“I couldn’t believe Ethan’s cruelty,” I thought to myself, reeling from the revelation. “How could I have been so blind, sleeping with the devil himself?”
After Wayne finished showing me the atrocities Ethan had committed, he left me alone with my thoughts – a form of torture in itself. As I sat there, the weight of the suffering Ethan had inflicted on others because of me crushed me. Ian and William were in his torture chambers because of me.
Just as I felt like I couldn’t take it anymore, Gloria’s voice pierced the air, her excitement palpable. “Time’s up,” she said, as they re-entered the room. I turned to face them, my heart racing, and saw that they were all armed with torture tools, ready to end my life. Gloria held out her knife, Alfred clutched a plastic bag, and Wayne grasped an axe.
“This is going to be fun,” Gloria said, moving closer to me, as my heart raced almost falling out of my chest.
I had learned to stop struggling to escape after hours of failed attempts.
“Please don’t kill me” I pleaded one last time to Wayne who just smirked.
“I am sorry Emily, I am sure after watching those videos you would understand why we need to do this,” Wayne said in the softest tone.
“O! Please you don’t have to explain shit to her, you are going to die little girl” Gloria interrupted her voice filled with excitement as she said those words to me.
“I understand why Wayne and Alfred are here but what about you, you think your son deserves to live with monsters like you and Ethan as parents” As those words left my mouth I felt a hard surface hit across my face.
“Don’t you dare talk about Jake” Gloria warned after giving me a hard slap.
I scoffed, spitting out what felt like mucus and blood before continuing my words, even if I was going to die, I wasn’t going to die a coward.
“I would talk about that bastard the way I like, do you think killing me would make Ethan love you? Is that why you agreed to the plan”
“Ethan would never love you, you are too old and ugly for him and your heart is too dark” I continued to provoke Gloria enjoying every part of making her uncomfortable.
“O!! Can I just shut her up” Gloria said putting her knife to my neck.
“No, not yet, this has to be clean,” Wayne said staring at Gloria who took her knife away from my neck.
“You better keep quiet unless you want to be slaughtered right here” Wayne warned me but I shrugged it off.
“You are all going to kill me anyway, why not just let me speak my mind” I said,
“You all know Gloria is using you right?” I yelled to Alfred and Wayne, “She is just using you to win Ethan’s favor” I continued.
“If you join her in killing me, Ethan would forgive her and she might just rat you two out” I continued to yell, hoping it would convince them to turn against each other, but instead, they ignored me going about their business.
My heart racing as I watched in terror, Wayne and Alfred lay down the nylon bag, close to me.
While Gloria pulled out a key from her pocket unchaining one of my hands, to move me away from the pipe.
As soon as my hands were free I tried to use my last strength to escape, using my free hand to punch Gloria as hard as I could.
“You bitch” she exclaimed, holding her face after my hands hit hard across her face and I ran to the exit. I ran with all my strength almost getting to the door when I felt a strong grip pull me back, forcing me to tumble on my feet and fall to the ground.
“Where do you think you are going beautiful” Alfred said holding me down, I struggled to get his hands off me but his grip was too tight.
“Get her ready” I heard Wayne instruct as Alfred pushed me to the ground putting my face down and chaining my hands behind my back.
As I heard the sound of the knife getting sharpened I instantly gave up, I closed my eyes knowing that nothing was going to save me now and I was going to die, as I closed my eyes preparing for my death, a loud sound of am Alarm filled the air.
“What’s going on” I heard Alfred panick as I opened my eyes to see them staring at a phone.
“Those are Ethan’s men, he has found us” Alfred voiced filled with panicked
“How?” Wayne yelled in frustration, “I don’t know, maybe he used Alpha, did any of you use a phone different from the one I gave you” Wayne yelled staring at the both of them.
“No” they both echoed, “what about her phone did you remember to turn it off” he asked Gloria and she became silent.
“You fool!” He yelled, pacing to the door.
“I think we should still kill her before they get here” Gloria insisted but Wayne shook his head.
“We need to get out of here, if Ethan catches us here, he would kill each one of us,” Wayne said, cocking his gun and moving towards the door.
He opened the door and all I could hear was the sound of gunshots.
Shooting back, Wayne and Alfred held their guns high before running out of the door.
“Those cowards,” Gloria said moving towards me. “I am not going to run, I am going to make sure I kill you first” she insisted.
Taking the knife from the counter Wayne had left it and moved towards me. I struggled to stand up but I was placed in a vulnerable position, feeling helpless I just closed my eyes again.
“Die bitch” Gloria yelled, about to stab me when I felt the sound of a bullet pass through my ear.
The sound was followed by Gloria’s scream, and as she fell to the ground, I raised my head to find Ethan standing by the door.
“Emily are you okay” he said to me as he let out a relieved sigh.
I nodded gently watching him run to me, as he got to me, he knelt beside me shooting the chain off my hands before helping me up
“Are you okay?” he said again embracing me in a big hug, I tried to hug him back but the memory of all he had flooded my head like a nightmare making him push him away.
We both turned to find Gloria on the floor, her leg injured as she struggled to slide out the door.
“Gloria” Ethan called to her and she turned with a wide grin on her face.
“You can’t kill me, you know who my father is,” Gloria said confidently but before she could finish her sentence, Ethan emptied his bullets into her body.