Once they arrived at Zen Space, Ryan made Aiden take off his shirt.
The bruises were quite deep, so Ryan had to massage Aiden's arm to promote blood circulation in his body.
The latter understood the vampire's kind intention, but it did not prevent him from screaming like his life depended on it.
"Patience, only a little more," Ryan said every time Aiden let out a blood-curdling scream.
The problem was that the vampire said it for twenty minutes already, and he still kept going.
Aiden lost trust in the words "a little more" in the first ten minutes.
When Ryan was finally done, Aiden let his body fall to the bed with a thud and groaned. His arm hurt so much, even though he did not move it at all. Had Ryan broken his arm, it might have hurt as much. Or maybe less?
Speaking about breaking arms, Aiden was reminded of the bone-chilling task that the vampire gave his assistant in the car.