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Sick Fux

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Ellis Earnshaw's vibrant spirit once lit up the world, while Heathan James found solace in shadows and the inevitability of death. Childhood drew them together, an unexpected bond in a world eager to tear them apart. Years of separation, born from the malice of others, left Ellis trapped in sorrow and Heathan steeped in a darkness that demanded retribution. Now, after over a decade, Heathan returns, determined to rescue Ellis from her despair and exact vengeance on those who shattered their lives. As their journey unfolds, fueled by a relentless thirst for justice, each act of revenge grows more lethal. Together, they dive deeper into a twisted reality where the past must be confronted, and every heartbeat echoes with the promise of reckoning. This dark contemporary romance challenges boundaries with its raw depiction of love, violence, and redemption, weaving a tale suitable only for mature audiences.

Categories

Horror, Romance, Adult, Abuse, Contemporary, New Adult, Smut, Dark Romance, Friends To Lovers, Dark

Content Type

Book

Binding

ebook

Year

2017

Publisher

Language

English

ASIN

B0DTWWVN57

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Sick Fux Plot Summary

Introduction

# Shattered Innocence: A Dance of Blood and Vengeance The Earnshaw estate stands rotting in the Texas heat, its windows dark except for one. In that room, a girl sits motionless, staring at nothing. Her name is Ellis, though she hasn't spoken it in eleven years. Not since the night they took her childhood and carved it into pieces. Not since they dragged away the only person who tried to save her—a strange boy with silver eyes who called himself Rabbit. Now Rabbit has returned, but he's no longer the broken child who was torn from her arms. Prison walls and torture chambers have forged him into something else entirely—a creature of vengeance wrapped in Victorian elegance. He comes bearing gifts: a blue dress, a loaded gun, and a new name for the hollow girl by the window. She will be Dolly now, his porcelain doll dressed for murder. Together, they will hunt down every man who destroyed their innocence, leaving a trail of blood and playing cards across the wasteland of their past. This is their twisted fairy tale, where Alice's Wonderland becomes a killing ground and love is measured in shared violence.

Chapter 1: The Genesis of Darkness: Childhood Bonds Forged in Pain

Seven-year-old Ellis Earnshaw lived in storybooks and tea ceremonies, her blue dress making her look like Alice stepped from Wonderland's pages. The day she found nine-year-old Heathan James sitting alone on the estate grounds, methodically pulling wings from a butterfly, she felt no fear. His silver-gray eyes and black clothes marked him as different, but Ellis saw beauty in broken things. She named him Rabbit after the White Rabbit from her beloved story. He called her Dolly, saying she looked exactly like her china-faced doll. Their friendship bloomed in afternoon rituals—tea parties in the garden, readings from Alice's Adventures, shared secrets whispered in shadowed corners. Two damaged children finding solace in each other's strangeness. But the Earnshaw estate harbored darker secrets. Heathan noticed things a child shouldn't see—vans arriving at night, bringing other children who disappeared into back corridors. He watched Ellis dance for her father's business associates, their hungry stares making his young blood run cold. When Heathan's father died in a suspicious accident, the boy became Mr. Earnshaw's ward, and the man's true nature emerged. The violations began with whiskey-laced milk and ended with Heathan carved hollow, night after night. Uncle Clive and the others took turns while Ellis remained unaware upstairs, her innocence a prize they were saving for later. Heathan endured it all, watching his broken pocket watch tick through each violation, counting time until he could make them pay. He carved the pain into memory, knowing that his suffering might spare his beloved Dolly. But ten-year-old girls grow up, and monsters grow hungry.

Chapter 2: Separation and Survival: Years Behind Walls of Suffering

Ellis's tenth birthday arrived with poisoned Earl Grey and a new dress that fit her changing body. Mrs. Jenkins led the drugged girl to her father's office where the uncles waited with champagne and cruel smiles. What followed shattered Ellis's mind completely—violation by men she'd trusted, her innocence destroyed while Heathan remained trapped in his own nightmare across the hall. When Heathan found Ellis bleeding and broken, rage consumed him. He grabbed Mr. Earnshaw's letter opener—engraved with the King of Hearts—and drove it into Uncle Eric's throat. Blood sprayed across Ellis's face as Heathan stabbed again and again, his first kill born from desperate love. But their moment of triumph crumbled when the other men overpowered him. They dragged Heathan to a van while he pressed his precious pocket watch into Ellis's trembling hands. "I'll come back for you," he promised as they drove him toward hell. The van carried him to the Water Tower, a secret prison where wealthy predators disposed of inconvenient problems. In underground cells, he met Chapel—a sophisticated killer with a taste for prostitutes—and Henry, whose alternate personality Hyde emerged to torture and kill. Ellis retreated into catatonia, her mind constructing elaborate barriers to protect what remained of her sanity. She sat by her window for eleven years, clutching Heathan's watch and waiting for his return. The estate crumbled around her as the men who'd destroyed her childhood scattered across Texas, leaving her in Mrs. Jenkins's neglectful care. Behind the doors in her fractured mind, she spoke to a friend named Ellis—never realizing she was talking to herself, to the girl she'd been before the world went dark.

Chapter 3: Escape and Reunion: The White Rabbit Returns

The Water Tower's walls couldn't hold killers forever. Chapel seduced a guard while Hyde provided violence, and Heathan supplied the cold calculation that turned their escape into a massacre. They painted the prison red, leaving no witnesses as they reclaimed their freedom under blood-soaked stars. Heathan spent months preparing his return, gathering money and commissioning weapons designed for the hunt ahead. When he finally stood before the decaying Earnshaw estate, Heathan had transformed into something beyond recognition. Tattoos of clocks covered his skin, marking time's passage during imprisonment. A rabbit-headed cane concealed blade and gun, while Victorian attire gave him the appearance of a gentleman caller from hell. He was no longer the broken boy who'd been dragged away—he was the White Rabbit, Death's own timekeeper. Ellis sat motionless in her chair, a ghost in black clothing, when Heathan entered her room. Her vacant stare pierced his heart, but he recognized the signs Henry had taught him about fractured minds. Carefully, he constructed an elaborate fantasy, telling her he was the White Rabbit sent to guide Alice through Wonderland. He'd found the rabbit hole at last—a literal hole he cut in the floor. When Ellis fell through it into his arms, her mind finally unlocked. The reunion was everything Heathan had dreamed and more terrible than he'd feared. Ellis emerged as Dolly, speaking in the refined English accent she'd used for childhood tea parties, believing herself to be Alice on a grand adventure. She had no memory of trauma, only fragments of a friend named Ellis who'd suffered behind locked doors. Heathan embraced the delusion, knowing that Dolly was stronger than Ellis had ever been.

Chapter 4: Blood Covenant: The Birth of the Sick Fux

In a remote cabin stocked with weapons and Victorian finery, Heathan began Dolly's education in violence. He dressed her in perfect replicas of her childhood Alice costume—blue dress, striped stockings, black boots—and armed her with a custom pistol engraved "Time for Tea." The basement became their training ground, hanging pig carcasses serving as practice targets for human flesh they'd soon be cutting. Dolly took to killing with disturbing enthusiasm. Her blade work was precise, her aim true. She giggled as she stabbed, danced as she shot, begged for more targets when ammunition ran dry. Heathan watched his living doll transform into a perfect killer, her innocence twisted into something beautiful and terrible. Together they practiced their deadly ballet, synchronized violence that felt like the most natural thing in the world. The sexual tension that had simmered since childhood finally erupted in mutual exploration, each reliving trauma through shared pleasure and pain. They couldn't touch easily—abuse had made physical contact unbearable—but they could watch, could want, could promise each other everything their broken bodies couldn't yet deliver. Heathan's back bore a tattoo of Dolly's face, marking her as his obsession and salvation. When their first victim called them "sick fucks" with his dying breath, Dolly embraced the label with childlike delight. She scrawled "SICK FUX" on the wall in ruined lipstick, misspelling it in her illiteracy but capturing something essential about their partnership. They were beyond society's rules now, beyond good and evil, united in beautiful madness and thirst for revenge. The hunt could finally begin.

Chapter 5: Hunting the Abusers: A Trail of Vengeful Justice

Their killing spree began with the Caterpillar—Uncle Lester, who'd grown fat on hashish and children in his Amarillo hideout. Dolly announced herself with her signature phrase "Time for tea!" before putting bullets in his guards, her aim perfect and smile radiant. She found Lester tied to his chair and danced around him to vintage music while methodically stabbing him to death, her blade work as precise as her tea ceremony rituals. The Cheshire Cat proved more personal—Uncle Clive, Heathan's primary abuser, who'd continued his predations from a farm outside Dallas. They found him assaulting two children in his basement dungeon, walls covered with photographs of victims. Heathan's rage exploded into artistry as he carved a bloody smile across Clive's face, then arranged his corpse in a clock made of blood and severed limbs. Each kill followed the same pattern: reconnaissance, infiltration, theatrical murder, and placement of hand-drawn playing cards. The Queen of Hearts had been Mrs. Jenkins, throat cut in Ellis's bedroom. The Three of Hearts was Lester. The Four of Hearts was Clive. Media attention followed their bloody trail across Texas, law enforcement baffled by the "Sick Fux" signature and playing card system that promised more deaths to come. Between murders, they lived like twisted honeymooners in cheap motels, Dolly applying elaborate doll makeup while Heathan cleaned their weapons. She would dance to her mother's old cassette tapes while he watched with hungry eyes, both high on killing and the promise of more blood. Their love was measured in shared violence, their intimacy built on mutual understanding of pain transformed into power. The cards were falling one by one, but the King of Hearts still waited.

Chapter 6: Authorities in Pursuit: The Hunt Begins

Eddie Smith had grown from the boy who'd once competed for Ellis's friendship into a Texas Ranger following his uncle's footsteps. When he discovered Mrs. Jenkins's corpse and Ellis's disappearance, old memories stirred of the strange boy who'd stolen his best friend's affection. Heathan James had vanished years ago, presumably dead, but Eddie couldn't shake the feeling that the past was reaching out with bloody fingers. The investigation revealed connections between victims—all associates of Jacob Earnshaw, all men who'd fled Dallas years earlier when their business attracted unwanted attention. Eddie's uncle began connecting dots between the Earnshaw estate murder, the Amarillo killing, and reports of missing children from across the state. The playing cards suggested systematic revenge, someone working through a predetermined list. Security footage from crime scenes showed glimpses of the killers: a tall man in Victorian dress with a rabbit-headed cane, and a young woman in blue who moved like a dancer. The woman's resemblance to Ellis Earnshaw was unmistakable, but Eddie couldn't reconcile the catatonic girl he'd visited weekly with the laughing killer on the tapes. This Alice-costumed figure reveled in violence, her movements graceful and purposeful as she executed trained guards with professional precision. As more bodies surfaced across Texas, each marked with the "SICK FUX" signature and accompanying playing card, law enforcement realized they were hunting something unprecedented. These weren't random killers but surgical instruments of vengeance, working through a carefully planned campaign of retribution. The question wasn't whether they would kill again, but how many more cards remained in their deck. The answer would come sooner than anyone expected.

Chapter 7: Merging of Broken Souls: Blood Rituals and Intimacy

In a dingy motel room after the Cheshire Cat's death, Heathan carved "SICK FUX" into his own chest with a knife, rubbing ink into the wounds to make the letters permanent. Dolly watched with fascination as he marked himself, then tasted his blood with the reverence of a communion ritual. The metallic sweetness on her tongue felt like claiming a piece of his soul, binding them together in ways deeper than marriage vows. Heathan's obsession with Dolly's blood had simmered since childhood, when he'd watched her pulse throb in her delicate neck. Now he could finally indulge that hunger, using his sharpened thimble to open tiny cuts along her throat and thighs. She offered herself willingly, arching into his touch as he fed from her veins like a gentleman vampire. Their lovemaking became a sacrament of shared pain, each drop of blood a promise of complete belonging. They exchanged vials of blood to wear around their necks, replacing Dolly's childhood "Drink Me" potion with something far more potent. Heathan's darkness flowed into her veins while her light tempered his rage, creating perfect symbiosis of love and violence. When they pressed their cut palms together, mingling blood in an ancient pact, they became something new—not quite human anymore, but not entirely monster either. The physical barriers that trauma had built between them finally crumbled under the weight of shared purpose. They could touch now, could kiss, could lose themselves in each other's bodies while the ghosts of their abusers fell silent. Their coupling was fierce and desperate, eleven years of separation compressed into moments of perfect unity. They were no longer Heathan and Ellis, the broken children who'd been torn apart. They were Rabbit and Dolly, the Sick Fux, death's own lovers dancing toward their final confrontation.

Chapter 8: Final Reckoning: The King of Hearts Falls

Jacob Earnshaw waited in his study like a king holding court, cancer eating him from within but poison still flowing from his tongue. When Rabbit and Dolly entered, he greeted them like old friends, as if years of abuse were nothing more than business arrangements gone slightly awry. Oxygen tubes snaked from his nose, but his eyes held the same cruel intelligence that had orchestrated their childhood destruction. His confession came with casual cruelty that took their breath away. He spoke of buying Heathan's father's death, of poisoning Ellis's mother, of poker games where his daughter's body was the prize. He described their suffering as entertainment, his voice carrying satisfaction of a job well done. The King of Hearts had orchestrated every moment of their pain, and he felt no remorse for the masterpiece he'd created. Dolly's patience snapped like a violin string pulled too tight. Her bullet found its mark between his eyes, cutting off his monologue mid-sentence. The King of Hearts died with surprise frozen on his face, never expecting his little girl to be the one who ended his reign. She wrote "SICK FUX" one final time in his blood, her signature now complete across the walls of her childhood prison. Police sirens wailed in the distance as they escaped through hidden tunnels, but not before encountering Eddie Smith in the mansion's depths. The Mad Hatter of their childhood stood torn between duty and justice, his badge heavy in his hand. He let them go, understanding that some crimes required punishment beyond the reach of law. The mission was complete, but their story was just beginning. Time had run out for their enemies, but for Rabbit and Dolly, eternity stretched ahead like an endless tea party where they would always be the hosts.

Summary

In the end, Heathan and Ellis found what they'd been seeking since childhood—not healing, but transformation. Their innocence couldn't be restored, but it could be weaponized, turned into something beautiful and terrible that carved justice from the world's flesh. They became living fairy tales, Alice and the White Rabbit escaped from Wonderland's pages to hunt monsters in the Texas heat. Their love story was written in blood and playing cards, each kill a love letter to their shared past and promise of their intertwined future. The Sick Fux represented something beyond traditional notions of justice or revenge—they were broken children who'd learned to make the world bleed as they had bled, to transform their trauma into art. Their dance of death across Texas wasn't just about killing the men who'd hurt them, but about reclaiming power over their own narrative. In choosing violence, they chose each other, and in choosing each other, they chose to become something the world had never seen before. The rabbit hole had led them not to Wonderland, but to something far more dangerous—a place where love and death wore the same face, and time itself bent to their will.

Best Quote

“A queen bows to no one, especially to her king.” ― Tillie Cole, Sick Fux

Review Summary

Strengths: The review highlights the book's engaging concept of a dark romance centered around two characters seeking vengeance after being victims of a crime. The reviewer appreciates the depth of the storyline and the intense emotional journey of the characters, Ellis and Heathan. The narrative's ability to evoke strong reactions and its unique portrayal of dark themes are noted as compelling elements. Weaknesses: The review criticizes the book for its graphic content, particularly scenes involving children being drugged and gang-raped, which the reviewer finds disturbing and a significant deterrent. The explicit nature of these scenes is emphasized as a major concern for potential readers. Overall: The reader expresses a mixed sentiment, acknowledging the book's gripping narrative but cautioning against its disturbing content. The recommendation is nuanced, suggesting that only those with a strong disposition should consider reading it, while also advocating for transparency regarding its triggering themes.

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Tillie Cole

Cole delves into the intricacies of human emotion and resilience through her dark and often intense romance novels. Her works frequently delve into themes such as love, loss, and healing, interwoven with her educational background in Religious Studies. This enables her to explore profound topics within her stories, offering readers a blend of spiritual and personal catharsis. Her debut book, written during her time abroad, marked the beginning of a successful writing career that has captivated audiences with its deep emotional resonance and complex character portrayals.\n\nBeyond her thematic exploration, Cole's method of storytelling involves a distinctive combination of humor and darkness, as well as a penchant for creating brooding, tattooed male protagonists. Her Sweet Home Series and Scarred Souls Series exemplify this style, while other titles such as "A Wish for Us" and "Eternal North" showcase her ability to weave serious issues into engaging narratives. Therefore, readers who appreciate richly layered emotional experiences and well-crafted romances will find significant value in her work. As a USA Today bestselling author, Cole has earned critical acclaim and a devoted following within the contemporary and dark romance genres.\n\nIn this short bio, Cole's journey from high school teacher to a prominent author illustrates her dedication to storytelling and her ability to translate personal experiences and academic insights into compelling narratives. Her impact on readers is marked by the emotional depth and healing aspects her books offer, allowing them to engage with complex themes in an accessible yet profound manner.

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