RHG: Inheritance Reclaimed

Chapter 15

Storm POV

There's screaming as we approach the doorway of the building. An old run down assortment of concrete blocks and a door. A old rickety dust and plant coated shabby square piece hut that my best friend's screams are echoing out of. 

"LEIF! HANG IN THERE!" I holler, already running into the building.

"Wait up! STOP!" Pax yells after me. "It could be dangerous!"

"THEY'RE HURTING HER!" I don't stop running to scream my logic. "CAN'T YOU HEAR THAT??!"

Saurus, Swift and Pax try to keep up and I streak down the corridors, skidding and slipping against the floors and walls, a frantic chase to locate her from her cries.

What the hell are they doing to her?? How could they possibly do ANYTHING to a kid to make her shriek like that?!

I feel my face flush with heat and rage as I hear her pained cries. I'm so ready to bash their skulls in. I swear I'll grab their tongues and flip them inside out with a crowbar.

I ram open the doors and tumble into a room, coming face to face with Ginn, Kick, that girl and Sward.

And most importantly, I find Leif, on the ground in a spill of red flowers.

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Kick POV

I know Ginn was nothing good and an immoral criminal, and I know pledging him my services to work with Sonya could only mean I had sold my soul to a demon. But torturing.. beating up a defenceless child? I could not have mentally prepared myself for it.

"I'm so.. so sorry.." I stammer.

But I've failed my sister, and because of my carelessness, my mistakes, she's been subjected to this kind of life. Raised by a monster who no doubt must be trying to make her one too. But if becoming one by her side is the only chance I get to be with her again.. and make sure she's safe..

God, I'm so sorry. I know if there's a hell in the afterlife I'm going straight down.

It would be less painful if I went with my fists.. but thinking about extending her suffering would be another layer of cruelty. So I steel myself and give her a swiping kick to the side of her head. She yelps and tears her hair from Ginn's grip, hitting her head hard against the floor. Red petals form where blood should, and I can hear the pain in her breathing.

I stomp down on her stomach, heating my boots up with restrained flames, crushing her gut with sizzling metal. Her eruption of screams and sputtering pleas cause me to cringe as much as the act itself. This is so wrong.. it's so wrong.

"Wow, you jumped into the role quick." Ginn sneers. 

I'm confused by the change in his tone, his facial expression from what is not concealed is very different from what I've seen from him most of the time we've interacted. It's unsettling.

"Sonya, mind helping?" 

Sonya gives less hesitation in accepting his invite and extends her palm to Leif's face, releasing a rippling wave of sound. The child's voice quivers and gargles, head quaking as the force no doubt has her muscles in rapid spasms. 

I don't know what is more chilling. Seeing Leif be brutalised to this extent, being involved in this, or seeing how unbothered Sonya is to this. I think all these things individually are enough to turn my stomach. And together as one package, they completely twist my insides.

Just what has Ginn done to my baby sister? And what is he willing to do to this poor child?

"Isn't this enough?" I don't realize until I speak that my voice has become a pitch higher.