She remained silent even when the hand disappeared from her mouth. She had to protect Tah. She had to protect all of them.
“How did you find us?” she asked, trying to distract Harlan.
“We never lost you,” he said with a self satisfied smirk. “I admit, even I was surprised when I found what he’d done to Johnson. Brutal the way he ripped his throat out.”#p#分页标题#e#
So Southy had been named Johnson.
“He threatened me. Tah can become enraged when someone does that.” She felt the man still holding her flinch and hoped he was scared. She hoped they were all scared.
Harlan just laughed. “You can’t frighten us, Abby. We know all about what he’s capable of. We’ve been hired to capture him and bring him in. Alive. You, on the other hand, they don’t care about. You’re only alive because I want you.”
His lascivious grin made her feel dirty. “I have plans for you, Abby.”
“Are you planning to kill me like you did my parents?”
“I wondered if you knew what really happened that day. I’d convinced myself there was no way you could since you never said anything to your grandmother about it. It’s the only reason I let her live.”
“I’ve always known you killed them.”
“I wasn’t sure if you were awake or not. It looked like you’d passed out. I hit your father first. I wasn’t sure if I could slit his throat or not, but it was easier than I anticipated. Your mother, though. She was something else. I always envied your father. I took her while he bled out.” He laughed and Abby felt the bile lodge in her throat. It took all she had not to throw up. “I’ve always wondered if you’d be as good a fuck as your mother was.”
“They never said she was raped.” The words were whispered past the horror that lodged in Abby’s chest.
“Amazing what a little money in the right palms can hide,” Harlan admitted with a laugh. He moved closer to her and cupped her breast through her T-shirt. “I’m going to enjoy fucking you. And when I’m done, when I’ve finally had my fill of you. I’m going to watch as my men take turns with you.”
Abby couldn’t help it. She leaned her head forward and threw up on him. Harlan jerked back from her, but not quick enough to miss the first wave of sickness.
“You fucking bitch,” he screamed, striking out at her and catching her on the side of the head with his fist. “You’ll fucking pay for that. I’ll shove my cock down your throat and give you something to gag on bitch.”
Abby did her best to hold it together. The punch against her head had rocked her, leaving her vision a bit hazy and making her dizzy. She whimpered, but managed to hold her screams inside. She had to protect them.
“Who hired you, Harlan?” she demanded as she tugged against the hard hands still holding her.
“Someone who knows how to hunt lions,” he sneered. “And your little lion is going to suffer before he dies. Don’t worry. I’ll make sure you get to see every strike against him. I’ll let you watch as they bleed him out. I’ll let you watch him die while I fuck you, just like your mother watched your father die while I fucked her.”
“You disgust me,” she told him.
He licked his lips as he looked at her. “I’m going to enjoy breaking that spirit of yours. You get that from your mother. Your father was weak. It’s why he fell for your mother. I handpicked him, you know. I had plans to train him, take him on a hunt.”
“He was a veterinarian. He loved animals as much as my mother did.”
“I wasn’t planning to hunt animals. He would have balked, but once he tasted the blood of his first kill, I would have turned him. His blood was weak from the man my aunt married, but I was determined to save him. All that time befriending him, grooming him to join me. Wasted once he met your mother. I could have killed her, but I swear the bitch had a sixth sense. Then you were born. I knew you would be their weakness. Finally, I’d get my revenge. I’d only planned to kill you. But what happened that day was so much better than anything I could have planned.” He licked his lips. “It’s one of my favorite memories.”#p#分页标题#e#
“Fuck you,” Abby yelled and sucked all the moisture in her mouth into a ball then spit it into his face. The liquid hit his cheek and slid down.
He screamed, wiping at his face in disgust. “You fucking whore!” The word spewed with spittle from his mouth as he struck out again. This time the hands holding her released her, and the hit she took knocked her to her knees as she tasted blood. She saw the foot swinging at her and turned to take it on her hip, protecting her soft belly and the child beneath it.