Brandon Enns - Islanders

“What’s wrong?” Erin asked Sebastian.

“I’m impressed.”

She could get on the boat and drive away if she wanted. “How long is that range finder of yours?”

Even if they had all gotten to Belize, to the airport, maybe even home, could they draw them back in? “Okay.” It had to be done. “I’ll stay.”

“You will?”

She looked over at Teresa, who was overjoyed. Cassidy was less impressed.

“Trevor stays too. As mine.” Cassidy’s eyes flickered to pure black then back to normal.

Sebastian was quick to overrule his daughter. “I’m sorry. That will not be possible. His only destination is south of here.”

“I’ll stay on one condition.”

“Sorry, we don’t do conditions.”

“What are your plans for the others?”

“They will meet their destined afterlife, you know this.”

“No, they won’t.”

Sebastian’s eyes drifted to Trevor and he collapsed to the ground in agony.

“Just leave,” Trevor grunted through barred teeth.

Erin knelt, touched his head, and rose. “Trevor won’t leave me. Make him and the others get on a plane. I don’t want them back here.” She searched for a response on Sebastian’s uncertain face.

“Erin, don’t,” Trevor begged.

She couldn’t look at him. Erin took her knife and stabbed it into the wet sand. “I’m yours. Pure and here to stay.”

Cassidy was outraged, unable to hold it in any longer. “She killed Bruce, Father! Murderer!”

He smiled. “She had to.”

“What?” she spat.

“That’s enough!” he bellowed. Her silence was then prompt.

“I’m ready.”

“Erin, I’m not leaving you. Don’t do this. You can do it again. Zap these assholes!”

She gave Sebastian a teary nod and soon Trevor was out of sight, along with the others. They were going home.

“If anything happens to them…”

Sebastian’s face softened and Teresa approached slowly. “You are beautiful.” She turned to Sebastian. “There’s nothing more powerful than a sacrifice.” Her smile was beaming her eyes still soft with sympathy. “You remind me of a dear friend from our time before. She was noble. You are more endearing. Our purified darling.”

Erin hoped she would go into the night with fearless glory, ready to fight against the demented monsters that scoured the lonely island torturing the troubled living. She hoped she would have the power to vanquish them and drive to the shores of Belize. She hoped that she’d make it home to Trevor and they’d start their lives together.

But it didn’t feel that way.

“I can be whatever you want me to be. Just take my friends home and keep them there.”

Teresa cut Sebastian off with much more grace and gratitude than he could ever express. “We will honor your wishes. This will be our binding agreement. Come, my dear.” She extended a hand and Erin took it.

She glanced back over her shoulder. The ocean water was flat. Thunder boomed, lightning cracked, wind whistled faintly, and she heard the sound of rain while looking up at the dry sky and still trees.

Brandon Enns is a novelist and award-winning screenwriter. Brandon’s stories are suspenseful thrillers, mysteries, and dramas that often keep the reader guessing.

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