Chapter 182

Warning: This chapter contains sensitive content related to nonconsensual sex and rape. Please proceed with caution.

Silas POV

She whimpers beneath me, clawing at the sheets like a trapped animal.

“S-Sir, it hurts,” Jolene chokes out, her voice weak. Useless.

I slam into her harder, fisting her thin hair and shoving her face into the pillow. “Shut the fuck up.”

Two blue pills have my cock stone-hard, throbbing with a fury I haven’t been able to purge since my son vanished off the face of the earth.

Jolene’s body is barely there—just skin, bones, and tremors. She’s barely sober—just enough to consent.

Just enough to submit.

That’s all I need.

She doesn’t realize I know exactly who she is.

Jolene Sterling.

Mother of Kaiden Sterling.

King. The Crimson Reaper’s enforcer.

She thinks I’m saving her.

Thinks the pills I give her are part of some “sobriety protocol” I offer to broken women looki