Chapter 23

Far away around the outskirts of the city, a family of three were having dinner. The atmosphere was tense at least only for the girl sitting at the dinning table, Prya.

The other two at the table were her father and brother, Tom and Prain. Prya's mother died in the hands of their father after having a slight disagreement on the way he taught their kids. Tom is the leader of the country's number one criminal organization.

From trafficking to drugs, basically any illegal form of business one could be involved in, he was involved in it. Their mom was married to their father as a gift to him from her family. They basically sold her for profits so he always felt like he owned her although he loved her.

Her death was a mistake that Tom never forgave himself for, not like he showed any emotion, making everyone believe that he did not care. The only effect of the death of his wife was he did not show any sort of care for his daughter anymore. She reminded him too much of his wife so he would rather she also left.

About a day ago Prain tried to assassinate Prya but failed, Tom was well aware of what he did but did nothing from stopping a brother from killing his own twin sister. If Prya had tried to do such she would have been punished heavily. In his eyes, boys were always better which brings his bias.

Although they were both his heirs and one of them is to take control of his business, he would prefer it be Prain. From a young age he had instilled into their brains that only one of them should survive therefore pitting them against each other to kill the other.

Prya never listened to her father but to her mother and never retaliated against her brothers schemes. After her mother's death, everything changed for the worse as Prain got worse, not even hiding his motive to kill Prya so she began to retaliate. She was always very close to getting the job done but their father never lets it happen

Tom always finds a way to save Prain, he even got Prain two more bodyguards than Prya, also ensuring that one of Prya's two bodyguards was loyal to him rather than Prya. Prya knew that only one of her bodyguards were loyal to her and that was because he used to work for her mother, the other always helps her brother plot against her life.

Everyday being alive was like hell for her, she had to not only be careful with outsiders but also with her own family. Prya had tried killing her father and brother before, it just never succeeded, it wasn't like killing was a bad thing in her family so she had nothing to feel guilty about, those two just wouldn't die.

It was finally the night of the auction, Tia had woken up earlier that day and was feed and dressed up, she would have refused to eat but that would do her no good, lack of energy was why she couldn't escape in the first place.

At an underground venue, everyone who was anyone important and involved in illegal business in the country and from abroad were present. It was an annual event where people would bring several goods, ranging from rare items to exotic animals to ammunition to humans. Humans were mostly sold as slaves there. At the ending of the event, attendees would be given auction boards to bid for the goods displayed.

Prya always feels bored at these events since everyone only tried to kiss up to her, they were obviously fake, keeping people like this around her won't be advantageous so she would only respond once in a while to them only to ensure that they still maintain a relationship, only her annoying twin brother would enjoy the company of such people. Prya decided to leave for the rest room, she needed a break from this annoying people.

After being fed and dressed, Tia saw an opening to run away, the people attending to her decided to attend to someone else and left her and two other girls and a boy alone in a room, the door wasn't locked well, probably because they were in a hurry. The others in the room saw Tia open the door but they were already filled with self indignation and lost all hope of escaping so they just watched her.

Tia opened the door and went out, luckily the stairs wasn't yet guarded so she took the stairs upstairs assuming this was the basement of the building. After running for a while she bumped into armed guards who knew she was one of the goods immediately because of the collar put around her neck.

Tia finally got rid of them and entered a rest room only to bump into a girl with curly dark hair dressed in a black off shoulder gown. The both of them were in shock as they stared at each other. Tia noticed that this girl didn't have a collar around her neck, "she is probably a guest and I should stay away from".

Tia was about to find another way to escape when Prya shouted, "One of the good's here!". The armed men chasing Tia came in immediately.

While Tia was handling some highly experienced men trying to fight them off, more came in and caught her. Tia never felt like killing someone in her life as much as she wanted to kill this girl. If eyes could kill, Prya would have died a thousand times.

Prya felt Tia's eye's on her, it wasn't like she cared what happened to the girl, she just didn't want to be involved with the girl, what if they check the surveillance and find out she saw her without raising an alarm. Another headache would come her way since her father and brother were more of enemies than allies.