Page 79 of Heartless Sinner

I slammed my forehead into his nose. Cory crashed onto the concrete.

The light over the killing cage across the room flashed.

Another warning to stop.

I ignored that one too.

I drove my boot into his ribs before dropping beside him.

“You may become a Son, but you’ll never be my brother.” I grabbed him by the front of his shirt and drove one last punch into his face. “Touch my Fawn, and you’ll fucking die for it.”

Someone pulled me backward before I could hit him again.

Cassian stepped between us in a horned mask.

“Get the fuck out of here,” Enzo snapped behind me. “Shit will hit the fan if you don’t stop.”

They dragged me back into the waiting room and dumped me into a chair.

Enzo ripped off his mask. “You fucking move, and I’m stabbing you.”

“You know that’s not how Initiations work,” Cedric said.

I shrugged. “I got carried away. All of us are guilty of that.”

Now that the adrenaline was fading, every place Cory had landed a hit fucking throbbed.

My ribs. My temple. My fucking hand where he’d bitten me.

“Take him back to the Locker Hall and bandage him up,” Enzo instructed Cedric. “Don’t let him do anything stupid.”

“Got it.” Cedric started to grab my arm.

I knocked his hand away and stood on my own.

Enzo stormed back into the chamber, and Cassian followed him.

I left the room, feeling sluggish with each step.

“This is why I don’t want a Fawn,” Cedric said, walking alongside me.

I peered over at him, my view limited since one of my eyes was starting to swell. “I didn’t want one either. Blame all of this on Enzo.”

Cedric ran a hand through his dark hair while holding his mask with the other. “He wasn’t the only one who wanted you to choose Daphne. You’re my brother. None of us were about to let Cory have Daphne.” He snorted. “We’d all end up cleaning up your crimes.”

I shook my head. “You guys have me all wrong.”

“You love her, man.”

I stopped in my tracks. “You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.”

“Sure.”

“Have you ever been in love?”

“Fuck no.”

“Then shut your fucking mouth.”