Total pages in book: 95
Estimated words: 89985 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 450(@200wpm)___ 360(@250wpm)___ 300(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 89985 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 450(@200wpm)___ 360(@250wpm)___ 300(@300wpm)
Some had gotten the wounds infected and it had spread through their bodies, until eventually they couldn’t fight any longer.
They had gone.
“You speak as if you had … so many brothers and sisters.”
“I did, or at least that is what I was told. I would later find that my father was paying an orphanage to send their unwanted children to him. He’d turned his tests into a game, and he was recording it. There were others, wealthy men and women, who were paying to watch. Seeing who would be able to survive. We were like a bunch of dogs in a cage, and they were priming us ready to fight. The only thing I know for sure is I am an Orlov.”
Niamh had tears in her eyes and she reached up and touched my cheek. “I’m so sorry.”
“You do not have to cry. I dealt with it. That man is no longer alive and he’s never going to hurt another child again.”
“But, don’t you get it? Your father. My father. I don’t imagine it stops there, does it?”
“The world is full of men that do evil things. We’re not going to be able to change that,” I said.
“Why did you tell me this?” she asked.
“I wanted you to know who I am, so you could understand.”
Chapter Sixteen
The Butcher
“Are you going to tell me why we’re not just killing this sick little shit?” I asked, turning to look at Ivan.
I pointed at the television screen that showed Finn Jr., locked up in his cage once again. He’d been allowed to attend his sister’s wedding and between myself and The Beast, I’d been able to keep an eye on him. The only time I didn’t was when I went to see what was taking Niamh so long in the bathroom.
“All in good time.”
“Have you noticed that is what you say a lot?” I asked.
“I also noticed that when you get familiar with a person, you talk a lot.”
I rolled my eyes at him, because I didn’t care what he said. I was not known for talking, apart from those that knew me well. There were few people that did.
Shrugging my shoulders, I shoved my hand into a family-sized bag of cheesy potato chips, which were my favorite snack for watching an asshole on screen. I didn’t even know where he had sent The Beast off to, and I didn’t care to know.
I stared at the screen and thought of ways I could end this bully. Finn Jr. was a piece of shit. I didn’t realize how bad he was when I took him. Ivan’s orders had been to take him alive, but I’d be quite happy to see this little shit dead.
With his father’s reputation, this sick little shit had used it to his advantage over time. He was only a year older than Niamh, and yet the two couldn’t be more chalk and cheese.
Niamh was a nice person. I sensed that.
I had a way of knowing good people from bad, and Niamh was nice. Her half-brother on the other hand, needed to be killed. There was no nice way to put it.
Finn Jr. liked power, and he was evil with it. I had uncovered several girls who worked for his father, as well as at the high school where he went growing up. Whenever Finn liked a girl, they didn’t get a choice. That was taken from them. If they wanted him or not, he was going to have them, and he wasn’t above using force.
To put it bluntly, he’d raped a lot of women and had been doing so since he was eighteen. I think I might have found his first victim. It had been the school nice girl. She’d been sweet and kind, a tutor, helping all of those in need. She caught the eye of Finn, even though she wasn’t interested in boyfriends, and she rejected him. That had been her biggest mistake.
She’d been working late at the library, and on her way to her car, he grabbed her. All night long, Finn Jr. raped her, humiliated her, and slowly broke her. He returned her home, as if it was just a date. His father was at her parents’ house, and told her if she went to the cops, her parents would be dead. He’d hunt them down. She didn’t go to the cops, and instead the family lived in fear.
I got this information from the woman’s sister. Finn didn’t just have his fun once. Now that the family was afraid of him, he used her multiple times until she finally couldn’t take it and killed herself. This smug little shit believed his father was going to get him out of this mess.
He didn’t realize that he was now on my radar, and he wasn’t going to be free very long. I was going to be the one to end him.