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A scream of pain erupted from his mouth as the knife drove hard into his chest, I pulled out the knife, tearing another scream from him.

I closed my eyes momentarily at the nauseating sight when red liquid seeped from his cloth and into my hands.

His hands slowly slipped away from Melissa's throat.He staggered briefly, gasping breathlessly in pain, before he fell gracelessly on the hard ground with a thud.

Melissa wheezed and went into a series of coughs, the colour was slowly returning back to her face.

She gave me a brief stare, for a moment I wasn't sure how she would react, he was still her father in a sort of way ..

Our gaze communicated silently, there were so many questions running through my mind, Roberts words still blared in my head..who had he been referring that I looked similar to?

I would get the answers to that, but now wasn't the time nor the place.

Her gaze drifted from mine as she stared down at her father , my gaze followed her hers to the floor where he lay.

There was so much blood sipping into the floor, He wasn't dead...Yet.

Pain.....shock and regret?etched on his features as the reality sets in, he wasn't going to make it.

He was going to die.He probably was regretting the fact that he didn't manage to take anyone of us with him.

Then reality hit me like a full bucket of ice.The knife fell from my now shaky fingers with a cluttering sound.

I took a step backwards as a cold shiver swept through me, chilling me to deep inside my bones.

The now sticky blood in my palms glared at me, feeling me with a strange feeling of nausea ....and horror .My heart pounding furiously as I took another step backward.

I was going to be a murderer.

I knew he deserved worse , I didn't regret it, but I couldn't control the way my body soon began to tremble uncontrollably .

The effect that I just claimed a life, made my chest constricted tight.

I couldn't breathe.

I snapped out of my trance with a violent jerked when the door kicked opened , I whirled my head expecting Roberts men, they must have heard his screams and came to get us.

Only it wasn't them .

The sight before me had me had my heart slamming hard against my ribcage.

Hayden.

He was here!

I barely noticed that It wasn't just him, the rest of them were blur to my gaze.

"H..help me " Robert managed out , he tried to reach out to Melissa but fell back limp.

A bubble of sound escaped my throat as I sprinted towards him.

His arms wrapped around me, suffocating, crushing...But I didn't care, it was exactly what I needed.He murmured soft soothing words I couldn't make out, all I could feel was his warmth that melted the ice inside me.

How did he find us?

Oh god, I've never felt so relieved to see him.

I reached my index finger to touch his face tentatively, to assure myself that he was real.