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Fenton cut the call and and stared at the others with fear written all over his face.

"Joe's in hospital." Fenton's voice broke. Frank's blood turned to ice. What could have happened to his brother. Callie burst into a bout of anger, surprising Frank and Fenton.

"What do you expect. I knew he was in trouble and yet none of you believe me. Screw facts and logic. Frank, you're going to put your brother on scale and see how much he's worth. You've never done that before." Callie raised her voice , "Joe could be in lot of pain because of you."

Frank knew that Callie was right. He asked his father, "what happened? Frank repeated.

"How the hell am I supposed to know, Frank." The stress of Joe being kidnapped,Fenton snapped at Frank. Tears pricked Frank's eyes from the severity or his father's tone.

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They drove to the hospital and Frank wondered if Joe would ever forgive him. Hell, he didn't even care about that. All he wanted was for his brother to be alright. The family was seated on the plastic chairs when a doctor came out of Joe's room.

"Family of Joseph hardy" He asked,looking around

"That's us."

Joe has two knife wounds on his legs, he was flogged multiple times and his skin is broken. He has abrasions on his wrists and legs. What concerns me is that he hit his head against the pavement and hasn't woken up yet.

"He's alright,isn't he?" Callie asked, her voice breaking. " Tell me he's going to be alright." Tears pricked her grey eyes and she squeezed Frank's hand. Frank scrolled through his call history and he berated himself.

"Joe tried to call me and I cut him off." Frank said in a small voice.

Callie stared at her husband. "What's the matter with you? You're not acting like the man I fell in love with."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Frank demanded. Frank wasn't hurt by Callie's comments, nonetheless he was surprised by it.

"Like you don't know." Callie argued back. "No matter how badly Joe screwed up, you always had his back, no matter what. When Joe was a loose cannon after Iola's death ;you never gave up in him. What's gotten into you lately?"

Callie sighed. "We can talk about later. You know about your duties you were so high strung about. You failed." Frank's eyes registered hurt. He knew Callie was right and wanted to make it up to his brother.

"Doctor. Can we see him?" Callie asked.

"Not yet! Joe's lucky to have a sister like you."

"Thank you but I'm actually his sister-in-law." Callie clarified.

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Few hours later, Joe stirred awake and he glanced around. Frank and Callie were in the room waiting for him to wake up.

"Cal" Joe opened his eyes. Frank's eyes registered hurt and his eyes welled in unshed tears. He was still glad to see his brother alive and conscious.

"Joe. I'm right here. No one's going to hurt you." Callie abated his fears.

His blue eyes travelled and he spotted "Frank. Frank, its good to see you." Joe inquired, " How's ben?"

"He's fine" Frank replied.

"That's great". Joe said, managing a small smile.

" Frank Callie. Listen up. The people who captured me are Daniel and Eric. He stopped speaking and turned to Callie and said, "Cal, I don't want you involved. These people still hold a grudge against you".

"They wanted me to tell them where you are, but I refused". Joe didn't want to tell them but he knew from experiences that his family needed to be forewarned about them

Cal hugged Joe and replied in a teary voice. "I'm so sorry. Joe." The magnanimity of the situation was too much for Callie to bear and hot tears streamed down her face. Frank placed a hand on her shoulder and Callie cried into his chest. Frank hugged her tightly.

"Every time I close my eyes, I can see them touching my body." Callie murmured, with a shudder.

"Cal, Frank and I won't let them hurt you, okay." Joe promised her.

After a while, Callie calmed down. " I'm sorry." She said, embarrassed at her recent actions.

"Cal, don't you dare apologise to me for what those bastards did to you." Joe replied fiercely. He turned to his brother and said, " know things have been strained between us and I don't know why. But I promise you this, those bastards won't even lay a hand on either one of you, especially Callie."

Unshed tears pricked Frank's eyes at the sincerity in Joe's voice. He realised that Joe was right but before he could say anything, the doctor walked in.

"Joe,how are you feeling? "the doctor inquired.

"Sore and exhausted." Joe replied .

"Frank, could you take Callie and stay outside. This might get tense."

Without argument, Frank flashed a grateful smile and took Callie outside who was beginning to shake uncontrollably.

His façade dropped and he said in a scathing tone. "Now that they've gone, let me take you to your new master."

Joe told Callie and frank to wait outside so the doctor can examine his wounds. Never did he figure out that this doctor was a fake. "Don't do this. Doctor Jay." Joe pleaded.

Doctor Jay backhanded him hard across the cheek. A rivulet of blood streamed down the left side of his lip.

"Doctor jay, why are you doing this to me?" Joe asked him and he didn't get an answer. doctor Jay pondered on how he was going to pull this off.

He tore off Joe's bandages, Joe bit his lip to keep from screaming and alerting anyone else, especially his family. He shackled Joe's hands behind his back. He tore off Joe's clothes until he was wearing his boxers. He brought him outside. He placed a gun to this back and marched joe across the hospital ward.

"If anyone of you stop me, I'll put a bullet through your skull."

Joe's eyes rested on Frank and callie. He mouthed to Frank don't worry about me. Look after callie. I'll be fine.

Joe was still walking. A deep shade of pink coloured his cheeks. The doctors and nurses stood in fear.

"Stop, please." Callie pleaded. She rushed forward and frank chased after her.

"Callie don't." Joe pleaded.

"Callie, you're such a harlot. My cousins should have gotten rid of you when he had a chance."

Without warning, Joe elbowed him in the stomach. "Don't talk like that to my sister." His response was to backhand joe across the jaw with the butt of the gun, Joe winced in pain and his face contorted in pain. He loaded Joe inside the van where two familiar goons greeted Jay.

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Three hours later, they arrived at a house surrounded by clumps of trees and fences. The brothers were shot so there won't be anyone to know of his whereabouts. The brothers died of bloodless.

"Joe,welcome to hell. You'll find accommodation her much more nicely than the drab hospital bed. Dinner will be at 8 o clock. Let me go over the rules."

"There is one more master here and two mistresses. Your main master and mistress is my wife and I. Rule number 1: You will no speak unless you're spoken to. Rule number 2: You will be subjected to torment if you don't obey us. Rule number 3: No matter how hurt you are, you shall perform your duties.

"Let me tell you why you're here." The master said, spitting in Joe's face.

"I hate your father and torturing you is going to be lot sweeter because you're already injured."

"I'm not a doctor,Joe." Jay informed him. Joe was terrified. What happened to the real doctor?

Jay whistled for the master and mistresses. AKA as his adult children.

"Father, you called us."

"I brought a slave for you guys."

The only boy stepped towards him and ran his hands over the length of his chest and the nape of his neck. Joe flinched.

The boy kissed Joe passionately on the lips and Joe flinched again " Lets tie him up shall we? Don't worry. Father we'll make him into a worthy slave capable of torment."

Joe was tied to a chair. His ankles were secured to the hind legs of the chair. He was protruding forward with his arms tied behind him on either side of the spindle. Joe was blindfolded and gagged.

Eric kneed Joe in the ribs. He took a blunt tool and whacked Joe in the ribs hard enough to have a contusion.

"What have I ever done to you?" Joe pleaded, groaning in pain.

"Shut the hell up." Eric snapped. He untied Joe from his current position and yanked him roughly to his feet and then tied his hands to a protruding beam. He was forced to kneel down on the hard cement floor and taste the painful pull of his shoulders as it was yanked up and secured to the protruding beam. Joe groaned in pain as it resulted in his shoulders been pulled. Eric pulled his wrists until Joe's ribs could be seen.

"Lets wrestle at 4am." Eric commanded. "You'll spend the whole night here strung up like a piece of beef at a local market whenever you're not needed."

"Its 4pm now. So twelve hours of this should curb your attitude and make you more submissive." Eric smirked and kissed joe one last time on the lips before shutting him inside the cell.

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Twelve hours later, Eric came inside and lowered Joe down and untied his hands. Joe's shoulders burned with a high intensity.

"Don't rub your wrists." Eric commanded. Joe was frustrated but he couldn't let that show. Joe's wrists were raw and swollen.

"Until 8 o'clock, you're going to wrestle with me."

Eric removed his clothing until he was in his boxers. He punched Joe hard in the stomach and joe doubled over in agony. Joe was too exhausted and his shoulders were still hurting and his punches weren't connecting. On the other hand, Eric's punches were connecting with Joe's torso, wrists and arms. He backhanded him across the jaw and pressed his face on the cold cement floor. He put his foot on Joe's head and pressed Joe's head further into the floor.

" When my sisters come here, you're going to tell them that you don't work for worthless dolls"

Joe snapped. "Go to hell". Joe was clubbed on his right foot. Joe howled in pain and finally after the third clubbing, he acceded to his instructions.

The girls flung the door open and strode in with a cane in one hand.

"I don't work for worthless dolls" Joe relayed his instruction and waited fearfully for the punishment. Despite them hurting him,Joe felt awful about being sexist to the girls. He immediately thought of Callie and wondered if Callie would mind that he was coerced to give sexist comments. Despite Joe's snarky attitude he would never say anything detrimental or rude and even if he did, he would always apologise.

"I'm so..." Joe started. The elder girl rounded on Joe with anger written on her eyes

"You think its easy being a girl in this patriarchal society. Men, they think they can say anything just because we're the "weaker sex." Screw that nonsense."

"I would never say that, your brother forced me to say it. He clubbed my foot thrice before I agreed. Look, not all men are the same, I admit that I'm no saint either, but once I started dating, I started to change my views on girls. The person that made me a better person was my wife and my sister-in-law. I'm not making excuses and what he made me do was inexcusable."

The people listened to Joe's speech. Eric clubbed Joe on the foot again. Joe howled in pain. His foot was swollen and bruised. He tried to do it again but Annabel was moved by Joe's speech and grabbed the club from her elder brother. The elder brother tried to knock her down but she stood firm. "You've gone too far. Eric". Joe felt a sense of pride for the girl and filed this moment in his mind for later.

"Annabel, don't do this. Dad will punish you.

I don't care. Let him". She replied fiercely.

"Why do I have to punish her?" Jay asked them walking into the room holding a tray in one hand. He noticed what Annabel wa doing and ordered, "Annabel, put your hand on the table. Your going to get ten strokes of the cane.

"Mom is disappointed in you and you drove her to an early grave."

Jay backhanded Annabel across the jaw. She fell to the floor and he jumped on her and tore of her clothes until she was in her underwear. Her father took his belt and bound her hands. Joe's blood boiled. "Stop it!" He yelled.

"Father. Stop. I'll do anything. Let her go." Eric pleaded with his father.

"Handcuff Joe and dislocate his shoulders." The father instructed.

Joe realised that these people were trying to please their overbearing and cruel father.

Eric handcuff Joe behind his back and then tied around to the metal chain connecting the handcuffs and then suspended him in the air and then tied to the protruding beam. Joe knew that his shoulders would dislocate from this stress position. Eric splashed a bucket of cold water all over Joe's weary body. Joe choked on mouthful of water he accidentally inhaled.

The father grabbed Annabel by her hair and dragged her away from Joe. She was thrown in an adjacent cell. Her father ordered her. "You will stay here for four hours strung up. After this, no more nonsense and help Eric torment Joe. Understand" . She tearfully nodded. Her father kissed her passionately on the lips and she trashed around.

"You'll be treated like a bitch until I've forgive you for your insolence. The father told her.

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