Something is touching my hair and I've gone in and out of consciousness, fighting my way through waking up. I don't know how long I've gone through the same pattern, but one thing I know, is that I need to stay awake.

" Aah, look who's awake." I hear his voice.

My body is exhausted and it feels heavy, I feel like I can't move because of where I've been shot. I know that this monster shot me.

I feel numb almost, but I do all I can to resist letting myself fall unconscious again.

" I was getting bored here, good thing you woke up. Damn, you're stronger than I thought, you're still holding on." He chuckles.

I want to punch him hard right now, so bad.

I hear him shift, and by the squeaking sound, I know that he has me laid onto a bed.  When he sits infront of me, I feel disgusted just by looking into his eyes.

" You're prettier than I remember, but I knew that. I mean, I've had some time of watching you."

Oh my gosh, he's been watching me. I knew that my senses weren't wrong.

" Tsk, tsk, Chloe, Chloe, Chloe....Did you actually think I would ever let you go and live your life. You don't deserve to breathe, unless I tell you to. I have power over you."

" N-no you don't." I respond, shaking my head.

His eyes narrow and that anger I know so well, starts revealing itself.

" You're nothing but a useless man with no life. You ------------" His hand connects with my face, forcing my head to snap to the side.

The hit causes my head to become dizzy. I feel him grab my chin and force me to look at him, but I close my eyes.

" Look at me!" He demands.

I defy him.

" Look at me you little b*** !!!" The hard grip he has on my face, is really painful. When I do open my eyes, he lets me go, pushing my head hard against the pillow.

" Don't you ever speak to me like that ever again, you hear me!"

" You're no one to me, you sick bastard."

" I'm your --------"

" Don't lie, you're not my father."

He opens and closes his mouth, his eyes furiously searching my eyes for the truth.

He sneers at me before jumping off the bed, and leaving the room. I sigh in relief that he's gone, for now, and I can actually think. I feel myself really bleeding out, and I know that if I don't think of a way out soon, it won't be long for me to get into a whole lot of trouble.

The bastard tied both my legs and arms on the edges of the bed, I certainly don't like the vulnerable position I'm currently in. I wouldn't pass anything with his sick and twisted mind.

I pull at both my arms, trying to feel how tight the knots are. A sliver of hope hits at me, when a creaky sound comes from the head board, which means it's not steady. Pulling at the rope might be risky, because the head board might fall on my face and hurt me, so I need to really be smart about this.

I can feel my body take the effects of the bullet in me hard, more so, the fact that I'm losing blood. I am so exhausted, but I have to keep on pushing and fighting, to break free.

The door suddenly bursts open, stopping my movements. I have no time to react when he marches over to me with a deadly expression on his face, hovering over me, before wrapping his hand around my neck and starting to strangle me.

I try to shake my head and fight him off, but his strong hold, blocks my air pipe and suffocation hits me fast. The intention of killing me is in his eyes and the more time passes, I feel my body really grow weak and my vision get blurry.

At the last moment before I lose consciousness, he lets go of me and air comes back into my system, much more painfully. I cough out, greedily breathing in as much air as I possibly can get.

He pushes off me and starts pacing around.

" I should have killed that son of b****,  when I had the chance, he's the one who came and messed up everything!!" I watch him hit his head like a maniac, before he jerks around to face me again.

" Everything was fine before he showed up back into her life. I had the control, everything was in my hands, but he - aaah, damn Shelton!!!!"

My breath hitches, when he pulls out a gun from behind him, now pointing it at me.

" I should just end all of this right here and now. You'll be a nice gift to motivate him to have more reason to chase after me, just like he's been doing for all these years. "

I frown a bit, wondering what he might be on about.

" You want to kill me, but you can't, because you see mom when you look at me." I tell him.

" Shut up."

" You've pointed a gun at me before, when I was a little kid. I remember it all. You couldn't then, and you can't now."

" Stop talking or I'll blow your brains out." He warns.

" I'm looking into your eyes like I did years back, and I am telling you that you won't do it again. You're a coward hiding behind a gun and his fist. You're not a man. You couldn't be man enough to mom and you'll never ever ----------"

" Little girl, I said shut up!!!" He roars, making me flinch.

I don't lose my glare at him, because I have made a promise to myself, to never beg to him. I don't care if he kills me now but I will not give him anymore power.

Though I'm still hurt over Aiden lying to me, but I'm standing up to Luis, for the both of us. He's hurt us for too long.

" Truth hurts, doesn't it Luis?" I spit out.

" You've still got a mouth on you. You never seemed to know when to shut up, well, it's just you and me alone now and I can do, just about anything to shut you up."

My heart hammers hard against my chest when I hear this.

" You're so sick!"

He smirks at me.

My mind starts panicking when I feel my eyes getting heavy, wanting to close due to sleep demanding me to cave in.

Despite the battle I'm going through right now, I do all I can to keep my eyes on him, wanting to see his every move and not have him take me by surprise.

I see him take something from behind him, before he starts towards me. I notice that it's a kitchen knife. My stomach drops, thinking of every scenario that could take place.

He places the gun beside him before straddling my stomach, with the knife in hand. He surprises me when he cuts off one of the ropes and sets one of my hands free.

" Maybe I should cut off these pretty little fingers." He says, trailing his knife along my knuckles.

" Get off me you psycho!!"

" Mmm, feisty......But also annoying!" He quickly turns my hand around and slashes the knife across my palm.

" Aah!!!" I cry out in pain, tears falling down my face.

" Crying already?.....Aww, we're just getting started my darling Chloe." He says in that taunting tone of his.

I moan out in pain, my head moving side to side.

" No, no, stop...Aah!!!" I'm cut off by my own scream/cry, when he does the same thing to my other hand.

" Come on Chloe, you need to bear it, bear the same amount of pain I endured when your mother betrayed me. I held you in my arms when you were born, I spent those sleepless nights watching over you and for what, to hear about you being the bastard child to that son of a......." He lets out a harsh breath.

" Then she had the audacity to leave me. And to top it all of, she died and left it in you to continue running, when you two were supposed to return back to me!!!"  He shouts angrily.

" So you could abuse us again?.....No, that's no way t-to live." I cough out, my throat feeling dry.

" You know nothing about living. "

" I know more than you."

" You're just a naive little girl, who still believes in fairtytails."

" I stopped believing in that, the minute you showed me what a nightmare, you are. "

" Good, cause I'm about to show you what a real nightmare is."

He raises up the knife in the air, an evil glint passing through his eyes, convincing me that he's about to hurt me again.

" Lets have another round of fun, shall we?"

Before he does anything, his body suddenly grows tense above me, and frustration mixed with panic flashes on his face. I hear it then, the sound of a siren not too far.

He groans out, getting off me and storming out of the room. My sleepy eyes glance beside me, where I notice his gun that he left. I reach out my hand as fast as my paining hand can go, to take the gun and place it under my pillow.

He returns way too soon and this time, he carries something in his hand. It's parafin.

" I knew that he couldn't stay away long enough, but you know what, they'll all be too late to save you." He says, pouring it all over the bedroom floor.

While he's still busy, I feel around the gun under the pillow, I realise that the revolver is already down. To think that he would end in the room, but he even starts pouring it outside the room.

He surely must have intentions to burn down the whole house.

" Chloe!!!" I hear voices calling me from outside, and my breathing picks up.

Someone is here for me.

Luis returns before I can call out for help. He stands just by the door, with a lighter in hand.

" Aah, looks like we have an audience. Lets give them a show, huh?" He grins, switching it on.

" This will be the last time we see each other, Chloe darling, any last words?"

I don't say anything and he shrugs.

He looks at me for a minute, before turning around to walk out.

" Goodbye." Those are my last words, before I pull out the gun from under the pillow and shoot him.

I take another shot before my hand grows tired and the gun drops beside me. I hear his body drop to the floor before that clink sound of metal, on the floor.

The smell of smoke hits my nose, before I see the trail of fire enter into the room, fast. My body is beyond exhausted and I'm afraid that if I don't try move now, I might not make it alive.

The room suddenly turns dark with the smoke filling the room. There's fire all around me.

" No, I refuse to die. I won't die!" I cough out, shaking my head and doing all I can to get rid of the dizziness.

The sound of glass breaking, makes me turn to the now broken window. With the flames almost blocking my view, I still see a glimpse of movement outside.

" Chloe!!!" Owen?

I blink my eyes a couple of times until I catch sight of him. Our eyes connect and for the first time in my life, I see fear in his eyes.

I try to blink, to see through the smoke, but it's gotten much harder now.

I continually try to blink and look at him, until I feel them, overpower me. They soon shut down and I give into exhaustion, just when I hear, " Chloe no!!!!!!"

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She proved to be a fighter.

She never coward but stared right in the eyes of her biggest fear. The results might not be how we wanted but she came out victorious.

Hats off to our Chloe🎩🎩🎩.

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