Page 145 of Brutal Savage

Nonono!

My heart beats louder.

I didn’t count them.

I should’ve counted!

How could I be so stupid, especially after what happened to Kennedy!

“I—I can take more meds.”

“Fuck! It’s probably stuck.” Jerry runs a frustrated hand through his hair. “We need it out now. They’re coming to pick it up in less than an hour.”

I shake my head, tears filling my eyes because I know what he’ll do. “Please, let me try more meds!”

I can’t let him do this!

“Cut it out of her.” Jerry’s eyes lock with mine, his snarl sending terror running down my spine.

“Please, no! I beg you!”

Kennedy flashes before my eyes. Bleeding in the back of the car.

Dying.

I can’t let that happen to me.

“Jerry, let’s get the doctor,” Brevin says, the one who notified him of the missing balloons. “Remember what happened last time to that other one? We can’t keep losing girls.”

“We’ll find new ones. I said get it out of her!”

Carly lets out a sob behind me while fat tears trickle down my face.

Whenever this happened in the past, they had their doctor come in and get the drugs out. Except with Kennedy.

And now me.

I want to run. Yet there’s nowhere to go.

“I can’t do it.” Brevin looks as though he’s gonna be sick.

Jerry growls. “Get me a fucking knife and I’ll do it.”

“P-p-please,” I beg him through my sobs.

I beg the devil for an ounce of compassion, and he doesn’t give it to me. Grabbing my arm, he shoves me onto a gurney while I fight and scream and claw for him to stop.

“I’m begging you, please don’t do this. Jerry, please!”

“Shut. Up.”

When I stare up, I realize there’s no humanity within him. None at all. He calls over two of his men.

“You hold her legs, and you get her arms. Brevin, get a rag for her mouth. Bitch is about to scream, and I’m not in the mood to hear it.”

“No, no! Please!”

The girls cry in the background, and when I turn my face to the side, my gaze connects with Carly’s broken one.

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