Chapter 6

6

ARIA

Everything was burnt down.

Reduced to ashes.

My plans. My hopes. My craving of freedom.

Everything around me was black and gray, that was all I could see through my unfocused vision.

Ashes. Storms. Thunder.

Private island.

An island thousands of meters away from civilization. An island surrounded my nothing but vastness of blue.

Secluded and hidden, I was no different than a valuable gem to him. An object for decoration.

But I was different than a gem.

I refused to be like this. I refused to give up. I refused to become an object. I was a human. A survivor after all. I wasn’t taught to give up and run. I was taught to fight.

Anger pulsated through me, spreading throughout my body. Adrenaline rushed through my veins, giving me the power, I needed for the fight.

Because that’s what I chose.

Fight. Not flight. Never flight.

Fuck flight.

With red covering my vision, my senses haywire and my insides a blur of emotions, I swung my fist at him.

It barely touched someth