Don't Believe What You See

Chapter Twenty Seven

"What's your name?" Delilah asked to the terrified girl in the corner who hasn't said a word.
"Pilar, my name's Pilar," she spoke softly, "What about you?"
"Delilah," she said. Delilah said her name like she was talking to a friend. Surprisingly, Delilah look as if she wasn't scared, like she deals with this everyday, but she was actually scared to death. Any moment can become her last, her last breath, her last words, and worst of all, she would never see her friends again. Grace. Jack, even though she hates him.
Hunter.
"Why are we here?" Pilar asked with fear cracking her voice. She didn't care what she looked like on the outside, she probably looked how she felt, terrified. But, she would fight anything that happened. She couldn't leave Peter.
Not again.
"I'm in here because I liked a dick, that's all I know. I have no clue why you're in here," Delilah said. The door to the basement flung open and Delilah tried jumping to her feet, but was rejected by the cage restricting her.
"Eat," Drake said before turning and trying to leave.
"Wait!" Pilar called.
"What?"
"Will you at least tell us why we're here? Please?" She pleaded. Drake took a deep breath before walking over to Delilah. He bent down next to her cage and took a strain of her hair in between his fingers. Then, he rubbed his thumb along her welt.
"Well," he started, "Pilar, you're here because you were friends with someone my boss wanted. Daniel, the waiter you hung out with, he owed us some money, and after we figured we couldn't take him, we took you instead. We actually don't need the money, we just wanted to prove that we were still in charge. So, we're simply going to ask your boyfriend to hand over Daniel and a hundred dollars so I can get the hell out of dodge, and then we'll let you go."
"You really are a dick," Pilar laughed. Drake stood up and slowly walked over to Pilar's cage. He opened it quickly and snapped her ankle so swiftly that Delilah didn't even notice what happened before Drake slammed the cage shut and Pilar was screaming in pain.
"Then what about me? Why am I here? I didn't even know this Daniel kid," Delilah said.
"You," Drake said leaving, "are here because I started to fall for you, and in this business, you can't fall in love. And, besides, you started to hate me, and we can't have that." After Drake left the room, Pilar stopped screaming and just kept a hand over the bone popping out of her skin.
"You liked him?" She asked.
"He hasn't always batshit crazy."