I DO NOT OWN THE SELECTION SERIES. SHOUT OUT TO RUBY CASABLANCA, AVA NAVA, AND ABIZEAU FOR CREATING THESE CHARACTERS. THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS A TORTURE SCENE. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

Royal Dungeon. Schreave Palace. Province of Angeles. The next day.

3 of the 8 cells in the royal dungeon were now filled as Yesenia Avalos, Theodore Madden, and Ranamaya Bhattachan all languished in their own cells next to each other. Yesenia was still weak from her torture while Teddy and Rana were terrified at what might await them. Neither of them had any idea how their affair had been found out. They had been very careful, or so they thought.

"Why in the Hell are we down here, we didn't even do anything!" Teddy exclaimed as he looked over at Rana who was equally shocked and terrified.

"I have no idea Teddy." Rana replied as she heard a scoff from Yesenia. The couple turned to see the liar and murderer as she rolled her good eye.

"You got something to say, murderer?" Teddy asked angrily as she turned to the trust fund kid.

"Don't act innocent gringo, I saw her in your room, polishing your knob like a 2 dollar whore." Yesenia spat with contempt. The lovers were silent for a moment before the awful truth dawned on them.

"Holy shit, it was you!" Rana cried out angrily.

"You bitch, you turned us in to the King!" Teddy yelled with equal anger.

"How could you do this to us, you have killed us!" the mountain climber screamed as Yesenia spat venom in her direction.

"If I'm going to the block, so are you two." she replied. "All is fair in war." Teddy was about to respond when all of a sudden, Escalus Harding walked into the main dungeon, flanked by two royal guards. He looked at the three before motioning to Teddy.

"I'll start with him." He replied as the two guards dragged Teddy out of his cell and into the torture chamber.

Teddy Madden was strapped into the chair of torture as Escalus brought out a ball peen hammer. One guard held Teddy in place as Escalus flashed the young man an evil grin.

"You have had carnal knowledge of Ranamaya Bhattachan, have you not?" he asked as Teddy shook his head. He raised the ball peen hammer and brought down hard on Teddy's left pinky finger, breaking it.

"Oh shit!" Teddy cried out in pain. He had never known such pain in his life.

"Did you know miss Bhattachan carnally?" Harding asked again.

"No!" Madden cried out as Escalus broke Teddy's left ring finger with the ball peen hammer.

"Damn!" Teddy wailed as he fought to keep the tears in.

"Did you have carnal knowledge of Ranamaya?" the torturer asked a third time as Teddy gave in.

"Yes...she sucked me off!" Teddy cried out as Escalus smiled.

"Good, you will find that it is easier just to cooperate." the royal interrogator said as he brought the ball peen hammer down once more and smashed Teddy's left middle finger.

"What was that for?" Teddy screamed in pain.

"Good measure." Escalus said with a chuckle as he unfastened the straps that held Teddy to the chair.

"Are we done now?" he asked, his voice filled with pain.

"I am afraid not, you are only one side of the coin and now that I have one...I must have the other." Mr. Harding smirked as he grabbed Teddy by the collar and dragged him out of the torture chamber and into a new and fresh Hell.

Rana Bhattachan gasped as she saw Escalus Harding drag back into the royal dungeon a weakened Teddy with 3 broken and bloodied fingers.

"What did you do to him?" Rana asked angrily as Escalus motioned for the 2 royal guards to hold Teddy up.

"Mr. Madden has confessed to the crime of adultery, now it is your turn." Harding said as he whipped out a bottle from his pocket. "This is Mad Dog 357 No. 9 Plutonium. The hottest hot sauce on planet Earth." he remarked as he had the guards force both of Teddy's eyes open. He opened the bottle and began dripping drops of the hot sauce on Madden's eyes.

"Ahh, make it stop, please I'm begging you!" Teddy begged desperatly as he writhed in agony as Harding dropped the super spicy sauce in his eyeballs.

"No...please, stop!" Rana begged as she cringed at the sight of her lover being tortured.

"This can all end any time you want it to miss Bhattachan, all you have to do is admit your crimes." Harding mocked as he kept burning Teddy's eyes with the hot sauce. "Did you have carnal knowledge of Theodore Madden?" As Teddy's screams grew louder and more agonizing, Rana could take it no more.

"Yes, yes!" Rana cried as she threw herself against the bars of her cell. "I did it, I gave Teddy a blowjob!" Teddy groaned in pain as Escalus threw him back into his cell. He then turned to Yesenia with an evil glare.

"Since we have established that ball peen hammers and hot sauce are effective instruments of torture, let's see how they work on you!" Escalus said as he opened the cell and dragged Avalos back into the chamber for another round of torture.

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