Chapter 48

David

I had wasted too much time.

It was obvious, especially considering the angry look on Benjamin's face inside my car. I was forced to let him come with me so that I wouldn't hurt someone else so that I wouldn't hurt Jessica.

I had to smile mockingly.

I'd hurt the fucking world to keep Sarah safe, especially when it came to the person who helped take her away from me the very day she discovered who I was and accepted me.

Jessica showed up at the meeting point earlier than I expected, smiling, and I had to lie by saying something about how much better I felt not having Sarah in my way anymore. This caused me tremendous anxiety, but I swallowed it, receiving a look of disdain from Benjamin as I spoke into the phone.

“Fuck, that's some shit.” He grumbled as I parked the car in front of the square closest to the campus.

I ran a hand through my hair, hating that damn button-down shirt I had no choice but to wear since mine were stained with blood.

Jess was smiling annoyingly and I had to put on my best smile before approaching her.

“I knew that at some point you'd see that she couldn't give you everything you need.” There was little left to squeeze my fingers around her thin throat and hope that she would pour out the answers to the questions I had. “But... are you all right?”

I shrugged and smiled, raising my hand gently to stroke her deep cheek.

“It was just a scratch, nothing a few stitches couldn't fix. Besides, after what you did to get to me... I couldn't waste any time...”

She smiled mischievously and I bit my lip, wishing I could turn my back and walk away before she thought she had power over me.

“Finally...”

Benjamin was waiting in the passenger seat and the square wasn't as busy as the ones closer to campus, it would be easy to drag her into the trunk and no one would notice. But I didn't play that way.

So I bent down to reach her ear as I brought my hand to the blonde hairs at the nape of her neck, I could see the light hairs shivering at my touch, and that made my hatred rise to enormous levels.

How could she have the audacity to get excited knowing that she had handed a woman over to a madman?

“You like that, don't you?” I pulled harder on the strands and she moaned slyly, the smile on her pink lips widening. “Then we should get out of here, what do you think?” Jess nodded slowly as she closed her eyes. “But first... you're going to tell me exactly where Mike is holding Sarah.”

I locked my fingers to pull out more than was pleasurable and comfortable, Jess grunted from the pain and opened her eyes at me. My chest inflated with excitement and hatred spoke through me again, urging me on, giving me the chance to avenge my little girl.

“See that car over there?” She nodded quickly. “Great, let's walk over to it, and if you dare ask for help, my colleague over there will rip your skin off with the point of a penknife,” Jesse said nothing as I slowly dragged her to the car.

At least until a group of young men passed by us, she screamed as if I had twisted her muscles and they came towards me. I turned the car around faster than I'd intended and threw that pile of blonde hair on the seat, got in, and started it, knowing that the group, having seen my shitty attitude, had called the police.

“Help! Please!” I would have let go of the steering wheel to shut her fucking mouth if Benjamin hadn't gotten angry enough and jumped into the back seat to press his hand against her mouth.

“Fucking outrageous.”

I laughed scornfully.

“The only thing I can't stand, Miss Wilson, is superficiality,” I said, looking in the rearview mirror. “You'll suffer the same as Sarah if you don't tell us now where they've taken her, and there's no point in saying you don't know. I saw you get into the van with Mike and I saw your smile when he threw you into it.”

“You'll have to gouge my eyes out.” She retorted and I smiled.

“Ben...”

He turned his face to her and pulled his pocketknife from his pocket, I turned the corner and entered an empty parking lot. Benjamin played with the blade between his fingers before sliding it across Jess's skin, it was delicious to see the fear on that bitch's face, especially knowing what she'd done to Sarah.

“This is too fucking easy.” He complained, watching Jess shiver slightly. “If I rip your eyes out you won't be able to see how I'm going to drill hole after hole until I find your veins and let them drip out like a dropper.”

“No...”

“Then you need to tell me where my little shit of a brother is, or I'll do it while you watch from a screen. I promise to be thorough and thank you, I'm being nice, David would have cut off every one of your little toes on the way here.”

“She's not showing any signs that she's going to talk...” Jess pressed herself against the car door and I smiled. “I know, just poke one eye out, I want her to feel the blood running down her cheeks.”

“Enough... please!”

Benjamin shortened the distance to reach her and threatened to press the blade into part of her exposed cleavage, I got out of the driver's seat and got into the back of the car, pressing Jess against Benjamin's body.

“What if we make you scream some other way?” I advanced on her neck, pressing my fingers against the skin, feeling her blood pulsing under my fingers.

“I don't think that's a bad idea, although I like women with more flesh. If you know what I mean...” Benjamin smiled mischievously into her frightened eyes.

“I see, this one isn't my type either.” He concluded, pretending to tug at the strap of her blouse. “Sarah's wide hips could perfectly withstand all the force I wanted to put on them, but I don't see any problem with taking this one apart.”

“If she can't take it, we can dump her in the lot down the street.”

She gasped and looked at me.

“Abandoned shed from the old hospital,” Jess said in a brief whisper.

Benjamin put the blade away and got out of the car to return to the passenger seat. I opened the door and pulled her trembling body out of my car before the regret of not causing her physical pain overwhelmed me.

I took the cell phone from her hand and went back inside, we weren't going to do anything to her, at least not physically. Jess was nothing more than a spoiled woman and that disgusted me deeply, just as Mike behaved as if the world was made solely and exclusively for his pleasure.

We had an address and now the phone number that I kept directly with Mike. I took a deep breath and started the car, we had lost too much time and I couldn't live with the knowledge that I hadn't run fast enough.

“Fuck, I must have broken fifteen laws now. “ He took a deep breath. “And David... just do it,” Benjamin said looking at the road.

I knew what he meant, he didn't need anything else to understand those two simple words.

Kill him if there's no option.