I wake up disoriented again, having lost time. I struggled to open my eyes even as the headache attacked me from all sides.
My body ached and my heart too. The darkness tried to lure me back in and I succumbed.
I jolted awake when I felt the water penetrate my body. I shivered. My eyes zeroed in on Alice who had a satisfied grin on her lips.
"What did you do that for?" I asked.
"It was fun watching you try to stay conscious. I was only trying to help." she sneered.
I sighed to myself. I brought this on to myself.
No one to blame but me.
"It's time for you to eat. We may want you dead but my boss doesn't," she said.
My senses heightened. They are working with someone?
"Your boss?" I asked.
She ignored me as she hummed happily to herself. She brought a plate of food that looked like someone threw up on it.
I started to shake my head, "No,"
"I wasn't giving you much of a choice," Alice said.
She force-fed me till I threw up on my body. She slapped me and then laughed at the mess I made.
Humiliation burned through me as she mocked me. I forced the tears back in so she wouldn't see me cry.
I couldn't give her any more reason to make fun of me.
"Pathetic. You can't even eat on your own without throwing up like a fucking baby." she mocked.
I Ignored her.
"What? No come back? You used to be full of those back then."
Silence.
"Come on, say something. Sparring with you these days is so boring."
She chuckled when she saw I wasn't going to budge.
"Maybe I should let you reek in your vomit and see how you like it."
"Whatever it is you are doing, it's not working," I told her.
She nodded.
"Who do you think would make a suitable partner for Killian after we kill you?" she asked.
My heart dropped. I must have a good poker face because she laughed.
"That didn't faze you?" she asked.
I sighed as I kept quiet but deep down, I was boiling with anger.
"We should lure him here and fuck him in front of you. Lovely sight don't you think?"
"All these nights of watching him act so indifferent as I fuck those men in front of him. Hmm, I get so wet thinking about it."
She kept going on and on making my anger tip over and I wondered how creative her face would look if I strangled her with my hair.
I shook my head to get rid of those thoughts.
I wasn't a murderer but she was near inching me into it.
"Hmmm, do you think Killian would choose me?"
Killian this, Killian that. My anger rose.
Her head was so close and she kept jabbing me that I didn't think.
I head-butted her.
She toppled on the floor with a shout. I snickered.
She stood with a pissed expression and that promptly wiped the smile off my face.
She lifted her hand to slap me but Vixen interrupted her.
"Alice, stop playing around."
Alice glared at me before walking out leaving me Vixen.
It was silent but I couldn't help myself.
"Why?" I asked.
Silence.
"Why would you pretend to be my friend then go ahead and do something like this to me," I yelled.
She kept quiet for a long time and when I thought she wouldn't answer me. She surprised me.
"He didn't want me," she said so quietly that I almost missed it.
"What?"
"I love him. From the moment I set my eyes on him, I wanted him. I tried everything I could to make him see me but it was futile."
A laugh escaped me.
"What's funny?" she asked.
"I know your pride was hurt but doing this isn't going to make him want you." I laughed.
"Shut up," she snapped.
I should have but I couldn't.
"You took your sweet time to stalk me, record me have sex. You had nothing better to do?"
"Stop it," she warned.
"All this because you were a jealous bitch and pinning after a man who doesn't see you? And I am the pathetic one?" I taunted her.
"You are sick. Even more sick if you think Killian would spare you a glance after this."
My head flew back from her punch. My cheek flamed, and I spat out the blood from my lips.
"Touch a nerve?" I asked.
She lifted her arms making me tense for her hit but she hesitated.
"Come on, hit me. Even if you kill me, he still won't look at you. You are nothing to him. Just a whore who racks in the big dogs in his club."
Her first hit my face, harder than the first time.
She kept punching me till I felt my consciousness slip past me.
I woke up to Alice cleaning my face with a washcloth.
"You had to go upset her, didn't you?" she asked.
I shrugged, "She had to hear the truth."
She kept quiet but I could feel her judging me, "What? You can say hurtful things to me but I can't say it back? Doesn't sound fair."
"Don't let your mouth put you in trouble. The boss might not want you dead but that doesn't mean we can't hurt you," she warned.
I nodded.
She stretched out her palm revealing a pill. I stared at it.
"What?"
"Take it, for the pain."
"No, I am fine."
"Guess we are doing this the hard way," she said.
She shoved the pill down my throat making me swallow it.
It tasted bitter.
"Who is your boss?" I asked.
As usual, she ignored my question.
"What are you people going to do with me?" I dared to ask.
She shrugged.
"I don't know yet. When our boss gets here, we will decide what to do with you but for now, sit tight."
She smiled tightly before leaving.