Dead

She raised her eyes towards the man who called her out a moment ago. She raised her chin and looked at him coldly.

They were 15 of them even if she did start now she would be easily outnumbered.

She looked at the man who was looking at her like he was smiling under the mask "you are a Carlo indeed Elena. I must have misjudged you'' he said.

" Why me?" she asks getting to the point.

" Hmm, let me think well you are dying today because you didn't die with your parents that day ".

She slowly, bit her lower lip, looking at them in contemplation.

"What was taking her brother this long" she thought.

While the men on the other side were enticed by the sight in front of him. The girl in front of them had sea-blue eyes and wavy blond hair. They could see her hourglass figure through her perfect fit A-line black dress which reached till her knees. Anyone would fall on their knees looking at a beauty like this.

While they were distracted, she rushed towards them hitting their leader in the face and taking his gun shooting the others.

She kept shooting them hiding behind a tree. She sucked in a cold breath when a bullet hit her hand. Then the leader got up, grabbed the gun from his subordinate, and shot her on the left leg.

She fell on her knees yet she didn't fall back and looked back at him with her head held high.

" Tsk tsk, it's such a shame that a brave and beautiful woman like you is dying today or we would have had so much more fun," he said.

He came near slowly moving in to caress her face and she dodged it. He got angry and grabbed her face in his hands and caressing it. His hand slowly started moving downwards and when she tried to resist his touch he slapped her right across her face making her fall down.

" Here I was trying to be nice to you and trying to give you the taste of pleasure for one last time in your life. How could you be so hot-headed, Dorogoy" he said. She never felt this rate of disgust and hatred towards someone than today.

She looked at his face and smiled when he was dazed she spit on his face." I am a Carlo, don't even think of touching me you,svoloch". That's when he couldn't take it anymore.

He shot her on her left shoulder. She let out a painful groan as blood rushed out of her wound. " Goodbye Elena Carlo," he said as he shot the final bullet on her other shoulder.

" Sir, I think you should just kill her".

Elena felt like someone punched her in her gut as she looked at them. The leader looked at her and smirked, then he turned to his subordinate and said "No, this suka deserves a painful death".

Elena slowly closed her eyes. When he was telling his subordinates and told someone to check if she was dead and instructed them to leave immediately before Adrian Carlo arrived. A few came checked and they also left.

She sucked in breath after they left. She knew how dangerous it was to hold her breath at this moment, but she had to wait for him. Elena felt like she was losing her consciousness.

It was indeed true that people see their life in front of them before dying because she could see all her life in front of her eyes, her first time playing with her brother, her parents' laughter on their anniversary, and their death. Her last birthday, which she celebrated with her brother. He was always present in her every memory from the first one. Maybe that's why she was selfish to wish he would be here too when she was dying.

She heard fast rustling and someone swiftly knelt to come near and moved her head onto his lap telling her to wake up and she could recognize that voice anywhere.

" Lennie I'm back, look at me," she slowly opened her eyes and looked at him and her lips slowly tugged up forming a smile just like he held for the first time.

But then when he looked at the cheek, which he loved to pinch in a red hue, he felt a volcano blast inside him, but looking at his sister in his arms, he controlled himself and he smiled too looking at her even the rims of his eyes were turning red looking at the blood coming from her.

" You will be fine I will get you to the best hospital and we both can go on the trip you wanted only two of us, no security okay just please don't leave me" he said.

" I won't. I don't have much time left, I just wanted to tell you that I love you, " she said slowly, trying to raise her hand to touch him only to suck in the cold breath.

She can feel her consciousness slowly slipping away. His eyes slowly shifted to her left shoulder, which was bleeding profusely from her black dress. " I love you too Lennie," he said because he always did ever since he first saw her she was his everything.

" Thanks for not leaving me like" she abruptly stopped, unable to complete the sentence, her fingers clenched, her body jerked upwards. This time she died. It was not a pretense she was gone forever.

"Lennie.."He shook her body.

No response

"Lennie, stop pretending. I'm not busy anymore. I won't go anywhere without you. We will go to the hospital okay? " He said now tears running down his faces

Silence

After what seemed like a long silence the man chuckled mirthlessly

"Brother? What kind of a brother leaves his sister to die?"

His eyes turned red as an insane light flashed in those depths when he looked at his sister who was lying dead in his arms. " Find them, search for the power behind them. Kill if it is one and if it is any more than one…" the man paused for a second, but that intensity in his eyes further intensified, he looked like a grim reaper out for the destruction of the world." Then annihilate them".

Annihilate them!

His trusted subordinates could only shudder. They rarely see him having any emotion, but seeing him as a grim reaper today was only expected. As they saw their young miss lying dead, their heart wrenched. They just saw her teasing their boss a few days ago. And seeing how fate has turned it didn't sit well with anyone. Their eyes widened when they looked at him.