I pounded into his face knocking off his eye patch revealing the sealed skin of what used to be his right eye. He’d never told me how he lost it. No matter, he was about to lose the left.
This prick had done so much damage to me. Damage of trust, damage of everything. Made me go against my internal warnings of trusting people and I ended up trusting him out of friendship.
Bastard!
I hit him again in his face and as he howled with pain I really thought I had him. Except a jab to my side right in the fucking rib that was broken made me double over and lose my edge. I lost my momentum and he gained the upper hand.
He flipped me off him and was ready to pulled his hand gun when blood splattered through his shoulder and splashed all over my face.
Fuck!
Another bullet pierced his side and he dropped to the ground.
I shuffled away from Ethan’s flapping arms as Jack rushed over to us and sent a kick to his head snapping it backwards, knocking him to the ground.
I jumped to my feet and joined him.
Jack held the gun down at Ethan who was spurting blood and bleeding out. He lifted his head to look at the both of us.
“Xander go rescue your girl. I have to talk to this dog about Claire,” Jack said to me.
As I looked at him I was so glad he’d come with me. This was his fight too. He’d been friends with Ethan for years before he’d known me.
It was right that he got to finish this with him.
My fight was with Balthazar Kane.
I nodded and ran to leave them.
With each step I knew that what I’d just gone through was just the prep. I hadn’t gotten the big boss yet. I hadn’t gotten to the big boss in this game.
I was on my way to him, running and gathering strength. Blocking out the pain in my side.
Jack had said that Jia was over some pit. It didn’t sound good when he’d said it and looking around where I was I knew there was no part of this that I was going to like. Not one damn bit whatsoever.
It would be all fucked up just like Balthazar. That was his style.
Bizarre and outrageous.
I reached another set of double doors. It was the only place left for me to go.
The only path left to follow.
I went in and cursed myself when I saw just how damn right I was.
I experienced what I could only express as a gamut and tumult of clashing emotions.
My heart had lifted at the sight of Jia ahead of me, then in the same second, everything crushed inside when I saw what that evil bastard had done to her.
Jia was gagged and tied to a pole.
This was some sort of refinery room or hall. The place was massive and yes there was a fucking pit.
The pole Jia was tied to was attached to a platform and it hovered over the pit.
There were two suspension bridges that led to where she was.
It looked like there was water below her because I saw a splash of it.
