Vengeance

CHAPTER TWELVE

"You like what you see?", Gladys asked while wearing a maniacal grin all over her face. "Enjoy it while it lasts", she sarcastically added.

"Cut me loose b*tch or I'm going to scream for help", said a struggling Irene.

This rant caught the attention of Isaac, who shockingly looked up from the open parts in front of him.

"Irene, is that you?", he asked while trying to get a view of her face from his bondage.

"Isaac! Where are you?", Irene asked as she struggled from left to right intending to see Isaac, who painfully replied he was right behind her. This amused an on-looking Gladys, who lit a cigarette and found a place to sit as she continued watching her two hostages.

"What are you doing here?", Irene asked Isaac, who didn't also have a clue how he or she got to where they are.

"All I remember was stepping into an animal trap and losing consciousness", he further replied, as Irene explained that Gladys being a b*tch must have gotten to him as well.

This infuriated Gladys, who angrily got up from where she was seated, picked the bloodied shovel from the floor, and hit Irene so hard that her face burst up instantly.

"Call me a b*tch one more time and I'm gonna rain this piece of iron on you", she blared out angrily at a bloodied Irene as Isaac terrifyingly looked on.

Looking downwards, Irene's face kept dripping with blood as the zeal to talk back or scream had been cynically knocked out of her. This act of barbarism prompted Isaac to burst into tears and start begging for his life to be spared.

"Please who are you and what do you want?", he further asked with a tearful terror in his voice.

Dropping the shovel, Gladys went over to him, ran her hands over his body, and punched him right in the face, resulting in Isaac grunting with pain.

"You bastard, you made me realize no one in this cruel world should be taken seriously and trusted", Gladys bitterly said to him with tears streaming down her eyes.

Before he could alter a statement, she made him shut up and warned him not to ever interrupt her again, unless he'd like to suffer the same fate as his partner in crime. This shocked Isaac so much that he started thinking deeply while watching Gladys take off her clothes. As soon as she was stripped, Isaac suddenly realized her face was actually a mask, which she started taking off gently with the use of a knife. While watching on in awe and pain, he kept thinking to himself about the real culprit as his mind was filled with too much fear to even think straight. The sound of the mask hitting the floor brought a lost-in-thoughts Isaac back to reality, as the face he saw immediately threw him in a state of shock with his mouth left wide open.

"MAUREEN?!", he called out in a terrifyingly medium-pitched tone.

"I trusted you and felt very much comfortable, yet you orchestrated my downfall", a tearful and naked Maureen replied while asking what she had done to warrant the terror she was put through.

Unable to speak due to the feeling that he had seen a ghost, Maureen chuckled and walked towards Isaac to pat him on the face and bring him back to his fate.

"I-We thought you were dead", he stammered while replying to the ghost he didn't believe was real.

"I was indeed dead, but asked myself why you all should continue roaming the earth", she replied while chuckling with an evil grin upon her face. "That question kept me alive and brought me back here", she further added.

This threw Isaac in a sober state, as he explained to her that he was forced to concur with their demands. "I tried my best to stop them but they wouldn't listen and also threatened to kill me", he further added with much soberness in his voice.

"You should have known better that day before nightfall, why didn't you at least try to warn me?", Maureen tearfully asked as she suddenly noticed Irene coming back to life.

"Maureen, I'm very sorry, please", a tearful Isaac pleaded as Maureen watched on with tears also in her eyes due to the love she had and still has for him.

As she was about to go closer to him, Irene suddenly laughed weakly and asked Isaac why he was pleading with her. "She had fun that night, didn't she? Why act now like she didn't enjoy the whole show?!", she remorselessly added.

This completely pissed Maureen off and infuriated her the more, as she picked up the shovel and continuously hit Irene at the back of her head until she passed out again with blood splashing in all directions. Satisfied with her escapades on Irene, she angrily turned to Isaac with terror in her eyes. Before he could utter any additional word, she hit him so hard on the head with the shovel, causing Isaac to instantly pass out with Maureen continuously letting out loud and bitter screams, which echoed throughout the silence of the whole forest.