After My Death, My Husband Who Threw Me Into the Hunting Grounds Went Insane novel Chapter 24

SCARLET

After dinner, everyone gathered back in the living room with Miss Universe. She sat like a queen next to Luke, who couldn't stop glaring at me. Why couldn't he just tell me he didn't want to transfer his property and kill me?

"Alright, shall we begin?" Miss Universe announced as she opened the folder with the ‘Transfer of Rights' title.

"Wait," Luke suddenly interrupted. He held Miss Universe's wrist, preventing her from opening the file.

"Luke, what is it?" she asked with a frown.

"Read the one with the Transfer of Stocks. I'm taking this folder." His jaw ticked. He forcibly took the folder from Miss Universe, which made her jolt in surprise.

"What's going on, Lucas?" Thomas's voice was tight.

"I think I need more time," he uttered, his voice glacial. "I don't think this is right."

"Luke, you already signed these papers," Miss Universe reminded, her voice still calm and light. "It's already valid, and I registered this in the court."

"Which document is that?" Thomas asked her.

"It's the affidavit of rights that he's transferring 15% of his properties to Miss Scarlet Carter, and this includes the Villa Beatrice at Southampton and 3% of his stocks in Alejandro Technologies," she answered right away. "We cannot proceed with the Title transfer without these files. Shall we proceed to the properties you own instead, Mr. Alejandro?" she asked Thomas.

"No, no. Can you explain the reason for the delay, Lucas?" Thomas questioned again, and I could already tell that he was furious, but Mom was holding his hand to calm him down.

"It's okay, Thomas. Obviously, Luke is not willing to do this. Well, who would? There was no reason for him to give what he worked hard for to a stranger." I sent him sarcastic a smirk he wouldn't forget.

Also, I never wanted any of this anyway.

Luke's gaze darkened, seething under his breath in anger.

Go ahead! Get mad at me! At least show who you really are to your father!

However, Mom cautioned me. "Scarlet, don't say that. No one thinks you're a stranger."

"Sorry."

I didn't mean to say it, but Luke already made it clear that I was an outsider. Miss Universe was more welcomed in this house than I was. Oh! I almost forgot that she was sitting with us. At least she heard what I felt about this transfer of properties. I wanted her to know that I didn't ask for any of it, even if her opinion didn't really matter. If she was Luke's girlfriend, the transfer of properties would matter to her in the future. But he did humiliate me in front of Miss Universe when he took back the documents.

"You and I are going to talk," he pointed out directly to me. "Alone." He made it sound like anything but a simple talk, though. He was challenging me.

"There's nothing to talk about. It is clear to me now."

He didn't seem to care about everything I said to him. He stood up, then grabbed my wrist, gripping me tightly, and then he pulled me up. He dragged me away with him.

"Lucas!" his father called out, then he stood. "What the hell are you doing?!"

"It's time we talk and settle things with my little sister, Dad." He emphasized his spiteful endearment but didn't let anyone hear as he said it in my ear.

Dragging me upstairs, he opened a door and shoved me inside.

"Ouch!" I cried in pain from his hard grip.

He turned on the lights, and the room turned out to be the library, given the floor-to-ceiling shelves across every wall.

He held my shoulder tight, his fingers digging into my skin. He was hurting me. "Let me ask you something and answer me with the truth."

His eyes were scorching in pure anger, and breathing heavily like a wild animal that was about to eat his prey.

I sucked my breath when he placed his hand on my lower back and pulled me against him. He strummed his fingers against the hem of my shirt.

"It depends…" I said breathlessly.

"Depends on what?" he hissed.

"On what you're about to ask."

"Okay…" He lowered his face on mine, our noses almost touching. "How old are you?"

What?

"Answer me." His hands trailed up my spine until his fingers reached the hook of my bra.

I gasped. "I'm—I'm twenty-four..."

"How about your occupation?"

What was he going on with this? "You're not making any sense to me right now."

 He pressed a thumb on my lip, cutting me off.

"I think we are in the middle of a great lie and deceit."

"No, we are not…"

"We definitely are, Ericka." His free hand grasped my ass and slid his finger into my panties. "It's the fact that I made myself clear about how I hate fucking liars. You befriended me online, but you turned out to be a different woman that you said you were. You are good at covering your tracks. I thought we discussed what I hate the most, did we not?"

I could already feel my blood draining my face. My heart skipped a beat, ready to jump out of my chest.

Oh my God…

"Are you going to answer me, Ericka?"

"I never thought that—Jax…"

I sighed in deep frustration. "Coming Mom!" I shouted back.

I continued to type another message to Kath.

Meeting Nate at 9. Will send you an update. Then I tossed the phone onto the bed to pick up my panties.

Another knock. "Mom, I'm coming okay—" I dropped the panties back on the bed and opened the door.

It wasn't Mom but Luke. He was dressed in a pair of blue jeans and a casual white T-shirt that slightly clung to his chiseled abs. I tried to slam the door in his face, but he pushed it open and stepped inside my room.

"Listen to me." His voice was flat.

"Aren't we done after last night?"

He looked into my eyes. "You told me that you're a graduate. You said you're twenty eighty years old. How can you lie about things as simple as that?"

"I said I would never meet you."

"So, when you said you'd meet me next week, it was a lie too?"

I started to step backward, but he was only matching my every step. I felt the cold wall against my back.

"It's a huge mistake, yes. That's why I said I'm sorry."

"Mistake? Do you understand how fucked up this is?"

"You said you're done playing with this game. You don't want me to explain," I murmured, our lips were too close.

"I was looking forward to fucking the woman who befriended me online," he whispered into my ear. "I wanted her mouth, I wanted her to taste me, to ride me. I want to teach her everything. I wanted my cock inside her…" He breathed into the skin of my neck, "You fucked this up, witch. And do you know what's more fucked up than all of this?"

I grabbed the thin fabric of his shirt. "Jax…"

"It's Luke, witch." His fingers slid underneath the towel near my breast. "What's more fucked up now is that I couldn't do it anymore. You are Gene's daughter and my father's stepdaughter. If you only told me who you were, it wouldn't have ended up like this."

"What were you going to do if you found out I was your stepsister before we even knew it?"

"I'm sure I could think of something. Right now, all we could do is deceive ourselves pretending that there's nothing's going on between us. But there is…"

"And you're still planning to do that?"

"No." He stopped playing with the towel and kept me wrapped with it.

"I thought you didn't like liars. But deceiving yourself is also lying."

"I'm not going to lie. But I told you, it's not going to be easy."