The smell of her skin burning was unpleasant, but I stood and moved back to the table. Her screams tapered off, and she was left panting. Sweat dripped down her temple and off her nose as she slumped over in the chair.
“Let me go.” She looked up with pleading eyes, but I just shook my head.
“I wish I could, Aurora, I do. But you crossed the line today. And now, now you have to pay the price. What did you do to my father?” I grabbed pliers off the table and moved back to her.
“What are you going to do?” She eyed the pliers in my hand, and she fought to get away.
“I think you know what I’m going to do, if you don’t tell me.” I placed them on the ground, then turned back to the table. I grabbed a pair of scissors and walked back to her. “I’m going to hurt you until you tell me what you did.” I grabbed her shirt and started to cut it away.
“Why are you cutting my shirt?” She screamed and tried to pull back.
I rolled my eyes and crouched down again. “You can’t be this stupid, Aurora. I need more skin. Silver does nothing until it is touching the skin. Now, some items I have here aren’t silver, so that I can hurt you, wait for you to heal, and then do it again and again until I get bored, I guess, but I want access to your full potential here.”
“Full potential. Are you fucking insane?” She screamed, and I heard both Beck and Ronnie’s intake of breath.
I grabbed her face and made her meet my eyes. “I’m not insane, Aurora. I am possibly the most sane person here. But I am also a person who would do anything, and I mean anything, to save my father.” She swallowed audibly and fought to free her face, but I just tightened my grip until I heard her jaw groan. “I won’t allow you, or whoever you are working with or for, to hurt, use, or goddess forbid, kill my father for this pack. You will be long dead before that ever happens.” I shoved her face away and continued cutting her shirt off. I ripped it from her body and then crouched in front of her again, watching her pant with her hair hanging around her face in just a tank top. “Ronnie? Do you have an elastic band?”
“Um yeah.” He pulled it from his wrist. “I keep one just in case.” I raised my eyebrow and he blushed. “My mate sometimes needs one, and she’s forgetful.” I smiled and nodded to him about Tina.
“Tina is amazing, but she always borrows mine, which is why I have to ask.” I grabbed the elastic and pulled back Aurora’s hair while she fought. “You know I could just cut it off, if you would prefer no hair?” She froze under my hands, and I finished. I trailed my hand along her arm until I wrapped my hand around her index finger, and I grabbed the pliers from the floor. “Now where were we?” I crouched and closed the pliers on her nail. I looked up at Ronnie and saw he was pale, but a pink glow stopped me in my tracks.
Something around Aurora’s neck was glowing a soft pink.