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‘Look at the mess of you, Katie. It’s what happens to sluts. I thought you were different, but you are just like all the others. You were jealous of that one that rode my face and thought you could just get that from someone else. There is no-one else for you. You belong to me.’
When he started hauling down my trousers, I didn’t know whether to scream or to be thankful for the reprieve from his fists and boots.
‘Am I hard enough for you now, Katie?’
I cried as he shoved himself into me, his fingers reaching up to my mouth and smearing my blood over my face.
‘Bleed for me, you little whore.’
My stomach heaved as he grunted above me, adding to my pain as I tried to zone out. When I vomited, he laughed and shoved me into it. When he came, it was while raining down punches on my chest and stomach.
When he stood and zipped up his trousers, I’d hoped he was done with me.
‘I’ll be back to deal with you later.’
A crushing pain hit the side of my head, dipping my world into black.
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
MAC
Pressure burned at the back of my eyes as I flitted through hours of CCTV from the various cameras around the club. Abandoned fast food containers littered the table as we gathered round, the sweet and salty scent of Chinese food still lingering in the air. We’d traced Eloise as she performed on opening night. Watching her laugh and smile and dance brought stabs of pain. I hadn’t known her, but she’d been so full of life. Vivacious even in the small, somewhat blurry, videos.
On my screen, she danced with someone, a guy who faced away from the camera. She leaned into his ear, touching her hair as she grazed her lips over the man’s neck.
Ewen groaned as he added to the timeline he’d been writing up on the whiteboard, tracking Eloise from the moment she got to work and on into the night. There were still hours to fill before we reached her time of death. Her last hours.
‘What if it was just some bum trying to mug her at the end of the night?’
‘You saw the footage. She knew him.’
We’d gone over the film from the alleyway, my stomach clenching as we watched a man snuff out Eloise. His face was obscured from view, and his clothing was not particularly identifiable in the dark alley. She’d smiled at him before looping her arm around him before stumbling back, a knife wound across her neck spilling dark crimson over her torso. When she’d slipped to the floor, the man started rubbing himself, clearly turned on. But he never touched her. Why had he done it? He took nothing. It wasn’t a robbery.
I glared at my screen. The man on the dance floor could be the same guy, his clothing looked similar. The hair could have been right. It was hard to tell.
Logan coughed behind his screen before letting out a low, ‘Oh, shit.’
‘What?’ Ewen asked, moving round to Logan’s screen before his eyes widened and fixed on me.
My arse tightened as their eyes went from the screen to my face and back again.
Fuck.
I was on my feet and rounded their side of the table, making to snatch up the laptop.
‘Katie? You ate out Katie in my club? Come on man, what the fuck?’ Ewen turned with the laptop as I tried to grab it.
‘She’s got a boyfriend.’ Logan watched me scrabble for the laptop with an amused gleaming in his eyes. ‘Didn’t take her for the type to cheat.’
‘They broke up.’ I finally got hold of the edge of the laptop, pulling it from my brother’s hands as Katie leaned back against the wall and threaded her fingers into my hair. My cock twitched at the image as I slammed the laptop shut.
‘You had to go for Cam’s sister? Really?’ Logan picked up a leftover prawn cracker and rolled his eyes at me.
‘He’s been staring at her for two years. Like some little creep,’ Ewen said.
‘Like you can talk about staring. You get off watching people fuck. It’s why you have a sex club.’
‘Calm down. What does it matter what you idiots are into? Mac, don’t shit where you eat. If you fuck her over, Cam will kill you. Hell, Maeve will kill you.’
