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“Now… what should we do about you?”
I felt the pad of a finger gently trailing down my cheek; its icy coolness a stark contrast to my feverish skin. Despite the rapid flow of warmth that began to spread throughout my body, I still couldn’t shake off the shivers.
“What do you say, hm? Which one of us would you prefer?”
I held my tongue and didn’t utter a single word.
These three men were the worst of the worst, so the prospect of there being a less painful alternative seemed highly unlikely, even if I was given the option to choose.
If they were hoping to hear me begging for mercy, then they were going to get very disappointed. I may not have much, but I still had my pride, and not even torture or force could take that away from me.
A chuckle reverberated through the room, and the sound almost made my skin rise in goosebumps.
“You don’t know? We’ll just have to choose for you, then.”
Rough fingers gripped my chin, forcing me to meet a pair of dark eyes. “How about me?”
I didn’t know if the smile the man wore was meant to be comforting and he was just failing spectacularly at it, but it was way too sharp around the edges, with too many teeth showing for it to be effective.
The man sighed as he let go of my chin, making my head fall forward like a puppet on a string. “Better not, it would be a shame to ruin such a pretty face.”
He stepped back, and another man seamlessly took over.
“I’ll take on the challenge,” he told me with a wide grin that didn’t belong anywhere near this situation.
He has pretty curls,I thought deliriously for a moment.
As tied down as I was now, there wasn’t much I could do. I could spit on him, but what would even be the point anymore? There was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide…
I always thought of myself as someone who’d prefer to die fighting, but now — with death staring me right in the face — it hit me just how littlethe wayI died mattered.
Death was death, no matter what. Inevitable and everlasting.
“Don’t look at me like that, Blondie.” The man with the pretty curls patted me on the head like someone would an unruly pet. “You’ll see. I won’t even leave a mark.”
Throughout this whole conversation, there was a silent observer standing behind the other two, just quietly watching us. I only took notice of him when he moved from his position and walked up to me, carrying something in his hand.
It wasn’t like he needed to talk much, to be fair.
Violence was a language all the people in this room could perfectly understand.
The silent man fastened a cloth over my mouth until it was digging uncomfortably into the corners of my mouth. This was probably just a precaution as to not bite my own tongue in half.
How considerate of them.
Curls stepped out of my view for a moment, before coming back a second later with something that looked suspiciously like an electric prod in his hands.
What the fuck?
My eyes widened.
Fucking hell, were they going to electrocute me to death?
I had expected to have my nails or teeth pulled, or maybe a finger or two cut off before one of them ultimately put a bullet through my skull.
This was going a little bit overboard.
I didn’t know what the man saw in my eyes, but it only made his grin widen.
