CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 5

This was what hell must be like. Lillianna was living a life of hell. From that first time AJ had sex with her and she knew that AJ had only started to play this game for real. He was no longer holding back.

A part of Lillianna was relieved that it was over, that he did it already so she no longer had to stress about when it was going to happen. She knew this was his way of showing his dominance, of showing her that she was nothing to him, that she was merely here to pay for her brother’s crimes against him.

He hated her, just the way he looked at her, the way he treated her, he touched her purely to fuck her head up.

She cringed recalling the orgasm he had given her. It was completely out of her control, she had no way of stopping it, didn’t know what the hell was happening to her body or how it happened. AJ was too experienced in that department for her to fight him. She didn’t know how to fight him or his touch.

The entire week after he had taken her and Lillianna was a mess. She did her best to act like she was okay, that this wasn’t killing her. That she didn’t dread every second of the day and her fear of the next time that AJ wanted to take her.

He slept in her room every day that week. He fucked her a few times a day. It was like the more the fucked her the more he wanted to hurt her. It was so bad. She had no idea how to stop this. In the bed he would keep to himself, never made an attempt to touch her. It was after sex and it was like he was totally done with her.

She was to remain in the bed every morning until he left the room. Did not understand a single thing about this man. All she knew was the longer she remained under his rule the worse he was becoming.

Lillianna was finding it hard to breathe lately. AJ never left her alone for long. If he did he would ask her question after question about who she spoke to. He seemed to have an issue if she conversed with other men.

Maybe it was his fear of them finding out who she was… Not that she understood why it mattered to him if anybody knew. Nobody could possibly hurt her more that AJ himself. He was after all the head of this entire set up. Tristan was there with him but ultimately it was AJ who ran this show and everybody knew it.

Lillianna was struggling with how much sex AJ was demanding of her. Her body was sore and she was exhausted. He was not a nice man and was even meaner when it came to sex.

She was surprised when he didn’t come into her room one night. It would have been almost a week and half since he had taken her for the first time. It felt strange to be in the bed without him…

Lillianna didn’t want him anywhere near her so this was a little bit of breathing space for her now. She was okay with not having him beside her.

The following day and AJ was in a mood. She was to bear the brunt of his anger for nothing she did. She was doing everything he demanded of her and more. She just didn’t understand why he was so angry at her all the time.

“What took you so fucking long!” He yelled after she placed his coffee down onto the table. She didn’t take long at all. She knew he was just in that mood. “Ha?”

“I’m sorry…” What else could she say. Lillianna noticed how everybody seemed to have quietened down now. All attention on her.

“You have one fucking job… One job… And what is that job?” Fuck… Always making her repeat this fucking answer.

“To serve you.”

“To serve me… So why the fuck aren’t you serving me?” He snapped. Lillianna rubbed her lips together not really knowing how to reply.

“What’s with you?” Tristan asked now. “Fuck off already and leave her alone bro.” No… Tristan needed to keep his mouth shut. AJ didn’t seem to like it when Tristan spoke to her or about her. It always got AJ into a very bad mood.

“You want her?” AJ asked his brother. No… “Ha? Is that it? You want her?”

“Fuck off bro, what the hell?”

“So what the fuck is it to you how I treat her? She is my pet… Mine. I can do whatever the fuck I want to do to her. Not your concern.”

Lillianna drew in a deep breath not knowing what to do. She hated it when AJ was in this mood. “She didn’t do anything.” Tristan was sweet, he was but he needed to stop right now.

“Yeah… I mean, I think I’ve made it perfectly clear for you all to fuck off out of my business when it comes to her. I have an idea…” AJ was scaring her now. He stood up and grabbed his keys off the mantel. He grabbed the initial that hung of the keys and put it over the bonfire that sat decorating the centre of the outdoor setting.. Lillianna had no idea what was going on. He walked over to her and grabbed her by the nape of her neck forcing her around. He pulled down the straps of her top and pressed the burning metal onto the back of her shoulder. Lillianna cried out unable to help herself.

He just imprinted his initials onto her body…

He pressed it so hard holding her arm hard so she could not go anywhere.

He kept it pressed for a few minutes before he pulled it off her. She was in tears. AJ assessed the result before he turned her around roughly and showed the mark to Tristan. “What does that say?” He asked. “It says AJ… AJ… She is now marked. I have branded her as my own. Is that enough for you to understand that she belongs to me!”

The entire place fell deadly silent. Lillianna was so shocked, so sore, she didn’t know what to do. Her tears were falling rapidly now, no way of stopping them. She was a mess.

AJ turned her around to face him now and licked the tears off her face crudely. “Who is your master?”

The bastard was not done humiliating her. She wanted to spit in his face. She wanted to lash out but did nothing of the sort. She wasn’t a fool, she knew what he was about.

“You.” Lillianna managed to whisper. She was a wreck on the inside.

“Right… Just so everybody can understand it. Me.” AJ let her go and returned to his seat. Lillianna was in a lot of pain. She was too sore to lift her top back up. “Sit.” He ordered her like she was nothing but a dog.

Lillianna sat down beside the fucker. She was doing her best to keep from sobbing. AJ had few smokes before he seemed to have somewhat calm down. Tristan kept his attention on anything but her. He spoke to AJ about work after a while and things seemed to have settled.

Lillianna was in a lot of pain, she felt blood dripping down her back but was too afraid to move or to do anything. Wasn’t until AJ touched her wound that she cried out. “Go to the nurse.”

Not wanting to sit there for another second, Lillianna did as she was told. The minute she was in the medic room she broke down. The nurse cleaned her up and put something on it to stop the burning pain.

“It’s going to be there forever… He’s marked you…” The nurse said as she wiped the blood gently. Lillianna dared to look at the scar and was shocked to see how clear the initials were. AJ… The fucker branded her.

It was red and raw and looked like it was going to become infected but the AJ was so prominent… It was a scar she was to wear for the rest of her life. He made it so the world now understood that she was his… Sick fucker that he was… She would forever remember AJ now… Not that he was easy to forget.

Lillianna did not see AJ again until later that night. The men had left and it was only the ladies.

“So you are like a cow… They mark cows right?” Sally was being a complete bitch to her. Marla and Britney laughed. Lillianna for the life of her could not understand how anybody could be so cruel.

She had to sit there and endure their snide remarks. Lillianna understood that the more attention AJ was giving her, the more the girls hated her.

The men arrived after a few hours and by this time it was dark. Lillianna had no idea how AJ’s mood was going to be. So when he walked in followed by Paul she almost dropped to her knees. Lillianna held onto the sofa to keep herself from dropping.

All she wanted to do was run into her brother’s arms. She wanted to sob and carry on and do everything but knew it would be a deadly move to make. She stood there quietly looking at her brother… Her brother. He had lost so much weight… So much.

His eyes hit hers and she was doing everything to hold herself back. AJ had his hard look about him. He looked murderous. Paul rubbed a hand over his mouth before he joined the men outside.

Lillianna was a wreck. She knew she had to be serving AJ but her body was not responding. “You are honestly going to keep him waiting?” Marla rolled her eyes at her.

She had to pull it together. Come on girl…

Lillianna filled up his glass with scotch and walked outside to hand it to AJ. She was shaking, her hand was literally shaking. Paul was looking at her helplessly and she had to remind herself to stay composed. This could go either way.

Her fear was having AJ hurt him in front of her, kill him… Oh my god. AJ took the drink and Lillianna had to be there in case he wanted anything. She had to play it like she always did.

What was worrying her was that Jarred and Max were also there. It wasn’t looking crash hot for Paul. “You think we can trust him?” Jarred asked as he put out his smoke.

“Again, I have something he would die for. Let’s just say he will not dare fuck up…” AJ was king of cool.

“I mean, not too sure where my brother’s head is at…” Tristan now. “You fucked us up…” Tristan was looking at Paul. “I mean, usually what we would do in this case is well…”

“I get it.” Paul spoke now. “Had I wanted to bring you all down I would have done so. I delayed it…” Paul… Oh my god. He was still holding his own.

“You were still going to see it through.” Tristan wasn’t done either.

“I had many things to report on you… I never did.”

“Doesn’t change the fact that you were going to do it…” Jarred now.

“I’m a cop… It’s what my job is. I was assigned…”

“Yeah well… Now you want us to trust you?” Max wanted in on this now too. Lillianna was holding her breath. She was so afraid for her brother.

“Like AJ said, he has something that I would literally die for. I will not fuck up. I will not even consider it. Trust me on this… If I was ever going to fuck up I would not do so. Not with what is at stake…”

Lillianna felt bad for her brother, how hard must it be for him to be in this position. It was so bad, she knew that one wrong move on her part, on her brother’s part and they were both as good as dead. She didn’t know what Paul was planning on doing. He was doing a damn good job at sounding convincing.

“Right, so you know what to do then?” AJ was speaking to Paul.

“Done.” He replied before he lit himself a smoke. He took a gulp of his beer looking right at her. She wanted nothing more than to run into his arms.

Of course she did nothing of the sort, what she did was serve AJ and remain right there to be treated like shit. AJ told the ladies to go inside after a while and Lillianna felt like her heart was being ripped out of her chest. She sat inside with the women looking out. She was so afraid for her brother. Her attention on the men and nothing more.

“What the hell is with you?” Marla asked sounding really over her.

“What?”

“You are acting like a fucking idiot. What’s the issue?”

“Nothing… I… I just don’t like how this meeting is going. It’s strange…” She found herself saying.

“What is? He’s a cop, got busted is now working on the other side of the law.” Marla rolled her eyes at her. “You’ve been around long enough to know that AJ knows what he’s doing. You think he would allow Paul back if he was a threat. I think he’ll end up killing him after he does what he wants him to do.”

“Why would you say that?” Lillianna felt sick.

“Come on, do you actually think AJ is going to let him live? He probably needs him for something and then it’s over. Dead…”

“Shut up… Stop saying that.” Lillianna had to remind herself that she was on dangerous grounds right now.

“Why do you care?” Sally had to have her piece now. “Fuck him, if he thought to hurt AJ and Tristan he needs to die.”

“How can you be so heartless?” Lillianna hated Sally the most. This bitch cared for nothing or nobody but herself.

“Fuck off with your innocent act. Nobody cares Lillianna, it’s getting old. You think because you get AJ’s dick hard that you are special… Trust me sugar he fucked me just last night…” Hearing Marla say that was like a knife in her heart.

She didn’t understand why it hurt her to hear that AJ was fucking Marla or anybody else. She hated him, truly detested him but it felt like her heart was being ripped out of its chest hearing her say he was with Marla.

It wasn’t that she loved him or felt shit for him, it was not the case. It was just how he made it seem like she belonged to him. That she was his… That he owned her. As disgusting as it was he forced that into her head.

She hated that she had to serve him, hated him how he forced to her identify as being his… Having his name imprinted on her back for life was just the icing on the cake for Lillianna. She felt so completely lost.

He was stripping her of who she was. He was literally forcing her to be nothing but his slave.

Lillianna chose to keep her mouth shut after that. She sat there mindlessly and just waited… Took a while before Tristan indicated for the women to join them again.

Dancing and drinking and everything that came with being a part of this clan took place. Paul sat there smoking and drinking as did the other men. He seemed okay.

AJ turned his attention to Lillianna and called her over. His glass was full so she didn’t know what he wanted. He patted on the sofa so she could take a seat beside him.

Lillianna braced herself, her fear was AJ putting her on the spot in front of her brother.

AJ moved her hair and put it over one side of her shoulder before he moved her top down and touched the scolding mark he had given her. She almost jumped when he kissed it.

Lillianna did not dare look at her brother, she did not dare react. She sat there and waited for AJ to finish whatever sick game he was playing.

“What’s that?” Jarred asked obviously referring to the mark on her back.

“Show them.” AJ said leaning back on the sofa. Oh god. Lillianna turned around so they could see.

“You imprinted her?” Max sounded a little shocked.

“Yeah…” AJ nodded his head as he took a drag of his cigar. Lillianna returned to face them in her seat. She was humiliated.

“Why?” Max seemed intrigued.

“Why not? Just to make sure you all know who she belongs to…”

“Nice…” Max nodded his head at that.

Lillianna looked at her brother who was looking straight ahead. He was angry, he looked dark and very angry. It was then that AJ spoke to Lillianna again. “Go.”

She left them and headed right up to the room to sob. Her life was over, there was no way she was going to survive AJ… No way in hell. He was getting worse by the minute. She felt like such a loser…

Her brother… She prayed he didn’t do anything stupid. AJ would be waiting for one fuck up to end Paul. She knew that AJ did not allow for mistakes. She just didn’t want Paul to react. She didn’t want him to let AJ rile him up…

Surprisingly enough AJ made no attempt to come into her room that night. She was glad for it. Her body was a mess. Seeing the scar on her back the following day and she cringed. It was so clear… His initials standing out. AJ… What a joke. He was a fucking animal to put her through that.

After dressing and finishing off, Lillianna headed downstairs quickly. She did not want to keep AJ waiting. Her shock at seeing Paul in the living room. Not able to help it, Lillianna hurried over to him. He shook his head at her not to touch him.

“Are you okay?” She asked looking around nervously.

“Shh… I’m okay. You?”

“I’m fine.” She lied. She was so not fine.

“What the fuck is going on?” He asked her indicating to the mark that he had given her.

“He… He wants to show them who is the boss… I don’t know. It doesn’t matter.” It so mattered.

“I’m sorry… I’m so sorry Lilli…”

“It’s okay…”

“I am going to get you out…”

“How? How?”

“I will do whatever he wants. I will do everything he wants to free you. I’m so sorry baby…”

***

AJ gave Lillianna and Paul enough time before he made his appearance. He raised his eyebrows when he saw them together. “I thought I made it perfectly clear that you are not to be talking to men… Any men.”

“I…” She had nothing. He would make her understand how to defy him. “I’m sorry.” Of course she was. Her brother’s life was on the line. Lillianna hurried to get his coffee. He looked at Paul and waited to hear his take on this.

“Why?” Paul asked as he put his smoke out. “Why do that for?”

“How does it concern you?”

“AJ, bro, that’s my sister… Don’t go there… Don’t do that… I’m doing whatever you want. I will continue to do whatever you want. Just… Let her go man… She isn’t a part of this.”

“I think she is.”

Before Paul could say anything Lillianna returned and placed his coffee in front of him along with his smokes. He indicated for her to sit down beside him which she did.

“AJ… I fucked up… I did. I am man enough to admit, again, I didn’t see it through, wasn’t going to see it through. I was leaving… You know I was… I was going to abort mission… Don’t be doing this to her…”

“Or mind your business. You do your job and maybe focus on that. She is nothing to you.”

“She’s my fucking sister man…”

“See, it doesn’t matter… Now she belongs to me…”

Lillianna drew in a shaky breath. She seemed extremely tense.

“What can I do to make you stop this?” AJ scoffed when Paul tried that.

“Do? You can’t do shit. Damage is done. Best you forget you ever had a sister. If you want her to live that is… If you want to live… I suggest you put your efforts and energy on business and only that.”

Tristan had woken up and joined them. He sat down and looked at the three of them. “I don’t get it AJ… I actually don’t know how you think this is going to work… He’s a nark…”

“I have it sorted. He fucks up and it I fuck up his world. Don’t stress Tristan. I would never do anything unless I know the outcome.”

“Why do it?” Tristan was asking Paul now. “Why? I mean, come on man… We did nothing to you… You came looking for us… We are minding our own… Did not step on your toes… You came to us…”

“Yeah, I know… I also didn’t see it through. Not after I hung around you guys for months. You know I could have fucked you all up. I could have done so from the beginning. I didn’t do it. I won’t do it.”

“Yeah well… I don’t know where my brother’s head is at, usually he would have obliterated you and your entire family for attempting to fuck us up… But okay… AJ seems to have it in a bag…”

Paul left soon after and Lillianna was sitting there almost invisible. AJ hated himself how much he missed having her in his arms. Been a few days since he last slept with her in the bed and found himself angry at how he felt incomplete. Nobody was able to satisfy him any longer. It was Lillianna and nobody else.

Tristan knew AJ well enough to know that something was amiss. He wanted to tell his brother but didn’t want to at the same time. He didn’t know how the dynamics were going to change.

AJ was not sure how Tristan would react to knowing that Lillianna was Paul’s sister… Jarred and Max the same. It was tricky.

“You going to tell me the truth?” Tristan wanted answers. AJ rubbed a hand over his mouth contemplating how to do this. “I know something is not adding up…”

“Okay… You’re right…” Lillianna tensed beside him. “Lillianna here is Paul’s sister… I figured out he was a cop and searched his background. Found out that Lillianna was his sister and worked out where she worked.”

“What?” Tristan seemed genuinely shocked by this piece of information.

“Yep… She’s Paul’s sister… So you understand what I meant when I said I have something so valuable to him that he wouldn’t dare fuck up with.”

“Bro… This is going to get messy…”

“I have it sorted.” 

Tristan seemed really uneasy about this set up. “And then? After it’s done… What then?”

“I’ll keep him around for more. What’s the issue? We use him to our advantage… It’s a win for us.”

“And her?”

“Leave her to me.”

“So is she on the market now?” What the fuck was with Tristan?

“No. No she is not. Like I said, she belongs to me. Enough. Let this go for now.” AJ didn’t want to discuss this. He was becoming agitated as hell. “You need to sort yourself out. Stop with the drinking. I need you sober bro.”

“Yeah…” With that Tristan up and left them. AJ kicked the coffee table so hard that everything flew off it. Lillianna let out a small cry.

“Fuck!”

Lillianna pissed him the fuck off when she got down onto her knees and started to clean up. AJ grabbed a fistful of her hair and forced her to be in between his legs. “The fuck are you on your knees for?” He asked lifting her head so she was looking right at him.

“I… I was just picking…”

“If I wanted you down on your knees it would be to suck my cock… Not to clean…” He snapped before he shoved her away from him abruptly. She fell onto her side before she composed herself and stood up.

Just then the ladies arrived. “Call to get this cleaned up.” AJ snapped at the Britney.

The housekeeper was quick to come and tidy it up. Lillianna stood there looking lost. AJ was in a mood. He was pissed off… Nothing more to it. He hated it that Tristan continued to bring up fucking Lillianna. He didn’t get it. Tristan was so hooked on Callie, he was fucking anything that walked right now, he didn’t get what his issue with Lillianna was. He was always good to keep his distance.

AJ rubbed a hand over his mouth as he looked at a white faced Lillianna. “Sally…” He didn’t take his eyes off Lillianna. “Down.”

Sally the good little slut moved down onto her knees before AJ and pulled out his cock before she took him into her mouth. AJ never really liked to do this out in the open was not really thinking straight. He grabbed Sally by the crown of her head and forced her to suck him deeper.

She was a great little cock sucker he had to give her that. Still, no matter how great at it she was, his attention was purely on Lillianna. He watched how her face dropped at what was taking place.

The fact that he could only get off if he was thinking about Lillianna was really getting to his core. Thinking about Lillianna sucking his cock was enough to take him over the edge. AJ came with so much force.

Once Sally had licked him clean he packed his cock away. “Get me a drink.” He ordered Lillianna who seemed to be in some kind of shock.

She rubbed her lips together before she did as he wanted.

The rest of the day and AJ got down to business. He had the boys come over and they were readying for the next shipment. Paul was there and was now one of the team. He had no choice in the matter. It was that or die.

After a long few hours dinner was served. Paul sat there looking at Lillianna and trying not to let anybody know that he was worried. “Don’t be doing that bro…” Jarred must have picked up on Paul’s attention being focussed on Lillianna.

“What?”

“She’s for AJ…”

“Who?”

“Lillianna… We are not allowed to go there…” AJ looked over and thought fuck it. It was a good time to spill.

“Lillianna is Paul’s sister.” He said wanting them all to know now. The silence that filled the air was deafening.

“What the fuck?” Max now. “I get it… I understand now…”

“Yeah… So… As you can all see, Paul will never fuck up…”

“Nice…” Max shrugged his shoulders uncaring.

“So you’re sleeping with the enemy?” Jarred asked now. AJ squinted his eyes. How to word this…

“Yeah…” Paul tensed when AJ said that. He looked ready to attack. Stand down soldier…

AJ nodded his head as he lit himself a cigar. Once again agitated how the attention always seemed to shift to Lillianna. What the fuck was it to anybody.

It was tense for a while before everybody seemed to ease up a little. AJ was agitated. The entire time and he was irritated as hell how Lillianna was even around. He didn’t like it that the men’s gazes seemed to shift to her. Maybe it was all in his head, thing was that he was only going by what was in his head.

“Up.” He ordered Lillianna after a few drinks. He stood up and walked on ahead of her. AJ didn’t look back, he knew she’d be following him. He didn’t care what Paul or anybody had to say about.

He did however hear Max speak to Paul. “Or sit the fuck down brother.” 

AJ knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that his brother and his cousins had his back. Paul was not going to go anywhere and even if he managed to get to AJ, what? He could not stop him. Nobody could.

Paul needed to understand that Lillianna was his property now.

He made his way into her room and she walked in behind him quietly. “Shut the door.” He ordered her as he took his top off. He looked at the vision before him and his dick was more than ready. Always alive and well when it had to do with Lillianna.

She drew in a deep breath before she spoke. “Why are you doing this for?” She asked him quietly.

“Doing what exactly?” He asked tilting his head as he waited for her to reply.

“Making Paul see this…” She pointed at AJ then back at herself. “Why? Why do you have to make it so obvious… Why do it in front of him?”

“Like I give a fuck how he will take it…”

“I am doing what you want, he is doing whatever you want… Why can’t you just…”

“Just what Lillianna? Stop fucking you?”

“Just stop showing Paul…”

“Or I can fuck you there in front of him… Will that be better? What if I share you around? I mean, you are a hit with the men… They don’t stop asking about you… They seem to think now that they know you are Paul’s sister that you are on the menu… I mean… Yeah… I no longer have to keep it a secret right?”

AJ saw her face drop. She understood perfectly well what he meant. If she thought to stand her ground now, he could show her many ways how it would go…

“Can’t you just ease up in front of him please…”

AJ walked right up to her and wrapped his hand around her delicate neck. He could crush her so easily.

“Or I can do whatever the fuck I want when I want…” He said before pressing his lips onto hers. All day and all he wanted to do was be immersed deep inside her hot little cunt. He bit her lip before he shoved her hard.

Lillianna held onto the wall to stop her fall. She looked like a caged mouse. AJ was so taken by her. Something about her…

“Strip for me.” He ordered her as he rubbed his crotch. Lillianna wiped a tear that was rolling down her cheek. Fucking gorgeous bitch this one.

She once again surprised him by how smart she was. She knew that fighting him was futile. He stood there watching her as she pulled her dress over her head left in her matching lacy underwear. Very sexy indeed.

“I think the boys would love to sample you… Would be interesting how it goes…” He said as he took a seat on the bed and called her over. Lillianna walked over to him slowly.

Once she was in front of him he smiled and traced her next to nothing panties.

He was looking into her eyes. Her face all flushed now. AJ stroked her stomach making sure to keep his eyes on hers. She was breathtaking.

“I don’t like it that you are getting attention. It really is grating on my nerves.” He said meaning it. She frowned but did not look away. “I mean… What more does everybody want? I’ve told them repeatedly that you belong to me… Maybe it’s the way you present yourself. You do not make it believable. If they think you are not taking this seriously then they will forever think they stand a chance with you… How do we remedy that? Do you take your job seriously Lillianna?”

“Yes…” Her voice barely a whisper.

“I don’t think you do. I need you to know that you believe it in your soul that you belong to me… Do you belong to me?” He stopped touching her now and waited for her to reply. Again, that hesitation… It was only for a split second but it was there.

“Yes.”

“Yes what?”

“Yes AJ, yes I belong to you.”

“Right… Again, doesn’t sound like you believe that… We have to work on it…”

AJ knew she was struggling with it all. Struggling or not, she needed to give it up for him already. She was not going anywhere, no chance. She might as well understand how it was going to be.

AJ stood up and she instinctively took a few steps back. He smiled before he struck her across her cheek hard. This bitch needed to learn who the fucking boss was. He was done with the men looking her way. It always ignited this fire in his soul. His jealousy was real. He could not contain it if he tried.

Lillianna was down on her knees. She came to get up but AJ held her hair keeping her down on her knees before him.

“Who is your master?” He asked as he pulled on her hair so she was looking up at him.

“You…” Good girl. No hesitation there… That’s how this was going to go. He would etch it in her mind until she believed it to be the case for real.