I Broke The Game Rules To Kill The Sister Who Broke Our Bond Chapter 03
The door opened, and I came face-to-face with Gideon.
He was looking down, cinching his tie, and Veronica was behind him, still tugging that tight red skirt back into place.
The second he saw my face, his hands stilled on the knot. His eyes went wide.
“Melanie?”
Veronica shrieked. One red-tipped finger stabbed toward me, shaking.
“That’s impossible! She’s still in there. I just saw her hooked up to the machines!”
Gideon recovered fast. Behind those gold-rimmed glasses, the shock drained from his eyes, replaced by something hungry.
“It’s not Melanie. It’s the other one. The twin…”
He stared at me like Christmas had come early.
“You’re Valerie!”
I didn’t bother answering. I flipped the butterfly knife into a reverse grip and drove the blade straight at his throat.
But the second the blade moved, I felt it. My body felt like dead weight.
Melanie’s near-death state was dragging me down. The laws of the real world were crushing what little power I had left. I was weaker than a normal person.
A strike that should’ve killed him moved in slow motion.
He sidestepped it like it was nothing and pulled a card from his pocket. Gold light pulsed along its edges.
“High-tier item: Absolute Confinement.”
White light exploded across my vision. When it cleared, invisible chains were already cinched around my arms and legs, tightening until they crushed me.
The chains slammed me into the floor. The butterfly knife spun out of my grip and skittered down the corridor.
“Oh my god, Gideon!”
Veronica rushed forward, and a stiletto heel drove into the back of my hand, grinding down.
“A two-for-one special! Hook her up to the machine, too. I can finally get my S-class wings, right?”
Gideon grabbed a fistful of my hair and yanked my face up, sneering down at me.
“Don’t get ahead of yourself. The twin-core mechanism is complicated. We need to figure out how to drain them both at once before we do anything. Take her downstairs.”
Pinecrest wasn’t just a hospital. It was Gideon’s front for moving stolen goods, and he’d built a private hell under it a long time ago.
They dragged me into an underground chamber. Alloy shackles, industrial-grade and impossible to break, locked around my wrists and hoisted me off the ground.
“Talk. Where’s the connection point? The shared link between you and your twin? How do I drain credits from both of you?”
Gideon lashed a system-grade electric whip across my body. It hissed and spat sparks with every swing.
Blue arcs ripped across my skin, and white-hot pain lit up every nerve in my body.
I bit down on my lip until I tasted copper. A low, raw laugh scraped up my throat, and I stared at him the way you stare at something that’s already a corpse.
“Tough one, aren’t you?”
Veronica stepped forward with a glass bottle. Corrosive venom, the kind sold at the system Exchange.
She grabbed my chin, and beneath the disgust in her eyes, something uglier simmered. Jealousy.
“You look just like her. Same disgusting face.”
She tipped the bottle over my shoulder.
The venom ate through my skin and muscle on contact with a thick, wet sizzle, and kept going until I could see bone.
My whole body seized. Sweat soaked through my clothes in seconds. I didn’t scream.
They took turns. Gideon cycled through every cruel instrument he owned.
Not an inch of me was left unmarked. Blood ran down my legs, pooled at my feet, and spread across the concrete.
But my mind was razor-sharp.
Every blow that landed, I filed away. Every second of pain was another way I’d kill them when this was over.
The body was just meat. It healed. But what they owed me, that I would remember down to the marrow.
“Gideon, she’s about to pass out and she still won’t talk.”
Veronica wiped the blood off her fingers, visibly frustrated.
Gideon scowled and reached for something worse.
But the communicator on his wrist went off, a shrill, insistent countdown alarm.
“Beep… beep… beep…”
