Roderich seemed to think for a moment, then belted me round the face, so hard in fact that I fell backwards onto the bed and bled even more. Gilbert could not contain his anger and tackled him onto the floor and started throwing hard punches wildly across his head and face.
"You evil, wife-beating scumbag! You ever touch that poor girl again and it'll be fucking war!" Gilbert raged, beating and bashing Roderichs' face into carpet.
I could do nothing but scream as Ludwig broke his bruders up by elbowing Gil in the face and breaking his strong-arm with one swift snap. The snapping bone and his resulting scream echoed sickeningly around the lavish room; it was the worst sound I have ever heard in my life.
"You." He spat at me "Come here now." I did as I was told and went over to him, where he bent me over the table in the centre of the room.
"Get off of me, Bruder!" Gil cried, as Ludwig did to same. I begged my husband to let us go, but I got a punch to the back of my head and was forced face down into the wood by Roderichs' palm instead as a reply.
"At least you're still a virgin here, Elizeveta Herdevary!" Roderich snarled, pushing himself hard into my other place – Oh God, it was so painful being torn and stretched out like that. Gilbert struggled to help me, but was being crushed under the pressure of Ludwig holding his neck. At first, I thought he was forcing him to watch me get anally raped, but then I soon realised what Ludwigs' sick intentions really were when he started unbuttoning his trousers.
I begged between cries for him to stop and to just punish me instead – I even tried to make out that I wickedly seduced Gil out of lust, but my words were unheeded as Ludwig stroked his massive length.
"Are you ready, Bruder?" He demanded, grabbing Gils' slim hip with one firm hand and his own length with the other.
"Please don't do this…" he cried. It was the first time in all my years of living in Austria that I'd actually seen him shed tears over his brothers' cruelty. Lud ignored him and shoved himself into his brother without a care – I tried to block out the scream by putting my hands over my ears, but Roderich grabbed both of them with one mighty hand and I was forced to listen to the sounds of my poor Gil being so ruthlessly taken.
"Tell me, was she a virgin when you fucked her?" Lud asked nastily, as he pounded his brother with short, sudden bursts.
"Y-yes!"
"So you took her virginity before her own husband, your bruder, had a chance to? And you still don't think you deserve this punishment?"
"I-I'm sorry! Bitte Halten! I know I did wrong! I swear if you let us both go I'll never go near her again! I'll go back to Prussia!"
I couldn't bear it any longer so I bit Roderich on the thumb as hard as I could; my little teeth sinking through soft leather, skin and to the bone as a mighty pick-axe would sink through the earth. He screamed so loud and instantly relinquished his grip – I did not hesitate to give him a swift knee to the groin as soon as I could wriggle free. He dropped to the floor in agony and I was running to the door when I heard Ludwig cocking his gun – I froze instantly, as a deer would in the headlights.
"You never learn…" He remarked snidely as he suddenly pointed his gun downwards. Gilbert began his pleading again as the cold metal touched his head, the poor lad was so scared, but Ludwig did not care one bit. The hammer cocked back.
"Bitte, Bruder! I swear I'll go, I'll never come back, I-!"
The gunshot and resulting wail was too much for me to bear. I sank to my knees and put my hands over my eyes.
"That's what happens to traitors, Elizeveta." Roderich stated calmly, placing his hand on my shoulder. From that day forth, I had been forgiven by both brothers. I pretended to accept their forgiveness graciously and I took whatever subsequent abuses they threw at me, but inside I hated them more than anything in this world. I promised myself that I would get them back a thousand-fold and escape back to Hungary.
Elizeveta rubbed her abdomen lightly and her expression intensified.
For our sake.