teeth when seeing it. Or the fact that Trice had taken hold of my wrists and held me down.
“No touching anythin' bit whit ye hae tae...got it?!” Trice threatened, making the little demon hold up his hands and say,
“Hey, I'm working here,” as if this was a great insult. I turned my head to the side and watched as the little goblin started to remove his clothes, making me shoot Trice a worried look.
“Tell me we didn't pay him for anything extra?” I said making Trice smirk down at me before asking me to trust him.
“I do trust you, it's the hex removal guy over there I don't trust.”
“Hex removal guy, I like it…you know I might get cards made.”
“Really?” I asked falling for it.
“No sugar tits, what’s this look like to you…”
“Wow, you’re cranky…hey, did you just call me sugar tits?” Trice’s growl made him glance his beady yellow eyes at Trice and say to me,
“I wanna say yes but the big guy here looks as though I will lose an appendage if I say that.”
“Then don’t say it and just get back to work,” I advised him just as he was removing his shirt, and the sight I saw was one that now had me sucking air between my teeth. He was completely covered in hexes.
“Holy shit.”
“You like?” he asked motioning down his half naked body as he was wearing nothing but little briefs, showing me that even his skinny legs were covered.
“It's cheaper than tattoos, and these ones I get paid for,” he said proudly and then looked at mine and admitted,
“But this one here will be a doozy. In fact, I might make room for this one on my chest and make it my biggest one yet,” he said as if getting excited about the idea. Well, he could have it on his bloody ass for all I cared as long it was off me!
“I hope you've got good hold of her as I have a feeling she's going to be a fighter.”
“Erm…what now?” At this Trice’s response was a strained,
“Aye,” before he nodded for the goblin to do his work, giving me a piece of advice and a warning all in one,
“Be brave, lass.”
After this the goblin started to touch me and that was when I knew all experiences in Hell before this one had been a piece of cake.
For this was…
true torture.
***
“Tis a'richt noo, lassie, ah hae you...i hae ye.” The sound of Trice’s voice was what woke me from my unconscious state, for I had soon passed out due to the overwhelming amount of pain that I could no longer take. I came to with my back frozen, feeling as if it had been covered under a veil of ice and I was wrapped up in Trice’s arms. He was cradling my head to his chest, and I could feel his shirt was wet from all the tears I had cried.
Thankfully, I no longer felt the pain and I think this was down to what Trice had done, for as soon as the hex had been removed he had started breathing on my back. The goblin was still in the room and currently stood swinging his little bony green hips in front of a cracked mirror, admiring his new addition.
Like he said, it was in the middle of his chest and the biggest one of all, and what had looked painful for me looked barely even a cat scratch for him.
However, it was in this moment that the other two McBain brothers suddenly burst through the door, and they were awarded with the sight of me in the arms of their brother with my dress still untied and a half naked goblin dancing in front of the mirror. Their looks said it all, for surely even in Hell this would have been a strange sight to find.
“Brothers?!” Trice said in surprise to see them, but like I said it was nowhere near as surprised as they looked.
“Whit in a' th' Gods names hae ye bin daein'!?” Gryph asked, making me look up at Trice and say,
“I gather you know what that meant?”
“Aye.”
“Whit th’ fck does it look lik' we hae bin doin', havin ourselves a fckin pairtie?” Trice said, making Vern glance back at the dancing goblin who didn’t seem to notice this was going on and say,
“Aye, it kinda does.”
“He juist lifted th' damn Hex, yer ninny!” Trice told them and as if to add strength to this claim, this was when