4

“So? You are the one that messed everything up?”

One of the last two men that walked in asked, walking towards her. He looked not much different from the rest but his body was leaner compared to the other three and he was the only one not holding a gun.

“What did I do?”

She recoiled in fear as he got close to her. He smelled of alcohol and cigars. She turned her face away from him but he didn’t let her as he forced her to look at him by placing his hand on her chin and turning her face to him, she lowered her eyes in fear when their eyes met, and his gaze held pure hate for her and she just couldn’t get why, they literally have never met before. Why would he look at her like that when she doesn’t even know who he was?

“You little witch, you thought you could get away forever? It might have taken so long but it is time,”

He let out and the smell of cigarette and alcohol hit her again.

“I don’t know what you are talking about,”

Nora said, which turned out to be a big mistake on her side because the most painful slap landed on her cheek. She saw stars and felt her face heat up, she let out a painful yell.

“You don’t know what I am talking about? Do you think you can fool me? Fuck you,”

He yelled and slapped again. If she thought the first slap was painful, nothing prepared her for the next or the one that came after. She has never been beaten before her whole life. She was shielded by her parents so this all felt like a new experience that she wanted to be over.

“You thought you would hide after what you did to our boss, you did such atrocities and still had the mind to return to Italy, you thought you were untouchable right? Now you are going to die by our hands, the boss will see to it that all of your kinds are gone,”

He let out. Each of his words was accompanied with slaps.

“Let me go, I don’t know what you are talking about, I am innocent,”

She cried out. The pain from the slaps she received made her head cloudy. Why couldn’t they just believe what she was saying? Why did they think she had something against their boss and who was the fucking boss that wanted her dead for something she didn’t know? She couldn’t recur getting on anyone’s bad side. She had no enemy, at least that’s what she thought.

“Shut up liar, We know who you are and you better start talking because if the boss comes to you himself, he would do worse than we have done,”

One of the men said and slapped her again.

“I said I don’t know what you are talking about. Why don’t you believe me? I am a foreigner and this is my first time in Italy, I don’t even know who your boss is and what I have done to be treated like this, just let me go,”

Nora cried. She couldn’t take the pain anymore. The men were not nice at all and they certainly had no respect for women. Who in his right senses would hit a woman not to talk of a harmless and fragile woman like herself? She did nothing to deserve this.

“Foreigner, yes you are. We all know that but this being your first time here? You are such a liar and to think you hide such lies and deceit in this small frame of yours to deceive everyone! We know who you are a witch and you will tell us where your master is or you will be dead when the boss returns,”

The other man let out. He was even more vile than the first man as he grabbed her hair and yanked at it heartlessly. Nora felt like her brain was being pulled out of her skull. She let out a pained filled yell begging to be let go but the cruel men refused to listen to her. As she pleaded to be let go, they continued to hit her even more. She could taste her blood and knew her face would probably be bruised up so badly. It was clear that they were not after money. They wanted her to confess to something that she had no idea about and they were not even ready to listen to her.

“Start talking, do you enjoy being in pain?”

The big man asked. Nora could barely see anything as tears and pain blinded her eyes.

“I said that I don’t know what you want from me, I don’t know what you are talking about,”

She cried out with all her strength, breathing heavily with each breath being laced with so much pain. She knew she wasn’t going to survive it. These men didn’t look like they had any sympathy in them and they were going to kill her. She felt wronged. She didn’t deserve this when she hasn’t done anything to them. They refuse to believe her.

“Get the hot seat, I think she will start talking when she is on it,”

One of them voiced. Nora didn’t know what the hot seat was but she was sure it would be hell for her, she shook her head, begging to be let go.

“I didn’t do anything wrong, just let me go please,”

She pleaded. Her throat hurt so bad. every part of her body hurt.

“Call the boss and tell him she is refusing to talk, he will decide which way to go,”

Another voice said. Nora tried to open her eyes but had to shut them again as tears clouded them, she blinked to clear it out but it was no use when she just kept crying. She knew there was no way out of there but she hoped a miracle would happen because she was just too young to die and not die, she was too young to die unjustly.