Hard enough todraw blood and I tasted the copper on my tongue.
“You’re a mouthybitch, aren’t you? I’m gonna teach you some respect before this day is over.I’m gonna teach you a lot of things. Most of all, I’m gonna teach you how muchpain a person can take,” he threatened, guiding me to the wall of the buildingand handcuffing one of my hands before cutting my ties and securing the othercuff to an eyebolt in the wall. “The best part will be the pain Huck Wiltonwill feel when he sees what I’ve done to you.”
“If you touch asingle hair on my head, Huck will tear you from limb to limb,” I taunted. My toughtalk was all a ruse to give any rescuers my dad might be sending time to get tome. Inside, I was terrified of what this maniac had planned.
“Nah, I don’tthink so. This place is completely private, and no one knows you’re here. Notlover boy, not your big bad biker daddy, and certainly not any of hisdegenerate club members. I have you just where I want you and I have a wholenight of fun planned for us.” He pointed to his right, where I noticed a cameraset up in the corner. “And because I’d hate for Huck to use his imagination,I’ll be filming everything I do to you. Once I get my hands on him, I’m goingto make sure this is the last thing he sees before I cut him into littlepieces.”
“You’re a psychopath,”I spit out. “Huck’s never done anything to you.”
“You have noidea what you’re talking about,” Cyrus returned. “As a matter of fact, you’reignorant on a great many things. Golden Boy Huck and his do-gooder Daddy ruinedmy life. Huck took my rightful place and his father made sure it happened.”
I let out asnort of derision. “You know that isn’t true.”
“We’ll seewhat’s truth and what’s lies soon enough.”
“What do Huckand his father have to do with all of those girls you raped?”
“As I said, thereare many topics on which you are ignorant.” He scowled. “I wasn’t harming thoseprecious things, I was enlightening them. Teaching them about what lies beyondpain. You’ll understand soon enough.”
I tried reallyhard not to react outwardly, but I felt my blood run cold as he smiledlasciviously at me. God, he was absolutely disgusting.
“Everyoneunderstands the difference between pleasure and pain, but few people know thatthere is a pleasure that lies beyond pain,” he said. “A delicious euphoria thatcan only be achieved through great suffering. Soon, you’ll know that pleasure.But first, I’m going to introduce you to a kind of pain you never knewexisted.”
I was no longerable to hide my fear… or control my bladder.
“Oh, you’ve wetyourself,” he cooed. “Don’t be afraid, the pain, though excruciating, will betemporary but after a while, you’ll learn to embrace what the pain has to teachyou.”
Tears slid downmy cheeks as I hissed, “I won’t even give you the satisfaction of screaming.”
“Oh, my dear,you’re going to do a lot more than scream.”
Just as he saidthat, an alarm sounded, and Cyrus glanced at his phone screen. “God damn it,what the hell is lover boy doing here.”
I chuckled. “Itold you. Huck would never let you get away with this.”
“Wrong again. I’mjust going to have to make sure he watches you suffer in real time.”
I shivered butrefused to lose hope.
* * *
Huck
Cash and I pulledup to the location Daisy’s GPS led us to and we found Razor’s rental parkedabout a hundred yards from an old outbuilding next to a rundown house. Asquietly as we could, we made our way to Razor’s truck, and he climbed out tomeet us.
“She in there?”I asked, pointing to the building.
“I think so,”Razor said. “I did a quick sweep around the house, and it doesn’t look likeanyone’s been in there for a while.”
“Okay, then,let’s go,” I said, pulling the revolver from my waistband.
“Whoa there,John Wick,” Cash said. “That psycho’s got more than your puppy in there.”
“You think Idon’t know that?” I hissed.
“That’s my sisterin there.”
“And I’m gonnago get her.”
