The Tormentor
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DIRECTLY FROM NAOMI'S NOVEL ON FACEBOOK
🩸THE TORMENTOR🩸
( Blêed•For•Me, Ixora )
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Copyright © 2025 by Naomi Cindy B.
Book 1 in the Mindfûck Trilogy
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CHAPTER 5&6
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Hot sweat ran down Nadine's backline as she's still holding tightly to Ixora's hand.
She wouldn't push Ixora to the wolves...never, but at the same time, her life is on the line here.
The one Warren did to the lecturer is enough confirmation that he's mad.
And besides that, everyone heard the news of his devilish brutality when he was in jail, so no one; no one wants to mess with Lucifer.
She looked forward apprehensively to find Warren's eyes still on her, awaiting a reaction.
Konstantin was smirking, a smirk that says ‘you either push her out right now or you get made into skewers’
Capri is seated on a desk already, his face buried in his phone like he's not part of this madness.
Ashton is busy with his pop, and he darted his blue tongue at her, a sign that he's getting impatient too.
Nadine took a deep shaky breath and was about to untangle her hand from Ixora's when Ixora did it by herself.
Ixora separated their hands and stood, all the fear in her face gone as her eyes landed on Warren too.
If he's gonna hurt anyone, it's gonna be her, not Nadine.
She won't have the innocent person suffer for her sins again.
Boldly, she began walking to the front, straight to him.
The closer she got, the harder her heart pounds like he's controlling the beats with his eyes.
Warren's eyes stayed on her face, and her words in court that fateful day whirred in his head.
“We saw him. We saw him doing the murder. We saw him stabbing Mr. Ortega. I and Evelyn saw him”
The harder the words whirred, the harder his head pounds, the hotter his body heats, the bigger his hate swells.
The urge to put bullets in her lower belly nearly overpowered him, but her saving grace was the burst that happened at the door.
The door bursted open by force, and cops entered the class, ten of them.
The class lights came back on, and Ixora stopped walking.
The guys exchanged glances like they've been expecting this, and Warren just tilted his head to the left, watching the cops with unhinged eyes.
Mrs. Grace Ortega came in last, crying loudly like a widow.
"Get them arrested! I'm very sure they did it! They took Evelyn's body!"
"Mrs. Ortega?" Ixora said surprisingly, and Nadine stood too.
When Mrs. Ortega saw the bleeding professor in front of the class, she gasped.
"Just look at that! Even if he didn't kill Evelyn's father, he's still not innocent! Look what he did to a professor!!" She cried.
Two cops quickly took the professor out of the class for medical attention.
Remorselessly and unapologetically, the guys just watched. No one is as happy as Konstantin right now with the chaos unfolding.
He was grinning as handcuffs were locked on his wrists by the cops.
Warren's head was still tilted as he was cuffed too, then Capri and Ashton received the same cuffs.
They were led out of the class like a bunch of criminals, and just one step before Warren would step out, he looked back at Ixora.
Once again, their eyes met, and the hate she found in his own made her mind spiral hard.
The guys were taken away, and the students finally got their voices back.
"What the heck! I wasn't breathing!" Tina held her chest.
"I don't blame them, they have all right to be like that after what this city did to them" Monty replied, sweeping her hair back.
"So the news of his brutality that we heard when he was in jail... Were all true? He nearly killed a professor and took Evelyn's body?" Serena's eyes were wide as she talked.
"He didn't even look at me, not for once" Kelsey swallowed, falling back on her seat.
The faculty cancelled the remaining classes for today, so students began leaving the class.
Everywhere was loud as Nadine rushed to Ixora, both tucking their MacBooks back into their bags before exiting with the rest.
"You're silent, Xoxo, and I'm uncomfortable with it" Nadine said as they plied the hallway full of bratty noisy students.
Thankfully, the classes walls are soundproof, so their loudness doesn't matter.
"What do you want me to say?" Ixora stopped, facing Nadine.
Nadine held her hands. "I want you to be strong. Yes you're guilty, but you can't turn soft because of that. Where is the Xoxo who beat up three jerky guys for me in highschool?" She said.
"She's probably dead" Ixora replied with a purse of her lips.
"No she's not, you're trying to keep that side of you away and I won't allow it. You're your mother's daughter, don't fret and I promise to stand strong too. You know I get bold when you get bold" Nadine said.
"Look who suddenly became a motivational speaker" Ixora smiled prettily before she knew it.
"No for real, those guys aren't ones to stay soft for" Nadine replied as they finally walked out of the hall together.
"I know, but now that they're with the cops, what do you think is gon' happen?" Ixora asked, descending the front stairs with her.
"Do you even know how powerful their families are? Warren Creed's family owns insane gold mines, Konstantin Barinov is from a Russian conglomerate family, Ashton Smith's family owns top tier winery warehouses in Tennessee, Capri Leo is from a family of big real estate developers. These guys are all gods of sinful riches, trust me. Ion think they'd spend twenty minutes in the station" Nadine said.
"If Warren's family is that powerful, then why did they abandon him and allowed him go to jail? If his friends families are also that powerful, why didn't their families help him?" Ixora curiously asked.
"No one knows, it's deeper than we see" Nadine replied.
"Bullshit" Ixora said.
"Yeah, everything is bullshit in this city with us, the rich" Nadine nodded.
By now they're at the park, and Ixora was about to call Romeo on phone when she saw someone standing beside a black car with a big bouquet of flowers covering his face.
"Who's that?" Nadine wondered loudly.
Ixora knows who it is despite the cover, so she walked up to the person, and he slowly dropped the bouquet from his face.
It's Rafael.
"What are you doing here, dad?" She deadpanned.
"I didn't know Kelsey was your mate, trust me. She looked way older than her age, and I just couldn't hold back" Rafael said, removing the trendy shades he's wearing.
He's a very handsome man, his eyes are same shade as Ixora's.
Ixora might have his eyes, but the blonde hair and pointed nose is from her mother Stonia.
"And you think bringing me flowers would soothe me? I just lost my friend" Ixora replied with a frown.
Rafael quickly dropped the bouquet on the ground and kicked it away.
"I'm so sorry,, just drive with me and eat brunch. The maids at your mom's mansion called that you didn't eat breakfast so eat with me" he said.
Ixora groaned, but then Nadine stepped in.
"You should go get something to eat, I'll go home too" she said.
"We'll see when?" Ixora faced her.
"Tina's party tonight" Nadine replied, and Ixora blinked.
"Evelyn died last night and you're talking about party? C'mon"
"We need somewhere to purge our frustrations, at least till her body would be found" Nadine insisted.
"I'll give you a ride to the party tonight, and when you're done, I'll come pick you" Rafael offered.
"Fine" Ixora nodded, then Romeo came rushing, sweating and panting.
He ran three halls before getting here when Bethel told him she saw Ixora at the park.
"Oh, it's the driver×bodyguard" Rafael said, and Romeo gave him a bow before facing Ixora.
"You're going with him?" He asked.
"Yeah, take my car home with you and come pick me at my dad's mansion tomorrow morning. I'll be spending the night there" Ixora replied, and Rafael smiled.
"Alright" Romeo creased his brows,, and Ixora hopped into Rafael's car.
They drove out same time with Nadine, and Romeo just stood there, watching the departing cars till Bethel joined him.
"Thank gawd I'll get the chance to ride in Ixora's car with you!" She squealed, and Romeo faced her.
"What are you doing here? You have classes" he said strictly, and she held his arm.
"Cancelled. All science faculty classes have been cancelled cos of Evelyn's death. A professor got hurt too from those notorious guys" she said.
Romeo took his arm from her and began walking away.
"Romeo can we go to Tina's party tonight?" She rushed after him.
No reply.
"Romeo!!" She stumped her foot as she followed him like a clingy cat.
Serena and Kelsey emerged from their building, and while Kelsey still looks zoned out about Warren's new personality, Serena looks excited.
"Aunt Stonia loves cream puffs, so since the whole of today is free, I'm going home to make some and take it to her office" she said.
"Good for you" Kelsey muttered, her mind and soul still tightly trapped with Warren.
She's going crazy, for real.
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[District Police Station]
"Tell us where you kept Evelyn Ortega's body" the cop in front of Warren demanded, and Warren just stared blankly at him.
They're in a cube room which is obviously the interrogation room, and the stuffiness here is making him want to burst the testicles of the cop and feed it to Falsus — his dove.
His friends are in different rooms, receiving this same interrogation, but he's very sure they won't get anything from them too.
Even if they were the ones who took the body, they still wouldn't talk, but now that they're not the ones who took the body, it's even worse.
Evelyn's body went missing?
Seems they're not the only ones she messed with after all.
"Where did you keep Evelyn Ortega's body!" The cop slammed his palms on the table demandingly.
Warren looked down at the cuffs on his wrist, then back at the cop.
"You expect me to talk to you with this shit right here?" He said.
"Criminals are meant to be treated like criminals, and you're a thick one, a devil!" The cop yelled, and Warren rested back on his chair, looking intrigued.
"Devil? Sounds sweet, you're cute" he whispered, frustrating the cop when more.
"Why did you try to kill the professor?" The cop asked.
"Tried to kill him?" Warren smirked, leaning forward on the desk, "I only stabbed him in a non-dangerous spot to shut him up, and that's why he survived. If I wanted to kill him, I'd have targeted his jugular or windpipe, he wouldn't last a minute"
"Where is Evelyn's body?" The cop tried again.
"Where is the evidence that I and my friends took Evelyn's body?" Warren questioned, and the cop went silent.
"This same thing happened three years ago! Evelyn claimed I killed her father, and I was arrested without evidence, no proof! The idiot Ixora testified that she's an eyewitness. She told y'all that she and Evelyn saw me doing the murder, and that was enough for y'all to imprison me for three fuckin years! Now I'm out and I got arrested for stealing her body without proof again? You bloody diçks!" He stood, kicking the table at the cop who quickly shifted.
The table fell heavily, shaking the whole cube room.
"I didn't kill Evelyn, but you better guard her mother well, and also assign securities to Ixora's parents cos those three are my new targets, and Ixora herself is my biggest pet. I'll bring her blood to you in a keg" he said seamlessly, and the cop's eyes widened.
The door opened, letting another cop in.
"Let him go, his father is here" he said, giving Warren a savvy look.
Warren's cuffs were unlocked, and he was led out of the room to the outside office.
In the middle of the office is a man on a wheelchair with a maid behind him who's obviously in charge of pushing the wheelchair.
He's still in his early sixties, but his hair is all grey. His eyes looks clear even without glasses, and the evil inside those eyes is lucid.
He's wearing a black Tang suit, and a small smile curved his face when he saw Warren.
He's Elder Creed, head of the Creed family, and at the same time the most important man in this city.
Warren's father.
He's a philanthropist who helps the poor and feeds the homeless, so he's respected, but his facade can only deceive people who don't know him.
Warren has known this man all his life, and his deeds are darker than midnight.
He's the same man who watched him go to jail three years ago without lifting a finger to help.
Elder Creed is a devil in a wheelchair, typically, metaphorically, literally, and every other llys existing.
"This is all shades of wrong. He was confirmed innocent so why arrest him again when you have no evidence that he stole the body?" Elder Creed said.
The commissioner — a bulky man, quickly rushed out of his office to meet the old man.
"We're very sorry, Elder. It was a groundless arrest and we'd fix it" he apologized respectfully and faced Warren.
"We're very sorry, Warren" he patted his shoulder, but Warren glared, and his hand fell from Warren's shoulder immediately.
Konstantin, Capri and Ashton were released out of the cube rooms too.
Konstantin was laughing at the cops as they went out, leaving Warren with his father.
"The golden rule says no matter how mad this city makes us, we would never kill the innocent" Ashton said when they got outside.
"Yes, and?" Konstantin stopped laughing.
"Then why the hell would War burn the slût down with the cabin? I wouldn't have known if I didn't see the update of the burnt cabin from Capri's family tabloids" Ashton said, looking dead serious.
"He burnt her with the cabin cos she's not innocent" Capri spoke.
"What do you mean?" Ashton frowned, and Konstantin showed him something on his phone.
It's the soft-copy of the cleanness test result of the slût.
"Check her surname" Konstantin said, and Ashton checked it out keenly.
His muscles calmed immediately he saw the surname. "Oh...for real?"
"For real, fûcker." Capri replied.
Elder Creed was wheeled out of the station by his maid, and Warren followed them behind, holding his leather jacket already.
"Leaving me in jail for three years worked, congratulations" he said, and the maid pushed the wheelchair back, making the man face Warren.
"I willingly killed last night, and it felt mad good. I enjoyed it" Warren said, his lips doing the press like it does whenever he's mad.
Elder Creed smiled slightly. "Good, leaders aren't supposed to be cowards" he said.
Warren jaws contracted.
"Be at the family house tonight, it's mandatory" Elder Creed said again before telling the maid to move the wheelchair.
He was giving the rest of the boys disgusted looks as he was taken to his car.
"Careful, Elder. I have a thing for killing oldies just to see how worn-out their ball sacks are" Konstantin sneered at him.
The maid pushed the old man into the car which drove away eventually.
"Are you gonna go to your family house tonight for real?" Ashton spoke curiously.
"Who took Evelyn's body?" Warren replied with another question.
No one talked, meaning they're all in the dark about it.
"We'll have to find out" Capri said.
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[Chocolata Maxima]
Chocolata Maxima is presently the largest chocolate company in the world, owned by Stonia Martinez.
After she was stepped down as vice-president that year, she wanted something to take her mind away from her political career, and she hopped on chocolates which bloomed more than she expected.
She's got branches in several countries, and of course the Cali branch is the biggest.
Serena came down from her car in front of the sky-high building, holding a Tupperware snack box.
She really went home to make the cream puffs, and she's hoping Stonia finishes it.
She was allowed in by securities, and as she entered the elevator, she got a call from Kelsey.
"Hey, bae!" She excitedly picked.
"Are we attending Tina's party? Kelsey asked.
"Are you even asking? Of course! I wanna know what that bimbo is up to this time" Serena replied.
"Fine, I'll pick my dress. I really need something to take my mind off Warren" Kelsey said, hanging up.
Serena came out at Stonia's floor and easily opened her office door
"You're fired! Knock before coming in how is that a problem?" Stonia said strictly without looking up from the chocolates textures she's examining.
"Aunt Stonia, it's me!" Serena smiled, and she looked up.
"Serena? What are you doing here!"
"We got free day cos of Evelyn's death, so I came" Serena walked in to hug the tall woman.
"You could have had fun with your friends instead" Stonia said.
"I made you cream puffs" Serena opened the snack box, and Stonia gasped.
"Wow!"
"Here" Serena fed her one, smiling as Stonia took a large bite.
"Mmm! When did you get so good at culinary? This is delicious!" Stonia complimented.
"You rarely smile, aunt, so I'd do anything to put a smile on your face. You've been the one taking care of me since my parents died, so I say this is a sense of appreciation" she said.
"Stop it, Serena. Your late father was my junior brother so who'd take care of you if not me?" Stonia said, gesturing with her left hand as she took another bite.
"By the way where's my love? You should have come with her" She said.
"Oh...I saw her leaving school with her dad earlier" Serena said, and that was enough to switch Stonia's mood.
Her eyes went wide with sudden fury as she dropped the cream puff.
"Rafael took my daughter?"
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[7pm, Tina's Mansion]
Tina Quinns nickname should be EXTRA, majorly because she goes extra on everything especially parties.
Her family own Quinns petroleum and gas, and they control the import and export in the whole of Cali.
She lives separately from her parents in a paradise-level mansion in Beverly Hills, and that's where her open air parties happen each time.
Tina's parties are irresistible, starting from the music to the sèx, down to the drinks. Tina goes hard.
Romeo came in with Bethel hanging on his arm like candy. He agreed to come after she nearly murdered him with pestering at home.
"Geez! I wish to spend just one day in this mansion! It's so beautiful!" Bethel gushed, looking around as her short tulle gown swirled on her waist.
"Don't leave my side, ILC guys are dangerous, you can't be caught roaming alone" Romeo replied.
"I know, just stop frowning you're killing my mood" she grumbled.
They were about to enter the crowd when everyone suddenly started making ways, gushing, gasping and screaming.
Romeo pulled Bethel closer to his side as they shifted aside too to see what's going on.
It's Tina, making her grand entry on a white horse.
Her Kim Kardashian-inspired outfit probably costs a fortune, and she looks like she bathed with baby oil with the gloss on her skin.
* That's just... Extra.
* What's Tina without the extra?
* Clout chaser.
* She's gorgeous though.
Serena and Kelsey are only just coming in, and they had to stop at the door when they saw what's going on.
"A horse at a party?" Kelsey gasped, "She's overdoing it"
Serena couldn't even talk, she looks gagged.
The pouring music is so loud and deafening, shaking the air and stealing the night as Tina's securities helped her down from her horse.
As the lights from the clustered chandeliers bathed her face, she sighted Romeo and gave him a little eye twitch.
'He came!' She screamed in her mind, staring at him.
It's rare to see Romeo at a party.
"Aren't you a little too into this poor guy?" Monty said boringly, coming to stand beside her.
Her short hair is free tonight since she's not wearing a beanie.
"I don't care, I'd give him my trust fund if he asked" Tina replied, and Monty shook her head.
"Those wannabes came?" Tina said, her expression souring when she saw Serena and Kelsey.
"It's your party, Tina. Everyone comes" Monty replied, drinking from her large can of beer.
Tina recoiled in irritation, her hands gripping the rails beside her. She can't stand Kelsey in particular.
Everyone in ILC knows they're sworn enemies, and everyone also knows the reason.
"Do you have a list of the guys Kelsey fuçked during Warren's jail term?" Tina smirked.
"What do you think? I'm a blogger for a reason" Monty shrugged.
"Good, I'm sending it to Warren" Tina took Monty's beer, gulping it all.
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Serena and Kelsey got themselves drinks and went to a shallow corner to stay, watching the party from there.
"Tina's entrance will be the talk of the campus tomorrow, and I hate it" Kelsey complained, but Serena is in another world entirely.
"Trust me if Ixora tries to spend the night at her dad's mansion, aunt Stonia is gonna get angry at her and I can't wait" she said
"Can you pause this obsession with your aunt tonight? Please!" Kelsey cut her off.
"No. I want Aunt Stonia to be my mum, duhh" Serena rolled eyes.
Kelsey looked around for any sign of the Satan's Heirs, but she got none.
"Am I the only one who noticed Bronx is absent from this party?" Serena spoke.
Bronx is the campus delinquent, a ruthless bully.
"He's probably somewhere lurking" Kelsey replied, and when her eyes met with Tina's, she glared.
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At exactly 8:30, Ixora and Nadine came in together — Rafael was the one who drove them here.
They exchanged impressed looks at the entrance when they saw the rave, the rage of the party.
"Oh!!!" Ixora pulled Nadine inside, forgetting about anything else at that moment.
They both picked their unopened cans of lemonade at the bar.
~Never drink an already opened drink at a party.
They jumped on the dance floor to exhaust the excess flow of epinephrine in their systems.
They forgot about Evelyn's missing body, they forgot about their school grades, about Satan's Heirs, about everything else.
They just lived the night, moved with the flow and got lost in it. Sweat covered them before they knew it.
Ixora's blonde hair stood out, flowing gorgeously. Not like she's the only blonde here, but hers is a rare shade.
"Ixora?" Romeo's voice suddenly cut into their lost moment, and Ixora turned around to see him in the dancefloor too.
"Romeo?" She smiled surprisingly and began walking to him.
Romeo began walking to her too, but suddenly...
Suddenly, it came crawling over her like a nest of snakes.
The chills, the coldness, the awareness, just like how she felt it in class earlier.
He's here.
Warren is definitely here in this dancefloor too!
She stopped walking and turned around, but that was when every single lights in the house went off, earning a conjuncted groan from students.
* Fûck it! Tina seriously?
* What is wrong with the lights!
Pitch darkness filled the house, like total darkness, and Ixora's cup of lemonade fell as different bodies pressed on hers in the dark.
She could still feel the chills — in fact, it got worse.
Meaning; Warren is still in here with her, in the dark! What if he's behind her? What if he's right in front of her right now?
That thought alone made her heart beat out of line, threatening to tear out of her chest.
"Nadine!" She called, fear evident in her voice as more drunk bodies pressed on hers.
"Nadine!!" Her voice went high-pitched as the darkness choked her, clawed her, stamped her.
She was about to make another twisted turn when someone grabbed her waist from behind.
Adrenaline rush took over her like never before.
She threw her arms in all directions, punching, kicking, slapping and hitting the person repeatedly.
"Let me go satan!! Let go of me!! Don't touch!! Let go!!!!!!!"
She was screaming as she poured her fear into the body of her holder. She even bit him, tasting metallic as the person's blood spread on her tongue.
It was a fight for her life in the dark, but then the lights came back on, relieving her from the snare, and her hands dropped shockingly when she saw who she has been hitting.
It's Romeo.
His lips are bursted, and his right eye socket is black with a round swell, he's having a nosebleed too.
All other students are staring at Ixora like she's a freak, and her palms went balled when she realized what she had done.
"Xoxo!" Nadine rushed over.
"Romeo!" Tina stepped in.
Ixora's phone bleeped, and with a slamming chest, she took it out to see a new text glaring at her.
• I enjoyed the beatings you gave your poor driver, but next time when the lights go off, try to hit and punch harder, because by then, it'd be ME against YOU. Just us.
With ease, the phone slipped and fell from Ixora, and the screen cracked.
At the same time, Warren left the party as secretly as he came, using the backdoor.
TBC.
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