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Trigger warning: This chapter contains mentions of violence. Viewer discretion is advised.
Also, remember that this story is purely FICTIONAL.
Location: La Luna nightclub basement
*Sophia pov*
It hurts. It hurts everywhere. How long have I been strapped to this chair? It feels like an eternity has passed while Yunjin was torturing me.
I'm afraid to look down and see how ugly she has made me, but I can feel the wounds pulsing all over my legs, arms, and stomach.
She kept telling me it was for my own good while she ran a knife over another area of my skin. How I'm better off without Manon and how she will never love me now that I'm ruined.
What have I ever done to deserve this? Is Manon looking for me? I hope so. I hope they find the rat who revealed my location as well. But now I'm too tired to think about this.
I close my eyes and let the fatigue take over me. I'm almost asleep when the metal door slams open. I open my eyes reluctantly to see who it is. It's Yunjin, and she holds a bag in her hand. She walks toward me and opens the bag.
She sticks her hand into the bag and takes out its contents. She raises her hand. When I see what's in her hand, I start struggling, and fear grips me.
It's salt. It's not hard to figure out what she'll do with it when I'm lying here on the bed with fresh open wounds all over my body.
"Shhh. It'll all be over soon." She says in a sweet tone.
"Please..." I beg, but she only shakes her head.
She puts the bag down to free her other hand and uses it to gently stroke my hair. Then she closes my eyes, which now have tears running down them uncontrollably.
"If you open your eyes, I'll throw salt in them. Keep them closed, understood?"
I nod quickly.
At first, it's quiet, and nothing happens. But then, a pain spreads all over my body when she throws the salt into the wounds.
I scream. I thrash. Where is Manon?! How long Will I have to endure this pain? It hurts. Everywhere.
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Location: Manon's room
*Author pov*
Manon takes a second to process Daniela's words and balls her hands into fists.
"How could you? How could you betray me like this?"
A tear escapes Daniela's eye.
"I love you. But you never noticed. When Yoonchae mentioned you needing a partner to marry, I was going to volunteer but then Yoonchae revealed that she already found you a partner and you agreed so I was freaking out and-"
"Get out."
Manon cut off Daniela's rambling. As much as she wanted to hit Daniela right now, she couldn't. She's her sister.
"Manon please-"
Daniela stands up from the bed and reaches out for Manon's arm, but Manon pulls it away and takes a few steps away from Daniela.
"Get. Out. Now. That's an order." Manon says in a distant voice tone.
Daniela storms out of the room and slams the door behind her. Manon sighs and opens her fists. She has to find Sophia. She can't afford distractions right now. She's missing something, she can feel it.
She takes a seat behind the desk and opens her laptop to check the map for possible locations again. Then it all clicks. Manon smiles.
She has been looking at it all wrong. Yunjin would choose a location where no one can touch her and where she's the most powerful.
Her nightclub. La Luna. But to hide Sophia from Katseye's allies, she would have to keep her in the basement. Manon gets up and runs out of her room towards Yoonchae's office. She barges in and earns an annoyed glance from Yoonchae, but she doesn't care. She found her.
"I know where she is." Manon says hopefully.
Yoonchae stands up and gives her an encouraging smile.
"Then go get your girl."
With that, Manon runs out of the office and calls the other members. Lara, Megan, and Daniela show up instantly, and she tells them to gather up the soldiers. They're going to save her girl.
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Location: La Luna nightclub basement
*Author pov*
In the cold basement of the nightclub La Luna lies Sophia's limp body. She has been moved from the bed and tied to a pole in the middle of the room. In the corner stands Yunjin. She watches on while washing her hands as Sophia whimpers with every move she makes.
She was going to do something much worse, but in the end, not even she could bear Sophia's cries. 'This should be enough' she thinks. She takes a towel, wets it, and wrings it out.
Then she walks over to Sophia and wipes her face gently when a faint noise is heard from upstairs. Yunjin freezes momentarily but stands up unfazed even though a million thoughts are going through her mind right now.
She calmly opens the door as quietly as possible and locks it behind her. She takes out her gun and walks up the stairs. When she's on the main floor, she doesn't see any of her soldiers standing where they usually do.
Yunjin carefully walks further onto the dance floor, and curses when she sees the missing soldiers their dead bodies stacked behind the bar, where Manon is sitting cross-legged and sipping on a drink.
Yunjin laughs.
"You're such a hypocrite, you know? You hate me because I killed a few people and here you are doing the same."
Manon chuckles.
"It's not the same. I kill people who deserve it. You and those dead soldiers kill innocent people who stand in the way of bad, rich people."
Yunjin takes a seat next to Manon and sighs.
"I am willing to do whatever it takes to move forward. You're just too soft to take that step. And you hate me for it."
"I don't hate you, Jen. I hate what you did and how you don't feel guilty about it even now. But none of that matters. Sign this."
Manon slides a piece of paper before Yunjin and places a pen on top. Yunjin reads its contents and bursts into a fit of laughter.
"You think I'm going to sign this? And give up everything I've worked for? In return for what?"
"Your life."
Yunjin reaches for her gun, but Manon holds it up in front of her. Yunjin sighs. Manon has always been good with her hands.
"You wouldn't." Yunjin challenges.
"I will if you don't sign."
"What happened to your 'I don't kill innocents'?"
"You're not innocent. You killed nearly a hundred innocent people for personal gain. Killing people like you is my daily job."
Yunjin's hands tremble slightly, and she realizes she only has one choice left now. She picks up the pen and signs the document.
After she's finished, Manon takes the pen and checks the document. She smiles and nods appreciatively. Then Yunjin flies off her chair, and the sound of a shot rings through the room.
Yunjin is shocked. She looks down at where Manon shot her in her stomach.
"Y-you shot me."
"You'll live."
And with that, Manon gets up out of her chair, takes the keys out of Yunjin's pocket, and walks towards the staircase. She goes down the stairs and unlocks the door.
She opens it and runs towards an unconscious Sophia. Manon unties the ropes and lifts Sophia's body off the floor. She goes back upstairs and continues to walk outside.
When Manon's outside, she looks at Lara, Megan, and a hurt Daniela. But Manon doesn't care. Sophia is safe and with her. She looks Daniela straight in the eye when she gives her order.
"We're going home. Light it up."
Manon gently puts Sophia in the car and straps her in. Then she drives off towards her house with La Luna in flames behind her.
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