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I heard a door open in another room, and my brother’s scent drifted into the room I was being held hostage in. Moments later, the mask was yanked off my face again. I narrowed my eyes on my brother, doing my best not to growl at him. I took a deep breath as he positioned himself back on the chair in front of me.
“Have you made your decision?” He asked.
“Yes.”
He frowned at me when I fell silent after that one word. I could tell he was furious, but I didn’t care. I knew what he was going to do to me, and because of that I was going to irritate him as much as I could. I cleared my throat, and his eyes shot to mine.
“Speak!”
“I was just going to say that I have to piss. I have been in this chair for days and unless you want a mess to clean, I suggest you let me use the bathroom.”
He rolled his eyes but stood up to come over to me. He reached down to touch the vines and they immediately shifted to yank my hands together before turning hard again. The vines around my ankles moved up my body to wrap around my throat before extending out for Osprey to grip. I clenched my jaw tightly as he led me out of the room and into a bathroom. I walked in and managed to wiggle out of my pants before turning to raise an eye at Osprey, who stood watching me from the doorway.
“Are you going to just stand there and watch me or are you going to help me?” I held my wrists up. “Or you can take this off my wrists and I can hold my own dick.”
He bared his teeth at me as he dropped the end of the vine he was holding. When it started crawling to me, I took a step back, unsure of what it was doing. When my back hit the wall behind me, it stopped, letting four more smaller vines out of its tip. I watched it fearfully as it started to wrap around my legs while the fat end rose up to my hip level. The vines around my legs forced me to walk back to the toilet, stumbling on my pants. When it had positioned me back in front of the toilet, the end that Osprey dropped wrapped around my cock, holding it over the toilet. I shot Osprey an angry look as I peed.
“When did you get such control over the vines?” I asked.
He chuckled as he held my gaze. “You’re home, Gerald. These are Annie’s bonded vines. It didn’t take much convincing to get Vine Keeper Annaria to help me. We both know how much she loves Annie,” he answered smugly as the vines pulled my pants up.
The vines forced me to follow Osprey outside, and I eagerly looked around to see exactly where I was so that when I was ready to find Annie and Giselda, I knew which direction I was going. I frowned when I had no idea where I was, even though I could smell my birth sleuth all around me. Osprey’s chuckle cut off my thoughts as we slowed to a stop.
“You can keep trying to figure out an escape route, Gerald, but you won’t. Part of what the vines are doing is injecting you with a solution that only allows you to see what I want you to see. Any direction you go will look just like this until I allow you to see exactly where you are.” He turned to face me. “You have done this. You have made me not trust you. I hate treating you like this. We’re family. Well, we were. It will take a lot for you to earn the right back to be called my brother again. After everything you have done, that is a long way away. Now, you said that you had decided. What option did you choose?” He slanted his eyes on me. “I really hope you choose option two so this can be over. I really, really want to kill you.”
I smirked at him. “Well, lucky for me, Scarlett doesn’t want me dead. To be honest, I don’t want to be dead either. I want to love my mate,” I said smugly, knowing that I meant both of them, and not just my fated.
I licked my lips nervously as I watched him. I knew he said I could choose, but with the vines wrapped so tightly around me, I wouldn’t be able to stop him if he decided not to honor what he said. He narrowed his eyes on me as his jaw ticked angrily in his jaw. Finally, he nodded, and my legs were jerked out from under me by the vines that were still wrapped around me. I hit the ground hard, grunting in pain when several of my ribs broke on impact. I cursed as I was lifted into the air while Osprey laughed. I glared down at him as I started to sway in small circles two feet off the ground. He cracked his knuckles as he reached behind his back to pull out a dagger. I swallowed hard as I ran my eyes over the deadly looking blade.
“How many times did you have sex with Annie?” He asked as he ran his thumb over the blade, showing me how quickly blood welled on the cut.
“I don’t know. A lot?” Kraven forced me to say.
“Hmmm. Did you use protection?” He continued.
I glared at him, refusing to answer that one. It was none of his business. He raised an eyebrow at me.
“I’m only asking because if you didn’t, she will need to get tested for pregnancy. The Goddess won’t be pleased. And we don’t want to put Annie through any unnecessary pain such as having to get an abortion, now do we?” When I still didn’t answer, he narrowed his eyes on me. “If you tell me, I’ll take it easy on you. I’ll overlook my need to hurt you badly in favor of making sure that Annie is okay.”
“Even if she is pregnant, she would never get an abortion. You will have to rip our baby from her body. She wants children,” I told him.
“She wants Logan and that’s why you’re so angry,” he spat before punching me in the face, sending me spinning wildly. “You should have never started sleeping with her,” he said angrily as he punched me in the stomach. “She was pure. She was innocent. And you fucking destroyed that.”
Kraven forced me to remain silent as he continued to pummel my body with his fists for a moment before backing away, panting. He bent down to retrieve the dagger that he dropped when he began to punch me. He went to run it across his pants before pulling it away from his body. He spit on it before smearing the mud created by the dirt from the ground and his saliva all over it.
“You deserve everything I am about to do to you and more. You could have been so much more, Gerald,” he told me. “But you had to go the wrong way. You should have protected her. You should have guided her like a big brother, but you stole her away from the one person who shares her soul. You should be ashamed of yourself, and I promise that by the end of this, you will.”
I kept my eyes on his defiantly, knowing that if I didn’t fight back, he would know that I was up to something. “She came to me willingly with the intention of initiating a sexual relationship. She wanted me as much as I wanted her,” I sneered.
“Right. Wanted! Past tense. She’s with Logan now, and I will be damned if you interfere with them again.”
“You can’t stop me!”
He smirked at me as raised the dagger. “Of course, I can. Just wait.”
My arms were suddenly lifted away from my body in an upside down t. He glanced behind me and I tried to swivel myself around so I could look too but I couldn’t quite get the trajectory to turn my body. I narrowed my eyes on him as he began to cut my arms with hundreds of small swipes of the blade. I kept myself from screaming while he took joy in methodically cutting into my skin. Barely, but I did. When he started to cut my shirt off, I tried to swing myself away from him, but vines came up from the ground to wrap around my wrists to keep me in place.
“What are you doing with that?” I asked as he pulled a vial out of his pocket.
“This?” He inquired, holding up the vial.
“Yes, that!” I growled.
“This is for when I’m done. I’m going to take your teeth, because if I have to fight you later on, I don’t want you to be as strong as you are now,” he told me.
I stared at him as he began to take his shirt off. “This is going to be fun. You hurt Scarlett. Now, I get to hurt you back.”
I screamed out as he began to skin me alive, hanging it over another vine that came up to hold it as he removed it. When he ran the blade over a particularly tender broken rib, consciousness faded, leaving me hanging upside down, unaware of what my brother was doing to my body.