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Surviving To Live — Illumination Book Chapter — Chapter I
Life is like a deck of cards. What you pluck is what you play/live!
“What the $#@^&%%$#@# are you? A &^%$#@#$%% Journalist? An informer or a &%$##$%^ spy? Everyone with a brain is fighting to get out, and you are going in. My sister went mad, struggling to get out!” Phillip, my oldest brother, screamed the mouth of his 357 magnum in my husband’s mouth. His eyes were red with rage and pain. “My brother is dead because of your stupidity!”
“Don’t kill him,” I pleaded, wrestling with Peter, my older brother, who was preventing me from going to my husband’s aid.
“Tell me,” Phillip asked, easing the gun from my husband’s mouth. He hit him in the back of his head with the butt. Blood sprayed out like water from a garden hose. My husband gritted his teeth to suppress the pain. “Tell me now if you are going to go back in so that I can %$#@#$%^&%# kill you now and save my sister future grief?”
“No, Phillip, he won’t, I promise,” I cried, still struggling to escape Peter’s grip. “We don’t have to pay the two million they demanded, and Jason is alive.”
“Yes, but Matthew is $#@#$%&&% dead, because of your %$#@#$%^husband!” Phillip yelled. I watched in horror as my brother released the safety on the gun. The barrel eased out, and all the bullets fell on the…