Leeches

"I — I didn't do anything to your wife."

"Yet." He added as he held a box in his hand. "Miss Yu… do you know that losing forty percent of our blood could kill us?" he asked as he raised the glass to Yu Yanwan. "It will make your body lose the ability to control blood pressure. And that is enough to cause death."

"Why would you say something like that?" she eyed the box and looked at the slimy black things that were inside. "What is that?"

"Leeches." He answered with a straight face. "The type that likes to drink human blood." He eyed the leeches and smiled. "Silly little creatures."

"Are… Are you trying to threaten me?"

"No… I am trying to tell you that 500 leeches are enough to kill an adult. Of course, that will depend on your overall size, but the point is… the death won't be pleasing."

Yu Yanwan swallowed her saliva. She felt her goosebumps skittered across her skin as she tried to show that she was not afraid. "What is your point?"