Chapter 30 Torture.
Lily's pov.
It’s like everything around me stops, my mind starts swirling, a brother? Is it true? A little brother?…a big brother?
He smirks, “I know what you must be thinking… a brother? Am I lying? I can assure you, I’m not. In fact, I’m your older brother. By four months.”
My mind reals and my breath hitches, how is this happening!
‘A deranged brother, great. Just what we needed,’ Saphire remarks snakily.
“You’re lying..” I say, trying to sound strong but failing.
“He’s not lying Lily, I cheated on your mother, multiple times actually. I’m glad I did, or else I wouldn’t have my strong heir,” my ‘father’ says, “now finish this up and get her into the cells Gareth.”
My anger flares up and before I know it I’m consumed in my flames again, from head to toe my flames cover my body, “you piece of shit! I’m glad I grew up without you!” I spit venomously at my sperm donor.
His face darkens immediately, “now, Gareth!” He snaps.
Moving like a demon, Gareth is in front of me in a flash, throwing a punch directly at my gut. I step back just out of his reach, sending a kick towards his face. I make contact and he stumbles back a bit, obviously enraged with the fact he can’t easily take me out.
Throwing another wild punch, I side step him again, punching him in the face this time, burning him again, but his skin just grows back like the last time my fireball touched him.
I school the shock I feel and keep fighting, Gareth, fueled by his ego isn’t putting up as good of a fight as our father thought he would, out of the corner of my eye I can see the enraged, darkened look on his face.
“Enough!” He booms out, “finish this, Gareth! You’re part demon for goddess sake! She’s just a girl!”
As he says that, something changes in Gareth, he runs at me fast, faster than I can process and stabs me with something, a needle.
“It’s demon venom.. not demon blood because that’ll change your dna.. demon venom is strong enough to weaken any supernatural being, sorry sis, it had to be done. You were a lot stronger than I thought,” Gareth says to me, while looking into my eyes.
My vision starts to blur slightly and I can feel my strength dimming. The demon venom he injected me with really is weakening me.
I stagger a little bit, but hell if I’ll let them win this easily. Stumbling towards him I swipe my claws at his face as fast as I can, he barely dodges, my claws grazing his chest, his eyes widen slightly as if he’s shocked at the strength I still possess.
“Wow, I must say, I’m shocked. Nobody, and I mean nobody has ever been able to resist the venom. Father thinks you’re just a witch but you know what I think? You’re hiding something,” Gareth says with a gleam in his eyes.
I don’t let anything show on my face, no confusion, no surprise, nothing. I wait for him to make his next move. Anticipating it’ll be a punch to the face, he can’t kill me, I realize that. Danny wants me for a reason, a reason unknown for now.
I think about Creed all of a sudden, looking towards him frantically. There he is. Still in all of his dragon glory, killing one after another, his scales are smoking, burning off all the blood that lands on him.
I can’t watch long as Gareth is sending a kick to my stomach. The wind is knocked out of me as I go tumbling to the ground. Sapphire rages in my head wanting out, ‘not yet,’ I think in my head. We can’t.
Before I can get back up, Gareth’s kicking me in the side of the head, I cry out from the sharp pain in my head. I turn to look at Gareth, before I see his wicked smile and boot coming down on my face.
Creeds pov.
I’m fighting yet another dragon shifter, being an alpha king dragon definitely leaves me with the advantage, towering over these little warriors and tearing them apart like they are nothing.
Until Hunter and I hear the cry of our mate. All I can see from up here is Lily’s unconscious body and a guy standing over top of her, looking smug.
I roar out in anger, my head pounding from the blood coursing through my veins. All I see is red, my bloodthirst unquenchable.
Tearing apart the dragon shifter I was just fighting, I start flying fast towards the ground, towards my mate.
Before I land I quickly shift back into my human form, hitting the ground gracefully.
“What have you fucking done to my mate!” I roar out, Hunter clawing at me internally, frantic for his mate.
The man smiles like a maniac. Walking slowly towards me, “you know, it’s quite rude to talk to your brother in law like that,” he says with a tsk.
My eyes widened at his words, ‘brother in law?’
“You’re lying,” I say, sounding more certain than I actually am.
“I’m not!” The man says in a sing-song voice, smiling even wider.
“Lily would’ve told me if she had a brother,” I say, glaring slightly.
“You see, she didn’t know about me, I knew about her though,” he starts to say with darkness in his eyes. “Always ‘find my daughter’ this, and ‘find my mate’ that, ALWAYS about them! Never about me! Gareth!” He spits out.
Before I can even say anything, multiple needles get shot into my legs.
“Now go to sleep, you might not want to wake up though. If you do you’ll be in my torture chambers,” before my eyes can close I see his cruel smile,
“Don't worry. You may think you won Gareth, but I swear I’ll kill you, no matter what,” I grit out before the darkness takes me.
Creeds pov.
I wake up to light so bright I feel like I’m going blind, I blink my eyes trying to adjust them, trying to sit up and rub my eyes I realize I’m restrained to a bed.
‘What the fuck! Hunter? Hunter?’ I frantically call for my dragon. No answer. Just absolute silence. The amount of dragons Bain that they pumped into my veins must have been an absurd amount. I’ve taken tests and trials to be able to withstand dragon bane's effects.
My eyes finally adjust and what I see makes my blood boil. That mother fucker wasn’t joking. I’m in a torture chamber.
Fully scanning the room I see chains, probably laced with dragons bane or enchanted with magic, daggers, ancient looking knives and even swords hanging gracefully, as if they are meant to be there. Whips, pliers, hammers. And in the corner, sitting there like a ghost, is a surgical tray.
What the hell is this guy going to do to me?
I pull at the shackles holding me down but it’s useless, without Hunter I’m not strong enough to break free.
I look around once more but I can’t even see Lily anywhere, my heart starts racing at the thought of what they might do to her.
My head whips to the right as I hear a door opening, it’s a hidden door that I didn’t notice earlier, the asshole, Gareth walks through, looking smug.
“Hello, again. I see you’ve woken up.. you weren’t out for as long as I thought you’d be..” he says with a frown, “although, Lily isn’t up yet.”
I start pulling at the shackles again, angrily, “where is she! You bastard, what have you done with her!” I yell at him. I’m seething with rage, wishing I could tear him limb from limb.
“Oh shush, I think she’s the least of your concerns right now,” he laughs at me. Grabbing a massive whip off of the wall he slowly makes his way towards me.