The DarkNess Within Him | ✔

Fifty Seven

So some sidenotes and quick character reminders for this chapter:

•Neil: Jayce's brother. His wife is Claire and they have a daughter.
•Mason: Mikayla's first 'boyfriend' and Logan's best friend.

Now Enjoy....

Rionna stood there with bloodied hands in shock. She didn't move. I didn't move and Jayce definitely didn't move.

Everywhere was silent, only my laboured breathing could be heard. My eyes didn't leave Rionna. Her wild red hair was messy and her white dress had splatters of blood on it. The silver dagger was laid to rest at her feet. Its job was already done.

"Rionna?" A voice breaks our trance but when I try to turn my head, Jayce's weight on me prevents me from doing so. I whimper relentlessly. "By the moon, Rionna, what have you done?"

Neil comes quickly and pulls his brother off me. When he lays him to the ground, his blood spills over. Neil cries. He cries bitterly but I don't move and neither does Rionna. I just stare up at the ceiling, my heartbeat rabid as my body shakes. The shivers won't end.

Jayce was about to rape me. Now, he's dead?

I sit up to look down at him. My shaky finger goes to his neck to find a pulse. There isn't one. I shut his eyes.

"Why did you kill him, Rionna?" Neil screams at Rionna, tears falling down his cheeks.

Rionna doesn't move when she says, "I told you to tell me the truth about the actual nature of Mikayla and Jayce's relationship and you lied to me."

"Because I knew that you loved him!" Neil screams at her.

"Mikayla also loved him, did she not?" Her head turns robotically to me and I quiver, unable to fully process what is going on. "And look what he did to her. Look how he almost raped her, Neil. If I didn't do this then he would have violated her in the worst way," she turns to Neil now and her green eyes are heavy with emotion against Neil when she says "is his life really worth more than hers or worth more than what he was about to do to her?"

Neil stumbles backwards, completely taken aback. He doesn't stop until he trips over his brother's dead body. He lands over him and then pulls himself up but Jayce's blood only gushes out and runs across the hardwood floor. Neil is partly soaked. He cries.

When I try to stand up, my wrist is in dire pain. I think it's broken. I look down at myself and I'm naked, only the torn fragments of the back side of my clothes remain on me. The rest are in pieces all over the floor and gradually getting soaked by blood.

When I look down, the blood has travelled to me, marring a part of my arm. I move haphazardly, not wanting any part of Jayce to touch me, especially not his blood. After standing, I go to Rionna and tug her. Her face is pale when she looks at me.

I hug her, grateful to her for saving me from this man. I hug her with all the strength I have left.

She cries.

Her tears cascade down my skin with a force of emotion I never thought was possible from her. She wails, every tear she sheds unleashing her pain. I only hold her.

"I loved him," she states in between sobs. "I really loved him,"

"I know,"

"And now, I killed him!" She screams out. Neil sobs harder. Rionna pulls away from me and I let her. Her face is a slobbering mess with red streaks and violently puffy cheeks. She holds me and then asks, "but you understand why I did it, right?" She holds me harder as if trying to drive home her point. "You understand that I did this for you, right? That I killed him because he was going to hurt you, right? Right?!"