LOGINKAI’S POINT OF VIEW.Officer Rhodes shook his head vigorously, his eyes wide and timid; no longer the earlier bravado of the officer who’d talked us down earlier. He appeared to want to pee his pants, too. I noticed the officers behind him seemed….happy at the exchange too.“Good dog.” Dominic pats him on the back, smoothing the invisible dust on his uniform. “Now, will you have your officers assist my friends here to get the mess in there cleaned up? My crew is on vacation; I’d call them but…you have hands.” Rhodes whimpered with yet another vigorous nod.“I didn’t hear you.“Yes, sir.” He squeaked, his voice painfully high like a mouse on helium. “We’ll get on it, sir.” He stuttered, jumping to his feet to walk behind us. However, that foolish nurse stepped in yet again.“Are you serious?” he scoffed, still limping from his fall earlier. “You’re going to let them leave like that? I told you this guy killed someone!” he hisses. Dominic looks from Rhodes to the nurse, an eyebrow raise
KAI’S POINT OF VIEW He scrambled back, tripping over a gurney as we sprinted for the service stairs. However, before we could get to it, a police officer, accompanied by four others, stopped us. “Wait there.” Their leader, a man with a buzz cut, commanded, his hand on his gun and handcuffs. “Yes! It’s him, officer. He killed someone!” the pathetic nurse hissed, rushing forward with a limp. “Arrest him now.” Everoleigh stepped forward, licking her lips nervously with a chuckle. “Officers, he….he’s a kid. And he only did it in self-defense. The woman in there is quite crazy; she kidnapped my daughter and tried to drain her of her blood. Do you remember the murders of children over a decade ago? She was the one who did all those things. Please, you have to understand; Mr. Mercer is innocent.” The officer stared at her for a second before looking back at me. “Is that true?” he asked, his hand not moving from the gun in his holster, as did his colleagues. “Did you kill someone?” “Don’
KAI’S POINT OF VIEW."Aurora!" I choked out, my hands trembling as I gripped her shoulders, my heart barely beating as the seconds passed by painfully slow.She didn't answer either of us, not yet anyway. Everleigh and I watched with fright as her body convulsed once, and then twice, her back arching off the bench as the antidote collided with the poison in her racing through her bloodstream so it could get to her heart.I remember watching many kids die to this very thing; my mother would kidnap them while we were in Spain, and force me to watch as they writhed in pain until they died. She told me she needed someone to carry on her work if she ever passed, and as her son, I should have the honor.She had not cared that she’d scar me with the horrific memory of this. All she needed was a successor as sick as she was. I watched, breathless, my heart twisting painfully until I had a headache, as the black, vine-like necrosis that had been racing toward her heart began to wither and pull
KAI'S POINT OF VIEWA few minutes later, she returns with a bright, hopeful smile. “He’s on his way with some help. Everything will be okay.”“Let’s get her to the hospital.” I took a step, holding the still unconscious Aurora in my arms, but before I could move, two things happened. A nurse stepped forward, his voice shaky and timid.“Y-you cannot leave...”“And who the hell is going to stop us?” Everleigh speaks before I could, probably because I was just about to tear through the bastard.“There was the sound of a gunshot, ma’am. Someone is clearly dead in there, and another person walks out, apparently fine, with another unconscious person in his arms. That can only mean one thing: he shot and killed the other person. The police are on their way….we will have to start an investigation so the murderer gets his punishment.”The second thing that happened was Everleigh screeched, her eyes wide with fear and panic. “Kai! Look at her arm.” I looked down immediately, my heart stopping a
KAI’S POINT OF VIEW.Her body barely makes it to the floor before I’m on the one girl that has my soul in her grip. I fall to my knees, a pained, jagged sob tearing through my throat as I reach for her. “Aurora!” I cried out, shaking her vigorously. My heart remains in my throat, tears I haven’t shed since I thought she’d died years ago now flowing freely.“Please….my love, please wake up.” I was ready to do anything. As long as she would wake up, but no matter how hard or how long I shook her, she didn’t even stir. Her body remains lifeless in my arms, the peeks of the bite of the needle in different spots around both of her arms. I looked at the lifeless body of the caricature that was my mother, my first monster in life.And I felt a surge of rage, helplessness, and terror. Did she steal yet another thing from me? Life without Aurora…. I’ve gone down that lonely, bleak road; I never want to do it again. The silence in the room felt like a physical weight as I lifted Aurora’s limp b
KAI’S POINT OF VIEW.I didn't wait for the receptionist to find her phone or call for help. Everyone panicked around me, as I did, but mine was internal. The memory of what I endured in that shed, of her laughter, of her shoes dipped in blood every time she stepped out….it haunted me all over again.My back muscles groaned with pain, but I knew there was no time to waste. I didn’t wait for the police to be informed, even though I heard the nurse and a bunch of janitors calling 911. The air in the hallway was already thickening with the invisible presence of the woman who had haunted my every waking breath since I’d been born."Everleigh, get back!" I yelled, but she was already a heap on the floor, gasping for air as the realization of her mistake, of our mistake, crushed her. It was our fault. We let her go in there….I should have trusted my intuition not to let her go, not to let her search for these memories. We had enough evidence to get Armando convicted with a life sentence with
AURORA’S POINT OF VIEW.I stared at Morgan’s retreating figure, my heart beating wildly with each step she took towards the door. I pushed to, but just before my feet could move, I felt an arm grab mine. Turning around, I saw that it was Kai….he held onto me, that love-struck look in his eyes as he
CLAPBACKS AT DINNER.AURORA’S POINMT OF VIEW.The silence that followed was absolute. My father’s face went from red to a ghostly, sickly white."What did you just say?" Armando hissed, his eyes flickering to Morgana."You heard her, Armando," Kai intervened, his voice smooth as silk but twice as d
AURORA’S POINT OF VIEW.The silence that followed Kai’s last words?It was lethal. Everyone stared at him with a mix of anger, tension, and fear. Dad looked lively but had been quiet for the past three minutes now. He only stared at Kai with a look as if he realized he could not do anything.The th
AURORA'S POINT OF VIEW.I was fifteen at the time. And that was when I realized, begging had always been my place. My mind flashed back again without warning. I was thirteen again, standing in the living room with shaking hands, my mother beside me, her shoulders stiff with as much dignity as she







