17. I'm sadistic

Now, Reuel Caddel was a man with principles. Self-made principles.

One of those principles included running a clean business, he never ventured into anything illegal, always trying to do things by the book... His book!

But once in a while, just sometimes, there are some situations that need a special way of handling. Some extreme measures are called for, and some things have to be done.

He calls it them "Cardinal measures," and these measures are taken only on very, very, needed occasions.

And today was one of those occasions...

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!" Gray screamed as once again his face was pressed close to the burning flames, the side of his face had turned a dark shade of red.

Bruises all over his back were evidence of the hard whips that had landed on his bare back.

*Hehhhh* a guy drags in oxygen as his head is pulled out of a drum of ice cold water. And after him, two more heads are pulled out of the drum too.

"What... *cough*cough* what the f*ck man, *couuugh*cough*, who are, *couuu*cou*couuugh* who are you people?." one of them asks amidst strength draining coughs as he shivered like a leaf.

All of them, Gray included, stripped completely naked. Even the girl among them, Gray's girlfriend, she was on her knees completely naked, shivering like a dog left out in snow.

"Why, are you doing this man?" Gray asked.

"G_Gray, Gray, I'm so cold, G_Gray."

"You shut the f*ck up bitch!!" the lady flinched as Gray yelled in anger and pain.

Just as he yelled at her, a car drove into the uncompleted building. Stopping just some feet away from where Gray and the others were, all eyes and attention shifted fully to the silver-black van.

Out of the car came Gary, a look of disgust on his face as he walks round the car and opens the door to the backseat.

One foot, shoe as black as night, but sparkled like a star in the sky. Second foot, and all four of them held in their breaths, as they could only wonder who on earth they had wronged this time.

Slowly, without any care in the world, he stretched out of the car, Helfer in hand, and an invisible cloud of darkness loomed over them all.

The oxygen they pulled into their lungs suddenly felt suffocating.

He was about five feet away from them, and yet, it felt like a huge hand pressed them from up above, and another pulled them from underneath the earth. It was an unexplainable but petrifying feeling.

"WELCOME BOSS!" Yelled the men who held Gray and his friends captive.

"Hm" Reuel simply breathes a weak reply.

"Gary, is there a spare shirt?" he suddenly asks.

"No sir, I'm sorry about that." the man simply says.

*huh* the man breathes out weakly. "You should always bring a spare." He tsks.

Carefully, he sets Helfer down in the car, takes off his coat, his suit jacket, his waistcoat, and then goes on to unbutton his shirt. Handing it over to Gary, now he was free.

Stretching his muscles, pushing his shoulders back and front, cracking his knuckles, he reaches into the back seat of the car again, and picks up Helfer, carefully placing the lizard on his impressive shoulder.

But then he pulls out a steel baseball bat, loosely holding it up on his left shoulder, tilting his head to the side with a creepy smile on his face, tauntingly staring at Gray.

And slowly, he walked closer to them... "I have one question for you." He says as he walks, his focus solely on Gray. "And I need you to answer me very truthfully." He bends down next to Gray, leaning close to the man's ears.

"How," he switched to a low whisper. "How did it feel to have her in your mouth?" and Gray trembled with fear as he just couldn't breath properly, he could feel his neck being choked even when no one was touching him.

"Say it," Reuel urged, but the man could not bring himself to open his mouth. But then his eyes dilated, and his lips spread apart, and...

*Ahhhhh!!!* a loud horrifying cry escaped his mouth as Reuel's fingers pressed into his ribs, squeezing it hard.

"Oh don't scream," the creepy smile was back on his face. "I'm sadistic, you'll only make me want to maim you." He chuckles.

"Now say it, how did it feel, to have her in your mouth?"

"F*ck, this is because of that bitch?" Tom cursed as he now understood what all this was about. "You're f*cking with us because of that bi... *WHAM!!*

"Ahhhhhh!!" The girlfriend screams as the steel bat viciously crashed onto Tom's mouth, shutting him up and sending him crashing to the ground, blood oozing from his mouth like a bloody fountain.

From where he crouched he had thrown the bat, and his throw was effortlessly accurate.

"Erina... She has a name." He deadpans. "That you are not even worthy to call, neither should you call her any other names!!" The instant he turns his attention back to Gray, the creepy smile was there again.

"Now, back to... Would you shut up!!!" He suddenly yells, as the lady was still screaming like a mad woman. "Shut up before I fill your mouth with these embers!!" and her eyes flew wide open and she slaps both her palms over her mouth to help control her screams. She was scared out of her mind, seeing Tom next to her coughing up blood.

"Now, where was I?"

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