She joined her hands and pleaded before the biggest of the demons, "For god's sake, let us go!" she didn't cry and not even had pleading sound in her voice.
This was because she had got exhausted by now; physically, mentally and emotionally. "Sorry not sorry but you two are not going anywhere. Most importantly, this young wench" – its indication was towards Martha – "In fact, we cannot now afford to let you go alone in front of the general public as we fear you might spill the beans about our whereabouts and bring some special forces for the rescue of your daughter" Cindy did not react.
She had lost the ability to perceive anything that was told to her and just wanted a way out of this hell that existed on Earth. Alpha continued, "Therefore, I have arrived at a conclusion which is that you shall be executed before your daughter so that if she still has not learned to remain quiet in front of the members of this house, she will learn a good lesson this time to not even dare of taking a stand against me or my peers" Martha's hand that were struggling to escape the hold of Alpha from her neck suddenly stopped.
She looked at her mother who sat on that ground hopelessly and immediately looked up to witness the determination prevalent on the face of Alpha.
Alpha turned to his right and conveyed his command through its eyes to Ronan.
Ronan understood what Alpha wanted and nodded in agreement.
Ronan took a step ahead towards Cindy. This triggered Martha as her mother's life was at danger now. She couldn't in her worst of nightmares bear the death of both her parents on a single date.
She saw Ronan take a step towards her mother.
The distance between Ronan and her mother was the distance of death for Martha and she just could not let Ronan reach her mother as this would inevitably bring death to her mother.
She looked upwards to face Alpha and wrapped her hands around its legs and begged, "Please! Don't! Please! Don't! She is now the only one I have" she could not quite complete the last sentence as her emotion of fear overrode all her senses.
She quickly turned to her side to check if Ronan had halted but to her misfortune, it had not.
She again raised her head upwards to face Alpha but it was in no mood to listen to her pleas and turned a deaf ear to her.
She anyway kept on begging to it to stop Ronan from performing the misdeed to her mother.
Seeing the rejection on Alpha's part, Martha mustered up to say, "I will do anything on bed that you would ask me to do. Just let go of my mother" Finally, Alpha looked down to see Martha, took a fraction of second to make its mind and finally spoke, "Stop Ronan.
Let us not kill the lady. Keep her captive along with this young wench" Ronan had already reached nearby Cindy and was a bit disappointed at the change of decision by Alpha. Martha took a sigh of relief as her mother was now safe.
Ronan looked at Alpha closely and understood that even Alpha wanted to get over that woman but for some reason, did not want to end her life at this very moment.
Ronan relaxed its muscle which it had already braced to inflict torture on Cindy and casually looked at Ash who, once meeting eyes with Ronan, purportedly placed one of his feet on top of the dead body of Benjamin. It did so in quest of teasing Ronan on missing out on a chance of killing a human and encouraged Ronan through his act to advance in its pursuit.
Both Ronan and Ash very well knew that Alpha was not being too serious on having Cindy captive in the house and wanted her to die.
Alpha had already loosened the grip of its hand on Martha's neck and began to carefully caress Martha's hairs with his razor-sharp claws. Martha sat there feeling a bit relieved; ensuring that neither she nor her mother was in danger for some time now.
However, Ronan was up to something that does not go along with Martha's assumption of this event.
It had some other plans in its mind. Once Alpha got a bit busy with playing with the hairs of Martha, Ronan found an apt moment to execute its plan. It looked at the poor Cindy lying on the floor right next to it.
She was alive for the sake of her physical body.
Otherwise, she found herself dead. Ronan pulled out its right hand and gestured it to grab Cindy by her neck; just like it did to Martha. Its hand slowly proceeded towards the neck of Cindy while everyone in the scene except for Ash did not take notice of it. The hand slowly appeared a few centimeters before Cindy's neck.
Its hand appeared as if a tiger preying on the deer by hiding into the bushes and waiting for the perfect moment to charge at the deer.
Finally, he grabbed Cindy by her neck and formed a firm grip around it.
Cindy did not utter a word for she did not really care whether she lives or dies. Ronan was a bit surprised by the response of Cindy but did not give much thought to it.
Once a firm grip was formed, it lifted Cindy high in the air. Though not responding, Cindy was compelled to breathe heavily as she began to go short on breath due to the tight grip choking her neck.
Martha, who had her head lowered all this while, immediately looked at her mother as soon as she heard her sigh.
Her mouth dropped as she witnessed her mother being placed in the same situation of helplessness as her father was put before finally killing him.
Alpha too now took notice of this act of Ronan but did not feel like objecting it. Martha had a bit of hope from Alpha and again pleaded it to rescue her mother.