Chapter Eleven

William removed Samantha’s gag and forced her to drink some water and eat some food, if she would have had the strength, she would have spat it all back at him. He tried to initiate a conversation, but Samantha didn’t want any part of it and simply ignored him, angering William further. He was not in the mood for whatever game she was or was not playing, and rather than allow her a night’s sleep decided to continue his torture of her instead. He didn’t bother injecting her with any sort of numbing agent this time and instead opted to have her experience the sensation of the knife slicing into her flesh. He wanted to hear her scream, William wanted to hear Samantha beg him to stop, he needed the satisfaction. While William was always fond of slicing and stabbing, he also had a penchant for carving into the flesh of his victims as well, as it was its exactly what he wanted to do with Samantha.

William didn’t bother to replace Samantha’s gag this time, he simply tied her to a chair and removed her shirt before he began. William grabbed one of the scalpels he’d brought with him, they were much better for precision when it came to carving. He decided to start on Samantha’s abdomen, he carved a rather beautiful rose even if it was on someone’s skin. Much to his delight Samantha had cried out at first begging him to stop, after a while she just screamed in agony. This time however she never once passed out, came close to it a few times but kept her consciousness to the end. Once finished with the rose William decided that was enough for the night, it was already 2:00 in the morning and he’d been carving since about 11:30 or midnight. One of the other things to know about William is that he was also artistic, even if he had mutilated Samantha’s skin in the process the rose was about as realistic as an expertly done tattoo. He decided to clean the both of them up and apply a bandage to the freshly carved skin so as to avoid an infection.

He then took the time to check through Samantha’s messages to see if there were any updates on Detective Montgomery. Both her father and Laura had informed her that it looked like Nick may have been abducted and tortured but they didn’t know why. The doctor also informed them that he had been drugged and it could take a few days for them to clear his system and for him to wake up. Carefully putting thought into each reply as to not draw any suspicion that it wasn’t Samantha replying, he told them that even though she was sick, to let her know if there was anything she could do to help. William decided it was time to up the game a bit and even though he had been taking pictures since holding Sam captive, and decided it might be fun to play a small game with the detectives before killing her. Careful not to give away that they were in Samantha’s apartment and that the pictures were of her, William carefully edited a few and sent them anonymously from a fake email account to Glendale PD. He also took the time to take a few artful ones as well, he reapplied Samantha’s gag and much to his delight she turned away so he was able to get a few innocuous pictures that could have been of any girl. Once he was done sending the email, he felt it was the perfect time for him to get some rest and left Samantha bound and gagged to the chair.

Once he left the living room Samantha tried to escape from her bonds, but it was no use, William had made sure to tighten the ropes. She had also tried to remove the gag as well, but it was no use, no matter what she tried it wouldn’t budge. She was sore and in a great deal of pain from all that had happened the last few days…. she just wanted it all to end. Samantha knew there was at least 4 more days of hell to endure…if she lasted that long. Samantha resigned herself to the fact that she was either going to die after 4 days or she was going to die before then. With nothing but her thoughts to keep her company Samantha stopped struggling against her restraints and simply waited for William to come back from his rest. Her phone rang a few times, and she was fairly sure it was her father or Laura who tried to call, before she knew it, she’d fallen asleep and William was waking her up.