THE TORMENTOR
The Tormentor - Episode 53&54
( Blêed•For•Me, Ixora )
Book 1 in the Mindf+ck Trilogy
_________________________
All rights reserved.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, copied, or reposted in any form, or by any means without a written permission from the author.
Copyright © 2025
_________________________
Birthday wishes are meant to be delivered with deep smiles, unbridled happiness, and cracking fireworks, but this was delivered in utter sadness, accompanied with brimming hot tears.
After she said those words, Warren stilled, watching her with those Greek god-ish eyes as her tears continued pouring into her phone screen.
"You might not have been celebrating the last three ones in happiness, but I hope you make this one exceptional. Happy birthday, flame" she wiped the tears again, bringing the phone screen closer to her red face.
His eyes are still the way there were—hooded and dark.
The burning fire in his room is not as bright as before, it's starting to go out.
"Say something" she muttered, the night breeze blowing her hair as she continued staying by the window.
"Your tears, they're so fuckin beautiful" he finally uttered, and she sniffled.
"You're the first to send me wishes, you should do this yearly, onwards" he continued, lowering his hoodie from his head.
"That's if I'll still be alive to do it. You'll kill me once you get your memories back anyways" she muttered.
"Talk about death one more time, and you'll have to choke on my c+ck till you bleed...I'll use the blood as lube, sounds great?" He said, and despite the filthiness of the statement, her cheeks heated, and he smirked.
"You want that, don't you, moth?" He said.
"I never said that" she muttered, smiling with a lip bite.
Seeing the smile, Warren loosened up a bit, his smirk turning to a grin deeper than deep.
"Can we meet at the abandoned church tomorrow? I'd love to give you your birthday gift there" she said.
"I hate birthday gifts" he sharply replied.
"Oh..." She sounded, sucking her bottom lip.
"But I'll make an exception and take yours, what church are you talking about?" He asked.
"It's an abandoned church. You took me there when you were still with your memo—
"Chapel Of Silence?" He interrupted.
"Yeah, how did you know?" She blinked.
"It's the only abandoned church I've known since I was young" he replied.
"You'll come?" She gently asked.
"I look forward to what you have to give, and you might wanna make it excessively s+xy" he said.
"I know, set your expectations high" she replied, and the burning fire finally lost it's glow.
"Goodnight, flame" she said.
"Hope your dreams is infested with pictures of my majestic c+ck, moth" he replied, and she cackled as the call ended, but then she saw Falsus, and she gasped.
The bird is on the window sill, looking up at her with those evil eyes.
"Did he send you? How did he know my dad's house?" Ixora muttered, and the bird flew up, hovering in front of her.
She stretched her palm forward, and it flew on it, then she took it to bed, laying down and allowing it to perch on her chest.
She picked her phone and began searching for "suggestible birthday gifts for a dark-hearted guy"
When she found her choice, she ordered two and slept of at past 1am.
Falsus flew away, and Nadine covered her with the sheets before wrapping her arms around her in a big cuddle.
--
[Storey Building]
"Do you plan on going after the families of the rest of the boys too? They're all loaded" Mrs. Ortega asked.
The two woman are sitting face-to-face in a storage room at the back of the building right now, and Matron is smoking tobacco again.
Also, she's rolling her pendulum pocket watch in hand.
"Konstantin's family is untouchable, down in Russia...his mother is a well-known witch. Ashton's abusive father is powerful in Tennessee too. As for Capri...I only know about his rich dead mother, but his father? I have no idea who, so those three are dead ends I'd rather not chase. The only person I can touch is Elder Creed, and that's because I've been making this plan since I began working in the family house, and I have his trust and his son's" Matron explained.
"You're really something" Mrs. Ortega clapped thrice.
"Same to you, you killed your husband and stole his wealth" Matron smiled.
"But it's still not enough, and that's why I'm trying to go after Rafael too, but he's hard to get" Mrs. Ortega sighed.
"He's still very much in love with his ex-wife" Matron said.
"But they divorced" Mrs. Ortega hissed.
"Doesn't matter, he still has the hots for her, let's focus on why we're here" Matron replied.
"It's Ixora...you know what I did to make her testify, and you know how the memories were also hidden. I have to inject her with the shot to keep them hidden forever, but I kept failing, she even killed one of my men in Capetown" Mrs. Ortega said, dropping a picture of the stone-crushed face on the table.
"She did this?" Matron picked it with interest.
"I was surprised too" Mrs. Ortega replied.
"She has a dark side too, now I know why my Romeo is attracted to her" Matron smiled.
"What are you talking about?" Mrs. Ortega blinked.
"Leave her alone, memories of how she agreed to testify will never come back unless she enters a courtroom again, and I don't see that happening" Matron said.
"Are you sure? I can just kill her" Mrs. Ortega replied.
"I said... leave her alone" Matron warned with a rougher edge, and Mrs. Ortega scoffed.
"I have a plan tomorrow. I'm fooling the boys once again. If it works, they'd forget about Evelyn forever" she said.
"Good luck with that" Matron stood, walking out of the building with ego.
Matron walked out too, her shoulders high till she's outside.
She dialled a line, waiting patiently as it rang till the line picked.
"Is the girl ready?" she asked with an eye roll.
"Make it clean" she added, hanging up before walking to her car.
She drove back home, fuming throughout the wheel roll till she got to her house where she threw her shoes off as usual.
"I shouldn't kill Ixora? Is she actually feeling like my boss right now? That lowly woman from the gutters? If not for the child trafficking business she started with Elder Creed's money, she'd still be a poor sewer rat by now, and she had the guts to tell me what to do? Pfft" She talked to herself, sitting down.
"Rafael? Mine, Ixora? Dead" she demonstrated, calling in her most trusted guard.
The man literally ran in.
"Tomorrow during Evelyn's show, kill Ixora" she ordered, looking up.
"She's not so simple, so don't go straight for her. You can just mess with her car or something" she said.
"Yes ma'am" the man took a bow and left.
"You're about to get the best birthday gift ever, Warren Creed" she smiled.
--
[Creed's Family House]
Warren is here.
He came straight from the hockey meet cos he might just have a scuffle with Konstantin if he went to the hideaway.
He has a room here, and he has been inside that room since he came.
It's past 2am in the morning, and Falsus is already back, so the bird is in the room with him.
The burning fire on the ground is already off, and the room is left in nothing but total darkness, but he kept sitting inside.
He's even playing scrabble, in that darkness.
How he's able to see the board is a mystery, but he's playing, and the sound of how he's moving the letters around the board is faint.
There are four letters on the board, forming a word... LIES.
He finished pushing them to a line and finally stood, dropping the board flatly on the fire ashes before leaving the dark room.
On getting to the living room, he met the lights off, and he was about to turn it on when he slammed into someone.
A gasp followed from the person, and he turned on the lights to see Matron.
With her scarf, bible and rosary as usual.
"Coming back from church, again?" He spoke.
"I have a lot to pray for" she smiled, and his eyes went to the ground where a pendulum pocket watch is.
It obviously fell from her.
Matron sighted it too, and she quickly picked it up, wrapping her hand on it.
"It's your birthday, I'm making you seafood and several other side dishes, you should invite your friends over for the feast" she said with another smile and entered the kitchen.
Warren whipped around, watching her enter before pushing an hand into his pocket.
He perceived tobacco from her, and she's coming from church?
Does alter incense smell like tobacco these days?
He left the living room and went to the outer porch, leaning on the rails as he checked his phone.
There are birthday texts, surprisingly.
Cap: Live long, gee.
Ash: 24 looks good on you, mate.
Fisa: I hear you don't take birthday gifts, but yunno what? Scratch your policy, I'll get you a Russian girl as a gift.
Konstant: ...
Yeah, Konstantin sent just three dots...he's as petty as that.
Then there's another message from Elder Creed.
Cripple: Happy 24th, son.
Warren's stomach twisted with disgust as he read that one, and he looked behind to see him.
He's on his wheelchair with Lydia behind him.
"Haven't hated phone all my life, till you sent your sour text" he said.
"I sent my captains to deliver 250 gold bars to your room at the hideaway, the price is more than 50 billion dollars if you decide to sell it...happy birthday again" the old man said.
Warren walked to him and took the wheelchair forcefully from Lydia.
He threw it off, and the old man fell from it, his knees hitting the ground and bleeding so bad.
"Young Lord!!" Lydia yelled.
"The gold bars in my room at the hideaway? Get it away, or I'll throw them into Mississippi river" he said with undiluted hate before starting to walk inside with knowing eyes.
Every deserving person will get a taste of the poison he's silently cooking.
Lydia quickly brought Elder Creed back to his wheelchair.
"You should tell him...tell him about her. His hate is too much. If you won't, I'll tell him!" She said.
"You will not say a word, Lydia. Take me to the hospital" Elder Creed said, holding his bleeding knees.
Lydia sighed and reluctantly wheeled his chair down the porch.
--
[3AM]
Tina and Monty's legs are already shaking as they stood by the cracked walls of the occultic room, watching the cult from there.
After entering the temple earlier, they met emptiness.
The temple is not in use anymore, so they traced the cracks by the walls as it seemed to be leading somewhere, and the cracks led them to an electronic door which Monty hacked.
They entered the door and came down through a staircase where Monty hacked another door before they could reach this room.
Now they're watching the cult members who're sitting round the table like they own the world.
A man wearing a red colored robe with covered face is with them tonight.
He seems like their leader, and he's sitting on a tall steel chair by the upper part of the room.
One will have to climb five metal stairs before reaching him.
The roof of the room is open, so the moon is shinning directly into the room together with the wall candles.
There's no lady on the table for the taking tonight, seems they're here for another reason.
"Is that their leader?" Tina whispered, referring to new masked man.
"I think so" Monty whispered back.
The room is tense as everyone stayed silent till the leader spoke.
"Bronx Smith" he called, his face cover making his voice thick.
Bronx stood with lines of sweat on his face.
"You took a female during the last meet, you went against your own" The leader said.
"Yes" Bronx boldly replied, and Monty's eyes widened a bit.
Tina held her hand as she's starting to get scared.
"You broke the rule that says even if your mother lands on our table for the taking, you have no right to stop the cult from taking her!" The leader spoke again.
"I'll take any punishment you bestow" Bronx replied boldly again.
"Get here" the leader gravelly commanded.
He went up the stairs, each step taken with fear till he was up the metals.
"Kneel" the leader's command came again, and Bronx went on his knees in front of the giant masked man.
His robe was ripped off, leaving him totally naked.
Tina and Monty gasped, their hands covering their mouths as the leader got a blade whip.
It's a long one with sharp blades attached to the edges.
Bronx lay nakedly on his chest, and the leader began thrashing him with the whip, repeatedly without stop.
Bronx's cries tore through the walls like an axe, and the other members just stayed mute on their seats as they watched the inhumane torture.
Hit after hit, the blades tore into Bronx's flesh, and his blood flowed down the metal staircase.
Monty pinched herself so hard as the whip sounds heated her ears.
She almost left this hiding place to go stop them, but Tina pulled her back.
"If you wanna die, die alone, don't pull me into it bî+ch... let's get outta here" she muttered, pulling Monty out of the place.
Monty kept looking back, the sound of Bronx's cries haunting her till they left the temple.
Unknown to them, there are cameras in the temple, and their faces git captured.
--
[Satan's Heirs Hideaway]
The picture-burning ritual ended at daybreak, and everyone filed out of the rooms with sad... sullen eyes.
They went back to the living room where they sat like they're mourning someone as the marijuana kettle warmed them up.
Ashton started his morning with a pop stick that he shoved in his mouth.
"Tell me you guys don't have classes today" Anfisa tiredly said.
"No one has classes except War, but I'm guessing he won't go. We got invited to a feast at his family house" Ashton said.
"Not going to the family house with y'all, I'll catch up with everyone later" Konstantin said, buttoning just three out of his white shirt buttons before leaving the hideaway.
"Is it possible to hate your brother?" Anfisa said, and Capri smiled lightly.
"You don't hate him, you just can't tolerate him" he said.
"I guess" she replied, and her phone buzzed with another reminder message from "Evil Witch"
Evil Witch: Less than a month left.
"Is that your mother? She gave you an ultimatum? This won't end well. Konstant is surely not stepping that country with you. I swear he has a voodoo doll named Russia which he stabs every morning" Ashton said, and Anfisa laughed.
"I know he hates our country that much" she said.
"I only met your mother once when she came to Cali during our highschool days. She nearly crushed eight students with her car, and she got the school authorities beaten to stupor for enrolling her son without her consent. She's violent and batshit crazy, and that's why sometimes I understand Kon's temper" Capri said.
"I just don't want her to step Cali again, it'd be a disaster" Anfisa replied meaningfully, her mind going to Nadine.
--
[Nadine's Place]
Nadine got back not long ago.
Her plan for today is eat, sleep, and binge movies.
She has no classes, and it's same with Ixora, so Ixora is coming to visit soon.
She had her bath and came downstairs for breakfast, but shockingly, she met Konstantin sitting on her couch, watching her TV with a bored look on his face.
"H..how did you...get in?" She stuttered, and he faced her.
"Do I have to explain?" He replied.
"It's inappropriate to enter people's houses without invite, and... you're in the house of the same girl you... called boring" she muttered.
Konstantin stood, and she stepped back, but he ate the space between them anyways.
"I prefer invading people's privacies, it's more fun, and calling you boring? I'm not exactly wrong, all you do is cry" he replied.
"I'm a human, it's normal" she softly said.
"Only the weak allows that foolish liquid out of their eyes" he replied, and she felt tongue-tied.
She looked up at his face, and he touched the necklace on her neck.
She tried the shifting thingy, but he held her arm to keep her still.
"Is this from an ex boyfriend?" He asked, rubbing her necklace pendant like he wants to rip it off.
"From my parents" she replied, and he let it go, his eyes striking hers.
"You've never dated, and you hate guys and sex? Peculiar" he said, bending down to her level.
"How much do you know about me?" She replied, and he grinned.
"Everything, down to the size of your p@nties and br@" he said.
"F..f+ck you" she innocently muttered, and he grinned again, touching her hair.
"Yeah, f+ck me," he groaned. "The flower you attached the other time at the hideaway? Use it often, looks good on you" he plainly said, and she looked up at his eyes , but she wasn't lucky to look at him for long before he turned on his foot and left.
As the door went shut, Nadine released a breath she never knew she was holding, and a smile she never planned to smile.
--
[Rafael's Mansion]
"You look too happy today" Rafael commented, kissing the top of Ixora's head as he joined her for breakfast on the dinning table.
"It's that obvious?" She smiled, handing him the jug of water.
"Of course, you're glowing" Rafael replied, drinking some water before starting to eat.
"Thanks to your money and mum's, I'm a money eating insect yunno?" She jocosely replied, and Rafael laughed.
"Your 20th birthday is in a month and some days" he said.
"Are you planning to get me a jet?" She replied.
"You'd be shocked" he replied.
"Ouu" she excitedly sounded.
"I'll come late from work, but even if it's 12midnight, we'll still have our movie night" he said.
"Sure, I'll be home late too so it's settled. See ya!" Ixora replied with a wave.
He left the house after taking few forkfuls of his pasta, and Ixora quickly rushed to the gate when her orders arrived five minutes later.
She took them and and went back inside with a larger smile on her face.
Hope he likes the gifts, and hope he smiles.
Hope he kisses her till she'd faint in his arms.
--
[ILC]
Kelsey is missing.
Her aunt is in school, threatening to close the campus is they fail to produce Kelsey.
Serena is wailing like a banshee, saying they attended the hockey meet together last night but she suddenly couldn't find her.
Cops are around the school already, but Clover just knew they'd not find a thing.
By tomorrow night, Kelsey will be on the ship to Europe with ten additional kids.
The cops are busy interrogating everyone who came to the meet when Clover walked past them.
He entered a washroom to pick a call.
It's the top stripper at the clubhouse calling.
"Yes?" He picked.
"We're bursting Elder Creed's foundation tomorrow" the female said.
"I already brought someone to boss, i'm not bursting the foundation with y'all. Sort yourselves out" Romeo curtly replied and hung up.
He opened the door to leave the restroom, but he met Romeo who's just about to come in by the door.
He walked past him, but Romeo talked...
"I saw you leaving with Kelsey last night, and now she's missing?"
Clover looked at him over his shoulder, and when their eyes met, he just smiled and left wordlessly.
Romeo entered the bathroom, lightening up a cigar stick to smoke as he paraded.
Ixora isn't in school today.
He checked her timetable and saw she has zero classes, meaning he won't be seeing her.
But then...her m+ans has refused to leave his head, and he's actually running mad already.
He faced the wall and drove his head into it, laughing out like a maniac as blood spilled to his face.
--
[7PM]
Ixora left Rafael's mansion and set out early.
She's the one who asked to meet at the church, so she has to be on time.
As she drove herself through the busy, filled streets of Cali, she looked at the wrapped gift that's on her car seat.
They're two small but expensive-looking shinny box, square shape.
She was smiling at intervals as she took short looks at them, and then she looked at her chest—her breàsts.
The third gift is already there.
She focused back on her driving, but then she felt a bump in her tyre, and she inched her brows as she also felt the car going down.
Like the tyre is deflating.
She stepped on brakes, but it's not working, so she stepped repeatedly.
Still the same.
Her eyes widened in realization as she used the hand brake, but zero response.
The car is speeding so much, and her heart began speeding too as she looked ahead to see she's on a highway.
Four cars coming in front of her with their full lights madly bright as they hit her eyes.
She screamed out.
--
Warren is also on his way to the church, and the solitude in his car is strange, but he intentionally didn't play his usual satanic piano sounds tonight.
He hasn't left the family house since daybreak.
He connected Ixora's life cameras to his laptop, so he watched her through the laptop throughout today, then he watched some other people who needed to be watched.
He did the watchman job till some minutes ago when he left the house and began driving to the chapel.
What's his moth planning?
He was about to zoom into the abandoned district when he saw someone, and he was quick to step on the brakes.
His car stopped with a screech.
The person he sighted is entering a shop by the roadside, so he came out of his car and entered the shop too.
He stayed behind a shelf as the person bought pads, and when she turned to step out after paying, she met Warren behind.
He pulled off her face cap, and she gasped out when her face became uncovered.
Evelyn!
"Warren?" She shivered, taking one step back, then two, then three...
But she wasn't lucky...
The moment she tried running out Warren's scalpel met her neck from behind.
The instrument bursted her vein, and her blood splashed out.
Her eyes widened, and dying sounds of agony left her throat as Warren stabbed another part of her neck, and her blood splashed again, staining his leather jacket and inner shirt.
His eyes are bloodshot as he stabbed her neck for the third time, and her blood did the beautiful splash again.
The shop attendants all ran out in mad fear as he continued the stabs.
He stabbed her neck in six places, then he moved to her body, starting from her chest, down to her belly, to her legs, then her back.
He kept stabbing.
And stabbing.
And stabbing.
His eyes stayed bloodshot, and his muscles stayed blowed as he stabbed her life away.
The white tiles of the shop got flooded with her blood, and it flowed under the shelves to the corners.
He made sure to stab evert joined part of her spinal cord, down to her arse, then the back of her legs.
His hands are bloody, his face and clothes too, even his boots.
She was already lifeless when his hand went under her neck, and he pulled off her skin mask.
Her real face came to view.
She's not Evelyn, she's only wearing Evelyn's face.
"Spending three years in jail didn't make me daft, I'm still Warren, a f+ckin doctor! Deceiving me with a fake should be on your list of don'ts!" He seethed, dropping the lifeless body on the shop ground.
He changed his position on the bloody ground, a sick smile drawing his mouth as he watched the crowd who're already waiting outside and watching him through the shop glass walls.
His bloody body and face gave him the look of a serial killer, and people are filming him.
At the same time, his phone buzzed with a text, from Chicago.
ChicAgo: My spy told me you lost it, is it real? I can escape prison to reset that memory for you.
His sick smile broadened, and he typed back with bloody hands
Warren: What do you think? Partner in crime.
ChicAgo: (laughing emojis) I knew it!
Warren almost replied again, but a call popped up from Ashton, and he swiped green, blood drawing on his screen from his thumb...
"She died in an accident ten minutes ago. The news is all-over the city" Ashton muttered.
"Who died?" Warren calmly replied.
"Ixora Rhodes, her brakes failed" Ashton said.
"Ixora is at the church, waiting" Warren replied.
"She's f+ckin dead! Watch the news, bro!" Ashton shouted.
"She's in the church, shut the f+ck up bî+ch!" Warren growled.
"War—
Warren hung up on him, leaving the bloody shop and pushing past the crowd in front of it white filming his bloody body.
He jumped in his car and drove into the abandoned district, his hands gummy on the wheel as a result of the blood.
Saying his chest was empty throughout the drive wouldn't do justice to what actually happened.
His whole organs felt stolen. The heart, the kidney, liver, lungs and all other bloody fellas.
He halted in front of the chapel, throwing the door shut and taking two steps at a time towards the building.
She better be in there, waiting.
She better be in there, waiting with his damn gifts.
She better be in there, breathing like a human.
He opened the door with his bloody boot, and for the first time in his life, he couldn't see in the dark, so he quickly pulled the lights wire by the wall, and the lights came on.
There she is, standing in the middle of the pew with few scratches on her arms and hiccups tearing from her throat.
"I nearly died...four cars nearly crushed me, but I was lucky to drive into a fueling station, and I crashed into one of their tanks, but I escaped the car before the tank blew up and the....the—
Warren was already with her at this point.
No idea how many steps he took to get to her, but he arrived, and with with blood-soaked hand, he gripped the back of her neck...
Ixora whimpered, a small tear leaving her bright brown eyes.
"I'm the only death of you, no one else... ME" He growls, and then...
His lips descended down hungrily on hers, and her mind spiralled to the land of no return.
TBC.
So lovely
ReplyDeleteGreat 🤍🤍🤭
ReplyDeletenice waiting for next episode
ReplyDelete