Before I get the chance to think, the dagger moves closer to my chest. My arms move rapidly and manage to catch the blade in between my palms, feeling it cutting my flesh open.
Seeing him again, the monster that destroyed me, anger and pure rage started building up in me. Using those feelings of hatred, they become the source of my strength to push him off my body.
Seeing him flying to the side in the same way he used to throw me around our small home, satisfaction spread through me.
“Acting tough now? All I can remember is your annoying screaming and crying.” The words coming through his grittedteeth are filled with anger, and they cut deeper than any blade could.
A drop of blood lands in my eye and my vision turns blurry.
I stand up, my body is losing blood and my head is dizzy from falling to the ground.
“What do you want?” My voice comes out strong, harsh.
“I just told you, did you not listen?” He licks the blade that holds my blood.
“You’re insane.”
“Oh, you say that like I didn’t already know.” He laughs as his body moves closer to me, dagger ready in his hand to stab through my chest.
With my vision blurry, I try to move away from him as fast as possible, but I’m too slow. And suddenly, another burning feeling appears over my stomach, and blood drips to the ground.
Feeling a burning sensation of rage, I launch forward and reach for the dagger in his hand. The old man falls to the ground and starts begging for mercy.
“Stop it, Ector, this is pathetic.”
“Don’t you dare speak my name!” I scream at him.
“Ector?” The calm voice I could listen to speaking for an eternity comes from behind me.
Losing my focus, I turn my head to her, looking like a monster with blood smudged all over my face.
Everything around me starts moving in slow motion as I see Genevieve cover her mouth with one hand and pointing toward me and my father with the other. By the time I understand that something is deeply wrong, I look down and see the blade go through my solar plexus.
No.
Locking eyes with the monster before me, I know that I’ll bleed to death by pulling the dagger out of the wound, butI’m willing to sacrifice my life for the world to be free of this monster.
“You ruined my fucking life!” I spit out. And with one fast movement, his neck was sliced open.
Blood spilling from his body is the last satisfying view I get to see before collapsing to the ground myself.
Chapter 25
Genevieve
Waking up to the sound of screaming and not finding Ector by my side leaves me in instant horror. Suppressing my deep fear of the dark, I force myself to stand steady on my feet and walk outside, not having a clue what I will meet.
“Ector?” His name leaves my lips as fear spreads through me.
He looks back at me with blood splattered all over his face. And before seconds pass by, a dagger goes through his body with his eyes looking straight into mine.
I ran faster than I ever have, almost like someone was chasing me. I stopped by his side and in an instant, I fell to my knees. “Ector...”
“Thank you for making my last moments more memorable than all my life together, sweetheart.”
“Don’t you dare leave me!” I cry out. “You can’t leave, please!”
“I kept my promise, the promise I made with myself the moment I laid my eyes on you.” Tears prickled in the corner of his eyes, blood spilling from his body.
