Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Four

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Twenty-three.

Twenty-four.

Twenty-five...

For the first time since this damned "ritual" in the name of punishment began, I've been forced into starting a ritual of my own; counting up to the next rotation of the make-shift clock.

Seventy-one minutes times sixty seconds.

Four thousand, two hundred and sixty.

That's the number that separates me from my next play-date with Satan's toy—or my potential victory over it if I play my cards right, paltry as they may be.

Forty-two.

Forty-three.

Forty-four.

Forty-five.

Forty-six.

Forty-seven...

I'm surprised I can even manage basic math with a brain as fried as mine—thanks, in no small part, to the last electrocution that bastard, Frost, "blessed" me with. Hell, it's nothing short of a miracle I still remember how to count. But fried or not, I just hope I have a brain at all by the end of this abysmal night.

Why I didn't do this before, I have no idea, but after the last round of getting zapped, I sure as hell don't need any further incentive to keep track of when the next one will come—only so that I can avoid it like the fucking plague.

Only, it's much worse than the plague—to me, at least.

Seventy-four.

Seventy-five.

Seventy-six.

Seventy-seven.

Seventy-eight...

Desperation is a funny thing.

A powerful thing.

A scary thing.

It seems I've been feeling a lot of that emotion recently. It's been one of the few, constant entities in my life these last few weeks.

One hundred and twenty-six.

One hundred and twenty-seven.

One hundred and twenty-eight.

One hundred and twenty-nine.

One hundred and thirty.

One hundred and thirty-one...

You'll do all sorts of things when you're desperate; things you never thought you would.

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