Ashley slowly came to. Her head was throbbing and her limbs were unresponsive. She tried to open her eyes and was immediately hit with a shockwave of pain. There was a warm liquid traveling down her face, tickling the skin of her nose and coming to rest on her cracked lips. Her tongue darted out to taste it and she recognized the irony saltiness. Blood. As she became more alert, she realized that her arms were held in restraints above her head. Ashley tugged against the beamed shackles but there was no use, she was locked in. Her vision was extremely blurry with a flurry of black dots swarming before her eyes. There was a cut right above her left eyebrow and blood was slowly leaking out of it. To her right she heard movement and then was caught in the chin with a swift kick. Ashley bit down on her tongue and felt the blood swell in her mouth, and then her world went black.

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“HEY! YOU HIT ME!” Squealed Rick holding his hand to his face and looking at Kyla with an extremely bewildered look on his face. Kyla pulled her fist back again and glared at Rick menacingly.

“No shit Sherlock! You took my sister away. How could you do that?!” She screamed kicking him right in the shins.

“It was better for you for us,” Rick whined hopping on one leg and favoring the shin that she had just impaled with her foot. Kyla grinned and got ready to hit him again.

“How do you figure that? My sister means everything to me! You know that,” Kyla answered slapping him right in the face. His eyes registered a huge shock and his face was already turning a bright shade of pink.

“Well Kyla, darling, you mean everything to me. And your sister had some problems. Issues of perversion. I did what was best,” Rick answered pushing her against the wall and pinning her with his hands. Kyla groaned frustratedly and tried to escape his grasp. He held her tightly and sent shivers of fright down her spine as he ran his tongue down her neck.

“You didn’t. You did what was best for you. You never think about me. Ever. It’s always ‘What’s gonna get Rick everything he wants?’ ‘Who can I use so I get personal gain?’ You’ve never once done anything for me. And by the way, STOP calling me darling. We’re not together dipshit,” Kyla screamed the last sentence bringing her knee up into Rick’s crotch. She enjoyed watching his face turn a deep shade of purple and listened as he tried to gain another breath. “YOU DESERVE THIS! YOU SHOULD BE IN JAIL! YOU SHOULD DIE!”