In the Blood (Metahuman Files Book 4) by Hailey Turner

Author:Hailey Turner [Turner, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

Alexei couldn’t remember the last time he’d hurt so much.

Everything burned, and not in a good, fiery way.

His left eye was swollen shut and crusted with blood. One of Cillian’s punches had broken his cheekbone. The left side of his face was an ever-throbbing pulse of agony he couldn’t ignore. Every time he breathed, pain stabbed through his jaw and mouth. Alexei could feel the swollen heat from the damage on the inside of his mouth, though that could be from the handful of teeth he’d lost when Cillian used him as a punching bag.

The weight of the Faraday cage made it difficult to hold his head up, or maybe that was the blood loss. Alexei cracked open his right eye, vision blurry from one too many hits to the head. But he could still see, which told him his retina wasn’t detached—yet.

Blood stained the cold cement floor beneath his bare feet and around the chair he was tied to. His jeans had that odd stiffness to them that came from being saturated with something sticky before it dried, especially on his right side. Cillian hadn’t spared a single inch of flesh from his elbow to his wrist on the inside of his forearm.

Alexei’s gaze skittered away from the raw, red muscle that glistened beneath the lights hanging from the ceiling. Cillian had carved him up like a piece of meat, skin lifting away in translucent pieces as the Irishman skinned him alive. Every puff of breath, every tiny movement of air over the exposed muscle felt like getting cut by the knife all over again, overloading his nerves with teeth-clenching agony. Telling himself to breathe through it only made his chest hurt.

A door slamming shut and footsteps coming down the stairs forced Alexei to lift his head all the way, hazy attention latching onto Sean’s pale, swollen face across the way from him. Sean hadn’t made a single sound through the beating and skin-carving Alexei had endured. In fact, Alexei couldn’t remember him responding in any way to Cillian’s questions or goading. He’d taken the order for silence to heart, but Alexei ached to hear his voice, to hear something familiar in his ears other than his own screams.

Alexei knew there was no shame in screaming in a situation like this. His SERE training had emphasized that fact years ago when he’d gone through it the first time and again after joining the MDF. Rescue was always hoped for, but Alexei didn’t know where they were, or even what day it was. The hit from the neuro-jammer gun had fucked with his head and body far more deeply than the drug cocktail Sean had been subjected to.

“Still awake?” Cillian asked, not expecting an answer.

Alexei gave him one because he didn’t like the way Cillian was looking at Sean. “No bed. Shit service.”

Talking was difficult, but Alexei did it anyway, forcing the words out around a desert-dry tongue and swollen lips. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d had any water.

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