Chapter Seventeen

Athena

I used my arm to cover her eyes as I took my sister from the house into his truck. She was covered in blood from my parents and it was weird. I had expected her to be more scared but she looked out like nothing happened. About 10 minutes later Vincent came in and tossed a bag in the backseat with us. I held onto my sister for the entire ride back to my apartment. It was silent and my thoughts were everywhere. It didn't make any sense how I was alive or why she was alive. But there had to be a logical explanation as to why we were. My sister fell asleep on my lap on the way. I looked in the mirror and saw he was looking at me too. I don't think that I would survive without him right now. "I hope you show that my duty is protecting her right?" I told him. "She's our responsibility. You will never have to be alone." A smile spread across my face to hear that. I smoothed Karina's hair