MONSTER

ADELINE'S POV

Colton leads me into a room with nineteen other girls dressed almost in the same way that I am, except I'm the only one who's more exposed than them. I start thinking maybe she did this to me as punishment, for killing her men. If I felt naked before, that was nothing because with the wat the other girls are glaring at me, you would think I had nothing on.

"That's the girl who killed two people." I hear one of the girls say. She doesn't even try to keep her voice down as I walk into the room with Colton. The other girls stare at me with nasty looks.

"Veronica will be up here soon." Colton says and leaves the room. I stand in the midst of the other girls like an outcast. Colton says there are five new girls here including me and as I scan the room better, I notice there are four other girls in a corner who look just as lost as I am, but the fifteen other girls form a clique and mock a us indefinitely.

I stay in place and start feeling bad for the four other girls pushed back in a corner.

"Do you girls have anything you want to say to our faces?" I ask the fifteen other girls in the room and they all look at me surprised. As if they weren't expecting me to react and just take their bullying silently.

"Did you just talk to us?" A girl with red hair says, walking in front of the other girls as if she were their queen. The other new girls stare at me with admiration and with tears in their eyes. They're not going to survive here if they keep crying.

Before I can answer the red-haired girl, I heat taps on the floor from very high and sharp stilettos and Veronica appears in the room like a demon, her signature scowl on her face. All the old girls form a line as Veronica walks in the room and clamp their mouths shut with their heads down. The new girls and I, although confused follow suit and join the line.

We all keep our heads down as Veronica stands in front of us. For a few seconds, she doesn't say anything. She just stands there and stares at us. I feel like I'm on display to be eaten by a vicious predator. The thought sends shivers down my spine and that weak and helpless feeling starts to resurface. I quickly push it aside and stand strong. I cannot break.

"Take three steps forwards if you're new." She says and the other girls and I do not hesitate. We follow the order silently.

"Heads up." Veronica says and we all obey. She has her hair up just loke the first time I saw her, a pencil skirt and a shirt on that reveals a lot of her boobs. She has red eyeliner on giving her a demonic look.

Whenever I think about Veronica, I ask myself how she could be so selfish, being a woman and doing this to other women? How can she sleep at night after all the lives she ruins? The people here must have no hearts. They must have no sisters or mothers to just tun a blind eye to everything happening here. I hate them even more and my blood boils as Veronica looks me up and down.

"Welcome to erotica." She says, raising her hands up in a dramatic display. I guess erotica must be the name of this organization. The way she says the name, with such confidence and pride. I hate this woman so much and I can't wait to drive a knife through her chest. I don't know when I became so violent but in the space of just a few days, my life has changed drastically and I have grown and discovered so many things about myself that I didn't even know before.

I have gone through all the stages of grief and in such a short period of time, I have realized that crying will not help me out in anyway. I am constantly trying to shut off my emotions and use my head. That is the only way that I will get out of here. By completely abandoning my humanity and becoming the very monsters that brought me here.

I know I will have to kill even more people to get out of here but right now, I don't really care. I'm desperate and I have the skills. All I need now is time.

"Step back." She says and the five of us take three steps back and join the other girls on the line. We look to each other in confusion. I expected some kind of introduction. Is that all she's going to tell us.

"The girls of erotica are not stupid so if the five of you expected some sort of explanation or introduction to how this place functions, then you're gravely mistaken. You will have to use your heads. And don't think for a second that any of you will get special treatment just because you're new and…."

One of the girls starts crying. I snap my head over to her and she has tears staining her cheeks. I didn't notice it before but she doesn't look a day over seventeen and it breaks my heart. My heart shatters to a million pieces and I fight the urge to break down and start crying too.

I look over to Veronica to see her reaction and her eyes are widened in a devilish way as she looks at the girl. Without thinking Veronica walks up to the girl and slaps her straight across the face. she slaps the girl so hard that her face starts bleeding and she lands on the floor with a thud.

I stay in place and I hate myself for it. I want to do anything, something to help but I am in no position to help or save this poor girl from whatever fate Veronica has in store for her.

"If you do not want to die, or worse, I suggest you stop that leaking from your face this instant." Veronica orders but the girl just keeps crying.

"Please…" I squeeze my eyes shut. The worst thing she could do was start talking and begging. Veronica has no heart. It didn't take me long to understand that, but this girl is just seventeen. A mere and innocent teenager whose life was snatched away from her too soon. She doesn't understand what's happening to her.

"What was that?" Veronica's eyes widen even more. She grabs the girl by her hair and forces her up to her feet. The only girls who even seem fazed by the display in front of us are the new girls. The fifteen other girls just stand there emotionless as Veronica lands another slap to the girl's face.

"Please I have a mother. I have a father and a beautiful younger brother. I have a dog named Max. I have a boyfriend and I go the most amazing school with the most amazing friends. I have people back at home who miss me. Please just let me go. I just want to go home. I'm begging you. JUST LET ME GO!" The girl starts thrashing and fighting Veronica's grip. I almost take a step forward when I notice Veronica has a gun stripped to the back of her skirt.

"Boomy!" Veronica calls and in a second, a huge and fat man walks into the room. He looks like something out of a fever dream or from a horror move. He's the tallest and hugest man I have ever laid eyes on. He has a sinister and predatory look in his eyes as he stares at the girl in Veronica's grip.

Veronica pushes the girl into the disgusting man's arms and starts giving orders. "Do what you want with her, and then dispose of her. I do not tolerate weaklings and annoying little brats in my establishment."

As soon as Veronica gives the order, I think I see drool coming out of Boomy's mouth. He licks his lips and escapes from the room with the girl. My body starts trembling as I recall my circumstances with Adrian right before he sent people to bring me here. I remember how he forcefully slammed himself inside me and I dread the thought of the same thing happening to that poor girl.

"You can't do that!" My voice comes out cracked but strong. "You can't fucking do that you murderous bitch!"

All the other gurls gasp as I stand up to Veronica and that sinister and murderous look she has in her eyes is directed once again towards me.

"Ah…" She says with an irritated smirk. "If it isn't the murderer."

"Let her go." Slap! My face rings in pain from the after feel of her slap on my face, but I don't falter. I spin my head back and give her a death stare.

"I said let her go!" I repeat even more strongly. "What kind of monster are you? She's just a little girl. That is someone's fucking daughter!"

"Shot!" Veronica yells, paying no heed to me and at her order, another man enters the room, except this time he has a syringe that he aims directly for my neck. I don't see the needle coming. He plunges the needle inside me and pushes it's content into my bloodstream and before I know it, all I see and feel is darkness.