Alpha Loren

We drove for some hours more. Every now and then I brought my fingers to my tender eye to investigate the swelling. 

Spoiler: it was bad.

On the plus side, my eye had caught the metallic shimmer of a blade in the pocket of the driver. Andrea was busy brooding at the time and I was able to discretely reach for it and slip it from his pocket and into my own. I took no joy in hurting people but if I had the opportunity with Andrea, I would hesitate for a second.

Eventually, the car came to a grinding stop at the edge of a muddy, fast-flowing river.

"This looks like the sort of place you bring someone to discretely murder them," I mumbled as Andrea hauled me out of the car by my my arm and dragging me onto an overgrown jetty where a singular boat bobbed on the brown water.

"Don't tempt me, Blanca," he replied before reaching into his pocket and handing the silent driver a wad of cash.

The car was soon speeding back down the track, kicking up dust as it went and leaving us alone on the derelict jetty that was so rotten we could fall through at any moment.

Taking my arm once again, he began leading me to the tiny motorboat.

I heard the high pitched buzz of a mosquito in the air. It landed on his tanned skin and he lifted his other hand to slap it off. 

I flinched and closed my eyes for a brief second.

at me and his eyes fluttered across his face before he smirked

Blanca,"

I didn't respond.

me why," he

know why," I replied quietly.

to hear you

for a few moments and took a deep

a

light tone before his face hardened. "Now get in the boat."

was going to take me and felt a sudden urge to do anything in my power to not end up in

shaking

"No," I refused.

it's okay to be difficult?" he said grabbing my wrist. "Get in the fucking boat and

you," I hissed withdrawing the stolen

up to his cheek and dapped the scratch I had left on him. Blood oozed onto his fingertips and a slight trickle dripped down his cheek to his jaw. He stared as the

run, Blanca," he growled as his face twitched with

and bolted into the jungle. It was dense and the vines whipped and lashed as I fought through leaves and branches