The Last Embrace

Jackson arrived in the manor. He was greeted with a palpable silence. when he went to his room looking for Violet, his room was empty. He saw Leo on the terrace on the second floor staring at the full moon outside. "Did you see Violet?" he asked.

Leo was aware that Jackson was already home. "I saw her entering the bas.e.m.e.nt thirty minutes ago..." he answered without looking at Jackson.

Jackson"s brows furrowed, confused. "What she"s doing in the bas.e.m.e.nt?" he quickly spans on his heels and went down on the staircase, then he sauntered towards the direction of the bas.e.m.e.nt situated near the kitchen area.

Unaware that Leo was following him quietly.

Jackson entered the bas.e.m.e.nt and went down the stairs in a hurry...without a word Leo delivered a swift kick onto Jackson"s back resulting in him falling into the solid floor, face down. Jackson groaned in agony and was about to stand up but Leo delivered another hard blow on his head using a metal bar creating a gaping wound on Jackson"s head, the blood from the wound splattered on Leo"s face.

Jackson"s body crumbled into the floor.

Leo dragged Jackson"s unconscious body to the post in the bas.e.m.e.nt and tied the rope around his body tightly making sure he won"t be able to free himself from the rope. Then he silences his mouth with duct tape forever.

Done with Jackson...

Leo went to the bed and saw that the blanket was already moving, which means Violet was already awakened.

He yanked the blanket and looked at his ex-girlfriend"s unrecognizable face, he wiped the blood from her face so that she can have a better view of Jackson who was unconsciously being tied to a post.

Violet"s eyes widened upon realizing that she was tied to the bed as well...then her tears start to stream down her face when she caught sight of her lover tied to the post already looking dead. She looked into Leo"s eyes begging for her life.

But Leo has no more remorse and pity left on his body...

He can no longer feel any kind of emotion for the two people who hurt him badly.

"All has to end! You and Jackson will have to stare at each other for the rest of your life inside this bas.e.m.e.nt, enjoy your remaining days on earth!" he declared with a devilish gleam in his eyes.

That was Leo"s final statement before he left the bas.e.m.e.nt.

Violet stared at Leo"s retreating form...tears never stop pouring from her eyes slowly draining the blood from her face. She will try to escape...trying to free herself from the rope that was tied securely around her body...she won"t give up!

For the next few hours, she tried her best to free herself from the confinement of the rope and the bed but her body was already weakening and her strength was already depleting...she looked at Jackson helplessly who was not awaken yet.

Then she heard noises outside the door of the bas.e.m.e.nt...as if somebody was pounding on the door. Oh no! Then she realized to her horror what Leo has been trying to do...

Nooooooo! Leo was locking them inside!

With no water and food inside—she and Jackson will surely die inside the bas.e.m.e.nt along with her unborn baby, the horrific thoughts scared her to death and after a minute or two, she loses consciousness again.

Outside the bas.e.m.e.nt...

Leo was busy hammering nails on the door, making sure it can no longer be opened from the inside. He hammered more sticks and woods on the door making sure it"s hard to open from the inside.

One hour later.

After inspecting his workmanship and felt satisfied by the result, using all his strength he slowly drags the six feet tall cabinet into the bas.e.m.e.nt door concealing the sight of the bas.e.m.e.nt from anybody"s vision.

Done with his task, he returned to his room and lies down in the bed and closed his eyes ready to rest for the night. A satisfied smile was plastered on his lips.

Tonight he feels liberated.

Tonight he feels good.

Tonight he successfully eliminated the people who made his life a living h.e.l.l. For all the years that he suffered countless physical abused and raped in the hands of Jackson, for all the prayers he uttered to the heavens above...yet no one delivered him from freedom...G.o.d even played deaf ears to his cries for help. No one helps him, no one hears his silent weeping in the dark.

Only by putting justice in his hands he was able to deliver himself from his nightmare, pain, and miseries.

"I"m free at last!" he murmured over and over again until he finally falls asleep.

The next day he acted as if nothing happens.

Then he told everyone who asked including the neighbors that Jackson and Violet went to another city to visit a relative and they will come back the next year, every time somebody would ask which city... he would just answer them that he didn"t know because Jackson and Violet never told him where they have gone to.

Days...weeks...months and years pa.s.sed...people stopped asking.

Leo didn"t open the bas.e.m.e.nt even once, he buried Jackson and Violet in his mind along with the dark memories of that night he imprisoned them in the bas.e.m.e.nt.

For him, they never existed in his world.

For him, they were just a figment of his imagination.

Even the bas.e.m.e.nt ceased to exist in his mind.

Then one summer night...

Leo was about to enter the house after having an errand outside the manor... when a man who wears a black cloak with a hood covering his entire head approach him from behind... and that was the moment he was abducted by the savage vampire.

That was the end of it...

...

Jessy looked at the queen, they were staring at each other, both silent for a few minutes.

"What is your plan for him, Jess?" Queen Margaret finally spoke.

Jessy was unable to utter a reply right away, she was still ma.s.saging her temple lost in deep thoughts.

"I already erase his memory regarding the abduction incident. Now I will leave the decision to you, but I suggest that you shall bring him to the police authorities as soon as possible to pay for his crimes. That is the law of humans, a murderer shall be tried in court first then put behind bars to be punished for his crimes. I"m going to my bedchamber for a long rest," the queen rose to her feet and exited the room quietly.

Jessy was left alone in the study room contemplating what to do with the frozen Leo...