LAW OF ATTRACTION

CHAPTER 33 : STABBING PAIN

"Really?! Then, if you don't care..." An evil smirk spreads on Leo's lips.

My heart thumps loudly and painfully in my chest, resonating in my throat where the knife is edging closer and closer until it stops by the line of my jaw.

I close my eyes, feeling the tip of the knife piercing slowly my skin, and I helplessly accept my fate, preparing for I don't even know what. I don't even have the strength to fight. I don't move as it would surely worsen it all, yet I don't even feel the pain from the blade. My body is too numb and frozen with everything that has just happened.

"Okay, what do you want?!" Alex's tight voice makes me open my eyes, my heart skipping a beat like a breath of hope and relief.

His eyes, darker than I've ever seen them, are the first thing that catch my gaze, almost dazzling me with the blazing, unreadable emotion, resembling fury and anger, in them.

Though a stinging pain brings me back to reality, and I look down to see the drops of blood staining the denim of my jacket.

"Aww! I've found your little weakness?!" Leo asks with a satisfied smirk, gripping my hair again and grazing my cheek with the blade.

With my head pulled backward, I'm left with only the blade and Leo's black hole eyes in my field of vision, yet all my attention is focused on the corner of my eye, where I glimpse Alex stepping forward.

But Leo quickly stops him. "If you move, she's dead."

I don't doubt one second that his words are serious, yet the shivers running through my body are out of disgust even more than fear.

"What do you want?" Alex repeats, his jaw tenser than ever and his fists clenched; actually every muscle in his body seems tensed, ready to explode.

"I want your territory, all of your clients, and all the money you have with you," Leo replies calmly, clearly enjoying to see his little plan working.

Alex nods silently, his dark gaze not leaving us as he quickly goes to his motorbike to get what Leo has demanded. My heart is racing fast, yet it seems his movements are even faster while still keeping a composed gait.

He is back in front of us in a blink, but he stops before giving the 'ransom' to one of the minions. "Let her go first."

Leo laughs in reply, the sound echoing in the empty surroundings and wrapping in a chill around my bones. "I'm not that dumb! Give me half of it and I untie her. You're in no position to discuss."

Everything goes as said, Alex's dark piercing eyes following every move of Leo, like a wolf ready to attack, and me, waiting paralyzed like a helpless deer.

Alex is handing the last part of the ransom, and I'm about to breathe a puff of relief, feeling Leo's grip loosening. But he quickly grabs me again, the knife once again to my throat where my breath of relief gets stuck here.

"Oh, I forgot! I also want your bike!" Leo exclaims, his tone devilishly fake.

Alex's eyes shot open in a deadly glare, though if looks could kill, Leo would be stone dead on the ground for quite some time now.

"I'm waiting..." Leo sings out, grazing the knife on the line of my jaw where the wound has just started coagulating.

I bite hard on my lip as tears are pressuring behind my eyes, yet it isn't only because of the searing pain Leo is deepening on my jaw; there is also a burn expanding in my chest and swallowing everything.