One Last Time

One Last Time: Once Again (Sequel Chapter Preview)

Levi never knew what terror was until he saw men pointing their guns at his pregnant wife and one-year-old daughter.

After working at the teashop he came back home exhausted, with the thought that today was going to go peacefully just like any other. But his heart begged to come out of his body as it began pumping against his chest at the horrible sight.

He wanted to kill them, to make them suffer for even daring to touch what was precious to him. But it was five of them, all of them with a gun and as fast as Levi could be, he knew that he couldn't surpass the speed of a bullet.

"You know what to do right? It shouldn't be too hard for a man like you to do this," Mr. Dietrich had hate towards the Flaherty family. Since Mr. William Flaherty married the woman he loved and because of him she died, he always had hate towards him and his family. Not only that but it didn't help that Mr. Flaherty had led a revolution against the royal families and put him and his family in danger.

"I'll finally get my revenge, that damn family has always been cursed," Mr. Dietrich smiled as he pressed his gun further into the skin of Maria. "I won't kill the damn bastard but someone raping his girl should pain him enough."

And Levi didn't want to do it, but what he could he do? He was being followed by two men to make sure he did the job and even if he got to kill one or the two, it was futile. Because he had to come back with the two bastards as proof that he finished the job.

He had no time to think, he was desperate. He just wanted Maria and his daughter, Kutchel, to be safe. Levi wanted to die as he thought of Maria's words.

"You should quit your job, working as an assassin for a royal family will only harm us in the long run."

But he needed the money, especially back then when Maria was pregnant with Kutchel. Just once, he will do it just one more time so he could open up his teashop and buy Maria a house.

His peaceful life was about to start.

But it ended two years later.

He did it.

And when he came back home, he found three living men.

And two dead bodies.

"Ackermans disgust me," Mr. Dietrich said as he walked past Levi. "If she wasn't born with such last name ... She wouldn't have been forced into living underground."

But he saw that the young man was too far gone to even listen. Probably watching the two bloody and dead bodies of his wife and daughter traumatized him. But he didn't care, his job was done. Nicholas Flaherty, the last of his family must have found out by now that someone had raped his woman.

This what they deserved, that entire family has always been cursed. Since he was a child he had always hated his cousin and now even more. William took the woman he loved and had a bastard child with her.

And the Ackermans, that the only thing they were good for was to fight and kill. But if only they fought sooner, if they didn't hide like cowards. If only ... if only ...

If only they had never been born into this world.

She wouldn't have suffered so much. She wouldn't be dead and he wouldn't have suffered.

"All you Ackermans are better off dead ... You are only a threat to the royal families and king," Mr. Dietrich only saw one tear roll down Levi's eyes. He didn't move, he didn't even look like he was alive.

"But looking at you now ... You don't look so much like a threat," he said.

Mr. Dietrich took one last look at the bodies on the wooden floor. Blood and broken bones, white dresses turned into red and messy brown hair that contrasted that of the child's black hair.