TheTormentor
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🩸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 17&18
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When Ixora went missing as a kid and she found herself at the mill, she wasn't scared despite the newness of the environment since there was at least another kid to play with, but now?
She felt tremors at each step she took towards the devil, and the dim light on the alter began flickering as if unwrapping the underlying layers of his mysteriousness.
Her throat closed up on nothing, and her palm turned sweaty on the wall she's tracing it on, leaving damp imprints.
She wouldn't have guessed that the space between them was this long, It seems like it's stretching with every tick of the clock.
Warren's steps got wider when they were about to walk into each other, and the night air slammed one of the weak church windows on the hinges, making the weak wood scatter across the ground.
As if possessed, the flickering alter light also went off, leaving the church in total darkness.
Ixora froze, and her hand found the knife in her pocket, holding the handle and trying to stabilize her heartbeats at the same time.
She was about to start wondering what kinda sick game he's trying to play when she remembered his text at Tina's party...
“Next time when the lights go off, try to hit and punch harder, because by then, it'd be ME against YOU. Just us”
Those text words resounded in her skull, and she finally pulled the knife out of her skirt.
Before she could even balance the knife in her hand, she got hit from behind, by her waist.
The hit threw her forward, and she landed hard on the ground, the knife slipping off her hand, but she was able to find it with her second hand.
She took it and stood, her breaths hot as they filtered out of her nostrils.
"Stay calm, calculate, and you'll outshine your enemies even in the dark"
Those were her mother's words during their taekwondo trainings.
She relaxed her bones, then exhaled slowly, turning around when she heard movements behind her.
She attacked with the knife, but she definitely missed her target cos another movement happened in front of her immediately, and her stomach was hit this time.
She didn't fall, she only winced sharply before swinging the knife to the front, but it seems tonight isn't her night at all.
She crashed into a chair, falling to the ground for the second time.
Multiple lights came on in the church immediately, and she saw him again.
He's back at the alter, standing with a muddled smirk like he's not the one who just hit her twice.
She spranged up and climbed a long bench, folding her right knee before jumping down, going for him.
Before she could get to him, he switched position, so she switched weapon too.
Instead of the knife, she used her fist, throwing a blow towards his ribcage, but Warren is like a frog, always slipping away.
He grabbed her arm, and the extra coldness of his palm froze her first before he threw her off.
She landed on the ground for the third time, rolling towards the stair.
"Argh!" She whimpered as her ankle sprained.
Warren glanced at her over his shoulder with another smirk, but she took advantage of the fall and rolled to his legs, raising the knife to stab his calve.
Oh well...that was another mistake.
Using his boot, Warren kicked the knife away from her, raising it up.
He caught it in his palm and squatted, bringing the knife down to her throat.
Ixora's eyes screwed shut, ready to take the kill as her chest rose and fell, but it never came.
She opened her eyes slowly, and she saw him staring down at her, his eyes creepy and empty... And hateful.
"I'm... sorry" she muttered.
He examined the knife in his hand like a specimen, running his finger pads through the blade before speaking in resonating deepness...
"I could have jammed it into your throat just now. I could have killed you, dismember your body then dump the parts in different seas, but my pet dove would have your eyes. That bird loves human eyes for unknown reasons"
Ixora went silent under his eyes, she could hear her own heart pounding in her red ears as a result of fear.
That's true, she almost died right now despite the fact that she's with a gun.
"But then...that won't be fun, would it?" He spoke again.
"Huh?" She sounded, and he stood tall.
"Get up" he ordered.
Ixora rolled back to her feet, standing in front of him and wondering how tall is the devil since he's surely looking at the middle of her head right now.
Intrusive thoughts.
He threw her knife back to her, and she caught it by the blade.
It gave her a cut on the palm, and it stung, but she kept it hidden as he turned around and pressed a switch by the wall.
The dim alter light turned bright, and she was surprised to see a full table of seafood, waiting right there.
"What's that...doing here?" She asked, giving him a short look.
"Sit down, and eat" he replied, and she frowned.
"I hate seafood, I don't eat it. Why would I even eat?"
"And when did you hear me say you have a choice?" He replied with a snarky glare, and she cleared her throat.
He walked to the left chair of the dinning and took his seat, smartly.
Ixora remained standing, even when he wore plastic gloves and began eating the crabs.
"If by the next second you're still there, the fan above you will crash on your head" he spoke without looking up.
Ixora didn't wait to sight the fan before limping to sit opposite him on the table.
She grabbed a cup of water, drinking for what looks like centuries.
"The water," he said, looking up.
Ixora paused the glass of water on her lips, sweat dancing on her face.
"There's sufficient amount of poison in it, enough to kill you in three minutes" he cruelly spoke, and she choked on the water as the glass cup fell from her, cracking to pieces.
She inserted two fingers into her throat, vomiting the water she drank immediately.
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[Gravesite]
Monty still hasn't left.
She's still laying on the ashes, and Tina is still with her, consoling her.
It's already half past ten, but it doesn't seem like Monty is gonna go home at all.
In the middle of her sorrow and wail, someone is happy as hell.
Bronx stood on top of his car roof not far from the gravesite, watching with joy since there are bright lights in the site, so he's clearly seeing her.
There's a cigar on his lips, and he's flipping his zippo repeatedly as he watched with excitement and thrill.
Nothing beats the joy of watching a bîtch pay for her sins. The satisfaction is unrivaled.
The man at the brotherhood actually told him that Monty's dead father was, and is still her only weakness.
That's why he went as far as uprooting his body to burn with the coffin.
Though, he can't exactly call it a body since only his bones were in the coffin he burnt.
Anyways, to hell with him for having a crappy daughter like Monty who messed with him.
He finished smoking the blunt on his lips and sat on the roof, getting his cigar pack out of his pocket to take another, but there's none.
He entered his car with hopes of going to buy another pack, but when he checked his account, it's 00.00.
Zero funds.
"Fuckin hell, seriously? Why would my father freeze my active bank account? Why!!!" He punched his window, breaking it and wounding his knuckles for the hundredth time.
"I should manage my car gas till Monday when I'll be able to rip cash from the shitty students" he sighed.
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[Ford Salon]
Romeo already retired to his room since 8 after they closed the saloon.
Mr. Ford is fast asleep in bed, but Romeo is sitting by the wall in front of a small table, solving the assignments from his professor on Friday.
He's a Mathematics major.
His ink was running nonstop on the paper as he solved the problems, his glasses intact over his eyes.
He yawned lightly, then he got a bar of chocolate from a bowl which he unwrapped and three in his mouth.
Ixora gives him the chocolate bars a lot since her mum is the alpha of chocolate production anyways.
He shortly finished up the assignment and dropped his pen, cracking his fingers before removing his glasses.
He took his phone and was about to text his mother when someone snatched the phone from him.
He looked up, and it turned out to be Bethel.
"When did you get here? And return my phone" he said, but she hid it behind herself.
He gripped her, turned her around and snatched the phone.
"But you can't text her, we're forbidden from calling or texting her till she gets her day off and comes visiting. Don't get her in trouble with that crippled man" Bethel said.
"Go back to your room" Romeo replied.
"But you won't call her" she said, and he grinded his jaws.
"Fine" she hunched her shoulders, leaving the room.
Romeo took a deep breath, giving up on the text before visiting his gallery.
There are tons of his pictures with Bethel which she actually forced him to snap, and there are some with his dad and even his mum.
But there's only one picture of Ixora.
He had snapped it on the night of their freshman party when she got drunk and slept off in the car when he was driving her home.
He stared at her face for so long on his screen, his eyes going from her plump lips to her pointed nose, evenly toned skin and perfect jawline.
He smiled broadly before he knew it, then he made the picture his home screen wallpaper.
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[Ortega Mansion]
Mrs. Ortega is just coming from the club where she went to drink herself to stupor.
She managed to drive the car into the driveway, then she pushed the door open with her leg, crawling out of the car on all fours before laughing audibly.
"Evelyn... Evelyn why did you have to leave? Why??" She sat on the ground, taking another bottle of alcohol from the car which she gulped.
"Why did you have to leave Evelyn!! I miss you so much? Who the hell took your body" she muttered.
A creaky sound from the gate made her look up, and she squinted when she saw three figures coming in.
Her drunkenness blurred her sight, so she can't even see their faces, she just knows they're three.
One of them crouched in front of her, waving a finger tauntingly.
"Hi, Mrs. Ortega... Why don't you come cool your feet in our hometown for a while" he said, and the next thing she felt was a hit on her throat
Blackout.
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[Chapel Of Silence]
Ixora just finished vomiting the water, and she even vomited blood along with it.
It stained the table, her pullover and the cracked ground.
Immediately she finished vomiting it all, Warren took the same glass of water she drank from.
He drank from it and swallowed, making her eyes widen a bit.
"There's no poison, you just wanted to watch me suffer" she muttered.
"Smart deduction" he replied, his right brow twitching at every word he said.
It's always like that when he talks—the right brow twitch thingy.
"Yunno you can just send me back to jail to serve three years like you did, right? All of these ain't necessary." she said, her lips bloodstained.
"Where is the fun in that?" He replied, and she angrily pushed the chair beside her away.
"So you only do things that are fun to you even if it means killing or shooting someone's mother? You'll do anything to chase pleasure, are you a hedonist?"
"Touché" he replied, shoving a crab leg into his mouth, and she went silent.
"But I'm calling a truce right here" he said, standing to his feet and rounding the table to come to her.
Ixora stayed still, and he looked down at her like a mere subject under him.
"Truce?" She blinked.
"Told you to bring a knife to put your abilities to test, and I'm quiet impressed. I'm willing to bury the hatchet and let go of you. We could be friends" he said, and she blinked rapidly again.
"Friends? Why? Why are you suddenly letting go? Weren't you determined to make me cry blood?"
"I've tasted your blood, and it's bitter, seeing you cry that would ruin my eyes" he replied without mincing words.
"I still don't understand" she said, her eyes uncertain.
"Mark the location of this place, you'll need it, I'll see you in campus on Monday" he said, turning around and leaving the church just like that.
Ixora remained where she's standing for one more minute before coming back to realization, then she rushed out, but he was already gone.
She watched the surroundings of the church for a while before deciding to leave too, mulling over what he said.
Friendship?
Out of the blues?
Even as she drove down the granite, she couldn't stop thinking about his sudden switch, till she arrived at Nadine's place at past 11pm.
Nadine was already waiting for her in front of the gate, and she was the one who opened the compound gate for her too.
Ixora drove in, and when she came out of the car, Nadine hugged her tightly.
"I was scared, I thought he was gonna maim you or something" she said.
Ixora smiled, hugging her back.
She's same height as Nadine, but Nadine is slim and has a smaller body.
"You thought he was gonna kill me?" She said.
"Of course, who meets a devil in an old abandoned church?" Nadine replied, breaking the hug.
"He called a truce and asked to be friends" Ixora replied, and Nadine blinked thrice.
"What! Friends? Warren? Friends?"
"I was shocked too" Ixora said.
"Your mum called, I told her you were in the bathroom" Nadine replied, pulling her inside.
Nadine's parents are business moguls who rarely stay home, and they're not home tonight too as usual.
Getting to Nadine's white room, Ixora had her warm bath and talked to her parents on phone before falling in bed with Nadine, both cuddling.
"I think Warren was drunk when he said that, let's wait till tomorrow when he'll call and tell you he didn't mean it" Nadine mumbled sleepily.
"I'll be expecting that" Ixora replied sleepily too, covering then both with the warm comforter.
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[Next Day, Satan's Heirs Hideaway]
Warren is aware that Ixora didn't sleep in her mother's mansion last night, cos he monitored her life cameras throughout, and she didn't appear in any of it.
That only leaves one possibility; She slept in Nadine's place.
He left the scan room and went downstairs where the rest of the guys are sitting around leisurely.
When he was busy with Ixora in the church last night, they went to take Mrs. Ortega, and the woman is currently tied up in their backup building.
"How was it? Did pet girl fall into the trap?" Ashton asked.
"It's too early to decide that when I'm only just starting" Warren replied, looking bored as he opened a drawer on the center table, bringing out a wrap of Ecstasy pills.
He swallowed one of the pills, shutting his eyes and allowing it to take control of him.
"I bet she has no idea what's cooking for her, and I can't wait to watch where this is going" Capri said.
"Who payed you to say that? You rarely talk especially early in the morning" Warren replied.
"Blame the weather" Capri shrugged.
"I'm not in support of this change of plans, but what can I say? I'll just try to stay calm till the climax" Konstantin said.
And that was followed by the opening of the door.
No one can open the door except the guys and one other person... Matron.
She came into the hideaway, holding a black basket of breakfast.
"I was starving! Matron marry me" Konstantin said, and the woman rolled eyes at him as she dropped the basket on the table.
"You're the best, Matron" Ashton gave her a thumbs up.
Capri winked at her, and she sighed.
"Y'all should dress up for church" she said.
Konstantin was the first to stand, he grabbed the basket of breakfast.
"Not happening, I'll catch fire before I even step into the church" he said and entered the kitchen.
"My wife, wait!" Ashton went after him, picking his pops from the ground.
Capri waved simply at the woman before entering the kitchen with them too.
Matron sat beside Warren whose eyes are still closed on the couch, then he took the wrapped pill in front of him and sighed as she checked it out.
"You took E pills again? I told you to lessen your intake. It's affecting your mental health" she said.
His eyes opened slowly, and the way it's madly red even scared Matron, but she didn't shift back.
Instead, she rested her head on his chest, listening to his heartbeats.
"It's been a week since I last used it, chill" he said, his voice drawling since he's so fuçking high right now.
"And about the girl,, can you promise me not to go extreme? She was only 16 when she gave the testimony, maybe we can blame it on immaturity. Go easy on her" she said.
"Easy? I hate that word, so just get off the topic." He replied, laying on the couch and shutting his eyes again.
Matron sighed and got up, not waiting to even get her basket before leaving the hideaway.
He has never listened to her even when he was the one who raised him.
She got back in her car in front of the house and dialled Lydia.
"Matron?" Lydia's voice came.
"Can you tell Elder that I want my day off for this month to be tomorrow? I miss my kids" she said.
"I'll do that, and aren't you supposed to be in church?" Lydia replied.
"I brought food to Warren" Matron said, and then a pause happened.
"Yunno... sometimes I wonder if Warren and your first son are twins. You give them same amount of affection, but it's sad that your son dislikes Warren" Lydia said.
"I'll see you when I get back from church, Lydia" Matron said and hung up, dropping her phone before driving out.
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[2PM, Eden Meet-out]
The relaxation center is exclusive, but Serena and Kelsey get their bookings anytime they come cos they're VIPs.
Kelsey was already seated, eating gelato from a cup when Serena arrived.
"You took too long, we said 1:30" Kelsey said.
"Sorry babes, but my aunt was stalling me, telling me to do things for her before allowing me to leave" Serena replied.
"Your aunt Stonia? Why? Are you a slave?" Kelsey dropped her cup.
"She maltreats me, what were you expecting? I'm not her golden girl" Serena scoffed, ordering her own cup of gelato.
"We have to do something about that girl, I can't stand her" Kelsey said.
Serena's cup arrived, and when she took it to start eating, thunderbolt entered the place in person of Monty.
Monty came in with Tina, and she dragged Kelsey up from her chair, giving her a blinding punch.
Kelsey fell blindly on the floor, her eyes turning.
"You threatened to ruin me till students will start contributing funds for me, but when you weren't able to do that, you went to my father's grave to uproot his body and even burned it, how dare you, stray dog!" Monty yelled, matching Kelsey repeatedly with her hardtack sneaker sole before kicking her to the surrounding chairs.
Kelsey bled from the nose and the side of her eye.
"Stop it! Monty! Stop!!" Serena yelled, and that was replied with a slap from Tina.
"What the fûck!" Serena held her face.
"You did it with her, didn't you? Kelsey wouldn't do anything without involving you so you definitely partook in burning the body!" Tina snapped, and Serena began crying like her natural talent.
Monty picked one of the chairs and was about to crash it down on Kelsey's head when someone held the chair midair.
"Uncle Rafael?" Serena said when she saw the face.
She quickly rushed to hide behind him as he continued holding the chair, preventing Monty from bringing it down on Kelsey.
"If you hit her with that, you'd vomit murder" Rafael said.
"I don't care!!!" Monty raged.
"I don't even know where you buried your fuckin father, so cut your crap!" Kelsey said, standing from the ground.
"You're lying" Monty muttered.
"She's not lying, Kelsey knows nothing about it so find your suspect elsewhere" Serena said behind Rafael.
Monty let go of the chair, then she waltzed out of the center with Tina.
"Thanks for saving me, Mr. Rhodes" Kelsey said, blood running down her face.
Rafael didn't even reply her before facing Serena.
"You should keep better friends, find a friend like Nadine, not a whore like her" he said, leaving the center.
He actually came for a meeting with an associate and was exiting when he saw them and intervened.
"Did he just tell me to find a friend like Nadine? Ixora's bestie? How is that related to me why must everything about me be compared to Ixora!" Serena shouted.
Kelsey was cleaning the blood on her face, but as she cleaned, it leaked, and the desire to hurt Monty only grew stronger.
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[Monday, Imperial Levels College]
Ixora still couldn't get her mind off Saturday's night occurrence as she got driven into the school by Romeo.
Even throughout Sunday—yesterday, she couldn't get a hang of it either.
Why would Warren suddenly extend hands of friendship to her of all people?
Nadine said he was drunk and he'd call back yesterday to say he didn't mean it, but it never happened, and that only upped her restlessness.
Romeo pulled up at the school park, and they came out of the car at the same time.
Nadine was already waiting beside her car at the park since she came earlier.
"Xoxo!" She waved brightly, and Ixora was about going to her when Romeo held her back.
"This fell from your hair" he said, showing her the hairpin on his palm.
She must have been too lost in thoughts to even realize her hairpin fell out.
"Oh...thanks" she said, and instead of giving it to her, he inserted it in her hair by himself.
"We'll have to run, our class starts in ten" Nadine said, but before Ixora could reply, she saw three out of the four devils'
Ashton, Konstantin and Capri.
They're walking towards their building, and she couldn't help but notice Capri is a neat freak.
His clothes are always excessively ironed, and he loves wearing turtle necked shirts under his jackets.
Konstantine is obsessed with white shirts despite his dark heart.
And Ashton doesn't have a special dress sense, he just wears whatever he chooses.
"They're not complete" Nadine said.
And as if to confirm her words, Warren's car drove into the park, stopping right beside them.
Nadine had to move aside as he came out of it, dressed in black and one of his numerous leather jackets, studded with gold.
He gave Romeo a sour face before coming for Ixora.
He hung his arm on her shoulder, and she looked up.
"What's this?" She muttered.
"Aren't we friends?" He replied, his eyes literally wringing her.
"Wait...you were serious?" She replied, confusion coating her voice.
"If inviting you to a church at 10pm to talk is a joke to you, then you must be dense" he replied.
"I'm not dense" she replied.
"Then follow, like a friend" he replied glaringly, pulling her along.
The hairpin fell from her hair again.
She looked back at Nadine, and Nadine bit her lip with no idea of what to say.
Students had to stop their walkings to stare too, especially Kelsey who's just coming out of her car with Serena.
Her eyes are too wide. "You've gotta be kidding me"
"Wait ... What's going on?" Serena said in confusion.
Romeo picked the fallen hairpin from the ground, then he walked briskly to them and blocked their way.
He took Ixora's hand and tried pulling her away from Warren's tight grip, but Warren didn't let go of her shoulders.
His hold hardened, and her skin pores felt it.
"Let me make this clear, Romeo Ford. You're not allowed to walk the path I walk, In and out of campus, no matter who you fuckin are" Warren warned.
"I'll make this clear too, Warren Creed. I am her school bodyguard, and i dunno what your scallywag self is planning to achieve by suddenly making her a friend, but I will not stay and watch" Romeo warned back.
From the window of the Off Limits Nest, the three others stood, watching interestedly like the rest of the students.
"Insane bars" Ashton chuckled.
Capri stayed silent.
"I might love this new game more than I should" Konstantin muttered with a shit-eating grin.
TBC
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