Chapter Four

[Maya's Suite]

The room is like a shaman's.

Burning yellow candles formed two straight lines to her bed, and the room smells like alter incense.

All the windows are closed.

It's dimly lit so air is not even coming in, and it's so fucking warm.

Maya sat on a chair in the middle of the room, and a table is in front of her which she placed her arms on.

Currently, she has a sharp knife placed on her left arm.

Her eyes gleamed with excitement as she prepared to cut.

She smirked like she was about to do the most fulfilling thing existing before cutting.

Her blood trickled out, and she laughed out when she saw the beautiful redness.

"My blood is so pretty," she muttered, preparing to cut again.

A knock sounded on the door, interrupting her.

"Yes?" Her smile disappeared like it never happened.

Kimberly came in, bowing respectfully. "You're needed at the torture house, miss,"

"Go back, I'm not in the mood to torture anyone tonight. Call Madden to do it. As you can see, I'm in the middle of something." Maya replied, raising her bloody arm.

"Look, isn't my blood pretty?"

Kimberly looked up, not surprised. "You're doing it again?"

"That's not the right answer. I asked if my blood is pretty!" Maya spranged up, kicking the table in front of her away. It fell and crashed.

"Of course, it's pretty," Kimberly smiled to satisfy her.

"Good. I'm not coming out of this room anymore tonight. Go call Madden like I said. If Madden won't do it, then do it yourself. Don't call Igor, or I'll kill you. I'll never allow Igor do my duty." Maya calmed.

"Yes, miss." Kimberly bowed again before leaving.

Maya sat back, but a minute later, she stood and walked to her window, slightly raised the curtains and peeked out.

She sighted Igor walking a corridor not far from her window.

But he's not alone.

He's with another guy, and immediately Maya saw that other guy, she smiled slightly, resting her arms on the window frame.

--

[Igor's Suite]

Igor huffed in huge annoyance when he arrived at his suite with the guy beside him.

His name is Andrei.

He's the only one Igor relates.

Just like Madden has Jinx and Poe, Igor has Andrei.

He's like his personal bodyguard. His right-hand man.

"You should chill out tonight," Andrei spoke up calmly.

"Chill out?" Igor faced him angrily.

He has been like this since Madden punched him in the mountain earlier.

"Chill out? That bastard does this every damn time! He is my younger brother! I and Maya come before him but he doesn't give a fûck! Yunno the most annoying part? Everyone in the family loves him more than me, even our damn parents!" Igor yelled.

"Maybe you should stop trying to provoke him everytime. Everyone knows the more you try to provoke Death, the deadlier he becomes." Andrei said, still calm.

He didn't get a warning before Igor gave him a heavy backhand, sending him staggering with a cut on his jaw.

"You dare worship him in front of me? How dare you!"

"It's the truth" Andrei replied bluntly like a moulded statue, and Igor almost shot him in the mouth, but he only barged into his suite and shut the door at his face.

"Stay there till daybreak! You can't move, blink nor breath! Fucking stay there!" He shouted from inside.

Andrei immediately stood attention, obeying the command.

*

[Madden's Manor]

The lights surrounding the manor are off, but the ones inside are all on.

The lights are red—both the LED and gothic chandeliers, giving the house a bloody shade.

It's damn silent except the sound of slow classical music coming from one of the rooms—the workroom.

Inside the workroom, there's Madden.

He's sitting in a required posture, and his eyes are focused on the work of arm in front of him.

His hands are soiled with clay as he's currently moulding a woman's breast.

He has been a fan of pottery since he was young. It keeps him busy whenever he's not killing someone or beating someone to death.

His eyes aren't soft nor hard—it's just in-between, but the emptiness is still palpable.

He added nipples to the breast he's moulding, then Kimberly came in.

"The fuck are you doing here?" He asked without looking up.

"Miss Maya refused her duty," Kimberly replied.

"Let me guess... that damn psychotic lady told you to make me do it?" Madden said.

"Yes," Kimberly replied, and Madden looked up with a smirk.

He grabbed his gun with his clayish hand and shot directly at Kimberly.

Kimberly swiftly did an handstand, landing far away from that spot.

The bullet hit the wall, and she gulped, bowing as the gunshot sound echoed in the air.

"That's for coming here to intrude my privacy just because she told you so," he said, his expression freezing.

"I'm sorry, Sir." she muttered, panicking.

He stood, dropping the gun on the ground before leaving the room.

"Leave." he said, entering his bedroom which is as cold as ice.

Kimberly literally ran out of the manor.

--

Adeline enjoyed the company of her roommates more than she expected.

Though, Loud did all the talking. Nikolai only talked when necessary, but it's still fun.

They showed her to the nook and cranny of the clan, including the kitchen where a woman is in charge.

The pool which is the second home of Trixie.

The general training ground, the house of Orlovs, the suites of everyone of them, then some important people in the clan.

"You showed me the house of all the children, except the Madden guy," Adeline said curiously.

"Death lives on the mountain, in a manor at the end of the clan." Loud said.

"Strange," Adeline muttered as they came across a another big building which looks like a church cos of the sign of the cross in front of it.

"It's what you're thinking. This is a cathedral, but mobsters rarely enter." Loud said.

"Then why was it built in the first place?" Adeline asked.

"You'll soon find out," Nikolai replied.

The next house they met is freaky with thorny walls and roof, built with pure heavy metal. Adeline felt crushed only by looking at it.

"And this is The Torture House where those who go against the clan rules are punished." Loud said, leading the way in.

Immediately Adeline stepped in, she could already hear the chilling cry of someone, and it made her heart slam.

The two guys began showing her around the house, and at each room they enter, she gasped.

The first room has metal chains tied to the concrete ceiling.

At the end of the chains, there are nooses for the neck.

"This is the hanging room. Death by hanging happens here." Loud said.

The next room has a wide hole which looks like a well, and Adeline peeked into the hole slowly.

"Careful, don't fall in. That's not water, it's acid." Loud said.

Adeline cautiously stepped back.

"This is the acid bath room," Nikolai said gently.

The next room can't be entered cos the flooring is made of nails.

Giant nails, tearing nails.

"This is the nail judgement room," Loud said, and they moved on.

The closer they came to the next room, the louder the cries got, and when they finally got there, it's exactly what she expected.

A female is getting brutally punished, and only one person is in the room with her.

It's a guy, sitting nonchalantly on a chair, facing her.

The girl has been stripped off her clothes, so she's naked, and the guy is spraying her with water from a water gun.

"Why is she crying? Isn't that just water?" Adeline said.

"Water? It's concentrated pepper liquid, diluted with battery water," Nikolai replied.

"What!" Adeline sounded.

"Can't you see her body changing color? Give her five more minutes and she'd drop dead." Loud added, and Adeline folded her fists.

"What's her offense?" She asked, not taking her eyes off the room.

"She poisoned another female and killed her cos of a guy. It's forbidden to kill a fellow mobster without a solid reason." Loud explained.

Adeline kept shut afterwards, watching silently.

She could imagine the slashing pains journeying through the female's body right now.

Despite the fact that she deserves it, she couldn't help but pity her.

Her eyes slid to the guy punishing her. His back is on her, but she feels like she had seen him before.

He suddenly stood, maybe because the female's cries turned annoying or something else...

He dropped the water gun and got a real gun.

He shot her between the eyes, and her blood splashed on the wall as she fell dead, but that's not all.

He opened a cage by the wall, and four giant black dogs came out.

They dragged her body into the cage, and he closed it back before finally turning to face them.

His cross necklace caught Adeline's attention first, the she looked up at his face, and her eyes widened slightly when she realized...

It's the bastard who threw a blade at her!

"Do not make eye contact, he hates it." Nikolai told her, but she couldn't even turn her face away.

She wants to wound him right now, so she glared, and she saw him smirk.

She started walking to him, but immediately she took one step...

"That's the Madden we've been talking about, the top member of the Orlovs children." Loud said.

Adeline froze, breaths mind gagging.

Madden smirked evilly, giving her a frosty glance before leaving the room through the second door beside them.

Adeline couldn't help but hear him mutter something.

"Brave,"

She clearly heard him say that in a grave voice, and she wondered who it's directed to.

Is it her?

She remained frozen till he went out of sight, then she looked up slowly.

Hope she's not in his bad book already.