Miss Nobody Ch 41

Chapter 41

FUCKING PORTAL

Day 24

I yelled in my head, "Jess and a Portal? Where? When? You fuckers never tell me anything. How am I supposed to help if I don't know what's going on?" My anger made the heat rise in my body. Quickly raising my temperature. "How am I supposed to keep myself safe, if I don't know who to look out for?" Only Keiran could hear me.

Keiran sighed. "She's pissed...at you guys. She says she can't protect herself with you all fucking up her life."

"That's not what I said." My body stopped shaking and I was able to speak. Bishop was warmer and the side he was on tingled as it came back to life.

Everyone looked at me.

I sank lower under the blankets.

"How are we supposed to talk to you, when you keep leaving?" Jonny scolded me, "And maybe you wouldn't keep getting hurt if you would just stay fucking put." He looked at Bishop. "This is your fucking fault."

The Sheriff shook his head.

"Jess...Portal-" My body warming up made me feel my broken ribs and it was difficult to talk, breathe, move. This would be easier if I could have a couple of orgasms, heal myself, even a little bit. "Keiran, tell them I want to know every fucking detail." I said to him in our heads.

"Just fuck someone, have an orgasm," Keiran said out loud, on purpose.

"No," I barely yelled.

"What's going on?" Jonny looked between me and Keiran.

"Her ribs are broken and she's in a lot of pain but she doesn't want to pick who to fuck. So she's decided not to have sex anymore." He shrugged. "Oh, and she wants to know all the details about the Portal and Jess."

That's not where I wanted this conversation to go. Having a witty and uncooperative interpreter was frustrating.

"I'll do it. We don't have to have sex for her to orgasm." Jonny winked at me.

"No. I'm not letting this go so easily." Bishop glared at Jonny.

Jonny jumped up to his knees on the bed and faced the Sheriff over my body.

Bishop did the same as Jonny. "You've been stealing my girlfriends for too long." He poked at Jonny's chest.

Diego sat in a chair next to the bed with a grin.

With every movement my chest hurt. Fuck this. I could give myself an orgasm. The thick blankets on top of me provided a little privacy and I slowly moved my arm down my body, wasting no time or body movements and circled my clit quickly.

"Just testing their loyalty Primo." Jonny grinned. "Jane was with me first."

I orgasmed thinking about both Bishop and Jonny kissing all over my body. The bones set themself into place but I needed another orgasm to finish the healing process.

"And you ran her off." Bishop narrowed his eyes at Jonny and Diego. "What does your fiancé think about all this?" Once again reminding us all.

I looked over to Diego and saw that he was watching me.

He sucked on his bottom lip and kept watching me while Jonny and Sheriff argued above me.

I orgasmed quickly, thinking about him behind me, and briefly wondered whose fantasy was playing out in my head. My bones moved together like puzzle pieces. "Fuck." My broken bones healed fully. My body was still cold and slowly defrosting but the pain was gone.

"You are a very naughty girl." Keiran could, of course, see my fantasy.

"Shit." Jonny sighed and laid next to me under the covers. "We missed it."

"Your Magic is getting stronger," Bishop sounded somewhat proud.

I laughed. "Or my fantasies are getting better."

Keiran rolled his eyes.

I glared at him and sat up. "Shouldn't you be locked in a cage somewhere?" I got up from the bed and grabbed the top blanket, wrapping it around my naked body. "We are done talking about my sex life. Finding Cherry's body and Jess and this...fucking Portal are more important." My to-do list kept getting longer.

"Let's hope it's not a Fucking Portal." Diego joked from the chair and winked at me.

Maybe I needed to be more careful about the words I used. Was I jinxing myself? "Let's hope. And after that, we are finding a way to break this mind meld thing." I glared at Keiran. "I'm going up to my room and I'm going to change. I will meet every one of you fuckers-" I paused, "I will meet all of you...gentlemen in Chef's kitchen." I turned to leave, hoping there weren't that many people in the lobby of the Lodge.

"You're crazy if you think we're leaving you alone." Jonny was right behind me pulling on his pants.

I turned around to see Bishop doing the same. "Fine."

Diego and Keiran led the way, Jonny and Sheriff behind me as we walked to my room in the laundry tower. The four pillars of men that surrounded me drew more attention than me, disheveled and wrapped in a blanket. This is ridiculous. It was early though and only a few handfuls of people were milling about.

They nodded, averted their eyes or bowed ever so slightly as Diego and Jonny walked past them.

I stopped my entourage of men at the bottom of my staircase. "We won't all fit up there. Let me take a quick shower and get dressed, twenty minutes."

Jonny shook his head and kept walking up the stairs. "It needs to be checked first."

"There's cameras," Keiran admitted in my head.

"What?" I yelled at him from the stairs and everyone stopped, "What did you do Keiran?" I rushed up the stairs past Jonny and threw open the door. I grabbed a small camera hidden in my dried roses. "You planted a camera in my room?" I threw the small device at Keiran.

"Not just one." At least he looked ashamed.

"There's more?" I cried. "How are you blocking this from me?"

Bishop turned around and punched Keiran, the right hook, landing over his eye.

I felt the pain as Keiran was hit across the face. I tried to hide it as much as I could. I only flinched a little. But the tears still threatened to spill. I can't kill him now, can I?

Bishop moved to punch Keiran again.

I braced myself for the impact.

Diego stopped him and nodded in my direction. The four men stared at me.

I felt the bruise swelling my face, the small split across my cheekbone, a slow trickle of blood. "Are there any cameras in the bathroom?" I said calmly through clenched teeth as a black eye formed on my face.

Keiran shook his head and that's where I went.

I didn't block the hatred I felt toward him. I pushed my anger and hurt, the violation, at him forcefully, before shutting our connection down to the tip of a needle.

Bishop and Diego grabbed each one of Keiran's arms.

Jonny nodded to a few men milling about and they helped Bishop and Diego take Keiran forcefully back into the Lodge. Down to the basement most likely.

I knew Jonny and I had somehow been recorded but I didn't realize it had been Keiran who planted the cameras. I thought maybe Maracella had a way of keeping an eye on Jonny but it was Keiran this entire fucking time. When he came to ask for help with Chef's notes he planted the cameras. There was another one in my light fixture. Asshole.

I didn't lock the bathroom door, afraid to shut myself off. I sat on the closed toilet and waited for the bathtub to fill. The salt from my tears stung the tiny cut on my cheek. I could heal myself but decided to leave it for Keiran to see, a visual reminder of the pain he's put me through. I had to break this mind-meld bullshit so I could kill him.

I unwrapped the blanket, letting it fall to the floor as I stepped into the bathtub. The heat chased away the last of the coldness and I sank deeper into the water.

Jonny came in quietly. He knelt by the tub and brushed my hair away from my face.

I stared blankly ahead. "Are you a bad man, Jonny?" I asked softly.

"Some people would say yes."

We stared at each other for a moment.

His eye barely opened because of the swelling. Someone had beat the shit out of him. I wished I could have seen it. Maybe it would make me feel better.

I knew he wouldn't tell me anything so I didn't bother asking. I sat back and sighed, closing my eyes.

"Some people would say no." He poured the warm water over my hair. "My mother yells at me that I have too kind of a heart and let people take advantage of me."

"Sometimes good people do bad things, to protect other good people." I looked at him.

"And sometimes bad people pretend they are good, so they can do bad things."

The urge to pour my heart out to Jonny was strong. I wanted nothing more than to tell him everything. Everything that I'd been remembering. Everything that I had been experiencing. That I was almost sold to the highest bidder.

Alejandro Lopez.

But that would mean thinking about everything else. Bishop being tortured, unwanted eyes all over my body. I shoved the sick feeling down. Jonny already had a fiance. I wasn't going to get myself involved. "Who is Maracella?" I asked, needing to hear it straight from him.

He sat on the closed lid of the toilet. "I went to the Bosses Boss, to ask permission to retire...from this line of work. At first, he wouldn't allow it but word got around and I was made an offer from Martin. If I didn't have sex with anyone for three years, I could retire. No harm done. No problems. In those three years if I did sleep with someone, anyone, I would have to marry his daughter Maracella and take over for him so he could retire." He chuckled and grinned at me.

My eyebrows rose. "So, when I asked you to have sex with me so I could heal?" So the Greater Demon wouldn't pull me into Hell.

"I broke the deal." He shrugged. "But it sounds like Keiran told her before that."

I nodded and shuddered as I thought about the camera in my light. Tears silently fell down my cheeks. The anger in my stomach was hot and sharp.

"You don't have to stay up here. It'll be safer if you stay with me."

I shrugged. "I think it's best that I'm not with anyone right now. We've all seen how that goes."

"Diego and I found something in Chef's books. It might suppress the explosion part."

I shook my head. "It's not just that, Jonny. Everyone I care about seems to end up dead. I'm going to join a nunnery."

"Do those still exist?"

We both laughed, lightening the mood a fraction.

"Why celibacy?" A shift in questions to distract me from having to make a decision.

He shrugged. "Maracella thought it would be too difficult for me. I'm not going to lie to you, I like women."

"Maracella is a woman." I pointed out.

"Maracella is insane." He shook his head. "Even before-" He trailed off.

"She didn't have the proper consent and the Magic went...bad." I sighed. It happened more often than not.

"What about her dog?"

"The man in the corner?" I asked.

He nodded.

"He probably looked at the Demon." I shivered.

He looked at me. "We've been looking for a way to maybe...fix her. Her mind isn't right."

I shook my head. "Maracella did that to herself. That is the price she paid for her spell. Keep looking, definitely but the Magic around here works...it's like it's more amplified, more powerful." I looked at the ceiling. "So everything she said was true?" With technicalities but still true.