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I pushed a hip into his car door to close it before hauling him inside, through the house to the kitchen, where I dropped him down the hatch and watched as black-painted fingernails grabbed him by his ankles and dragged him into the dark.
I bit my lip ring, fingers fumbling for a cigarette before I changed my mind, climbing down into the hole, closing the hatch behind me.
Grey helped my Ghost lift Williams’ limp body onto the bed.
I dropped my toolbox to the cement floor and crouched, digging into it for the zip ties. I grabbed a handful and tossed them onto the bed. “Tie him down.”
Ghost didn’t waste any time, grabbing a couple strips of plastic before tugging Williams’ arm high above his head, securing it to the dated metal headboard while Grey did the same on his opposite side, securing his wrists and ankles in place until he was stretched into a long X on the dirty mattress.
Corvus watched from the edge of the room, arms crossed over his chest as he oversaw our progress, like he always did.
Once Ava Jade was finished, she drew out her blade and carved a long slit into his arm with a flick of her wrist, making him rouse. Crimson spilled over the sheets as the math teacher found his voice, letting out a low, pitiful sound, little gasping cries as he tugged on his extremities, only a little at first, then thrashing, moving the whole bed as he flung his body back and forth, tearing the skin of his wrists in the process.
Ghost’s upper lip curled back, and she lifted her blade again.
“Patience,” I said, and her manic gaze found mine in the dim space, her knife-hand stilling.
“We don’t want it to be over too quickly.”
A muscle in her jaw ticked, but she nodded. She understood.
My darkness fluttered.
“Wh-whats going on here,” Williams shouted, his voice breaking, pitched all wrong. It was the best sort of music. “Hey! Miss Mason, just what is it that you think you’re doing?” he continued, staring up at Ava Jade with a crease in his brow before his eyes finally found me and he stilled.
I inhaled long and slow, taking in his fear.
He reeked of it.
I licked my lips.
“N-no,” he uttered through quivering lips before those lips pulled back over his yellowing teeth. “I’ll press charges,” he threatened, and I grinned in response.
“I will!” he promised. “You won’t get away with this.”
“And you think we’re going to let you get away with what you’ve done?” Ava Jade asked, her voice strangely calm, but with a note of mania that only I could recognize. She was only speaking calmly because she’d already decided exactly what she wanted to do to him and knew nothing would stop her from doing it.
Williams had the decency to shut his mouth at that, pressing his teeth together as he began tugging anew at his binds. He didn’t deny it.
It was as much of an admission of guilt as we would get, not that we needed one after the evidence we found.
“You’ll pay for this,” he said.
Ava Jade only shook her head. “No,” she said. “But you will.”
She lifted her head, eyes landing on Grey, then Corvus, then me. A slow smile pulled at one corner of her sharp mouth. “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?”
“Take his fingers first?” Grey asked, eyeing his filthy hands where they flexed and squeezed, tried to get free.
Ghost shook her head.
“His cock?” Corvus put in, readjusting his stance against the wall to get a better view.
She shook her head again and I saw in her a version of myself when her eyes flashed with malice in the light.
“Fuck him in the ass with one of your blades?” I asked.
Her grin widened. I hit it right on the money.
