Uendeligt: An Infinitely Forever Novel

by S King

  Silence enveloped the room and took over the air. Whether Alexi and Heaton were serious about being in our corner was another thing all in itself. Sure they may have helped my friends save me and they were here without the Honor Guard cornering the property, so maybe I could deal with helping the good judges. Still, something didn’t settle right with the scene or the reason. Namely, the why behind them wanting the other judge dead.

  “Miss. River we understand your concerns and reservations. However, this case has taken a turn for…” Heaton trailed off and glanced at Demir.

  Looking between the two, I frowned as the old familiar feeling of distrust started creeping its way into my mind. Something was off and what was worse was the fact I hadn’t a clue as to what the surprise was. Or where the feeling was coming from.

  Brushing the thought aside, I halfway convinced myself I’d worry about it later. For now, I was going to just have to take my eggs as they came. With a settling breath, I turned my attention on Alexi.

  “What do I get in return for doing this?”

  Demir grabbed my arm and stared at me, “are you insane?”

  “No,” I smirked and winked at him. “Not entirely.”

  “That’s debatable.” Dristan grumbled before getting punched by Karina.

  “Shut up,” she hissed and nodded to me in support.

  Looking at the judges, I tilted my head, “well, what’s it going to be?”

  §§§§§

  Judge Sadvidge lived like the black hearted queen she was. A four story house sitting half a mile back from the road, guard by a black steel gate. It was a structure that should otherwise be used as a movie set.

  I narrowed my eyes through the binoculars and shifted on the tree branch. Maybe it was something I had eaten. Maybe I was being pumped with so much adrenaline that it was making my insides roll. Whatever the reason behind the nausea, I kept trying to calm my breathing. This was not the time to get sick and leave any type of evidence should this plan fail.

  “Luminous, where are you?” Shang’s voice broke through the Bluetooth planted in my ear.

  “Outer south side, Karina, where are you?”

  “Scaling the side of this fucking mansion, I thought we went over my fear of heights.”

  “Well, you need to get over it.” I kept my eyes trained on the interior of the house.

  “This isn’t a good idea,” Dristan griped.

  “Then why did you agree to it?” Demir snapped.

  “Because I’m an idiot,” Dristan fired back.

  Naturally, I couldn’t do our final fuck you to the Onyx Elite without the help of my friends. Whether or not we were smart for it, was up for debate. But without Demir, Dristan, Karina and Shang’s help I wouldn’t be able to break into the mansion. So, it was only right to make this a family event and launch our war against the courts with a ball of earth shaking fire.

  Little had I known Alexi and Heaton were hiding news from all of us. Namely Demir. As soon as the light show in Springcrest happened, word had somehow gotten to the judges of both the Royal Sapphire and Onyx Elite. Needless to say, shit started rolling downhill after Demir didn’t show up for whatever meeting was held.

  Ever since then, Sadvidge had petitioned the courts for Demir’s spot to be revoked on the bench along with a matching Platinum Diamond Order to go with mine. Afterwards? It had been made no secret, Sadvidge was deemed as the most powerful of judges within the Onyx Elite and with that power came a certain level of security.

  Shang and Demir had made nice with each other long enough to use their brute strength to force their way beyond the property line and scope out the guards manning the front and back entrances. While the rest of us opted for our own methods of getting things done.

  “Does anyone have a visual on Sadvidge?” I asked, shifting on the branch yet again. Where the hell was she?

  The blacked out Porsche was sitting in the driveway and the lights were on within the interior of the house. But no matter how many rooms I searched or looked through the windows, I couldn’t find her.

  “She’s in the bathroom,” Karina grunted. Probably from hoisting herself over the gutters and onto the roof. “Bitch is doing some type of skin thing with something that doesn’t look like it’s for the external.”

  I frowned, scanning the lawn and the side of the house. Demir, Shang and Dristan may have been able to flip, fight and kick their way on the lawn. But I didn’t know if the silent alarm extended to the edge of the property where I was.

  “How long before the sun comes up?”

  Shang grunted and blew out a hard breath, “maybe an hour and a half.”

  “The courts don’t handle any menial tasks before the sun comes up. So, she’s probably getting ready for bed.” Demir added.

  Watching the two men, I smiled at Demir. We’d been through a hell of a time together. And now? We were dealing with the things the only way we knew how. Killing our opponents before the opponent killed us.

  Shang on the other hand was someone I was still trying to figure out. He was a weird man with his smoldering look and the way he calculated everything before making a move. In some ways, he reminded me of my former superiors in the Silver Guard. But there was a hint of danger lurking within his black eyes.

  “Where’s the bedroom?” Karina was easily staring at the black shingled roof, trying to find her entry point.

  “We’re not burning the house to the ground, Rina.” Dristan warned as he appeared in my binoculars and looked out the window on the ground floor.

  “Why not?” Me and Karina asked at the same time.

  What else were we supposed to do? Heaton and Alexi didn’t want anything less than the usual glitz and glamour that came with my execution style. Besides, why shouldn’t we send a message to whoever was half-assed helping us? They needed to know who they were messing with should a bad decision be made on their part. What better way to deliver such a powerful warning than by making an example out of the most powerful judge within the court.

  It wasn’t like there weren’t any other clues to the who it could be. I didn’t want to know, and I didn’t care either. The only thing I wanted was to be free of everything. From the courts clutches to the scientists’ grips and labs. In my mind, it wasn’t too much to ask for. But to the people behind the scenes, it may have been a request so outlandish the experiments before us were turning over in their graves.

  Shang scoffed in amusement, “what is it with you two and wanting to blow things up?” His big body floated into my vision and nodded to Dristan through the glass.

  “Got em,” Karina happily chirped from her rooftop perch.

  Now it was my turn. Tucking the binoculars away, I adjusted the whip against my back and jumped from the tree. As I stood up, I looked over my shoulder.

  “What’s wrong?” Demir’s voice floated through the air and kissed my cheek.

  I smirked muting my Bluetooth and turned to him. “What’s a night without a little sparkle?”

  He snorted and took my hand in his. “You’re asking for a world of hurt.”

  “Well as long as I’m able to do what I want and be left alone afterwards, it’s worth it.”

  “Yeah,” he nodded and glanced at me. “What do you want to do after this?”

  “Eat,” I spat out faster than I should’ve.

  Again he snorted, “I told you, you should’ve eaten when we were at Shang’s.”

  I rolled my eyes and nudged his arm. “One day I’ll be old enough to listen to reason but today isn’t it.”

  Nodding to the bedroom window, he leaned closer to me, “take the front, I’ll take the back.”

  “Meet in the middle?” I asked, locking my eyes on the bedroom.

  “Deal,” he kissed my temple before rushing around the back of the house.

  Unmuting the Bluetooth, I asked Karina, “how many hearts does a hagfish have?”

  “Four.”

  “What about an octopus?”

  “Three.”
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  “A trout?”

  “Two” the excitement in her voice grew as I jumped from the front stairs to the overhead awning. Climbing up the balcony, I found Judge Sadvidge with her back turned to me.

  “A dead judge?”

  “One,” Karina launched a compact version of her infamous Russian Heart bombs within the room before jumping from the overhead beams.

  The bomb went off in a painfully bright cloud of purple smoke, creating a cover for me to kick in the balcony doors. Somewhere in the haze Sadvidge was coughing and trying to get out of the room.

  “Why are you two so crazy?” Dristan hissed into the Bluetooth.

  “Would you have us any other way?” Karina asked innocently and twiddle her fingers above the cloud at me.

  I snorted letting my whip unfurl on the stained floors. “Isn’t that right, Demir?”

  “You know it is,” he appeared in the doorway of the bedroom and smirked at me.

  “What the hell is this?” Sadvidge broke apart our little banter with her choking and stumbling around. Her eyes narrowed and watered as she tried to focus on us.

  “I would think the answer would be pretty clear,” Shang sighed in boredom. Lowering his big body from the rafters, he found a comfortable spot on the vanity. “Judge Sadvidge.”

  The ceiling fan came on, blowing the smoke away from the center of the room while Dristan blocked the bathroom.

  Judge Sadvidge cleared her throat and squinted her watering eyes at all of us in confusion. Landing on Demir first before fixating on me.

  “How are you even alive right now?” She growled.

  I snorted and twisted my wrist, watching the razor wire reflect the lights and smoke within the room.

  “Haven’t you heard my nickname around the guards and the courts?”

  “So, what? You’ve decided to come out of the pits of hell just for me?”

  A slow smile morphed my face as the last of the smoke cleared and we were left with nothing more than a crystal clear line of sight.

  “The Silver Angel crawled from the depths of your own hell and is here to deliver you a special gift.”

  A flash of fear came over her eyes for a second. Quickly, however, the look was covered up and replaced with the cockiness of a psychotic person getting off. The look would’ve suited her the way it did for a rabid dog, but I was already halfway over the interlude and wanting to get down to business.

  “What’re you going to do? Kill me?”

  My brow jumped up as I tilted my head at her, “I’m only following orders.”

  “From whom?”

  “I’ll be the one to answer that,” Demir pushed off the doorframe and spun the dagger I had given him over in his hand. “For the drama you caused and the uproar you raised within the courts. Your judgement is finally here.”

  She looked between the five of us and narrowed her eyes. “Do you seriously think you’re going to get away with this?”

  Stepping up beside Demir, I rested my head on his shoulder, “we already have. Haven’t we?”

  Without warning Sadvidge did the very thing we all knew she was going to do. She launched her body over us and rolled her way out of the room.

  “Throw the switch,” I nodded to Karina and squeezed Demir’s arm before taking my time with following the good judge.

  The men were assigned to prepare for the cleanup while me and Karina were busy teaching the good judge a lesson. Instinctively, I listened for Sadvidge to fall over the trap Shang and Dristan had set out before Karina set off her bomb.

  Sure enough, the unmistakable sound of weight falling down a flight of stairs echoed off the expensive walls. I snorted, shaking my head as the whip followed behind me. The razor wire softly scraped against the wood floors and clinked with each step I descended.

  Still, Sadvidge bounced down the stairs and cursed the entire way down. Karina cut the lights, pitching the woman in a hell of a situation as she summersaulted down the stairs. If there were a disadvantage to having such a big house, this would be the reason.

  By the time she landed with a hard thud on the wood floors. I was sitting on the last step staring at my nails.

  “You know, it’d be one thing if you hadn’t forced all of the guards to hunt me down like a dog.”

  She coughed out the blood from her broken ribs and internal bleeding, staring at the ceiling. It was understandable that she was in pain. But she was only beginning to feel my wrath.

  “I mean, how would you feel if someone put a tag on your head and just wouldn’t let you die in peace?” I tilted my head and frowned at her. “You just couldn’t leave well enough alone. Instead, you had to get money hungry. But the thing is there were no monetary gains to be had in this situation. Was there?”

  She let her head fall to the side and stared at me, “if you hadn’t killed Holt you wouldn’t be in this situation.”

  I snorted and smirked at her, “now you know how it feels to lose someone you love. Yet, you got consumed with a hatred misplaced.”

  “How?” She didn’t bother to sit up or move. Obviously trying to adjust to the pain pounding through her body.

  “Had you convinced your judge buddies I wasn’t the one to kill Gold’s superior officials we wouldn’t have started this war. Instead, you wanted to push me to my limits.”

  “That’s nice,” she smirked, “so, you decide to start something you’re incapable of finishing.”

  “Who would be stupid enough to make that assumption?”

  “You. The judges. The scientists. The people above us.” She coughed again. “Luminous River, your days are numbered and there’s nothing you can do about it. Killing me will just start a bigger chain reaction.”

  I nodded, looking around the foyer, “you think so?”

  “I know so.”

  “Hmm,” I got off the stairs, the whip still dragging behind me. “What gives you the idea there’s a fuck in this world that I give about the chain reactions?”

  “You’re a fool if you don’t.”

  Tightening the grip on my whip, I slowly turned toward her. “Then call me the joker because I don’t care about being the fool.”

  She smirked, turning her eyes to the ceiling, “you have no idea what you’re starting.”

  “Maybe I’ll learn one day,” I smirked, spinning around in a second.

  The crack of the whip seemed like an explosion going off, mixing with the sound of the chandelier shaking as the tail caught several crystal droplets. The razor wire cut through the air as the rattlesnake leather whistled in a grim fashion toward Sadvidge’s throat.

  Even though the faint moonlight coming through the waterglass windows, the dark crimson of blood lit up the foyer and stained the grains of the wood. Sadvidge’s head wobbled to the side for a second before falling over.

  “Ready?” Karina’s voice broke through the melancholy atmosphere and stopped my mind from thinking about the nightmares I was bound to have after this night had passed.

  Steeling my nerves, I kicked my chin up in defiance and opened the front door after stepping over the judge’s head. “Ready.”

  Demir, Dristan and Shang followed Karina down the stairs as I wrapped my whip up and waited for them.

  “What an entrance, right?” Karina looped her arm through mine and smirked.

  “What an entrance,” I echoed.

  Together we walked out of the mansion with our boyfriends and new found ally following behind us. Had there been a camera crew and a director, I’d admit the five of us would make one hell of a scene.

  By the time we were halfway across the yard Karina pressed the detonator and laughed softly as the house went up in flames and the ground shook from the blast.

  It was a hell of an entrance for our war on the black courts and now all we had to do was survive the consequences of our actions. How hard could it be?

  §§§§§

  The next night brought on a different dilemma. Word had gotten out just as quickly about Sadvidge’s death
as it had when Holt and Sooter died.

  Each guard was turned on their heads, trying to figure out who was going to be the lucky member to nab the killer. Who was going to get the fame and glory for bringing down the infamous modern day Bonnie and Clyde. Hell, we all had known nobody was safe and now there wasn’t anything we could do outside of fight.

  So, as a sign of trust we welcomed Shang into our little group. Fefe would be left to her own vices in a city unknown to anyone and the five of us would just have to take things as they came.

  It was a sad reality, but unfortunately, it was one we all had to face. For reasons differing in why me, Shang, Dristan, Karina and Demir knew this was a battle that had to be fought. If anything just so we could find some place to call home and not have to look over our shoulders. No fear of death or having to stay confined to a single house in the hopes no guard members came hunting for us.

  We didn’t want any of it and this was the only way we would get what we wanted. As I finished my fifth bottle of water, I smirked at the scene in front of me.

  With Shang packing up things in Springcrest. Me, Dristan, and Demir were sitting around a fire in Demir’s firepit. Of course, during my first visit here, I had learned next to all of exits the in and around the structure and relished in the exclusivity the mountain top home provided.

  I still didn’t like the fact it was situated just below the very cliff Demir had shoved me from, but I’d learn to get over it. Besides, if the guards came looking for us, this house wouldn’t endure much better than the last house.

  Karina had said she needed to pick up a few things from the store and would be back before the moon could fully rise. Leaving me and the guys to bullshit around with a happy conversation of nothing at all to fill the space.

  “I don’t know if we’re crazy or if we just don’t have anything better to do with our lives.” Dristan said looking into the flames.

  “Meaning what Drist?” Demir glanced at his best friend as he shifted closer to me.

  He waved his fingers around and shrugged, “last year we thought Lumi was dead. Right?”