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“Bone cruncher?” I say. “That’s a fucking stupid name for a knife.”
I know what I’m doing. I’m fucking with them so they’ll hurt me so bad they’ll have to untie me. I did the same thing with my mother’s husband and it usually worked. Eventually he’d get sick of listening to me and stop. And once I’m untied I’ll find a way out, it won’t be a problem. I’ll be doing it to find Harper and luck’s always with me then.
“I’ll show you how stupid it is,” the guys says slowly and lowers it down to my leg. But Snake pushes his arm away.
“Not yet, we need him.”
For what, I have no idea. They’re not getting anything from me.
“You know, I don’t even think you have Harper, I think that was just another of your dumb lies,” I slur. “So I’m not gonna give you shit. Might as well let him kill me now.”
Maybe they’re stupid enough to bring her to me. That would work nicely, because even without bone cruncher slicing through my leg I’m not sure how far I can actually get in my current condition.
The small guy punches me again, in the jaw this time, and unconsciousness floats over my mind like a black cloud on a sunny day, but won’t stay.
Snake turns to the huge guy. “Soften him up. We can’t talk to him while he’s acting like this. But no knife stuff. No permanent damage for now. Prez will want to question him too and he’s not here yet.”
“I don’t know what you idiots think I can tell you,” I say. “The Devils kicked me out and even before that, I was barely more than a prospect. I don’t know shit about the way they work. I lied so you’d get me out of prison. If you weren’t so damn dumb you’d’ve seen right through it.”
Snake’s the one who decks me this time, getting me right in the cheek bone and making hot blood trickle down my chin into my mouth.
“You’ll talk and you’ll give me what you said you would,” he hisses and then punches me in the stomach. I’m about ready to puke from all that and I wish it would happen right now. Right in his ugly ass face.
“We’ll break you,” the huge guy says.
“That’s been tried before,” I say and even manage to grin even though it makes my cheek feel like he’s usingbone cruncheron me. “It didn’t take.”
Snake curses and the huge guy leaves me, unblocking the reflector and making me blind again.
He reappears soon though, rolling a squeaking cart in front of him. A cart that’s attached to the wall by a thick black cord and has knobs and little green screens and shit on it. When he faces me this time, he’s holding the electroshock handles, which are also glowing copper just like the knife.
“It hasn’t been tried by me,” he says and chuckles.
“Just don’t kill him,” Snake says. “I’ll be back with some pictures of the girl after Reggie is done with her. Maybe that’ll convince him to talk.”
“Done with her how?” I yell after him as he walks away. “I’ll tell you nothing if you hurt her!”
Snake stops and grins at me over his shoulder. “You’ll tell us everything we need to know and more.”
The huge guy says and fires up his little electroshock machine. It whirrs and buzzes as it lights up.
“I won’t.”
“Torture makes everybody talk,” the little guy assures me.
“Not me.”
Damn, I sound like a stupid sixteen-year-old boy.
Snake just laughs and leaves the room, the heavy loud way in which it closes behind him not giving me much hope that I’ll ever get out of this room. Nor does the fact that the little guy is right.
Everybody talks under torture, that’s no secret, everybody knows that.
I’m wide awake now, and I shouldn’t be, not for what’s coming. But I can’t stop imagining all the terrible, horrible, unimaginable things he being done to Harper.
And why the fuck is the name Reggie so fucking familiar?
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