Sister, why?

REBIRTH OF ESMERALDA

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Chapter 1: Sister, why?

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Esmeralda tests the strength of the rope by flexing her wrists. The skin is rubbed raw – but she’s had worse. She spits blood on the floor, right between her feet, and gets a magazine to the head when she doesn’t answer the head honcho immediately.

He’s a real looker. Blonde hair, straight teeth, disgusting personality. He looks like he’s seen some shit. Haven’t they all.

Esmeralda lolls her head back in the chair, and looks down through hooded eyes.

“Hit me all you want. I’m not giving you what you want .”

The bald chick with an AK whacks her again with the butt of the gun, and Esmeralda jolts in the chair. She runs her tongue over her teeth – fucker, she might’ve loosened one.

“Hey,” the head guy points. “Don’t kill her, we still need for something important, get that in your head.”

She huffs, “She asked for it.”

The leader snaps, and she straightens up again, hands readjusting on the gun. She isn’t even holding it right. That’s more frustrating to watch than this poor excuse of a ‘Bad Guy’.

He’s in a pink pincord suit.

Like, where are they? Louisiana?

The man crouches on his heels, eye level to Esmeralda. He grins, “That’s alright, you don’t have to give me anything, sweetheart. Your family is gonna’ do all the giving for you. You are a big fish, remember that. Esmeralda Gonzalez, you are going to make me a lot of money, I hit the big fish.”

Esmeralda breathes a laugh, unimpressed.

“You kidnapped the wrong person, buddy. Anyone else, and they might’ve let you fuckers live.”

The bald chick shoves at the back of her chair with her boot, and she jolts slightly.

They’re in some warehouse.

Esmeralda doesn’t know where – looks like the boondocks. Or a shipping port. She had a bag over her head for the majority of the car ride, however she managed to break some dude’s leg while blindfolded.

She’s a little proud of that.

“Hey! Head huncho!.” She called out for the guy. “I want to make a deal with you, how about I give you the ransom money that you need? I might even give you more than that.” She said negotiating with him. “Just let me go and—.”

A chuckle interrupted her as the man began laughing with all of his lackeys.

“What’s so funny?.” Esmeralda scoffed as the blood in her mouth was becoming more obvious. “I am giving you a deal, the best deal of your life that you will ever get.”

“No!.” The other shook his head as he laughed manically stretching out his hands. “This is the best deal of my life, taking you hostage, taking the heiress of a multi million dollar company alive, do you know how much of a big fish you are?.” He asked whispering as he crouched to her level. “You are daddy’s princess, aren’t you? The only Omega child he ever had and coincidentally the only child who got a complete half of his inheritance.”

Confusion grew on Esmeralda’s face as she stared at him. “How do you know about that? His will was only read among the family, how do you know that?.”

“That’s not what you should be worried about, princess.”

The situation was out of Esmeralda’s hands.

She might be a one man army, but not up against, you know, an actual army. This guy obviously has money – there’s tanks, weapons, all being transported by workers, up on shelves, down by lifts. Esmeralda could snap the rope, maybe, but she’d get three feet before someone shot her dead.

There’s some kind of makeshift technical setup off to the side. Card tables with equipment worth thousands. People type furiously, like clichés out of a hacker movie.

The blood in Esmeralda’s mouth pools more, so she spits again. Her eye is swelling shut, but it’s a dull throb, compared to the broken ribs from earlier.

A peon calls, “Sir, there’s movement by the west gate.”

“Good.” Head hancho stands, “They got my message.”

“Wait wait wait,” Esmeralda blinks. “Are you an idiot? You wanted my family to come?”

“Why else would I kidnap you?” He grins. “I knew you’d never talk. You’re a stubborn one, aren’t you’?”

Esmeralda’s head flops forwards, her his wrists burn against the rope as she cackles.

“Oh my god! Ahaha, you are so dead.” She laughs out of pure amusement. “My mate is so going to kill you.” Esmeralda says out of confidence.

She knew how protective her family was over especially her older sister.

And then her boyfriend, Maverick, her future mate, he too was over protective.

“Coco, sir,” a woman turns in her chair. “Our security cameras just went black.”

He turns, “Excuse me?”

“We just lost contact to units seven and nine.”

“Sir, we lost power to the left wing.”

“Shit!” He snaps, grabbing a gun from his back pocket, and cocking it. “Get me on mic, now!”

“Woah woah, hold up,” Esmeralda squirms. “Did she just call you Coco? Is your name actually Coco?!” Esmeralda cranes her head to look back at the bald chick with the AK. “Who are you? Cupcake?”

Coco points the gun, holding some kind of walkie-talkie like microphone. The warehouse sparks with rigged speakers, and his voice bellows out beyond the walls.

“Hey!” He yells. All goes quiet. Suddenly the workers from before are gone. He growls, “What about ‘any funny business, and I’ll kill her’ did you not understand?”

He points the gun to the ceiling, and fires.

Esmeralda blinks, but doesn’t flinch. The lights to the warehouse flicker, on and off.

Esmeralda begins to laugh, ignoring the sharp, stinging pain in her ribs. Baldie kicks her in the side, and Esmeralda’s laugh breaks into a sob.

“Sir, we’re having an electronic serge.”

“Is it them?”

“Well, it’s not us, sir,” a woman types furiously.

"Get me in contact with unit's three and four."

"Coms are down, sir."

“I want cameras back up, now.”

Coco cocks the gun against the mic, “I’ll give you one more chance, whoever you are. Bring the documents to me, and your precious princess lives.”

The lights go out.

Esmeralda hears the soft sound of a silencer, and ducks immediately. There’s a brief scream – the sound of bullets – and the lights go back on.

The hackers are all on the ground, tranquilizer darts in their neck. Security is dead.

Esmeralda smiles, her eyes brightening at the sight before her, licking across her sore bloody lip, and relaxing back against the chair.

Mercedes stand at the entrance, silhouetted by the dark sky behind her, and the warehouse flood lights. She walk at a purposeful pace, guns at her sides.

She is so badass it makes Esmeralda’s heart pump with love for her sister.

The bald chick points her AK at her, “Stop there!”

Mercedes lifts her pistol, and in one shot, hits her right between the eyes.

Esmeralda winces, only from the blood that splatters across her cheek. Her body hits the floor, and her gun slides across the room.

Coco cocks his gun, and skitters to hold it against Esmeralda’s forehead. The barrel is hot – she struggles, and Coco curls a hand in the back of her hair, and yanks.

“Don’t move!”

Esmeralda finally gets a good look at his sister’s facial expression – and holy shit.

“You’re so fucked,” Esmeralda whispers holding back a smile.

And then the smile curls down out of confusion when her sister throws the gun on the floor instead.

‘Coco’ lets go of her head and Esmeralda assumes it’s because he’s confused too until they begin laughing.

Coco and Mercedes.

“Merce—.” Esmeralda whispers, utterly shocked when her sister walks over to shake Coco’s hands.

“Hello, little sister.” Mercedes said giving her a toothy grin. “Or should I say, daddy’s princess?.”

“Mercedes..?.” Esmeralda blinks her eyes out of surprise and in a desperate attempt to shake out the tears threatening to fall. “What’s — Whats happening? Mercedes, please, what’s, what are you doing?.”

“Shut it!.” Her sister responds bringing up a hand to tilt her face inspecting it. “Aww, my baby sister is all battered and bruised, what will daddy say about this?.” Mercedes fake pouted as she spoke before laughing as she turned to Coco giving him a subtle wink. “Good job.”

Esmeralda gasps staring at her sister, the tears finally falling down. “You planned all of this?.”

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TO BE CONTINUED

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