Chapter 184 Chapter 184
We drove for some hours more. Every now and then I brought my fingers to my tender eye to
investigate the swelling.
Spoiler: it was bad.
On the plus side, my eye had caught the metallic shimmer of a de in the pocket of the driver. Andrea
was busy brooding at the time and I was able to discretely reach for it and slip it from his pocket and
into my own. I took no joy in hurting people but if I had the opportunity with Andrea, I would hesitate for
a second.
Eventually, the car came to a grinding stop at the edge of a muddy, fast-flowing river.
"This looks like the sort of ce you bring someone to discretely murder them," I mumbled as Andrea
hauled me out of the car by my my arm and dragging me onto an overgrown jetty where a singr boat
bobbed on the brown water.
"Don''t tempt me, nca," he replied before reaching into his pocket and handing the silent driver a
wad of cash.
The car was soon speeding back down the track, kicking up dust as it went and leaving us alone on the
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derelict jetty that was so rotten we could fall through at any moment.
Taking my arm once again, he began leading me to the tiny motorboat.
I heard the high pitched buzz of a mosquito in the air. Itnded on his tanned skin and he lifted his
other hand to p it off.
I flinched and closed my eyes for a brief second.
Of course, Andrea noticed and he looked down at me and his eyes fluttered across his face before he
smirked and looked away.
"You''re scared of me, nca," he stated.
I didn''t respond.
"Tell me why," he said.
"You know why," I replied quietly.
"I want to hear you say it."
I hesitated for a few moments and took a deep breath, "You''re terrifying."
He gave me a sarcastic smile.
"Thank you," he said in a light tone before his face hardened. "Now get in the boat."
I looked down at the old wooden thing and the rtively fast flowing river. I then thought about where it
was going to take me and felt a sudden urge to do anything in my power to not end up in it.
I backed away shaking my head.
"No," I refused.
"Now that your son is safe you think it''s okay to be difficult?" he said grabbing my wrist. "Get in the
fucking boat and don''t make me say it again."
"Fuck you," I hissed withdrawing the stolen knife and surging it towards him.
His grip loosened on my wrist and I cowered away. He brought his fingers slowly up to his cheek and
dapped the scratch I had left on him. Blood oozed onto his fingertips and a slight trickle dripped down
his cheek to his jaw. He stared as the blood on his hands for a few seconds before lifting his eyes up to
me.
"You better run, nca," he growled as his face twitched with anger. "Before I fucking kill you."
I heeded his advice and bolted into the jungle. It was dense and the vines whipped andshed as I
fought through leaves and branches and roots.
His footsteps thundered towards me. Every stride of his covering twice the distance of mine.
In my panic, I lost my step and caught my foot on a protruding root which sent me onto the floor.
I rolled onto my back to see Andrea above me, still with murder in his eyes. He leant down and
grabbed my ankles, pulling me underneath me and seizing my face in his hand.
"You fucking bitch, nca," he snarled, his mouth so close to mine.
My pulse throbbed in my ears as watery tears built in my eyes. His re was relentless and dark, and
his ws dug into my cheeks.
"I was told that you knew how to fight but that was pathetic Sweetheart," he said ripping the knife out of
my hand.
The cut clearly only stretched across the surface of his cheek and the blood had already stopped
flowing.
He slowly brought the knife to my throat and pressed the back of the de against my skin.
"I am going to make you pay for this," he said slowly and clearly, every word deep and cutting.
I then briefly saw his fist flying towards my face before everything went dark and silent.