DANTE'S POV
"It's your turn now." I say, turning to face Adrian with a smirk. He looks like he wants to say something, but what exactly can the fool say to get him out of this situation? Absolutely nothing. I watch him as a bead of sweat trickles down his forehead, as he swallows nervously while he looks up at me. His eyes wide with something that can only be fear. He doesn't have such a smart mouth now that he has lost everything. His life, his guards, his money, his freedom.
As I stare down at him, the door suddenly swings open and Liam walks in.
"You're not supposed to be here." I say without taking my eyes off Adrian.
"I have to see this. You didn't really think I was going to let you do this alone did you? He has messed with all of us. I want to see him suffer." Liam has a dark look on his face. I want to ask him about Adeline. I want to ask him how she's doing like I do every second but I know his answer will be the same.
He says she's holding up and still doesn't want to see me so I just keep my mouth shut and focus on what I am about to do to Adrian.
"Was it worth it Adrian?" I say stooping in front of the coward that basically has tears flowing from his eyes now. I tilt my head at him and twist my face in disgust.
"I mean you clearly have a sense for business investments. You were a well-established business man. You seem to come from a long line of wealthy people. You seem to have had everything given to you on a silver platter. So why Adrian? Why join the most disgusting organization in the world. Was it greediness or are you just so fucked up in the head? I mean I really want to know so I suggest you answer me before I start cutting off body parts." His eyes widen at my threat and he opens his mouth to speak
"I don't know man. I don't know…" He says weakly, so close to passing out from how scared he is.
"Wrong answer!" I say and then grab a hammer from the table next to him and slam in right to his right knee. He screams and tries to break free from the chair he's tied up on.
"It's because you are a degenerate, ungrateful and sick piece of shit! Repeat after me Adrian! What are you?" I ask him with a raise of my voice. I probably look like a psychopath right now but I don't care. I want to savor this for as long as I can. I want to watch him suffer.
"I'm a degenerate, ungrateful and sick piece of shit." He says as he cries out in pain and I cannot even begin to explain just how much that pain feeds my soul. I want to listen to him scream all the time. If I had a way torture him, kill him, bring him back to life and do it all over again, I would, but I cannot do that. I only have one shot at this, one chance to at least try and make him feel all the pain that Adeline did.
"Please just kill me…." Adrian begs.
"And why the fuck should you have an easy death? Why the fuck should we send you off so easily after all what you've done?" Liam snaps and then walks towards the table where I keep all my torture toys and grabs a pair of iron tweezers. Adrian widens his eyes as he understands what is about to happen.
The nerves at the end of the fingers have to be the ones that make a human feel the most pain and that is exactly what Liam seems to be aiming for.
"No. No please don't." Adrian yells and shakes in his chair like a worm and I almost laugh as I watch him scream in pain as Liam pulls of the first nail. Liam pulls out a second one almost immediately and we both watch as Adrian's hands belled onto the floor.
"All of this could have been avoided Adrian…" I say in a menacing voice. "Your life didn't have to be like this. I mean did you really think that you would get away with everything that you did? Did you really think that karma would not come for you sooner or later? I bet you think you're God, huh?" He shakes his head as he looks up at me with pleading eyes.
He can't even talk anymore because of how much pain he is enduring right now. I get even more annoyed when I remember all the things Colton told me about what Adeline went through and I know that Adrian will die soon because I cannot seem to contain the anger inside of me.
I grab a knife from the table and slam it in between his legs, right on his dick. The same dick that he used to violate Adeline. I take out the knife and stab down on a different spot. He screams. I smile. Liam folds his arm and watches it all with a frown on his face.
"It doesn't feel good when people are doing things to you forcefully, does it Adrian? It doesn't feel good to have things be done to you against your will does it Adrian? It doesn't feel good to be violated, does it?" I scream at him as I stab the knife through his thigh.
Liam goes in again with the tweezers and takes out another couple of nails and then with the knife in my hand, I start slowly peeling the skin off his face.
Adrian screams in pain. He shakes and begs for mercy but I don't stop. I don't want to stop.
"Just kill him Dante…" Liam says from behind me. I can tell that he has probably had enough of this torture.
"If you can't take it, then leave." I say to him as I continue putting Adrian through unimaginable pain. As Adrian is about to say something else, the door suddenly swings open and I stop abruptly as I come face to face with Adeline.
"For Christ's sake…" She exclaims as she notices Veronica's body on the floor, as she stares at me with wide eyes as I basically skin Adrian alive.
"What are you doing here Addie! You're not supposed to see this!" Liam protests.
"I am not some fragile little thing okay so you guys can stop walking on eggshells around me now." Adeline says with a strong voice. I notice that she has more color to her face which means Naomi has successfully been getting her to eat something.
When she looks at Adrian, she has no remorse on her face. I think she's more surprised at seeing me like this. She averts her gaze from mine and then grabs a gun from the table and puts a bullet through Liam's skull. She doesn't stop there, she shoots him repeatedly on every single part of his body until Adrian is a bleeding mess on the floor. Tears flow from her eyes as she breathes heavily and tosses the gun aside.
"There…" Adeline says as she trembles. "I needed that." I watch her and I want to run o her and hug her but my hands are bloody and i hate the fact that she is here.
"Liam can you please give Dante and I a minute?" Adeline asks and Liam doesn't argue. He only nods and walks out of the room. She stays quiet for a few seconds and looks straight ahead of her. I don't want to be the one to break the silence because I can tell she has a lot to say to me. I just want to wait for her to be ready to talk. Although a different environment would be better to have the conversation she wants. There are two dead bodies in this room and she just shot one of them repeatedly.
This is weird, not for me. For her.
"I don't know what to do Dante." She starts talking. " I don't know how to sleep ant night without seeing the faces of all the people I have killed." She says.
I remember Colton mentioning that she killed two people when she was kidnapped, Arthur being the third and now, Adrian just became a fourth. I don't want this to be her life. She is not that type of person and I do not want dead bodies piling up in her head. She doesn't deserve it.
"When I heard you were killing Adrian and Veronica today. I didn't want to have anything to do with it. But I wanted to eb the one t put a bullet through Adrian's head. I wanted to be the one responsible for his last breathe." She finally turns to face me.
The look in her eyes is haunting. She looks so empty, so lost and I want to help her. I want to do whatever I can to make all of this easy for her but I just cannot seem to see how that is possible. How do I take this all away from her?
"I feel dirty Dante…" She starts subbing. "I feel so lost. I don't know who I am anymore and I don't know how to find myself again. I don't even know if I want to find myself again. All I can think about is the fact that there are so many other girls out there, going through the same thing as me. There are so many other Veronicas and Adrians out there, hurting poor and helpless girls like myself and I cannot sleep at night and go on with my life without doing anything about it. I feel guilty and I feel like hunting this people one by one is the only way to feed the void that is growing inside me!"
She walks closer towards me and I feel tears prickle in my eyes. I know what she's saying. It's the same feeling I had after what happened to my sister. But it is not a happy life. It's always looking over your shoulder because of the number of enemies you will make.
"Everyone seems to want me to move on. they want me to leave what happened at erotica behind but I can't Dante! And I am here because you of all people understands how I feel. After all you have been fighting against people like this your whole life."
"What are you asking me Adeline?" I question, a strain in my voice.
"I'm asking you to show me how it's done." She states.
"Adeline…" I argue.
"Please Dante! My experience is all I have now. It is all I have left. I can't go back to my old life. I have tried and I have realized that I cannot. I am not that person anymore and I have come to terms with that. I do not want to force myself to be someone that I am not anymore. I don't want to pretend to be okay with everything Dante because I am not. I am angry. I am angry at the world and I want to find people like Veronica and Adrian and make them pay. That is all I have been able to think about because what good is my experience if I cannot use it to help others?"
She sobs and moves even closer to me and I understand her. I understand where she is coming from but this is not the type of life that she was supposed to live. I don't want to believe that this is what was intended for her.
"They say everything happens for a reason. Maybe this is my fate. Everything that has happened to me has led to this very moment! I'm sure of it Dante. I went through hell…" She shakes her head as she sobs.
"I went through things that I cannot even bring myself to talk about. I have seen thing that I could never even imagine Dante. And I would give everything to forget everything. I would give everything to wipe away those memories but that would make me the most selfish person in the world. This is my life now and I need you to help me."
"You cant ask me that Adeline. Everything that I've done is to get you away from erotica and any form of danger and you're asking me to just let you walk back into it. I want you to have a better life than this Adeline. I want you to be happy. I want you to live! I want you to travel the world. I want you have what you have always wanted. Freedom. I want that for you Adeline because you deserve it. You deserve it and more."
She looks me up and down and then without another word, she runs out of the room.