Free Chaos Conquers All by A.A. Askevold Page A

and hanging from those chains. As he looked at Daisy, strung up by her bound wrists, suddenly her form became Nikki's. Her naked body was stretched tall by her restraints. Her perky full breasts were thrust forward. The dusky points of her nipples were begging for his mouth and that greedy little pussy of hers was glistening in the dim light. Her body would be totally at his mercy and the thought had his cock throbbing behind his fly.
     
    "Tex?" Nikki's voice broke through his little daydream.
    He turned his attention back to her and that darkness in her eyes mixed with signs of desire as he eyed her.
    "Did it make you wet?" the question popped out of his mouth without warning.
    He didn’t have the presence of mind to regret it. He was already too far down the path and from the way her eyes darkened Nikki already was too.
    "Yes. Being at someone's mercy, entirely under their control, it made me wet," she answered her voice slightly breathy.
    God. His heart beat a little faster.
    "Was it always about the pain?" he asked, because if it was, he couldn't hurt her not like that prick did.
    "It wasn't always about the pain but pain was a part of it. I felt that I needed to be punished for that dark part of me that wants vengeance and destruction. I was denying it what it wanted and placating it with violence of another kind," Nikki explained.
    They all had those dark impulses especially against those that hurt their family.
     
    "And now?"
    He watched her mental gears whirring.
    "And now I know I have to accept that this thing is part of me. I need it to do my job. It protects me and protects the rest of the club. It needs to be satisfied somehow and trying to deny it will only drive me to insanity," she explained.
    "Does that mean you don't want this anymore?" he queried as he gestured to Daisy hanging in the chains.
    "There are parts of me that still want it and parts of me that want something else," she stated.
    The way she was looking at him he hoped she meant he was that something else.
    "Why are you asking me this Tex?" her brow furrowed.
    Why was he asking her this? Did he want to do that to her? For her? How far could he really take it? Did he really have a clue what he was walking into here?
     
    A buzzing noise distracted him from his thoughts. Nikki pulled her phone from her pocket.
    "That was Brodie. Black's just entered the building. Time to wake up sleeping beauty and get this show on the road," she said as she slid a full face riding mask down over her head.
    The image on the front was very fitting. Half of the face was an angelic woman with a blue eye and a soft smile. The other half was a skull. Its eye was a dark stormy grey and its mouth was turned up in an evil grin. The effect was nothing short of terrifying. He actually felt sorry for Daisy knowing what would greet her when she woke.
     

Chapter 6
     
    Trace sat in the quiet apartment waiting for Brodie's signal. His thoughts kept shifting to Nikki. He was still trying to come to terms with Nikki's new role. There had always been something about her, something that set her apart, not just from other women but other people. He'd always thought it was the light inside her, although the darkness in her hadn't escaped him. With the world they lived in and the lives they led all of them had that streak inside them. He hadn't wanted that shit to touch her the way it touched him and Tex. He'd been afraid that if she gave in to that darkness it would swallow up the rest of her. He couldn't let the light inside her die but he hadn't been able to rid her of the darkness either.
     
    He'd spent most of his life trying to save her from the darkness that bled into every aspect of their lives. Despite his efforts, somehow it always found a way back to her or maybe she always found her way back to it. Now he realised there had never been any chance of him ridding her of that. It was as much a part of her as she was a part of him. He needed to accept it and what's more, he