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Chapter 7

Carlie doesn't remember what happened after that. It was like a white canvas. Her head became blank without a single thought. 'Since when? I kind of forgot...' It seems like Carlie has been blowing up a gun for someone. Killed a human being. Since then, her head has turned blank.

But there was one thing she remembered exactly. 'I screamed. So loud that her throat felt like it was on fire.' She was so hysterical that all her feelings overflowed from her scream. 'I yelled at the man. But he flashed me a smile.'

Carlie blinked her eyes, feeling the world around her spin. 'It's blurry. I can only see light. Even that was so dim.' Her unraveling consciousness slowly returned to its owner. Awakening the soul that had been lying in unconsciousness.

'Iwas smothered. Right before i went to sleep,' Carlie remembers a bit about that. 'Who did it? That bad guy? His touch shouldn't have been as gentle as the one who smothered me. Then who was it?'

'Is it the person who came later?'

Her mind couldn't even think. Carlie rolled her eyelids, showing her pupils. And finally, after trying a little harder than usual to open her eyes, Carlie finally succeeded.

And the first thing her eyes were presented with was a room. Shades of red and black. Red walls, red carpet, red bed. Carlie's favorite color. But this time, her blood didn't rush happily.

"Eighteen hours, 27 minutes." A man's voice shook the semi-conscious Carlie awake. She turned her head, finding a parallel red sofa in the center of the room.

And a man was sitting there, holding a rifle and wiping a handkerchief to clean it.

Jonathan Austin.

An ordinary Carlie would have immediately bared her fangs at the man. But this time, she didn't. Her mouth was shackled by a black plaster.

'What the hell is this!?'

Carlie almost squealed when she seeing the state of her body. Stripped down, she was left only with the underwear still attached to her skin. 'W-wait! This bra is not mine!' Carlie pursed her lips in surprise. The bra she was wearing was now blood red, whereas Carlie remembered that before leaving, it was a black bra that she was wearing.

'Who is replacing her?'

Her body was propped up on the back of the mattress, while her arms were stretched out beside her. Handcuffs were secured to both sides of the mattress. The wounds on her body had been treated, and her broken left hand had been bandaged. But the tight handcuffs that pulled her hands made the treatment futile. The pain still stings today.

But that wasn't the worst of it. The pain did not bother Carlie.

But it was her foot that made Carlie clench her jaw tightly.

'That bastard! His legs were spread,'shackled by handcuffs that restrained her from both directions. Her legs were opened, her crotch spread, and she became a spectacle. 'I felt like a whore.' Carlie hated this.

"Half an hour before 19 hours,"Jona remarked, once again jolting Carlie's attention. "During which time you fell asleep and became my personal erotic statue here." The man laughed—his evil laugh.

His legs rose from the sofa, and he slowly walked towards Carlie. To the bed, where he was restrained. Carlie's eyes immediately sharpened, his gaze unsheathed like a dagger. She felt like cursing as the man sat on the bed, but the tape on her mouth wouldn't let her. His mere presence made Carlie feel like she was in danger.

"How was it? Sleep well? I hope you didn't have a bad dream,"the man asked. "And i hope you don't dream of the face of the man you just killed yesterday, Eloise."

Carlie hersed a warning like a rattlesnake when Jona touched her thigh. Feeling her skin all the way down to her ass. Her touch is like a weapon. It feels creepy.

"You still look dominating even when you're shackled like this, huh?"asked Jona hoarsely. "It looks like your hysterical scream yesterday was just an emotional outburst. Because now your gaze has returned to brandishing resistance like the first time we met."

Jona chuckled hoarsely,"want me to add your bad memories to make you completely destroyed?"

Carlie struggled against this. But when all her resistance is shackled, she is helpless to do anything. Jona's smile grew.

"I bet you know a thousand and one things i could do to you right now, don't you?"asked Jona sharply. "But if you humble yourself and beg, maybe i'll let you off the hook, just for today."

The man's hand was extended to Carlie's face,"let me hear your cry, Eloise."

Jona removed the plaster on Carlie's face, hard and without compassion. Harsh without empathy. Red marks instantly blush around Carlie's lips. The man was expecting a plea from Carlie Heston.

But Madame Eloise wouldn't do that, would she?

"Die and rot in hell, asshole!"that was the first sentence Carlie uttered and it managed to make Jona flinch momentarily in shock.

The man looked at Carlie as if studying her. From his eyeballs, it was as if he was trying to pry into her mind. "I'm a little surprised. How do you still have all this confidence in your current situation?"he asked.

A smile spread across her face. "You intrigue me."

The man moved away from the bed Carlie was on, walking over to the other side of the room. There, not a single light shone in. It was dark. Carlie couldn't see anything there.

But not anymore after Jona turned on the light.

The woman's lips were pressed together, and her eyes almost widened. There, she saw ten box cages lined up. Dog cages. But it wasn't the mammalian animals that filled them. Instead, it was humans who were inside. With their bodies stretched out and chains hanging around their necks.

All of them trembled in fear. Of the ten cages, seven were occupied and three of the seven people there had lost their lives.

It's still fresh. They were killed not too long ago.

"What are you trying to do?"snapped Carlie, alarmed by the bad feeling in her chest.

Jona looked at her, his eyes narrowing. "I am teaching you a lesson. About who owns this place and who should obey orders like a stupid dog."

Carlie studied Jona's every move. She watched intently as he opened one of the cage doors—the cage of a fat man with shaggy hair. Jona pulled at the chain around the man's neck, as if signaling him to get out of there.

He looked very frightened. Even his steps trembled. His hands were bound by a pair of handcuffs and when he came out, he didn't even dare look at Jona, not even for a second.

"Tell me, how long have you been here, and what did you do to make you my dog?"Jona ordered undeniably.

"T-three weeks, sir,"he said hoarsely. "B-because i tried to betray you, b-by trying to report to the police."

She sounded used to saying that. Carlie bit her lip. 'This man deliberately reminded her 'dogs' to confess their sins every day.'

Jona smiled with satisfaction. "Well, let me ask you one more thing,"he said. "Do you want to go back to your wife and child?"

Carlie could see that the man immediately froze in shock.

"Really, sir-"

"Yes or no, you don't need to say anything else,"Jona scolded, sharp as a dagger.

The man once again trembled with fear. "Y-yes, sir. V-very."

"Good,"Jona said. "If you really want to, then i'll give you a chance to leave. Not like that friend of yours who's already a corpse, right next to your cage."

"But of course with conditions."

The man immediately trembled in excitement. "W-whatever it is, sir, i'll do it,"he looked even more like a dog. One that was excited to be fed mere junk food.

Jona smiled sarcastically. "You also know that if you fail, your life will be lost, right?"

The man gulped bitterly. "Y-yes, sir."

Jona's grin grew even bigger. Carlie could swear, she had never seen anyone in this world have a grin and a look as cruel as Jona's. Not even her, not even her father or her twin. Not even her, not even her father or her twin.

She was a demon. Her gaze alone could explain that.

"I will release you on two conditions,"Jona said. "First, once you get out, you must never mention my name or talk about me to anyone you meet. Your wife included, and your son, of course."

'If you violate, all your family, and the people you tell, i will destroy."

The man gulped bitterly. "Y-yes, sir."

"And then two,"Jona said. Jona pulled the man's chain, forced him to look forward, and indicated by his forefinger that Carlie was on the bed.

"Rape her,"Carlie widened her eyes in surprise.

"Wha-"

"And if you struggle,"Jona interrupted. He brandished the rifle he held in her left hand, aiming right at Carlie's forehead, calling out a warning.

"I'll blow your brains out."

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