The man behind me rubs the tip of his cock against the crack of my ass, as the other beside me digs his fingers inside of me. I feel the hard edges of a gun run over my jaw, just as he forces his cock into the entrance of my ass. I bite down on my lip to stop myself from screaming as I feel the tissue around my ass tear apart. Tears roll down my cheeks, but I won’t scream. I won’t breathe out anything that will give them the satisfaction. My knees give way as he gains momentum, forcing his way through as dampness slides down the backs of my thighs. The hard edges of the gun are being forced into my mouth and I open wide, losing track inside my own mind. I let memories of Wicked and me lead me down the road of survival. I don’t know how many minutes pass.

“It’s true!” someone says in the background, but my mind has turned to TV static, the kind that doesn’t know which way it wants to go. “She’s a match.”

I don’t know if they’ve stopped touching me, because it doesn’t matter. I can still feel them on my skin. In my mind. Against my soul.

“Well, that’s great.” Skully stands to his feet, I’m guessing, since I can see his boots in my view. “So you kept it from me that she had a twin and didn’t think to tell me all these years?” Skully’s back is to me. “Why?”

“Because I knew this day would come.”

“But your jobs had to be completed or I would have killed Poppy? Poppy is everything to you. You would really risk her life for a girl who you simply only saw being carried into the asylum?”

I don’t want to hear his answer. I roll into a ball and cradle my knees to my chest.

“For her, I’d risk it all.”

“Interesting,” Skully whispers, clapping his hands. “As you are aware. I’ve had some time to play around with my projects.” His words die out. “And for some time, I always wanted you, Ruby. Do you know why?” I don’t, and I’m not sure I want to. I want to scream and cut his body into little pieces, but instead, I roll tighter against my body, unable to move. “Because you’re the cure for me. A perfect match, since I’m dying.”

“Now you have a replacement. Take your other daughter.”

Chapter Thirty-One

I can’t bear looking at her little body curled up in a ball. My blood boils to a breaking point, but I know what I need to do to make sure we all get out of here alive. Give the girl back that I saved all those years ago…