Dominion (Guardian Angels) - By Melody Manful Page 0,51
shouted, throwing my gun to him. “All right, just let them go.” The moment the gun was out of my hand, the man with the knife walked over. He put his knife inside one of this belt holes and pinned my hands behind my back.
“Abigail, what are you doing?” Gideon asked.
“Let go of her!” my mother shouted, but I knew she was in no position to make demands.
“Open the gate, Abigail,” Andrei said, and I intentionally moved closer to the man holding me as I searched for the knife on his belt.
“How do you suggest I do that with my hands behind me, Andrei?” I asked with a mocking smile.
My hand finally found the knife. I slowly pulled.
He smiled. “You’re clever, too.”
“Thank you,” I replied at the same moment the guy holding me screamed. He let go of me, and a second later he was lying on the ground. I knew Gideon had done this small favor, so I didn’t wait before turning around and immediately hurling the knife straight toward Ben. It hit him in the thigh.
Both my mother and Ben shouted in surprise. Ben bent over the moment the knife pierced his flesh. At the same time, Andrei fired his gun at him, but the bullet shot through the air where Ben had stood and landed on the ground.
Andrei spoke and then shoved my mother toward a man who pinned her hands behind her back.
I looked back to the man who was holding me before. I was pretty sure he was dead, and I was beginning to wonder what it was that Gideon had done to him. I was about to turn away from his body when someone hit me from behind. I dropped.
“How do you like that?” I screamed as Andrei rammed his knee into my stomach. “You little…” The rest of his words continued in Russian.
“Stop!” my mother shouted, screaming at top of her voice.
Andrei pulled me up by my hair. “I need you alive because I want your father to suffer for what he did, but now I think killing you would be much more fun.” Andrei landed a punch to my stomach again. His knee followed, and then he threw me to the ground. Tears ran down my cheeks.
I saw Felix’s unmoving body on the ground, and more tears rushed down.
I could see Gideon beside me, but he looked unable to move. He seemed like he was trying to force himself forward, but he still stood frozen where he stood. Was a normal hero too much to ask for?
I writhed on the ground; my eyes were watery and my heart thumped violently inside me. Each breath came out in sharp, shallow rasps. Every inch of my body burned. Trying to suppress the pain, I forced myself to stand, but I stumbled and landed on my face.
“Get up!” Andrei shouted, and once again he pulled me up by my hair.
“You—” Andrei paused. We heard a gunshot. The man holding my mother lay on the ground. Andrei was distracted, so I rammed my fist into his jaw. Then I kicked him.
“Take this,” Gideon said, and a gun appeared in my hand. Since everyone was busy freaking out, no one saw it, so I was the only one who was completely shocked.
I rushed over to Ben.
“This is gonna hurt,” I said, and I swiftly pulled the knife from his thigh and hurled it toward Andrei; it landed in his shoulder, and he cursed.
“Honey, be careful!” my mother cried.
“Don’t move, Mom!” I shouted at her when she made an attempt to move closer to Ben.
I pointed the gun at Andrei. “Don’t!” I shouted as he started to remove the knife from his shoulder. “Leave it!” I fired my gun. It missed him only by an inch; he did as he was told.
I walked over to Andrei. He smiled when I got closer.
“Abigail, it’s over. He’s not going to hurt you anymore,” Gideon spoke from right beside me, even though I still couldn’t see him. I knew that the worst was over, but I wasn’t done with Andrei.
“I actually like you,” Andrei said with a smile.
I struck him in the chin using the bottom of the gun. “Too bad I’m going to kill you.” I rested my finger on the trigger.
Logan and my parents shouted, “No!”
“Abigail, don’t!” my father said as he ran over to us. I didn’t lower my gun. “Abigail, don’t.” My father pulled me away as Logan pointed his own gun at Andrei’s head.