My Maddie (Hades Hangmen #8) - Tillie Cole Page 0,37

my vein. I hissed as the blood began to trickle down my skin, rolling over my palm. I fisted my hand and breathed as my dick grew hard.

Styx moved closer to the bitch who was tied to the upturned cross. She was tied down. Just like I had been tied down by Pastor Hughes and bitten by snakes. My skin twitched as I remembered them slithering over my skin. As they crawled all over my body, sinking their teeth into my flesh—the devil recognizing me as his own.

Styx lifted his hands. “Samson, Solomon, Beau. Take the perimeter. Check for any signs of the fuckers who left this.” The three of them jumped on their bikes and took off. Styx stood up and crossed his arms across his chest. Ky flicked his chin at Ash. “When did you see it?”

“Just before I came to y’all. I was walking through the woods and saw the flames.” Ash turned his head to me. I didn’t know why he was looking at me. We hadn’t spoken since that night in the woods.

“You never saw who left it?” Ky asked. Ash shook his head.

“The goats’ heads. The fucking blood. Now this?” Tank bent down at the cross, at the bitch hanging, hole on her stomach. “The heart in the pentagram. Her fucking stitched-up mouth. What the fuck?” Tank ran his hand over his shank scar. “Devil-fucking-worshippers? That who we fucking dealing with now?” My pulse started firing faster. Devil-worshippers. I had demons in my blood.

“Or fuckers pretending they are,” AK said. “Don’t think we get many legit devil-worshippers around these parts.”

Styx began to sign. “Cut her the fuck down and burn the body. Not having this shit on our land. We need to patrol. We need to find the assholes who brought this to our door.” Styx smirked. “And we need to teach them a fucking lesson.”

“The wrath of the fucking Hangmen Mute, ladies and gentlemen!” Vike started clapping. I couldn’t take my eyes off the bitch hanging on the cross. Off her eyes, wide open in death. Off her mouth, forced shut. Off the black lines around her, where the flames had destroyed the grass. I sank my nails into my arm, over and over again. Had they come for her with snakes too? Had they bitten her too?

AK and Tank started cutting the bitch down. Her body slumped to the ground. Her eyes were looking up at me. Death. Fucking death was staring right at me. The fire in my blood started climbing, getting hotter and hotter, needing to be released.

When I looked at the bitch on the ground, all I could see was my mama. My mama covered in blood, a knife beside her. Then in her place I saw Maddie… I growled low in my throat when I saw Maddie staring back at me from the ground. Except her stomach wasn’t cut open, it was round with the baby. But she was dead. Her body was still and white. Fucking dead. The baby too. Fucking—

“Flames!” Bull’s voice cut into my mind and I snapped my head up.

Brothers started moving when AK shouted, “The clubhouse!” Over the trees I saw fire rolling toward the sky, smoke plunging into the air.

“No!” I screamed and ran to my truck. My fucking pulse set off into a sprint as I dived into the driver’s seat. I pulled out onto the dirt road, the back wheels sliding on the grass. “Maddie!” I roared into the truck’s cabin, as I followed my brothers’ bikes up to the clubhouse. The closer we got the more I saw the flames. “Maddie! MADDIE!” They were everywhere. Fucking flames. Flames climbing higher and higher, fucking eating the wooden parts of the clubhouse. Jumping from the truck I ran out the front. “MADDIE!” I heard coughing. The bitches were rushing to the tree line of the woods, Rider and Zane leading the way. I searched over them all. Watched AK, Styx, Ky, Tank and Bull find their bitches. Sia ran out of the building, Hush and Cowboy running forward to catch her. Tanner was with Lita near his truck. The kids were all there—the babies, Grace, Saffie—

“Maddie!” I turned my head to Mae. She was looking around too.

“Maddie! Where’s Maddie?” she said, panicked. “Maddie?” Mae shouted, eyes wide. “Maddie! MADDIE!”

I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t fucking breathe! No. No. NO! “MADDIE!” I roared. “MADDIE!”

“Fuck!” Rider hissed.

I didn’t fucking wait. I ran into the building. As the door opened, the fire and heat