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Thirty One
RAOUL
Ihave a rancid, bitter taste in my mouth when I open my eyes, and I feel the ache in my muscles when I struggle to lift up my head. My arms are raised above me, I have no shirt on, and I’m chained to the ceiling. I yank on the heavy chains but there’s no give in them at all, and as the rest of my senses start to come back to me, so does my anger.
“Nice of you to join me again.” Fabian walks a circle around my body with his arms behind his back.
“What do you want?” I spit the words out and stare at him coldly.
“I want plenty, but I’ll start by making you pay for trying to make a fool of me,” he explains, like he’s watched one too many Al Pacino movies.
“Then I want my girl back, on her knees, begging for my forgiveness.”
“She isn’t your girl anymore,” I correct him, and when he disappears behind me again, I suddenly feel something lash against my back and cut into my skin.
“How does it feel to be treated like one of your whores?” he asks me darkly, and I swallow down the pain and grip my fingers around the chain that's wrapped around my wrists.
“We shall see who the girl belongs to.” Fabian finds a calm before thrashing at me again in the same spot, and I feel the blood trickle down my back.
I’ve been trained for this shit, back in Sicily, Ludo locked me in a dark room for three whole days. He beat me black and blue, told me I could leave anytime I wanted to. But if I did I would be a failure. I hated him at the time, but it was all preparation for moments like this.
“You think you're so smart, Mr. Untouchable. That whole fucking family of yours thinks they rule this city. But things are gonna change, Raoul. My father feared you, he was weak.”
“So this is you taking over?” I snigger. “Fabian, you're a glorified pimp. You have no idea how to manage a city.” Laughing through my pain earns me another heavy lash against my skin.
“This is me finally breaking you, and having some fun in the process.”
“Well, I hope you enjoy your fun because soon, it will all be over and you will be on the receiving end.”
“Nobody knows where you are, Raoul, your driver has been taken care of, and the GPS in your car has been deactivated. It’s just you and me, for now.”
For now,those words settle coldly in my stomach.
“I said I wanted to have some fun with you.” He moves in front of me and grabs my face, and when he forces me to look at him, I spit into his eye.
The man is going to pay for this.
“I swear if you touch her—”
Fabian grabs at the chains above my head and rattles them.
“What are you gonna do, Raoul?” he taunts.
I suddenly remember the face I saw before I passed out. And subtly search the room for his accomplice. Maybe it was the drug that I got hit with that made me hallucinate.
“I’m going to start slowly,” Fabian whispers, wrapping the long leather whip he has in his hand around my neck then pulling on its handle. I sustain the crushing in my throat and stare the fucker right in his eyes as he steals the breath from me. I fight against my body's urge to panic, because I know he will release me. He wants me to suffer.
My vision starts to blur and the blood rushing to my head feels like it's going to rupture before he loosens his hold.
“You think this is bad. You just wait and see what I have planned for her,” he threatens, and all the rage inside me gives me enough strength to pull on the chains and snarl at him.
“Calm yourself, it’s going to be a long day for you,” he tells me, before backing away and heading through the double doors, into what looks like a kitchen.
