Switching roles

Ethan’s P.O.V

A small gasp escaped my lips I forgot I was supposed to remove my current age from the palm line. If that was the case, then I have just nine years left, which was nearly insufficient. Now, what am I going to do? How was I going to convince him to let Valentina live?

“You see how dumb you are, Ethan.” I could hear him cackle and cold sweat peeled from my forehead, I swallowed the lump that was starting to build up in my throat, nine years is less than half of the years I am trying to bargain with. “Now, what else do you have to give to me?”

His menacing voice came back and once again I was speechless because I didn’t have any other thing to offer him, there was nothing I could give to him, but if he could make use of the nine years left for me then…

“I would give my life in exchange for hers,” I answered confidently hoping that I wasn’t just making a fool out of myself, there was a long pause on the other end of the phone, and I could tell he was contemplating it, it see