DANTE'S POV
It has been a week since we got Adeline back. She hasn't left her room. The only people she will see are Liam and Naomi. She doesn't want to talk to me. Liam told her what I would do to Adrian and Veronica. After what happened with Arthur, she said she doesn't want to have anything to do with it. She said she doesn't want to relive the horrors that she saw in erotica by looking at Adrian and Veronica.
I completely understand her. She killed someone in a brutal way and she probably feels disgusted with herself I thought she might want revenge so I just had to ask. But if she doesn't want to be here and see this, then that is her choice and it is probably the best choice for her. I want her to stay away from all things concerning erotica. I want her to get better and live her life and the only way she can do that is if she stays away from all of this nonsense. I just want to kill Veronica and Adrian and get this over and don with.
Kent questioned both of them and he's a hundred percent sure that he got all the information that he needed. He found out that erotica isn't the only trafficking organization in the country. There are plenty more and he has made it his mission to track every last one of them with the information he got from Veronica and Adrian. As far as the authorities know, Adrian and Veronica are dead. I want to help Kent in any way I can. I want to help him wipe these disgusting people from the face of the earth. I never want another innocent girl to be hurt ever again.
Colton, with much difficulty, explained to me everything that happened to Adeline in that place and he was very explicit about it. I asked him not to leave out any detail. I am already angry but I needed him to fuel that anger more. I needed him to tell me all those things. Colton is still suicidal and he still has a death wish. But he wants to see Adeline one last time and he wants to make sure that Veronica, the woman responsible for the death of his sister and Adrian, the man responsible for the death of Adeline's spirit, are dead. He wont die until these monsters themselves take their last breath. I wont rest until they are dead.
Colton is in the room with me along with one of the girls from erotica that used to be called Silver. We have come to learn that her real name is Clara. And Clara is just as angry as Adeline is. Unlike Adeline. Clara has been in erotica since she was just a teenager. She basically grew up in the place. She has ha lot of built up anger over the years and she wants to take it out on Veronica.
I was going to put a bullet through Veronica's head after making her watch me kill Adrian. She might be the devil herself but she's a woman and I do not see myself torturing her the way I would Adrian. No matter how nasty she is, I couldn't hurt a woman like that. So, Clara's presence here is essential. She has a lot of scores to settle with Veronica.
"What are you waiting for?" Veronica asks with that smart mouth of hers. "Get it over with. If you're going to kill us just get it over and done with."
Adrian's mouth has been clamped shut since we captured them. He hasn't stopped trembling. He knows what is coming for him and he knows he absolutely has no way of stopping it. He will die whether he likes it or not. There is nothing he can do about it. I am going to skin this fool alive.
Clara walks towards Veronica and lands a punch to her face. Veronica winces in pain as she looks up at the girl she has tortured.
"Do you think this changes what you are?" Veronica asks the girl in a taunting voice. "You will never be loved by anyone. Ever. You are damaged goods and you know that in that head of yours, you will always remember yourself as Silver. Your life ended the day you were brough to erotica and no matter what you do, no matter where you go, you will never be able to run away from the person you truly are. You are nothing but a used up doll." Veronica speaks with venom in her voice and it surprises me that even in the situation she's in, her mouth will not shut up.
"How the hell do you sleep at night you witch? How could you do all these things to your fellow woman! You're a woman too so you know ow it must feel to have things taken away from you forcefully. SO how could you? How could you act like all this is okay?" Clara asks with tears falling rom her eyes.
"How could you be so cruel?" She questions.
"You confuse me for someone who cares, girl. I do not. Everything I did, I did for myself and I would do it all again in a heartbeat. I don't care about you. I don't care about anyone. I only care for myself." Veronica barks out in anger. Clara sends her face flying to the side with a slap I am sure stings and I can't help but fight the smirk that creeps onto my face.
"Look where all that selfishness has gotten you Veronica. It has left you all alone. You're going to die." Clara says.
"Well then kill me! Kill me and let's finish this once and for all. Do you think you are the only one was has suffered? You think you are the only one who has suffered? You think you are the only one who has been through hell? I was born a normal girl too! I had a family too and I was sold to a monster at a young age who beat me, violated me every night! Fucking destroyed my womb by making me abort all my pregnancies because he wasn't ready to be a father. I was introduced to erotica at a young age. It was all I knew growing up. I faced horrors in the hands of my husband so don't you look at me and think you have gone through worse than I!'
Veronica screams at the top of her lungs but it does nothing to bring the pity she obviously desperately needs out of us. All if does it disgust us even more.
"And then your husband died." Clara says in a menacingly low voice as she raises her gun to point it at Veronica's forehead. I watch her do all this with a smile on my face.
"When people go through traumatic things, Veronica, their firs thought isn't to inflict the same hell they went through on other people. Your trauma doesn't excuse your actions. You're just a horrible person and nothing about your past can change that. You took me at sixteen years old Veronica. Fucking sixteen. You made me believe that I was nothing. You fed me with degrading words until after a while they were all I had. You completely ruined my life and you want me to thank you for it? You could have escaped when your husband died. You had a chance to end erotica with his dead but you became him. You became the monster he was. You became so much worse than him ad today is the day you pay for your crimes." Clara says.
"Killing you wont erase the harm you have caused. It wont erase everything those girls and I went through in that hell hole. It will take us time to heal because you have practically made us addicted to drugs. You have taken everything from us it will take us years to fill the void you have left in out hearts. Killing you is nothing but revenge because there us absolutely no way in the world that you can pay for what you have done to us. You have caused a probably irreversible damage for a lot of us. We will have to go to therapy, we will have to unlearn all the things you taught us, we will have to learn to love ourselves again and no amount of bullets I out in you will ever make what you did to us okay."
Clara cries as her hands hover over the trigger.
"I hope you never find peace Veronica. I hope that if there is an after life, that you will suffer in it. I hope you go straight to hell. I hope you get tortured endlessly." Clara wipes the tears off her eyes and I can see the decision in her eyes. I can see that she will pull the trigger soon. Adrian watches the scene in front of him with wide eyes, knowing that the same fate awaits him. I can see he still doesn't believe that he is about to die because he thought he was invincible.
"Goodbye you witch." Clara says and pulls the trigger and in a second, Veronica's body falls tied to a chair. Blood is on the walls and on Clara's face. She drops the gun and trembles. Revenge feels good only for a while, but when you are not used to killing people, the taste becomes bitter in seconds. It only gives you momentary satisfaction. Even if you have gotten rid of your demons, they come to haunt you at night when you try to sleep which is why I think Adline not coming here was a good idea.
"Please get me out of here Colton. I can't be here right now." Clara says as tears fall from her eyes. I give her a nod as Colton pulls her out of the room. I stare at Veronica's dead body on the floor. It doesn't do anything to me anymore because I have killed so many people in my lifetime. My first kill was rough. I dreamt about it continuously for nights on end. It is not an easy task to task to take someone's life but Clara will be okay now that she has gotten rid of her demons. She will fight everyday until it gets a little better and one day she will realize that everything will go away.
One day she will be free.