Eternal

I could feel my blood boiling and something beginning to stir deep within my stomach, I had no idea what was happening, but I did know that I should have hated this woman and that she deserved to suffer through some of what I had been forced to go through.

I drew back my arm and connected my fist with her nose, I rejoiced in the sickening crunching sound that followed the impact, before punching her again and again. She looked me straight in the eyes and laughed at me, which just spurred me on even more as I began landing blow after blow to her abdomen. She began to wretch and then had the audacity to spit blood into my face, I felt a sinister grin spread across my mouth as I saw red and resumed my previous assault on her already bloodied face.

“Hit me all you like Unya, you will always be worthless.”

That was the last thing she said to me before unconsciousness stole her away, I knew I should have stopped but I couldn’t seem to tear myself away.

I honestly believed I would have carried on until I ended her life when the sound of my name being called, stopped me dead in my tracks.

“Unya stop, you don’t want to do that, if you end her life you will lose yourself forever.”

I turned my gaze to Lawson’s face, but I refused to lower my fist.

“What does it even matter, I’m already dead inside,” I spat my reply back at him, with a vehemence in my voice that I had never heard before.

“Trust me Unya, whatever you are feeling right now will pass, I know that she deserves this, but don’t stoop any further down to her level.”

I finally lowered my fist and turned away from Jackie and Martin, only taking one last glance at the bloody cavern which was now her face, I couldn’t even recognise her anymore. I wondered if that was how bad I looked to Lawson as I slowly made my way over to him.

He shouted at me to look out, but my reaction times were significantly slower than usual, as Martin’s body connected with mine and sent me hurtling, ever closer to a rocky demise.

I was now only inches from the edge as Martin’s body sat astride my legs with his hands around my throat, his squeeze growing tighter and tighter, with fury clear in his eyes.

“What happened, what the hell did you do to me?” He screamed at me, with spittle flying past his lips, my vision growing cloudy as my lungs screamed for oxygen. I knew I didn’t stand a chance at getting away from him when Lawson walked up behind him and unsheathed a dagger that had been hiding behind his jacket.

He smiled a smile that I would never forget as his eyes locked with mine and then he ran it deeply across Martin’s throat from ear to ear, exposing his jugular and sending his warm life force all over my face.

Before Martin’s lifeless form could slump over me, he lifted him up, as though he was no more than a small bag of sugar and sent him hurtling over the side of the cliff.

I laid there panting, as my lungs tried to recapture the air that they had been deprived of as he slowly approached me, cautiously as though he was worried that I might run away, not that my body was up for any kind of strenuous activity at that precise moment in time.

“Who were those people?” He asked in a cold and distant tone, as he stared at my face in disgust, most likely because of the bruises and swelling and now Martin’s blood that no doubt covered it.

“My aunt and her new lover,” I replied before coughs wracked through my body and I began coughing my own blood up. He quickly caught it in the fabric of his top, before any could spill onto the ground. I must have looked confused because he quickly explained that it would be better if my DNA did not turn up here. I nodded my acquiescence, before somehow managing to roll onto my hands and knees. I realised that I had found myself in this position quite a lot in the recent days and wondered why the hell my mind would focus on that, after everything I had just seen.

Lawson helped me to stand, staring intently at me, probably trying to gauge my reaction to what I had just witnessed. I honestly still felt nothing, I probably should have feared him, especially after he took a stranger’s life without a second thought, but it meant nothing to me.

He helped me over to Jackie’s prone form, being careful not to directly touch any part of my flesh. Jackie was still very much out cold, so I kicked her in the ribs one last time for good measure before we went over to my car and I collapsed onto my backseat. It didn’t occur to me to ask where his bike was or how he even knew where I was, all I wanted to do was sleep the pain away and I drifted off into the black abyss of my mind.

Chapter Fourteen

Lawson

I had driven us back to Kat’s place, I knew I shouldn’t have imposed on her any further, but I was at a complete loss as to what I should do.

“What the hell did you do to the poor girl?” She demanded as she eyed me warily, as though she actually suspected that I was the culprit for the state that Unya was in.

“I played no part in this, in fact I actually saved the girl’s life,” I stated feeling irked by her suspicion.

“Well, it’s not like you helped her out of the goodness of your heart. You obviously still need her alive for the time being.”

Kat had said it with such disgust as Marcus came outside and looked at me with utter disdain when he saw Unya as well.

“For the last time, I didn’t do it.”

He snickered in response before carefully lifting Unya out of the car, and then he carried her in the way that a husband would carry his bride over the threshold and she didn’t even stir. I refused to feel anything similar to worry for her as I stood there like a statue, Kat spared me one last glance before she followed Marcus inside. I knew full well neither of them was going to trust me to be anywhere near her, especially alone. I found myself wondering if that bothered me for more reasons than just their utter lack of faith in my character but chose not to pull at that thread.

> I wondered how she could have allowed me near her after what I did to that guy, and I knew that she would have witnessed the thrill I felt as the life drained away from him. She was definitely hiding something beneath her hostile exterior, all I had to do was figure out what, before her Eighteenth birthday took place and one way or another, I would vacate her life for good.