“Spencer, what’s going on?”Empress who was sitting right in the middle asked, her words dripping with great fear. “I can’t believe that old man sold us off after collecting such a huge amount of money from us”
“Tch… Damn that old fool” Raven cursed silently with gritted teeth. “If I manage to get out of here, I wouldn’t hesitate to skin him alive”
“Think about that later. But first, we need to get out of here”Spencer chipped in, his gaze flashing with animosity as he watched Liam approach them. He kept his cool as the leader that he was and asked calmly, “Who are you and what business do you have with us?”
“Oh! Looks like that one is the leader. He’ll be the one to do the talking then”William who stood a metre away from them, butted in with a loud voice.
Liam threw another glance at William who rapidly understood the signal.
“You three took away my precious possession and I brought you here to get it back” Liam stated with a cold voice that made the three captives break down in cold sweat. “If you cooperate well enough, who knows, you might get to leave this place unscathed”
“We have no f*cking property of yours in our hands, just let us go. I’m sure you got the wrong people” Raven whose eyes were red with rage, cursed loudly at Liam without minding the consequences. He instantly a large slap on his face.
“You should go learn to speak with manners if you happen to leave this place” William stated with a disapproving nod as he wiped off his right hand with a handkerchief which he disposed of immediately.
“How dare you touch him?”Empress berated in anger. “He’s right, we know nothing about what you’re talking about”
“You shouldn’t fret when I haven’t stated what you guys have, that belongs to me, “Liam said with an eerie smile on his lips. “You should listen to what I’m about to say first”
“You won’t be getting any information from us no matter how hard you try”Spencer voiced out while scoffing inwardly. They wouldn’t have been captured if their leader hadn’t stopped them just because of the money they got from their last client.
“Let’s see how that goes” William replied with an amused expression on his face. “You shouldn’t be quick to decide”
“Be fast about it” Raven uttered rudely.
“Do you know this lady?” Liam asked, raising his phone with a photo displayed on it. “I believe she was your very last victim whom you kidnapped”
A sharp glint flashed through Spencer’s eyes as he stared at the picture, keeping his composure steady. He replied with an indifferent tone, “I don’t know her. Do I look like someone who moves around with women?”
“Well, that’s your business, not mine” Liam replied with a smirk on his face. “I see you want to do this the hard way. I don’t have all the time in the world, so I’ll just go this my own way” he shifted his gaze to William whose lips curved into a wide smile in understanding. “You know what to do”
“Who should I start with first?” William asked with a playful voice as he gazed thoughtfully at each one of them before his gaze rested on the woman in the middle. “I do not like torturing women, but I guess I will have to go with that”
“No, don’t you dare lay your filthy hands on me? Spencer do something” Empress yelled frantically as William picked her fingers, carefully examining them.
“You have pretty nails, I wonder how much it’s going to sell in the market. You know I have this friend who buys these fresh nails from people and displays it on a silver board in his room just for sightseeing” William ranted on and on, as he gently placed the nail extractor on her nails.
“Ahhhhhh… Please, stop. it’s hurts… ahhhhhh” Empress screamed nonstop as the nail extractor removed her nails slowly which made the whole situation worse. She was going to go through that till her leader confessed.
“I guess we’re done with the first nail, any one of you guys want to say something before I proceed?” William asked, absentmindedly picking at his nails, mumbling some words incoherently. “I wish I had nails like you”
The two men gritted their teeth in frustration as they watched their companion growl loudly in extreme pain.
“You know you could stop this yourself but since you’ve refused to speak, I’ll move on to the next one” William uttered as he stood up again, repeating the same process. As the nail extractor was about to pull the second nail, one of them shouted in anger.
“Stop… That enough” Spencer yelled, his voice laced with pure rage. One thing he hated the most was seeing his closest person grovel in pain, most especially Empress. “It’s enough, you’ve won. I’ll give you what you need.. just quit torturing her”
“Okay,” William raised his hands, gesturing a surrender. “But that was fast. I thought I was going to harvest like five nails first while waiting for you to keep thinking about it. But it’s fine” he turned to Liam who had been observing the whole scene from where he was seated. “You can take the floor”
Liam stood in front of Spencer and asked again with the photo displayed on his phone. “Do you know her?”
Spencer was seething in anger until he heard William’s voice say, “I wouldn’t mind taking another nail”
“Argh… Yes, I know her. She was the last person who abducted”Spencer screamed out in frustration, affirming the truth. “We didn’t know who she was, we were just paid to do our job”
“Well, next time you’re getting paid to do a job, do not fail to do a background check on who the family of the victim is”Liam retorted, his voice laced with warning. “You’ve messed with the wrong person”
“Yup,” William butted in. “The wrong person indeed”
“Now, you’re going to tell me who hired you, then we all will go our separate ways with no one to mention about this day ever happening” Liam started, his voice stern and threatening. “Who hired you to abduct Isabelle?”