TRAITORS are not the ones who confront you in the face and point a gun right at your head. No. They are the ones who give you the brightest of smiles and they'll treat you the way you want to be treated.
Cursed and blessed with power and responsibil...
A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.
-Chinese Proverb
Chapter 34
"I never expected it to be you." Eve murmured as she looked at the president with narrowed eyes.
"No one expects it to be me." The president replied with smirking lips and arrogant eyes. The next big thing after destroying Callisha Safronov's image was getting Eve William's trust. She was one hell of an asset. Just play the cards right and Eve might be the right hand of Lurid and Vermilion.
"And now I know why I never found your head quarters." Eve looked around her. They were in the president's office. It looked like the queen's office but darker. "It is placed underground. That's smart of you."
When you passed by the Lurid and Vermilion's head quarters, you would only see soil and a patch of grass. But underneath was a door to their palace. The whole headquarters were underground to the point that sunlight can't pass through. You cannot determine time unless you have a clock.
"Smarter than Callisha Safronov?" The president pushed.
Eve Williams smirked evilly. "I doubt, but I hope."
She stood up and paced the office until she was face to face with the wall in front of the president's table. Different arsenals were plastered on the wall. Most of them were torture devices during the medieval times. Her eyes were captivated by the saw.
"Hazy Austria is fond of saws. Was." Eve murmured as she traced the tip of her index finger's nail on the saw's flat body creating a hissing sound. The president followed the movement of her fingertips.
"That's not surprising. She is a wild woman, after all. I don't think Hazy's bloodlust could be satisfied by a simple gun or a knife. "
Eve turned her head on the president. "You think saw has a darker reputation than the knife and gun?"
The president leaned on the table, piercing Eve Williams with pale eyes. A smirk appeared as the president narrated a lovely historical bed time story.
"Before the saw was used in carpentry, it is used to slice humans." The Lurid chief smiled as a hand sliced the air vertically, as if the chief was acting the narration. "The victim would be held upside down; her feet would be tied to a wood above; allowing the blood to rush to her head." Eve swallowed as she pictured the image inside her brain. "Then the torturer would put the saw between the victim's legs, and would slowly slice the body."
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Bile threatened to rise in Eve's throat as she pictured the scene. The atmosphere inside the office became darker, more evil. The president was looking at her without any emotion, just a smirk on the lips as if telling the details of a gruesome execution gives joy to the soul.
"But you know what the best part is?" The president asked in excitement.
"What?" Eve swallowed, not because she was afraid, but because she knew the answer even before the president talked.
