1 The Ending (1/2)

Winds roared in Victoria Hill's ear as she stared off into the horizon. A single tear drop fell down her stone face.

She was numb, numb to the world. Having everything dear to her ripped away so suddenly left a emotional scar on her heart that could never be fixed.

Her body laid motionless on the deck of a luxurious boat. Dressed in a long white wedding dress, one could be captivated by the sight.

Her black hair curled around her body and her face, drained of blood, gave her a doll like look. Most importantly the growing red bloom surrounding her body brought a deadly beauty to the scene.

Once one identified the red bloom coming from her body that feeling would be quickly replaced by horror. Multiple stab wounds decorated her frail body.

Each one in a area that wouldn't lead to immediate death. Just enough to push her to the brink, but unable to go over.

It was clear that whoever committed this atrocity wanted her to suffer as much as possible. But, hadn't she suffered enough?

Victoria's eyes drifted to a body laying face down in the water near her. Tears, she didn't want to accept, uncontrollably fell down her face in quick recession.

Unable to bear seeing the body anymore, Victoria closed her eyes.

The body was her mother. The boat was her honeymoon. The killer was her husband.

After her father died mysteriously ten years ago, her mother was all that she had. Her other family resembled cut throat thieves and she knew better than to get close to them. In fact, as a CEO of a million dollar company the majority of people she met were all cut throat thieves.

Accept for one. One she thought would never betray her.

A laugh escaped her body when his face came to her mind. He had appeared suddenly like a angel when her life was crashing down ten years ago after her father mysteriously disappeared.

At the time she was a 15 year old girl who didn't understand the world at all. Her father was the rock of the family without him the family quickly crumbled.

Her mother had tried her best to pick up the broken pieces, but unfortunately the disappearance of Victoria's father left her mother broken as well.

All her mother did was cry all day while everything collapsed around them. Their distant family had started to close in on the business and everything else they owned. Even their lives.

One parent died and the other, for a time, became as good as dead. Getting to school, buying food, taking care of the house and her mother was thrown on the shoulders of a 15 year old girl.

Her father had raised her like a princess, hurting her by loving her too much. The pressure was nearly unbearable for her to hold... but then he came, Luke Edwards.

He supported her when she needed it and encouraged her to keep fighting. She loved him with her entire heart... why did it end like this.