The butt of a gun crashed hard into Adam’s head before he could duck.Not that he could, anyway.Two men were on his opposite sides.Just as he mentioned “Seth?”The gun butt crashed into his head and he blacked out.The sharp cry of Layla followed him into oblivion.When he regained consciousness again, he was being prodded by one of the men with a rude kick.“Get up, bastard!” the man yelled in his face as he kicked him over and over again.Adam wished his sword could be in his hand at that moment so that he could slash off the bastard’s leg.He was roughly pulled to his feet.Adam realised that his hands had been tied together.As soon as he was upright, a blindfold was put over his face.He felt himself being pushed out of the cabin.They were on solid ground.Adam wondered where they were as they pushed him along.He wondered where Layla was.Had she been treated?He doubted that.He was still shocked that Seth had not died at that time.Still, he was relieved that that guilt wou
Stripped naked and vulnerable, Layla's eyes still held the defiance that he had come to know her for.She didn’t take her eyes off his as he approached her.It was as if she was daring him to get it over with.“Go ahead, fuckboy. That is what I am talking about,” Sybil said as she settled back in her chair.“Oh, Gwen is going to love this,” she said with glee.As if she were not satisfied with the cameras already trained on Layla, she brought out her phone and started recording.Layla’s eyes fluttered close for a moment but then she opened them again.Adam got close to her.He firmly took his eyes away from her jutting breasts and asked.“Can you hold on for a while longer?”“Fuck you!” she said weakly. “Just do what you have to do.”Adam had no idea why her lack of faith in him pissed him off but he ignored that alien feeling and asked again.“I ask you a question. Can you fucking hold on?” he gritted out.“Enough of your pillow talk already. Get fucking! I am getting bored and you d
Layla groaned weakly from the cot.Her eyes rolled back in her head as she tried to catch Adam’s eyes.Was she telling him to do it?Adam was not about to be forced to sleep with a dying person.Not by a little bitch who wouldn’t dare stand up to him if not for her father’s money.Before he could stop himself, he blurted out, "No.”Surprise registered on Sybil’s face for an instance, followed by rage.“You brought this on yourselves!” she said, cocking the gun.“Sybil, you are not really going to shoot her, are you? Uncle…”“Shut up! Just shut the fuck up, you wimp! I am in charge here!”Adam wished he could have his sword with him at that moment.While the silly twit was distracted, he could have fought his way out.“But…”“I say…argh!”“Sybil! What…what did you do to her??Adam was as shocked as Seth was.The sword had worked with Adam's thoughts again.It was a deadly connection this time.The sword pierced through Sybil’s chest, sticking her to the glass as it tried to force its w
“They would be fine,” Sophia tried to reassure Marriane.Marriane looked at her vaguely and nodded.She muttered her thanks and told Sophia to get some rest too.Sophia could tell that the woman was just humouring her; she had stopped believing her words hours after a whole day had passed and there was no sign of her son.Lisa nodded slightly at her in greeting as they passed each other while Sophia was on her way out of the tent.Sophia continued on her way but then she turned back as Lisa whistled at her.Lisa took her aside and said nothing.The young lady wrung her hands.Turned away.Then turned back to Sophia.“They are going to be fine,” Sophia said automatically.She had a good idea of what Lisa might be agitated about, after all.“How can you even say that? How can you be so... sure? So…calm? After what happened to Nina?”“I am not sure of anything,” Sophia admitted. “I just know that we have to keep hope alive. Have a little faith.”“Yeah?” Lisa said testily, “Nina was all a
“I told y’all that this was a mistake, didn’t I?"Dixon snapped at Carlisle.The sting was taken out of his words, though, because all he could do was whisper.“Yes, you said it. A thousand times already and I can assure you that if I hear it one more time, I am going to make you choke on those words.”Dixon shook his head and muttered, "Joker.”Carlisle ignored him.Dixon wanted to talk but he quickly shut his mouth as well.The reason was not far-fetched.Snarls and shuffling feet resounded in the alley where they were.Cramped together in a plastic drum originally used for oilDrenched in black blood and reeking of God knows what, it was a miracle that they were not choking on their bile at the moment.When the snarl moved away, Dexter looked over at Carlisle in the waning light.He looked away, then he asked anyway.“Are you sure you were not bitten?”Carlisle was silent for a while, then he answered.“There is only one way to find out, isn’t it?”“Don’t you mess with..."“Now!”
“Scout everywhere! Find that bastard!"Adam dragged the dead weight of Layla’s unconscious body behind him as he tried to swim with one hand.He dove under the water and held his breath as the whirring blade of the helicopter came close to where he was.Praying that he didn’t pass out or kill Layla in the process, he waited patiently until the light passed where they were.“Check there! Check everything well. He shouldn’t have gone far! Master would have our heads if we did not bring the culprit to him!”Adam gasped as he came to the surface.He breathed in deeply as he lifted Layla’s head above the water.He thought he felt her shiver but he couldn’t be sure.Shivering had been the norm for her in the past few days.After a better check, he realized that the water around had not been a river after all.It was a constructed moat.He had heard of rich people building houses with a big body of water surrounding them as protection or decoration.Adam had never really seen one in person.
Layla was going in and out of consciousness.Adam hoped she would not die on him before he could finally get those people off his back.Though he had no idea how he would do that, he was hopeful.He couldn’t come all this way to die in a self-constructed body of water!The momentary frustration and anger propelled him and he raised his head out of the water again.He quickly did the same with Layla’s head.“Come on, girl, don’t die on me,” he muttered as he tried to keep her head above water while trying to swim forward.It was a starless night and the pitch-black surroundings had worked favourably for him so far.Still, he hated the fact that the same darkness might swallow him up soon.The men were not relenting!The beam of the flashlights they were using to search for him seemed to have multiplied from the last time he had surfaced."If only I could just get out of the water without them seeing me."The ridiculous thought made him remember what had happened earlier.He had tried o
It did not take long for Adam to realise the reason why the men probably left!As he helped Layla along the rough path that led away from the moat,Something came to his mind and he froze.His phone!Adam had left his backpack in the car before Sybil’s invasion.But he brought his phone with him to the house.While Layla was still asleep, he had tried to call his family just to reassure them, but Lisa’s number was not going through.He was just about to call his dad when Layla stirred uncomfortably.Adam had dropped the phone on the headboard as he quickly checked on Layla.That was right before she woke up and asked for the water.The phone was right there in full view of whoever entered that room!“What is it?” Layla asked curiously when she saw his sudden pause.“My phone. I left it in that room.”“Oh shit!” Layla said, with her widened eyes on Adam’s.Adam could see that she was also having the same thoughts as him.“Maybe…Maybe it fell off and they wouldn’t see it?” she said hope