Olivia at that moment realized that she had really fucked up freeing him, because the prisoner she just released was being fucking pounded in the face… yeah, maybe it would have been better just to leave him in, where he doesn't get hurt.
But not just that, she felt nothing toward him, but still, it meant something that her bosses and colleagues had said to her, that Joseph is dangerous to even be in the same room with… and now they were both captured and facing death.
She really fucked up coming alone, or moreover, the whole setup really worked… at least it would have been working if her phone was there, but no… it fell out when she was dragged out of the car, which meant she had no backup coming, at least not anywhere she was currently being held hostage.
The rumours were true… if Joseph is out, shit is going to happen.
"Bitch?" The woman asked. "I am Jelena Salvatore!" She shouted at Joseph as she hit him once more in the same spot… his nose.
His face was covered in blood, and his nose was like jelly just hanging there to decorate his face while the blood poured out. But as Olivia looked at him, she noticed something… that was unbelievable to her.
She, at least, was trained to counter torture or at least the pain that comes from it in a way that only agents knew how to do, like when pulling down the fingernail, or breaking fingers and things like that. She was prepped for it. But as she looked at Joseph, she realized that he was too… it seemed like he wasn't feeling the pain. He looked fucked up, but she could tell that Joseph was good… like he didn't look like somebody that was being tortured… more like somebody who was ready for it.
It was because… well, he wasn't sane. Everybody knew it. Like, there is no way somebody came out of a concrete block after spending ten years in the darkness without having any mental issues. It was just impossible to do. There's even research on this topic, people go insane, they develop disorders, depression, some people even went temporarily blind and got crazy… but he looked completely fine in a way that just made him look more insane with the fact that he can't be innocent, he can't be a morally right person.
No, she just realized that her own greed to get higher positions by freeing Joseph and showing her supervisors, bosses, even the Justice Minister and the JCA that he was actually misunderstood, an innocent person… was broken that exact moment when the fifth punch landed on his face… and for a millisecond, she saw his eyes and a faint, almost unnoticeable smirk on his face.
Yeah… the blood of the Cassians, the family that through all generations, through all of the bloodline, were always criminals. Not even a single one worked a legitimate job. They all killed, all tricked people, they were all… monsters.
And the most interesting of all it was the one Cassian that said no to it. The only fucking one in the bloodline that said "fuck no." Yeah… she realized that Cassian is worse than all of them together.
A true monster that they tossed into a black hole for a decade and now today, he was freed from there. The Cassian that actually had the choice to break the bloodline's relentless bloodshed was turned into a true Cassian by his own family, without even them realizing how big of a mistake they made.
They threw him into the darkness where the monster deep within felt the most comfortable.
Joseph Cassian was a kid, an 18-year-old one that worked and did everything to position himself away from the family… exactly turned into the worst of the worst of them, and the guards helped him to go down that road.
Because there were months between his arrest and the massacre of the family… and the guards had a party with him… yeah, he was tortured and beaten up almost every single day.
The kid who was a welder, the kid who never even had a fight in his life, was being beaten almost to death with batons, was whipped, and his body was salted and the reason for Olivia not seeing anything on his face was obvious, one, it was 9 years ago and second, the beatings and torture stopped.
Yeah, it stopped when he turned 19 and the news came that his family, and all the biggest mafia families were fucking massacred and butchered, that all of their warehouses were set on fire. And it wasn't just that that caused fear in people, that the untouchable families got literally wiped the fuck out, but the fact that it caused the whole system to fall.
Not long after, the government fell, the black market, the drug market all fell into chaos because those families were the ones that controlled it, that had every connection, yet suddenly, they all got wiped without a trace.
Yeah, an unbelievable story was made up, that it was all the revenge of 19-year-old Joseph Cassian and the guards who beat him up every day without a trace disappeared and left the country with their families. They got scared and so did the whole fucking prison and underworld.
That's why the kill order was made to stop him from even saying a word to anybody, that could cause something to happen.
But during that one year, he learned how to counter the pain, how to counter the lostness… or maybe he got too comfortable with the pain itself. He thought at the time that he was eventually going to be killed, and thought it was his family who sent the guards to make his life even worse. Yeah, that in his mind made everything different… showing that their batons, their whips, the salt meant nothing to him. That he felt no pain or hid it well made him proud of himself and happy.
Utterly happy that they didn't get what they wanted… yeah, but it just brought more brutal beatings. But he said no word, he didn't scream, he didn't beg them to stop… no, no. He felt every single hit. He felt every single pain in his body. But he stood up every single time, staring at the guards…
To him, maybe death was nothing, to him, the pain was just an illusion because what felt the best was seeing the guards confused that they didn't understand what was happening. That was the best part because he thought they worked for the family, but in reality, no, they just wanted to beat up Cassian… well, they just created a monster with it.
So in short, what Jelena did with him was light work.
"How does it feel…?" She asked as she grabbed his face and stared straight into his eyes, with those eyes that wanted revenge, those eyes of the Salvatore heir, who survived the massacre of her family, because she was a teenager… yeah, the only thing they found out was that the attackers didn't kill anyone who was under the age of 18.
"It… feels… go-good." Joseph said as he smirked at her. "A-after a decade… being touched by a woman feels… amazing."