|Unleashing a psychopath|

A smile so dark, her eyes like a malicious serpentine, and she just knew if she moved a finger, Sia would piss herself.

"Ease up, as much as it's entertaining to see you trembling. I don't want you passing out." Leona seized an ice cube from the beaker and shoved it in her mouth, crushing it calmly and staring at the frightened woman.

Currently, they were in Sia's apartment. A secret one, Leona guessed. The dull and gloomy room was sumptuously furnished, smudged with pastel hues and gleams. A massive lustrous chandelier hung over their frames and the two women were settled in the middle of the living room.

"I heard Hyun paid you a visit," the smugness in Sia's voice couldn't be condoned and the panic nerve within Leona couldn't help but sting.

Sia sprouted some balls when she perceived the inkling of fear in Leona's eyes. Her blood-red lips stretched in a smile, as she flip her chestnut brown hair behind her. She was wickedly beautiful. Big dark eyes, plumply pink lips, golden skin glimmering under the magnificent chandelier, and a curvilinear figure. She had got everything a woman would wish for, but yet, Sia was envious of Leona.

Leona placed and cube of ice on her palm, watching it melt with a flaring twinge in her skin. She procured her lighter and nearer the flame near the ice.

"You see this," Leona's gravelly calm voice said, as cool water trickled down her wrist. "This fire is me, and this tiny cube of dirty ice is you."

A hellish smile glowed on her face and Leona plunged the cube on the caret, then stomped it with her heels. Her eyes were locked with Sia's dark gaze then racked down her bandaged arm.

"How was it to nearly dying, Sia?" She stood, taking slow steps across her.

Sia's body rigidified, sensing the clouds of peril fluttering over the shadowy goddess. "I called you to talk, Leona. I know you are furious a-"

"Furious?" Leona snorted, eyes dimming with a psychotic twinkle, and she sight a heavy vase with which she could bang Sia's skull twice, thrice, and over and over again until all the blood abandon her body and pool down on the expensive carpet.

That would be fun, wouldn't it? 

"Leona, it's all in past. We have moved on. I won the contest. Hyun is living a successful life. Your brother and I got married. Your mom and dad are okay. Lev is happy too. I agree that whatever we did wasn't fair. It was wrong. As compensation, I can give you anything. If it's property or money, as much as you want. Let's negotiate. You can live your life and we can live ours. Just be rational." How easy it was for Sia to utter those sentences, as if she had snatched Leona's favorite hair tie and was apologizing, wanting to compensate.

"Hell," another laugh broke through Leona's blazing nerves. "Money? Sweetheart, if I tell you my account balance you will divorce your beloved husband and might start chasing me, yaa know? You are a gold-digging bitch anyway."

"You can say whatever you want, but I am deduced to end this sick game. We-"

Sia's words stabbed back in her throat when Leona leaned over her, keeping her arms on either side of the chair and wildfires eyes evolving murderous thorns, jabbing every cell in her body.

"Sick game?" Leona spat. "This is nothing compared to how you all played me years ago."

The slithering pain filled her lungs with agonizing tears and she harshly grabbed Sia's jaw, ripping a yelp from her. "Let's negotiate then. I have rat poison in my purse, take it and drink every drop of it, and I will fly back to my place and never look back."

Sia's face scrunched when Leona dug her nails in her jaw, saying, "You think I want your filthy money? Oh please, just give me back what was mine. Can you? Can you?"

Tears welled up in Sia's eyes, and she shook her head. "I regret it too, Leona. Every day, I am burning in my guilt, guilt that we ruined you-"

"Shhh,"  Leona hissed. "You took my everything, Sia. Everything that I loved. My mother, my dad, my fans, my dream, myself. You sucked in my soul with your dirty little games, you squeezed my heart into pieces and I don't understand what was even my fault. What I did for you to be so cruel with me. You made me want to give up on living. You are one of them who made me hate myself and my life." A lone tear drizzled down Leona's cheek and she wrapped her hand around Sia's throat. "I begged you to help me. I was crying on everyone's feet but all they did was kick my face."

She strangled Sia, despite her struggle. Sia attempted to push her away, but with her other hand, Leona grabbed her hair, yanking her head back in a fierce grip.

"Leona stop, this is not going to earn you anything. Eventually, Damian will find you, and ruin you again."

Leona laughed, now assigning extreme pressure to suffocate her. Her resentment emerged into molten lava and her mind was possessed by her demons. She wanted to kill. She wanted to see the blood dripping off of Sia.

Sia's hands constantly hit her arms and her eyes almost rolled back as Leona knocked her body completely into the wooden chair and clutched her throat, harder and harder.

"This is my game, Sia. I am the controller. You all are just minions playing the way I want. Your dear husband, and then finally Lee Do-Hyun," Leona huffed, smiling when Sia's face tinted purple.

Sia vigorously shook her head and managed to say, "I-I p-pregnant."

With that one word, something snapped in Leona, and her mind convulsed, hands wobbled and she staggered a step back, away from the pale woman.

Sia fell from the chair, plummeting to the floor and beseeching for air. The wavy brown hair tumbled all over her face, a thick layer of sweat glazed her face and she struggled to replenish her lungs with oxygen.

Leona stooped down, and gently rubbed her back, whispering, "So, you are carrying my niece?"

Sia's teary and frantic eyes peeped at her through the set of eye sodden eyelashes. "You are not our family. My child will never know a crazy woman like you. I reached out to you because I wanted to mend things. I took pity on you when I heard Hyun met you. But, you don't deserve it. You are fucking psycho."

Leona smiled, wiping Sia's tear with her lacy black gloves. "Your child should be born to see me, right?" An evil glint in her eyes shredded through Sia as she held her hand over her stomach. 

Leona strutted and snagged the sharp knife from the table, running her swatted index finger on the blade. Sia leaped to her feet, ready to scream and flee. But Leona was quick to fist her hair and haul her back, slamming her on the wall. 

"Leona, please, please, don't," Sia pleaded, joining her hands in front of her.

The sight sent the tendrils of peace and relief down her spine. A bubble of happiness lit up her, and she smiled wide. "Pl-please, pl-please. I am sorry. I a-am s-sorry," the desperation, the agony, and terror in her voice were like honey to Leona's ear.

Leona stepped closer to her, fiddling with the knife. "You have the right to scream, you know? Just scream for help." She kept the knife on Sia's restless throat, trailing it down to her stomach with a sadistic smile. "Scream, Sia."

Sia's body jerked with tears. The woman in front of her was a maniac, owned by her outrage. The Leona she knew, was just a naive little soul, the epitome of purity and stability. She recollected vividly that even though she loathed her, a glimpse of Leona was enough to bring any person a sense of peace. Did they do this to her? Did their evil deeds turn a woman upside down? Did they unleash this psychopath who was like a vengeful witch?

The blunt knife dig into her collar bone and Sia bared her mouth to scream her lungs out, but at that exact moment Leona flung the knife straight and blood spurted everywhere.

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