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“Steel, please just let us do this.”
He turns and walks away from us, storming back to the apartment. “Right, everyone, head home. We’ll go through all this and see what's important and what's not. I’ll call church tomorrow once we have something to share, okay?”
They all turn in as Dice, and I head to the tech room. I swing by the kitchen and grab some food and drinks as we go. I have a feeling it's gonna be a long night.
We start by connecting the box to the computer, and by “we,” I mean Dice does while I stand there and twiddle my thumbs. He says it's encrypted, so he needs to run it through a programme that will, I don’t know, make it not encrypted or some shit. Then we start sorting through all the paperwork and attaching anything of relevance to Ray on the wall with the other stuff we’ve found. To be fair, everything in the filing cabinets had to do with the surgery itself. Only the stuff attached to the wall has anything to do with Ray, but we hang it all up and destroy anything not of relevance.
It must be the early hours before the encryption is finally over, and we can start to watch. As we wait for it to load onto the screen, I freeze with bated breath. I’m not sure I can watch this. I know it's gonna be bad. I know I’m not gonna be able to sleep once I’ve watched it, but there’s nothing else we can do now. We just have to see what the sick fucks have done to her and see what we can find to use against them and hopefully bring the fuckers down.
My breath stutters as the screen comes to life, “It's the night she was taken. She’s still in her gown from the event.”
She’s strapped to the chair, and we can see shadows moving around the room, but none of them step into view of the camera. After a while, Ray starts to stir. Her eyes flicker open, and there's a gasp before she schools her features and then looks bored.
There's a voice that comes from the direction she’s looking. “Surprised to see me, Reaper?”
She shrugs one shoulder but doesn't say anything. A hand strikes her across the face the next second, and a familiar voice spits at her. “Dante asked you a fucking question, bitch!” Roach steps forward and grabs her around the face. “Answer him.” A feral smirk slides across her face, and her gaze shifts over Roach’s shoulder.
“Even after I taught him to fight, he still slaps like a little fucking bitch.”
Roach gets right in her face and starts cursing at her, but her gaze never falters from Dante.
“So what do you want B— ”
She’s slapped again, but by Dante, this time as he shoves Roach out of the way. He gets right in her face and spits, “Don’t you fucking dare!”
He grabs her around the throat and squeezes. “I swear to Hades himself you dare say that name, and I will fucking kill you right now!”
She grins up at him. “Ah, come on, B – ”
She’s gripped tighter around the throat so the words won't come out.
“You’ll fucking pay for that, Reaper. You will join me one way or another, you were supposed to be mine, not theirs, and you will join me, or I’m going to destroy everyone you fucking love, including that cunt of a thing you call a husband! How dare you get in the car stinking of him? The smell was vomit-inducing.”
“Do you want me to tell you what he did to me before I left? How he fucked me over the back of the sofa and then pushed his come back inside me and sent me to the ball dripping? Is that what you could smell? The other guy seemed to like it. His raging boner and dilated pupils were a dead fucking give away!”
She’s slapped again. “Shut the fuck up, you dirty little whore!”
“He's still inside me now. You wanna see? Can you smell him on me?” She tips her head back and groans. “I can still fucking taste him.”
Next thing, he walks away and gets a needle, injecting her with it till she’s out again.
“Roach, cut that fucking dress off her and clean her up. I want every inch of her clean. I want every lingering smell of him fucking gone. You hear me?”
Dante pushes past Roach and out of the basement.
“It's him, Ares, Dante. He's the driver,” Dice rewinds and pauses the screen, and we take a closer look.
“She clearly knows him. He knew her as Reaper, but did you hear him say, ‘I swear to Hades’? Ray says that all the time, she never swears to god, always Hades. Cade does the same.”
“Fuck, let’s just keep watching. I don’t know how much I can take, so let's just push through while we can.” We skip through Roach taking her dress off and cleaning her as the dirty little perv clearly has depraved issues with the way he touches her and slides his hands over her.
When Dante enters the room, Ray’s already awake. It's the next day, and Dante tells her about the screens and fires them all up. Her arms are strapped to the chair, and she’s totally naked.
“You look and smell so much better than yesterday. Let's start again. I'm sorry for slapping you. Roach!”
Roach walks over to her with a scalpel, grabbing her arm.
“No! Not the tattoos,” Dante says. “They’re for me.”
