Chapter 14
I tried not to look at Charlie or pay attention to the stench that clung to the air or the way my frighten little heart sputtered within my chest like a dying engine. He stood up as he threw my little creature to the ground causing its blood soaked remains to skitter across the floor narrowly missing the flames.
"I'm leaving Vaun." I clenched my fist hoping it would hide the tremors.
"I told you Anniel, you are mine." I turn to leave, but quickly find that it's useless. He lunges at me as he grabs a hand full of hair and with a single tug has me falling back into his grasp. One hand stays entwined in my hair while another tightly grasps my shoulder. He bends down as he whispers in my ear, his words sending cold chills running through me. "There's no running. You. Are. Mine."
He throws me to the floor knocking my head badly against the cold wooden floor, "You thought you could leave did you?" I feel his hand crash into my jaw. "Well is that what you thought?" He fits me again and this time I feel the blood begins to poor into my mouth. "Is it?" I throw up my hands as if their feeble strength was enough to withstand his anger. I tense knowing he's about to hit me again but something stops him.
I hear Vaun being thrown against the wall. I look up and through the blood and the tears. I see Mitch standing there in front of me tensed and ready to stop the very spin of the world if it meant saving me. "Touch her like that again and I'll kill you." I try to talk, try to tell him to run but all that comes from my lips is a river of blood.
Vaun gets up with a laugh, "You know I actually liked you Mitchell, you seamed like a pretty good guy. If it wasn't for that little bitch over there I think we would actually be good friends."
I see Mitch's knuckles flex and a raise my quivering hand to touch them. He looks down at me as he holds on to my hand. He nods in understanding. "Let her go Vaun, let us go. Whats the point? You want your money back? Fine! I'll give you three times what you paid for her, four times if you really want it."
Vaun smiles as he shakes his head, "Tsk, tsk, tsk. Come on now Mitchel, use your head. We both know it's not so easy, see I have a lot of people expecting this little "lady" here to marry me in a few hours, pop out a few kids. You know the works. It's not going to look well if she's half way across the world with you now will it?"
Mitch suddenly turns and kicks down a huge row of candles. Instantly setting the floor aflame "There," we both look at him confused, "the house was old, a few screwed up wirings. It was a pity but Anniel died in a horrible fire. It's an awful tragedy that gives you enough attention to last a lifetime and it gives you the chance to find a new toy to play with."
He begins to clap now, "Bravo! Had I not thought of that already I really would have considered it, but your little plan has one tragic flaw."
"And that is?"
I saw him reach for the gun, and I saw as it rose to meet Mitch. "I don't like to share"
The shot cracked through the air and Vaun watched a body crumbled to the floor. My body.
I looked at Vaun meeting his shaking green eyes, "I will never be yours." I saw him fall to the floor as Mitch attacked him, wrestling the gun away from him. Two more shots were fired but those I didn't see.
Red, red was all I could see. I lifted my hand from the bullet wound and it was covered in blood. I winced and turned away from the fighting and blood soaked floor. I watched as the fire was slowly creeping down the floor boards and up the to the ceiling. It grew as it began to consume everything in it's path.
"Mitch," I whispered, "Mitch get out, the fire. Mitch." Everything was slowing as my heart began it's last beats. *Mitch*..... *Mitch* .......*Mitch* ........
Darkness
