Merciless and unrelenting, Averie continued his horrifying assault.
He crushed Walter's fingers, broke his cheekbone, and dislocated both his shoulders.
The sheer amount of pain the man had to go through was enough to scar him for a lifetime.
Averie held him by the hair and raised his head. He forced the old man to stare into his amber eyes.
They were full of thirst for blood, but Walter recognized them. Fear far stronger than before filled his bones.
He had ruined plenty of other actors. And unlike Averie, they didn't have a chance to save themselves or return from their fall from grace. But even those poor souls would not have resorted to such violence.
Averie's extreme search for violence truly terrified him. He could not understand how he found him, even though they had never met.
