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London shook his head.
“WHY! WHY KILL THEM? THEY DID NOTHING, LONDON! THEY. DID. NOTHING!”
“Because this is what they do,” London answered. “This is who they are.”
Torturers.
Murderers…
Beasts.
“He’s not here,” Carven croaked. “My brother isn’t here.”
Then where was he?
ELEVEN
Colt
“Again.” The command came from somewhere in front of me.
Synapses fired as my brain sent its commands; tense my stomach, clench my grip.
But did I move?
Did I do anything but hang suspended like a slab of meat trussed on a hook, watching my blood slowly fall to the floor in front of me?
Drip.
Drip.
Drip.
I didn’t feel the warmth slipping away, nor did I taste the metallic tang I knew had to be there. I felt nothing. Not the killing ache in my shoulders from muscles strained far beyond their limits or their savage blows…not anymore.
I was numb.
Lost.
Not lost, a husky voice whispered from deep in the void. I’m right here.
And a shiver broke free.
I was scared of that voice in the darkness, that lure of insanity. Maybe even more than I was scared of them.
“Your fists don’t seem to be effective,” Hale’s voice tore me away from the beast waiting for me in the deep recesses of my mind. “This time we go…electric.”
I jerked my head upwards and squinted into the dark. Shadows moved as my pulse kicked in my chest. Sparks of neon white flared from the thing in his hand, illuminating the big bastard in front of me.
It wasn’t steel knuckles this time, or the baseball bat they’d used before.
This was worse…
I shook my head as panic howled inside, and I bucked, making me jerk in the chains that hung me from the ceiling.
My tormentor swung his hand and upended a bucket of icy water all over me. But I couldn’t fight. I couldn’t even move, not even when the empty bucket hit the floor and that sonofabitch stepped closer and drove the prongs into my side.
Agony ripped across my stomach, driving through muscle and bone into the very center of me. My body took over and threw my head backwards, my body tensing until the links on the chains gnashed loudly.
