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Chapter 26
Dani felt the strong force of his punch make contact with her jaw. She stumbled to the side but quickly restored her position. She moved her jaw slowly and tasted the metallic flavor of blood.
She smirked and spat out the blood in her mouth, looking at the man's eyes. His light blue eyes were looking at her with anger. A type of anger that Dani has never seen before.
"What do you want from me?" Dani asked, looking at him.
"I don't understand why she took you in," said the man, still crouched down. "You are just a pathetic little girl."
"The hell are you talking about?" asked Dani with a frown. "I may be pathetic but I am not a coward like you. You, a grown-ass man has a girl tied up to this thing," she said while pointing at the ropes. "Such a coward that you hide your face."
The man shifts to the side, having his back against the camera. He slowly takes off the ski mask, revealing his face. The man looked like he was in his early twenties. His skin was pale and he had dark blonde, wavy hair. His left eyebrow had a nasty scar going through it. The image reminded her of the fictional character Scar from The Lion King.
Dani looked at him with a puzzled face. She never met that man in her life. She tried to think back of a time she could have crossed paths with him but came out empty-handed.
"Do you know who I am?" asked the man.
Dani shook her head. How would she know who this guy is? The man pulled her collar from her shirt aggressively. They were looking at each other face to face.
"Do you have any idea of who I am?!" the man exclaimed in an angry tone. Dani felt his breath with every word he said.
"No, I don't!" she told him. "I don't know who you are or what the hell you want. No offense, but I think you have the wrong person."
"No. I have exactly who I want," he said with an evil grin.
"What do you want from me?" asked the teen, still being held by the man. "Is this some type of act of revenge? Because I don't recall doing anything wrong against you."
"It's true, you did nothing wrong to me," said the man. He let Dani out of his grip and placed his ski mask back on. "But you know someone who did."
The man unties the ropes that had Dani's feet tied against the pole and stands up.
"Stand up," he ordered.
Dani shook her head. "I don't want to," she said sternly.
"You are very stupid," he told her. He grabbed Dani from her arm and pulled her up. Dani reluctantly stood up to her feet. She looked around the place trying to find a possible exit. She thought of the possibility of fighting the man, but her hands were tied up together with a rope and she didn't know if he was armed.
The man dragged her and pushed her to a chair. He untied her hands and immediately strapped them to the arms of the chair. Dani tried to pull her arms away but there was no use, he was too strong.
"There is no point in fighting. You will just waste your time," the man told Dani. He took out something from his back pocket. It was a blade. "You will die either way."
Dani looks at the blade, trying to hide her initial shock. "A Drop Point blade?" she said with a brow raised. "I prefer a Clip Point blade. I guess it's a matter of preference," she said with a smirk.
"You are something else, you know that?" said the man walking closer to her. "I will admit, I thought you would be scared to death by now," he takes the blade and drags it down Dani's face. He does it lightly, barely touching her skin. This is enough to make Dani shudder.
"Looks like you underestimated me," she said while trying to sound as confident as possible.
"No. I was just warming up," he said with a grin. He grabs Dani a fistful of Dani's hair and pulls it back with force, forcing her head to look up.
"You saw the scar I have, right?" He asked her.
"No shit. That thing is huge and nasty," Dani said with an attitude. "Anyone can see that from a far distance."
The man looks at her and lets out a sarcastic laugh. "Ha. Everyone who meets me always remembers me by my scar. I was thinking maybe you should get the same scar I have," he said while tracing her face with the blade. "If you somehow manage to get out of here alive, you will always remember this day each time you stare at the mirror."
He moves the blade to the bottom of Dani's left eyebrow. She clenches her fist when she feels the blade cutting through her skin. The man dragged the blade slowly, cutting through the rest of her brow. He stopped and let go of Dani. He walked back, letting out a burst of maniacal laughter.
The cut was deep. Dani felt part of her face stinging in pain, feeling blood coming out of her wound, tracing around her face and part of her eye. "You're a piece of shit," she said, spitting out her words.
"What? Does it hurt already?" He said while tilting his head. "That was just the beginning."
Dani was still feeling blood going down part of her face. She tried to wipe it away with her shoulder. "Why are you doing this!?" The teen exclaimed in anger.
The man walks towards Dani and makes the tip of the blade come in contact with her arm, barely touching her skin. "This isn't about you. Don't take it personally."
He presses the blade to her skin and drags the blade up her arm. The teen couldn't contain her initial pain, a groan escaping as she felt the blade piercing through her skin. She clenched her jaw through her pain as he continued to drag the blade down her skin. He took the blade and made another cut, then another, then another. Dani let out a painful whimper when feeling her skin stinging in pain. He stopped and switched to the other arm, doing the same thing.
He finished and placed the blade back in his pocket. Dani had her head down, refusing to look at him. "I will see you later my friend," he whispered to Dani's ear. He looked at her once more and walked away.