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Zane scowls at her. “I’m not going to be put through more shit just to protect your skanky ass,” he hisses at her and then turns his scowl on me. He’s hanging limply from his restraints, the fight obviously having drained out of him. “The weed. She helped with the weed. It started with just skimming off the top. Later once she got the keys, she took money out of the safe. My man fucked with the cameras here and at the warehouses. At night, I’d change the inventory numbers on the weed and the guns. I was working with another group to route the stolenproduct to the cartel and some other dealers. Then I started helping Oasis by kidnapping people off the streets and handing them off to the thugs they hired from somewhere nearby. Ashley helped with that, too. She faked needing help which got more women to let their guard down. Ashley also helped leak information to Oasis about Ember and Pyper’s locations. She followed you guys everywhere, giving them live updates.”

While I’m still pissed as fuck at how much they’d betrayed us, I just nod for now, relieved that there was nothing new.

I look over at Daemon giving him a chin lift to proceed. He wheels a cart in between all of them and as soon as he sees it, Zane starts begging. He motions to Ember and she watches him hook them up to the machine, and then she does the same thing to Ashley. After they both step back, Daemon shows Ember how to work the remote and then she flips the ‘on’ switch.

Instantly, all of their bodies start to convulse as short bursts of electricity course through their bodies. They go through four cycles, resting for a few moments after each cycle.

Then, when Daemon takes the remote back and starts unhooking the machine, Clutch approaches Ember.

“Queenie,” he starts and I fight not to grin and give away his surprise. Ember turns and frowns when she sees Sandman wheeling forward a contraption on a metal cart with a white cloth covering it. Sandman places it in the middle of all five of our guests and instantly, all five of them warily eye the cart. Thenmis hermanos(my brothers) bring out five carts with a box on each that holds Levi’s gifts and they place them behind each guest.

“I started on this after your last round with Bug. I took inspiration from Levi’s ‘toys’ as she calls them, and I figured if we ever got our hands on Drone and Scooter, you’d might wanna use something similar.”

Clutch gives Sandman a signal and he pulls off the white cloth.

“Holy shit!” Ember exclaims, her hands flying to her mouth in surprise, but thankfully she doesn’t touch her skin since she’s still wearing soiled gloves.

“Is that what I think it is?” she asks and Clutch’s lips twitch.

“Well, that depends on if you think it’s a mini-guillotine or not.”

Ember fucking straight up cackles. “Oh my God! You made a mini-ween-guillotine! A weenotine! Haha! Off with their weens!”

Her eyes widen at some train of thought she must have had while at the same time, Zane, Scooter, Drone, and Bug each start pleading for mercy.

“Oh shit, I gotta tell Levi this! We should totally have shirts made that say ‘OWTW (iykyk)’.”

Mis hermanos(My brothers) bust out laughing at her while I stare at her in shock before also succumbing to laughter.

“Holy shit, T,” Taco says in between his laughter. “You fucking picked the best woman ever. And the best Queen ever.”

“Ella es perfecta(She’s perfect),” I reply and fuck do I really mean it.

Chapter 43

Tico

Afterafewmoments,the laughter dies down and Ember beams up at Clutch.

“Thank you so much, Clutch, for your gift. I’d hug you, but you, know. Bodily fluids.”

A few ofmis hermanos(my brothers) snicker at that and I shake my head, smiling despite the seriousness of the situation.

“I think your guillotine will be the second to the last act for the men tonight.” Then she pauses as she turns to the guests.“Now, before we get to Clutch’s very thoughtful present, it’s time to reveal the present I mentioned for all of you earlier, compliments of a friend of mine. Levi.”

“No, no, no,” Zane begs. “Please not that. Kill me now, please!” He twists in his restraints, trying to clench his ass hard to stop what’s about to happen. He’s so caught up in his protests that he doesn’t realize the barbed wire that’s still strapped around his body is tearing his skin to shreds with every shift he makes.

Ember grins darkly at his protests. “No, you get a front row seat to this, Zane. While I don’t know all the specifics, I do know that you killed a woman after raping her before you were caught in the act by Weber’s men.”

I pause at that, not realizing that she’d found that out, but I guess she most likely would have found out sooner rather than later.

“Now,” Ember says as she reaches into one of the boxes and pulls out the metal dildo, “Zane obviously knows what this is, but for the rest of you, let me show you what all these little pretties will be doing to your insides.”

She places the metal dildo on the cart and all of them start begging, especially Zane, when the metal spikes protrude.

For the next few minutes, she goes through what each of the items does and her grin grows darker with each sin they confess. She looks silently over at Wire who dips his chin, indicating to her that he’s recording the audio for all of this.

Ember turns tomis hermanos(my brothers). “Gentlemen, if you would be so kind as to help me get our male guests situated and suited up? I’ll take care of getting Ashley dressed for her big finale.”