Page 76 of Sinister Hearts
I hid in the depths of the darkness, and I listened, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. As I turned to look this piece of shit in the face, my breath caught in my lungs like a thick cloud of smoke, shock seemingly overcoming me. It was Vadon and Penny.
The building rapidly filled with the foul odor of gun powder and death. As I came back to my senses,Whack!I felt my skull split in two as my vision began to escape me. Blood trickled down my forehead to my face, burning my eyes. Then darkness took me.
My vision came back to me in a blur of dimensions. I could faintly see Vadon standing over me. I tried so hard to cling to consciousness, my head pounding like a thousand wild horses hooves on the desert sand.
“You stupid fucking cunt!” Vadon bellowed as he began laughing deliriously. He slapped me across my face, causing my blood to pool in my mouth.
The iron, metallic taste flooded my taste buds.
“You’ve made it just in time, dear. For the sacrifice.” He dragged me by my feet and I began to kick and scream as I triedto cling to anything I could, making the windows and mirrors shatter all over the cracked, cement floor. Vadon clapped with joy. “It seems you’ve discovered some of your spell binding capabilities.” He flashed his yellow-stained teeth at me. Smiling wickedly, he continued, “Which means your power will bring me great fortune, you fucking filthy witch!” Vadon moved to pick up Penny as she struggled to stand on her own two feet.
“What did you do to her, you monster!” I wiped the blood from the corner of my split lip with my black torn sleeve.
“It seems Penny has missed taking her moonstone antidote.” Vadon laughed with lunacy as he dragged the stake to Penny’s heart. Penny started breathing rapidly while blindfolded and gagged.
“You piece of shit! You let her go! It’s me that you want!” I screamed and pleaded with him.
Vadon threw Penny to the ground like she was worthless. “You’re right.” He crouched before me, bringing the wooden stake to my buttoned shirt and dragging the sharp knife down my chest, breaking each button, one by one. “I did want you. I knew you would be a sacrifice after all. But, I didn’t expect you to make me fall in love with you, fucking whore!” He grazed the pointed stake under my chin, and I winced at the sharp pain it left behind.
“You cursed me, you bitch. Made me obsessed with you. So much that it drove me to insanity! This is your fault, you were supposed to mean nothing, be nothing to me.” He took the stake off me, running his hands through his balding, thin brown hair. “But you…YOU!You just had to make me love you, didn’t you? Casting love spells on me.” He laughed in a sick frenzy. “It’s why I couldn’t bear knowing you were with that disgusting low-life,Reaper.”
This fuck really thinks he’s that special? That I’d cast a lover’s spell to get him to love me? My laughter swarmed around thelarge room. The narcissism was still very much strong in this one. “I never casted shit on you, Vadon, despite what you think. It doesn’t take much for a small insecure man to fall in love with a strong-willed woman. All to just break her down. That’s your MO, isn’t it?” I spat at him through my bloody face.
Maddening tears seeped from his evil eyes. “You will be sacrificed, you bitch! You are locked in here with me now. With nowhere to go.” Vadon looked so sure of himself.
It was adorable, really.“That’s where you’re wrong, Vadon.” I looked up at him through my crazed gaze, my eyes flashing white as snow. I could see the undeniable fear reflecting in his crazed eyes. “You’re locked in here withme,” I said menacingly, my smile devilish as my malicious side came out to play.
A powerful gust of heavy wind began to form around me as my skin vibrated.
“Your little friend Avi made it very easy for us. Didn’t she, sweetie?” Vadon countered with a menacing smirk.
Devina walked in with her Chanel suit, looking pleased with herself.Not this weird bitch again.
I was ready to knock the head off this hoe. I glanced over to check on Penny. She was still bound and tied on the ground. I watched her chest rise slowly. She was still alive, but her breathing was becoming weak. I was running out of time. My fingertips sparked with uncontrollable power, but this time I was no longer afraid.
Devina and Vadon kissed like feral teenage lovers as they sucked each other’s tongues. “Oh, what the fuck is this?” I tried not to hurl my insides out. “I knew you were sick, but this… this is a different low, even for you. This is a real ‘keep it in the family’ kind of situation, let me tell you.” Sick laughter overcame me as I let the fury build. “You two are sick! I should have known you were always in love with your brother. You sick, nasty bitch!” I spit my blood on her over-filled puffy face.
“Half-brother, dear,” Vadon countered. He cleaned Devina’s face by licking my blood and spit from her skin.
Inevitably, I gagged in my mouth. “Oh yes, because that makes it so much better, you fucking freaks!” I could feel the bile rising in my coarse throat.
Rocky barged in ready to strike with a nefarious look in her eyes. The doors blew in with a gust of wind and surge of electricity, knocking the metal doors off their hinges. “Enough talking, assholes!”
Thank fuck she found us.
Rocky formed her hands in a chokehold mid-air, as Devina’s oxygen began slipping from her. A morbid repetition of her movements began to take place. I could hear the bones crumble and crack inside her esophagus. Blood hemorrhaged from her nose and eyes, depicting a horrid sight. Rocky lifted her bleeding and broken body mid-air, electrocuting her until she became a lifeless corpse. Vadon’s cries and screams were like a lullaby in the background as he watched, helpless.
Devina’s broken, bloody, burnt body flopped to the cement ground with a thud.
“Imagine that? A size eight shoe.” I chuckled as my attention returned to Vadon, at the sounds of running footsteps down the hall. This coward was running.Gods, this was going to be so much fun.
“I’ll get Penny and the others to safety,” Rocky stated. I nodded to her as she began walking to a disoriented Penny. She ripped the golden locket-shaped vial from her neck. “Drink,” she demanded, shoving the vile into Penny’s mouth. She began untying her and ripping off the bindings. Penny did not hesitate to drink from the small vile.
“There are no others, I’m the only survivor left.” Penny’s voice cracked, torment in her green eyes evident. “Make him pay,” Penny said, looking at me, exasperated.
There were tears in Raquel’s eyes as she helped a very disoriented Penny up. Her battered wounds were beginning to slowly heal, yet they were still visible.What had they done to her?Her white rosy cheeks spread across her face, as relief washed over all of us. “I would kill the fucker myself, but I need to feed more.” Penny looked distressed and weak.
This was the beginning of my reckoning. My vengeance. For me. For Ma. For them. And for the ancestors before us. I would make him pay, for all the hurt he’s caused not only to me, but the people I love deeply.
