“Enough?” Aiden drops his hold on me, and his lip curls. “What do you deem enough, brother?”
I jump from the seat, clutching my stomach to keep its contents down.
“Why did you show me this?” I croak.
“You wanted to know what happened to your sister,” Lex replies.
Aiden glares at him.
Lex has said too much, but he can’t take it back now.
“Sarah…” My knees go weak. “She was here?”
This place is hell. Worse than hell.
“Not another word,” Aiden scolds.
Lex shrugs. He isn’t the same scared boy from the video anymore. Whatever my father did transformed him into someone else.
“Where is she?” I ask. “What did he do to her?”
“We can’t tell you what happened to your sister,” Aiden says. “Not yet. But you will find the answers yourself, if you look hard enough.”
“What do you want from me, Aiden?” I ask, daring to use his name for the first time. “After everything my father has done…” Deep fear strikes me. Their obsessive stalking seems even more sinister now. “Are you going to kill me?”
Aiden laughs coldly and strokes my cheek, making me shudder. “Why would we do that, Little Ghost?”
No one knows where I am. I’m trapped in a secret room filled with torture equipment and three psychopaths.
“I’m his daughter,” I say, stating the obvious. “Don’t you want revenge?”
“We don’t have to kill you for that, Little Ghost,” Aiden says, his eyes lingering on my Cupid’s bow. “In fact, you can help us.”
“Help you?” I ask. “How?”
“By finding evidence and information,” he says.
“You don’t need me for that,” I reply. “You seem to get in and out of my house on your own.”
“If you help us, we’ll help you. You want to know what happened to Sarah, don’t you?” Aiden says. “Don’t tell me you’ve never considered that he was involved.”
My shoulders tense. “What do you need me to do?”
His grin makes his scar twitch.
“See what you can find at home,” Aiden says. “In exchange, we need your silence.”
“How can you expect me to say nothing and pretend like everything is normal?” I ask. “This is… too big.”
“We make the rules,” he says. “Or do you need Lex to remind you of what happens when you break them?”
I dart for the door, but I’m too slow. Lex grabs a fistful of my hair before I reach it. I yelp as he pulls me into his arms.
“What’s wrong?” Lex teases. “I thought you enjoyed our game.”
“Fuck you,” I snarl. “My father may be a monster, but so are you.”
He smirks. “He created us in his image, after all.”
