Betrayal

"Say, yes.", Zoa whispered in his ears. "Yes, Ma'am." Asher had no idea about anything. "You'll receive your money. After you prove it.", The woman replied coldly.

"Say, yes again.", Zoa whispered to him. "Yes, Ma'am."

The woman cut the call. Asher put the phone down and clasped his hand around Zoa's waist. He held her closer and asked, "What was that? And Which task?"

"Task to kill me.", Zoa replied with a mysterious smile. "The woman on the call was Sophie Lee, my birth mother."

Asher couldn't believe his ears. He had often seen her interviews with Zoa. They had a prefect and loving mother-daughter relationship. "How?", Asher murmured unconsciously.

"It's the business world. They can kill everyone to achieve their dreams. The man you are seeing here is a professional hitman hired by my mother and boyfriend to kill me. Now, let's send them proofs."

Zoa gently freed herself from Asher's embrace. She got up from the bed and sat on the floor. She unwrapped her all bandages on her injuries. Her wounds had started to bleed again.

"Stop", Asher grabbed her hand and stopped her. "We need to show them my dead picture.", Zoa replied with a smile.

"What are you talking about?", Asher kept asking but Zoa freed her hand and continued unwrapping her injuries.

Zoa was not feeling any pain. She recalled the scene after Asher had fainted.

~When Asher was unconscious ~

After Asher fainted. Zoa hid grabbed the broken glass pieces and the knife and hid herself in a dark corner of the room.

A man wearing a yellow raincoat, drenched in the rainwater had opened the door with force. He had a black bag and a gun in his hand. He was examining the cottage.

Zoa also examined him carefully. Zoa was a trained martial art. She had learned the combat skills from her stepfather or her personal trainer. He was her guard before marrying her mother.

As that man started to examine the unconscious Asher bleeding on the floor. Zoa attacked him from behind and pierced the knife in his shoulder. That man turned back and tried to retaliate.

But Zoa was well prepared. She attacked his right eye with the broken glass. She snatched the gun from him as well. It was a sudden attack, and that man couldn't fight back.

Zoa's hard work had finally paid off. Learning combat was not her hobby. It was obliged to do this. She had always faced such attacks. It was nothing new for her.

"Who had sent you? Answer me, and I'll spare you.", Zoa offered to that man.

That man took a pill from his coat and put it in his mouth. The white saliva rinsed from his mouth. Zoa checked his pulse. He was dead.

"Who had ordered him to do this?", Zoa shouted with tears and dropped the gun. She leaned against the kitchen wall and sat on the floor. She was surrounded by two men covered in red blood.

The smell of the blood was mixed in the air. Zoa started to cry aloud. She was shouting. "I only wanted to live. What did I do wrong to deserve this?"

Zoa stayed there for a long in her leaning position. The rain was coming inside the cottage from the opened door. The continuously faded and painful breaths of Asher were audible in the cottage.

Zoa stood from the kitchen's ground. She checked Asher's breathing. He was still alive. She took his arms and dragged him near to the bed. She ran toward the sink and filled a glass of water.

She cleaned his head's wound. Zoa couldn't find the bandages anywhere. She used Asher's shirt to stop his bleeding. The wound was not deep, and it stopped bleeding.

Zoa went to the dead hitman. And searched his body. She found an I'D card, a phone, and a dagger. Zoa examined his bag. The bag was filled with all the necessary things like food, medicine, bandages, lighter and spare batteries, a torch almost everything.

Zoa thought that this man could have some parents as well. She hurriedly wrapped the medicine and bandages around Asher's head.

Zoa divided the food into two portions. She left one for the Asher and one in the bag. She left the dagger to him as well. Zoa took the bag, and gun and wore the yellow raincoat drenched in rainwater and blood.

Zoa also took a hitman phone with herself. She was going to leave. Before leaving, she kissed on Asher'srehead and said, "Thanks for saving me."

Zoa was near to the door. She took a single step out of the cottage in the storm. When the cell phone rang. Zoa stepped backward and looked at the number.

It was her apartment number. Someone was calling from her apartment. "Only three people have assessed to my apartment. They know about my apartment's password aside from me."

Zoa was going to faint. She attended the call. She heard the voice of her boyfriend. "DB, Madam wants to talk to you. We had paid you enough. We want result now."

Her boyfriend said from the other side of the phone. "Give me the phone.", Zoa heard another voice. Zoa couldn't believe her ears and disconnected the call.

Zoa dropped everything, the bag, the gun, and the raincoat she was wearing. She gently put the phone in the bag and unbuttoned her shirt. She had a cut mark on her abdomen.

"Mom, you still have not changed. What did I do wrong to you?", Zoa sobbed.

"I thought that you had changed. But..You even added Cam in your plan.", Zoa couldn't bear this betrayal. She was already familiar with the hostile behavior of her mother toward her.

But she couldn't accept that she would go to such a length to get rid of her. She still denied it. She had always feigned ignorance of her mother's behavior. She only wanted her mother to embrace her and accept her.

"I had enough pretending to be a good girl. I'll show you the real betrayal.", Zoa aimed.

She put everything in the bag except the knife which she had found from the cottage. She hid everything under the bed. She also hid the phone and the raincoat as well.

Zoa dragged the dead body of the hitman and used it as a door closure as the locks of the door were broken. Now the rain and wind were coming inside.

Zoa struggled and put Asher on the bed as well. She saw a fireplace and used the lighter she had found in the hitman's bag to start the fire. "Somebody definitely lives here. There is everything. Wood, water, electricity except the food.", Zoa said.

She ate the hot cup noodles sitting near the fireplace. She felt a heat and peaceful sensation in her body. "I should rest now. I need to take revenge and claim my rights."

"But why did I save that idiot?", Zoa looked at that doctor and thought. "He is cute isn't he?", Zoa was talking to herself.

It was almost midnight now. Zoa sat on the carpet on the ground and put head on the bed and fell asleep.

~End Of Flashback~