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As soon as I walked out the door, Maksim was there to greet me, eyeing me like I had no sense in my head. Of course, he wouldn’t utter a word about it as long as witnesses were around, but I could expect an earful in private later.
“Gosha has arrived for his new duties,” Maksim informed me as he stepped in line with me, both of us ready to leave. “He requested details about how he should handle her shifts at work.”
“He is to escort her to and from work,” I told him. “I am not sure if she owns a car or not, but he is to use his to drive her around.”
“According to Alexei, the sisters share a car, but it is in the shop, and that is why Masha had been walking to work,” Maksim replied.
“Get the car out of the shop, then sell it,” I instructed. “Masha will no longer need it, and it’ll also prevent her from getting any bright ideas about trying to escape Gosha.”
As we walked out into the night, Maksim asked, “Do you really believe that she’ll try to leave? After all, we are holding her sister prisoner.”
“I would rather not chance it,” I replied.
When we finally reached my car, Maksim said, “That was not a good idea.”
I turned towards my friend. “Afraid that she was going to work her feminine wiles on me?”
Maksim smirked. “More like make you cry.”
That got a grin out of me. “I think it is time that I let you in on a little secret, bratok. Should my feelings for Samara get in the way, I will simply do what I hadn’t allowed myself to do all those years ago.”
Maksim arched a brow. “And what is that?”
“This time, I will not allow her the freedom that she so prettily begged for before,” I answered. “This time, I’ll keep her if things should get complicated on my end.”
“Ya dolzhen byl znat’,” he muttered, and he wasn’t wrong.
“Yes, you should have known,” I smirked.
“What of Masha?” he asked. “What if she decides to talk?”
“Right now, I am good with killing her,” I told him. “If that changes, then there are plenty of cages that are empty here.”
“Anything more, Pakhan?”
“Yes,” I answered. “Go get drunk or laid, Maksim. You appear stressed.”
Maksim just flipped me off before turning to head to his own vehicle. His heart was in a good place, but concern was unnecessary. Again, I was very aware of what I felt for Samara Andreev, so even though I’d never expected to see her again, that did not mean that I hadn’t been prepared for when I would. Despite what I felt for her, every decision that I’d made tonight had been designed to make her pay until I was satisfied with the price.
Getting into my car, I started the vehicle, then drove back into the city to speak with Gosha personally. I wanted to impress upon him how important his new duties were. If anything happened to Masha on Gosha’s watch, then Samara would no longer have an incentive to play nice. Though I’d always appreciated the fire in her eyes, I wanted her broken more than I needed her to turn me on.
Smiling, I wondered how long she was going to last before Samara finally begged me to make it all go away.
Chapter 12
Samara~
The sounds of screaming and pleading were damaging my soul, and no matter how tightly I pressed my hands to my ears, it wasn’t enough to drown out the sounds of torture happening in the next room. When the screams had first begun, it’d become immediately clear why Avgust had chosen this particular cage for me. He’d meant to make my stay here as miserable as possible, and I knew that this wasn’t the last time that I’d be hearing these types of sounds. Yeah, the voices would sound different, but the screams of agony would all be the same.
However, before the torturing had begun, I had tested out the cuff on my leg, checking to see just how far my freedom had extended. I’d learned that I had full range of the cage but nothing more. Still, even if I had been given some more wiggle room, the entire place was empty of anything that I could use as a weapon or a restroom. When Avgust had told me that I was going to have to relieve myself on the floor, I’d been incensed. He was set on humiliating me, and that was one sure fire way to accomplish that. At any given moment in time, someone could walk in here while I was pissing on the floor, and if that wasn’t dehumanizing, then I didn’t know what was.
Still, when the cries of pain had begun, I’d been quickly reminded that things could be a lot worse for me, considering how I wasn’t Avgust Kotov’s favorite person. With the echoes of agony ringing in my ears, relieving myself on the floor didn’t seem so horrible anymore. I’d also found myself praying for the poor man’s death, though I had no idea what he’d done to end up on the wrong side of the Kotovs. Yeah, he could be a horrible person, but the humanity in me still felt sorry for him.
Sitting on the floor, I found myself grateful for the little things. When I’d gotten home tonight, I’d been wearing my uniform under my coat, but when Avgust had given me and Masha some privacy to say goodbye to one another, I had quickly changed into a simple t-shirt and jeans, and those jeans were going to help keep me warm here at night. My shirt wasn’t much, but since I had to sleep on the floor, the jeans would help a lot.
I wasn’t sure how much time had passed, but it finally dawned on me that the screaming had stopped. I could hear my heartbeat in my ears as I wondered if they’d stop because he was dead or because his tormentors were taking a break. I silently prayed that he was dead, and if he wasn’t, then I prayed that he would be soon.
However, my prayers were misplaced when the man from earlier walked into the room with another guy. Both their clothing was splattered with blood, though the new guy looked to be bloodier than the other guy.
