She stands in opposition to the cross like a ravishing sacrifice and Hosea turns to the gawping crowd and says loudly, “I current to you, Psyche, essentially the most stunning lady who ever lived so that you can admire her magnificence. Chances are you’ll look, however if you happen to contact her, you die.”

He steps again and two enormous males step earlier than her, holding gigantic swords. They appear like they wrestle bears for a dwelling and peer out angrily by black leather-based masks that cowl their faces. They’re dressed like centurions and my breath virtually deserts me on the prospect of sure dying if I used to be silly sufficient to step ahead to attempt to assist the poor, defenseless lady.

Hosea turns and his eyes flash as he says in a creepy voice that jars in opposition to each nerve in my physique.

“Psyche is dedicated to me. I face many assessments in my love for her and I take one other harmless to exhibit my love for my goddess. A sacrifice to pledge my everlasting love for this lady and to maintain her pure and untouched. She is my soul and should stay pure. She represents your souls too and on a regular basis she is sure to the cross, we’re assured forgiveness for our sins.”

He beams on the gawping crowd. “Take pleasure in your night time on Madeira Island, understanding that nothing is off limits. With Psyche defending our souls, you’re assured of forgiveness. Chances are you’ll admire this goddess however go on to take one other. The one manner she is going to ever be free is that if a winged serpent will declare her as his spouse. When I’ve sacrificed my love for her, I’ll lie beside her to exhibit my love. She trusts me to do what’s proper and solely I’ve the guts of this lady, as a result of love can not dwell with out belief.”

He factors to me, and I swear my total physique shakes.

“I take this lady as a sacrifice to my goddess. To unburden my twisted soul and cleanse it from sin. To rid me of my vilest and most wicked ideas, leaving me pure of coronary heart once I lie beside the goddess Psyche. Demonstrating my love, understanding I’ll by no means contact her and she is going to stay pure for the gods.”

He stares at Mikhail and growls, “You will have sacrificed the harmless, and your reward would be the first choose. Transfer down the road and make your selection.”

Mikhail drops my hand with a reassuring squeeze, though the blind panic getting into my thoughts tells me this might finish very badly for me.

He pushes me ahead and Hosea growls, “In your knees.”

I wish to cry so badly however do as he says as a result of I belief that Mikhail has this all underneath management. I have to play my half for Phoebe, who’s enduring a dwelling hell, and as Mikhail steps again, I sense him transferring down the road.

One after the other, the visitors observe him. The ladies on one aspect of the road and the lads turning so as and plucking a associate from the ready line. That is Sodom and Gomorrah at its most wicked, and I’m shaking as Hosea regards me by lustful eyes.

When just one man is left, Hosea steps ahead and takes my wrist, dragging me to my ft, and turns to the person standing with out a associate.

“You’re the final man standing and can wait right here till somebody comes for you. Kneel earlier than Psyche, who will pray to your soul. When a girl turns into obtainable, one other man will take your house, and this can occur till all the lads have prayed for forgiveness on the ft of Psyche.”

He turns to Phoebe and pulls me with him as he falls to his knees earlier than her and kisses her ft.

“Forgive my carnal need, my goddess. Know my coronary heart solely belongs to you and belief me that this lady sacrifices herself to me to simply accept my wicked sinful needs, so that you stay pure. Know I like you and no different, and we share an unbreakable bond of belief that no man will ever break.”

I’ve by no means seen something like this in my life. That is fucked up shit that belongs in insanity. Each warning I acquired is coming again to chunk me now as Hosea drags me to my ft and the final man standing takes our place and kneels earlier than the crucifix. The guards stand between him and Phoebe as he bows his head earlier than her and Hosea grips my wrist arduous and pulls me after him, again the best way we got here.

CHAPTER 57

APOLLO

It’s her. I stare by the binoculars because the procession makes its manner up the hill and my hand shakes as I stare on the lady I’ve liked since I knew what that meant.

Phoebe.

I virtually doubt my very own eyes as I stare at her, transferring gracefully by the aspect of a person who won’t dwell to see one other day.

My coronary heart is squeezed in a vise as I stare on the lady I’d die attempting to guard and let down so badly. I wasn’t there when she wanted me. I couldn’t discover her. It’s been two years since she was taken, and she or he should have endured two years of hell questioning why I by no means got here for her.

I watch Hosea’s fucked-up ceremony with rising impatience.

I wish to cost over there and homicide the fucking bastard with my naked arms.

I observe Melissa, a virgin sacrifice in white, trying fucking terrified and I share my brother’s anger that she agreed to this in any respect.

I battle to stay calm, to depend on my coaching to make sure success as a result of Phoebe wants the cold-blooded executioner, not the lovesick younger idiot who let her go. I will probably be robust for them each and because the guards step in entrance of my lady and lift their swords, I caress my machine gun, understanding they are going to be no match for a hail of bullets.

Mikhail has assured me it’s all been taken care of. To depend on Lucian’s negotiating expertise and perceive that the one man on this island who isn’t following the plan is the brother of the person who set this whole factor up.

Marcos Madeira desires his brother out of the image, and that is the proper alternative to try this. This entire factor has been staged to convey essentially the most torment to a person who has made it his enterprise to do the identical to others. A becoming finish for a madman and I’ll make sure I’m the one who inflicts the ultimate blow.

I’m like a salivating canine on the tip of a leash as Hosea drags Melissa down the hill towards depravity and because the final man kneels earlier than Phoebe, I take a deep breath.

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