“No!” I yelled out. “Bad dog, Angel. What the fuck is wrong with you?” I was tired, and this new pain irritated me. Her pants and lolling tongue went from playful to a sudden change. She sniffed and sniffed, her eyes losing their playfulness as she began to snarl and growl at me.
Shit.
This was why they tossed her in with me.
Angel began to circle me slowly like the predator she was. She stalked my every movement as her domestication fell away moment by moment. She became feral as her mouth began to drool.
I was no longer her master in her eyes, I was food and she was starving.
I was going to kill Abyzouwhen I got out of here. I was going to make her suffer the way she made me, the way she turned Angel on me.
I armed myself with both knives. I had no choice but to protect myself. She was right.
“Let's see how faithful you two are to each other. After all, it's a dog eat dog world.”
ChapterEleven
Angel’s prowlturned into a lunge as she dove at me. I automatically let go of my new weapons as I caught her body. I couldn't kill my best friend.
“Angel!”
She couldn’t hear me. She was lost in her hunger, the primal side of her taking over. I continued to try talking to her to calm her down but it was to no avail. She scratched and snapped her jaws in my face, at my body as I twisted and turned to dodge her teeth. As we wrestled for dominance, I was able to get a hold of her around her neck, trying to pull her back. I squeezed her neck tightly, one of my hands grasped onto the scruff.
“Angel! It's me, little girl. Please stop. I don't want to hurt you, you’re my baby. I can't lose you, please stop,” I begged, my heart aching at what we’ve succumbed to.
She continued to try and claw, jerking her head left and right. I applied more pressure onto the chokehold I had on her until finally, her fighting died down. I didn’t want to kill her. I just needed her to pass out until I could figure out what to do from here.
Gently laying her down onto the floor, I watched as her legs twitched a bit, letting me know she was still alive. I had to act as fast. Moving to the opposite wall where the chain was attached, I wrapped a few feet of it around my hand, pulled it out of the pulley that was hanging from the ceiling beam and came back to Angel’s form. I wrapped the chain around her neck and used the screwdriver to lock the links around her neck tightly, to keep her from escaping.
Moving myself away in case she woke and lunged, I recollected the weapons I dropped and leaned my back against another wall, breathing deeply. This was a shit show. They did this to us. Those bloodsuckers turned us against one another. If physical torture wasn’t enough, they almost successfully broke my mind with this move.
When Angel regained consciousness, she was angrily barking and snapping her jaws, pulling with all of her might to break the chain. Any hint of the puppy I had raised to adulthood was gone in an instant—The instant our instincts for survival took over. She was a beast without emotion, one solely relying on instincts. It broke my heart watching her desperately try to get to her meal—me.
A few minutes went by with me drifting in and out of consciousness from exhaustion when the bloodsucking bitch reentered the room.
“So sweet, you managed to save her and yourself,” Abyzou began to clap, mocking me. “The little mut has some fight, doesn't she? I knew I liked her the moment I caught you three. Do you want to know about your little bitch we caught with you?”
Inés. She was still alive. I bowed my head and said a silent prayer to the gods.Please keep her safe. Please don't let them torture her the way they are torturing me.
The demon walked over to Angel who was, at this point, frothing at the mouth from all her snarls and growls and barks. Abyzou stuck a needle in her neck, causing her to immediately go limp. Angel laid there unconscious but breathing as her chest slowly rose and fell.
“You’ve outsmarted me, human. I’m not happy about that at all. Luckily for you, I know how you humans think and I know exactly what needs to happen now,” she chuckled sinisterly.
“It's your turn,” she spat as she leaped to my side of the wall and stuck me with a needle. She moved so quickly, so inhumanly, that my eyes didn’t catch her movements at all, not until it was too late.
The room began to spin and my stomach turned in knots until I was overtaken by a closing darkness in my vision. I didn’t know how long I was out but my head was woozy when I regained consciousness.
My body had fallen over to the side, laying on something hard and digging into my flesh. The joints of my shoulder ached as I tried to push myself back up to sitting. That was when the excruciating pain hit. I couldn’t move from my position. I was strapped to the thin mattress.
Fuck.
From freedom of movement, back to chained captivity.My little toy.Her voice haunted my mind even when she wasn’t present.That was what I was. Just a toy to push and pull, to kick over into the brink of madness.
Sharp pain hit me again and my eyes jerked to my toes. Each toe was oozing pus, a tell tale sign of infection setting in. They were discolored in an ugly shade of purple. Each one of my toes now throbbed as if each of them had their own little heartbeat.
Was I to die of my blood being poisoned instead of torture? I didn’t know which was worse.
She laughed from somewhere in the room, making the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. I didn’t feel her presence. That in itself was scary.
