SINISTER

**The following chapter contains very graphic scenes of abuse and torture. Viewer discretion is advised. Please don't read this chapter if these types of topics trigger you. You can just skip to the end. **

ADELINE'S POV

"What do you want?" I ask as I sob.

"Didn't you hear what I just said Angel?" Veronica says in a menacing voice. "I want you to watch what happens when someone betrays me. I want you to watch wat is about to happen to Colton. Besides this is all your fault. You're the one who corrupted him with all your fantasies about escaping aren't you? And now you haven't only just ruined his life. You're ruining his sister's life too. I want you to remember this day and then I want you to rethink your place in erotica. You are nothing Adeline. Absolutely nothing!"

She grabs my hair and then shoves my head behind with a force that makes my neck feel like it will be pulled off my head. She moves over to the guard standing behind Colton's sister and whispers something to the guard. Colton shakes and moves his body, but to no avail. He's tied up pretty well and no matter how much he moves, he has no way of breaking free. 

Tears fall from his eyes as he stares at the guard moving menacingly close to his sister. I can see the poor girl trembling. She doesn't know what is happening to her and no one in here has any way of stopping what the guard is about to do to her.

Whatever is about to happen to her will be dreadful and it'll break me more than anything in the world but for some reason, I can't seem to take my eyes away from the scene. All I can do is watch and do nothing as the guard unties her. Her arms move in every direction possible as she thrashes and tries to get away from the guard.

In one swift motion, the guard, pulls the tape of Colton's sister's mouth and lands a punch to the girl's stomach and she falls to the ground with a shriek of pain. I gasp and shake from the chair, trying to get up and help her in any way. I want to do something, anything, but the guard behind me holds me down, forcing me to helplessly watch the scene unfolding in front of me.

Colton has no way of helping his sister. All he can do is scream and watch as the guard slaps his sister right in the face.

"Show her what you're made of Ace!" Veronica screams in a laughing voice to the guard torturing the poor girl. Adrian laughs and grabs a chair. He takes a seat on it and smiles at the scene in front of him as if he were watching a movie or something when in reality, there is nothing even remotely funny about the situation.

"Please. Please what's happening? Colton what's going on?" The girl asks as she coughs up blood from how hard the guard hit her. "Why are they doing this to me Colton? I want to go home."

The girls cries out and my heart shatters a little bit more. A million pieces shatter and fall before me as I hear her desperate screams for help, knowing that Veronica will do nothing to stop the guard violating her because that is just how evil she is. She wants the poor girl to hurt and she wants to hurt Colton by making him watch.

I was so sure about our plan. Colton and I were extra careful and Colton told me he did everything in is power to make sure that Veronica would not be able to catch us. How did everything go downhill so fast? How did Veronica find out what Colton and I were doing? How did she know to suspect us?

I mean I know it was pretty obvious that Colton stated to care about me, but we were counting on the fact that Colton was careful, and he was.

"Veronica, make him stop. Please make him stop. Please. Please. Please." Colton cries out as he tries to fight his way out of the shackles holding him down. I taste bile in my mouth and I want to throw up as the guard keeps landing punches on Colton's sister.

"Why should I stop? You wanted to betray me right? You were strong enough to try and go against me so how about you show that same strength in owning up to the consequences of your actions? Watch your sister pay for your mistakes." Veronica says as she seats next to Adrian.

They look like the King and Queen of hell and that is exactly where I want to send them to. I want them to burn. I want them to go where they belong and meet the demons they are trying so hard to be. I want all the suffering that Colton and his sister are feeling now given back to them tenfold. They don't just get to get away with everything they're doing while the rest of us suffer.

As the guard pushes the girl to the ground, making her fall on her stomach as he takes of his clothes, revealing his nakedness in front of everyone and going down on her, something in me snaps and I let out the most desperate scream ever.

He's about to take advantage of the little girl right in front of us and Veronica and Adrian are watching with sinister smiles on their faces and they're going to make Colton watch. I can tell he doesn't want to see something like this happen to the very person he has been trying to protect all along. I can tell he wants to take his eyes off his sister. I can tell he wants all this to stop but like me, he can't seem to tear his eyes away from the scene.

I can see that something inside him has broken. He trembles, his lips quivering, his eyes widening to an unnatural level, the veins on his forehead popping out so much you think they might burst. I can see how helpless he is. His sister was the last person he ever wanted to get involved in erotica and that is exactly what happened, and I cannot help but blame myself because in way, I pushed him to do this. In a way this is all my fault.

"Do it Ace." Veronica orders and the guard doesn't hesitate to slam into Colton's sister. Her scream echoes in the room as the guard violates her. Why is this happening? How could anyone do this?

Do they not have mothers, sisters, a family? How could they do this to someone else knowing that they would never be able to take it if someone did the same to them? How can people be so utter and despicably evil? How can there be this much evil in the world and how can so many people in here just be okay with it?

How can they serve people like Veronica and Adrian and sleep well at night? How can they ruin so many lives and not die from self-loathing? All these questions go through my head as I imagine the immense amount of pain that Colton's sister is going through at the hands of Ace.

He grunts and I want to throw up. He pulls at her hair and she screams and I know that I must be dreaming. This cannot be happening. This is all a nightmare, a mere hallucination and I know I will wake up from it soon. I shut my eyes and try to numb out her screams. I cannot take another second of this.

I open my eyes again and it hasn't stopped. She's still screaming, Ace is still on top of her and Colton looks empty. He looks like a ghost. He looks like he's about to pass out and neve wake up again.

"That's enough Ace…" Veronica finally stops him and despite the fact that the situation isn't any better, I let out a breath of relief as she stops him. Veronica and Adrian both stand up from their chairs, the guard puts on his clothes again and then grabs a gun.

"It didn't have to happen this way Colton…" Veronica says as she fists his hair. He looks up at her with weak eyes but I can still see the anger and resentment in them. His gaze averts to his sister crying body lying on the floor. She's just a child. She's just an innocent child who was caught up in this war.

She will never understand why all these are happening to her. She's in pain.

"You were such a good guard. All you had to do was keep up the good work and your sister would have had the chance to go to university. She would have had a chance to build a life for herself. She would have had a chance to live dear Colton. You took that chance away from her the second you started plotting against me. You couldn't keep her safe and you have only yourself to blame for it. This is all your fault Colton. It's all your fault!"

"I'm really bored." Adrian says, his voice sending shivers down my spine. "Let's get on with this and move on to more pressing matters. We still have a great auction to plan."

I want him dead. I want him to evaporate. I just want him gone. I want all of them gone.

"Very well then. I really want to say I am truly sorry for what is about to happen. But honestly, I am not." Veronica says and takes a step backwards, away from Colton.

"You know what to do Ace." She barks out another order. Colton cannot even move anymore. He cannot do anything. He can only stare and listen. When the guard grabs his sister by the hair again and makes her stand up, she cries out in pain and begs for mercy weakly. I can see blood running down her legs and I tremble as I sob and cry for her.

The guard holds his gun to the girl's head.

"No…" Colton yells. "NO! PLEASE NO! PLEA-"

Before Colton can finish his pleas, the shot echoes all around the room.  I freeze as blood splatters all over the guard's face. I freeze as Veronica starts clapping her hands and I freeze as the limp and unresponsive body of Colton's sister falls to the floor.

"NOOOO!" Colton cries out in the most painful sound I have ever heard. Ace just shot his sister after violating her right in front of him. He cries and his head falls as he sobs uncontrollably.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry…" He says, his words directed to his sister's body on the floor. I want to throw up. I want to do something to comfort him but before I know it the guard who brought me in here is grabbing me and shoving me out of the room and I scream. I cry and sob for Colton and his sister as I am dragged out of the room. I don't know what Veronica is going to do to him but I am certain it will only end one way. She's going to kill him and as much as I have grown to care about Colton, I am glad I will not have to watch him die.