Shocked, we both looked at Rylan. And without giving either of us a chance to protest, he said “This mess started because of you. So fix it. Become the new Mu. Get everything in order. You’re disappearing from the world if you accept. I’ll come to you in a week’s time. Give me your answer then.”

Rylan then just picked me up and carried me back to our car. We drove back in silence when he stated, “You’re still agitated.”

Taking a deep breath, I answered, “You’re the leader, and you know who you want for your team. I will trust your judgment on that. It’s just…”

“It feels weird? That your ex is now a subordinate? Or that now you have to care for him?”

“I don’t trust him. I can’t trust him.”

“I don’t trust him either. But Ingline targeted him. We need to keep an eye on him. It can go either way, we get over it and he becomes the new Mu or he betrays us and we kill him.”

“I will kill him. Only I can.”

“Hey hey hey~ Lighten up! There’s still a possibility he won’t betray us again!”

Ignoring Rylan’s attempt to brighten up the mood, “No. He will. His target has and will always be Ingline.”

Rylan flinched and his voice became dangerously serious, “What do you mean?”

“Who the fuck goes for a walk in the middle of a forest at fucking night?! Especially an actor at that! When I first met him, I thought he was just some crazy dude. You know how it started. But remember, I wasn’t supposed to be out on that mission. It was supposed to be Ingline…”

“So he’s…”

“No, he’s not part of NERAL. But NERAL got to him first and he works for them. He just doesn’t know it.”

Rylan slammed on the breaks and we stopped in the middle of a deserted freeway.

“What. Do. You. Mean.” He glared at me but I wasn’t fazed. I just stared at the night sky and replied, “Sleeper.”

“WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME THIS BEFORE!?” he roared.

I slowly turned to face him and gently asked, “Why did you kill your whole family?”

Rylan tensed. “You know why,” he said curtly, his hands going white from gripping the steering wheel so hard.

I began to gently peel his fingers off of the wheel and took his hands in mine. He didn’t look at me but let me do as I wished.

“I know why, who, what, when, where, and how. But I don’t understand why did you kill them. What really set you off?”

Rylan’s breathing became erratic. I could see anger, sadness, and resentment swirling on his face. He tried to stabilize his breathing by leaning back and closing his eyes. He gripped my hands tighter but I accepted the pain.

After a few moments, he let go of my hands and just started driving. I figured he needed a few moments when he suddenly swerved the car off road into the dirt. He stopped the car, stormed out into the dewy grass and morning fog, and then just dropped his whole body down like a rag doll.

Sighing, I took the keys and got out of the car. I closed his door and went to the trunk. I took out a bag filled with an automatic tent, pillows, and blankets. I then took out some water bottles out and snacks. I closed the trunk, locked the car, and walked to where Rylan plopped down.

I popped up the automatic tent and threw in all the pillows and blankets. I also set the water and snacks in a corner. I remove the cover on the top of the tent revealing a white mesh window to view the stars with. I then walked over to Rylan who just laid there with his arms over his eyes. I proceeded to roll him into the tent. Once inside, I zipped it up and lay down next to him, just staring at the stars.

The tent was pretty big, made for 6 people. So as the cold night air began to saturate the tent, I moved closer and closer to Ryland and buried us in the pile of blankets.

Rylan finally moved. He turned towards me and pulled me closer, burying his head in my neck. He started nibbling my neck as he pulled me on top of him. His hands cupped my ass and pressed my hips down, smashing our lower parts together. I could feel the outline of his thick rod underneath our annoying clothes. I could feel myself getting wet and wanting him. I let out a small moan when he flipped us over and devoured my lips. Before I knew it, he had dropped both our pants and entered my pussy with extreme urgency. There was a slight pain but I allowed it. I let him play with me like how he had allowed me to play with him when I needed it.

He fucked me hard, like he was trying to escape by filling up his pain with pleasure. There was no gentle sweetness or cares about my needs. Just pure unfiltered lust and the desire to break and conquer. He fucked me like a rag doll and only allowed me to come once. And that was because he enjoyed choking me too much he forgot I liked it too.

He filled me up three times and not once did he allow any drops of him escape me. When he was done, he collapsed on top me. Like always, I wrapped my legs around his waist, letting my walls softly caress his semi soft cock, and hugged his neck while stroking his soft black hair. We stayed like that for a while, both of us still panting.

After a moment of silence, he lifted himself off of me, lifted one of my legs, and gently rotated me about his cock. He still raised my leg as he began to gently thrust his reviving cock into my pussy from behind. He lifted my legs all the way to my chest, clutched my leg within his arms, and began roughly mold my boobs. His other hand went down and went fast on my clit. He started thrusting deeper as he went faster on my clit and rougher on my boobs. I let out a series of short breathy moans. I turned to look at him when he claimed my mouth in his. Our kiss this time was wet and sloppy. I pulled his hair and greedily devoured his tongue as I felt like we weren’t close enough even though we literally could not get any closer.

Finally my body convulsed so strongly that I just wanted to roll into a ball. But he didn’t let me. He broke our kiss and held me face down, but was still thrusting hard, still rubbing my clit, and still abusing my boobs. He then bit down on my neck, marking me once again. Though this time, he bite my right side. I came for a second time from both pleasure and pain and unfortunately passed out.

When I woke up, I found myself being spooned by him as he was still inside me. He knew I was awake but we both said nothing. We just gazed at the sky that was slowly becoming bright.

He cuddled me so tightly I almost couldn’t breathe.

“Hehe!” he laughed in a low raspy voice. “I just love you so much I literally want to melt us together. Ugh I just want to hold you and be inside you forever.”

I giggled, “Same. You know, you’re pretty big but I just can’t help wanted to swallow more of you.”

“Hmm…” he moaned as I tightened my walls around him. I could feel him swelling up inside me but he made no moves to start another fuckfest. So I just let my walls squeeze him as best as they could as he moaned behind me. Finally, he made one big hard deep thrust inside my as he emptied another load into me and I came as I felt a rush of hot fluids burst in.

We didn’t move after that and he never pulled out. He still spooned me while we were both panting hard. After a while he began to speak with his head buried within my neck.

“I know you know the beginning but I just want to tell you anyways.”

I waited, letting him continue.

“NERAL was founded by my great-grandfather Neral Avengle. He… We are not good people but we have our own moral compasses. He did have his own compass but it was broken. What broken it was my father, Dyric.”

“When my father was young, he was kidnapped by a rival family – the Erries. My father had always known that we were an underground family. But that kidnapping event damaged him. My father became a recluse child. But make no mistake, he was vicious and cold-hearted. My great-grandfather had always prided himself on family. That within this cold and dirty world, at least you’ll have family.”

“However, my great-grandfather was also not stupid and blinded. He knew my father had changed. He didn’t know exactly what my father had experienced but he knew it wasn’t good. So he made a precaution that he prayed he would never have to use… Me.”

Rylan’s voice trembled slightly has he wrapped me tighter in his arms. He took a deep breath before continuing.

“When I was born, my grandfather, Celis, had already taken over. But he hadn’t gotten everything yet. I told you the dagger I used was an heirloom and that it signified the rightful heir of NERAL and that was why they targeted me. But the truth is you will only be considered the new head if you take that dagger and plunge it into the heart of the predecessor. And that wasn’t the rule my great-grandfather had made. It was my father.”

“When my father was kidnapped, he was brainwashed into doing everything in his power to get that dagger. Because it’s not just a dagger. It’s a key. What for I still don’t know.”

“Twelve years ago on that night, my great-grandfather was finally on his death bed. The dagger was to be handed over to my grandfather. Up until then, no one besides my great-grandfather knew where it was. So my father waited all for that day.”

“The moment my father saw the dagger, he sprang a coup and plunged that dagger into my grandfather’s chest before doing the same to my great-grandfather…”

Rylan took another deep breath.

“I had always been close to my great-grandfather. Grandfather had taken over and was busy while father was crazy with his brainwashing. It was great-grandfather who taught me everything I knew. It was also great-grandfather who prepared me for that day.”

“He told me the dagger was a key but he didn’t tell me what it was for or where its lock was. He had gotten all the paperwork done that should my father start anything I would be a sole beneficiary. But my great-grandfather had long been retired and my father had set up a solid support.”

“Once my father had cleaned up all remaining resistance, in came the Erries to start cleaning up the rest of us. I escaped with an unconscious Ingline to a safe house I had set up before. I left her there and went back to try to get the dagger. I knew if they left, I wouldn’t be able to track them and it would be years before I could get revenge.”

“I somehow lured all of them inside the house and blew it up. It was a trap my great-grandfather had set up decades ago. While they were heavily injured, I slit all their throats and then burned all the bodies.”

“It took me almost two days before I could find the dagger under all the rubble. When I found it, the Damascus steel blade was still inside my great-grandfather’s chest.”

“I took the blade and buried him with the rest of my family. Even with my father. I never knew him. I hated him for destroying my family. But I also pity him since he could barely comprehend what he did.”

“After that, I hid from the rest of the Erries while training Ingline. That was how we ran into you in the first place.”