LIANA’S POV
It was Cynthia.
She stepped into the dim, rotting room with a smirk so wide it made my stomach twist. It felt as if every ounce of air was sucked from my lungs.
The men, those monsters who had been circling me like hungry wolves, turned to her and said, “She’s the one who made it very easy for us to find you.”
One of them, the one with the scar slicing through his left cheek, pointed at me and added, “She hated you just as much as we wanted you gone.”
Cynthia laughed. A cruel, high–pitched sound that was making my already spinning head feel worse.
“What do you want us to do with her before she dies?” they asked, like it was just some fun game to them.
Cynthia’s eyes darkened with so much hate, “I want to torture her first,” she said casually, like she was asking for a glass of water. “I want to see her bleed.”
The men laughed again, and one of them handed her a whip, long, black, and cracked from overuse. My heart dropped. My hands instantly went to cover my face, but I was tied. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t do anything but watch her collect the whip from him.
“Torture her all you want,” one of the men said, stepping back. “We wouldn’t interfere.”
I shook my head, trying to back away, but my body wouldn’t even obey me. My limbs were numb, my skin already raw from their hittings earlier. I couldn’t move fast enough. I couldn’t scream loud enough.
“Please….” I whispered. “Please don’t do this…”
But she ignored me and landed the first whip across my thigh. I screamed.
The second across my back.
“PLEASE…..!” I cried out again. I was sobbing now. I couldn’t even count how many lashes I had received. My body was trembling, burning, breaking, and she just kept going.
I was begging, crying, screaming, but it didn’t stop. She just kept going, even when I begged her to stop, even when my voice cracked and I started choking on my own sobs.
And she kept going.
“This is what you get,” she said through clenched teeth as she whipped me again. “This is what you fucking get for taking what was mine.”
I couldn’t even raise my head. I was shaking all over. My skin felt like it was on fire. There were tears falling from my eyes, but I couldn’t wipe them. My hands were tied. My arms were numb. My vision blurred.
She whipped me again.
I felt something warm trickling down my back. Blood.
I was so,
so weak.
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“You think you’re better than me? Huh? You think you’re special just because he chose you?” she shouted between strikes. “You ruined everything! Everything was going fine until you came back!”
And she kept going until one of the guards finally stepped forward and said, “That’s enough.”
Cynthia was panting, sweat glistening on her forehead. She looked like she’d just finished a workout, like this had been fun for her.
I was on the floor, half–conscious. My whole body was trembling, every inch of me burning with pain. I couldn’t even lift my head.
One of them asked, “What’s your second wish, madam?”
Her eyes narrowed into something darker, something so disgusting it made my blood run cold.
“I want you to rape her,” she said, her voice terrifyingly calm. “All three of you. Before she dies. That’s what I want, as payment for selling her information to you.”
They looked at each other and started laughing like it was the funniest thing they’d heard all week.
“Of course we will,” the bald one said, still chuckling. “We can’t kill her without having a taste of what Killian treasures so much.”
“You’re such a wise woman. We wonder why Killian was so stupid to divorce you,” another spoke.
I felt like I was going to be sick. My stomach churned. My body throbbed. My ears were ringing. My heart was racing. I wanted to scream, but nothing came out.
“You’ve done well,” Another added. “You’ll be escorted back now. We promised you safety and we’ll keep our end.”
She didn’t even look at me.,
She just smiled one more time and walked away.
And then the men turned to me, all of them grinning.
“Get ready for us,” one of them said, smiling with all his brown, broken teeth. “Because all three of us are gonna take you at once.”
