~ Allona

POV

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“What? He kills women?” I was shocked to hear my little sister’s words. She was just fourteen years old but look at her, she knows everything in this world. Even about the man that my parents are trying to marry me off to.

“I can’t be so sure about it, Allona but according to Pete’s knowledge. That man doesn't treat women well. I heard that he was gifted with two women before you but those women were never spotted ever again. So what was that?”

Her words, Her words were terrifying me. I stared at her with my eyes widened and my mouth opened. How can I believe it? Are my parents going to give me to a man who kills women? Oh my freacking god! This shouldn’t happen. I already have someone I like and I want to be with him. How can I let my life get ruined like this? No way… no bloody way. Gosh!

“Will he kill me too?” I forced my words out looking at my sister’s glowing blue eyes. Then she pressed her lips together and hit my head hard making me groan. How did this little idiot hit me? She’s six years younger than me! Dumb head! I glared at her as she did that and she rolled her eyes at me before parting her pink lips to speak.

“I don’t think so… you’re pretty and you are innocent. At least act as if you’re innocent. But yet… you could get killed. I don’t know Allona. I will find more information from Pete!” What? What did she just say? Why am I even talking to this dumb shit? She’s not helping me at all. She was trying to make me get killed. Always PETE PETE PETE!

“How does that dumb Pete know everything Ali? He’s a little kid. Way too young than you! So how come?” I yelled at her. Then she watched me for a while and nodded at me. Now she understood it? Now she knows it? I scoffed and laid on the bed, then stared up at the ceiling about me not knowing what to do. Everything was ready for the marriage and I am going to get married in three days and now my sister is telling me that man is killing women. Urgh!

“Allona.. I will give you my money.. You will run away on your wedding day” A lighting stuck inside of me and I shot up from the bed before looking at her. Then she looked at me and forced a smile before laying on the bed. Her idea was not a terrible thing, but the thing that shocked me was the statement that she said. She would give me her saved money? Woah… I can be a billionaire with that little piggy bank.

“I’m serious Allona… you shouldn’t get killed. Just run away. Mom and dad will never give me to that man because I’m just fifteen so you should leave and escape but promise me that you will come back to get me once I turned eighteen”

I stared at my sister’s seriousness filled face and slowly laid on the bed back next to her. Should I really run away or let my fate take control? I don’t know what made my parents think that I would be able to impress that man but I really didn’t want to marry him. According to everyone, he's a thirty five years old man. Fourteen years older than me….. I really can’t do this.. I need my life to be free and fun.

“Alright… then let’s do it..” I muttered looking at the ceiling above me. I really don’t want my life to be miserable and I just simply don’t want to please an old man who only kills women. I don’t want to get killed! I am still young and I have more to live and enjoy my life. So I will escape from this deadly thing soon.

“I heard mom and dad saying, they are taking you to try on your wedding dress tomorrow. So once you went into the changing room, you should escape. I can be sure that they are taking you to Masima’s tailor shop so it will be so easy for you to run away.”

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My heart was pounding against my chest. I was inside of the dressing room at the Masima tailor shop. Just like my dumb sister said, evyrhing happened acordding to the plan but the hardest part was that I’m wearing the wedding dress. How can I run away like this? With this dress on me? Taking a deep breath, I looked at myself through the mirror in front of me.

I was wearing an off-white satin wedding gown. It was a drop shoulder dress. Simple and elegant. It had a waist band tightly wrapped around my waist and finished as a huge bow behind my waist while the skirt was split thigh. It exposed my right leg almost until my upper thigh. The dress was perfect and everything about it was beautiful. If I am going to get married to the man I liked, this dress would be the one.

But too bad, I am not going to get married. I am going to run away with this dress. I grabbed a hairball from the dressing table and tied my hair into a ponytail. Then I lowered my head and looked at the heels I am wearing. Gosh! How can I run faster with these? But it’s okay I would run! Encouraging my heart and soul, I lifted the skirt of my dress and slowly stepped towards the small door inside of the dressing room.

Once I walk out of this room, I can enter the downhall. Then I can walk out of the shop. Taking a deep breath, I sneaked out of the door and hurried my steps towards the downhall. After almost five minutes, I came out of the shop. No time to waste and no time to stay here anymore. With that thought, I ran towards downtown. I ran as fast as I could. I knew people were looking at me with wide eyes because I’m running with a wedding dress on me.

Everyone must be thinking that I am running away from my groom and my wedding. And there’s no wrong about them thinking like that because I am.. I am running away from that killer. I don’t want to get killed by him and I can’t die this early. So here I am, running away from everything but yet, I have no idea about the fact that where should I go. All I thought about was running away and now I’m doing it but I don’t know about the next step.

My legs hurt, I felt my ankles were no longer with me because of the strap of my heels. Suddenly, I felt so dumb with the thought that I’m still running with these heels. I sighed and immediately stopped. Then I removed my heels and again ran downtown even though my heart told me it’s dangerous for me to go there.

While I was running, I felt dizzy. But I completely ignored it because I wanted to reach somewhere my parents would not be able to find me. So I ran. But luck was not on my side. I saw a black car coming towards me and I couldn’t stop myself. So with a high pitch sound of the car breaking, it hit me. I collapsed on the floor, my eyes were heavy and I saw a few men coming out of the car before my vision darkened.

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“She can sleep for thirty more minutes. Let her be”

“You think we can get a big amount from her?”

“Why not… look at her. So fucking gorgeous and it’s so rare for someone to have central heterochromia. We can use her eyes to sell her”

I opened my eyes with a burning headache and whispers around me. Raising my hands, I rubbed my own forehead not knowing what was happening with me. I felt so upset and hurt. Waiting for a while, suddenly, I remembered what exactly happened. My heart skipped a beat with horror and I immediately looked around but I couldn’t see anything. My eyes were covered with a dark fabric. I wanted to remove it since my hands were not tied but I knew there were some people around me.

“She woke up” I heard a man saying and in the next minute, the blindfold of my eyes was taken away and I could see around. As soon as I could see, I looked around and saw I was in a wooden cottage. My heart tightened. I moved my eyes and looked at the man who took off the blindfold.

What happened to me? Oh god! Was I raped by these men? Watching the man’s face for a while, I looked at myself to see I was still wearing the same dress I was wearing. Untouched and clean. No aches in my body and no scratches. I was not raped right? Yeah.. I was not.

“Girl, I know you are confused and scared. Don’t worry no one touched you but let me tell you, we are going to sell you in a while and after that we can’t guarantee what will happen to you. I’m indeed of money. So sorry lovely”