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Wetness gathered behind my eyes and spilled over. “Please,” I whispered, my voice cracking with desperation. “Please don’t do this.”
“Ah, ah, ah,” the Ape taunted and stepped closer, “already begging, and we haven’t even begun. Not so feisty anymore.” He dragged his finger over the skin of my stomach, then used more force until he scraped my skin. “Shut up and take it, slave.”
Slave.
A pressure settled on my chest unlike anything I’d ever experienced, and I turned my head away.
The Ape grabbed a fistful of my hair and yanked my head back to him, then he pointed at the security camera mounted in the corner of the room. “Smile for the camera, slave.” Tears blurred my vision, and my lips trembled.
The Ape let my head drop, then he slapped me across the face.
My head snapped to the side and my eyes landed on Bull-neck watching with sick excitement in his eyes.
Maybe if I had complied with his demands then, I wouldn’t be in this position now. But most likely not.
The Ape handed Bull-neck the cane, and with a cruel, twisted smile, instructed him to begin.
“Start with her ass,” he commanded—in English, his voice cold and heartless.
Bull-neck obliged, striking the cane hard against my exposed flesh.
I screamed out in agony, the pain searing through me like a wildfire. “Please,” I gasped between sobs, “please stop.”
The Ape sneered, taking sadistic pleasure in my anguish. He took a step closer until his face was in my face. “This is your life now. Learn your new place. And enjoy.” His deranged cackle sent a wave of despair through my body, and my heart clenched in terror.
I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to block out his venomous words and the pain that threatened to consume me. But it was no use; desperation clawed at my chest, leaving me helpless and suffocating.
I was trapped in a living nightmare, with no escape in sight.
And I might not make it out of this alive.
The next blow was even worse.
I begged, whimpered, and cried, but none of it made a difference.
Bull-neck didn’t relent, bringing the cane down on my upper back next.
My mind raced, desperately trying to find some solace or escape from the unbearable torment. I retreated into memories of happier times, tried to focus on all the fun I’d had with my sisters this summer, and for a few fleeting moments, I managed to distance myself from the reality of my situation, finding refuge within my own thoughts.
But the pain was relentless, and it became increasingly difficult to bear.
Until my screams turned into moans, and darkness crept into the edges of my vision and finally consumed me whole.
CHAPTERFIVE
“Gabe.”
I kept on walking.
“Falcon.”
I sighed, then stopped—when Hawk called me by my callsign, he usually meant business.
And he was still my boss.
Still the one I owed my life to.
But he was also the one who orchestrated whatever insanity was waiting in that hangar.
