Xavier (Grease) POV
Peter looked better than I had expected. I know how brutal Oddball can be; needing Peter alive and his hands working might be the only reason he was not hurt worse. Not that looking at him right now was not bad enough; they must have wanted to ensure he didn't escape when they left the property for most of the day, so they gave him a beating. I wonder how the others are; were they beaten up too, or locked up?
The messages that Demetri received, I could see, upset him; he was most likely kicking himself for not looking at his phone the past couple of days, but we had to do what we had to do, and if keeping life at bay for a few days was needed to heal and refresh, that was what happened.
"Don't beat yourself up; you did what you had to do, for you. No going over what
