Trey - Shandi Boyes Page 0,74

on a sales docket. An asset.

And yet, I’m still too good for them.

“Answer me, goddammit!” Achim screams in my face, unaware not even the repulsion of his spit landing on my cheek will cause me to blink. I stay completely still. Motionless and mute. Dead, yet somehow still alive.

My lips die to crack into a smile when Achim suspends his second hit midair, but I won’t allow them to twitch. That would give him too much satisfaction. This, however, doesn’t. He’s growing bored of the game remarkably quick. There’s no joy in abusing someone who refuses to respond. His ego can’t be fed from my silent cries. His dick won’t harden because of my whimpers. He’ll need to get his kicks elsewhere because he will never get them from me ever again.

I used to give in because I felt bad that my punishment would be handed to someone else, but my time in the United States taught me differently. I protected Ana. I went to hell and back for her, yet, she couldn’t even share her food with me. She left me defenseless as I do her when Achim releases my hair from his grip before he stomps to Ana’s side of our room.

Her whimpers almost break me.

Her cries almost fill my eyes with tears.

But I cling to the memories that I was once free. It might have only been for a couple of hours, but time doesn’t matter when you’re brave enough to tiptoe out of the dark.

Twenty

Trey

“No can do. You heard Dok. You’re on desk duty until further notice.”

Grumbling that Dok can suck my dick, I make my way to the passenger side of Eight’s car. I spent the majority of the summer in a hospital suite, yet Eight’s pride and joy looks more haggard than me. The lower half of his schmick ride is covered with mud, and the paint on the roof looks like she’s been battling the elements for longer than three months.

I think Eight is chuckling at my derogative comment but am proven wrong when he mentions my pretzel-like maneuver to get into my seat being the most action I’ve had in weeks. My knees are around my ears, and my crotch is an inch from my face.

“Don’t fucking remind me how dire it’s been. Stroking one out while wearing a heart monitor isn’t an easy feat.” He chuckles again when I mutter, “Still worked it, though.” After pushing back my seat as far as it will go, I tug on my seat belt. “What happened to you sneaking in some whores into my room for me? I thought you were my man, Eight, but you left me hanging.”

With his eyes front and center, he fires up the motor of his car. “Nikolai—”

“Doesn’t understand what I’m going through. He’s got Justine’s pussy on speed dial.” I shake my head, still shocked Nikolai is shacked up with a girl. I thought my brothers were messing with me when they filled me in on everything I had missed. Nikolai fell dick first in love. Vladimir was killed in an unexpected raid, and I spent the entire time holed up in a hospital bed because I couldn’t keep my Shelby on the road after a few drinks. “Lucky we’re going back to Clarks now, isn’t it?”

Eight hums out an agreement, but he keeps his eyes on the road, only removing them when he pulls into the closest drive-thru at my request. The hospital food was rank, and I’m more than eager to replace it with something greasy, so Sonic is a good choice.

The quickest flicker of a pair of baby blue eyes flashes before my eyes when Eight asks, “What do you want to eat? Beef, chicken, or wings?” With my mouth refusing to cooperate, Eight socks me in the arm before ordering one of each item on the menu. “But hold on the drinks. We’ll just take two bottles of water,” he says down the ordering box.

After pulling up to the window, he hands the cashier a bundle of cash before accepting the two bottles of water she’s holding out for him.

“You good?” he asks me, peering at me strangely.

I don’t feel close to good, but I jerk up my chin, nonetheless. “Just hungry, that’s all.”

“Aight. It’s coming. Hold your horses.”

The way he watches me when he hands me bag after bag of greasy food makes my stomach churn more than the hospital’s version of scrambled eggs. “If you’re hoping this will get your dick sucked,