Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #14 May 2015 | Page 17

Pearl crossed her arms. “I can’t come back. I have
enemies that will do worse than kill me, they will put
me in prison for the things I made public down there.
I prefer to take my chances with whatever is going on
up here.”
Liam put his hand on her shoulder. “Give me a second
chance and I will stay with you. We could even go to
another station if you feel like it. I know some people
in the other stations, we could spend our lives knowing new planets… I promise things will be better for
us from now on.”
She moved away from him. “No. No paradise could
fix us being together. We had ten years of hell, didn’t
you have enough of it?”
“No.” He looked at her now with unconcealed anger.
“And I won’t leave you here for Bruno or any other
who crosses your way. Who are you planning to take
to your bed next? Slut.” He approached her, his handsome face full of rage.
She ran away and shouted with all strength she had.
Liam seized her, turned her around and slapped her
face, then his hands closed around her throat. His
green eyes shone with the spark of a year-long suffocated anger which surfaced right now. Pearl tried
to pry his hands away from her neck with all her
strength, but he was strangling her with the resolution
of a Viking. Soon I won’t be able to breathe anymore.
Pearl realized with vacant eyes.. Soon I’ll be dead.
“This will shortly be at an end,” her ex-lover said with
an insane smile.
Bastard! She thought flaring her nostrils. Who are you
to judge me? Something strange happened then. Pearl
felt her whole body charging with energy as sparks
left her hands and struck Liam. The energy strike
was painful enough to make him release her while
she took the chance t