The upcoming scene is rated 18+ and involves blood and murder. Please skip if you are uncomfortable.
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Darkness pulls at me like a deep ocean, and I sink for a while.
Then something sharp drags me back to the surface.
My mind fights the fog, but my body refuses to move, my breathing tight.
Then slowly, voices start to slip through the haze as footsteps hit the floor near my head.
“... Make sure he is strapped well when you hang him,” Vince says in a sharp tone. “Strap every limb. I do not want him freeing himself.”
I stay still, playing dead.
The drug burns in my veins like fire, numbing everything except my rage.
I hear Vince walk closer; I can feel him breathing above me.
Then his boot crashes into my ribs.
Once. Twice. Again.
He kicks my side, my stomach, as he roars angri
