Free Experiment in Terror 06.5 And With Madness Comes the Light by Karina Halle Page B

as her grip somehow tightened. Her beautiful and deadly face
was growing dim as my eyes couldn’t stay open.
    But this couldn’t be it. She had to know,
even if she hated me so much, she had to know it was me. That I
meant something to her at some point. That she meant everything to
me.
    I managed to open them again, trying to
focus on her, trying to get her to see me.
    I don’t know if it worked or not, but I
swear I saw a flash of her somewhere in those dark caverns. She
hesitated for a second, her grip loosening, and in that second she
was grabbed by Maximus and ripped off of me.
    She cried out, an ungodly noise, as her legs
flailed above the ground, trying to fight him. Okay, despite all
the crazy ass shit that was suddenly going on, I felt a tiny bit
emasculated by the fact that he had no problem containing her
super-villain strength.
    “Ada, the rope,” he commanded.
    Ada was leaning over me, trying to see if I
was alive. That was nice of her.
    “Leave him. Get the rope,” he boomed. “Get
it now!”
    Ada jumped up and snatched the ropes off the
bed.
    And just like that, Perry suddenly fell limp
in his arms and Ada hesitantly started winding the rope around
her.
    “No, onto the bed,” he said to her. They
brought Perry to the bed and started tying her up. Despite what
happened, I still couldn’t believe it.
    I got unsteadily to my feet, feeling around
my throat. It hurt to touch, as did each breath I took. How could
she have done that to me? I expected a slap, like the one everyone
else had given me. Maybe even a kick in the balls. But this…what
was I saying about being over my head and head over heels? She
meant business and I had no fucking clue what I was going to do.
How the hell was I going to get her to Lapwai to get a god damn
exorcism when she seemed to have this new desire to kill me?
    Ada came to my side. “Do you want some ice?”
she asked gently.
    I shook my head, unable to look away from
Perry’s tired expression, afraid that if I did so, I’d never see
the real her again. I didn’t even know who I was looking at.
    Maximus folded his arms like he was cock of
the fucking walk and strolled into my vision. “I told you so.
You’re going to have a heck of a mark on your face there.”
    I eyed him suspiciously. It just sunk in
that he had a similar looking scratch on his face, as if Perry had
clawed him too.
    I coughed, trying to clear my lungs. “That
how you got yours?”
    “She’s feisty.”
    I didn’t like his tone. My eyes narrowed
some more. “I guess we’ll match then.”
    Maximus chuckled to himself. I knew exactly
what that laugh meant. It was the condescending, oh Dex, you
don’t get it, do you laugh.
    “Not quite,” he said and winked at me.
    Okay, I definitely didn’t get it now, and
what was more troubling was that he wanted me to get it. And as
stupid as I was, I decided to barrel on in.
    “What’s that supposed to mean?” I asked
carefully.
    Maximus shrugged and ran his hand through
his carrot top. “Oh, nothing,” he teased.
    He moseyed to the end of the bed and leaned
against the bed post across from me, copying my stance. He smiled,
slowly, and way too fucking surely. “I just had no idea she was
such a wildcat in the sack.”
    What?
    “Oh, it wasn’t like that with you?” he asked
innocently.
    Ada cried out. “What? Maximus!” But I barely
heard her. All I heard was my blood pressure whooshing through my
body, building into my fists.
    I raised my brow, almost unable to
comprehend it. “Excuse me?”
    Maximus’ smile grew wider. He looked like a
fucking redneck Archie Andrews.
    “You heard me,” he said delicately, his eyes
blazing into mine like he owned the world. “She’s a freaky little
one. Good thing I kind of like it rough.”
    Wildcat in the sack. He liked it rough.
    Perry had scratched him during sex.
    Perry had slept with Maximus.
    He stuck his dick in her.
    I was going to be sick.
    I was going to cry.
    Oh, wait. No, I was going to BEAT