Dominion (Guardian Angels) - By Melody Manful Page 0,49
mother cried the moment she saw me. “Let her go.” My mother struggled to free herself.
“I’m all right, Mom,” I lied.
“Let them go,” I demanded. Someone laughed.
“Hello, Abigail, I’m Andrei. Your father taught you well,” he said. He glanced at something behind me. “My men were plenty before.” He looked like one of those people you wouldn’t dare befriend. His eyes were cold, his dark-grey hair neatly brushed, and a plastic grin stretched across his face.
“Let them go,” I said again, tugging against the grip of the man who had me restrained. I was out of ideas, and I didn’t know what I was supposed to do next.
“How adorable,” he said.
“Andrei!” Someone rushed through the open door. The only words I understood were my father’s name and Andrei’s. The language being spoken sounded like a Slavic language, possibly Russian.
“It seems your father is coming to get you, we have to leave,” Andrei said as the men led my mother and bodyguards out after him. My mother screamed at them to let her go. Two remaining men followed my captor and me.
The man holding me pushed me forward, but I refused to budge. I made sure there was some space between me and my mother and bodyguards before I took another step. We followed them into the connected dining and sitting rooms. I watched as the people in front of us exited the library into the sitting room, and then I promptly halted.
The moment I stopped moving, I lifted my leg and stomped hard on the foot of the man holding me. I swung my elbow into his stomach and slipped out of his grasp. I didn’t waste any time before I connected my fist with the closest jaw. I cried out as someone punched me in the nose. Another blow landed in my jaw, and then it was three against one, and they were winning.
My mouth was filled with blood when I finally managed to swing a blow at one of them. I threw my fists out again, and then, reaching for one of the dining chairs, I swung it around and connected with the skull of one of the men. He fell down immediately, and I grabbed his gun.
The moment it was in my hands, I fired twice at the men rushing toward me. It was after they fell to the ground and blood splashed onto the floors, walls, and all over on my body that I felt a rush of anger and pain. I just shot two men; I killed them. Finally, I knew my father hadn’t been training me just to protect myself. He had been training me to become a killer.
Andrei shouted in Russian at the sound of the gunshot. Two more men came into view. I fired twice, hitting one and missing the other. He fired his gun and missed only because once again, the bullet stopped mid-air. I took advantage of the man’s shock and shot him in the left leg. I was shocked too, but the panic of losing those I loved was more compelling than whatever weird thing was going on.
I ran over to the entrance when I heard my mother’s screams and the start of car engines. I flew through the front door to the house just as the cars started pulling away.
VENGEANCE
“A moment, that’s all it takes to live.
A hope, that’s all it takes to believe.
A dream, that’s all it takes to wish.
A blink, that’s all it takes to lose it all.”
Melody Manful
I ran back inside toward the security pad beside the front door. A password—Cells Mansion—would force the grounds into lockdown.
My hands shook as I keyed in the password. What if something happened to my mother and bodyguards? I couldn’t stand the thought of it.
After entering the password, an alarm went off. I scanned the grounds through the closest window. Cells Mansion was now on lockdown, but I wanted to make sure Andrei and his men stayed inside the main gate.
I was about to open the front door and rush out, barefoot, when I heard a sound behind me. I turned and reached for my gun, but the man who had crept up behind me fired first.
I didn’t even reach to react to the bullet racing toward me when a shadow stepped in front of me. A second later, the man who had fired the bullet was on the ground, and Gideon was standing in front of me, holding the bullet in his hand.