CHAPTER 27 - BEATRICE
"You idiot! You are a moron! A sadistic, a** of a brother!" I scream at Caleb as he calmly smiles at me in that patronizing way. Like that day he called me a stupid blonde. I scream at him until my voice breaks and I taste vile and blood mixing in the back of my throat.
Caleb takes the opportunity of me choking to leave my perpetual vision. I hear a series of clicks and he mutters something to himself under his breath. It sounds almost like a code.
Something doesn't feel right. There is a prickle in the back of my mind and somehow, my body wants to respond to it. My fingers bend and contract. But I didn't control them. My wrist bends to the side and my fingers clutch at my sleeve. Tobias was right: Jeanine wanted me so she could use me for worse things than just brain analogies.
"Amazing!" Caleb exclaims from wherever he's standing. I swallow my bile.
"What's happening Caleb? What are you doing to me? Stop it!" I scream. Tears prickle around my eyes, but for some reason, my body doesn't let them fall. I'm losing control! No!
Caleb comes to stand by my head and smiles sinisterly down at me again. He leans down so his lips are right by my ear.
"A new era is beginning, my dear sister. And you shall be the first test subject. Now! Let us see how we can make your life miserable!" Caleb straightens up and walks back over to the computers. He punches in a new code.
"Stop!" I scream. My neck turns from side to side and I feel the tears fall over my face. I manage to let out a sob, and another, and another. Tobias…
"Please, stop! Caleb, stop! It hurts!" I scream. My entire body blazes with fire as he tests my arms and legs by making them move up and down. I sob again and scream at Caleb. He punches in a new code and my screams stop. I can't speak. My tongue is glued to my mouth. No! No! This isn't how I am supposed to end! No! I close my eyes and breathe.
Tobias holds me in his arms and holds me gently in his arms. We watch the sunset from his tree house. It's the day after Evelyn's funeral, and we are together now. Tobias shifts so his nose is in my hair. His arms tighten around me. It's perfect.
"I never want to end this moment," he whispered into my hair. I felt myself redden. He cups my cheek in his hand and tilts my face upwards, our foreheads touching. We breathe in the same air as before he kisses me. His lips are soft and gentle, calm but insistent, and I lose myself in his arms. I pull away and stare into his dark eyes.
"I'll never leave you Tobias. I will always be here. Forever..."
But as my brother tortures me as I lay on this metal table, I think to myself:
Our forever will never last…