Chapter 189: A Small Sacrifice

Moana

When I came to, I felt myself sitting in a chair with my wrists tied behind me. My head was pounding from the blow that knocked me out, but that wasn’t the only thing I felt on my head.

Something cold and hard was pressed up against my temple.

My eyes fluttered open, squinting against the bright light of a spotlight. The light was so bright as it shined down on me that I could hardly see past it, but I could tell that I was inside the warehouse now.

The cold metal thing pressed harder into my temple. And then, a familiar voice spoke out.

“Hello, Moana.”

I jumped at the voice and whipped my head around, my eyes widening as I saw Ethan standing beside me with a gun raised to my head.

whispered,

didn’t think that I was looking. But now, he knew that I was looking right at

to see me,

I looked around frantically, only to see her tied to another chair next to me. She

need to experience any of this. She will have just gone to sleep, and

to do this,” I begged. “At least

barrel of the pistol in his hand against

It’s not that simple. It was thanks to Edrick and his parents that my beautiful mother

the news article that Olivia showed me the other day, and it never indicated that she killed herself. In fact, it indicated quite the opposite; that Michael had killed her.

pushing harder into

on all of us if you just shut up and don’t talk. Now, where was I…” He paused for a moment, still holding the gun against his head, and then his face lit up. “So, as I was saying, I’ve been looking for ways

I tried killing the family pets. It started with a pet bird, then a cat, and a puppy that Michael got for Edrick on his birthday. But although it caused them pain, it wasn’t enough. It wasn’t the same sort of pain that I felt when I found my mom’s body laying in her bathtub. Ever since then,

Edrick didn’t have anyone else that he actually gave a s**t about; but then, you came into the picture. You, with

he drank me in with his eyes, he never once lowered the gun. I felt myself trembling

from the start. And I don’t blame him. You’re a gem, Moana. A real gem… But you’re too perfect not to kill. You’re the perfect key

think that Michael is really capable of true human emotions, but he’ll still feel the sting of loneliness.

head toward where Kelly lay. “What did she ever do to you? From the looks of it,

“She’s not dead; just knocked out. Honestly, I couldn’t care less about Kelly. She was only ever a pawn throughout all of this; her insatiable obsession with Edrick just made

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