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“All the way home.”
Blood gushes from the open wound, and Mica screams in excruciating pain, his tears falling hard. It’s music to my fucking ears.
“I hope you weren’t attached to that big toe,” I mock unsympathetically.
Caleb howls in hysterical laughter. “He’s not anymore. That’s for damn sure. Unless you have a needle and thread lying around?”
“Na, man. Shit outta luck, I’m afraid,” I answer.
“Shame,” Caleb laughs, tossing the amputated toe over his shoulder while I move on to toe number two, reciting the rhyme again.
The hammer falls, and Mica’s scream pierces my eardrum.
“Oof. Now that looked like it really hurt,” I taunt.
Picking his bloodied middle toe off the ground, I dangle it in front of him. His face pales like he’s about to pass out.
“Please. Stopppp.”
“Stop? Why would we stop? If anything, you should be thanking us. We’ve just saved you a fortune on your next pedicure. Thank Saint for saving you money,” Caleb demands, grabbing a fist full of Mica’s hair.
Mica wrenches like he’s about to be sick.
“Unless you want to eat that toe, I suggest you do what your fucking told.”
Mica’s entire body tremors with fear.
“T-thank you, Saint,” he chokes through sobs, his voice raw from screaming. We haven’t even started yet. This is only the beginning. “Thank you.”
I turn to Caleb. “See, brother. I told you Mica could be nice when he wants to be. Isn’t that right, Mica?”
Mica nods emphatically. “Ya…yes. Y-yes.”
“Good boy. Now we’re getting somewhere.” Leaving the hammer and chisel on the ground, I rise slowly, then casually walk back to the bench. “Tell me why you tried to slaughter us all the night of the party.”
“W-we had nothing to do with that, I, I- swear.” He almost sounds convincing.
My eyes scan the tools, hands running over each of them before going for the nail gun. “You disappoint me, Mica. That was the wrong answer.”
We emerged from the room two hours later.
“You really think he didn’t know about it?” Caleb asks, clothes soaked in blood and looking as exhausted as I feel. Torturing people really does take it out of you. I yawn, feeling like I could sleep for a week.
“There’s no way he knew, not after what we did to him. It was enough to make a trained soldier break,” I argue, stripping out of my shirt and wiping as much blood off my body as I can. I learned to be more careful after that one time Lexy caught me walking into the shower, clothes covered in blood. I saw the horror written all over her beautiful face and vowed to never let her see me like that again if I could help it.
Chains meets us at the lift, the heavy thud of his boots unmistakable.
“Anything?” he asks.
I shake my head with a look of disappointment.
His expression doesn’t change. “What do you want me to do with the body, boss?”
“Burn it.”
Chapter Sixteen
Iawakecoatedinsweat with a desperate need to pee, and I hate it. The bleeding has almost stopped, but every time I pull down my pants and see the stains, it’s a heavy reminder of what I’ve lost.
