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Varian pressed down on the back of my arm again, making my elbow scream in protest as he nearly pressed his full weight on it.
I knew it was only a matter of seconds before the bones in my upper arm and forearm snapped from the pressure.
What I also knew was that I wouldn’t be able to hold back the scream. I was barely able to do it now, and he hadn’t even done anything yet.
I closed my eyes, wishing that I was sitting out on the dock with Loki again, letting my feet dangle off the side.
“Can you put Loki on speaker phone?” Varian asked.
He waited a few moments before saying, “Ohh, how about a little Facetime, old friend?”
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Andrea, wide eyed and wielding what looked to be a rifle, big enough to take down an elephant, stop just shy of the kitchen doorway.
She looked torn, looking from me to Varian, and was just about to step in when I shook my head frantically.
“Ohh, it’ll be okay, Chan-Chan. It’ll all be over soon,” Varian said. “Ahh, there we go. Hi there, Loki. You look a bit tied up.”
Loki didn’t reply, and I wondered what he was doing.
He had to have been detained by someone, because I knew it would take nothing short of a miracle to keep him away from me right then.
“Get on with it, V. I’ve got some business to address with this pretty boy, and I can’t do thatwith you yacking in our ears,” the man, Varian called Mick earlier, snapped.
“Alright, alright. I’ll get on with it. Show him the phone, let him see what I’m about to do,” Varian instructed just as his weight, which had been lessening on my arm, pressed down twice as hard.
I could almost feel my bones bending, straining with the effort.
“You stupid fuck,” Loki hissed, and a scuffle could be heard from the phone.
“Uh, uh, uh,” Mick said. “Watch, so we can get back to business.”
That’s when Varian stopped fucking around, and stomped on my arm.
I’m not really sure what happened next, because I was seeing nothing but white, as I experienced pain like nothing I’d ever felt before.
Then, blessedly, I passed out only to be rudely awakened by somebody torturing me.
I felt my body moving across the floor as pain started to awaken me from the blissful place where nothing mattered.
“Oh, dear God,” I heard Andrea cry hoarsely. “Please.”
My eyes opened to slits, and then further to half-mast as I took in my surroundings.
Andrea was dragging me towards the garage, and being none too gentle about it.
One particular bump had me turning my head to the side and puking over and over again from the pain.
“Oh, dear God,” Andrea said again.
It was around the time she dragged me into the car that I lost the battle with consciousness, and went back to that place that allowed me to feel no pain.
***
“Yes, it’s my daughter in law,” Andrea’s voice said from far away.
My eyes strained to open as I listened to the conversation going on around me.
“She’s very lucky, ma’am. The bones aren’t broken, but they’re going to need a lot of rest for the next few weeks. I’m almost tempted to go ahead and cast her arm, but I think that’s a little overboard. I’d be more comfortable with an orthopedic specialist checking it out tomorrow,” I heard a man’s voice say.
