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Gentle hands cup my aching cheeks.
I lift my head and force my one willing eye open.
Kira slowly comes into focus, her dark hair framing her pale face. Her makeup has run, and she’s smudged dark circles around her eyes.
“Kira,” I whisper, feeling the heat of tears threatening to cloud my vision.
If she’s here, she’s traded something for the opportunity.
I shake my head, my heart breaking. “I’m so sorry. How bad is it?”
She sniffs and shakes her head. “You’re going to be okay. Jack was playing up your state, to rush me, but he’s let someone stem the bleed and give you an IV, so you’re better than I thought you’d be. I’m going to patch you up, and Loosh is going to adjust your restraints, so you’ll be more comfortable until they can come off. I’m working on getting you out of them as soon as I can, okay?”
It hurts to frown, but I do it anyway. “Not me.You. How bad?”
She shakes her head again and smiles. “Nothing I can’t handle. Sit still and let me fix you, okay?”
I do as she’s asked, but there’ll be no fixing me. I’ve failed her. He’s going to fuck her.
She’s already half-naked, in a pair of simple, black, satin panties, and the top half of her dress that’s like a corset in the way it cinches her waist and thrusts her tits together, lifting them proudly to jiggle as she moves.
He’s going to fuck my beautiful girl. And she’s going to let him, to save me.
I want to vomit, but I force myself to watch her organizing what she’ll need, to take care of me, while I can do nothing to save her. She should leave me to suffer. I need to feel punished.
“Leave it,” I say when she starts to assess the mess that’s been made of my shoulder. “Take whatever you can find as a weapon and fight your way out.”
She smiles. “I need that axe, huh?”
“I’m not kidding around, Kira.”
“Neither am I.” She tugs my arm hard enough to make me wince and moves it into a different position. “There’s no way out but through. If I leave without paying the bill, my dad’s done too. Okay? There’s no other hope, and I need there to be hope, so you will fucking give it to me. Now hold still, so Loosh can remove the cable ties. I’m going to clean up the gunshot wound first, so he can cuff you again, and then he’ll leave us alone while I do the rest.” She gives me a hard look and pinches me, while Loosh bends down to cut the ties. “Understood?” she asks, pointedly.
I nod and glance at Loosh when he stands and hands her a packet of antiseptic wipes from the tray of medical shit on a little table, as if he’s her fucking handmaiden. His eyes are soft when he silently searches my face.
I must look like shit if he’s feeling tender about it.
I turn back to Kira. “I’m sorry you were dragged into this.”
She shrugs and pushes Loosh’s wipes aside, to grab for something else. “We’re here now, so suck it up.” She shoves a bunch of pills in my mouth, and then holds a plastic cup of water to my lips.
My mouth is so dry, this is heaven. I drink like I’ve been deprived for weeks, and she stares a moment before getting me another cup. And another.
“I don’t have another IV bag,” she says, sadly. “You’re going to have to drink the balance of whatever fluids you’ve lost.” She turns to Loosh. “He’s going to need sugar. And salt, too. It’s a wonder he even woke up when I slapped him.”
“You slapped me?”
She looks me over. “I did. And I’ll do it again if you make this any harder for me than it already is. They think I’m doing it because I like you.”
I grit my teeth, glance at Loosh, and then swish my tongue around my mouth, to collect the portion of tooth I just broke off. They must have cracked it during one of the beatings. I spit the shard on the floor and meet Kira’s gaze. “Most girls have the hots for gingers, so I can understand their assumption that you like me.”
Loosh snorts, and then picks up my tooth and puts it in his pocket, like a creepy, oversized tooth fairy.
“Whyareyou helping me?” I ask, testing for her response, so I can gauge how prepared she is to cover her ass from every angle she may be attacked from when my father inevitably tries to unravel the truth and break her with it.
“Because it pisses him off. If I’m getting fucked regardless, I may as well screw your asshole father as best I can by helping the guy trying to stand against him.”
I swallow hard and watch her shred the top of the wipes packet with her fingernails. My father’s going to have to keep her restrained if he wants to keep his eyeballs when he takes her, and I’m sure he knows it. He’s going to have a blast.
