How didn't I see it? How did I let her fool me?
"You are delusional. He doesn't want you. He could never fall for a manipulative bitch like you." She shot me a murderous look.
"Oh, ya? If he can fall for a gold-digging piece of crap like you, then he will fall for my charms. Sadly, you won't be here to see it, you good-for-nothing tramp." She screamed fanatically, and before I could see it, she raged a tight punch on my face and kicked hard in my chest, making me fall on the ground along with the chair that I was tied to.
She then started kicking me in my stomach like a madwoman and didn't stop until my mouth started spitting blood.
"He never loved you. You are nothing to him." I snapped back with all the energy that was left in me.
She sat down and grabbed my hair, "I was everything to him until you came along. At first, I thought you were a mere distraction. He ditched me in Norway and went crawling to Lofoten for you. I thought one night, and you will be history like all his other flings. He would chew and spit, like he always does." As she talked, she tightened her grip on my hair, making me flinch in pain.
"But you are such a leech, blinded by his wealth. You deepened your claws in him". She hit me with a cheek burning slap again after she finished hissing.
I stopped feeling my skin when she mercilessly hit me back to back after that. I lost count after five strokes.
"I even orchestrated my accident to divert his attention back to me, but you are such a cunt, you schemed to keep him close". She was pacing up and down screeching and pulling her hair in an attempt to tame her fuming rage. She started throwing things in my direction. She was wild and infuriated. She loathed my very existence.
I thought if I keep talking, maybe I could stall her a bit. "I didn't do any such thing. I love him, and he loves me back. He will not spare you; he will come looking for me, and when he does, you will regret this all your life."
"Of course, he will come. My men will soon contact him and give him our whereabouts. Before that though, David Windson will contact him and blackmail him into withdrawing his case...." She chuckled and after a pause, continued, "however, in all this mess, Jake will, unfortunately, see that only one of us could make out of here alive." She started laughing like a crazy woman again.
She had it chalked out in her head. She was going to deceive him to gain sympathy, and kill me in process.
"You disgust me. You claim that you love him, and still you partnered with his father's murderer? He will never forgive you, mark my words." I knew my time was now close. She will murder me in cold blood. I was a pig ready to be slaughtered.
"Shut Up! David Windson has nothing to do with his father's murder. He is just a corrupt bastard who used unfair means to win some business. I had to join hands with him. Somebody will have to take the blame for all this."
"Really? Just some business? He wanted to burn him alive in his apartment." I countered this deranged woman, hoping some sense could come to her hollow head.
"Oh! That was an attempt to destroy evidence. No hard feelings for Jake though." She was suddenly calm again. She had some severe personality disorder and serious anger issues. This girl belonged to an asylum, and I was about to lose my life at a psycho's behest.
Minutes later, she started searching for something, I couldn't see her anymore, but I could hear the hustle in the background.
There were a few more men in the room now. I could see them enter the room from a far corner; all of them were wearing the same masks.
One of the men said, "Mam David Windson's men contacted Jacob Richmond. He will know by now that he is behind this kidnapping. What are your orders?"
"Kill this whore and dump her body at a place where it could never be found." I was no better than a pile of lifeless flesh now. I was going to die.
"But Mam, the plan was only to kidnap and take hostage. We should not cross David Windson. It could backfire."
Before he could complete, I heard a loud echo of a tight slap, "just do what you are told to, and if you are such a pussy, then just give me your damn gun."
I heard some noise and now could only listen to footsteps, getting closer by second.
I tried to move and set myself free, I was wriggling and squirming in an attempt to loosen the ropes but to no avail. This was it. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes.
As I opened my eyes, there she stood, with a gun in her hand pointing right at me.
"You will regret this. You will pay for this. I promise you." Tears were welling in my eyes.
She smirked at my state. I closed my eyes for the final time when a deafening gunshot roared, and I felt piercing pain in my left leg. She shot my leg.
I was wincing and screaming in pain as she watched me with a satisfactory smile on her face.
"Good-Bye, Emma."
I held up for way too long, but now my eyes could not stay open for a second more. A blanket of pain was overpowering me. I gave up on my body. It was becoming unbearable. At last, I just let
