If We Lasted Forever | BOOK 2 ✔️

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"Cause you and I, we were born to die"
- Born To Die by Lana Del Ray
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Kiara Athena Carpenter

I woke up in a dark room. Dominic was nowhere to be seen. There wasn't any furniture. The only light source was a small window with bars.

My hands were tied together as well as my legs. I looked down to see myself bleeding. My head was pounding from the hit. There was quiet ringing in my ears but it wasn't loud enough for me not to hear the footsteps getting closer to wherever I was.

A key jingles like in the pirate movies. I couldn't make out the man standing there at first due to the blurriness in my eyes. Eventually I saw him better. It was Eliza's personal bodyguard. As the realization hit I heard heels clacking on the floor. And there she was. Eliza. Standing there with an evil smirk on her face.

She looks at me for a second before turning to her bodyguard. "Cut her loose, she can't go anywhere anyway" she told him. He did just that. His hands were cold when he touched me and while cutting off my restraints he managed to cut into my arm. I hissed at the sudden burn.

"Don't be dramatic, you've cut yourself deeper than that" Eliza scoffs. I kept quiet not knowing what to say to that. She was mocking me. I was a fool for thinking we were friends. We weren't even allies. She was an enemy and I trusted her. I should have seen through it all.

"Where's Dominic?" I managed to ask. My voice was tired as if I had been in this cold for a long time.
"Oh he didn't make it. I'm sorry" Eliza mocked me. "You killed your own half-brother?" I asked trying to push down any emotions that her statement created.

"No. At that moment I killed the only person you had left" she says smirking. My heart dropped. I forced myself not to show any emotion but there was a lot of it rushing through every vein in me. A small part of me hopes that she was messing with me.

"I have my brothers" I say. She lets out a laugh. An evil one you hear from the Disney villains.

"Where are they? Are they coming yet? Oh wait..." she makes a dramatic pause.
"They moved on. You are literally dead to them. Nobody's coming for you. You lost them all when you jumped off that cliff" she says with poison in her voice.

I feel tears in my eyes. Her words cut deep because she's right. I lost them all and it's my own fault. So much for keeping it all inside.

"Does that make you want to die?" Eliza asks pulling out a surgical blade. I look up at her in disbelief with my eyes watering. She wants me to do it.

I stare at the blade. I used to be addicted to this. I used to do it daily. But I didn't want to do it. I don't know why. I just didn't want to do it.

I took the blade from Eliza. Examining it I could tell the sharpness. I knew exactly how long it would take for me to bleed out. But I also knew how painful it would be to be cut in the eye with it. I stood up with as much energy as I had left trying to injure her anyway I could but her bodyguard was faster. He grabbed me and snatched the blade from my hands.

"Nice try" he spits. "Thank you Jared" she says taking it from him. Of course his name is fucking Jared. It always is something like that. Bob, Jared, Paul. Something very basic yet old manly.

"Why do you suddenly hate me?" I choke out. Her smile drops into a disgusted stare. She wanted to say a lot but she was trying to contain herself.