SARAH

My eyes slowly fluttered open, but I had to shut them again due to the electric pain that shot through my head. Groaning in agony I sat up, and looked here and there, trying to find out where I was. The room was pitch black and my stinging eyes were not helping either.

With great difficulty I stood up on the ground, but instantly felt dizzy. Closing my eyes again, I waited for a minute for the dizzy felling to pass away. After a minute I was okay, so I started walking with my hands infront of me, tring to feel the switch board or a door.

Where was I?

Like a blind person I walked, touching here and there, trying to feel something, but my hands got in contact with nothing. As if the place was totally empty. The air was cold, which was giving me chills down my spine. A rotten odour was also present in the room, which was making me sick.

As I was walking aimlessly, I stumbled upon something and fell down on the floor with a thud. A pain shot through my right ankle, and I groaned in pain again. Sitting up with great difficulty I clutched my right ankle.

Damn this place! Where the hell am I!?

Getting frustrated I slapped both my palms on the floor. But as soon as I did, a splash resonated in the room. I again slapped my palm on the same place, slowly and cautiously, and this time I felt a liquid on the place.

Slowly bringing the liquid near my nose, I inhaled it and the coppery smell of it alerted my senses.

A bulb flickered above my head and my eyes widened in fear at the sight infront of me.

It was blood! My hands were covered in blood.

Shrieking I stood up in a flash, but the pain in my ankle didn't let me stand more than a second. Taking a step back, I again stumbled on something, which resulted in me falling on my bum.

Damn this place!

But as soon as I tried stand up again, my hands came in contact with something soft.

It was another hand. Gulping down hard I looked down very agaitatingly, only to gasp out.

"Lexi!" I cried out.

She was lying on her stomach, her face badly bruised. Her eyes, open and dead. They were staring back at me in fear.

A sob broke at the back of my throat and I covered my mouth with my palm, choking on it. Blood was coming out from her chest and it was clear, she had been shot.

Trying to keep my tears at bay, I gathered myself up somehow and closed her eyelids.

I have to get out of this place, and return to Chase. His aunt was dead and we both were in a unknown place. How did we even end up here!?

Raising my head, I tried to stand up, but as soon as I did, I saw a figure sitting on a chair. His face was not visible due to the lack of light in the room, but his hands and feet were tied. His clothes were covered in blood an he was hurt.

As soon as I took a step further to reach him, the bulb above me flickered again, and thats when I saw his face.

"Papa!"

Dashing towards the chair, I tried to reach him but my steps came to an halt when someone roughly grabbed my hair.

"Ahhh!" I screamed out in affliction, raising my hands to loosen the hold, but all in vain. The person clenched his hold, which caused me more pain. I tried to look back to see who was holding my hair, but as soon as I did I wished I didn't look back.

Olive green eyes pierced into my soul, sending a chill through my spine. My eyes widened in fear. Those same eyes which had haunted me for years. Those same eyes whose owner had murdered my momma, which had hold a gun infront of me to murder me.

He was wearing g a mask and only his eyes were visible. Bringing his face way too close to mine, he took a deep breath and I shuddered disgustingly.

I kept my eyes close and shouted at him, "Let go of me!"

He chuckled darkly, his deep and heavy voice resonating in the dark room.

"You are just like Ivy."

At the mention of my mother, my eyes snapped open and I looked at him horridly.

"How dare you take my mother's name with your filthy mouth!?"

He scoffed and let go of my hair, only to grab my jaw in his rough hands. The hold was deadly strong and I winced in pain. Pointing a gun towards my papa's disheveled condition he said, "Your papa's punishment is still not over for what he did, and he would pay for that."

I wiggled in his hold, trying to get out of it, but be didn't let me move an inch.

Raising his gun he dragged it from my neck to stomach, and stopped at my bulging stomach, tapping it with his gun. My eyes widened at his action.

He looked at me, his eyes menacingly cold and I let out a shaky breath.

"This little guy down here will also pay," he said, he voice chilly and rough.

I protectively wrapped my hands around my stomach and glared at him.

"Try to hurt my baby, I dare you."

Bang!

Without any further warning he shot, and my face snapped towards the direction his gun was.

A bullet had pierced through my papa's forehead, and he laid there, dead.

"Ahhhhhhhhh!"

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CHASE

I ran and ran, without stopping even for a single second to breath. My Sarah was in trouble. That bastard was in here. I won't let any harm come upon her as long as I was alive. Today this would end. I would finish Benjamin's chapter today itself. He dared to step in my mansion, again. Last time, he came and ripped me away from the most important woman of my life. This time, I won't let history repeat itself.

An old memory flashed infront of my eyes, the corpse of the most gentle woman lying in a pool of her own blood. My Mother.

No! I won't let anything happen to Sarah.

The air around me felt rigid, thick with the coppery smell of blood and acrid and sour odor of gunpowder. Blood splashed as I stepped on it.

My breathing got laboured and I felt my heartbeats accelerating. My muscles tightened as I tried to ran fast. Every floor was locked down and it consumed some extra seconds to reach her.

"Hurry up!" I yelled at Draven. Every milli-second was vital. That bastard could kill my Sarah, and I wont be able to do anything.

As soon as I reached second floor, I dashed towards my office room. The hallway was long and dark and the lights there had been shot. The only source of illumination was the long glass window, which was on the other corner of the hallway.

Reaching my office, I grabbed the handle to open the door, but it didn't budge.

"Fuck! That mother-fucker had locked the door!" Ares yelled out from my side.

With three steady kicks the door broke off of it's hinges, and we dashed in into the room only to come into a halt at the scene infront of our eyes.

No, this was not happening. This had to be a joke. This is all a cruel joke. Fate was playing with me.

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