CHAPTER ONE: WAR

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Breathing heavily Rose hurried her way outside of the bloody place. Blood swarmed the place like a living hell. Droplets of sweat trailed down from my forehead to her bruised cheeks.

"ROSE RUN! RUN!"

With a heavy breath, Rose woke up. She touched her forehead as she felt her head pounding real hard.

"Again this dream...or I would say. Nightmare."

Rose sighed and got off her bed. As she opened her bedroom door, She was swept by the sweet smell of pancakes which made her stomach growl loudly. Rose hurried to brush her teeth to dig into some delicious pancakes.

When Rose was done brushing her teeth, she went to the kitchen and saw her big brother Evans with his pink 'Hello Kitty' apron.

"Good morning Queen of Sleep! Slept well?" Evans uttered with a big smile. These two siblings might not look like it but they are 10 years apart. "I bet he uses some kind of product to keep him this handsome." Rose thought while looking at herself. "I look like a homeless woman"

"Morning. Again with the pink apron. Huh?" Rose laughed and punched his arm.

"Hey. Are you okay?" Evans asked his sister with a worried face.

"Yes, I am good and cut the worried face. It's gross!" Rose rolled her eyes and took some pancakes to eat. Rose poured the syrup and dig her face into the fluffy pancakes.

"Oh leave the dishes. I'll do them. You have to go to work." Rose told him while stuffing her face.

"Aww, that's so sweet of you!" Evans faked being emotional.

"By the way, what work do you really do? You don't have a fixed working time, you are dressed in a suit but sometimes you come home in blood." Rose said while munching.

"I already told you. I work as a bodyguard, it is just that my Boss is someone who needs a lot of protection." Evans said with a dark voice tone while taking off his apron and going to his room.

He again gave Rose this answer.

Rose sighed and ate the last piece of pancakes and washed the used dishes.

"So you will be at home the whole day? Or you will go somewhere?" Evans asked his sister while fixing his tie.

"I'll stay at home and finish my paintings. I have a deadline to meet." Rose dried her hands and added. "Seriously, are you even 30?"

"Hey! Don't expose my age like that! I am a young handsome man. I made many sacrifices to maintain my figure and face." He said touching his face.

"Okay okay. Quit being dramatic and off to work!" Rose laughed.

"Goodbye Rose. And remember if anything happens. Jus-" Rose cut him off before he finished his line.

"Just press that red button behind the painting of the flowers. I know that Evans. You've been telling me that for years."

"Alright then. Goodbye Rose." Evans took his car keys and went off to 'work'.

Rose went ahead and locked the front door because else she will have an earful from Evans. She then made her way to her studio room which is filled with empty canvas waiting to be painted with vivid paints, breathtaking paintings and the perfume of paints. "This. Is. Heaven." Rose smiled while admiring the beautiful room in front of her.

This studio is Rose's favourite place. The latter finds peace in just being here. Her mother was also interested in paintings, however, she does not really remember her that much, the same goes for her father. But there is one thing that she holds dear to her heart, is the Dove bird painting done by her mother. Her painting led me to my career as an artist.

Rose took my paintbrush, dipped it into the fiery red colour and continued living her creativity.

The painter was so engrossed in her artwork with her earplugs plugged in her ears. She was so vibing with the music while painting that she started dancing and singing. Music is really her therapy. However, there is also one thing that always lifts her mood, and that is, novels from her favourite Novelist, LK. And might she add, those novels are actually erotic ones. Since Rose has not had a boyfriend who completes her, she drowns herself in the erotic novels of LK.

All the boyfriends she ever had were either weird ones or they were being chased out of her life by her brother, Evans. Thus, Rose is not really experienced in romance and she wishes to experience this beautiful and sweet feeling. Rose yearned for these feelings. All thanks to these novels she was able to experience what orgasming is like and she still clings to them.

Rose was in her thoughts while painting and dancing to the music she was listening, to when all of a sudden the door blasted open. But, our dear painter did not realise it as there were earplugs in her ears and was busy dancing and painting. It was until an unknown man covered her mouth and removed his earphones and turned her that she knew there were a large gang of men and women in front of her. She did not know them, but, one thing she knew was that she was trembling with fear. Rose's heart was leaping through her chest. She wanted to do something, but, her brain was not working. Those people had a tattoo of an Eagle on their necks and they were dressed in black. Even the women wore black lipstick and eyeshadow.

"Well, hello there, little kitten." The man covering her mouth said with a stinking breath. Rose tried to break free but to no avail. "Oh stop the wiggle, kitten" The man added. "Or you want something to wiggle on, huh?" Rose could feel the smirk on the man's face. The moment he said those disgusting words, everyone laughed, except Rose, she was filled with fear.

"Cherry, when are going to do it? Do it quick, we don't have the whole day here." The man shouted and a woman took out a syringe proceeding her way to Rose. "Yes, Boss," Cherry smirked and said. "It won't hurt, sweetie. Goodnight" After she said those words, she shot Rose with the substance.

Rose felt her eyelids turning heavy and after some seconds, her vision turned dark and all she could ever think of, is her brother, Evans.

After some hours, Rose regained her consciousness. She felt her head pounding real hard and her eyes heavy. The latter squinted her eyes till her vision turns clear.

What Rose saw in front of her was described in only one word- WOW. There was blood everywhere and she was trying her best to not puke on the floor. She looked around and saw the same Eagle emblem on the wall. "Is it some kind of organisation?" Rose asked still trying to process what she saw in front of her.

"You sure do know how to joke, kitten." The man who covered her mouth uttered while wiping his pointy knife. Rose gulped hard looking at the way he was wiping the pointy weapon. "We are just going to wait till your dear brother comes and rescues you." He added.

"My brother? He is working, how will he know that I am here...?" Rose whispered at the fear of the man in front of him. "Oh kitten, he knows a lot of things. I am sure he is already on his way here. We searched for him in every corner of the world and who thought that he was just under our nose." Rose looked at him puzzled. "What? Don't act dumb. You know your brother-" a loud bang interrupted his words and he smirked. "He is here. Everyone! Prepare yourselves! The Dragons are here! Time to feed ourselves on the Dragons!" The man shouted while still smirking.

"Cherry, you stay here and keep an eye on this kitten." The man threw the cloth which he was wiping the knife on the floor. "Time for war"

Rose could hear gunshots, people shouting loudly, agonizing in pain. Not after 10 seconds, he could see Evans in front of her with his suit drowned in blood dragging the Boss of the Eagle gang by his hair. A large number of both men and women behind him strode their way inside the bloody place. Rose remained still in shock, her head was filled with many questions. The troop stopped and Rose examined them thoroughly, their eyes were filled with bloodshot, fiery, dangerous. Everything about them screamed the word "DANGEROUS."

Cherry trembling removed the gun from her belt and pointed it at Evans. The woman who stood beside Evans walked ever so sexily towards Cherry and snatch the gun as if it was a toy. She then removed all the bullets from the gun while smirking.

"You are making a big mistake, Dragons." The Eagle Boss uttered with heavy breaths. He had a broken nose and blood was oozing a lot on his face. Rose could not recognise the man standing in front of her. The man whom she used to call her brother. He possessed bloody eyes, they were dark and gloomy. "Mistake? Huh? You are the ones who did a terrible mistake. You took my sister. How about I take one of your eyes?" Evans lowered to the Eagle's Boss who was on the floor with a knife in his hand. "I am sure it is alright to do so. You took someone precious from me, I should take something precious from you, right?" Evans's voice was dripping dark and cold and Rose felt chills running up her spine. The Boss trembled with fear and sweated a pool.

"Wolf will come for you!" Eagle's Boss said in pure fear and breathlessly.

"Then tell him I am waiting for him," Evans said while standing up and making his way to Rose. His facial expression changed from cold to warm in an instant. His eyes were no more dark like before. He hugged Rose tightly in his arms. "Rose! Are you okay? Did they do anything to you?" Evans released Rose from the tight hug and cupped her face. Rose could not utter a single word, she only shook her head at her brother's questions. "I am glad you are fine, Rose!" Evans hugged Rose one more time.

Evans helped Rose to stand up and took her hand in his hand holding it tightly. As Evans was walking past Eagle's Boss, He said. "You know why I don't kill, don't you?" The Boss shook his head frantically as if he saw a ghost.

"Let's go, Rose" Evans made his way towards his car while holding his sister's hand, his gang was following them behind. When they got to the cars, Evans and Rose occupied the passenger seat at the back and one of the men was driving the car. "Where to, Boss?" The man asked.

"Our lair, Dan," Evans said only these words in the car. During the whole ride, the atmosphere in the car was tense, everyone was silent. However, Evans kept holding Rose's hand during the ride like his life was depending on it. He did not want to lose Rose like they lost their parents, Rose is the only family he ever had.