“Where’s my fun?”Jediah asked, surprised he managed to keep the tremor out of his voice.
Kayon smirked.“That’s my boy,” he praised, moving away from the bed.He walked over and laid a hand on Jediah’s shoulders.“Go kill her.”
Watching the guards move Navene onto the floor, Jediah’s brow raised.“She isn’t dead?”
“No.”
Avoiding Navene’s open legs, Jediah watched her closely.Navene’s head lolled to the side.Dried tears stained the sides of her face.As her vacant eyes continued to stare into nothingness, Jediah noticed a fresh tear roll down her cheek.He followed the woman’s line of sight.
Jediah’s lips parted.His eyes widened slightly.
There — right in a large suitcase tucked into the back of the trashed closet — an eye peeked at him through the smallest opening of an undone zipper.Widened with fright.Shining with tears.
Mouth closing, Jediah returned his gaze to Navene.“After I kill her, we’ll leave?”he asked.“It’s getting late.Reine will be up soon, and I promised her that I’d have breakfast with her at the gazebo.”
“Yes.After this, we’ll leave.Go on.”He nudged Jediah forward.
Jediah’s heart slowed in his chest as he took the first step forward.Conversations carried on around him.
“Tell yu seh mi boy mek fi dis,” Kayon boasted.
Errol chuckled.“None a dem don’ mek fi dis.But we a go train dem well.Dimitri have one more year before him start train fi tek over from me.”
Jediah stopped by the pile of rocks that were so large, they could’ve passed for boulders.Keeping his focus on Navene, he stooped.His hands felt around the pile until he grabbed the largest rock he could find.It was too heavy for one hand to carry, so he gathered it into both hands.
He continued to Navene.
She must’ve felt him hovering above her, because her breath hitched momentarily, before she continued breathing slowly.
Up.Down.
Up.Down.
Her chest moved at a sluggish pace.
Navene wasn’t dead yet.But she’d either accepted her fate, or would die soon.
Jediah hoped it would be before he straddled her.
Before he raised the rock high into the air.
And brought it down over and over, again and again.Navene’s skull cracked beneath the blunt force, a sickening sound that made Jediah gag.Bile raised in his throat.
He swallowed it.
Raised the rock high again.
Smashed it into Navene’s crushed skull again.
Her face was mangled.
Unrecognizable.
Her blood speckled his face.Some got into his mouth.
He couldn’t force it down like he had done his own vomit.
Jediah tried turning his head to the side, but he wasn’t fast enough.