"Let your daughter watch as well, so she will know what’s waiting for her," Aaron spoke, glancing towards the scared woman.
"No, you can’t, please I beg you," Luis almost cried out. "You can kill her instead. Please don’t be so cruel to her. She is a woman."
"My sister wasn’t?" Aaron didn’t show an ounce of mercy, "She was not even an adult but your daughter is. I am sure she won’t die in one night. If she survives, I will leave her to you so you can kill her with your own hands."
"Let go of our sister," the two men cried out, making them aware of their presence. Those were Luis’ two sons.
"Shut them up," Aaron instructed and the next moment their voices died down with wincing in pain.
Aaron turned to those twenty men and instructed them, loud and clear for everyone around present to hear it.
"That mann is all yours," he referred to Zymer, "Do whatever you want with him but make it worth the show to watch for his father. Even if he is about to die, you can’t stop, and if he dies, continues to fuck his dead body till the morning. By chance if he survives, throw him in his father’s cells to keep him company. But I would prefer if he dies as you fuck him and then throw his dead body to his father to grieve on it."
With that Aaron turned to leave, leaving each and every prisoner there terrified. The other three followed him, having no pity in their eyes for any of them.
Nathaniel put his hand on Lucian’s shoulder, "You can understand him don’t you?"
"His sister was my sister as well," Lucian replied as they continued to walk away.
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"Father, help me. Father....Ahh....stay away from me...no...."
Soon the heart shattering cries of a man echoed through the prison along with the lewd talk from those burly men, making every prisoner shiver in fright as all those twenty men were being inhuman to Zymer, taking anything of him without showing any mercy.
Tears continued to roll down Elrod’s eyes as such a humiliation and cruelty his son had to go through just because of his recklessness in the past.
He regretted saying what he said to Aaron about his sister. He should have not, or his son wouldn’t be going through this. All he wanted was to somehow go to his son and kill him so he won’t be in pain and then kill himself but, he was helpless. He was confined in chains and locked in a cell to be able to go to his son.
"It’s because of you Elrod that your son is facing this and you put my daughter in the same," Luis angrily spat out, "I wish I had killed you long back and was not associated with you. You monster, you..." Luis continued to cry as his heart shivered at the thought that the same would be happening to his daughter sooner or later. "My daughter..."
Grace was shocked and numb that she didn’t even dare look at what was happening with Zymer. She could only cry to think of herself in his place soon.
"Father, why did you do it? Why did you harm his family," Grace cried, "Because of you, he would...."
"I am sorry, I was wrong," Luis cried as well, "I didn’t know...I always wanted the best for my kids..."
"Why don’t you just kill me, father?" she sobbed heavily, "I don’t want to be like Zymer..." she covered her ears as Zymer’s cries were still echoing everywhere. "I want to die instead."
Luis’s heart broke more than it could, his mind gripping with the regrets about all his actions and greed.
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