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Back The Game
Chapters (68)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. NOW
  4. One
  5. BEFORE
  6. Two
  7. Three
  8. Four
  9. Five
  10. Six
  11. Seven
  12. Eight
  13. Nine
  14. Ten
  15. Eleven
  16. Twelve
  17. Thirteen
  18. Fourteen
  19. Fifteen
  20. Sixteen
  21. Seventeen
  22. Eighteen
  23. Nineteen
  24. Twenty
  25. NOW
  26. Twenty-One
  27. BEFORE
  28. Twenty-Two
  29. Twenty-Three
  30. Twenty-Four
  31. Twenty-Five
  32. Twenty-Six
  33. Twenty-Seven
  34. Twenty-Eight
  35. Twenty-Nine
  36. Thirty
  37. Thirty-One
  38. Thirty-Two
  39. Thirty-three
  40. Thirty-Four
  41. Thirty-Five
  42. Thirty-Six
  43. Thirty-Seven
  44. Thirty-Eight
  45. NOW
  46. Thirty-Nine
  47. BEFORE
  48. Forty
  49. Forty-One
  50. Forty-Two
  51. Forty-three
  52. Forty-Four
  53. Forty-Five
  54. Forty-Six
  55. Forty-Seven
  56. Forty-Eight
  57. Forty-Nine
  58. Fifty
  59. Fifty-One
  60. NOW
  61. Fifty-Two
  62. Fifty-Three
  63. Fifty-Four
  64. Fifty-Five
  65. AFTER
  66. Fifty-Six
  67. Acknowledgements
  68. About the Author

‘Killing them,’ Mark said, taking another step closer. He scanned the faces of the silent men standing with John. He was vastly outnumbered, but it didn’t stop him. ‘That’s what you’re doing. Because you can’t get women out of your league to sleep with you, you kill them. All of them. Is that what you’re really telling me?’

‘Punishing them. This isn’t about killing them. This is about taking back control. Without the punishment, it wouldn’t mean anything. They pay for what they did to us.’

Mark didn’t believe a word he was saying, but he knew John believed it. Every word. ‘And that’s what they deserve?’

‘Of course,’ John said, surprise in his voice now, as if he couldn’t believe he had to explain it. ‘Look what they’ve done to us. For years and years and years. How have we let them get away with it for this long? And it’s only getting worse. They hold all the power and they know it. It’s not right. This is about taking it back. I know you’re like us. I know you won’t stop me.’

This was never about blackmail. This was simply about power.

Mark opened his mouth to answer, but Natasha was laughing again. He stopped himself, watching as she turned to him again and sneered.

‘You were just going to use me as well,’ Natasha said, her words tumbling into each other and barely making sense. ‘Why not get what I wanted first? You should just go, Mark. You’ve embarrassed yourself enough.’

‘See,’ John said, giggling like a child now. ‘She’s just like the rest of them. She could see you for what you really were. Not good enough for her, not good enough for any of them. You’re still like me.’

‘I’m nothing like you.’

‘You keep saying that,’ John interrupted, irritation entering his tone. ‘It’s meaningless though. You know the truth. We all know the truth. You don’t have to keep lying. This woman is nobody to you, so why still protect her? She treated you like shit on her shoe and you still can’t accept it. The things you did for her, for all of them, because you felt like you had to. You don’t anymore.’

‘That’s not how I feel,’ Mark replied, adding a touch of defeat to his tone that he hoped John could detect. From the smirk on his face, he thought it was working. ‘It’s not…’

‘All you’ve done for this girl and she thinks you’re nothing. Just another man that doesn’t live up to her expectations. Can you see it now? Can you see what we’re doing? We’re fixing this. One person at a time. Natasha wouldn’t care if you lived or died…’