Page 89 of The Light Within


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Pride shines on her moonlit face as she blows me a kiss.

Show her you’re worthy of her.

Pulling my attention from her, I focus on the task at hand, removing the rest of his fingernails with the rusty pliers. Colin howls and screams, grating on my nerves like nails on a chalkboard.

Grabbing him by the throat, his screams are silenced as I cut off his oxygen. “Shut the fuck up or I’ll yank out your toenails.”

Releasing him, my eyes flick over his red face with contempt. He audibly sucks in air, his chest heaving as he coughs. Crossing my arms, I stare at him, impatiently waiting until he’s silent.

It seems to take a fucking eternity until he complies.

The coward refuses to look at me, so I force him, squeezing his jaw with my left hand. Bryan walks over, calmly handing me a blow torch.

“Honest answers only, Colin. Or…” I hold up the blowtorch before lowering it, his eyes following my every move.

“Tell me, how long have you been watching my woman?” The beast howls inside me at the thought of another man watching what is mine.

He whimpers, wide eyes locked on the blowtorch. “I-I d-d-don’t k-know w-what you’re t-talking a-bout?” His voice is hoarse from being choked.

My jaw clenches. “Lies,” I growl.

Turning the knob, I open the value, the gas releasing with a hiss. I press the trigger, the telltale blue flame shooting out, causing him to shriek.

“W-w-wait,” he stammers, his gaze not moving from the flame. “I-I s-saw h-her. A-at your o-office.”

I smirk. “Partial truth.” Turning up the flame, I press it against his bicep, the stench of burning flesh filling the room.

He howls, throwing his head back.

Pulling the torch away, I give him thirty seconds of reprieve, then I ask again. “But that wasn’t the only place you saw her. Tell me where you saw her before that,” I seethed through gritted teeth.

His Adam’s apple bobs as he swallows. “I… I-I saw h-her. A-At y-your f-fight.”

“Ahh… finally, an honest answer.” I pace in front of him, my finger leaving the trigger on the torch, my probing gaze analyzing him. “You saw her get into the ring and knew she could fight. And that’s why you drugged her, then bound her with that thick rope.”

Wisely, Colin doesn’t say anything.

It doesn’t matter whether he does or not.

Turning the blow torch on, I turn the flame control valve to max capacity. “But before that, you grabbed her ass.” With those words, I burn his right nipple, making him scream.

Everleigh startles from above me. She didn’t think I knew about that.

I have eyes and ears everywhere and they knew better than to keep that from me.

Moving it away, I release the trigger. “You should know better than tolookat what is mine. And then youtouchedher!” I scream, the anger building, coursing through my body like a volcano on the verge of an explosion.

I fire up the blow torch again, running it steadily over his bound hands, listening to his screams.

When I stop, Colin’s breathing rasps in and out of his lungs, his chest soaked from sweat.

Bryan walks over, handing me a pair of large pruning shears. My chest heaves from the adrenaline coursing through my body, delighting in the torture I’m inflicting on him.

It’s all forher.

While I can’t stand anyone touching what is mine, it’s more than that.

She’s more than that.

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