Katarina's POV
When they opened the door, I signaled for them to come in, and they walked in without a second thought.
"Meet my team, Selina," I said, taking the knife off her neck. "Just a reminder that I am good and I can help."
Selina still looked shocked. My team was a small group of hackers, trackers, and tech gurus. "Frankly, I had been looking for someone to drive my hunger for revenge. We could set out together to fight Brenna while my team did the background work."
Selina coughed roughly. "Did I ever say I needed a team?" she asked when she was done coughing.
"Brenna deals with technology. You cannot fight her without technology. In short, she has a large team of tech experts and professional killers who are currently tracking us and might get you real soon," I explained as my team stood around us. Selina's eyes narrowed, and I knew at once that she was having a double mind.
"Your team's got to return to wherever it is you've picked them up. I don't deal with crowds, Kat."
"Let her be, Kat, let's see if she can do it alone!" one of my team members spat.
I got a tiny buzz from the micro earpiece buried in my hair, somewhat very close to my ear. "Keep her there, my team will be there in five minutes."
"You know what, Selina," I said, walking towards the table to pick up the remaining bottle of vodka she had drunk earlier. I poured the little drink into my mouth while I signaled my team members to take their seats anyway they could. "To make you trust and believe us, why don't you give us the benefit of the doubt; allow Linda to do a little testing on your computer to make you believe," I said, and signaled for Linda to hack into the system. At once she sat on Selina's chair, and immediately her tiny fingers started to smash the keyboard without mercy.
"Stop that!" Selina yelled, pulling Linda by her hair out of her seat. I snatched Selina's hands when she was about to punch Linda in the face, but with her leg, she kicked Ben, the tracker, and brushed Kate's mouth as soon as she attempted to come forward and fight. Kate was the overall tech guru, while Linda was our smart hacker. They were all from Brenna's team because I had never had a team of my own for once. Like the saying goes, I was a one-man squad.
I threw my hand around Selina's neck while I tried to reach the knife on the table, but Kate quickly grabbed it, rushing forward with the knife in her hand. Selina twisted her neck under my grip and gave me a punch under my jaw, causing my grip to loosen, and just when Kate felt she was about to stab Selina, she pulled out of my grip and the knife sank into my belly. Kate's hands trembled; my eyes flew open. I managed to voice out knowing that I had lost the battle.
"She's running away, I lost her," I cried to let Brenna know through the hidden mic under my clothes. Ben threw a punch her way, but she dodged it and in turn, grabbed his neck and hurled him at the wall. She took the knife that Kate had allowed to fall from her hand when she realized she had stabbed me instead of Selina and slit her throat. Blood splashed everywhere, Selina walked towards me and removed the small mic from behind my clothes. She brought it close to her mouth and yelled into the mic. "Damn you all, fools!…"
A hefty man walked in quietly and from behind he injected Selina in her neck before she could finish talking into the mic. She fell helplessly on the ground, not knowing who had done that to her. He gave a head sign for the two men standing at his back to carry Selina and me into the car parked outside. He walked over to Selina's pinboard and took a close look before removing all the pictures and taking them with him.
We were thrown into the boot with our backs tied to each other, while Ben and Linda followed them into the car and Kate's body was left behind. I yelled my lungs out. "Let me out of here! I'm no criminal like Selina… I did the job you asked, didn't I?" More blood gushed out of my belly, and I couldn't dare to yell again for I might die here. I leaned on Selina's back as she had been knocked out by the injection, trying to save my strength and hoping I didn't die before we arrived at our destination.
Once the car stopped, the giant man came to open the boot and dragged us out. I groaned in pain when he dropped us carelessly on the ground like a log of wood. The two other men walked over, one of them cut the rope with a small knife he removed from behind his boots, and carried me into Brenna's hell mansion. The other carried Selina, still in her unconscious state.
"Finally, Selina Korr is here, under my mercy!" Brenna's voice echoed through her silent mansion the moment they dropped us in front of her. "Take this Judas away!" she ordered, and they carried me into a separate room that looked like a lab. I was lying on a bed and a man in a lab coat who looked like a doctor or maybe a scientist walked over with an injection in his hand. I began to shiver, scared of what he intended to do to me. My instincts told me Brenna was up to something and they hadn't brought me here for treatment. They wanted to use me for an experiment I couldn't really say. My hands were pinned to the sides of the bed and my legs too, so I couldn't move. I had lost too much blood already and was gradually dying. But I knew Brenna didn't care! She was the devil herself.
Silent groans had replaced my speech, and when the doctor finally got to me, he sank the needle into my arm, and I was utterly helpless. My vision began to blur, and the last thing I heard was, "She talked too much, she said what she wasn't asked to. I think she should be used for our testing."
…I blacked out.