That was not the first time the predators would send someone after Andre and his family. Since the day he walked out in the great family, they had always tried to find him again and bring his family back into the fold. Several times they had sent assassins after him, trying to kill him off in the middle of darkness. But all that stopped many years ago when he faked his own death. Since then, there were no more signs of dark agents moving among the shadows with daggers in hand. Andre and his wife became safe, and that was when they birthed their children, Howard first and then Lyanna not long after. And for many years they remained safe, away from the eyes of the great family who thought he was long dead. But suddenly now, it seemed that the grrat family found them again. And this time, they had not much interest in Andre himself or his wife but with his children. He would never let that happen. He would never watch them take his children back into the dirt where he crawled out from

Lyanna already conceived the weirdest thoughts about her father. He would not be a street thief, would he? She did not even have the courage to ask him what it was he was doing with those boys. She did not know what to expect. She did not know if there was anything else to expect, anything apart from what she had witnessed. Robbery, assault, were those the words that defined her father?Seeing him like that took all the breath from her, as well as her sense of reasoning. She could not think straight, neither could she hold herself together.In her misery and in her mystery, Sandra was the only one with her. The poor teenager who had no idea that she was the reason why all these had occured. She even thought herself a victim, since Andrew Henshaw liked Lyanna instead of herself.But if not for her presence and her friendship with Lyanna, none of this would have ever happened in the first place. And as grave as the situation seemed at the moment, it was nothing compared to what was to c

While the men clashed with weapons, giving to the audience of trees around them a captivating show, a type of which they had never witnessed from the girls, Sandra was up to the wheels of a new mission. She sneaked up behind Lyanna and pulled her dress. "Let us go!" She said, ready to escape away from the site of that big mess."I can't go!" Lyanna protested. Her father was still there with the attacking predators. He was the only one fighting against their huge number, and it did not seem their number would go down easily. Also, she could not ignore the fact that Andre still had a bullet from the shot he had taken for her earlier.She could not bear to leave him behind when she knew he could possibly lose his life in that encounter. "No, I can't." She said again. But Sandra would not give up."It is the only thing we can do. I don't think they will stop until they kill him. Then they will come for you. You have to run now!"Lyanna took another look in her father's direction. He was

"Calling from the prime base"."I am quite busy right now. What is it?" Diego pulled the phone to his face, watching as Andre butchered some of his men, taking a huge cut with man that he cut down."There is a problem!" The caller announced."Problem? What problem?" Then Diego noticed another thing. "Who is this? Why are you whispering?""The Triad are taking over the empire. The leader has been killed." The voice shuddered, and in the middle of the speech it seemed to disappear into a faint, before coming back again towards its conclusion."What?" Diego found himself alarmed. The Triad were a group within the predators who were the three lowest families. They shared the same ideas and thoughts, saying that some families were being overly privileged, and that dues should be according to loyalty alone.One of their several examples was the fact that someone like Andre was given several second chances after breaking the rules of the predators. Someone from their own families would not b

The hand that crawled out through the holes of the door was another one in the long list oh shockers, but it was waving at them. It belonged to one of their mates from school, the same person who had been stalking the two girls for quite some time."Andrew?" Sandra was shocked to see his handsome face pop out behind the door."Stay calm, guys. We will open this in a bit.""We? There is someone else there with you? Let me guess, Bell?""He is helping us to get the key." Andrew confirmed, evoking a smirk from Sandra.And Bell's voice screamed from somewhere. "Just another second! I'm looking for the right one! I can't seem to find one big and strong enough.""Big and strong?" Howard repeated, almost by himself with confusion. "Since when did keys need to be big or strong to open a door?""Actually, we are not trying to open the door. We are trying to break it open. There is no way we could possibly have a key, I mean who needs a key anyway. We can make a door not a door, right?" Andrew