A Dark Temptation (9)

Cassandra screamed.

And it was no one other than Mark Sullivan standing in the middle of the pile of corpses.

He was looking upwards, but when Cassandra screamed. He turned his full attention to her. Eric hugged Cassandra fiercely and pushed her face into his chest so she wouldn’t have to see the horrific crime.

Mark smiled.

"Why Cassandra, you look so shaken, here let me help….." he extended an arm towards her, but Eric rung her out of his reach.

"You stay away from her you sick creep, don’t lay a hand on her,"

"I’m sure, as you probably had seen earlier, I already did," he grinned.

Eric snarled and leaped across the room, charging at Mark. But as he did so. Three other soul eaters, including Eric’s father, dove from the ceiling. They cornered Mark.

He smiled. "Four against one? Now isn’t this a bit unfair?"

Eric snarled again, barring his teeth, "What would you know about fairness? The way you tricked all of those people into thinking you were someone else?"

Mark grinned, "Actually, I wasn’t the only person who knew, he inclined his head to Cassandra.

Eric turned his accusing eyes to Cassandra and stared in disbelieve. Using the distraction, Mark launched at Eric.

Snapping his teeth close to his neck. He was clawing at Eric and managed to strike a deep gash across his face.

Cassandra screamed and rushed over to help Eric. But one of the soul eaters stopped her, "Don’t go, you might get hurt as well,"
"I don’t care!!!!" she yelled.

She rushed over, grabbed one of the broken chair legs on the way and started stabbing Mark.

Taken by surprise, he howled. But Cassandra kept stabbing, her face was sprayed with blood, with one last final penetrating stab. She fell away from him.

"Cassandra," Eric called. E rushed over to her side, but before he could reach her, Mark came running from behind him.

He banged into Eric and threw him to the opposite wall. Part of the wall where Eric was thrown into left and impression of him on the surface.

He sank lifelessly down.

"She will be mine!" Mark hissed.
He ran over to Cassandra and picked her up. She struggled, clawing at his face. He held her face between his hands.

Eric advanced towards him.

"You wouldn’t really want to risk your wife," he spat the last word, "would you? Take one more step and with no hesitation I will snap her neck."

Still holding Cassandra, made his way out the doors. His eyes never leaving Eric’s.

"Goodbye Eric," Mark said.

As him and Cassandra disappeared into the night……

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Cassandra kept screaming and struggling in his arms. She twisted and turned, but he was a million times stronger than her and a soul eater…..

"Shut up!" he roared, "I’m doing this for your safety,"

"NO! NO! Never, I’ll never forgive you for hurting Eric!!! Never!"

Mark sighed and said, "I don’t want to do this but I feel as if it would be the only way to shut you up."

He carried her to his car and put her into the back seat.

He took something from the front compartment and popped it in his mouth. A lolly perhaps.

Cassandra kept on cursing him, calling him rude names till he sighed and kissed her.

His hands twisted in the hair. She opened her mouth to let him in.

She swallowed.

What did she swallow?

Mark sighed and planted soft kisses to her neck. Her eyes became heavier and heavier and heavier……

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Eric started to trash the whole room.

He had let that bastard get away and allowed him to take Cassandra with him.

He cursed.

"Calm down son," his father said. "I promised Cassandra safety and safety I will grant her we need to play our game very carefully,"

Eric grimly said, "Whatever it takes."