Chapter 39: LOST

“Wake up, sleepy head; I didn't bring you here to sleep.” The pain of someone yanking my hair forcefully jolted me awake.

“Finally, it's high time you joined the living. I nearly thought you weren't going to wake up.” I heard Anna say as I tried to recall what happened.

She hit me; she actually knocked me out. I could feel my head trembling in pain as she continued to yank my hair. I was tied to a chair in the middle of the sitting room.

“Can I give you a little piece of advice? Seth will be joining us anytime soon; I have already called him. He wants access to all your father's wealth, so I will advise you to tell us where to find all the documents we need to claim the companies and your father's wealth, or Seth will be forced to take matters."

I started laughing, which caused her to pause on her words. I looked up at her as I laughed so loudly; it was a laugh mixed with pain and anger.

“What are you going to do—kill me? How could you still look me in the eyes and threaten me? My best friend was fucking my husband, and I didn't even figure it out.” I said in between my laughs as I shook my head.

“So you figured that out; it's about time. You were the one complaining how bad of a husband he is, so I decided to help you out,” she replied.

“Well, that's good for the both of you. He is now my ex-husband, so if you like, you can go naked or do whatever you want with him; he is now a left-over food, and I'm handling it for you so you could help me finish it up.” I maintained my smiling face as I looked her in the eyes. She was pissed, and that is what I need at the moment.

“At least I'm not pregnant for him; I'm a lot smarter than you are. What are you going to tell the baby when he or she asks for their father? Oh wait, he is a murderer who killed your parents, and what does that make your child, a murderer’s son or daughter?” 

The smile on my face disappeared as I felt a dark feeling around me. It took me a while to realise I was the one calling out the darkness that was beginning to consume my heart and sense of reason. All I wanted to do at that moment was strangle Anna to death.

“Why aren't you laughing? Have you suddenly forgotten how to?” She said as she leant in closer to me. I didn't hesitate to hit my head against her nose.

“Aaaah, you bitch!!!” She backed away, hissing in pain. It didn't take much time before I noticed the drop of blood on the floor.

“Blood? You broke my nose!?”

“Talk about my baby like that again, and I will reap you apart.”

“You are really crazy, crazy!!!” She screamed in my face.

“You call this crazy; you are so fucking lucky that my hands are tied, or I would have bitten off your ears and plucking out your ears!!” I screamed back at her. I saw the surprise look on her face; she wasn't expecting me to reply to her.

“Is it me, or have you gotten a lot bolder? You even talk back at me. I guess you are really going to be on the problem list, like Seth said."

I ignored her as I kept working on the rope around my hand. If I can set my hands free, then Anna is a piece of cake to me. I watched her every movement. She walked into the kitchen, getting herself some tissues as she began cleaning the blood off her face.

“I can't believe you did this to me.” She groaned in frustration before grabbing an ice bag for herself. When the rope came loose around me, a smirk appeared on my face. I began losing the one around my leg. She had her back on me, so she didn't see me.

Once my leg was free, I grabbed the same pan that she hit me on the head with and quietly approached her. I raised it up with the last strength in me as I collided the pan against her head.

“That is for knocking me out, and for insulting my baby, I will make you pay.” I said this to her as she groaned in pain. I didn't knock her out, but she was too weak to fight back at me.

I took the rope and wrapped it around her neck as I dragged her towards the sitting room with me. I am going to tie her up and leave her up to Seth. But as I dragged her into the living room, I failed to see the shadow staring at me in the dark since Anna had turned off all the lights.

“Leave her alone,” I heard someone say behind me. He is here, and Seth is here.

“Are you mad because I'm hurting your fucking buddy just like your secretary?” I asked as I tightened my grip around the rope; even though I heard Anna gasping to breathe, it didn't stop me.

“I said let her go!” He said this as he came right at me, dragging me by the hand as he pushed me away. His grip around my hand was strong as it pushed me against the wall.

“I told you to let her go, you bitch!!” He screamed in my face as he started slapping me hard against the face. It wasn't once or twice, but he slapped me continuously. I tried freeing my hands, which were trapped with Seth's left hand above my head, but it was like, It's impossible. He leant in closer to me with a smirk on his face before he whispered something in my eyes. Words that set my range on fire.

“You are as pathetic as your mother was when I shot her.” I groaned in anger. I managed to push myself up and lean in closer to him as well; he actually thought I wanted to say something to him, but I took that as my final chance.

I didn't hesitate to bite him on his right ear as he screamed out in pain, trying to yank me away from him, but I bit harder on his ear. He threw a punch my way as it collided with my stomach.

I felt an electric shock of pain rush through me. I took a few steps away from him as I grabbed onto my stomach, groaning in pain.

“You bitch, you bit off my ear,” I heard him say as I struggled to keep myself from slumping to the ground. I looked up at him and saw his ear bleeding massively. Even in my pain, I still smiled. I spit his blood out of my mouth.

“You are fucking smiling? Why don't I teach you what to smile about?” Even as he angrily walked towards me, I still had that smile on my face.

He sent a kick my way, and I didn't even bother to avoid it. The force from the kick had me fall, and I hit my stomach on the ground, which added to my pain.

I was already prepared for what was to come. If I die today, then so be it.

“Stop hitting her; you will harm the baby,” I heard Anna say as she stood in between Seth and me.

“What on earth are you talking about?”

“She is pregnant with your child.”

“What on earth are you talking about? Does it look like I came here to listen to some lies?”

“It's not a lie; stop hitting her and just get the information you want from her, then you let her go; that was the deal.”

“I don't fucking care about any deal, and I don't give a fuck about a baby that is not mine.”

“You really are a monster.”

“What did you just call me?”

“You are a fucking monster.”

I was listening to their conversations as I lay there on the floor, begging God to take my pain away. I was too weak to get up and run, or maybe call the cops; I just laid there and watched them fight.

“Call me a monster again, and I will kill you right here and right now; do you understand!?” Seth screamed at Anna as he wrapped his hand around her neck, strangling her. I saw her struggling to get out of his grip, but he was way too strong.

“Do you understand?” He asked again, this time with a glare in his eyes.

“Why are you doing this to me? I never wanted any of these,” Anna said as I saw her turn a shade of blue from not being able to breathe properly.

“Then what is going to be—your life or you being back in the game?” There was a dead silence for a while before she answered him.

“I'm back in the game,” I heard her say as I began to drift into the darkness and pain surrounding me. The last thing I heard was Seth telling Anna to drag me outside.

Siofra's POV

On my count, I have been here for three days. How come no one is finding me if the whole Álfheimr is looking for me? This just doesn't make any sense. Is it because my body was stolen from me? Does this mean that no one can see me even if I make it out of here?

This is fucked up; I'm fucked up. Please give me an answer and speak to me. I pleaded; I wasn't even sure if I had anyone to listen to me. I went down on my knees as I felt hurt tears running down my face.

“Are you really going to let me end like this? If you are the one who chose me, then why are you keeping quiet about me? Help me, please,” I cried out.

“Push.” I heard someone say, but the voice was faint, so I wasn't sure what I heard.

“Push, push, push.” It became louder and louder until I began pushing the bottle I was trapped inside.

Push. I was told to push, so I did. The bottle fell from the top shelf to the ground, and it shattered into pieces, setting me free.

“I'm free; I'm really free. What should I do next?” I asked, but got silence as my answer. I saw a mirror sitting in the middle of the room, and I walked up to it.

When I stood in front of the mirror, I couldn't see myself. All I saw was a twinkling light that looked like a star. Is that what I am now? How on earth am I going to fight Alma when I'm just some twinkling starlight?

I feel so lost.