BLOOD BOUND [NOVELETTE-COMPLETED]

CHAPTER 8

Then there he is, Zheke Travis, with the book and reading it by himself, and Luna watched him do so.

He wasn't holding it, it was floating in front of him and Luna can both hear and see his eyes shifting its gaze on the page.

The book started to move closer to Travis. It travelled from a decent distance until it finally went in his chest like a matter going into the water without splashing but has ripples of water moving at the sides.

Travis closed his eyes and somehow that made Luna anxious. Her heart raced, her eyes misty with tears and her breathing quicken.

The idea of Travis death suddenly went into her mind, an idea that scares her.

She heard a dripping sound. It echoed in her head. Then there goes the second drip.

She looked around to find where the dripping sound until her gaze shifted to her feet. She's melting. Her body is the one dripping onto a nonexistent black floor. She finds herself glowing through the growing darkness. Each of the droplets splashes some gleaming light before it disappears and leaving the dim yet still lighted ripples as if there was water underneath her, mystically, there was none.

The ripples became bigger, it soon became waves that slowly swallowed the darkness.

The blinding light disappeared.

She heard a gun pointed on her head. She couldn't hear any vibration in that someone. An oblivious sob escaped her lips. She had to swallow the next.

She remained still, trying to keep herself calm despite the butterflies in her stomach.

Her eyes became misty with tears, once more. Closing her eyes, letting the cold wind sent some chills to her body.

They are on top of a building, one of the ruins of the great Earthquake back then. It is one of those buildings in the places that were erased on the map. It was too tall that the top 5 floors are still peaking through the surface of the sea. Stating a grave reminder that once upon a time, an Earthquake happened that killed billions of lives and left the Earth traumatized.

A tear fell the moment her eyes opened. Then there's another and another.

The blood moon made her glistening tear had that dark red hue. As if she's tearing up blood.

"Luna."

It was one word from Travis but her heart skipped a beat. Her tears rolled down, one after another and then both at the same time. She kept still but another sob escaped her lips and she wasn't able to stop the next.

Her lips shaking, hands cold by the midnight breeze and sighs that tells her grief.

"Luna, do you think love is a game?" There was a mocking tune lingering in Travis' voice.

Who wouldn't? Despite growing up learning how to kill, his parents had raised them with love. And amongst the three siblings he was the strongest believer of love and devotion. Something his sisters' ridicule him about, but doesn't give a care.

Luna's eyes widened when Travis is suddenly inches away from her, gun still pointed to her head.

She wasn't scared of the gun. She could have wanted to be scared with that but what scares her most is what Travis is thinking of doing next.

"Shoot."

That was her words. Her voice didn't give any trace of what she's really feeling. It went out too strong that even Travis believed it.