Theirs To Possess And Ruin
Then I stalked to the windows, yanked the heavy blackout curtains from their rods, black velvet, thick enough to smother screams and shredded them into ribbons too.
I stood in the wreckage looking pleased and I went to the shower, took my bath and came back naked, surrounded by carnage, and started dressing.
Not in clothes but war paint.
I twisted the crimson silk around my hips, low, dangerously low, knotting it on one side so the slit rode all the way up to the top of my thigh. Another strip I wound tight around my ribs, under my breasts, pushing them up like an offering and a threat at the same time. The black velvet I sliced into thin straps, crossing them over my chest, around my throat