Chapter 84: Master Of Torture

There is a method to torture, the drawing out and elongation of time and agony, maximizing the amount of pain for a subject and the equal amount of pleasure for the torturer. Andre is, and always has been, a master. Even when I was a girl and he was much younger, he had a particular knack for inflicting torment. I was only a child, but he knew exactly how far he could push me and my tiny body, how much the wolf could heal, though he would test those limits over and over again.

It had been years since Andre had me in his grasp, years since I felt the misery of his attentions. And he'd grown even more skilled. The blades slid with feather precision under my skin, the sharp barbs between my toes penetrating past the knuckles and into firm muscle. Every cracked bone is strained in such a way my wolf can heal it within hours, each sliced piece of flesh already sealing when he starts on the next.