Connor strode into the basement room, his loafers shuffling against the narrow strip of carpet that lined the middle of the hallway. Down here, his father kept all manner of perversions on tap for his loyal soldiers, often turned all the more vile by their own inventiveness, as the head of the family didn't bother to oversee--merely arrange to provide fresh bodies. Here, playtime turned the stomachs of the Kristis who yet had sense. Connor himself enjoyed taming a lovely pet, but torture was meant to be exquisite, not bloody. And it sure as hell wasn't painful, when the ones inflicting the pain drew the only pleasure, broken victims left in gutters for carrion-feeders to finish the job.
A chill, involuntary shudder went down his spine as he caught sight of the day shift brothers. The two guards outside--Leven and Donny Ciraco--smirked at him as if he were an equal, when Connor was royalty. A sure sign that someone had acted without waiting for his father's orders. He squinted through the barred window in the door, barely enough light trickling in to shed a hint at the figure bound to a chair within.
He cursed under his breath as they opened the door, comfortable in their untouchable status. Their time, too, would come. How much harm had these bastards already done? He'd been so sure...but they must have heard of his demands, acted before he'd managed to wrap up his responsibilities for the day and retrieve her. A key dangling from one finger, slippers wrapped inside a warm blanket under the other arm, Connor shoved past them to make short work of the heavy, metal bonds.
He leaned close to her back to inspect the fastenings, more with slim fingers than his eyes, and hissed under his breath at a faint scent of blood. Murderous inclinations dripped in the back of his mind. "What have they done to you?" He left her wrists shackled, but unwound the chains from the back and legs of the chair, removed the bindings from her legs with care. "Shh, sweetling," he soothed as he felt for a gag, pressing his cheek to hers. "They won't hurt you again."
He gently slipped the fabric from her lips and moved away in case she had a mind to scream...or any fight left in her at all. His fist clenched around the cotton fabric, needing to do more than walk away from here with his charge. Names, he thought with a grim smile. Names of dead men. His uncle's men would be keen to visit Lev and Donny, could concoct a more valid excuse than the mistreatment of women, one incontestable and unpardonable by his father, perhaps even convincing enough to have him pull the order himself...
Connor knelt to grasp her feet and worry them into the small, lambswool slippers, then stood to finally remove all but one chain. In case she had a mind to run.
"Can you walk? I can carry you," a whisper of fingers along her spine, "I'd rather not put pressure on your back until I see what's happened."
He draped a blanket over her shoulders so that whatever she decided, when they met the soft light of the hallway, the only one who'd get a good look at her from here out would be him.
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