Hellbound Heart

TW: This chapter contains content that some readers may find disturbing. Reader discretion is advised.

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A/N: This chapter is a flashback. It's a bit more detailed compared to Zeke's narration in HWY. I decided to include it as a flashback for the new readers who have not read the first book, Hellbound With You(since I did promise that this book, HH, could be read as standalone). And for the readers from HWY, there will be new details/information that you will learn in this flashback.

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Just the mere sight of that silver haired woman approaching his cell had instantly sent Sebastian hurtling back into the past. Back to that horrid past which was worse than any nightmare that one can ever have.

Sebastian would then see her again. That monster. On the outside, it might look as though she was a lady. But it was just an outer skin that hid the ugliness and depraved monster she was on the inside. And all he had wanted was... to slaughter her. To tear and flay her into pieces without mercy. To torture her in the most painful way possible until she begs for death.

But unfortunately, he was bound by chains that had been bespelled. He was powerless against her. She was too strong to be defeated by a young vampire like him. He had tried countless times before, but had miserably failed with every single attempt he had taken.

The female monster slowly squatted on the ground and her filthy hand reached out to touch his chin. She seemed to have an intranet obsession for him.

"Are you still stubbornly waiting for your dearest older brother who had escaped all by himself and left you behind, my little prince?" she whispered. Her voice was like disgusting slime that has been poured down his back, causing his skin to pucker and shrivel up with a nasty reaction.

"You better... prepare yourself once... he's back... you... filthy witch! He won't let you off for what you've done!" Sebastian hissed but she only smiled back at him as though his warning did not worry her in the least.

"I have news for you, my beautiful little prince." She drawled as her thumb began to caress his lips. "Prince Ezekiel has been caught and right now, he's barely even half alive."

Sebastian smirked and hissed. "You think I'd believe your lies, you whore witch?"

The woman laughed. Her sinister yet strangely melodious laughter echoing in the dungeon, before travelling further into the darkness.

"Whore..." she echoed as though that one word was something so amusing. "Now I'm even more motivated to really make you into my exclusive handsome whore, Sebastian. I had been dreaming of the day when you would finally accept this fate that you were born to become my whore –"

He spat at her face and snarled ferociously. "I'd rather die, you filthy monster!" Sebastian then pulled hard at the chains and trashed around wildly, not caring that

But the woman threw her head back and laughed somewhat maniacally. Instead of being angered, she licked off Sebastian's spit on her face, causing him to feel his stomach churn violently and the nausea rise, threatening to send the contents of his stomach decorating the floor..

"I'm never going to let that happen. Your life and body have been mine for a long while now, and I don't have any plans on letting my possession turn into bones and ashes. You're mine forever, Sebastian..." And when she moved forward to kiss him, he retaliated by biting her lip so hard and used everything he had in him to tear it away like he was an animal tearing apart a prey's flesh.

The woman's reaction was to scream out so loud. The agonized sound made Sebastian smile in satisfaction.

But his smile did not last that long because the witch had been fast to cast a healing spell on her torn flesh. And then she struck him. Hard. Until blood dripped like rain from his mouth.

And she did not stop there. She had his sister's brought before him and she had them tortured right before his eyes. They did not stop even as he begged. Even as he cried for them to stop this cruelty.

The hatred and rage... darkness and bloodlust turned his heart darker and darker as his vision kept going more and more red. He only had one wish in this wretched world and that was to torture this maniacal monster for eternity with his own two hands.

"Stop! Please... don't hurt them anymore. They'll die!" he began to beg and scream. "Please... I won't do that again. Stop... don't hurt them anymore..."

She lifted her hand and they stopped. His sisters already looked dead. The only indication that they were still alive was their ever so weak heartbeats that thumped so faintly like a bird's.

"I need you to vow, my handsome prince. Vow to me that you'll be a good boy and be obedient to me. Or else... I'll kill them right before your face." She ordered and Sebastian obeyed. His soul was dying with every word he was uttering. However, what can he do? He needs to protect his sisters. Thus, no matter how he loathed the words of the vow, he still spat it out like they were distasteful mouthfuls of rubbish.

When the vow was done, he knew that his life as he knew it, was over. He was now nothing but a living and breathing dead now.

"That's my prince." She praised, her hands began to caress his naked and bloodied torso. "Don't worry... from now on... as long as you obey me, you will be treated very well and nothing will happen to your sisters. And..." she trailed off and touched his lips again, parting it with her thumbs in a way as though she was touching the most valuable and most beautiful piece of art in the world. "I shall have you in my room from now on. This place is not suited for a precious prince like you to stay." However, Sebastian was trying to shut her words out of his mind.

And she took off his chains and took him out of the filthy prison, just as she said she would. Only to bring him to an even filthier place, that was her bedchambers.