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Chapter 12 : How bout, no?

I was strapped to a table, alone and in a world of pain—head hurting and my arm felt like it was on fire. I bit my lip, trying not to cry out in pain as I looked at the red room, filled with chains, knives and saws. It looked like something straight out of Texas Chainsaw.

"Oh my God, Lyn!" I down, surprised when I saw Addy running to my side and removing the leather belts tied around me. I hugged her as soon as I was free, ignoring the searing pain on my arm. "Where are we?" I asked, pulling away from her, "and why are you dressed like that?"

She rolled her eyes and helped me off the tablet. "I got kidnapped and they made me dress like this." She said, finally noticing my bandaged arm. "What happened? Did they hurt you?"

"I got shot, probably by the same people who kidnapped you." I took a few of the knives on the table next to mine, stashing them on my boots, waistband, and between my bra. "We've got to get out of here. Here, take some."

"Thanks," she said with a grimace on her face when she noticed the flecks of dried blood. "They've got zombies tied up at the fence, they'll hear us before we can even go close to it. I was thinking of looking for the back door."

"I'm pretty sure this isn't the back door." I motioned at the hanging chain saw next to my head with my one good arm, "and that door right there?" I said, pointing at the steel door a few feet from the table, "correct me if I'm wrong, but it just screams do not enter."

"It could be our way out. We've got to check."

"Addy, love. Cassandra just told us that cannibals live in this area and we just so happen to stumble upon a red room with lots of point objects. That-" I shook my forefinger at the same room, "is most definitely a human meat locker."

"I'm going in." I sighed at the stubborn girl's response but followed her nonetheless. She pried it open and gasped, stumbling out and grabbing on to me.

There, inside were mummified humans hanged like cattle, hooked to IVs and with their mouths sewn shut. When they saw us, they started squirming and groaning, eyes pleading for us to help them. Something ugly surfaced at the very pit of my stomach, choking me and making my breaths uneven and my entire body shake. I couldn't move. I'm scared.

Addy held me, pulling me outside where we both staggered forward, holding on to each other.

"Tobias, they found the meat locker!" A voice above me shouted and I struggled against the hands that hoisted me up, whimpering in pain when they pulled on my injured arm.

"Let go of her!" Addy screamed, pushing the men away from me, but it was futile when they held us at gunpoint.

"Now now, no need to hurt each other, we're all family here," the stout man smiled at us, motioning for his two men to put down the guns. "I'm glad to see that you're both all right."

"No thanks to you!" I spat out, stepping in front of Addy, "you damned cannibal! You're—"The same gut-wrenching fear made me stop mid-rant. This man, with his cold stare and rigid posture was dangerous. He wouldn't even blink an eye if he killed us, he'd enjoy every moment of it. "Tie them up."

Tobias walked away to a cave-like place cluttered with Victorian-era furniture. The two burly men pushed us down to the chairs next to a brain-dead woman, yanking our hands and tying out wrists together. "Serves you right for hurting Jae, you bitch," one of them whispered next to my ear and I realized, he was with the guy I shot in the leg.

"Ladies, I know you think we're monsters, inhuman. We all did at first." Tobias gestured to the two ladies wheeling over—Oh God no.

The guy I shot met the same fate as the rest of the people locked up in that hell hole. They wheeled the table where his squirming body laid. When Tobias took the knife placed next to the table, I felt something in me snap. "Stop! Stop it! Don't you dare, you fucking monster! Don't you fucking dare!"