Punishment and Reward

Romeo Young's breath hitched and his whole body turned cold. His heart stopped for a moment before it started hammering inside his chest in loud, forceful beats. Fear filled him, not only for his daughter's life, but also for his own and everyone else in their Young family.

He didn't doubt the master hacker's threat. Not at all. In fact, he believed that it was already an understatement. Given what he knew about the organization, if he pushed their limits too far, his daughter wouldn't be simply killed just like that. 

Perhaps she would be sexually violated, beaten up, maybe even chopped up into several pieces, or perhaps thrown into a cage filled with wild, hungry and rabid animals to be devoured while still alive, before she would be allowed to die a miserable, painful death. Just imagining these gruesome images was enough to transform all of Romeo Young's earlier indignation at being called a dog into full-blown terror.