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ANTHONY CULLEN.
Tanya made the stupid mistake to seek out Victoria, although the idea was not her's but her father-in-law's. What a gentleman Aro was, sending his son's wife to do his dirty work.
As it turned out, of the two guards that took shifts at the house, one was a close friend of Caius's and the other was Tanya's step-brother. Caius's friend, well, he was swimming with the fish right now, but Tanya's step-brother had managed to sneak away leaving Tanya to face the music alone.
I had Tanya chained down in the basement of my bar. The delusional bitch thought she could play us. She thought we might give a damn and go easy on her because she was a female.
She betrayed the family, she helped her husband and father-in-law with whatever plan they had. Male or female, you don't go against the family. Tanya had signed her own death sentence.
My brother was crouched down beside her, moving the hair out of her bloodied face.
"You're a coward," she spat out. "Hitting a woman. You're a pig."
"Tell us what we want to know, Tanya, and I will let you go," my brother said.
"Fuck you. I have nothing to tell you." My brother stood up, rubbing his eyes. I had to hand it to him, he was trying hard to hold back.
""I'm trying my fucking best to be nice to you, Tanya," he said.
I cracked my neck and my fingers. Stalking over to where the two of them were. I stood next to my brother grinning down at Tanya.
I straddled her on the chair, not giving a damn about my weight. I grabbed a fistful of her hair and pulled her head back to a painful angle.
"You listen to me, you fucking bitch. You think you've had it rough up until now, you haven't experienced anything yet," I said. "I will bring you close to death and take it away again and again and again, until you tell me everything that I want to know, you got that?"
"Go ahead, do your worst. They know where I am. They're coming for me and when they do, you two are as good as dead," she said.
Behind us, my brother let out a humorous chuckle. "Oh, Tanya, they don't know where you are," he said.
"I have a tracker. You two are fucked," she said smugly.
"You mean the tracker in your bracelet?" My brother asked, now standing behind her bent head. "Shame about that bracelet. It's now swimming with Paulo."
It took her a moment for my brother's words to register, but when it finally clicked into her head, her face turned white making my brother and I laugh in her face.
"Now, shall we try this again," I said. "What is Aro up to?"
"They will still find me," she insisted. "Caius will find me."
"You think your fucking husband cares about you? You think any of them care about you?" I laughed so hard my stomach hurt. "Wake the fuck up. They sent you to do their dirty work. They knew you would get caught."
Tanya stayed quiet as she chewed on her lip. At one point I thought she was going to bite it right off. She couldn't be this stupid. She had to realize that she was, well, fucked.
"If I were you right now, Tanya," my brother said. "I would do as I was told. I'm going to offer you a way out here. You tell me what I want to know and then I'll get you go."
"Just like that?" She questioned.
"Just like that."
"What's the catch?"
"There's no catch here. I'm not playing any games. If you cooperate with us, then you can leave with your life. If not…" My brother shrugged.
Tanya still said nothing. After a long moment of silence, I think she needs a little persuasion. In the corner of the room there was a steel toolbox. Digging through it, I found my weapon of choice, a pair of wire cutters.
I turned around waving the snipers in her face.
"Let's begin, shall we," I said.
"W...w...what are you doing?" She stuttered staring at the cutters in my hand.
"These, well, here's how this is going to work. We ask a question and you give us an answer. If you don't, snip, snip, snip," I said, running the tool across my fingers.
"Um…" She panicked looking from Edward to me.
"The choice is yours," my brother said. "Where's Aro?" He asked.
"I don't know," she said.
"Alright." My brother untied her hands. He held one of her arms out.
"No, no, no, please," she screamed. "I swear I don't know. They never told me, please."
I was never one for the theatrics. Sure, I enjoyed my fun when I interrogated someone, but even I had limits. My brother enjoyed dragging out his victims pain just as much as I did, but the truth was, he enjoyed it more than I did. He had a monster in him that would put mine to shame, but he also had the self control of a saint.
Tanya let out an ear piercing scream, the sound of which made my chest vibrate.
"Now, if you're good, that finger can be sewn back on. You see how he cut it, you see the angle," Edward said, admiring her bloodied hand. If only my little lamb were here to see the look of adoration on my brother's face as he admired Tanya's finger.
"Come on, Tanya," I said, dragging the tip of the cutter along her cheek. "What's Aro's plan?"
"I don't know," she yelled out.
"Brother." Edward held his hand out for the snipers.
"No, no, no. Please, wait, please," Tanya cried.
"I am not a very patient man, Tanya. I have already made you a deal. The ball is in your court," my brother said.
"Aro has had it in for Carlisle since he refused to promote Caius," she said.
"Keep going," my brother said, waving the snipers in her face.
Tanya was hesitant as she looked around the room. She looked at me with pleading eyes and tried to catch a glimpse of my brother standing behind her. But Edward placed firm hands on her shoulders, making her wince in pain as she tried to shrug away from him.
"Please," she cried out in agony.
"I made you a fucking deal, didn't I. Keep to your part and I'll keep to mine," my brother said.
"There are only so many hours that finger can last and still be reattached," I reminded her, as I looked down at the digit laying next to my shoe.
"Aro wants you both dead," she rushed out. The thing about Tanya, she was gullible and like her husband, she was stupid. I could see it, she in all honesty believed that what my brother had promised her was genuine.
"What's his plan?" I asked.
"Heidi was supposed to kill Edward on the wedding night and then Caius was to come after you."
We had been right, Aro had insisted my brother marry Heidi because she had a job to fulfill. But the idea of Aro sending his son after me, I had to laugh at the thought itself. That was something we would never see, but I would have loved the opportunity.
"Obviously that plan didn't work. Aro never banked on Edward having someone else. I don't know what his plan is now. You have to believe me. I'm telling the truth," she cried.
"I find that hard to believe," my brother said, finally stepping around to face her. "What were you doing at the house?"
"I was there to pick Paulo, Rossie, and a package. I was supposed to drive them to…" she trailed off, hesitating again.
"Drive them where?" I asked, tapping her knee with the cutters I had snatched out of my brother's hand.
I could hear the vibration of Edward's phone in his pocket beside me. He pulled it out of his pants, his face concerned as he looked at the screen.
"Garrett," he said, stepping away from us. "Speak up. What's the...What the fuck is going on?"
My brother's whole body tensed. He turned around, his attention solely on Tanya as the phone slipped from his hand, breaking into two pieces as it hit the ground.
"Where is my wife?" He asked, the words coming out of his mouth in slow pants.
"What?" Tanya and I said in unison.
"They wouldn't. I can't believe. He promised me…" Tanya mumbled.
"WHERE THE FUCK IS MY WIFE!" My brother yelled, charging at Tanya. He tackled her to the ground, wrapping his hands around her neck.
His words finally sunk in. Where is his wife? Someone has the little lamb? Caius, Aro, fuck.
We needed to find them and Tanya was our only shot of tracking Aro down, she wouldn't be good to us dead right now.
But my brother had snapped. I knew my brother, I knew that look on his face and in his eyes. He was past the point of reason. He left me with no other choice.
I put the barrel of my gun behind his head, pushing it firmly against his skull.
"She needs to tell us where they are, brother. She can't do that if she's dead," I said.
Tanya gasped for air and with what strength she had left, she clawed at my brothers hands around her neck, but no matter what, he wouldn't let go.
"Stop it or we are never going to find your wife," I said. That got his attention. He loosened his grip around her neck, but didn't let go.
"Where are they?" he asked.
"I…" Tanya struggled to regain her breath.
"Don't tell me you don't know," my brother said.
"Carlisle's office," she rasped out.
"Don't fucking lie to me."
"I'm not, I swear. That's where I was supposed to go after the pickup."
My brother grabbed her face between his hands and pounded her head repeatedly against the concrete floor until she made no more noise.
This was the side of him that his wife should see. This was the monster within him, a monster that he struggled to control. But oh the fun that happened when that monster came out to play.