Chapter 12

Urge's POV


Lust was dead. The others looked miserable. Love, Craving and Desire were even shedding tears at that moment.

“We have to focus,” I told them.

I didn't want to sound like the monster as usual but them shedding tears wasn't going to do anything. There were people outside coming for us. It was a simple as that. We didn't have the luxury to mourn Lust.

“Don't you care about anything?” Love asked me.

The way he looked at me was as though I didn't even have a soul. I looked away and didn't answer. I cared about Lust to a point. She had trained me. She was a good person. Did it matter to me that she was gone...no. To be honest I didn't give a damn.

The only person that meant anything to me was Desire.

I looked out the window.

Instead of replying to Love I let them know what I saw, “Three snipers are moving in across the front lawn. An assault team is surveying the area. There are two trucks full of assassins parked outside. We are cornered.”

What they needed to be worried about was if my father was going to get rid of them next. I knew my father. He wasn't going to kill me. It was no doubt he never intended Desire to come in under one peace. He just used us to lure Desire out so that he could send a team to kill him. It was no doubt my father never forgave the fact that I fell in love with one of his operatives.

My father would stop at nothing to have Desire dead and I would stop at nothing to make sure that didn't happen.

“Urge is right,” Allure stated, “We can mourn later. Right now we need to release Wrath.”

We all turned to my brother.

My brother was sitting there. His dangerous eyes had narrowed on me. I wonder if he suspected that I was the one who actually killed Grayson. He was a sneaky little bastard. He said he changed but I didn't believe him. He was always up to some trick.

I should have killed him the moment I saw him instead of letting him manipulate his way into the team. Now people were trusting him. That was dangerous.

“Do you not remember the kind of person he is?” Desire said.

Luckily Desire was the only one who hadn't fallen under my brother's spell at this point. That was good at least.

“I have resources. I can get you guys out of this,” Wrath stated, “I can deactivate the trackers...”

“Impossible,” I replied.

“Impossible for you,” he stated.

He was cutting at me. My older brother always liked to make it seem like he was one upping me. He always wanted to be stronger, faster and smarter. He was always my father's favorite. This was just another example of that.

“We have no choice,” Love stated.

Love walked over and started to release Wrath. Love was becoming...a problem. I had to deal with that problem sooner or later. Allure and Love knew that I killed Grayson but I knew for sure that Allure wasn't going to say anything. Love on the other hand was an emotional wreck. He seemed still bothered that I had turned him down. He had resentment over my relationship with Desire.

I would have to deal with him.

But how?”


Wrath was released. Wrath walked up to me. His face seemed to hold so much malice. How the fuck did they trust him? How the fuck did he just get in here and all of a sudden become the hero? I watched as he started to pull something out of his pocket.

I lifted up my pistol and had it pressed at his dome before he got too far.

“What are you reaching for?”

“Relax. If I wanted to kill you I would have done it already.”

“I doubt you can.”

“Actually, little brother, you aren't as tough as you'd like these people to believe. Save the dick measuring for another time.”

“I'm not the same little boy that you remembered,” I told him, “And no need to dick measure. Mine's is always bigger.” I leaned in close, “Ask Desire...”

The look on Wrath's face was undeniable at that moment. Wrath had been obsessed with Desire. Even until this day I knew he had to be. Why else would he be here trying to save the day? He was still thinking about Desire. But Desire was mine.

I had to kill Wrath. I knew it. I knew he was probably thinking the same thing about me. It would just be a matter of time before we did it.

“I'm going to set a bomb. Then we are going to an apartment I rented out on the edge of town. I have a device there that can temporarily deactivate the trackers...”

“Temporarily?” Allure said, “That won't work.”

“It's the only choice we have.”

I couldn't believe they were trusting my brother. Wrath of all people. Wrath who tortured people for a living. He waterboarded people just to see how they reacted to drowning. He flayed people to see how layers of skin looked like. He was a sick crazy individual and my team was trusting him. I had to get Desire out of here. These people were ridiculous.

Wrath was setting the bomb in the living the room. It was a little black device that he was putting in numbers.

I pulled Desire aside from the others. He was looking at me as though I was the only person in this world he trusted. Those beautiful slanted eyes and his stern, almost serious look melted into me all the time. Damn I loved this dude...

“We should leave,” I told Desire.

“Leave?”

He was looking at me confused at that moment. It was hard to talk to him without touching him. We were standing so close and even then I wanted to be closer. Maybe he felt the same way. He let me hug around him. He let me pull him close. Before I knew it we were hugging. I never was the type to need comfort except when it came to him. I needed to comfort him. I needed to be comforted by him. Standing there in his arms felt so natural and so real.

“We can't trust my brother,” I told him, “You know that.

“Lust is dead. We need to know what's next,” Desire stated, “We have to follow him at least until we figure out how to turn off your tracker.”
“Promise me something.”

“What?”

“If shit gets crazy you'll leave us. You don't have a tracker. You can just run again. Look. If that happens just do it. Leave me. Ok? Please. Just promise me that. Leave me. My father won't kill me. I know him. He just wants to remove you from the equation. I can't let him do that. If worse comes to worse, leave me.”

“I'm never leaving you again.”

He meant it. I couldn't help but to lean in at that moment and start to kiss Desire. My tongue went straight into his mouth and to the back of his throat. I kissed him so hard that he had to back up against the wall. I didn't stop kissing him either. My tongue lashed into the back of this throat. A part of me wanted him to escape without me but the bigger part of me never wanted to leave his side again. The fact that he felt the same way made me feel so much better.

I was willing to die for him.

I was willing to kill for him.

“We need to be getting ready,” Love stated walking to the back of the living room where we were standing, “Wrath has his car parked a block down. We are going to make a run for it while his bomb distracts the assassins.”

Love had done that on purpose. He was trying to interrupt us. I could see it in his eyes. That look of knowing. He was dangerous. He was so fucking dangerous.

We started to suit up. Craving was too weak but Love and Desire were going to protect him. Love had his gun and Desire had his knives. Allure had her sniper rifle. I had my gun. Then there was Wrath who all of a sudden shot to the front. He was acting as a leader. He was acting like he was so good at this. I knew Wrath. I knew he wasn't some good leader. He had driven his entire team crazy like him years ago.

“Follow me,” he said.

I couldn't believe this. I couldn't fucking believe him. We were following Wrath of all people. We ran out into the backyard.

Gunfire!

Shit!

There were assassins who were waiting for us in the backyard. They must have gone around the house. I ducked behind a few garbage cans. The gun fire seemed like it was spraying everywhere. I watched in the distance as Wrath was shooting back.

Where was Desire? That was all that mattered! Where was Desire!

“Desire!” I screamed, “Desire!”

I just wanted to know where he was.

“I'm fine!”

I looked behind me. Good. He was safe. He had Craving over his shoulder. Love was with them as well. I peered over the garbage can. One assassin was a sniper who was at the very back of the yard behind the garden.

“Allure take him out.”
Allure was already thinking the same thing. I watched at that moment as Allure perched her gun flat on the ground. She laid down steadying her body.

In the next minute she fired and all that was heard was a sharp scream on the other side of the yard!

I had to admit Allure was good.

It was my turn though.

I jumped over the garbage can. Without their sniper the others would have to use regular guns. I knew my reflexes could get me across the yard. I did hear gunshot. I realized however they were shooting at my feet at that moment.

“Urge!” Desire's voice screamed out.

He was just as worried about me as I was about him. I was doing this for him. I was doing this to help him. The fact that he worried meant the world to me. There was other voices at that moment.

I dodged the gunshots, rolling spinning and thrusting myself forward. There were three additional shooters. There people that I had to take out. I counted the shadows.

Another shot at my feet!
It braised my foot.

Why were they shooting at my feet? They probably had clear instructions not to kill me from my father. The operatives were probably just trying to slow me down so they could get a clear shot at Desire. That was not going to happen.

I made it across the yard. I saw one assassin crouching below a statue. He was trying to reload. I sent my bullet flying at that point. Perfect hit to the back of his head. Gunshots came back at me. They missed. I was running still. My feet wasn't slowing down. I was making sure that I got across that yard.

Suddenly an assassin came out of no where. He kicked at me pushing his knee into my stomach. I sauntered forward! I could feel the pain thrusting into my body but I couldn't let that stop me. I fell to the ground but I took him with me grabbing onto his arm. We rolled around on the grass for a moment or two. He ended up on top of me. He was dressed in all black. I could tell he wanted to choke me but he hesitated. It was odd that he hesitated. He was a killer and most likely a killer from Lady Sloth's team. Hesitation wasn't his usual protocol.

Big mistake.

Just at that moment the bomb had gone off in the house! The assassin turned shocked and confused that the house was now up in flames right behind us.

I slapped his hands away from me and punched him in his throat. He gagged for air. I used that hesitation to throw him off of me. In the next minute I had had my gun back in my hand and shot him twice in his chest.

“Urge!” I heard Desire's voice scream. He was trying to warn me. But from what? What was his warning about?

I kept moving.

One more. One more. I had to kill one more.

“Stop!”

I turned to see the other assassin. Fuck. He had a gun pointed right in the back of my head. If I tried anything he could shoot me right there. He could end my life. Shit! How could I have been so stupid? How could I have been so careless.

Just at that moment someone got behind the guy and snapped his neck before the guy could even pull the trigger!

The person was fast.

Wrath.

“Sloppy,” Wrath told me.

Shit. I turned only to see Desire and the others advancing to the back of the yard helping Craving walk. He had seen Wrath save me. The embarrassment shot through my mind. I was Desire's knight. I was Desire's hero. Desire had just seen our enemy save me and the look on Desire's face was confusion.

Wrath was looking back at him. Don't you dare, motherfucker. Don't you dare look at Desire. I could feel the anger rage up inside of me.

That was when Desire walked up to Wrath and he said something that pissed me off so much.

“Thank you...for saving him.”





We had escaped taking a car that Wrath had parked down the block. Wrath drove us to this apartment on the other side of town. The apartment was big, spacious. It wasn't as big as the house. It had two bedrooms. There was a bunch of tech stuff around. I knew Wrath was always good at hacking so I didn't doubt that he would have a lot of computers and strange devices laying around.

Craving had gone to lay down in the one bedroom. Love and Desire were in there with him. There was no doubt Craving was better from whatever Wrath had given him but I knew that it would have taken Craving a good amount of time to be 100 percent again. Allure was in the living room cleaning her rifle.

“Temper poisoned Craving,” I told Wrath, “Is this some sort of trick or something? Did you tell Temper to do that so you can come in with the antidote and save the day? Was this all some sort of plan to you?”


Wrath was sitting by computers when he I was talking to him. He seemed to be working on something. I wasn't sure what it was. We were away from the house but I knew it was only a matter of time before Sloth and Envy's teams realized that we hadn't died in that explosion. They would then turn on our trackers and try to locate us. It was only a matter of time.

“Relax...little brother, you should go get some sleep.”

“Not until you tell me what you are up to.”

“I'm saving your lives. That's what I'm up to,” Wrath replied.

I didn't trust him. I didn't trust anything about him.

“What happened to you in the last six years?” I asked.

Wrath shook his head, “I got away. I found a way to temporarily disable my tracker. Every 24 hours I have to disable the tracker. I got away and I got help. I went to counseling for years on the issues that I had in the past. You know the issues we had with our father...I mean with Tom. I got help fixing some of those things...”

“From who?”

“Our grandfather...”

I was shocked. Wrath had to be up to something. We didn't have a fucking grandfather. What the fuck was he talking about.

“You've lost it.”

“No I haven't. Back at the Assembly father told me that he learned everything about killing from our grandfather. Our grandfather is a hunter in the woods. I was on my deathbed but managed to escape and he helped me. I can take you to him. He can help all of us...”

I couldn't hold it back anymore.

My hand was at Wrath's throat right now. I didn't want to hear another word from him. Allure had jumped up on guard at that moment. She even had her rifle out. Luckily she had it pointed right at Wrath until she realized that I was the aggressor in this situation.

Wrath had his hands up. Maybe it was to show Allure that he hadn't meant to fight back. Maybe it was to show me that he hadn't meant to fight back. This new Wrath. I didn't like it. The old Wrath was a clear killer.

“You are a monster.”

“We all are monsters...” Wrath explained, “Tom made us that way. Remember. The sins from our past are with us forever. There is no removing those. All we can think about is the future.”

“Is that some bullshit grandfather taught you?”

“He taught me a lot more...including using this machine...”

I looked down at the machine he was talking about. It was a device that was plugged into the computer. It was in a suitcase. It looked like some kind of respirator or something like that.

“How does it work?” Allure asked from the distance.

I released Wrath long enough for him to go ahead and turn the machine on.

I could feel this rush in my body at that moment. It was almost like a jolt to my spine. I turned to realize I wasn't the only one who could have felt it. Allure had jerked up as well. Allure and I exchanged looks.

“It disables the tracker for 24 hours to all trackers nearby. However in 24 hours we'll have to do it again.”

“That's how you stayed away from the Assembly all these years?” I asked.

He nodded, “It isn't permanent. The only permanent way is to the mainframe back at the assembly.”

Love all of a sudden walked into the living room, “Guys...I just felt something. Did you guys feel that?”

“Our trackers are disabled temporarily,” Allure told him.

Love looked over at Wrath.

“Thank you...”

That again. That show of gratitude.

“Are you guys fucking kidding me thanking him!” I finally exploded.

It was unlike me. I never lost my cool. The fact that Desire had thanked him for saving my life earlier and now Love was thanking him was just too much. What the fuck was going on here? This was a monster.

“Why can't I thank him?” Love stated, “He's saved Craving numerous times. He saved all of us. He saved you...”

“And he's a monster...or did you forget all the people he killed.”

“I know you aren't talking...” Love stated, “Especially after who you killed. Isn't that right Allure? You know what Urge has done.”

Silence.

Love was giving me that look. He was referring to Grayson.

“This isn't the time Love,” Allure replied.

Wrath seemed confused. He had crossed his arms at that moment and was studying our faces at that moment. Love was going to say it. He was going to say it.

“What is going on here?” Wrath asked.

“Be very careful Love...with the words that come out of your mouth next,” I told him.

Love turned to me. I had done what I thought had to have been done. Desire was so caught up with Grayson. I thought killing Grayson was the best thing at the time. Looking back, I knew I was wrong. I regretted it. Or did I? Would I have taken it back? If I could go back in time would I have spared Grayson? I thought about it.

No.

If Grayson was still alive would Desire have come back to me?

I wasn't sure.

I couldn't take that risk. Having Desire back with me was everything that I always wanted.

“We should get some sleep,” Love stated instead, smirking this cocky and knowing smirk.

He was a sneaky little bastard. I knew him. Love was trying to hold this against me. How long was he going to hold it against me though. How long was he going to play coy and try to avoid this.

It seemed like he knew what he was doing though. As he walked away I noticed a set of eyes on me. The set of eyes were suspicious. They were thinking. They were trying desperately to connect some dots.

I looked over at Wrath.





I had looked for Desire only to find him in the shower. I found myself undressing and heading in the shower with him.

“You need to keep your guard up Desire. I could have been a killer.”

He laughed on the other side of the shower, “You are a killer.”

The water was cascading down his body. It dripped from the top of his shoulders to the crack of his ass. He had a round beautiful ass. I could feel my dick getting hard almost immediately as the water dripped all over his body. He looked so sexy right there. The water seemed to glitter his back side.

There was nothing that I wouldn't have done to be with him.

I found myself pressed up against him. The soapy suds that was on his body transferred over to my body. My hard dick pressed up against him. My hard dick rested on his lower back almost right on the top crack of his ass. He was a little shower then me but not like really short like Love. Desire was the perfect height. I could kiss him without having to lean forward but at the same time I felt like I was the dominant one in this.

“You see what you do to me?” I asked referring to how hard my dick was.

“I'm glad that I can still do that to you,” he laughed, “I know I'm not Love...by any means...”

I was bothered by him even bringing Love up.

“What do you mean?”

“I can't do tricks. I'm not a double jointed circus entertainer,” he replied, “I'm sure when you had sex with him it was amazing...”
I thought about it. Sex with Love was different. I had to admit it. It was good. Love could manipulate his body in ways that the normal human couldn't. It hurt me that I even did it.

“He has nothing on you. It was only once and it was a mistake...just like Grayson.”

“Grayson wasn't a mistake.”

I turned him around at that time. The fact that he was saying that made me upset. I wasn't being rough with him but I was being strong. We were both under the water. His naked body was pressed up against mine. My hard dick was now nesting in his pubic hair. Him saying that didn't turn off my body from him but it did turn off my mind.

“So what, you enjoyed Grayson?” I asked a little hurt at that moment.

“I experienced something different,” Desire explained, “We weren't together...”

My heart was beating faster, “I hate Grayson for having you. I hate Love because I felt that moment of weakness. I regret it. I regret ever having sex with him.”

I was telling the truth. The resentment that I had towards Love each day was growing. I regretted it. My dick was only for Desire. For the rest of my life he was the only person I wanted to ever have it.

He owned me.

And I owned him.

“Look. I'm not mad that you experienced something different with Love. Just because we were with other people doesn't diminish what we feel for one another. It doesn't diminish our relationship...”

“You are mine.”

He laughed, “I know that...”

I started to kiss him at that moment.

I turned him around so that his body was facing the wall of bathroom and squatting over me. I started to eat his ass out. It tasted so good. The water dripped all over me to the point that I felt like I was drowning for a minute underneath it all but I didn't care. I spread his ass cheeks and put my tongue as far into his ass as I could.

“Oh shit...oh my god that feels so good,” he moaned.

The moaning made my dick spit out precum without me even touching it. I spread his buttcheeks with both of my hands and went deeper. I could feel him jerking his dick. I could feel him getting excited as well.

My tongue lashed out from side to side.

It went up and down.

“Mhmm...” was all I could moan.

“Damn baby...I fucking love you.”

I wanted him to forget Grayson. I wanted him to forget that Grayson ever existed. I damn sure wanted to forget that I ever had sex with Love. I just wanted Desire. I just wanted him and as he jerked his dick I knew that I wanted to please him in anyway possible.

“Does it feel good?” I asked him.

I wanted to hear him say it.

“Yes baby. I can't hold it back. I think I'm going to cum.”

“I want it inside of me.”

I had never experienced it before. I had never even thought about it. Before I knew it though I found myself sucking on Desire's dick from the back while he squated over.

I held his ass cheeks firmed as I bobbed on his dick from behind.

I would never have sucked anyone else's dick. That wasn't my thing but with Desire all those rules went out the window. I just wanted to please him. I just wanted to experience things with him and no one else. I could feel his dick tense up as I sucked his dick from behind.

The cum entered my mouth at that moment. It was a salty thick thing but the fact that it came from Desire made this the best thing in the world.

I swallowed every bit of it up.



We had laid in the living room. Allure was asleep on the couch beside us. Wrath was in one of the bedrooms and Craving was in the other. I believe Love was in the bedroom with Craving.

I held Desire that night on the couch.

“What happens next?” Desire asked me, “Now that we found a way to temporarily disable the tracking.”

I thought about it.

“Wrath says he knows someone who can help us.”

“Do you trust him?”

“Of course not...but go to sleep. Don't worry about things like that. I got you...”

I kissed him on the back of his neck. Desire was sleepy. He clearly was tired. It had been a long ass day and the next day would probably be just as challenging. I waited until he was asleep. I watched every moment of it.


It was the middle of the night when I was woken up by Love. He was sneaking into the bathroom. I heard water running for a while. It was clear by how long the hard water was running that he was taking a bath.

“Desire...” I stated.

Desire was asleep.

I got up at that moment and went into the bathroom to where Love was. I found him in the tub at that moment. He was butt naked. His small frame had filled out the tub however. He was taking a bath.

“Really?” I asked.

“What the hell do you want?” he asked.

“I wanted to talk...”

I moved to the side of the tub next to him. I looked down on him. I had to admit Love was attractive in his own way. My dick wasn't immediately hard like it was with Desire or anything like that. Love had a small tight frame. I could see how people found him attractive but now that Desire was back I couldn't even allow that kind of thought to enter my head.

I sat at the basin of the tub and looked down on him.

“You can't have me,” he stated, “You lost that right. Sucks huh?”

He laughed. He thought I was in here to joke. Idiot.

“You were about to tell weren't you...about Grayson?”

“You think you are above the truth Urge?”

“What will telling about Grayson accomplish?”

“Maybe karma,” Love explained, “Maybe I'll feel better. I fucking loved you and as soon as Desire came back into the picture you dumped me like a bad drug habit. Did you ever think about how that made me feel?”

“I don't care how you feel.”

He was crying. I didn't get it. These emotions were so strange to me.

“You're a monster.”

“I'm a man in love. I'm a man who will do anything for the person that I love. You have Craving. He's clearly interested in you. Why are you trying to start mess? Bringing up Grayson that won't do anything but start mess. Why don't you just be happy with Craving?”
“And let you get away with it? Don't you care about the fact that it still hurts me seeing you with him?”

“No. I don't care...”

I was being honest.

Love was breathing heavy at that moment.

“That's right. The only thing that matters to you is Desire huh?”

“Right.”

“Well how will your precious Desire feel when he finds out the kind of person you really are. What will he think when he finds out that you killed for him.”

“He won't find out.”

“Are you so sure?”

“Yes.”

At that moment I reached down and grappled Love's throat! Love gasped all of a sudden trying to kick and me and push me off. He was trying to claw at my arms. I didn't let go I pushed him deep into the water when he tried to scream.

All that came to the top were bubbles!
He struggled at that moment making an attempt to try to breathe.

I didn't allow it though. I just kept him under the water. I kept him under the water drowning the life away from him.


I kept him under there until he stopped breathing completely.

No more struggle.

No more bubbles.

My hands finally only let go when I knew for sure that Love was dead.



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