Rhea looked up at the two familiar yet unfamiliar faces that were standing above her, her entire body bound by the two of them in an empty warehouse that was at the outskirts of the city.

She, a world class supermodel who had done everything she could for her best friend and fiancée was currently being bound and tortured by them.

“Those eyes deserve to be clawed out to allow us not to have to deal with your pitiful look all the time” Nancy scoffed and walked away from her leaving only Daniel to stand there and look at his ‘fiancée’.

Her natural unyielding nature made it difficult for her to beg as her eyes bored into Daniel’s before she turned her head away in disappointment.

Four days prior to this, he had proposed to her which had been the best day of her life, despite her numerous success, her ghost fame in fashion designing and her supermodel identity, Rhea had hardly had a happy life since she had spent her life being rejected by her parents whom she had only discovered included her father alone and her supposed mom was her step mom.

They had only hidden the truth to get the huge inheritance that her biological mother had left for which she had ignorantly signed off when she was Eighteen.

Not like she needed the money because she had a high paying job and a boyfriend that she had been crazy in love with until now.

Her heart hurt, from her blind judgement in people, she felt extremely unlucky to have a best friend of more than eight years and a fiancée that couldn’t wait to torture her for their own pleasure.

“How much exactly do you both want to release me?” Rhea finally asked.

That was the first word she was saying today and her voice came out hoarse and cracked unlike her usual melodious and enchanting voice.

Nancy sneered upon hearing her words from the high seat she was sitting on.

“You are really hopeless innit?” She scoffed looking at Rhea like she was looking at an ant from above.

Rhea glanced over at her, her clear eyes cold and unfeeling and yet emotionless. She made no effort to give a reply to Nancy’s words and just looked over at Daniel.

Daniel looked at Nancy and then moved over to where she was “I have done my part in this, as for the extent you plan on taking this to, that’s for you to decide. I’ll go look around” he said and then left the almost empty warehouse alone for Nancy and Rhea.

“For so long, I could only live in your shadow, even when I ruined your reputation in school, you still didn’t let it break you and instead came out years later to shine even brightly. None of my designs could ever match up to you who is barely in class and I have to pretend to be you to get a little bit of fame” she said in deep hatred and contempt.

Rhea’s eyes flashed as they looked at her, her emotionless eyes flashed with disappointment and pain that she couldn’t bring herself to conceal.

“You have hated me for so long Nannan?” Her voice breaking at the end of the statement but her eyes stayed firmly on Nancy as if expecting to see something else.

Nancy scoffed and let out a low laugh.

“Not only do I hate you, you disgust me, pretending to be so clean and pure while you take everything from the whole world. You wouldn’t even let your sister shine beside you. You selfish wrench” she said and then walked to Rhea, spat on her and then stormed off in anger.

Rhea’s head went down immediately as Nancy went out her mind flashing with all the memories she had made with Nancy over the years.

They had become friends in high school and have been inseparable since then.

Before anyone else in the world, Nancy had been the most important person to her since she had stood by her in her darkest moments when she had yet to build herself to fend off against the world.

Thus Nancy had been extremely dear to her and she would never hesitate to do anything for her, even sacrificing her career in fashion designing to let Nancy build a name using her skills.

She had not expected that all along, she had been raising a very dangerous snake beside her.

Rhea sighed the discomfort in her hands growing and legs growing from all the tying she was in.

Some hours later…

Rhea was startled awake by some loud banging and she raised her head up as she was reminded of the body pain she was in.

Nancy strolled in with some men and Rhea scanned them and realised that Daniel wasn’t among them.

She looked at the men that Nancy had gathered and then at Nancy as she wondered what Nancy was up to.

“Rhea looked at Nancy and then lowered her head, the cold bone chilling look in Nancy’s eyes passed a clear message to her as she gave up on seeing if she was redeemable.

“Torture her and make her wish being dead was better and then finish her off” Nancy said coldly and without another glance at Rhea walked off.

****

After two days of torture, Rhea’s eyes were drooping all by itself as her soul and body was tired already, Nancy had dropped by everyday and then made fun of her and told her about how her funs were all looking for her and what not.

It made her sad to leave her fans but she was even more saddened knowing that she had no family that was out there being genuinely concerned for her and looking for her made her feel like this life wasn’t worth so much in the end.

Three gunshots, one to the chest and two to the heart ended the life of the world renowned supermodel who had stormed the world for close to six years now, her head hanging loosely towards her neck in resignation as her spirit left her body.

No one in the room noticed the dull light that flashed on her neck and disappeared immediately.