Saving The Villainous Monster From The Male Lead-Chapter 86 - 85: The Torture

When her eyes opened again, an eerie light entered her pupils, making them get covered by their protective eyelids. But the pupils rebelled and wanted to see the world outside from which the eyelids were trying to protect it.

A spark of light entered her eyes, and she could finally see where she was. It looked like a round room, probably a room in some long tower. It was dark and the only source of light was the window ahead of her. The walls were made out of bricks and the huge wooden boxes that surrounded her seemed empty.

Eleanore had no idea where she was. Just as she wondered, a sharp pain passed through her head. Reminding her of what had happened to her. When she tried to rub that wounded area, she realized that her hands were locked.

They were tied behind the chair she was sitting in. Both her legs were also tied along with the legs of that same wooden chair.

She couldn’t move an inch, that’s when the panic rose into her veins. She moved vigorously trying to somehow free her hands but in turn, those rough ropes only continued to dig deep into her hands and legs.

With the inflicted pain and harassment from those ropes, she finally stopped. ’What to do? How do I get out of here? I need to give that antidote to Stella.’

A creaking noise attracted Eleanore’s attention to the wooden door on her right. Two huge bulky men entered the room, followed by a slender woman, whose slightly ripped dress, quickly helped her recognise her. Afterall the one who had done this to her dress was Eleanore herself.

"Verbena!" She yelled. "What the hell do you think you are doing?"

"Goodness, your screaming is tearing off my ear drums. Just shut up, will you?" She acted as if she had somehow jumped up by a few ranks, just because she had succeeded in kidnapping Eleanore.

"You are going to be in so much trouble. Once my brother finds out—" Eleanore’s mouth was forcefully shut off, by a strong slap from Verbena.

"I said shut up." Her brown eyes glinted with hatred. "If you spit out one more word, I will make you regret it."

Eleanore ignored her words completely. She met her eyes with hers and glared straight into them, as if piercing through her soul. "Forget about my brother, I will be the first one to ruin you."

Another blow landed on Eleanore’s other cheek.

"You are very disobedient." She sighed as she rubbed her palm that had turned red.

"Thank you." She shot a smile her way.

Verbena felt her anger shoot up on a dangerous level. She gestured to her minions with her hand. One of them came forward and slapped Eleanore, in her place. Her head jerked to the side, jaw snapping shut, tightly, by the force.

This slap was harder than Verbena’s. Eleanore could feel her ear ringing for a long time, when that huge, strong palm landed on her cheeks. The blood that had gathered in her mouth, due to her own teeth biting into the side of her cheek, dripped out from between her lips and she was left with the metallic taste of blood. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

It was humiliating, embarrassing. How can a slap be so hard and painful? Her eyes shot back up.

"She is too proud of a woman. We need to break her to have her listen to our orders. Continue." Verbena ordered.

The tall men glared at Eleanore, with their wide, scary eyes. Their fingers curled into a huge fist, ready to land on her. Eleanore gulped at the sight of those huge muscles that were bulging out of their arms.

’If one slap can hurt so much, how much pain would these large fists inflict on me?’

Before she could find an answer for that question of hers, she felt an impact. A thud! It squeezed into her stomach and for a second it felt like her breath had been punched out of her body. Her body comes forward but gets restricted halfway from her hand being tied behind.

An immense amount of pain surged into her body and everything went still, until the same metallic taste passed through her tongue, then splashed out of her mouth like vomit.

"Lady Eleanore!" Verbena’s voice was ringing in her eyes, as her eyes went white. She could feel the world spinning, when leaned back in her chair. Her eyes fixed on the roof.

"We are not trying to kill you." She assures.

As if that would make her feel better, she was already feeling like death from the excessive pain from that single punch.

"All we want is for you to forget about what you heard in the eastern garden." Her words pierced through the thick air surrounding Eleanore.

"You will stay here until I can go back to the mansion tomorrow morning and give this antidote. Then once you are set free, you will keep quiet and tell no one about today."

Eleanore understood now. They were trying to silence her, not by killing her but by beating her up to her last string. No woman or man could take a torture. Torture breaks you up and forces you to comply with the orders of the inflictor.

"Answer me, Lady Eleanore. Will you, do it?"

There was no way she could take this torture. The pain is too excessive, and she couldn’t even imagine those punches with the same frequency landing on her body several times. She was too sacred; her body had already given up at one.

"Looks like you won’t listen. We should continue then."

Another punch was ready to land on her body, but Eleanore stopped it with her mere glare. Her flaring eyes somehow were able to scare the shit out of those bulky men and paused the punch mid-air.

"I will obey." She says, gulping in a little bit of her blood left in her mouth. "I will quietly stay here and when you free me, I’ll leave without complaining. I promise, I won’t tell a single soul about what happened today. I will erase this memory from my mind."

"Ha!" Verbena was shocked. She didn’t think Eleanore would obey too soon. She had been expecting to see a nice show.

Seeing her get tortured would have given her immense pleasure. But it all went to waste now.

"Tutch!" Verbena sighed. "How can I believe you?"

Eleanore continued to glare straight into her eyes, sending shivers down her spine. "Believe me. I am very good at it."

"Whatever. Turns out your friendship for Stella is not as great and unbreakable as it looks." She leaves the room and so does her minions.

"Sleep tight!" Were her last words.

’Ha! As if I could. With this pain—’

But that same pain that she was feeling in her whole body was enough to put her to a deep sleep.

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||Emergency Quest

Stella had been poisoned by evil Verbena, the only antidote to the poison is with her. Free yourself and save Stella’s life.

Penalty: Death

Reward: Life||