You Are Mine
And in the middle of the crowd, among faces blurred by pixelation and poor camera angles, were his men—Ace, Black, and three others—moving like sharks among minnows.
Four feet to Wade’s left sat Dr. Samuel Reed, tied to a chair so tightly that the ropes had carved deep furrows into his arms. His shirt clung with sweat. His swollen face, mottled with bruises and caked blood, looked more like meat than skin. His right eye had collapsed into a red slit, but the left remained open, locked on the television screen. Not at Wade. Not at the damp concrete floor. Not even at the bucket of bloodied pliers lying just out of reach. Always the screen. Always the possibility that, if he stared hard enough
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