Cold & Brutal

Prologue

The door opens, and light clicks on, I move in before he notices I'm here. I come up from behind and grab his head covering his mouth with one hand and holding knife to his throat with the other. He tenses up in my grab, my head is right behind his I move my mouth to his ear, "I'm going to slowly uncover your mouth and if you scream I'll kill you right here" I whisper into his ear, "do you understand?" I say. He slowly nods his head up and down, I move my hand from his mouth to the back of his head. He is wearing a nice suit, gray, with a red tie, and black shoes. He has a nice house, I made sure to search it for any weapons, there is no where to run, I have him. "What do you want? I have money" he says to me, his voice trembling, "cut the act" I whisper to him "you know who I am and I know who you are." His body calms, and his says in a calm voice, "then you know what I'm capable of" with that he kicks my right leg down to my knee he spins around and lands a punch that throws me to the ground. Before I can get back up he is on rope if my chest and has his hands around my throat and is applying pressure, "who ...." He stares at me wide eyed. I stare at back at him, anger in my eyes, "Quinn?" He says, "what are you doing here?" He asks me, "I'm here to find the man that killed my parents" I say to him, "what happened to your face, to your hair" he asks, his face filled with concern. "Why don't you ask the man who you gave our information to?" I spit in his face, he wipes the spit off with an angry look, "I don't know what your talking about" he says to me. "Stop lying to me!" I scream at him, I know it was you" I scream even harder. "I did what I was told to do, ok?" He says to me, "they were gonna kill me" he says, " what company were they?" I ask. "What?" He replies, "what company asked you?" I say again, "there is no way that a normal group of theirs or killers or gangs, or whatever killed my parents over the virus, they wouldn't know what to do with it" I say to him. "I don't know" he says his gaze wandering, "i think Herxon Corp." he says. "They were our rival, if anyone knows what the virus is for, it's them" he says fixing his gaze on me. "Good, thank you, you've been very helpful" I say to him, "what are you gonna do?" He asks me, "they can't know that I told you, they'll kill me" he says with a worried glance. I smile at him "you won't have to worry about that, cause I'm already gonna kill you" I bring up my knees and hit him in the back making him fall into me, he grunt with surprise, I push him to the my left and get to my knees so I can choke him, he kicks my stomach making me fall back. He stands and I stand we face each other, each ready for a battle. "You don't have to do this, your parents raised you well" with that he lunged at me, I run towards him I grab the arm he's gonna hit me with, I quickly dodge around him and throw my body across his back with his arm still in my hand, he spins losing his balance, but before he falls I push up against the wall with my knife to his throat. "You should have thought about that before you have their murderer the information he need to find us, they were good people" I say in his face, his face has a look of fear, "good thing I'm not" I whisper into his ear, his face is filled with horror as I stab him one time in the chest and walk out of the house, I leave him to bleed out, I get into his car and and start it with the keys I took from his pocket. As I drive off, I look into the rear view mirror and see my silver hair, but the thing that stands out the most is the jagged line of the scar going over my right eye.