Chapter 10:
Defeat
They reached the back room and down a long hallway was the gallery. Paintings and sculptures lined the hallway that was covered in a gold and red carpet. At the very end they could see the portrait of Adam Conway Sr.
"This is it guys, we made it!" Yasmin said.
Sasha and Koby lit the torch and they all started running down the hallway. They were Galway there when Mark appeared in front of them holding knives.
"You didn't think you'd make it that easily did you?" He said.
"You can't stop us!" Jade said.
"You're no match for me!" He started to throw the knives at them.
"Duck!" Ethan exclaimed.
They all dropped to the floor at the very last second and narrowly avoided getting hit by the knives. Cloe, Dana, and Dylan managed to slip past Mark and reach the other side of the gallery where the safe was.
Mark noticed them and reached down and grabbed Yasmin by the back of her tight dress and she screamed.
"Yas!" Sasha exclaimed.
He pinned her against the wall as she struggled then took a long sharp knife out of his pocket. Her eyes got wide as she stared at the blade. He held the sharp point to her neck.
"Stop right there or I'll slit her throat!" Mark said to Cloe, Dana, and Dylan.
"Let her go!" Sasha shouted at Mark.
"Not until all of you surrender!"
Suddenly Adam and Annabelle appeared. Adam flew over to The unsuspecting Mark and punched him in the face. He fell backwards and dropped Yasmin to the floor as well as the knife.
"Leave them alone Mark!" Adam said.
"Get the hell out of here Adam!" Mark said. He tried to fly over to the safe but Annabelle held him back.
"Mark I've had enough of this! You stop this madness right now!" Annabelle said she she struggled to hold him back.
Sasha still had the torches and while the Conways were distracted she ran over to the safe. She was hallways there when suddenly the floor collapsed below her. She screamed as she fell down but managed to grab the edge of it before she tumbled down into the basement.
"Sasha!" Dana exclaimed trying to run over to her.
Dylan grabbed her. "Unlock the safe!"
Dana was doubtful that she could. "B-But I can't..."
She was the only one who knew the combination, she had to do it. "Yes you can!"
With shaking hands and a heart beating fast Dana put her ear to the safe and started to turn the dial.
24.
Meanwhile Yasmin, Ethan, and Koby were helping Sasha out of the collapsed floor.
"Damn this old house!" Koby said.
Adam and Annabelle were still fighting with Mark trying to bid everyone enough time to open the safe. But they couldn't hold him off forever.
Cloe was watched the whole thing play out and she was becoming more worried by the second. "Hurry Dana! Hurry!"
Dana continued to turn the dial on the safe terrified of messing up and ruining their chances of ever defeating Mark and getting out of here alive.
35.
Sasha had managed to not drop the torch. Once Ethan, Koby, and Yasmin helped her up she threw it across the broken floor. "Cloe, catch!"
Cloe flinched as the hot burning torch landed in her hands. She looked back at Dana who was opening the safe.
36.
"It's open!" Dana exclaimed as she opened the door.
"NO!" Mark shouted as he managed to slip through Adam and Annabelle's hands. He flew over to the safe as fast as he could where Cloe was about to throw the torch inside and ignite the millions of dollars that it contained.
She jumped back as he landed in front of her. He started walking towards her and she couldn't imagine the things he was thinking of doing.
"If you throw that torch in there...!"
Suddenly Cloe became more angry than scared. She would not let Mark terrify her. Their fate was in her hands and she would not let him hurt her or her friends or anyone else ever again.
"I am not afraid of you Mark Conway!" She exclaimed. "Now get out of my way!"
She ran trying to make her way around him. Instead he grabbed a handful of her blonde hair and pulled her towards him ready to slice her open. She struggled against him. He managed to grab one of her hands but the hand holding the torch was still free. With all of the strength she had under his clutches, she threw the torch behind him into the safe.
Within second all of the money went up into flames.