An old man around sixty years stared at the photo in his hands as tears rolled down his cheeks from his black eyes. His medium black hair with a few strands of grey flew in the wind's direction as his depressed face said all he was thinking.He smoked on his tobacco and choked on it.
He placed the tobacco on the table and tapped his fingers on the photo frame.
"I'm sorry Amy, I couldn't protect our son well. I'm sorry that I didn't protect you both well. I'm selfish." I thought as he squeezed the photo near his chest.
He remained there for some good minutes. Lost in his thoughts, he didn't even realize someone coming near him.
It was Acy. He watched his father lost in his thoughts. An evil smirk danced at the corner of his lips as the thought of pushing his Father from the balcony crossed his mind.
He stretched his hands and took closer steps to his father, attempted to push him but some how he managed to stop himself and balled his hands into a fist. "Not now"
"Hei dad." He called out but the man's soul had left his body.
Getting no response from his father, Acy decided to take his leave and go to Teddy's apartment. They had pushed the wedding to a year later.
Two weeks ago,
Acy called one of his lackeys to get one of his dirty works done. He instructed him to kidnap Teddy's sister whom he loved so much.
Within an hour, the work was already done and Tinsley was in Acy's hands.
"How dare you look down on me?" He seethed through his gritted teeth as he looked at Tinsley as if he was ready to cut her to pieces.
Her unconscious weak body was tied on a chair, her long black messy hair falling on her face and part sweeping on the ground. The girls partly open natural pink lips posed as if they had been asking for help. She looked around 18 years.
Acy tried to contact his so called boyfriend but the phone couldn't get through. He constantly redialed for minutes but to no valid.
Ugghh, he shouted and wanted to kick Tinsley but one of his lackeys caught him from the behind.
"You can't do this sir," he forced his voice to come out even when he was also scared to the core but he couldn't bare to watch someone beat a lady.
"Get your dirty hands off me." Acy shouted, his face full of disgust as if his shoe had stepped into someone's shit.
The guy let him go, Acy turned to him and called over other lackeys to punish him for crossing the line. They threw kicks and punches at him, forced him on his knees and made him appolgise to the boss before throwing him out from the window. His helpless lifeless body lay on the ground. It might have costed him his life, but the guy was proud of himself for standing up to the lady.
The next morning, Teddy's tired eyes opened. The sunlight flashed in his eyes and closed them suddenly. He tried to move his hand but he couldn't.
"What the fuck!" He cursed and opened his eyes suddenly .
His hands were cuffed from behind and his legs were tied together. He looked around only his eyes to widened in horror, his lovely sister was tied in the same way as him but she was near the fireplace. With just a slightest movement of her body, she would end up being burnt.
"Tinsley, No... Tinsley." He shouted his sister's name but the girl was far from being awake.
He panted as he tried to untie himself but the ropes only tightened on his wrists and ankles. He struggled and fell with the chair . "I can't let anything happen to my sister." He cried .
Only if the reasons why he had agreed to work with Acy was for the safety of his sister. This was the second time Tinsley was kidnapped triggering her mental health even more. The first time he begged Acy to let go of the girl in exchange for all the bad deeds he did and now she was kidnapped again.
He pulled himself in Tinsley's direction. The wanted to know their kidnapper but his first priority was to save the little girl as soon as possible. He forgot about his wellbeing as he crashed in the table injuring his right arm, that didn't stop him to run to Tinsley.
Tinsley has been suffering from heart failure and anxiety since the age of 5 after watching the death of her parent. Someone beheaded her mother and father in front of her . She suffered from selective mutism at first but then things suddenly became complicated when she suddenly stopped talking . (Aphasia)
Teddy lifted his eyes, tears suddenly blocked his vision. He couldn't bare to see her suffer anymore. He squeezed the tears out of himself and looked around for some help but nobody was there.
Someone must want to torment him. Someone must want to punish him for his wrong doings, but not in this way. Not in the way that would make him.lose his soul and mind.
With full force, he pushed Tinsley's chair forcing it to fall on the other side at least a few metres from the fire.
"Thank God I managed to save you in time. I'm sorry Tinsley. I'm sorry that I made you go through all these." Teddy cried as he pushed himself toward his sister.
His used his teeth to untie Tinsley before he started shaking her while calling her name.
"Wake up Tinsley."
"Please," he begged after calling her countless times.
A cross the road, a black tinted Bugatti Centodieci was park . Acy was inside laughing as he watched Teddy struggling and swearing.
"This is where you belong. Below me. How dare you shout and hung up on me." He laughed.
He dropped the tablet down and stretched his hands before stepping down from the car.
....
Acy's smile grew wide as he recalled the face Teddy had made that day and how he begged to save his sister's life. "It's nice to watch people suffer." He fixed his hair.
After that day, Teddy and Acy have been leaving under the same roof. He had no say in the house matters and was forced to resign from work. He endured all of that for his sister's sake.
" I will make sure to destroy you with my own hands Acy. I will make sure to crash you. I will take everything that belongs to you and give it out to the world for free. Watch me as I get revenge on you." I swore over his dead body.