Torn Apart

Chapter 17

Sara continued to choke the life out of me for what seemed like forever. I finally felt my body giving in to death as it crept up on me. I glanced at my uncle for the last time with tears in my eyes and he simply looked away. I was about to fully give up before I heard a thud from a nearby door. Sara looked over her shoulder, loosening her grip on my throat. I took in as much air as I could while she was distracted.

"What are you doing?" John asked her, "Kill her while you have time!"

Sara nodded and resumed choking me until my eyes closed. I let my body go limp so she would think I was dead. When she let go, a door swung open from behind her and she started laughing.

"You're much too late to save her I'm afraid…" she said before turning around. "But don't worry, you'll be joining her soon."

"No…I don't think so lady!"

I opened my eyes and saw Phil standing at the door with a gun pointed directly at Sara's head. I was a little shocked to see him but at the same time, relieved.

"You know Taker will kill you both when he finds her like this…why not let me do the honor's for him?"

John laughed before kicking Phil's arm and sending the gun flying at the wall. He then hit him with two punches to the face, knocking him out cold. I closed my eyes and tried not to let them notice I was still alive. Unfortunately, Sara knew better and cut me loose from the chair.

"So…you live…" she said. "Well since choking you to death doesn't work…we'll try this."

Before I could react, she took a knife and plunged it into my stomach. I gasped in pain and shock as the blade allowed blood to pour from my body. When she pulled it out, I collapsed to the ground and began to feel light headed.

"Come on John…we've got to go." She said before taking his hand and leaving the room.

I held my open wound, trying to stop myself from bleeding but it was no use. I rolled on to my back and laid there staring at the light on the ceiling. If I wasn't going to die before…I was now. I must have laid there for at least another 10 minutes before I heard Hunter's voice coming up the hall.

"This way guys! I sent Phil over here!" he said.

I heard heavy boots and the sound of doors being kicked open coming closer to the room we were in. I turned my head away from the door and closed my eyes as I fell into unconsciousness. Before it happened, I heard the guys enter the room I was in, each of them stopped dead in their tracks as they stared at me.

"Oh no…no, no, no, no!" Jeff said as he ran over to me and placed his hands over my wound. "Kat? Kat can you hear me?"

I looked up into his eyes as my vision became blurry. All the guys crowded around me while Hunter ran off yelling for Taker.

"You stay with me princess….stay with me." Jeff told me before Hunter returned with Taker.

"Out of the way!" Taker said as he dropped to his knees and picked me up. "Don't you dare die on me Katrina!"

I opened my eyes and looked him in the eye, "I'm a big girl now Taker...you don't have to order me to stay alive."

The guys couldn't help but laugh before he took me out of the building and loaded me into his truck. I thought I was going to die in that backseat, but seeing Taker's face gave me my second wind.