Forbidden Fruit

CAPITOLO SESSANTASEI- Checkmate

"Was I stupid to love you? Was I reckless to help? Was it obvious to everybody else?" - Billie Eilish

Negril, Jamaica📍
11:45 pm
August 24 '19

Red was all she saw.

Her venomous tone, intertwined with her murderous glare on the women was more than enough to send chills running down everyone's spines. The crowd was silent with fearful anticipation, no one knowing whether to intervene or stay rooted to their spots out of fear of becoming Cataleya's next target. With the meat cleaver gripped tightly in her hand, the young assassin slowly draws closer towards her terrified prey.

"Leya please don't..." Her bodyguard cautions out from behind her, but she completely ignores his warning. Her focus locked solely on the three pathetic girls who just a few minutes ago, were boldly gossiping and slandering the woman they were now cowering from.

Romeo, who was desperately searching for an intervention, exhales the biggest sigh of relief when he finally spots salvation moving amongst the crowd. He waves over Michael and Rheah who were already curiously approaching the growing crowd, but their interests further peak once they noticed a panicked Romeo flagging them down.

"Help!" He mouths at them with urgency glowing in his eyes.

With a frown, the couple quicken their pace to reach him. The crowd parts like the red sea to make way for the kingpin and young assassin whose eyes bulge when they finally take in the violent scene.

"The fuck is this?" Michael interrogates as he stares at the blood, the meat fork and the blood stained women staring Cataleya down.

Romeo sighs. "Those girls were talking shit about Leya and now she wants to kill them."

Rheah shakes her head.

Michael folds his arms though he couldn't hide the amusement on his face. "Oh shit, what did they say?"

Romeo stares at his boss, wondering how he could possibly find the humour in all of this. He opens his mouth to respond but Cataleya's bellowing cuts him off.

"So who's first?" She yells. Camara flinches when the enraged woman points the razor sharp cleaver at her, the metal gleaming mockingly under the lights. "You or your ugly ass side kick? Or maybe little miss 'I need a doctor.'"

The chuckle that rumbled out of Cataleya was so dark and sadistic, it made the blood of everyone run cold. The crowd exclaims their bewilderment when Sadé suddenly wilts and drops, passed out in her friends' arms from the pain and distress. They try their best to lower her gently onto the floor all while keeping a cautious eye on the manic young woman with a weapon in her hand glowering at them with murder on her mind.

Cataleya shakes her head, throughly entertained. "Sis thinks cause she asleep I'm still not gonna chop her up. That's cute."

"Someone get her away from us!" Trinity screeches at the onlookers.

"Call the fucking ambulance!" Camara cries.

"NO!" Cataleya roars and her death glare falls on the crowd. "Nobody move! Help and you can join them!"

Everyone gulps. No one dares to move a muscle.

All except Rheah who, by now, had slowly made her way towards her sister. She had watched silently from the sidelines before eventually deciding it was time to intervene.