpel away from him before unwrapping a pop which he began licking.
"Konstant, did you catch the culprit already?" Capri asked from where he's sitting.
"Not fully, the bastard shot from a camera-free spot, but he wasn't so lucky cos I saw his arm. He's got tattoos of ants on his forearm, anyone familiar with that shit?" Konstantin asked, zooming the picture of the arm on the laptop screen.
"Ants?" Ashton said, checking it out.
He only knows one person with the ant tattoos on his forearm, and it's Bronx, but Bronx was in the ice, playing for Romeo's team during the game, so it's not him.
But if it's not him, then Bronx definitely sent him.
Why? Cos of the metal pipe he hit his tummy with at the amphitheater?
Low.
"I know who sent him" Ashton said, standing.
"Who?" Warren deadpanned, ready to kill.
"I'll take care of it" Ashton replied.
"Swallow the crap you just spewed cos ain't no way you're doing anything alone in this crew! Who the fûck was it!" Konstantin snarled.
"And this is exactly why I'm hesitating cos I know you Konstant. You're too temperamental and immediately I tell you who, you'd probably go behead him" Ashton replied.
"It's Bronx, your thick fûcker of a brother" Warren spoke, and Ashton faced him.
"He's the only person you'd protect in the campus, and also ... I've seen the ant tattoos on him once" Warren simply said.
"I'll take care of him myself" Ashton said.
"It's better you do, I have a feeling that if I set my eyes on him, the result would be catastrophic" Capri spoke with a dangerous amount of lethality in his voice.
He rarely talks harsh, but he's doing it right now.
"I'm planting a bullet in his back though" Warren spoke casually.
"And another one on his arm" Konstantin spoke.
Ashton smiled, groaning at the same time as his back stung.
The greatest mercy they could show is deciding to only shoot him. If Warren or Konstantin aren't killing anyone, then it's solved.
They were interrupted by the ringing of the doorbell downstairs, and they all left the dark room to go open the door.
Ten escort girls came in, all of them holding bottles of champagne and screaming.
"Who invited them?" Warren gritted out, hating the noise like hell.
"I did before we went for the game, hoping to party till daybreak" Ashton replied.
"Then party till daybreak, I'm gonna go visit Mrs. Ortega" Warren replied, leaving the house, and that's when he saw Anastasia is part of the girls.
How stubborn can she be?
Despite her wounds, she still same?
Warren ignored her existence and left the house.
Capri followed him, leaving Ashton and Konstantin with the ladies.
--
[Cat's Eye Brotherhood]
"I told you to meet and fûck them up one on one! Not the gunshots! Bullets are like snacks to that bastard!" Bronx shouted, his earpiece and phone splayed on the ground.
He was marching the two of them as he walked back and forth in the sanctuary, looking insane.
The wounds on his face are back to fresh again, and most of it are bleeding right now, making warm blood flood his skin.
There are five members of the brotherhood present tonight besides him, and they're not even supposed to meet yet since it's not their meeting night, but they came for him since he's the youngest anyways.
"We just can't go one on one to fight them, Bronx. Those four? Are you kidding?" One of the men said, and Bronx laughed.
"So are you scared of them or what? Do you know how many gunshots Ashton has taken in his body from his father? That bullet is nothing to him! You'll see him touring the campus again tomorrow!" He shouted.
"How did you know? Are you related to Ashton?" Another man asked suspiciously.
"I just know, so find another way to punish him for me, or better still, let me meet leader. Why is it that I can only call him but can never meet him?" Bronx replied.
"Leader isn't that easy to meet, so forget about ever meeting him, and about your Ashton problem, why don't you leave that first and lay low. Monty is desperately looking for the coffin burner, and if she gets her hands on you, you're gone" another man said, throwing him a tab.
Bronx took the tab and zoomed on Monty's picture on the screen.
She's currently at the gravesite, checking the installed cameras with Tina behind her.
Bronx smiled, sitting and watching her continuously with rapt attention.
Catching him is a dream that'd never materialize.
--
[Ford Salon]
Romeo stayed in Matron's arms for longer than he planned to.
It's been months since he last saw her, so it's understandable.
Despite the dried sweat on his skin from the game, the woman hugged him tight too.
Mr. Ford just sat and watched her with Bethel who's eating snacks on a barbing chair.
"Bethel said you didn't win the game and lost to Warren's team, that's new" Matron said.
"You know they have the same hobby in every aspect. Romeo wanted to go for medicine and surgery but when he heard Warren was going for it too, he switched to Mathematics, and since they were young, they've both loved ice, and that was when I knew they'd like ice hockey" Bethel chirped in.
"I'm not in anyway like that devil, so stop right now" Romeo replied, entering his room.
"But I'm saying the truth" Bethel muttered, entering her room too with her snacks.
"When are we moving out this place, Matron? You've been working for the Creed family for years, and people are starting to say Elder Creed isn't paying you. We're not poor, Matron, but you're delaying" Mr. Ford said.
"I'll go talk to Romeo first" Matron stood, entering Romeo's room and leaving the man in the outer shop.
Romeo is seated on his bed when she entered the room, and she sat beside him.
"You're 24, you should know better. Hating Warren wouldn't buy you a thing" she said.
"I don't think you have the right to tell me not to hate him, mum. Considering the fact that you treat him better than me" Romeo replied.
"That's what you think" she replied.
"That's what I think and that's what's happening, and stop telling me not to hate him. The first time I visited the Creed's family house with you before he went to jail, I met him in Elder Creed's inferno chamber and do you know what he did? He threw fireballs at me only because I called him a snob! He loves hurting people, and he needs therapy so tell his father to get him a therapist, and please...tell him to stop going after Ixora" he said glaringly, getting down from the bed and leaving the room
He slammed the door shut, and Matron sighed out.
--
[Stonia's Mansion]
Stonia came back from work an hour ago, and she didn't visit Ixora's room as usual.
She came back with a ruined mood, and Ixora just knew someone annoyed her.
If it was before, Ixora would have gone to her room and sleep by her side to try cheering her up, but tonight is not that night.
Right now, she's pacing her room with her phone in hand, waiting for a message.
It's some minutes to 10pm right now, and she's hoping her order comes quick.
She actually ordered a meteorite bracelet to replace the one she broke from Warren, and she's gonna go give it to him and call it quits with that.
Being friends with a messenger from hell like him is bad for her health, and she doesn't even know the meaning of what's happening too.
The message finally pooped up from the deliverer, and she quickly wore her flipflops since she's already dressed.
She changed the jersey to a normal top though.
She left the house easily, thanking her stars that Stonia isn't in sight, she'd have queried her.
She left the house and met the deliverer waiting in front of it already.
She took the meteorite small bag and opened it to confirm the content before doing a short walk to the main road where she boarded a taxi.
Taking a car would alert her mother, and Stonia definitely wouldn't let her out at this time of the night since she can't even lie with Nadine's place.
She doesn't know the hideaway of the devils, but she has heard it's a black house in obscure, so she's just gonna trace it with the driver's help.
"Obscure avenue" she told the taxi driver who immediately moved the taxi.
Serena came rushing to the road too after the taxi left.
She has actually been following her from home.
She stopped another taxi and followed her.
--
[Satan's Heirs Hideaway]
It wasn't easy to locate, and it was already some minutes to 11 when Ixora arrived.
She literally spent an hour on the road with the driver, searching and searching till they got here.
She got down in front of the black gate and payed the driver before pushing the giant gate open.
It's not locked, so she easily slipped in.
The lights in the environment is off, so she had to use her phone to see her path.
There's moderate sound of music coming from the house, and the closer she got, the louder it got, till she got to the door and rang the doorbell.
It was Ashton who opened the door, and her eyes nearly widened.
Same person who got shot less than three hours ago?
"Pet girl?" Ashton's eyes turned hooded, and she stepped in neutrally.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Konstantin stood from the middle of the ladies he's handling, his body bare.
"I came to give Warren —"
That was all she could say before Anastasia came over, pouncing heavily on her like she has been waiting for this moment.
"I told you, didn't I? It's not over yet" she said, pulling Ixora roughly by the hair.
Some of her hair got uprooted from the scalp, and the bag of meteorite fell from her to the ground.
Anastasia pulled her right ear together with it, and Ixora's earring pulled out roughly, wounding her ear and making it bleed, but she didn't relax.
This is different from earlier when she was weak after vomiting.
She grabbed Anastasia's hair too, her hold tighter than ever.
She kneeled her twice on the face, and the other ladies gasped as Anastasia's blood stained her knees.
Ashton and Konstantin watched without moving from their spots, they're obviously enjoying this.
Ixora keeled Anastasia for the third time, and Anastasia cried out like a bitch as more of her blood stained Ixora's knees.
"I'm not gonna snatch him from you or anything, I don't need him! I don't own him! He's all yours so you can go to hell! How dare you touch my hair! How dare you touch my earring! Do you know how much they cost? Huh? Do you? Get your hands off me!!" Ixora kneeled her for the fourth time, then she raised her head up, slamming it on the wall.
The slam was murderous, and Ixora slammed again and again.
Three hard times, till Anastasia slumped in her hands, then she released her.
Anastasia fell lifelessly on the ground, and Ixora inhaled and exhaled fast, her hair cobwebbing her face as she stood straight.
For a minute, no one moved, till one of the ladies saw blood pouring out of Anastasia's head.
"Blood! Blood!" She screamed, and when Ixora turned around to see the blood surrounding Anastasia's head, she gasped with dilated eyes, and her chest felt like heavy steel was weighing it down.
She stepped back, all anger flushing out of her.
Ashton came closer and squatted beside Anastasia's body, pressing two fingers on her neck.
No pulse, no breaths, nothing.
"She's dead" he said nonchalantly, and Ixora quickly covered her mouth with her palms to stop herself from screaming out as her heart skipped beats.
At the same time, Capri entered with Warren trailing sinisterly behind him.
One look at Anastasia's body on the floor, and another look at Ixora's scattered hair and bloody ear pierce, Warren's lips curved into a sardonic smirk before he talked...
"Good girls are meant to eliminate the bad bitçhes. You did well, little liar"
TBC.
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