Page 623 of Rage

Rue Bennett

Ithought I might feel something odd being back here, like I’d somehow shrivel up into myself and become immobile, invisible like I always was, but it’s the opposite. I’m free. Physically and mentally free to take whatever I want from them just like they took from me. Instead, I want to make themhurt. I want to not only take their freedoms, but I want to steal everything that makes them happy.

As I walk into the warehouse, the cages have doubled in numbers since I was last here, showing me that there’s no sign of this slowing down.

Not unless someone does something about it.

One of the girls in the cages spots me and the light in her eyes is enough to brighten up the darkest depths of hell.

“What the fuck?” A man's voice sounds beside me and it’s a voice I’ve come to know too well.

Stink breath.

“You came back?” He laughs, motioning to his men to grab me. “You’re more fucked up than I thought.”

“I came back to see what your heart tastes like.” Flicking the chainsaw, blood splatters onto the floor, his eyes now on Elias.

“Wait. H-how do you two know each other?”

Elias smiles, practically giddy at the thought of someone knowing who he is.

“I’m after your boss,Liam Schneider,”Elias says,lifting the axe to point it at him, “Butyou...sadly your life is not mine to take.”

I take a step forward, dodging the axe Elias hurls toward the man who reaches for me andstink breathtakes a step back.

“Holy fuck!” he screams as the axe lands in the middle of the man's eyes, his body plummeting to the ground. He reaches behind him but before he can, I raise the chainsaw to his balls.

“Make another move and say goodbye to your appendage.”

Raising both hands, his jaw tics.

“What’s the plan here, huh? Kill me then what?”

“Taking things day by day,stink breath.” I remove the gun tucked behind his back and flick the safety switch off, then point it at him. “Open your mouth.”

A man's screams echo through the partially empty warehouse and I look back at Elias jerking himself on top of a guard who now has the axe wedged in his thigh. “Yeah baby, give me another scream.”

Returning my attention tostink breath, I slide the barrel into his mouth. “Sit down.”

He does as he’s told, kneeling before me, the power within me beginning to grow as I slowly take it back.

“Elias, bring both the bodies here.”

“Slasher,I was enjoying myself.” He huffs, stuffing himself back into his pants.

“I know something else you’ll enjoy a lot more than pulling yourself off over this bastard.”

His lips curl into a twisted smile, thrilled, waiting for his next order.

“Pile them up here.”

When the bodies are placed beside me, I remove the gun fromstink breathsmouth and place it in his hands, holding the chainsaw by his neck as I stand behind him.

“Shoot them all.”

He hesitates, swallowing as I wait for him.

The chainsaw roars to life in my hands like a warning as I yell, “Are you fucking deaf? I said kill them all!”

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