Shadows and Smoke

Chapter 51: Almost got killed

Hello loves,

I wanted to finish the book and the post every chapter so you guys dont have to wait, but I don't think that will be possible. So here is another chapter and maybe next week I can post another chapter.

Before any of you start reading, please keep in mind that there might be some triggers to people.  If you are not comfortable reading this chapter please DONT! I would like for all of you to go in blind but I need to mention some of the warnings (thoughts of miscarriage, blood, violence, giving birth and motherhood)  However, if you cannot read, please message me privately and I will give you a breakdown of the chapter.

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Scarlet's pov

No, no, now is not the time to panic. I need to keep my head straight, there is so much noise around me. Xaden was panicking more when he heard that I was pregnant but now is not the time for this. I am an assassin; I need to think and not panic like some teenage schoolgirl.

Flashback...

"You do not get the right to be away from me, girl."

No, I can't do that to Alice, I can't, we needed to get out of here, and fast.

I needed to think, but someone so weak like us, what can they really do against a giant man? Who was determined to kill us both, here and now.

When you are in a survival mode, you don't think, you just act.

I had to save us, that was the only thing that was running in my head. We need to live; I need to save us. We need to live; I need to save us...

I looked at Alice's father, and I didn't think, I just pounced. I ran right towards him, to grab the knife that he had, Alice was crying, yelling for me to be careful, that we will never survive. But no, that was not my motto.

The discussing piece of shit was laughing, and I was struggling at the floor, he was on top of me and trying to gut me with his knife. But we needed to survive.

"You think you can fight me, girl? Let me give you a scar, Scar, to always remember me."

And he placed the knife at the top of my forehead and slide down the knife to my side of lips.

Pain, there was so much pain. For a moment, I just laid there, and I actually thought this was it. We are dead. I looked at Alice and she was crying on the floor, trying to pull his father's leg so he can get away from me, because I was bleeding so so much.

He looked once at Alice, and that was my chance. It was my chance to pounce.

I grabbed his hand that was holding the knife, and I twisted his arm around so much, I didn't even know that I had the strength. Alice saw me trying to fight, and she started hitting him as hard as she was capable of. That was my chance, I twisted his hand more and grabbed the knife with my free hand. My vision was getting blurry, it was probably because of all the blood I was getting in my eyes from the scar.

BOOM!

I looked back, and there was another explosion in the orphanage, we needed to be fast if we wanted to survive with the other guys. If only it was that easy.

Without thinking, I stabbed him in the hand, his chest, his legs, anywhere that my knife could land. He was yelling, and didn't know how to help himself and kill us.