"Please... Please spare us..."
Mia was on her knees, barely recognizable. Nick knelt beside her, sobbing and begging just as desperately.
Before Jack's men dragged Nick in, Mia had been locked in the basement for a few days. She had been whipped until her body could barely hold together. The pup she had been carrying was gone.
"Jasmine's hand was scalded because of you. Now you get to find out how that feels."
Without waiting for her to answer, he dumped a large bowl of thick, boiling soup over Mia's head. She shrieked. The soup poured over her scalp, face, and neck, then spilled down her body in a steaming sheet. She collapsed and rolled wildly, screaming until her voice cracked.
Blisters formed at once, swelling in grotesque clusters across her burned skin. Lawrence did not call for
