A slap of cold water on my face wakes me up. Before I can open my eyes, another slap hits me, this one is harder. Some water forcefully penetrates my nose. I cough to let it out of my breathing system.
"You're awake, Bennet!" A voice welcomes me happily, too happy that it cringes me. "Or should I call you... Scorpion ?" The voice adds.
I glare at the man. As expected, Ivan Radwansky stands a couple of meters in front of me.
"Don't worry.. I told her everything while you're fainting," he says then chuckles. I shift my sight to the right where Jennifer is sitting, leaning to a pillar with her hands are cuffed around it. She is staring at me with a fearful expression.
"About what ?" I ask Radwansky, deliberately try to stall some times to check on my current condition.
Radwansky laughs. "Of course that your real name is Scorpion, an assassin that I contacted the first time." I'm sitting on a solid metal chair, hands are cuffed behind the chair's back in between the hollow spaces it has
"I'm surprised you didn't tell your lover who you are, Scorpion," Radwansky is flicking his tongue in mocking way. My legs are cuffed on the chair's leg. "Love is always about trust," Radwansky continues his word.
"How can you figure it out ?" i ask, trying to identify how I am cuffed.
"I have to be honest. I received help," Radwansky answers. They cuff me tight right on my wrist. There is no way I can slip my hand out without any sacrifice.
I slightly jolt, try to move the chair. Suddenly a hard fist hits my stomach. I groan in pain, but secretly grateful because that act just shoved my chair few inches from where it was. The chair is removable. That is a good news.
"Why haven't you killed her yet ? That is what you want so bad, right ?" I ask in between my pant.
"O.. wow.. wow... I'm not that cruel, Scorpion..," Radwansky says.
"After knowing that she is your girlfriend.. I can't just kill her without letting you say goodbye to each other. That is just too... cruel, isn't it ?" Radwanksy spreads his arms, gesturing his men nodding to agree with him.
"In fact.. I will let you watch her die.. before yourself die," Radwansky adds before he points a gun then shoots me without a hesitation.
I shouts in pain when the hot bullet pierces my body, below my chest. A mili second later a tremendous pain catches my breath. I cough badly.
"I'm a good short-range shooter, Scorpion. I believe that bullet ripped your diaphragm and its shrapnels made tiny holes on your right lungs. Relax. You won't die. Not before five hours, at least," Radwanksy lectures me in such a mocking tone then points his gun to Jennifer.
"Now, you can say good bye to your man, Missy," he says.
"Please, don't kill me," Jennifer begs instead. "I told you, I won't claim any of the legacy. I will reject it. I won't admit my self as his daughter.."
"You think it can be that easy ?!" Radwansky scoffs. "You don't need to admit or claim anything. He had acknowledged you years ago. He was just such a coward not to have a gut to contact you. He had written you as one of his legacy's receivers. All his legacy is split in half for you and Rachel, and can not be taken by anybody else, except that it is proven that you're dead."
"You can just fake her dead," I say in between my pant of breath. I guess the bullet is really making holes on my lung.
"I need her dead body as a proof," he rebukes.
"You can just make it like her body is never found, or just vanished," I say with chuckle. I thought this man is clever. Radwansky smirks at my words.
"Well, I can do that.." he says, but then points his gun back to Jennifer. "But why need to have so much bothersome when I can simply just kill her ?"
"No !!" Jennifer and I scream at once when we hear a shot gun. Radwansky laughs.
"Aww.. you two are just so cute," he says. The bullet just went straight to the concrete floor, a feet away from Jennifer.
The door behind him is opened. A huge man enters it and whispers to Radwansky's ear. His face becomes sour.
"I will let you two say goodbye for a couple of minutes," he says in cold. "The next time I enter this door, you," he turns his head to Jennifer, "will be dead."
With that, Radwansky and the huge guy leave the room. Now there is only one man guarding us. I have tried to broke the cuff since the moment I awoke, but fruitless. There is only one way to escape from it. I must dis-attach my thumb from my palm by breaking my trapezium carpal bone.
"Scott.." Jennifer calls me.
"Yeah.." I answer with short breath, secretly reach my left thumb with my right thumb and index finger.
"I.. I know this is not the right moment. But.. I just.."
"Aaaaargh..." I scream in pain to cover the pop sound of my trapezium bone. I continue to groan and make a gasping sound. "Guard.. help me..." I call the guard with chocked voice.
"I can't.. I can't.. breathe.. Heelp.." I whisper before dropping down my head and close my eyes, pretending to be dead. I can hear Jennifer is calling my name panicky.
"Scott.. Don't die, Scooot!! No!! Help him, please.. help hiim!!"
The footsteps of the guard are heard approaching me. I hold my breath. I can feel the guard's hand pushes my body to lean on the chair back then places his finger in front of my nose.
I open my eyes, then quickly move my already free fist to punch him hard on his face. I then reach to his neck, turn him around, then grabbing the cuff that still on my right wrist and pull him toward me. I put all my power to pin that huge man and suffocate him out of air until he is unconscious.
I quickly throw him aside then stand and free my legs from the chair before reaching for key and gun from his belt.
"Scott!! Thank God... I thought you're dead!" Jennifer voice is rambling in my ears as I put the gun near her thigh and start to free her from the cuff. It is quite difficult to do it with only a thumb that can work.
"Hold it right there!!" Radwansky's voice immediately freezes me. "How the hell..?!" He sees the unconscious guard. "Useless!!" he scolds then puts a bullet on the guard.
"Hands up!!" he orders. I secretly put the key to Jennifer's palm before raising my hands.
"Get up!!"
I obey him. The other bodyguard kicks me in the wound that makes me fall down and coughing.
"Cuff him there," Radwansky tells the man who drags me to the other side of the wall.
The guard then put a free side of cuff on my wrist to a pipe that is put horizontally across the wall. He tries to cuff my legs but there is nothing to be cuffed into. He finally kicks my shinbone. Another tremendous pain attacks me in the same time with a crack sound and Jennifer's scream.
"Wow, Missy. I can't believe you are still able to concern about him while you're about to die," Radwansky says in amused.
"Please.. let him go," Jennifer says in sobs. "He has nothing to do with this."
"Has nothing to do you say ?!" Radwansky barks. "He made this simple mission to kill you became so much trouble!"
I chuckle. "That's just because you simply are incompetent," I say, replied by a slap on my head side by his guard. For a second all I can hear is a ringing.
"You still have energy to mock me," Radwansky says irritatedly. The playful sight in his eyes no longer there. His sight is now plain dark and scary. His aura is also dark and murderous. Something happened when he was out. Something triggered him to lost his playfulness.
"Alright. No more game!" Radwansky says pointing his gun.back to Jennifer.
"I.. I haven't said good.."
"I don't care!!" he snaps.
"I regret putting too much expectation in you," I distract him.
"What do you mean ?"
"I thought you are an equal opponent to me, you know. With all your previous meticulous acts. I thought you wouldn't play it this low."
His guard hits me again on my stomach right at my wound. I can feel blood enters my lung. I cough badly try to get some of it out.
"Killing a woman is not low enough for you. You have to tide her so she is totally defenseless.."
"I don't care!!!" Radwansky moves his gun toward me and pulls the trigger. I have expected that to happen, so I pull his bodyguard who stands next to me with my free left hand to be my.shield.
A deafening scream comes out of Jennifer's throat. As for the guard, he is lifeless before he even understood what happened. The bullet just pierced straight to his heart.
While throwing the lifeless guard, I hear Radwansky shouts some curses. Instead of shooting another bullet to me, Radwansky shifts his gun to Jennifer.
"No !!!" I shout in panic. I gather my strength and manage to break the pipe with one jolt. Forgetting about my broken shinbone, I run toward Jennifer right when Radwansky pulls the trigger.
I jump right in front of Jennifer to fully cover her with my body when a burning sensation conquers all my senses as a bullet once again is entering my body, this time from my back.
With all strength I have left, I slip my hand in between Jennifer's thigh and the concrete floor. I noticed Jennifer hid the gun I took from the first guard there when Radwansky was back.
I grab the gun, unlocking it while turning my body around and just shoot all bullets it has to Radwansky's body.
A second after my gun is empty, Radwansky's body falls down lifeless, hopefully. If not, I'm not sure I can do anything more.
My hand just drops the gun it held. I have no strength to hold it. I barely have strength to inhale.
"Scott.. Scott.." Jennifer's call seems so far away. I turn my head to her, trying hard give her a smile.
"You okay ?" I manage to ask her that. She touches her forehead to my cheeks, but I can't feel it.
"Scott, hang in there!" Her voice is so calming to my ear. I know I have to stay awake. But I am so sleepy. I feel like being covered with a peaceful silence.
"I love you," I whisper that to her before I close my eyes.
"No!! Scott!! Wake Up !! Scott !! Wake up!! Wake up!! No!!!! No!!!" Jennifer keeps trying to wake me up while I'm drifting into a deep peaceful darkness.