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SARAH

Slicing a very tiny part of the cake, I baked a few hours ago, I put it in my mouth. The taste was divine. The icing was perfect and so was the decoration. Licking my fingers clean I again took a small glance at the cake. My hands were itching to make another tiny cut so that I could taste my cake one more time. But I resisted my inner food monster.

As I looked down, Max was giving me an accusing looked and I rolled my eyes at him.

"Hey, don't give me that look! I need to make sure that it tastes perfect when papa eats it." He continued to look at me as if I have committed the biggest crime ever.

I huffed. He always does that. I spend the whole day with him but I always felt like Max loved papa more than me.

I turned my face on the other side to ignore him. That would teach him some lessons. He whined when he saw I was not paying attention to him.

Scooting closer to my leg he let out a whimper. My heart was melting at a very fast rate at his cute love gestures, but I tried to maintain a strict face.

When he saw that I was still not looking at him, he started snuggling my leg. I sat in Indian style on the chair, so he couldn't reach my legs. At thi,s he let out a series of whimpers and finally when I looked at him, I saw the corner of his eyes a little wet.

I instantly sat down on the floor and took him in my arms. He is such a cute big thing. Yeah exactly big, like very big. My cuddly bear. As soon as I hugged him, he howled in happiness.

Drama Queen!

After snuggling him for a minute, I let him go. As I looked at the watch it was 11:09 pm. Papa was late today. I specifically told him to come earlier as it was his birthday today, but every year the same thing happens. He had always celebrated my birthday, but never paid attention to himself. Mostly it included me, him and Max and Miss Lexi, our neighbour.

"Sarah honey, here is the cinnamon powder you asked."

Miss Lexi strode into the room, patting Max's head and handing me over the cinnamon powder that I asked her a few minutes ago.

She was a lovely lady, and I knew papa really liked her, no matter how much he denied. I had seen them giving each other secret glances. Miss Lexi's husband cheated on her 9 years ago and since then she was living in our neighborhood.

"Thanks Lexi." I smiled at her.

She gave me one of her kind smiles, and sat down beside me. She was in her normal attire with no makeup and a messy bun.

"Why don't you go and get ready Lexi. Papa would be home soon."

As soon as I mentioned papa, she blushed and started fidgeting with her fingers.

"Why do I need to get ready for Robert? It's not like, he would be seeing me for the first time today," she said, in a low voice.

"Oh cumm'on Lexi. Both of you need to grow some guts. You know each other for what, like 11 years and still you two are afraid to confess that you like each other," I exclaimed out.

She sighed and looked down, a pained look plastering her face. She scrunched up her eyebrows and bit her lip, as if trying to control her tears.

"I am afraid Sarah. Robert is not ready for commitment and neither am I. I don't want to repeat a mistake," she said, he voice cracking slightly.

Mistake?

The moment I was going to ask what mistake she was talking about, she shook her head, cleared her throat and hopped down from the chair.

"I would just go and get ready. I also need to bring his gift."

Saying this, she ran out of the door, disappearing into the darkness of night.

I lost my mother at a very early age, and didn't remember her much, but only has some hazy memories. But when Lexi started living here, I slowly started to see her as a mother figure. She always took care of me when I was a child. Papa was a bit reluctant at first, but when he saw how awesome of a lady she was, he too couldn't resist her charms. In my teen years, I shared my feelings of loneliness with her. She had been a pillar in my life, just like papa. And I really wanna see them happy together.

I sighed deeply. I don't know, why Lexi got emotional today. We never talk about her ex husband. That was a bitter topic. But this was the first time I saw her behaving a little odd. As if she was afraid of something.

Only 50 minutes was left for the clock to strike 12 and papa's birthday will be over. I really wanted him to cut the cake before the day was over, but I guess this time its not gonna be fulfilled.

Taking my cell phone, I dialed his number. It was switched off.

My eyebrows furrowed in a deep frown. He never switches off his phone. He always informs me whenever he would be late beforehand. There was a chance that his battery was dead.

Shrugging the matter, I came upstairs to take a shower. Max didn't follow me, this time. Thank God he didn't. It was difficult to keep that fellow out of my bathroom. I really don't know why, but he has some strange, passionate love for my bathroom.

I chuckled.

Discarding my clothes in the laundry basket, I stood below the shower head, as cold water started pouring and grazed my body. I relaxed immediately. Letting out a deep sigh, my brain flooded with different memories of my life.

Papa was very protective of me. I had social anxiety. That was a huge reason why I don't have many friends. Well yeah I have friends, and they include my papa being my best friend and Max and Miss Lexi being close friends. Papa being a secret agent for the government, didn't exactly helped me, as I had to be homeschooled for my security. And that was another reason why I don't have any friends. I'm not exactly an introvert as I can talk to new people, but it takes sometime and some courage as well on my part.

After I finished having shower, I come out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel. Taking a baggy T-shirt and shorts I dressed up. I prefer comfort over anything. As soon as I kept the towel on the edge of my bed, I heard Max barking loudly. I ignored him. He would even bark if he sees a fly disturbing me. He was also protective of me like papa. But within a few seconds his growling and barking increased too much, and suddenly it ceased.

I furrowed my eyebrows. Coming out of the door I descended down the stairs.

Why did he suddenly stop?

Confused I walked down the kitchen looking for Max. But as soon as I entered the kitchen my eyes widened in horror. My breath left in a whoosh and I gasped out. I felt a little dizzy. My nerves froze and my heart dropped to my stomach. Tremors passed through my body, as I took a step back in denial.

Max was lying on the kitchen floor drowned in a pool of blood.

AXEL

When I entered my mansion, deadly silence filled my ear..

Something is wrong.

Silence doesn't exist here, especially in the presence of Victoria.

"What is going on, Stryker?" I asked my left hand in command.

"Let me have a look sir, and I will let you know," he replied.

"I will be in the office," I told him and started going upstairs.

As I was passing through the corridor, I noticed Victoria's room.

I thought of giving her a surprise. I always comes very late, but she always tries to stay awake for me. Though she had never succeeded.

As I was thinking about her, my lips turned into a smile. She was the only person in this entire world who keeps my sanity at bay.

I knocked on her door but didn't get any reply.

Assuming that she was sleeping, I thought of silently checking on my baby sister.

But little did I know that the most dreadful sight was waiting for me, on the other side of the door.

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SARAH

I found myself unable to breathe, an invisible hand clutched around my throat. My chest heaved for air, and I could hear blood pounding in my ears.

Max was DEAD.

My hands were numb, my legs wobbled and I sank down onto the floor. Tears pooled up in my eyes and I tried to suppress a sob.

"Hey dude! The cake is so yummy. You should try it."

I heard a voice, but for some reason, it was muffled as my ears rang.

"Shut the fuck up, Ares and search for the man." Another voice intervened.

As soon as I looked on my left, I saw two me. One was sitting on the table and eating the cake I baked a few hours ago for papa, and he had a carefree look on his face. The other one was looking here and there, as if searching for someone. His face was deadly serious. He looked like one of those underground fighters I read in a novel a few days ago, and he had a freaking gun in his hand.

Oh my God!

Papa being a secret agent surely had a gun, but I have never seen it. I'm very, very scared of guns. They make me freak out. So papa always hid his gun from me.

I gasped out, and both of their heads turned towards me, their eyes widening for a second.

The one who was eating cake jumped down from the table, and I quickly got to my feet.

I have to run, or else they will kill me too.

The guy named Ares started coming towards me. I was still panicked, thinking about Max.

"Did you kill my dog?" I asked in a very low voice, surprised that I still had some courage left in me, to ask him a question.

He quickly looked back towards Max.I slowly stepped backwards. He looked towards me and smirked.

"It really wasn't my intention to kill him. I really love dogs, but he was causing too much noise pollution. I had to take care of it," he said casually.

My eyes widened in horror and fear. He was taking as if he killed a mosquito, and not a loyal innocent dog.

The other guy who was silent from a long time, smacked his head.

"We don't have time for this," he growled.

I knew what they meant. I quickly turned backwards, trying to run upstairs but collided with a wall.

How the freaking munchkin I never noticed this wall before.

I massaged my forehead and looked up, only to gasp out in fear. It was not a wall but a guy. A tall, scary, fibrous looking guy.

He glared down at me and when I took a step backward, my back again collided with another hard wall.

Why are walls appearing out of nowhere today!

I looked backward to see it was the other guy with the gun. I panicked and opened my mouth to scream, but was silenced, when he pointed the hard barrel of the gun was toward my forehead.

"Scream and I will blow your fucking brain out!" He snarled, looking at me.

Skin deadly pals, my blood ran cold. I was surrounded my big scary looking gunmen. They were so tall and muscular, that I was afraid for my life now. I knew it was soon I would faint. My vision had already started blurring and I was losing consciousness.

"He isn't here!" A harsh voice reach my ears. My chest heaved as I was having problem in breathing. I tried to calm down myself, but it was impossible when I'm surrounded by assassins.

I felt someone grabbing my hand, locking it on my back and twisting my wrist. I screamed out in pain.

"Where is Robert Wilson?" The friendly looking guy growled.

As soon as his question registered in my head, my blood froze in my veins.

They are here for papa!?

"I don't know," I replied meekly. I won't let anyone harm my papa.

The other guy who was silent from the moment, I collided with him, growled out in frustration.

The serious looking guy roughly grabbed my jaw and put the barrel of the gun in my mouth.

"You better answer me girl, or you won't live another day to see the sunrise." he growled out in anger.

Tears of pain and terror ran down my cheeks. As soon as the friendly looking guy saw my tears, he pulled out his hair in frustration and I felt a sharp pain on my forehead, before darkness consumed me.

That idiot hit me on my forehead with the grip of the gun.

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