Page 51 of Fatality

I pant heavily, my jaw clenched so tightly it aches.

“You little...” He rasps, his voice dropping to a dangerous hum. “What the hell am I going to do with you?”

He raises a finger to his nose, swiping away the blood before slowly smearing it across my lower lip with his thumb.

He's spreading his blood on my lips.

He clearly has a fucking problem.

“Your little stunt?” He chuckles low in his throat. “Cute. No one ever actually hit me, bite me and walked away alive.”

“Really?” I grin. “Then there's a first time for everything. Guess you're not that scary as you think you are.”

He tugs sharply at my hair, making me hiss through my teeth.

“You little brat.” He leans closer, his voice dropping dangerously low. “Shut your mouth before I show you that the crash was fucking nothing.”

A shiver runs through my skin.

I need to move. Act.

“Try it,” I snarl. “You little piece of shit.”

I know I'm an idiot for trying to fight him, but I need to get out of this.

I slam my boot into his calf and twist my body violently.

He grunts in pain, hopping once on one leg while grabbing the other, releasing my hair.

I whirl and run.

I don't even know where I'm going. I just need to get away from that man.

I hear him less than ten seconds later.

A laugh echoes through the empty docks, deep and unhinged, making my heart slam even harder against my ribs.

“Okay,” he sighs. “If you want to play it like that, let's fucking play.”

I need to go faster, so I push harder, stumbling over myself before catching my balance on the asphalt, nearly going down from the impact.

I ignore the pain shooting through my bruised body from the crash.

Panic clings to my skin as I run.

Then footsteps thunder behind me, and his voice tears through the docks.

“Run, troublemaker!” His laugh follows right after. “It makes the capture more delicious...”

A pause.

I swear to any god, if I manage to escape that psycho, I will never come back down here.

“And I wonder what your defiance and defeat taste like.”

The barrier comes up in front of me.

I jump over it.