Chapter 7

Outside the room, Gerald lay sprawled on the cold marble floor, battered and covered in blood. The sound of slaps and Lily’s screams from inside pierced his ears, burning his chest with explosive rage. 

Gasping for breath, his saliva mixed with blood, Gerald looked up at Kael with eyes blazing with vengeance. 

“You bastard! Why didn’t you just kill me straight away instead of making fne go through all this?!” Gerald roared with what little strength he had left. “Kill me now, you bastard!” 

Kael folded his arms across his chest, staring at the minister’s son with a cold, merciless sneer. 

“Killing you so quickly? That’s no fun at all,” Kael snorted derisively. “Even if we were to subject you to far more brutal treatment right now, your frail body would simply lose consciousness from blood loss. And fainting would mean giving you far too easy an escape from this hell. My master has a plan far more fitting for a loser like you.’ 

At that very moment, Lily’s screams mixed with moans could be heard again from inside the room, fuelling Gerald’s rage even further. 

“You’re all bastards!” Gerald roared furiously, “You’re nothing but a bunch of lowly, barbaric men!”