Chapter 2: Immobilized.

Iris opened her eyes slowly. She shut them back instantly. The lights were too bright.

The smell of antiseptic hit her nose. Her ears slowly recognized the beep coming from the machine by her left.

She finally opened her eyes, allowing it to adjust to the light.

An IV drip was connected to her left wrist.

Everything came flooding back.

Her mother's horrified face as they got surrounded by flames, her father laying unconscious in the flames, Edyn kept struggling for breath until the flames engulfed her and the truck exploded.

Her little sister laid by her side too limp her eyes wide no emotion in them.

She watched them all die.

Why didn't she go along with them?

Her eyes began to fill with tears. Everything was ...gone.

She tried screaming but no sound came out. Only sobs escaped from her throat.

The tears kept pouring like an overflowing dam.

Where was she?

Where would she go now?

She looked around her, sniffing and cleaning her face with the hospital gown's sleeve.

The door swung open. Two long legs stepped in. The Shoes polished so hard she could see her face on it.

The man stepped in, the door clicked shut.

He reached out and pulled metal seat beside her bed. The chair scraped across the tiles floor, the sound made her flinch.

He didn't sit yet. He leaned forward. "You're awake." His voice low and calm.

Her breath caught. Those black orbs trapped hers . Immobilized her.

Her breath caught.

The world seemed to narrow around them.The burning truck flashed through her mind. The flames roaring flames. The gunshots.

The voice on the phone before the accident.

Donatelli....

The name struck her like a physical blow. Her fingers tightened so hard around the bedsheet her knuckles turned white.

It was him.

The man who had carried her away from the wreckage. The man whose people had hunted them.

The man who had destroyed her family. He took everything from her.

"You killed them!" She screamed and lunged at him. The IV drip tore from her wrist and blood flowed out of the wound, but she didn't care about the pain.

Everything kept flashing in her mind. The call, the fire. He destroyed everything.

Suprise flashed across his features. It went as soon as it came.

His hand shot out and caught her wrist before the tips of her fingers could touch his face.

His grip was firm and unyielding. He kicked the chair to the side with his left foot, it skidded across the room and smashed on the wall. Iris flinched, then gritted her teeth.

Her head drove forward with full force, aiming for his head.

His head moved to the side smoothly causing her forehead to bang on his shoulders.

All the while his right arm remained folded behind his back.

He looked down at her wrists caught in his grip, her blood smeared on his palms staining it crimson.

He tilted his head to the side, his eyes watching her struggle to kick him, like a predator looked at it's prey trying to escape.

He pulled her hand down, away from his face, and pulled it behind her back.

Iris yelped out in pain. Her eyes becoming more glassy and her face more red like a cooked lobster.

The position he kept her hands forced her to go into a kneeling position, her hands held up so high, it made her chest come forward.

"Don't test my patience." He said. Something dangerous flashed in his eyes. His eyes looked down at her emotionlessly his grip on her wrists tightening. Not enough to break a bone but strong enough to show that he could.

His posture was tall and relaxed.

Iris froze for a moment, her nostrils flaring both out of crying and frustration.

He lowered himself to her height, his mouth in her ears, "You'll hurt yourself more."

He whispered with a sinister smile.

"For the record... There's still more grieving to come."

Swiftly he pulled out a syringe from his pocket and injected the sedative in her body before she could react.

She gritted her teeth, shaking her hands and kicking her legs to set herself free.

The effects of the sedative kicked in within seconds and her eyes began to droop.

"No..." She couldn't let this happen.

She had to find a way out.

She screamed, but only a strangled moan came out of her throat before her vision turned dark.

His emotionless eyes staring down at her ,were the last thing she saw.