Blood and Sweaters

Chapter 7

Caligo
Inability to perceive mentally.

Marta Cabrera really enjoyed this new life she lived. People waiting on her hand and foot. Bodyguards and the best of all was no one could get to her. She could afford the highest protection and for the first time in forever, she actually felt safe. Or so she thought.

She sat in the office sipping on a steaming cup of coffee when something caught her eye. A small box with a blue bow sat on the bookshelf. She could have sworn it wasn't there last night. Bringing the box to the table she carefully pulled on the bow and the box fell open revealing a tape of some sort and a white envelope addressed to her. She opened the envelope to find a note and a smaller envelope inside.

The note read:
Watch the tape I like to call 'What happened to twin A?' before opening the letter - A.T

Marta popped the tape into the VCR player that Harlan had in the office. Her heart dropped immediately as she looked at the screen. Addison. Her little Addison. She watched as the girl broke her baby sister's bones but her blood ran cold when the girl drove the knife through her chest. The girl looked familiar but Marta couldn't place her. The tape ended with the girl smirking at the body of her darling sister. The screen went blank and with it so did Marta's mind. Then she remembered the second smaller envelope. She felt goosebumps as she pulled out the note.

So now you know what happened to twin A. At least she gets to meet dearest Daddy Cabrera. If you want twin B unharmed I suggest you come to Rocky Willow Guesthouse at midnight. Come alone or Twin B is going to rot in hell with the rest of the Cabreras

PS: You might want to get out of the room - A.T

A wave of nausea washed over Marta but she didn't have time to think about it as she heard a beeping sound coming from the VCR player. She dashed out of the room just in time cause as she closed the door the player exploded setting the entire office on fire.

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When Ransom woke up the next morning he found Aria making pancakes in the kitchen humming along to a random tune. She looked so happy and content dancing about that he almost forgot this was the same girl who murdered a girl in cold blood just last night.

"Someone's happy this morning, " he remarked while stealing a pancake off the stack.

"We did successfully pull off our first step without any hiccups."

Aria stacked a few pancakes onto a plate and take out a bottle of water then made her way to the back room where Olivia was. Ransom looked at her in disbelief. Was she really going to feed the girl she was about to murder in cold blood?

"What? I'm not a monster, " she said exasperated.

"This girl was really something, " Ransom mumbled to himself.

After handing the pancakes and water to a very frightened Olivia, Aria joined Ransom for breakfast.

"So I heard the analysis of injuries yesterday before you attacked. Pretty neat trick, where did you pick it up from?" Ransom inquired while scruffing down pancake after pancake.

"Growing up I was always a daddy's girl. I started training with him at two years old. At three I started accompanying him on his 'business trips'. He was a loving father but when he trained he was ruthless. Tommy and I were twins but I always referred to him as my little brother because I was born two minutes earlier."