me, an ugly smirk on his face. “How does that feel, Ice Queen?”
I ignore the taunt and try my best to look at Kristine, but I can’t really see her from here.
“She needs to get to a hospital,” I cry, looking at her, ignoring the lewd looks Shane is giving me as he looks at my naked body. “Now!”
“Nah, she’s not going anywhere, and neither are you,” Sean says nonchalantly as if he didn’t just rape Kristine so merciless. “We have a little movie to shoot, and that little pool of vomit would be great for the visuals.”
“I’m not doing anything with you!” I spit. “And as far as I’m concerned, you can drown in this vomit, you ugly piece of shit!”
“Do you think I’m beneath you?” he snaps, his anger cutting through Kristine’s cries and my pounding heart. “You think just because you’ve been strutting your stuff like the cold bitch you are around my fucking school, that you’re at the top and no one is good for you?” he shouts. “You think you’re so untouchable, and above me, don’t you?”
A phone pings. Shane gives me one last look and then he leaves.
“Well, yes, as a matter of fact,” I say, taunting him even further. “You are beneath me with your pencil sized dick and your fucking elephant sized ego that honestly doesn’t go well with your ugly face. If you’re going to have pride, at least have something to show for it.”
Shut up, Mia. Shut up and stop antagonizing them. He just beat you up with some pipe and raped Kristine, shut up!
Almost immediately, Shane rushes back in the warehouse, breathless.
“What?” Sean snaps.
“All hell is breaking lose at the house.”
“Well fuck,” Sean says. “We don’t have much time. Set it up.”
Shane drops the black bag from before right beside the bed. I hear it jingle and my heartbeat skyrockets. This can’t be good.
I watch with dread pooling in the pit of my stomach like acid as he slowly unzips it, heightening the already dramatic suspense, then he pulls out some sort of chains and then a bag of knives that he dangles for me to see.
It takes me an embarrassingly long time to figure what the stand is for and by the time I do, I’m already shaking my head as Shane takes out the camera.
“What-ttt… what is that for?” I stumble through my words, only now grasping the violence in the air.
“Oh, this little thing?” Shane says. “We’re so going to carve you up,” he mocks. “Sorry we don’t have time to really enjoy it but well, I’ll make sure to post really nice bits of you to your mother and Fitz.”
I feel sick all over again.
I’m already shaking my head, fear and something dangerously close to hopelessness making my body shudder.
Kristine starts screaming again, her sobs high-pitched.
“Shut up!” Shane snaps at her. “I swear if Dad hadn’t found out about you and that stupid baby, you’d be dead by now.”
What the fuck?
“Well tough shit,” I shout, holding on to the anger at seeing a girl I grew up with suffering this cruelly instead of the danger I’m in. “Let me up, I can help her.”
They look at each other, trying to decode.
“Her water broke, you assholes! Do you want her to deliver that baby by herself on that dirty floor?” I seethe. “You are already going to kill me. There’s no way of escape now, untie me! It’s not like I can actually go anywhere.”
“What would it hurt?” Sean asks his brother. “If she can shut her up, why not?”
Shane takes out a switchblade and points it at me. “If you try anything, just know you won’t get far. There’s no chance of escape and when your fucking asshole Romeo shows up, Ice Queen, he’s going to fucking die. Just because he missed out on going to jail because of you, doesn’t mean he’s off the hook.”
“I just want to help her.”
Without another word, he snaps the cable ties off. As soon as my hands are free, I ignore the way he grazes my skin and quickly grab the sheet closest to me, wrapping it around my body.
“Hold on, K,” I murmur, biting through the pain in my body as I rush to her, dropping down beside her. “First we need to move you to somewhere dry.”
“No, I don’t think I can move… ah!” she screams.
“Shut her the fuck up!” Sean shouts, making me and Kristine jump.
Looking at her sweat dotted face, the situation becomes all