Chapter 10: Violet's POV
Time was ticking at its usual rhythm but for me, every second became a painful hold on the thread of my father's life.
"Axel..." I whimpered, my eyes wide as I looked between him and the butcher who was now standing only a few feet away from my Father.
One swing of his knives and my father would be dead.
"Please... You can still stop this... Please!" I turned my tear-filled eyes to Axel and dropped onto the ground again.
"How can I sit here and watch you kill my father?" I yelled, forgetting the monster I was speaking to.
His red eyes twisted and they became a sudden alarming blend of black.
In a blink of an eye, he grabbed my neck and glared at me.
"Your father made me watch when he sold my sister to the cruellest woman ever!" He spat and I squeezed my eye
