Page 102 of All Your Bloody Lies

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Xeraphine

I’ve died and come back to life. I don’t understand how that is possible, but maybe Tali was wrong. Maybe I am the daughter to an Incubus. That is the only explanation to suffocating over, and over again in this dark tomb.

The pain of my lungs fighting aches even when I wake from death. My heart, it has stopped over two hundred times. Why can’t I just sleep and not wake? Allow me that sanctuary, Belial. Do I not deserve some peace? I know I’ve not done so much wrong that I deserve this endless suffering…

Give me some release… Allow for me to just rest in what is essentially my tomb. My casket, even if I’m not dead.

I’ve come to terms with my situation. I’m buried. Alone. Alive. Just… can’t someone let me lie here in peace? Do I have to continue to suffer…?

No one is looking for me, and that’s okay. I don’t blame them…

The fact that I was able to sleep surprises me more than what I wake up to. I wish the venom would numb my nerves; that’s all Ireally want. I don’t care what they’ve done to me, I just don’t want to feel it. Watching what they do is preferable to enduring the sensation of the torture.

“How’re you feeling?” I wish it were a sincere question, or at least one he was seeking to rectify with my response.

I manage to whisper, “Like shit,” amidst my wincing.

I’m no longer in a bed, but back hanging as I had been when I first arrived.

My vision is still blurry.Gods, this is so annoying.But now it explains why I was incapable of seeing their faces the first time they took me. That doesn’t matter now; this one was so close to my face while he fucked me, I could easily provide details for a sketch of him to the authorities.

“Good,” he says through a chuckle.

I wish at least he would climax during his sessions with me, but the restraint he has to physically stop and leave the room to finish seriously sent me to scream for at least ten minutes straight. All I need is for him to open his gate, and I can feed. My Amoro could heal me, destroy this venom that courses through my veins. I’m just incapable of pulling it out willingly right now, and I assume it’s because of that.

But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m just fucked.

“Why am I back here…” I attempt to move my fingers, and to my surprise, they respond. That is the first movement I’ve felt since I was first hanging in this wooden structure that felt more industrial in the beginning, but now that I’m here a second time, it sort of feels and smells like a wooden barn.

“I’m bored of you just lying there,” he says, picking his teeth with something. Even just a few feet from me, it’s impossible to see. If my vision remains like this, and I have to wear glasses, I swear to the Gods I’ll end my own suffering. “And I really need you to stay awake and conscious the entire time. I like to see the suffering in your eyes. Fucking you while you are asleep is boring.”

I groan, “Seriously, just tell me what I did to deserve this. I get it, I’m a bitch—I killed Clay, and the twins, and probably more, but is thatreally all this is about?” It seems I’ve been suspended here for some time; I can now shift my shoulders. The venom appears to be draining downward, leaving my legs still unfortunately incapacitated. “It has to be more than that,” I just need to keep talking, get him talking. “Just tell me. If I’m going back under, what is the harm in giving me that?”

He flicks whatever he has in his hand and steps to me, my head falling back to keep his face in view. “There is a lot of harm in it, but no, it isn’t because of those deaths. Like I said, I don’t know exactly why you are so important to keep buried, but I don’t care. All I care about is getting paid and having some fun right now. It’s just that simple.” His hand comes to my throat and squeezes, “Don’t make it complicated.”

The door flies open which startles him. “Gods, Zade, are you a Gods damn idiot?! Why is she back in here?” It’s that fucking prick who has been poisoning me. There is a second set of footsteps behind him, but I have no idea who they are, as they stay silent.

Zade runs the hand that had my throat in its grasp down between my breasts, “She’s strung up, calm the fuck down, Daigo. You’ve given her enough venom; it won’t matter none being off the IV for a few hours.”

The curse that escapes Daigo is followed by his feet rapidly approaching, “Do not be blinded by your dick. If something happens, Lars will have our fucking heads.”

“I’d like to see him try.” His fingers slip between my thighs and right into my cunt. I don’t react, just stare at him as though nothing is happening. “I’ll put her back, Daigo, calm down. I just want her to fight me a little. Is that too much to ask for?”

“Yes! You imbecile!”

As Daigo reaches out for my wrists, Zade grabs him and tosses him back. I see the second figure beside us, and I can make out that it is a female. The smell, this was the Vampire that had bitten me. I can’t make out her features, but I can see her crimson eyes as they stare at Zade with an intensity that could kill.

“Drama,” I drag out the word.

Zade turns his gaze toward me, “Shut your mouth.” The sudden eruption of pain in my stomach forces me to clench my teeth and emit a muted hiss as I struggle to contain a scream. I have no idea what he is doing, but I squirm my arms as though it will move me enough to be released.

As the pain worsens, I spit at him and release a loud scream. “See, Daigo!” He raises his voice to be heard over my call of agony. “Take your little fuck toy here and get out. I’ll bring her back just as the sun is going down.”

The pain finally begins to dwindle, and I release the breath I had stuck in my throat. My shoulders shake as his hand comes up covered in my blood and smothers it across my face, shoving me in the process.

I close my eyes,Belial, please help me. Just numb me for fuck sakes!

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