Chapter 8 - The Abduction
I slowly raised my empty hands in the air, glaring intensely at the heavily armed guards blocking the only exit.
My father confidently stepped around me, leaning heavily on a custom silver-tipped cane.
He looked incredibly pale and frail, his aging body clearly ravaged by the genetic disease that was slowly killing him.
"You have absolutely no right to ever call yourself a father," I spat at him with pure venom.
He chuckled, a dry, rattling sound that filled the sterile, chilling medical suite.
"Building a lasting legacy requires difficult sacrifices, Ryan, and you were always far too weak to understand that," he wheezed.
He gestured weakly toward the reinforced glass room where Maya and Lily were helplessly trapped.
"Maya is going to save my life today, and your little lying wife is going to bleed out in that chair," he declared proudly.
"If you lay a single finger on my daughters, I will tear you apart with my bare hands," I warned, taking a defiant step forward.
A massive guard immediately stepped up and slammed the heavy butt of his rifle directly into my stomach, dropping me to my knees.
I gasped desperately for air, the blinding pain radiating violently through my entire torso.
"Bind his hands tightly and make him watch the medical procedure," my father ordered the guards with a cruel smile.
One of the men grabbed my arms roughly and pulled them aggressively behind my back.
As he reached down for a pair of thick plastic zip ties, I noticed something dangling loosely from his tactical vest.
It was a high-voltage, military-grade stun grenade.
I knew with absolute certainty that I had only one desperate chance to save my family.
I intentionally let my entire body go completely limp, forcing the large guard to suddenly support all my dead weight.
As he struggled awkwardly to hold me up, I violently kicked backward, shattering his left kneecap with a sickening crunch.
He screamed in agony and dropped me, giving me a split second of absolute, unrestricted freedom.
I ripped the stun grenade effortlessly from his vest, pulled the metal pin with my teeth, and hurled it across the small room.
"Close your eyes tightly!" I screamed to Sarah as loud as my lungs would allow.
The grenade detonated instantly with a blinding flash of white light and a deafening, concussive boom.
The guards screamed in terror, dropping their weapons and clutching their bleeding ears in absolute agony.
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My father stumbled backward, completely blinded and disoriented by the intense, flashing light.
I scrambled quickly to my feet, grabbed a dropped assault rifle from the floor, and aimed it directly at my father's chest.
