A DIFFERENT POV:
She was laying against the ivory wall, slumped against the floor with her eyes still shut.
Shackles on her wrist connecting to the wall.
An aching feeling scratched at my heart, as her thick, ebony curls fell just past her shoulders. Still in her tangerine coloured dress.
She's beautiful.
I'd heard stories about her, no one thought she actually survived.
Papa had instructed me to find her but I didn't think she'd actually walk straight into my hands.
Not a hum could be heard in the dingy cells underground well that was until she started to stir in her unconsciousness.
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Leylani's POV:
"I want to speak to your leader right NOW," I hissed at the lethargic guard outside my cell, "and let me out!"
Repeatedly, I swung my hands around and around trying to set them free. They had started to bruise and was turning slightly blue and numb. All sensations to my fingers slowly dying away.
The iron bars on the cell, kept me trapped like some wild animal and the stench of blood and sweat reeked throughout the area.
I need to get out. This isn't how I'm supposed to die.
Emotions soared in my mind, forcing upon me pictures of all my loved ones; Kenji, Shabs and Nico.
The iron bars.
My eyes bore into the metal.
Slowly, the rage set alight inside of me was being projected onto the metal bars - causing them to start to melt.
Creating a whole small enough for me to crawl out of.
Yet, I still had to face the security guard. I pulled myself through the gap, that's when it hit me causing me to stare back in awe and dumbstruck at the molted metal.
Did I actually just do that?
"What the hell?" The guard bellowed.
Taking it in turns, he looked down on me and back at the metal which now remained charred. Not a moment later, he grabbed a hold of my arm, yanking me up off the ground.
Pain shot through my hand.
Before he could readjust his grip on me I circled around him. Wrapping one of my legs around his neck and pushing him onto the cold hard floor. I held him down, strengthening my legs around his throat, trying to cut off enough blood circulation to make him unconscious. His eyes started to flutter shut as he drifted into the unknown.
He'll wake up in a bit.
I searched his pockets and found only an identification card. Even though, I was shivering his jacket looked warm but unfortunately stank, so I opted out from yanking it off him.
Without a sound, I made my way to the end of the cell hall and expectedly there was an ID station that allowed access to the lift. I pressed the guards identification card against it and the metal whirring of the elevator came to a hault before the doors moved aside. Scrambling and still in my heels I threw myself into the lift.
3 - Family Quarters
2 - Common Hall
1 - Members Quarters
0 - Car Park
-1 - Prison
Which button do I press?
If I was right and this was a gang's work. That means I'd find the boss and his family on the 3rd floor.
However, that's too easy, no mafia Lord lives without high alert security.
If I had to take a guess it would be way past midnight by now and that would mean the "common hall" should be empty?
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Between the stars and the sky
RomanceScarred by pain and grief of death, the struggling detective has had enough, Her determination to track down his killer has led her into more trouble than love is worth. She learns more about herself than she could ever imagine as she enters a new w...
