SILENCED

Warning⚠️

This chapter depicts scene of intense torture and pain

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Eloise leaned into the uncomfortable jagged chair.One leg slightly displaced to the back made its creaking sound infuriate her.

Her hands had been tied strictly with the strong nylon ropes,her hands behind her and the cruel pricks piercing through her skin if she dared move. She did not recall how she ended up there.She could not recall the number of days she had spent there. She only opened her eyes to find herself in the abandoned apartment,drowned in complete darkness.

She patiently sat in the chair, awaiting the same guest who came by everyday.As expected,his largely built structure flew in through the door with his two brutes.

"Eloise..." His hoarse voice stretching the pronunciation of her name,filling her body with fear to the maximum.

She had always hoped someone could find her and bail her out of this damp,but her hopes were nothing but unachievable dreams.

He sat across her,a sadistic smile displayed on his face."You decided not to abide by your part of the deal?"

Eloise rolled her eyes.His usual ranting irked her.She wanted to escape the tied ropes and smack his face.Perhaps he would learn to shut up.

"I don't know where it is!" She spat, unfeigned anger in her voice.

"You are making this difficult Eloise."said the man.

"I cannot find the box.I do not even know if it exists.You are making a mistake."

"No!" He snapped."You are making the mistake."

Before Eloise could comprehend what was going to happen next,he reached out for a small hook in his pocket.An unmistakable glint in her eyes and her fear got the worst of her.

"You know what this is??" He asked,his hand stiffening the tip of the hook."Look at this! See how shiny it is..used for many other things people know nothing of."

Eloise shook her head violently.

"I know you hid it somewhere... somewhere I won't even know.This hook could discard off someone useless.Someone unimportant...and I wish to try it today."

She violently shook her head as she stifled in sobs.He had not yet done it,but she could feel it already in her.She was trembling like a hunted animal ready to be butchered. He wouldn't spare her even if she revealed where she had kept what he was looking for.Would he?

He looked at her,the fear invested in her eyes the very source of his excitement.He liked seeing people in pain.He liked doing it.He liked seeing the fear on people's faces before he even did his work.

"Will you be a darling and tell me where it is?"

His sudden change in voice made her wobble.She wanted to escape the cage she was in.She wanted to free herself from the ropes.She wanted to shout,but who would even hear her.

"Ellloise....tell me and I shall free you from this web.I shall spare you.I shall allow you to travel the world...wherever you wish to be." He approached her,the hook in his hands trailing along her cheeks."Just tell me where it is!"

"No! D-Don't do this to me.I know nothing about the box.Please don't hurt me." She practically cried out.

"Please! Spare me."

Before her eyes,he held out her chin and forced her mouth open.Her drained eyes couldn't shed the tear it wanted.She hadn't planned on opening her mouth.

No she hadn't!

That was not part of her plan,but his piercing nails and the brutes behind him did the trick.

She watched as one of his men approached with a heated rod.She could even see the smoke that escaped from the rod.

They were too cruel.

"Tell me now!" He roared, probably tired from begging her to tell him what he needed to hear.He had lived for far too long and needed only what he sought to live more.To prolong his life and get what he was looking for. He would do anything in his quest for what he wanted.

The brute with the rod shoved the rod inside her dress and she screamed in pain.Her body hot from the steam rising under the rod.She bit her lip so hard.She didn't want to scream.She didn't want to cry,but had to give in to beg them to let her go.

"Please! Let me go!" She yelped.The pain was driving her insane.She was losing her sanity.

Where was Esmeralda when she needed her most? Where was she?

The man grabbed a handful of her hair, directing her face to him as she groaned and wailed."Tell me now,where is it?"

"I-I I don't even know w-where it is?"

Before her very eyes,her tongue was next.Falling on the wooden floor,washed in blood.Her mouth was filled with the gushing turbulent of the crimson liquid.She wanted to shout but couldn't.Her eyes were no different from the famine in distant lands.

He pulled the hook out and redirected to the same spot he had hurt.This time pulling it out ultimately and launching for her knees.

THUD

She fell from the chair.One of his men had freed her from the desperate clutches of the nylon ropes.She cried inwardly.She couldn't scream.She couldn't yell if she wanted to.She was now mute.

And it hurt too much.

Satisfied with what he had done,he signalled his men to bring her food and leave her in the place. He looked over as the helpless girl before him cried inwardly.He had rendered her mute,to such an extent he would not only lose her voice but her sanity too.

Eloise looked over as the men left a cold plate of food in front of her.Her mouth was still pouring from the blood.Her eyes slowly closed as she gave in to whatever was coming for her.

"What should we do with her now?" One of his men asked as he looked at Eloise's unconscious figure.

"You'll see!" His wicked laugh filled the abandoned apartment.