beating heart | soma & sophie
He should've known from the start that he was never safe, even in a city like Brieve.
It all started from the warning letters he had received daily in the past 3 months--right after Fenrir Co. proclaimed to have the solution for cancer treatment, to be more precise. Soma knew that they were just bluffing to taunt the other pharmaceutical companies, but he had not expected the danger that his father had brought upon him.
It was a dead giveaway that the perpetrator was sent by those companies and was intended to intimidate his father into cancelling the production for the medicine. But this was Soma they're messing with, and as much as he hated his family he wouldn't have the heart to destroy the company that has his late mother as one of it's founders.
Warning letters soon escalated into stalking; sometimes at night, Soma would find himself feeling as if he's being watched. And it doesn't take much for him to believe it wasn't a ghost whatsoever when he found another warning letter saying that he could die in his sleep. His father was concerned enough to send two bodyguards for him but being stubborn as always he sent them back. It's just a couple of hitmen, right? nothing he couldn't handle.
Unfortunately, they had to prove him wrong the hard way.
So there he was, a staggering bloody mess struggling to keep himself walking to his apartment. His body was aching everywhere from the knives and bats that came into contact with it. Fortunately, it was midnight so he wouldn't have to worry about 'unecessary attention' from passerby.
"Damn...it..."
As strong as he thought he was, Soma is still a human. He thought he could handle a little bloodloss, but he knew he had lost a massive amount of blood when his vision was starting to distort. Soma attempted to keep himself balanced by flinging his hand onto a bench he thought he saw, only to fall mercilessly into the bricked pavement. The blow from the fall sent him coughing out blood before falling unconscious.