Sam felt a chain of anguish held her captive. Naked beads of sweat trickled down her neck.
"Ethan!" Sam panicked, she blew air out of her mouth nervously. The car became uncomfortable. Sam heaved heavily before getting down from the car. She glanced at her wristwatch, tapped her feet and started to pace around the car. She closed her eyes tightly, her hand found its ways into the paths of her disheveled hair, that was when she felt a hand on her shoulder. It was a soft touch that resonated with peace.
Sam opened her eyes slowly, her vision was blurry at first. So his smile appeared like a woven basket, his eyes carried safety in it.
"Alec!" His name spilled out of her mouth. After the words spilled, her hand zoomed up in fear to grab his hand, she squeezed it tightly.
"I feared that you won't come" Sam said slowly. Then she opened the car and jumped inside it. Alec walked briskly to the driver's seat.
"Where?" Alec asked. Sam's phone beeped. A message came in, it was from Nanny Angela, she had sent a text to inform Sam that they were now in the hospital.
"Hospital" Sam heaved.
"You thought I wouldn't come? Why? Do you have any negative feeling about me?" Alec asked, avoiding her eyes. Sam said nothing, she only forced a smile. One reason why she kept quiet was she was already regretting that she had asked him to come. Sam felt very weak. She tried to force his thoughts out her mind, even if he was sitting close to her on the driver's seat, she felt as if he was sitting on her chest.
"stand up" Sam moaned weakly, she closed her eyes, she dozed off in some seconds.
They passed beside a busy shop with lots of music and noised coming out from it. There was even a fight scene going on in front of the shop. Alec drove past the shop but the noise was enough to wake Sam up from her sleep. Her eyes opened widely. Sam glanced over at him immediately, she turned her head sharply that it made a spraining sound. When their eyes met, Sam saw Alec shudder, she looked into his eyes and she saw a tint of strange emotions she could not explain. She let it slid and her mind focused on the hot thoughts about Ethan once more.
"You only slept for five minutes" Alec said gently. Sam said nothing, she nodded in reply. She watched his cool personality, it appeared as if an air of royalty jingled around him. He was a man of very little words and careful ways and those ways striked Sam!
Sam traced the contours of his arms of as he drove. The bloody taste came again.
"I would still have your blood!" Sam asserted vehemently in her thoughts. But she also heard a voice in her head that laughed at her. The laughter was jarring. The car came to a halt in front of the hospital.
"Sam" Alec called. She looked up at him, wondering what was wrong.
"We are at the hospital"He announced, then his lips curled into a victorious smile.
"Thanks" Sam mumbled before attempting to jump out of his car but Alec grabbed her hand roughly. Sam felt her stomach rumble from sensual passion. Her heart raced and so she did not dare face him when he grabbed her.
"Your brother would be fine and I just want you to know that I would be there for you always and forever!" Alec said his precious words slowly. They spilled out like red and purple flowers dancing on a beautiful glassy blue sea. Sam slipped her hand out of his electrocuting hands once again, she mumbled another thank you! and jumped out of the car, pausing to catch her breadth from the sickening moment once she was out of the car.
Sam found Nanny Angela at the waiting section.
"oh Nanny Angela!!" Sam cried out before throwing herself in Angela's arm.
"How is my Ethan! Where is he now? How is he nanny" Sam asked.
" In the emergency, I don't know but they are attending to him. I have not seen any of the doctor's yet" Nanny Angela whimped.
"How did you get here? Did you call Lucy?"
"Her number wasn't going through" Nanny Angela said, then she noticed Sam's extreme nervousness.
"I drove" Nanny Angela said and watched Sam's eyes lit in surprise. Nanny had never driven a car ever since she almost had an accident in it. It happened twenty five years ago, yet she had never been able to get out of the trauma.
"Nanny!" Sam appreciated, her eyes swelled with desperate tears. Alec approached the duo.
"Hello ma'am" He greeted Nanny Angela, bowing a little. She was about to reply when one of the doctors came out. They dashed at him.
"Please! How is he doing!" Sam asked nervously, she grabbed the edge of the doctors garment but she let her hands slip quickly, she felt very uncomfortable showing so much weak emotions just in one night! And to make matters worse, she was conscious of Alec's eyes watching each and every of her movements. For a second, she felt like impressing him, but the thought sunk almost the same second it came up!
"He will be okay. He has cerebral fever. He almost went into a coma. You are lucky that she brought him here on time. He will be fine" The doctor assured, then he patted Sam's shoulder and his face gave way into an assuring smile before he walked away.
"Oh nanny! Thank you" Sam threw herself in Nanny's hand. They went back to the seat. Nanny Angela and Alec exchanged few words. Sam listened hard but she did not get any of Alec's words. She only heard Nanny Angela's words and her smooth laughter.
Tough guy huh? I will break you Sam thought. She acknowledged that he was distinct from every other guy. She felt like she had no control over him, she no longer felt like the boss with around him. It made her even more crazy!
Sam thought about the past years, past months and weeks. She thought about the beauty- beauty in bloody success, daunting revenges and the cold murder. The soothing joy from the pleas of her victims. She gave commands and souls dropped dead. No one gave commands and even though it appeared as if Douglass was the boss, Samantha knew she was the most respected and feared. She knew she was not loved by her members. It pays to be respected and feared than to be loved. Samantha thought.
That has been her watchword. She did not know the words tough or difficult. She crushed it before the words came out. She had sold her heart to her dead mother and if it wasn't Nicole. She had sold it to her Dead Chinese Boss, Chan who lived next door. Or wasn't that the only price Sivo Chan asked of her to learn the dirtiest tricks of the world? It was!
"Your heart, your heart is the prize for the way of my world" Sivo chan's words rang in Sam's head. She remembered the events of that day clearly, it was a rainy day, the heavens had opened it's mouth widely. Sam remembered the pictures of the sixteen years old Sam, drenched in Nicole's blood, murdered coldly by her husband! Sam had watched all the events peeping through the bedroom's door where the incident took place.
"Enough of the thoughts" Sam clasped her head, but before her words obeyed her, she saw the picture of the sixteen year old Sam painted in blood. In the memory, her lips and hands were trembling, her eyes bare with hatred and anger and she said "Sivo" to Chan when she flung his door opened. In the memory, Chan smiled, he had always seen a dark, precious great thing about Sam and had always asked her to go with him to China whenever he came to New York. Sam always visited him and he showed her a lot of martial arts movies, he told her about world famous assassins and terrorist who had undergone his training at his villa in China.
"You finally obliged, come with me to, I move to China in a week. I will make you into a devil, a warrior, a fighter!" Sivo Chan had said, but before he completed his words, Sam threw herself in his hand and wept mightily.
"He murdered her." He murdered her. Bitterness encompasses me! Anger keeps my feet and hand bounded!" Sam had groaned, then she roared when she felt a surge of bitterness and quest for revenge. She pushed Sivo away, broke his flower pots, turned his tools upside down and ran back into his waiting hands!
"It cannot quench! My anger, revenge, I don't think it will quench. I saw her murdered! I watched it all!" Sam had cried, then she screamed and slapped her heart mightily, her heart that bore the anger and the revenge.
"Hide me here Sivo till we go to China together!" Sam pleaded as her tears spread across her face.
" Weep harder, Weep more! Because it will be your last, you will be tough now" Sivo commanded but Sam couldn't weep anymore.
" Fiercely, monstrously, make me weep master!" Little Sam had commanded, with those words and the murder scene, her innocence escaped her. She lost a sense of her gender as a female.
" You are courageous, You are a fighter, meant to bring good and destruction. Success!" Sivo had said. Then he bounded Samantha with iron chains and whipped her all over.
"Let the anger flow! Let the pain engulf you. Those are the only emotions you need to achieve your dreams!" Chan had said.
"Flow, flow, flow!" Samantha repeated, her tightly squeezed and well baked tortured face that broke into endless paths chased Chan's cat away. As the pain of the beatings penetrated through her skin, She chose Ethan as her anchor.
Memories of the beautiful past, past before her eyes, till it became a mirage, then it disappeared. Sam wept and wept. She wept for the loss of love, the loss of family, the loss of a feminine nature.
"Now, you will forget everything, you will have a new beginning of power and success. If anyone's life is demanded for death then it is worth it. Clear evil from the face of the earth, you may be the only woman remaining" Sivo had said, his eyes clustered with tears. That was when he became Samantha's idol and ever since she had killed, laughed and dined with him. It was only after his death seven years later that she returned to New York.
Moments later, Sam broke out furiously out of the claws of her pathetic memories!
> # "Samantha" Sam called out her name, making sure to carve it with rare golds. She smiled at her success but one thing was certain, that she was going through a metamorphosis! Sam's metamorphosis? Sam thought.
The past weeks had been filled with a lot of tears and failures. She had been weak and what was the deal with Alec, why hadn't she been able to murder him? The thoughts rummaged her mind but before she could even embark on another futile attempt to provide an answer to her question, she heard someone called her name, it was the same voice that made her choke, the same voice that sent strange butterflies into her stomach, she knew it was him; Alec. She looked up at him, wondering when he got up from the chair, he had even walked past her and she didn't see him. She looked down and he was holding a plate of ice cream, her mouth watered.
"I know you want this" Alec said arrogantly in a way that impressed Sam. He gave Nanny Angela a plate of ice cream, and sat beside Sam. Alec opened the plate of ice cream, and dipped a spoon in for her.
"Here" Alec said then his eye fell on beautifully curved eyebrow. Sam took the ice cream, her crave for the ice cream increased as she stared at it but she did not eat from it because her hands started to tremble and Alec's glaring eyes made it worse. So she sat still, her hands trembling lightly underneath the plate of ice cream, she resolved into smiling in that awkward moment.
"I will help you" Alec announced, before Sam could try to think out what he meant by that, he had dipped the spoon into the plate and raised it carefully to her mouth. Sam felt defeated but she opened her mouth anyway with a smile. shocked by her action, Sam quickly shut her mouth close when Alec almost had it in her mouth, it spilled on her cloth.
"owh" Alec apologised, he reached for an handkerchief quickly from his pocket, he started to clean off the ice cream. Sam stayed mute and still, her only fear was that he would feel her heart racing fast! Their eyes met after he had cleaned it, Alec blinked slowly to Sam's arousal. Sam swallowed hard as a cold chill sent shivers all over her body. Then she felt the bloody taste in her mouth again.
"Excuse me" Sam mumbled before standing up.
"you don't want the ice cream"? Alec asked with a well designed worried look.
"I will take it. I just need to get something in the car" Sam said and took her first step but Alec stood up after her, he moved very close to her and looked straight into her eyes, he cupped her left fingers and squeezed it tightly.
"leave my fingers!" Sam screamed in her thoughts. She slid her hand off his fingers roughly and walked briskly away from him.
Sam folded her arms and walked aimlessly back to her car. She forced back all her disturbing thoughts. Unconsciously, she craved for silence and utmost peace.
Sam entered into the car at the back seat, she was just settling in, when a strange person in her car started the car!
"Who are you!!" Sam screamed but another fellow from the back seat slapped her head. Someone from the back seat rolled over to her seat, he placed a tape roughly around her mouth, then someone threw a rope over to him. Sam struggled and fought them back but there were even more guys in the car than she had imagined! They bonded her hand and feet. Sam's heart sent out a thousand curses to her abductors.
" Where are you taking me to!" Sam shouted as the car continued to zoom off. No one answered her. She felt an aching fear and that moment her only fear and worry was that Alec would be waiting for her at the hospital!
# TO BE CONTINUED.......
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