One More Step

She rose her beautiful bernstein colored eyes toward the woman and smiled slightly. ''I have no idea what grudge you have against our families. I am about to die, can't you let Alec and Marcel off, please. They are the last descendants.''

Tricia was planning to let her go peacefully, but when she stained her expensive shoes with her bloody spit, her anger rose. Her eyes darted around the room and her sight fell on a certain item near her bag in corner of the room. She walked gracefully towards the old metal rod and walked back while making screeching noise on the floor.

Kyra turned her head and when she saw the size of the rod, she already knew that her ending was near. Her heart jumped wildly while she already felt dizzy. The poison she got from Tricia hit her fully and as the last drops of her blood from her slit wrists fell on the floor, her soul already left her body. She saw how Tricia menacingly smashed her dead body over and over again, like a crazy woman.

Kyra Kazis saw suddenly the door getting open and many soldiers storming in while pointing their guns at terrified Tricia. This was her last ȧssignment as an undercover cop. Her promise to Alec Alence that she would be marrying his son made her resign. Luckily she had everything already on the hidden camera. It is better that way. After so many years of fights, she knew already that she couldn't have children and got even a deathly ailment. She never went to check herself and when she found out she was already in the last stage of cancer.

Dying like this was less painful than she expected.

She already left her last words to Alec. Her findings showed her that Alec is really not the reason her parents died. It was the Gerber family that did all the evil. They even kidnapped her when she was a child and sold her to one of those slave chains. Unfortunately for them, she was by chance saved by Alec and trained as a soldier at first. But, not long ago, he found out her real background and tried everything to repay her for her lost childhood.

''If I knew that buying the majority of your shares would destroy completely your family, I wouldn't have done that. At that moment I just found your company interesting, so I bought all the shares that could be bought. I am sorry my child. '' He even wanted to kneel in front of her. She stopped him and then when he hugged her body, for the first time in many years, she felt love, safety and freedom.

''Alec, I never would resent you. I don't think that you buy the shares killed my parents. If you want to help me, find a true perpetrator.'' He patted her head as he choked on her words.

''I promise I will. It will take some time but I promise, I am going to find and kill them.'' But seeing her shaking her head he sighed. He was about to persuade her, but her next words stopped him.

''If we find them and I am still alive, let me handle them. If there is no more me, I am sure you will have your fun, right?'' Her golden eyes sparkled as she stared at him.

He rose his head and looked at the dark sky and twinkling stars. ''I wish you could just let me do it.''

She looked as well at the sky. ''Just in case something happens to me, can you make it double painful. For me as well?''

Alec Alence stared at her dead body and remembered her words. He already had an autopsy report and he knew at that time that she was actually dying, so she just wanted to make sure they pay for everything they did. His eyes became cold as an icy smile appeared on his lips. ''I will revenge you, I promise.'' He looked at Marcel with cold eyes and turned toward the exit.

He could hear his grandson calling for mercy for Tricia and his son, but his heart was cold, so cold like long no more. The colder his heart was, the greater fury gathered in his ċhėst. He suddenly could feel his heart beating fast and he just fell down under the cry of his grandson.

Marcus buried his grandfather and Kyra on the same day. He didn't know why they were dead-set on harming Tricia until he got a final report from grandfather subordinates. His heart became colder the more he read. The club was just one of the hidden locations in the humongous slavery ring. His grandfather warned him, over and over again, but he wouldn't listen. Then he read the report about Kyra and Kazis family and realized that she was not a crazy woman, she was just one of the children that escaped.

If he knew that earlier...

He red report about Tricia as well and his heart turned this time really into ice. She was sent to kill them all because of their properties. With such a big company, they could hide such dirty deeds for a long time. Their plan was to kill them both. Grandfather should die something like an aging death and he would have an accident. Even the child was probably not his. Grandfather found out that she was having another two men she was seeing next to him.

The feeling of the king of death was the same as his grandfather's. The new general will rise as it seems.

''Scary, just like his grandfather. Truly scary.'' The whispers in the silent room resounded more that it was spoken aloud.

''Let her just survive until the child is born. After that, dispose of her however you wish. That woman will wish never meeting me. '' His cold voice echoed as last vapors of Kyra's soul evaporated from this world....