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“You’ll never get away with this,” he groans.
“Are you sure? No one cares about you.”
“I have family.”
“That I’ve never seen or heard from. That’s not saying a lot now, is it?” I ask him.
“They’ll look for me. My mom will. You know I checked in with her every day,” he says, trying to play on my heart. I don’t care about his mom. I don’t care about him.
“If your mom shows up here, I’ll handle her,” I tell him. I see the anger in his eyes, the fear I’ll kill her too. And I might. That’s about the mood I’m in right now.
“You wouldn’t,” he seethes.
“Wouldn’t I? I bet you thought I wouldn’t kill you either, yet here we are,” I remind him.
“You’re not going to kill me.”
“Why do you think you’ve felt so bad since I’ve been back, Luke? Coincidence?” I giggle a little. He should have known better.
“You didn’t,” he snaps.
“I did. I’ve been poisoning you since I’ve been back, but it takes a long time to build in your system. You weren’t suffering enough.”
“You’re sick!”
“I’m sick? You knew what would happen to me! You knew!”
“I didn’t know,” he argues, trying to play the innocent role. It’s too late for that. I drag the blade of my knife across his bare stomach, watching the crimson bloom on his flesh. He screams, and I smile.
“Are you going to scream the whole time? It’s going to get a little old,” I tell him stuffing the gag back in his mouth. That’s when I hear someone coming in the front door. I look at Luke before moving quickly. I will kill anyone that tries to get in my way right now. He deserves this.
I move behind the door and hold the knife in my hand, ready to attack whenever it’s opened. I listen as footsteps come closer. Doors open and close as I glance back at Luke and then back to the door. My heart hammers in my chest as the doorknob turns. Slowly it opens, and then I leap. The knife plunges into someone’s shoulder, and they let out a growl that shakes the room. I’m spun around and slammed against the wall. My head bounces off the sheetrock, and stars dance in my vision. I blink a few times before I get to my feet, ready to go back after them. That’s when I see him and stop dead in my tracks.
“What the fuck?” I hiss as he pulls the knife from his shoulder. He spins around at my voice and narrows his eyes.
“Raven?”
“What the hell are you doing here?” I ask him.
“I could ask you the same goddamn thing,” he retorts. Then his eyes move to Luke. And I take the chance to move. I rush him, grabbing the knife from his hand and darting back behind Luke. I place the knife to his throat, holding it there while our eyes lock. Everything shifts in this moment. Everything changes. The air thickens as his head slowly cocks to the side to take in the scene before him.
“What is this?”
“This is me fixing the wrongs in my life.”
“I don’t understand,” he says, shaking his head.
“You wouldn’t. I didn’t tell you.”
“Tell me what, Raven?” His eyes move from me to the knife to Luke’s eyes and back. He’s confused, and he should be. I never shared this part of my life. I never gave up the information on how I ended up in that sex trafficking ring. I never told a single person because I didn’t think I’d make it out of there alive. Luke mumbles behind his gag, but his words are muffled, and no one can understand him.
“I was traded for drugs,” I begin with a hitch in my voice. I’m trying. I’m trying so hard to remain strong here, but this is harder than I thought it would be. A tear slips down my cheek as he stares into my eyes.
“What?”
“I was traded for drugs. That’s how I ended up being trafficked. My boyfriend at the time decided he needed his next fix more than I needed to live. He traded me to them. They offered the drugs, and the motherfucker took them,” I explain as more tears fall down my cheeks. It hurt at first that Luke would do that to me. It killed a piece of my heart that he would trade me like I was a piece of meat. I thought what we had was something real. I thought we felt the same way about each other, but I was wrong. So very wrong.
Luke mumbles behind the gag, and I press the knife harder against his throat. That shuts him up.
