Live or Dead

Chapter Three: Karina

  I gasped in shock as I saw the glass slide so perfectly into my fiance's throat. I could barely move with how broken and bruised I was. I felt like I was close to death. My whole body felt cold I didn't even have energy to scream as blood sprayed all over the entrance hall and me.

I looked back at Slide in horror. The sleeping boy I use to tell everything to, kissed when I was a toddler, care for, wasn't asleep no more and now it was like seeing a whole new person an intruder. An intruder who just murdered my fiance and wanted to murder every Vantrar. What if he didn't care for me even though I spoke to him all the time? Maybe he was sick of hearing my voice all these years and dreamt of the day to murder me? Did I truly know him? I felt like I did.

I tried to scoot away crying, trying to crawl for the front door. He watched my movements with murderous rage in his eyes. He looked around quickly and then stepped towards me looking at the floor as if he wasn't sure how to take a step forward. Once he had control of his movements he advanced toward me a piece of sharp glass in his hand.

"Please no..." I begged. "I am so sorry for what my family has done to you.. but I never wanted to hurt you."

He never once said a word as he forced me up with one hand as if I was as light as a feather and then I realized to my power he had the super soldier serum he could break every bone in my body with just his index finger if he truly wanted to. He spun me around holding me tightly to face the front door and put the sharp glass to my throat right as my father and brother walked in from their meeting.

The look on both of their faces was fear and shock. My father took a step forward trying to reach out for me but I felt the glass press against my throat and he stopped.

"Did this bastard do all this to you, Karina?"

I heard Slide softly laugh. "No the man that's dead on the floor did it, funny you throw a fit when I put a bullet in your youngest son's head but are so..." Slide dramatically paused, "okay with your daughter being smacked around. It's priceless."

"How did you wake up!?" My brother Jordan snarled.

My father looked at me sternly. "Karina did you..."

"Oh I woke up on my own accord," Slide interrupted my father. "And I told you what was going to happen when I woke up and I am going to start with your daughter."

I started to cry realizing that the last person I put my trust into was ready to kill me in front of my family. What should I have expected from a sleeping prisoner. I felt him put his hand over my mouth to silence my crying.

"Let me walk out this door with her and I won't kill her. I need some sort of leverage now don't I, Vantrar?"

"If I let you out of this house how do I know you won't kill her later or do something worse to her?"

"A little birdie told me she already got the experience of what rape is like from her lovely fiance. I can do no worse than what's already been done."

I saw my father shaking uncontrollably with rage after a few slow moments of silence he screamed in rage and stepped aside allowing a path to the front door. Slide dragged me outside and slammed the front door shut and then carried me to my vehicle. Of course he would know it's mine because I told him...

"Where is the keys, dear." He whispered in my ear dropping the glass that was to my throat but still holding me tightly to him.

"My back pocket,"I said still crying.

I felt him grab for them and then put me in the back seat laying me down and then leaving me to get in the driver seat. I felt myself fading out from the beating but tried to stay awake. I heard Slide trying to speak to me. I was in and out of consciousness and thought I was dreaming when I heard him talking to me about the only reason why he woke up was he was so scared of me dying and him not being able to save another person he cares about for the second time. And then just like that out I blacked out.