Cannibalistic (Book Two of A Bloodline's Saga)

And Another Beating Comes My Way

I'll rip you limb by limb and keep the parts to play with them

Week by week, piles of filth and reek, rotten human debris dismantled violently

ROT AND FERMENTED

I've watched the heart stop as I've drilled through the chest cavity

I've washed the blood, but can't wash away the memories

Dahmed

"PLEASE I DON'T KNOW!" Tabitha screams from what sounds like her room, only the voices of the other females are deathly silent while Tabitha continues to howl out in pain.

Leaping from my bed and not caring if Shaun is home or not, I run to the room and kick open the door to see not only the girls but also all of the guys huddled around Tabitha tied to a chair as Liam tortures the f**k out of her.

Finding a knife in his hand and blood all over his front, face and hands, it doesn't take me long to click that he's eating her alive in small bits, massive chunks and slices covering her fair skin as Liam cuts deeper into her for the information he needs.

And by the looks of things Tabitha is copping what the rest copped even if she wasn't involved, as if hurting her is going to make them speak.

"What the f**k Liam?" I shout though make sure I don't scream at him considering I could end up like Tabitha regardless if Shaun told him not to touch me, I'm sure he will make up a good enough excuse and Shaun will drop it.

"You! You want me to keep going then you tell me the truth! Did you help them escape?" he barks at my stunned form, yet all I can think of to say is how the f**k is Tabitha going to know when she wasn't even there when they escaped, but nothing comes out and for a second I think he's going to keep torturing the poor girl when he does the opposite and cuts her loose.

Peering at the other faces around the room, I see they've had a few more new wounds added to their face's and body's thanks to Liam's torturing, pools of blood seeping out and around those who were hurt worse than others as the rest wrap up their wounds in ripped off bits of shirts or cloth.

"NO I DI-" a backhand silences my outrage and it doesn't stop at one, Liam announcing that my beatings don't stop until someone comes forward and admits that I helped break them out, though no one says nor does anything and I start to wonder if I will die in front of an audience.

Sooner rather than later the beatings turn to rape, my body putting up a struggle for the first time since he raped me due to not wanting them to see the pain I go through daily or weekly with this guy. Even if it hasn't happened for a while, still no one steps forward and my body turns numb eventually slips into numbness. 

"Okay so still no confessions? That's fine with me, I'm sure eating one of you will get the information out of you one way or another." Liam pants as he fixes himself up and casts his eyes over the shocked and horror stricken faces of those around me, my brain still wondering if they were planning on telling me their escape plan and for some reason I feel a little betrayed for them not speaking out let alone stopping Liam.

Here I am wanting to help them all and yet they mention nothing of their escape plan, they were willing to leave me behind and save their own asses even when I was the one risking everything telling them information and this is how they repay me!

Screaming starts up around the room when someone is plucked from the group and taken somewhere else, the others too scared to move or check up on me though I'm glad they don't, I'm still upset at the fact that they ditched me and let Liam rape me in order to save themselves.

Liam coming back silences their sobs and cries but whimpers commence when I'm yanked up by my wrist with my pants still down and dragged to my room.

Being tossed in there as if I'm nothing, the door is slammed behind him and I pick up seconds later the continuous torture of the others in the room across the hall from me, a numbness still taking over my body while watching more absentminded tears and blood trickle down my face and onto the floor beneath me.

Still occupying my mind on how the others got out regardless of how much pain and feelings of betrayal it brings, I eventually hear the sound of a car screaming onto our front lawn followed by the slamming of a door and kicking open of the front one.

Knowing it's Shaun by the way he's walking and the cough he has when he's punched down too many cigarettes, I give it less than a minute until Shaun and Liam are at each other's throats after not only seeing the state of the others, but also having the pressure of getting us to Max and his son Nate in less than a week.  

Apparently they were given an extra week when we grabbed Tabitha and warned Nate that he couldn't grab anyone else until the heat of the Police died down, but for some reason this trade or whatever happening a lot sooner than that.

"And on top of that, I still have more to grab!" Shaun hollers followed by a hole being punched in the wall. 

"Nate and the others are going to be pissed knowing that their secured hostages aren't so secure anymore!" Liam growls which causes Shaun to go on another rampage and for the first time I actually fear him coming in here.

"You don't f*****g say Liam! I have to do extra work now to make up for those missing! But I can assure you the people we will be bringing Max and his friends won't suffice for them considering they're after the children of those who killed their parents! Which also means I will now have to put on hold my own mission on finding who killed my f*****g pare-"

"Yes forget their parents and the ones who escaped for now, we have to focus on getting the body count we need before our time is up, I'm sure they will pop up if we stop trying to find them." Liam cuts across Shaun though you can tell Shaun still wants to explode.

"Look I'll be back to discuss more." Shaun grunts and now the footsteps are definitely coming my way, my body trembling when I picture Shaun's reaction to my possibly busted up face and body, but he only looks at me for a split second until barking at me to get dinner started.

"I won't be back for a bit, Liam and I are going to go and find other people to take the places of those still missing or the missing on our list, whichever comes first. I suggest you don't try anything f*****g stupid either because I won't hesitate to shoot you myself." he warns in a deadly tone before disappearing and leaving me wondering if he even saw the dried blood on my face.

Letting out a sigh I take myself to the bathroom and find that there isn't as much blood as I thought there was, finding a split lip, bruising eye and swollen cheek from a possible cracked cheekbone.

Running a grazed hand through my hair, I end up heading into the kitchen and find myself standing there for a few moments wondering what the f**k I am to do.

Do I cook for everyone or just for Liam and Shaun? I know I'm not hungry but I'm sure the food will be forced down my throat regardless.

"Return Dan back to the room, I think the others have learnt their lesson. Even though still haven't gotten to the bottom of it we will in time." Shaun announces from somewhere within the house and I wonder when exactly he and Liam will be taking off.

"Ida I hope you aren't feeding the others, it's punishment for escaping and withholding information from us on the whereabouts of the others. I see Liam is satisfied with you-" his phone ringing cuts his sentence off and instantly he's gone from my sight again.

Waiting on bated breath as well as hoping Liam doesn't come in while Shaun's gone, I give it five or so minutes of me pretending to find something in the cupboard until Shaun comes storming back into the kitchen and slamming his phone on the bench.

"What's wrong?" I squeak hesitantly but in amongst all of Shaun's rage there's that surprise again at my sudden interest in his anger.

"Nothing." he eventually gets out though there's something in her eyes stating there is more to what he's leading on.

"Now hurry up with dinner I'm starving, we don't have long until we have to hit the road and I'd like my food by sometime tonight. Besides Liam and I are planning on hosting a special dinner for you considering you've been a massive help regardless of what you think. That and I'm pleased that you had nothing to do with their escape, your supposed friends silence spoke enough for them I hear, hence the reason why I am going ahead with this dinner before you're handed to Max. Anyway I'm over eating normal food and long for my gourmet meals." he smirks and for a few seconds I'm left wondering what the f**k he means until I find his eyes lingering on my skin and my stomach churns instantly.

Of course, I knew it wouldn't be long until I was forced to eat human like my parents, well my Dad not so much considering he was a cannibal before he made the massive change. I just hope when the time comes to eat these gourmet meals I won't be with Shaun and Liam but in Max's stomach instead.

Not saying anything when he leaves with Liam's name called out in his wake, I take a moment to compose myself and hope it isn't one of my bestfriends I witnessed being taken right before my eyes all those weeks ago, I will be eating with Shaun and Liam.

Getting on with cooking the meatless pasta dish and cheese over the top, I let the two males conversing at the dining table know dinner is ready and I'm ordered to bring it out.

"Smells good though I know what would go great in this." Liam states once I've sat down with my food set out in front of me and fork absentmindedly twirling around the strands of pasta.

"Meat?" Shaun supplies as Liam makes a noise that states he agrees until conversations on their special meal is brought up.

"If anything that is probably the best news you have told me all day, I will be counting down the days until we get to feast on proper food." Liam grins behind his fork of pasta then shoving it into his mouth with eyes lingering on me, his gaze unsettling me and my stomach though I push through to avoid having it shoved down my throat.

"So I found out how the others got away, one of the spare keys was missing and found it in the guy's room. Of course no one owned up to it but it is good to know it was only the one key. I don't know how long they had it for or if they grabbed it the day they escaped, but all I know is they won't be doing that again because I'm serious on eating one of them just to prove a point. And that's exactly what we're doing considering we'll be able to gain another in time before Max and his son come to take you guys off of our han-"

"Either way the note with that information really threw me considering they had no idea of our plans." Liam cuts across Shaun but for some reason I expect all eyes to land on me yet they don't only something does click.

Of course Liam thought it was me, I was the only one out of the hostages who was meant to know the information written on that note, hence the reason why Shaun and Liam bought it until they were caught trying to get back home to their parents.

My thoughts however move onto the possible person that will be eaten soon and for some reason Dan's name comes to mind, I mean Liam already chose him so who knows if he will end up sticking with that person? 

Hoping it isn't true and they're saying that to see if I will go back and tell the others, I make the big and most horrid decision to tell Liam that I was feeding the others information yet I didn't help them escape considering that part has been solved.

I'm doing it purely to not only stop the abuse and rapes, but also to get out of here prior to Max and his son Nate getting here, and how I'm going to do that is pretend to fall for Liam and get on his good side.

Like don't get me wrong I want to kill myself for it but if I could get things back to how it was before all this s**t went down to him going back to raping me, then I'm going to take it.

I do that then there's a chance he could not only get me out but the others as well regardless if they had planned their escape and decided to leave me behind.

But what stuns me is the fact that they couldn't get through to one another considering they were constantly apart, so I can only come to the conclusion that one of them broke out and broke the rest of them out while Shaun, Liam and I were busy rounding up Tabitha.

Letting out a heavy sigh and hoping it is that due to me needing friends in a situation like this right now, I wait for Shaun to leave both Liam and I alone so I can confess some information that will hopefully have him sitting up and thinking if I'm really helping them or not.

Yet I can't stop replaying scenarios of where I'm telling the Police everything and Liam will find his secrets aren't safe with me and that I'm not going to cover his ass.

With the thoughts of Liam being in handcuffs as well as thrown behind bars accompanying me all the way until I've finished my dinner, I take my empty bowl of food to the kitchen sink and discover that there are still heaps left over.

"You might as well feed the others, Max won't be happy about us giving them skinny meals." Liam murmurs from behind me when I feel his presence close in, his plain white bowl joining mine in the sink and assisting me with grabbing out the other clean bowls.

"Okay." I squeak when the information I have to tell him resurfaces in my brain but for some reason I can't get the words out right now, so deciding to tell him later that I gave the hostages that information that helped them with their escape note, I take the bowls to the first room considering right now I could use some female company.

Opening the door and finding Hanna, Tabitha and Storm huddled together on the bed furthest from the door, the thing pushed into the corner and providing them somewhere to sit considering it's the only bed, I witness as they un-cling themselves from one another to come rushing towards me with open arms.

"I'm sorry we left you, it's just we didn't expect to find a way out that day and we did. We weren't planning on leaving you, I could see the way you were looking at us when you thought we left without you and that isn't it at all. If it was planned prior to our escape, you would have been-"

"It is fine Storm I'm just glad they didn't f*****g kill you all! Where are the others?" I demand though find the girls a little hesitant considering they don't exactly want to lag on them.

I'm just relieved they really weren't going to leave me behind, but was my hurt of their supposed betrayal that evident on my face?

"Don't worry your secret is safe with me because I have a little secret of my own that could lead us to our escape." I confess in a gentle tone and watch as they gather round to hear what I have to say.

"The others are currently making their way back to their parent's place but we don't know if they made it because when we were close to making it back, we were abducted again and brought back here." Hanna states while finally having a mouthful of her food.

"Okay well if what you say is true, then we will be seeing the others soon enough back here and ready for the taki-"

"But what about your plan, what's this plan that could most likely get us out of here?" Tabitha cuts across me when the reality of her dying soon rears its ugly head, the fear swimming strongly in her eyes the longer I hesitate to tell her.

Not because I don't want to, but because of what they might have to say. Will they approve or will they think I'm more f****d up than Liam himself? Either way it's a long shot and hopefully he buys it more for the sake of getting the others out of here.

"I plan on I guess making Liam fall for me enough to not only save me but us as well. I plan on using his love for me to get us all out of here and then when the Police or whoever saves us, I'll tell them everything Liam and Shaun did to u-"

"Are you sure it's going to work, I mean it's not like he hasn't thought about it before." Storm cuts across me while her large golden eyes with forest green rings around the irises dart around our faces and witnesses as that slight possibility is taken into account.

"Yes but if she plays it right, she can pull it off as Stockholm syndrome." Hanna adds and instantly Tabitha and Storm are on board with my plan.

"Alright but let the guys know considering we can't tell them shit." Tabitha states when I'm about to leave with their empty bowls. 

"I will as soon as I give them their food." I grin and for the first time we're able to smile.

With the feeling foreign on my lips due to not being able to smile or laugh for a bit, I wear the same grin all the way up until I give the guys their food and inform them on the plan.

"Good because then I might not be eaten." Dan jokes then earns a round of chuckles from Anakin, Zeke, Markus and Jason.

"So I assume the girls filled you in on why we didn't bring you on our escape." Anakin starts off when the conversation surely takes that road.

"They have but as long as we stick to this plan, then I'm sure no one will be left behind. As for the others that got away, I have a gut feeling they will be brought back to us soon and the girls agree with me. If you all were stopped in the process of getting to your parents, then surely they would have been too." I sigh as frustrated tears well in my eyes at the fact that they were so close, now it might be a bit harder for Liam and I to smuggle out over fourteen people when the time comes.

Then again if my parents did it with twice as many people, then I'm sure it won't be any different for Liam and I, we just have to make sure there's enough transport to get us all out of here considering the ones that escaped were caught due to not having a car to drive, or were seen on the side of the road heading into town. 

"Thanks Ida for everything, I'm just glad you didn't turn your back on us when you thought we were going to leave you behind." Zeke half-smiles with a split lip and black eye slowly starting to fade, though fresh wounds mark the rest of his body and limbs thanks to Liam's torturing.

"That's okay, I'm sure you'd all do the same for me. Now I have to go or otherwise they will start to think something is up. I will try and keep you updated on any change of plans." I inform them whilst gathering their empty bowls and stacking them in my hands.

"No worries."

"See you then."

"Alright."

"Bye."

"Later." they all say as I leave the room, a small smile still lingering on my lips when I take the bowls out and hear the voices of Liam and Shaun not far from me.

"Ida!" Shaun calls and instantly I'm dropping the bowls in the sink to see what he wants.

"Yes Shaun?" I squeak in a meek voice, my gaze on my feet as I hear him rise from his position still at the dining table.

"I want you to dress his wounds while I head back out for a bit. Turns out Liam is not in the position to help me at the moment." he instructs while Liam continues to sit in his seat silently with his emerald eyes boring into my body like cigarette burns.

I wish he wasn't leaving me with Liam though I think that now would be the perfect opportunity to start on my process of having Liam and I go back to that weirdly calm relationship we formed before the bullshit with the whole escape thing happened, and how I'm going to start that off is by telling him the information I told the others that lead to his suspicions of me helping them escape.

Waiting for Shaun to leave after grabbing the first aid kit and setting it up on the dining room table, no words are shared between the both of us when I start to unwrap his healing wounds, my mind informing me he has another week or so of changing the dressings until he's fit to not wear any.

So having that as my deadline to make sure Liam is well and truly in love with me, I start by making my touches soft yet seductive in a way that has him squirming in his seat when I move onto his hands to make sure they've healed nicely.

"I have something to confess." I murmur as I start to pack up his old dressing and prepare them for the bin, Liam still saying nothing when he sits up more in his seat with a frown making its way across his brow. 

"Alright, what?" he finally demands and instantly I'm wishing I didn't even open my mouth, but it's too late to go back so it's now or never.

"The reason why you thought I helped with their escape is because I was telling them what was going on. I was telling them who was after them a-"

"Why are you telling me this now?" he barks after shooting up from his seat, sending the wooden chair skidding backwards until toppling over. 

"Because I'm sure you would have kept up with the tortures." I squeak out then instantly drop my eyes from his burning emerald ones.

The sound of Liam frustratingly blowing out his cheeks fills the room and I wish I was anywhere but here, the male eventually sitting back in his seat and sprawling out his form.

"I still don't understand why you are telling me this, why the sudden change of heart?" he demands with his frown still in place and arms folded tightly across his chest.

With my mind ticking away and hunting down a good excuse, I eventually head back to when there were good times between the both of us and decide to remind him of exactly that.

"Because I did love you once upon a time remember, and it wasn't all that long ago either. So you can see why I'm still having a little trouble letting go regardless of the fact that you want me dead. But you'd be happy to know that I have accepted my fate and won't be as lucky as my parents this time." I shrug nonchalantly though I'm taking everything in me to force down the lump forming in the back of my throat.

"Riiight, well thank you I guess for fixing my leg. You can leave now and make peace with whatever else that needs to be made peace with. You won't have long until Max and Nate come for you, so yeah I'll see you soon I guess when it's time to change my dressings next." he informs me slowly yet curiosity still plagues his face at my sudden niceness towards him.

He's as confused as I am when the scene of him raping me in front of my friends comes back to replay not only in my eye but his as well, I swear his d**k is hardening at the fact that he has that power over me but it's short lived when I take my cue to leave.

Heading to my room and deeming that as a successful attempt no matter how sick it made me feel, I collapse down on the bed and instantly I think of the others that are out there right now either being captured or making their way home.

"Hopefully my plan works and I can get us all out of here. I failed my bestfriends once I won't fail my new friends this time." I declare to no one in particular as the faces of my bestfriends make their way across my vision.