Twin Tormentors By RARE

Chapter 8

VERNERO POV

“Boss, we got him!” Marcelo announced peeking through the slightly opened door. I raised my head and there he was, with that smile that he always wore when we were about to skin someone alive or roast them. The look on his face pulled my own lips in a lopsided smirk, because I knew the shit was about to go down.

“Now that’s the best news I‘ve been waiting for!” I called out getting up from my giant ass chair and rounded the table, exited my office with Marcello by my side. We walked down the stairs with him filling me up with the details of what had transpired during his hunt for the imposter.

I was rather disappointed to find out that it was one of my trusted men who just decided to go behind my back. And betrayal was one thing I never knew how to handle or stomach! I never spared anyone who betrayed my trust! If I did, then I would be the weak kid my father despised. I got rid of that child a millennia ago and I wasn’t going to revive him. The old me, he was easy to kill!

“Such a shame!” I replied flatly as we exited the mansion castle and walked to the “woods”. A group of my men followed suit and we delved deeper into the deep forest. Dark Woods! This place was known for its act of “dealing” with the unruly ones. Whenever the smoke rose from the burned scorched land within the forest, everyone knew that it was dancing with the soul of the dead.

“I can’t believe Eight would do such a thing!”

“Boss trusted him so much, and he had to do this behind his back!”

“Hush! Keep it down. Boss is already pissed off!”

Some men were whispering behind me as we dived deeper and deeper into the woods. The crunching of our feet against twigs and fallen dry leafs was heard as we took big strides, the anticipation burning my body and causing small tremors to run through me!

The stench of sulphur was heady as we walked through the white-cinder covered clearing o f

probably when they captured him and he tried to escape. Or maybe my guys had some fun with him? I took manicured, predatory steps to where he was kneeling, with his torso awkwardly pressed against a thin tree trunk! The tree that HE chose; the tree that would be carrying his soul to the afterlife! My eyes were glued on his and I could feel fear resonating from him, fueling my already boiling and raging blood. My face hardened with every step and

his eyes. He knew what awaited him; even praying wasn’t going to save him. He knew it very well but he

“Boss, please…. I swear…”

didn’t mean to go behind my back? I know!” i sarcastically consoled him, my eyes travelling his entire body. Tears spilled out of him because he had

there was no turning back; but he did what he thought

right inside his eyes. He pinched his eyes

caught her but they had her. She is young, boss. She’s only 8. And they threatened me with her. They told me I should give them some gold from Piedmont or else they’d send me her fingers. I had

have told me and I would have solved your problem. You know fuckin’ well that I would I have rescued your daughter and none of this would be happening right now! Instead, you had to go behind my back, steal from me, and watch from the sidewalks as they captured me. You had a choice, and you made it. Now it’s time to face the consequences.” By now, my voice

above a whisper. He looked down and his body shook and quaked as he cried for his life. I stood up and turned to the side,

boss” he moved forward, tore the packet open and covered Eight’s whole body in a yellow powder; the one that ensured that the burn etched deep to the bone, scorching every tissue of the body until nothing but ash

small vibration from my pocket caught my attention and I fished my phone to find

“What is it?”

clear, vivid voice that had my whole undivided attention. I looked to the perpetrator

and listened carefully to

why she didn’t recognize you. She was in a car accident where she lost her father. Only she survived, but due to her head injury, she lost all of her memories! She remembers nothing from her past!” She explained briefly causing my eyes to widen with shock! Now that explained why