He was sitting on a crumbling chair in a run-down motel room when the door burst open.
"Hello Charles," she said, a smirk forming on her lips, "you owe me a charm."
His dark eyes were wide with shock, yet he remained seated. "H-How did you find me?"
It took her three days to find him, but here she was, that sparkle in her emerald eyes and one thing on her mind. Usually, it took far less time to find her targets, but Charles was no ordinary target. He was as cunning and sly as she was. After all, they trained together at Salem's mansion.
"Oh Charles, I thought you were better than this: hiding, running away, living in fear.. We both know you can't escape. You may be Salem's favorite. But a traitor is a traitor. And you know what we do to traitors." A vicious grin spread across her face.
Despite the fear in his eyes, he snarled at her: "Y-You are sick, you know? Collecting trophies for every kill."
"You are one to talk. I saw what you do to them... like killing isn't enough. But hey, everyone has a weird hobby."
Charles was known for his brutality and sadism, he enjoyed torturing people. Maybe that's why he was Salem's unofficial heir. Or maybe because she was a woman. No matter how well she trained or fulfilled her tasks, she had always been in his shadow.
His fake trembling stopped as he swaggered towards her. She wondered when he would cut his stupid act. However, the fear in his eyes remained and he desperately tried to conceal it.
"Tell me, does he really think you can beat me? No, of course not. You are here just as a warning. Maybe you could break a few bones, send a message, so I would get in line. I bet you don't even have a permission to kill me, isn't it so Leannie?"
"Don't call me that!"
"Oh, is only Salem allowed to call you that?" he inclined his head. "I wonder what else only he is allowed to do to you."
"I will skin you alive!" she snarled but he only continued:
"I always wondered how someone like you managed to get so high up in Salem's ranks."
She finally launched at him.
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Lady Of Charms
General Fiction"She added a charm to her bracelet for every life that she took." Kalena is a young assassin working for the Lord of Carrvana. When the Lord's favorite, Charles, suddenly betrays him, Kalena is appointed to go after Charles. What starts as a mission...
