Sought and Snatched

Chapter 25

Samuel's P.O.V

I struggled against the metal chair and the ropes that bound me. "Untie me, Jack."

"You're funny Sammy. Very funny. Do you know why you're here?"

I thrashed around and my anger was escaping, taking control. He had handcuffed me to the chair too. I don't like this at all. "What the hell is this?"

"You and I both know that you know exactly what this is."

The person standing in front of me was the one with no emotional dampeners. No act or show. This was Jack letting his emotions take control.

"This is my revenge."

"You already took the love of my life. What more can you take from me?"

"Don't you get it, Sammy. I won."

"The Indomitable won't rest until we take you down."

"Let me worry about that."

A knife appeared in his hand but I didn't flinch. Samuel made a neat slash across my cheek and I ignored the stinging pain. He made a second one starting from my forehead and all the way down to my lower lip.

My vision was faltering and I struggled to regain consciousness. Blood sputtered out of my wounds every time I spoke. "Come on Jack. Let's settle this like adults."

"Coming from the man who has stolen thousands of lives. Oh wait, it doesn't count if you have your son and agents do all your dirty work right?"

Killing the bad guys doesn't make me a bad guy right?

He spits at me and twirled his knife in his hand.

"Don't bring Carter into this."

"You already did that yourself by making him your top agent. This isn't my fault. You brought yourself into this. Indomitable was my idea!! And you stole it from me!! How could you kick me out? Your own brother?"

"I never wanted to. But you let greed and selfishness get in the way of what we were supposed to really be going. Which was stopping all ongoing human trafficking systems? You were reckless and killing anyone that breathed. And then you created your own human trafficking operation. How could you?! When saving....these people, these girls was your idea in the first place?"

"It wasn't easy for me. You had a steady job, a wife, a kid, a family. And I had nothing."

"You could have come to me. I could have helped you."

"LIAR!!!! You never helped me out when we were kids and you weren't going to help me out then."

"How do you know?! You never asked. Why didn't you just ask? We're brothers Jack."

"You never accepted my ideas. I was always wrong and you were always right." Jack's eyes filled with tears.

"Jack. I will forgive you for what you have done if you just stop all of this. We can start over. It's not too late. Take my hand. Untie me. We can find another way."

"Stop it!! Stop it!! She said you would say this. She told me not to trust you. T-That you were just lying to me so you could get rid of me and take over yourself."

Who was he talking about? "Who said this to you?"

"Just shut up okay?!"

"You're my brother, I would never want to abandon you. Untie me and we can find another compromise. This isn't you. Is the money really worth it?"

"I have someone else now. Someone that really loves me for who I am."

"I get it. You were in a bad place and you don't know what else to do or who else to turn to. But I am here now. I'm sorry. I should have never kicked you out. Come back."

I was looking at this all wrong. I thought Jack was a heartless monster when all along he was just a brother who needed his family and I was so preoccupied with my job and my family I couldn't see his call for help.

"I needed you and you weren't there for me."

"I know. I know." I whispered. Tears clouded my vision.

"I'm a millionaire now and I'm going to get richer. No one is going to be able to stop me. I don't need you anymore."

Jack wiped the bloody knife clean and stared at it. He grinned.  Then he drove the knife into my left eye socket. He pulled out another knife and drew it into my right eye socket. I was screaming.

The pain was electric and too much to bear. The one on my fresh wounds and in my heart. It increases without warning and breathing almost seems impossible.

"That's more like it."

I shrieked and squirmed as Jack tugged at my eyeballs and finally pulled them out. He left one of them to hang out, trailed on my face like a bloody cord. Sticky red liquid surged down my skin and I shuddered at the pain.

My head was spinning and the pain in my face prickled in intense strikes against my cells. I bit my lip, out of breath from the torture.

"I've been wanting to do that for a while. It was easier than I had thought."

Everything was black. Pitch black and dark. I knew my brother. He never started something without finishing it. But he wanted me to suffer slowly first. Like he had.

"Jack. Please. Don't do this." I begged.

"Oh but brother I have to. You are kind of in my way."

I never got to tell Carter that I loved him. That he was right. I was so proud of the young man that he had become and that he ended up nothing like me. Part of me knew that one day I would face this fate.

I should have not let my anger and frustration get the best of me but I did. The ties between Carter and I are tarnished and I can only hope that in the end, he will forgive me for losing myself to the darkness.

"I just wanted to let you know that no matter how you feel, I still love you, Jack."

Fresh pain charges at my abdomen and my insides burn. My brother had stabbed me in the stomach and I was losing life fast.

My son holds my hand tight with his tiny fingers. He's terrified. "It's okay Carter. I'm going to make sure nothing ever happens to you. He won't get away with hurting mommy."

"Okay, daddy. I love you."

"I love you too Carter."

Here I come Delilah.

I'm sorry I killed off another character but he had to go.

Here's the next chapter!!!

I recommend a barf bag. I felt like throwing up writing this one and I felt really really bad for the Brown Brothers. But all we can control is who we are and how we react right?

Till next time,

-Miss Yanxiet :)

"I stayed in fear of the heartbreak even though my heart was already in a million pieces." -Noah Cyrus.