Terra Violette

Chapter 3

When people say don't count your chickens before they hatch don't take them lightly because man did I not see what came next coming. My joy was short lived when the car suddenly swerved to the  left crashing right into the trees we were passing by. Fortunately neither Kayla nor I were hurt, but the driver wasn't moving. Please don't be dead , I think as I remove my seat belt and move towards the front. I gently nudge his shoulder, "Mr, Mr are you okay? Are you hur-" before I could even complete my sentence, the man fell over onto the passenger seat, revealing a bullet wound in his temple. I guess now I know why we crashed. Kayla screams beside me. There was once a time were seeing someone who is injured or dead would have me screaming too, but being married to Jake Williams meant death was something I witnessed nearly everyday. Jake never hesitated to get rid of people he felt were 'loose ends' or 'weak links'. "Oh my word is he dead!? Please tell me he's not dead, who shot him?" Kayla rambled, "Amber what if whoever shot him is still among the trees? Answer me damn it, why are you quiet!?", "Shut up, just shut up!" I replied, "This isn't the time to get hysterical, we need to get out of here.". She was right, whoever shot our driver was probably headed this way, and if whoever did this was who i thought it was then the last thing we wanted was to get caught. Fortunately the car moved quite a distance from where it swerved so we probably had a few minutes to get away. "Come on, we need to get out of here." I say urgently. I pull Kayla over as I start opening the car door beside me, I quickly scan the forest ahead of me, its not that thick but its still better than running down the road and becoming easy targets. I am pulled at of my thoughts when I'm jerked backwards roughly, I turn to reprimand Kayla only to find her being dragged out of the car by one of the bulkiest men I've ever seen in my life. The man has his hand over Kayla's mouth muffling her screams, she is kicking and grabbing for me, her eyes plead for me to help, but I can't. I am paralyzed, I know I should do something to help, maybe even scream for help, but I can't move. It feels as if I've been in this situation before, my limbs are completely numb and its as if time itself has slowed down. As a final attempt to resist Kayla elbows the man in his stomach and grabs for me one more time. That's when I hear a gunshot and my ears begin ringing as if the gun was shot from beside me, before I can process what has happened I black out. 

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"Don't leave me Terra!" , she screams as she holds on to my kegs while the nun behind her tries to drag her away from the car, "You promised we'd always be together, you said if they ever picked one of us they'd have to take the other too" I pull my legs to my chest ad move closer to the man behind me. I'm in a limousine truck, I can't see the man behind me, but I can see his hand on my shoulder, he has many rings on his olive perfect looking fingers. He taps his fingers on my shoulder impatiently as if he is in a rush to get out of here. I turn to look at the girl in front of me, she looks about 10 years old, she has big blue eyes, a freckled round face and wild ombre hair. She looks up at me and suddenly stops struggling , the nun behind her seems to relax as the girl straightens up and looks me in the eye, "You're just like her, you traitor", Her anger seems to rise again as she begins shouting, "You're doing the same thing our mother Ter-"  suddenly I can't here her anymore , she turns into a horrible dark green slimy creature with gills and I start choking. I wake up suddenly gasping for air and and soaking wet, I am lying on a concrete floor and Jake stands above me with a bucket if water. "Who the fvck gave you permission to take a nap huh?" he questions cruelly. Instead of answering , I take in my surroundings and realize that I am lying in a broken down room. I immediately recognize this room, it is where he torture's those who do him wrong, the room has multiple blood splashes on the walls and reeks of decomposing material. I can't help but scrunch up my nose. "Like what you see?" he questions. His question immediately puts one person in my head, "Where is Kayla?", "Who?" he asks without blinking. "Don't play dum you killed her you monster!" I shout through tears. Before I can process what is happening, I feel a stinging burn across my face  as he slaps me. "Shut up you i***t, she's not dead yet, I want you to witness the destiny you created for your friend when you tried to flee." he speaks coldly, "Did you really think you would get away with it? I guess you're more stupid than I thought.". I wasn't affected by his insults though, she was alive, Kayla was alive and that is all that mattered -wait, did he say he wanted me to witness her death? "No, no, no p-please don't kill her Jake." his face remained emotionless, I got on my knees and began sobbing "I-I'll do whatever you want I'll be good, I will meet your business partners with no fuss and wear whatever you tell me to, i'll behave, please" he remained indifferent and turned and headed towards the door,. I couldn't believe I was about to use this word, "Jake I, I b-beg you", he turned to face me again and smirked, "What was that?". Of course he was going to do this to me, I took a deep breath and brought my head up and looked him right in the eyes, and pleaded once more, "I beg you Jake, ill be good, ill do all that you tell me to. I beg you Jake, please spare Kayla's life" he looked at me with a serious face before he began laughing like a mad man,, he held on to the man be side him and laughed while holding his belly region. How did I not realize that there was someone else in the room? Jake then straightened up and began speaking as if he hadn't been bent over in laughter just a second before, "So all it takes to get you on your knees is threatening your pathetic friend? if that is what it takes to make you behave then maybe I do need her alive" he looked down coldly  before he continued, "Get up you pathetic slut, lets go see if she's still in one piece," the words that followed next pushed and relief I had right out of me, "You know how uncontrollable my Men become around a young...sexy...naked...woman." he sneered before he walked out the door.