The Millionaire Saint
Chapter 26

Donovan Bristol Flashback

I wake up with a sharp pain in my head as I try to focus. My vision is blurry and my ears are ringing, I can't help but grimace and try to move but I can't.

"He's waking up," an unknown voice announces and I manage to focus better on a masked person in front of me.

"Please don't hurt him," my sister's voice sobs, I look to where she is and she is in a tied chair. At that moment I realize that I am suspended in the air, held by my arms and my torso is naked.

"This will be an incentive for your father," she reports.

There are four masked people and one of them takes out his phone to start recording.

"Mr. Bristol, I hope you see this video and that this is an incentive to accept our demands," he says and moves to my left side.

I scream when something like sharp blades digs into my back, it's like it splits open my flesh. That thing hits my body again, again and again until my screams are stuck in my hoarse throat and the pain I feel numbs my anatomy. -Please stop! I hear my beautiful Valeria screaming between cries.

The blood runs from my back to the floor and little by little I lose consciousness, letting myself be carried away by the pain and listening to the man's voice complaining that I am a child with no ability to endure.

(...)

"Brother..." he calls me and I hear his voice far away, but it brings me back to the nightmare I thought I was living.

"Val..." I whisper.

"God, I thought you were dead," she cries.

-Are you OK? -I question and I'm still suspended without being able to feel my arms.

"I'm scared, Donovan," he sobs.

"Dad will get us out of this, don't be afraid," I ask, raising my head as best I can to see her face. His eyes are swollen from crying, I don't understand why these men do this, I don't understand anything and I just think that this is the worst nightmare of all. The door opens and one of the guys enters, ignores me and stands in front of Valeria. He touches her face and dares to put his disgusting hands on her body, I stir. "Do not touch her! -I scream helplessly as I listen to her cry.

In front of me without being able to help him, that man desecrates the body of my sister who cries because of the brutality of the subject. Helplessness floods my soul and I cry profusely for her, Valentina ends up fainting because he still hits her because she resists being raped and her head ends up crashing against the ground after receiving a slap from the animal.

>>I swear I'm going to kill you bastard! I blurt out, moving around and bruising my wrists. When he finishes, he leaves her lying down and approaches me to punch me in my belly and then another to leave me without oxygen, he leaves and when I recover I call Valeria to wake up.

My sister takes hours to wake up and in all that time I thought she was dead, I felt suffocated by everything and I entered a state where the heartbreaking scene of Val being desecrated by that animal is frequently repeated, she moves and I hear her crying silent. "He rapes me," she cries and I can't stop the tears from running down my cheek as I feel the pain in her words. -Why are they doing this Donovan? -She questions between tears.

-I'm sorry Val, I couldn't protect you-l feel guilty.

The man did not tie her again and she gets up as best she can to get to me.

"I'm not going to be here waiting for her to come back," she says and she unties me, I fall to my knees because I don't have the strength to move forward.

Valeria helps me get up and we leave that abandoned room, I think we are in a warehouse and we walk with fear through the corridors of this place until we hear voices and we are paralyzed.

"You should go away and leave me," I whisper.

"I'm not going anywhere without you," she mumbles fearfully.

-Where the hell do you think you're going?

-Runs! -I shout, letting go of her to punch the guy, I go over him and hold his neck while my sister runs away, I punch him several times and he, I don't know how, but he knocks me down to hit me with his gun in the temple, leaving me dizzy..

He attacks me again and I hear gunshots, my heart stops for several minutes and I receive a blow again that drags me into the darkness having a very bad feeling.

(...)

I wake up again in that place and the subjects are here talking to each other while looking at something in a corner. I look there and I run out of breath when I see Valeria lying there, no, no... -Valeria! I scream, I'm not tied up and I can crawl to her body, she's frozen.

"This is your fault," one of the men blurts out.

-What did they do to him? -I touch her body and then I look at my hands stained with her blood, I deny without being able to believe it. "Sister, don't leave me," he sobbed.

"You can't tell him that there's only one left alive... let's continue with the plan," he murmurs.

-They are sons of bitches! -I try to get up to go after them, but they punch me, sending me face-first to the ground.

-I have had enough. "We should kill you too," she says, spitting on the ground.

"We're not going to kill anyone, let's wait for the money and then we'll send the address so they can come for them," this seems to be the boss and his voice doesn't seem familiar to me.

Once they left, two weeks passed, I didn't sleep, I didn't eat anything and the smell of the decomposition of Valeria's body was the only thing that filled the cellar, but I didn't separate from her and remained motionless caressing her hair, I felt empty and As dead as he was, not a sound came out of my mouth and at some moments I vomited because I couldn't stand the scene.

The noise of many people running down the hallway did not matter to me for a second. When the door opened, I heard gasps and many murmurs, forcing myself to raise my head towards them.

"Donovan Bristol," I heard someone say, I didn't flinch for a second and for no reason I lost consciousness.

End of flashback