*PAST*
"Ahhh!!" A girl screamed and fell on the ground as my car raced past her side with an extreme roar. Clutching the steering wheel, I pushed the accelerator and drove my car even faster. My eyes fixed on my target who was trying his best to save himself from me.
I laughed, enjoying the thrill. I changed the gear and increased my car's speed to a dead level, not caring that my mistake could cause me an instant death. Suddenly, a bike came ahead of me, but hell if it even startled me. I clenched my jaw and kept on driving and took a hairpin turn, not giving any harm to the biker. I raced away, chasing my prey who had drifted into a street of people.
I pushed the breaks outside the entrance of the street and glared at him to death as he raced away. I greeted my teeth and reversed my car before driving to the opposite direction. I swayed my steering wheel and moved to a different road. Like that, I took many turns and when I was in the street I wanted to be. I pushed the accelerator strongly, staring at the road without a blink and kaboom, my car was in front of his. His car was startled and stopped with a drift, causing an exhaust of dust to spread around it. I smirked. He reversed his car but my men's cars blocked his way from behind and he was trapped. I unlocked the door and stepped out, crossing my hands against my chest as I watched my men yanking him out of his car. They hit him on the back of his knees and he was on the ground, kneeling before me. I smirked, the soft wind blowing my hair and my black gown.
"I'm sorry, Charlotte!" He gulped and joined his hands to me, "Forgive me, please?" I took off my sunglasses and walked towards him. "Please, Charlotte?" He begged, tears forming in his eyes. His body shaking with fear and eyes begging me to let him go, but hell if I was doing that. I pulled out a knife and threw it towards him. He looked at the knife, then at me.
I smiled, "Pick it and slit your throat!" His eyes widened and tears slid down his cheek. I sat down to match his height, not really touching the ground, and repeated, "I don't like repeating myself, Ken!" He shook his head, tears falling one after another.
"Please, Charlotte. Please. I-I've a family and my daughter is just 3 years old. Please, show mercy!"
I laughed, "You had to think about it before hurting my brother!" My expression toughened as my brother's state flashed at my eyes, "Either you slit your throat with this or I will bring your family and will kill them in front of you!" Hearing my threat, his eyes shuddered with fear. He looked at the knife and gulped. I snorted, "Bring his family boys!" I commanded.
"No!" He quickly said and picked it up, bringing it to his throat with shaky hands. I smiled, his tears giving me sweet satisfaction. "You will be punished for your every sin, Charlotte William!" He said with utter bitterness in his tone. I chuckled, his words doing nothing to me. A drop of blood slid down his neck before he slit his throat open entirely and collapsed on the floor with blood running inconsolably from his neck.
I got up and looked at my men who were carrying their usual poker faces, not at effected with my other murder. "I want you to dump his body in a gutter and better abduct his family," I looked down at his lifeless body and clenched my jaw, "His soul should not be at peace!"
"We got his partner too, Boss!" My eyes snapped at him before he added, "He's being taken to the basement!"
"Take me to him!"
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After killing Ken's partner, I came out of my basement and headed upstairs, but frowned when the workers of my home were instantly looking away with a frightened look. Rather than asking the reason, I chose to ignore it and headed to my bedroom.
I held the doorknob and pushed the door open to get in, but as soon as my eyes landed on my little brother, I grinned. He was sitting on my bed with his laptop in his lab.
"I thought you would be late!" I said, snapping his brown eyes at me instantly. He smiled, but the sooner the smile appeared the quicker it disappeared. "What?" I asked, lifting her shoulders.
Ethan placed the laptop aside and got up on his feet, "Finally, took my revenge?" He asked in a flat tone, not at all pleased.
"What revenge?" I asked back, pretending innocent. He smiled, "Wash your face, Charlotte, cause it's covered with blood," He tugged his hands inside his jeans' pockets before he added, "Fresh blood!"
I touched my face and realized that this was the reason why the workers were getting frightened, "Great!" I muttered to myself, not looking at him.
"Did I get healed up?" I looked at him and he said, "I mean, he hurt me and you hurt him back. So, maybe the bruises I got from him are healed up!"
"Ethan please. Don't start it again!" I said, and walked past him to get into the bathroom, but he stopped me by jumping in front.
"If I'm still the same, then what's the point of hurting him?"
"He shot you, okay?" I yelled, "And you know if anyone will even dare to touch you. I will torture him until the devil himself comes to take his soul away!"
"It won't be possible, sis!" Lucas's voice chimed by the door and they both looked at him, "Cause I won't allow the devil to do so!" He smiled and stood next to Ethan, who only crossed his hands against his chest, not convinced with us, "I'm proud of you, anyway!" Said Lucas to me but we only received a scoff from our little brother.
"Yeah, I could have been happier if he had said that to me!"
"Well, it's never going to happen!" Saying this, Ethan walked past us out of my bedroom. I scoffed and Lucas followed him.
"E-Ethan, wait!"
"Janet, open your eyes!" I half opened my eyes and saw Ethan and his thick tears. "Ethan?" I whispered to myself. He breathed out with a tiny smile of relief, "Thank God, you're up!" Suddenly, the pain hit the back of my head. I whimpered.
"You okay?" Asked Sam, snapping my eyes at him. When I saw Sam, I realized I was once again hallucinating. "Janet?" I looked around and everything that happened replayed in my head, "I need to go!" I said and quickly got up on my feet.
"No!" He said. I frowned, "We need to go!"
"What?"
"Yes. I won't stay here and pray for her to be okay!" He grabbed my hand and requested me, "I don't care who you are or what they want. I just want my Vero back! So, I request you. Take me with you!" I pulled my hand out of his grip and shook my head, "You don't understand, Sam!"
"I understand that you have got secrets and you're not who we think you are. But trust me, I don't care, really, I don't!"
"God, if I went back then I would lose everything!"
"I DON'T CARE!!!" He yelled aloud, "I don't give a fuck about you, Janet. I just want my girl back and I know that only you can do that!!"
"Sam, I care about Veronica as much as you care, but I can get her back without going there!" He looked away. I grabbed his hands and made him look me in the eyes, "Trust me, I will bring her back!"
He clenched his jaw tight and jerked his hands away, "They clearly told me that they would return her in exchange for you!" He seethed, "And I won't risk her life by listening to your vain promises!" Hearing that my Dad would only return her in exchange for me, I got worried because my father is a man of his words but my visit there would only have me trapped there for god knows how long. But I can't just sit here and do nothing! I wish I hadn't lost my phone. At least, my brother could have found me a way out.
"Alright," I said, "I'll go there and bring her back!" I agreed to go to him to just get Vero back but to clear myself out from the Mafia officially. This way, I wouldn't have to keep running from him.
"No! We will go there!"
"It's not a picnic, Sam!" I yelled, done with his idiocy, "Taking you there would only cause you death! So, keep calm and hope for good!!"
"HOW?!!!" He once again yelled at me, which almost compelled me to punch him to sleep, "How can I calm down when I know my love has been kidnapped!!"
"If you want to spend the rest of your life with her, then you got to stay here!!" He fell mute, looking at me with a bundle of tears in his eyes, "Trust me, Sam. I will get her back with not a single scratch on her body! I promise you that."
"Fine!" He finally said, "But if anything happens to her, Janet? I swear, I wouldn't care who you are and kill you with my bare hands, do you understand?" His threat didn't scare me at all, but yet I nodded, "Good!"