81. The Real Cage!

Author's POV 

Marona was enjoying Ivan's state. 

"Don't keep the suspense, Amore... I want to enjoy this too!"

Mikhail complained. 

She chuckled.

"I am his doctor... I just gave him medicine"

She batted her eyelashes innocently. 

He shook his head in disbelief. 

"Where did you get the drug? It's not possible to find it easily in the market and I would have found out because I look after movements of those."

She smiled naughtily.

"Guess who gave me that."

He closed his eyes and rubbed his face.

"Rafael!... Why is he dancing on your fingers?... I definitely missed something."

"I am not forgetting anything"

Ivan was looking around lost. 

Jeh entered with his men and Marona handed him babies. 

She needed to be free to punish her culprit. 

"Relax, Ivan!"

She grabbed his attention. 

"Confused about whatever is happening to you?"

He looked at her confused. 

"What did you do to me? Why is everything blurry? Who are you? What are you doing?"

He fell on the ground. 

She gave him a fake pity look and knelt beside him. 

"Do you remember what you did to your son?"

She asked and his eyes widened as he recalled in parts.

"No!"

He shook his head furiously. 

"No! You can't do this to me... I am the smartest one... You can't take my memory away."

She chuckled. 

"Now that place is mine. I am the smartest one. Do you remember how I used to admire you because you were strong. I always thought that I would become a strong man like you... But things flipped, still it didn't take away my desire to be strong. So I became a strong woman instead of a man..."

He looked at her hatefully.

"Stabbing behind the back is not strong."

"I wouldn't say it was behind your back... I injected you in front of you. Do you remember our first meeting?"

She mocked.

"Ohh, you couldn't recognise me because I was wearing a mask... But don't worry, I have injected a strong drug. It will soon take away all your memories and then you don't have to stress your brain to recall anything."

"Do whatever you want but you can never change the fact that you are a bastard. Dirty blood."

He spat hatefully. 

She smiled.

"I am proud of my blood, Ivan... Ohh, did I introduce you to my babies..."

She pointed at them.

"That's Andres, my baby boy. He is so adorable... And that's my daughter, Sabrina... Do you remember the name?"

She mocked him.

"Ohh, you might not... Let me remind you. This is your wife's real name. Sabrina! You changed her identity and forgot about her reality... Now you understand why Sabrina's name sounded so familiar to you?"

"Sabrina!"

His eyes watered. 

"Awe! no, no, no... Wait for sometime, big man. You will get the chance to cry. Your life will be hell from now on so don't worry. I'll make sure that you enjoy your crying sessions."

She patted his back.

"This is just the beginning... You will know how it feels when the world becomes blurred. When you struggle to keep your memories alive. When it hurts but you don't know exactly where. When you struggle to breathe but don't realise what's happening to you. When your own identity fades from your mind... You will experience everything which I did... But that won't be your end, you made my mother's life hell. Caged her whole life and never let her talk. You will be punished the same way. You won't be able to see the sun and I promise you that. You would want to beg for freedom but you won't be able to put it in words..."

She got up and stood in front of Mikhail.

"You said that he will lose his tongue."

Her hand firmly rested on his chest. 

"I am waiting for it!"

Mikhail smirked.

"Whatever my queen says!"

Ivan got up and tried to run with his wobbly legs but it wasn't hard for Mikhail to catch him. 

Marona saw him beating the monster. She wasn't feeling happy or victorious, her heart filled with anger and sadness. Only if this man would have been a little bit good then her life might have been different. She wouldn't be living an orphan life. 

She can only think how one decision can change lives drastically. Their life would have been different if her mother wouldn't have fallen for this man. Maybe she would have been alive if she had listened to her tribal people. 

Things would have been different but she can't change anything now. 

She closed her eyes when Mikhail didn't stop. She quickly turned around when his tongue got detached from his mouth.

Mikhail never uses empty words. 

"What now?"

Marona asked Mikhail. 

"I don't want him to die so soon. He needs to suffer."

Mikhail nodded.

"He will. But we can't leave him just anywhere"

He thought for a minute and smirked. 

"Come with me. I have a perfect place for him."

Marona looked at him confused when Mikhail took them to Hywala Hotel which was abandoned now. 

"Let him live his true insane years in this luxurious hotel..."

He smirked. 

"He will now realize the true meaning of getting caged."

Marona watched him as Mikhail chained him in the room where there was no window. They locked the door and sealed the hotel from all the sides, no one would be able to come out after that. 

"What if he manages to come out?"

Marona questioned as she got inside the car. 

"I have purchased the property so no one is coming here to break locks and even if gets out, he would forget everything..."

Mikhail cleared her doubts. 

"And he is already half dead so don't worry... I have installed cameras also."

She nodded and looked at the hotel which was disappearing behind the trees as their car drove out. Her life took turns at this place and she put a full stop to all the craziness in the same place. She was waiting for this moment her whole life. 

Reaching here wasn't easy and she never expected Mikhail to support her in this but he did and she couldn't be so relieved. His support was all that matters and she realised it now. 

They went home and Marona entered the room after taking care of babies. 

"Hope they are full tonight."

Mikhail asked when she freshened up. 

"They have bottles now."

She chuckled.

"Why are you asking? You never paid attention to this before."

He smiled tiredly.

"Because I want to sleep peacefully with my wife tonight."

Her body was also aching after a long day. She slid down beside him.

"But I'm too tired for sex"

He chuckled and kissed her forehead.

"Sex is not the only thing I want from you..."

He pulled her closer. 

"Your presence in my arms is enough, Amore"

She blushed and rested on his chest.

"Thank you so much for everything, Mikhail"

"Thank you for what?"

He shook his head.

"For forcing you to marry me, for torturing you, for making your life difficult, for running away from my own feelings and abandoning you since childhood. I don't deserve this thank you... I have made only mistakes when it comes to you..."

She gently held his hand. 

"Mikhail, why are you looking at the negative side?... I know that things might have been different if you would have found out about me but now when I think about it, it feels like it's fine. Maybe everything had a reason... We didn't meet early because your father definitely would have used our relationship as our weakness. You were right about not bringing his attention to me. You were running away from the emotions because you were trying to protect me... I know that you forced me to marry you but I think because that I got the man I always wanted. If you wouldn't have done that then maybe I must have lived a lonely life somewhere... You caged me because I created those situations to trap you. You just wanted my safety... And if you are talking about abuse then I think you did that to protect me from Laurence."

She kissed his hand.

"You always loved me and you always cared for me. If not then you wouldn't have come for rescue when Laurence tried to kill me. Whatever happened is the past, we now have our whole life in front of us."

Mikhail smiled at her as she healed his guilty heart with her soothing words.

"I am so lucky to have you... My personal doctor. Things have fallen in the right place since you have entered my life..."

"You look so cute when you express your feelings."

She pinched his cheek. 

He grinned naughtily. 

"Does that mean we can keep lizards as pets?"

She gasped and started punching him. 

"You___"

He burst out laughing and caged her in arms to block her delicate attacks. 

Their happy laugh filled the room.