GIFTED RILEY by Lacy Mierr

Chapter 69: A Wall to Cry On

*Riley*

A part of me didn’t even want to open my eyes. The smells flooded me and let me know that I was in a different place and that it wasn’t any better than the place I was in. Opening my eyes would further point out that there would be no food waiting on a table in the corner for me. No fried chicken, rice, or veggies, the only thing I would see would be a wall.

Yet, I still opened my eyes. Without food and very little water my strength had all but left me. Keeping my eyes open took work so there was no point in moving.

It had been days and I still couldn’t get ahold of Nicolas. Perhaps that was a good thing, he wouldn’t want to see me like this, he wouldn’t want to find me lifeless. I could feel myself fading, I didn’t want Malik to win but what could I do? Wasn’t there supposed to be some kind of surge of energy, some reverse that was waiting for the right moment? Where was mine? Probably with the last meal I had days ago.

I could always try to move after I sleep for a bit. I closed my eyes and rested my head back on the ground. I was already dirty so what did I care?

The room went quiet and I was nearly asleep when a voice sent chills down my body.

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Malik, he was here too. I knew he would be, but if I were in a holding cell and he wasn’t in here with me, then who else did he have? Fearing the worst, I found the reserve I had questioned and managed to sit up. Inching towards the wall I held onto it for dear life as I pressed my ear to its cold stony surface.

“Oh, no,” I sobbed. Nicolas, he was here and he was hurt. I pounded at the wall, screaming for Malik to stop. I didn’t know if I could be heard. over Nicolasʼ yell but I couldn’t stop myself. The pain in my chest knowing that he was being hurt because of me was almost unbearable.

Why had he come alone? How many men did Malik have to take him. down?

“Stop it, please!” I wailed clawing at the wall. I hung my head as his groans got louder. I was once again helpless.

*Malik*

I stepped back from Nicolas and wiped his blood off my pant leg. I was panting from using my blade to stab at him. It didn’t matter how tough he wanted to appear, I knew I was doing damage to him. The b***y ground was my proof.

He tried to crawl away from me, but he could barely kick his legs. It was when I watched him that I heard it, my sweet revenge was finally here. Smiling I walked in front of him and cut off his pitiful escape.

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I bent down and grabbed a fistful of his hair and pulled his b**y face. towards him.

“You hear that? It seems your s**x s**e has arrived?” I mocked the lie Riley insisted on giving me and by the look of confusion on his face, he didn’t know what I was talking about.

“Oh right, you don’t know how hard your Luna tried to save you from this fate. Calling herself your s** only further proved her love for you, each time she said it, I smiled inside knowing that my patience had paid off,” I said. I dragged my knife to his shoulder and pierced his skin slowly.

“Ahhhhh,” he groaned.

“Yes, scream for me, scream for her. Scream for my son!” I pulled the knife out and stabbed another place. “For my family!”

He managed not to cry out so I stabbed him again but with the same silent result. I dropped my knife and began to kick him.

“Scream for me! I want her to be haunted by your cries the same as I was by my family! Scream D**t!” I kicked him until I was sweating.

He wouldn’t scream. I yelled into the room, p**d by his defiance. Then another thought was accrued to me. Perhaps I was doing this backward because her cries could be heard loud and clear. Heading back for him I dragged him towards the shared wall and dropped him against it.

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“If you want to give me what I want, then let us see how you like hearing your loved one cry for you,” I said. He reached out to caress the wall. I scuffed. “Some s**x s**e huh, more like your only reason for living. I had that once, now I live to watch you suffe r,” I snarled my

fa u lt and I could.

I s t o o d over him and watched him pat the wall as if he were trying to case he r. He l o k e d so broken that he couldn’t comfort her. She had

just been given more wolfsbane so I knew he couldn’t reach her. He was so close and yet so very far.

This was what I wanted, this was the pain I needed to see on his face. Memories of that night came back to me as I watched his facial expressions. I had waited a long time for this moment and it didn’t disappoint. A tear ran down my cheek as I watched him, either from the joy of seeing him understand or from the memory of that night. Either way. I wasn’t ashamed of it, it was hard-earned and well worth

it.

“How does it feel Alpha King, being so close, within reach but in

reality so far? Now, picture never seeing her again, like I can’t see my wife or my daughter. When I say that you know what I feel, I mean it. So, Nicolas, I want you to know, that this is just the beginning and you can’t die yet,” I said staring down at him. He wasn’t going to get out of this so easily.

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