“Fuck,” Aaron’s voice got here down the road. “Go away it. Olivia and I’ll take him on the different finish of that tunnel.”

“I can’t try this.”

“Ash—”

“Concentrate on Samuel. Discover that motherfucker. He’s not leaving right here alive.”

With that, I disconnected and turned off my earpiece.

I couldn’t have any interruptions for what was to come back.

I needed to fucking nicely focus.

Or I wasn’t going to make it out of right here alive.

I shored up my focus and known as my beast state out in all its damaging and sadistic fucking glory, figuring out I’d want nothing much less to cope with this.

After which, with a growl, I began my descent.

He hadn’t made a break for it by the dungeon.

I spotted why after I heard Carson’s voice echoing off the partitions and down the hall simply outdoors the dungeon.

“Isobel, we are able to work collectively. You don’t want to do that. Include me, I’ll get you out, then we are able to rebuild. You’ll be the queen to my king.”

I peered inside seeing him pacing frantically, out of types like I’d by no means seen from him earlier than. His gown pants have been dirtied and bloodied from clearly preventing off the assault. His swimsuit jacket was ripped in a number of locations, his tie gone, and his shirt solely half buttoned up. His hair was a wild mess of grime and blood too.

“No, you do that and we each fall,” he went on into his mobile phone. “I don’t give a fuck about any of the remaining as long as you’re with me. I’ve been looking for you for fucking years, I’m not giving up now. It’s not sick obsession, you’re mine. Lan, too, however he stays as delusional as ever in that regard. Superb, fuck, all proper, we’ll put it in writing, the phrases of us working collectively. The place are you? Okay, keep hidden from these silly shits invading my goddamn dwelling. I’ll come to you, get us out.”

He turned, heading for the dungeon exit again the way in which he’d come, solely to drag up brief to a jarring cease when he noticed me standing there within the doorway.

It took him a second to get previous his shock.

After which he snickered and gestured across the hellhole, “Feeling nostalgic, have been you?”

I took within the chilly, dank room, all that ugly concrete—the partitions and the ground. A set of chains hung off three partitions after which a set hung down from the middle the place I’d been strung up and left for hours on finish many a time. Over by the wall devoid of chains was a protracted workbench with the varied implements that had been used on me and others who him and Samuel had relished punishing over time.

Leashes, whips, choke collars, shock batons, cattle prods, rusted blades, pistols, dildos, ball and spider gags, hammers and nails, an influence drill.

I appeared away earlier than I risked the reminiscences compromising my beast state. It was exhausting sufficient to attract on it with out shedding the steadiness with my rational and strategic facet.

“Your desperation is exhibiting,” I spoke, stepping throughout the edge. “Begging Isobel to work with you when you understand she’ll simply use and betray you.”

His eyes narrowed. “You realize nothing.”

“I do know she hates you. I do know she pities you and abhors you in equal measure to your obsession along with her.”

“Do you actually wish to provoke me whereas we’re standing in your torture chamber?”

“Do you actually wish to provoke me?”

He zoned in on my hand greedy the butt of my gun.

“You’re going the coward’s route? Too afraid to face me, you want a easy bullet to do your soiled give you the results you want?”

“That is only a tic. Like with my beaded bracelet. One thing you precipitated in me. Simply an perception into the deep psychological injury you’ve inflicted upon me. Most individuals wouldn’t have the ability to get off the bed within the morning in the event that they carried what I do each fucking day. Due to you. Due to that ego and worry that I used to be higher than you, that I’d outshine you. And also you have been proper to worry that, as a result of I’m higher. So a lot better. Smarter, stronger, essentially the most resilient motherfucker on the planet. That’s why I’m nonetheless standing right here in the end. Despite your abuse, your psychological assaults, your threats, your torture, even ordering your finest pal to drive fuck your individual son. By all of it, right here I fucking am, Father.”

I tossed my gun apart, out of his approach, again by the door.

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