Ninety-Two

AXEL

Lisa’s father had thought that I was merely blabbing when I told him what state his daughter was in because I’d hesitated when he requested a video call, well, I was about to show him that he didn't have any playing cards against me this time around.

I stood against a wall in the basement of the safe house and watched as one of the guards brought a bloodied Lisa in. There was an empty chair that stood in the middle of the huge basement that was mostly empty and they walked toward it as soon as they entered the room.

I watched her very closely as she sat in the chair without so much of a fuss, some ropes drooped slowly around the chair to serve as a restriction for whoever was placed in it. I noticed how her eyes randomly juggled between the guard who’d started trying her up and myself.

She looked weak and downtrodden as she let the guard pull her hands behind her and tie them up, her eyes were bloodshot and empty like her spirits had been crushed. After a while, the guard moved t