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Beautifully Ruined Chapter 27
ISA POVMy stomach rumbled for the umpteenth time ever since I sat inside Xander’s car at the most ungodly hour ever. I cringed before massaging it gently and cast a glance sideways to get his reaction. He didn’t react at all. Just sat there with his face bundled up and brows carved in a deep frown. I wanted to be highly concerned as to why I was in his car and where he was taking me to. But for some reason, I was relaxed. It turned out I was immune to his glares and scowls.I had expected him to pull the trigger and bust my brains, but instead, after that phone call, he seemed to be much occupied with his shit, while grunting and cursing under his breath after every beat of his heart. I had asked if there was anything I could do to help, but he told me to shut up and sit down! So imagine my surprise after a few minutes when he hauled me out of my comfort zone, shoved me into the car, and sped off. At midnight.“I am hungry,” I mumbled under my breath and waited. What came next was hi
Beautifully Ruined Chapter 28
LORENZO POV The ride to the hospital was filled with nothing but an agonizing blur. My body trembled uncontrollably as I held onto her limp body, cradling her stomach as I tried to keep the oozing blood at bay. My soul chipped away bit by bit while I watched her barely breathing self lying in my hold. I prayed to all ever existing gods out there to hear my cry, screaming on the inside, praying for a blunt miracle. But the sight of the shiny metal that pierced through her groin was just a cruel reminder of how the universe had a way of slapping you in the fucking face so hard that you wouldn’t believe it. I wanted to hold onto some chimera that maybe by some insane alien miracle, the baby inside of her was unscathed, but I knew that it was all it is, a cruel, unrealistic flight of fancy that will feel like a damn dagger whenever the reality settled.We arrived at the hospital in a heartbeat, but that felt like a torturous eternity. Upon entering the building, she was hurriedly whiske
Beautifully Ruined Chapter 29
VERNERO POV I AM SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS. 6 words. That’s all it took for everything inside of me to crumble into nothingness. I felt it when all the energy infested inside of me fled, leaving me nothing but a ghost, a shell of what I used to be. Just by hearing those 6 unfortunate, becursed words from the deepest pits of heck. I opened my mouth to reply to the doctor, and ask them how, why did it happen? Why did it have to be her? Why couldn’t it be someone else? But nothing came out of my mouth, so I closed it. Because words couldn’t climb past the big lump in my throat. My eyes welled as tears pooled at such a rapid pace, feeling every piece of my soul detaching and chipping away from my being. Everything around me became foggy and unclear, but all I could feel at that very moment was a different kind of pain that held me in a tight grip, knocking all the air out of my lungs, and gluing me to one spot only. It was excruciating, it was diabolic, and I wanted to believe that it was som
Beautifully Ruined Chapter 30
ISA POVBizarrely enough, I was in a state of tranquility, very at peace and ever so calm. It was as if my soul was hovering right above my numb body, not far from reach, and the feeling of floating on a fluffy cloud was by far unmatched. From the inmost pits of perplexity and haze, I could hear soft murmurs and grunts, the sound of people conversing softly not far from where I was lying, which sounded like a calm lullaby that just helped the drug to lax me up. But I was too fucking high to even make out a word they were saying. The high lasted for as long as I could remember. I kept on switching between the euphoric numbness and the consciousness where murmurs reigned in my world, the dull ache that was throbbing from my abdomen, and the gnawing thoughts of what had happened.It didn’t take two shits to figure out why I was so disoriented. It was the morphine. And it was going to take forever before it left my stream.~~~After what felt like millennia, the morphine began wearing off
Beautifully Ruined Chapter 31
ISA POVFuck. My head hurts like a bitch.I cursed inwards as a deep pained groan wrenched itself from my throat, my body feeling so sore from being moved around and being shaken fiercely from time to time. Although I heard a splitting headache that made me feel like I was going to puke a fucking lung, I felt it when the car I was in came to a halt, and rushed footsteps followed. The door to where I was kept was yanked open before they wheeled me out of the back of the car into some kind of a hellhole where all I could smell was nothing but rusted metal, piles of dust from years of abandonment, and moisture that reminded me of the ghetto alleys full of piss.I instantly knew from that very moment I was pushed in there that things weren't going to be pretty in here. The metals clunk louder and very distressingly around my already abused self, and the ghost echo that followed didn't make it feel any less barbaric. The stench that reigned through the air made my stomach churn and roll te
Beautifully Ruined Chapter 32
LORENZO POVI sat there frozen. For 16 hours, I just sat there inside Alexander's million-dollar mansion, frozen out of my wits as my mind bombarded me with unwanted thoughts of what she could be going through at that very moment. With ticking second of time, the more I felt myself chilling to the bone. And the agonizing fact was that there were no clues so far about where she could be, or where they were keeping her.For all I know, they could have shipped her via the sea to some deserted land of Hades where it was going to cost a fucking arm and a leg to get to her or abandoned her somewhere in a ditch, a dumpster for her to die. For the very first time ever since I was given senses, I was scared so bad that my mouth felt dry. "I think I got something." Owen, one of Xander's dogs who was good with computers called out from his little booth full of machines and keyboards. In a flash, I was standing next to him glaring at the screen as he typed furiously on the keyboards to reveal a
Beautifully Ruined Chapter 33
VERZI POVThe ride to the city was shorter than I had expected because it took less than half an hour to reach the city and milled through it. My whole body was so fucking tense with everything that was going down. But my inside was chanting one thing and one thing only;Please God, let her be safe.I think even God was damn tired of the same words that were repeated over and over and over again. But I couldn't help it. I was literally living beside myself. My mind bogged me with all kinds of unwanted thoughts that made me want to tear my own head open and bash my brain, they were excruciating. The thought of closing my eyes and even catching a single wink was torture because I knew what waited for me in the dreamland. And it wasn't lovely.Wherever she was, I prayed she was alive. I don't know what I would do if I woke up knowing that she was no longer among the land of the living, I don't even want to think how miserable and sorrowful life would be in general, without her. Just 6 we
Beautifully Ruined Chapter 34
LORENZO POVThe FBI director did as told. Seeing the three of us dominating his wife’s ward, and knowing that she was even changed from the one he thought she’d be safe at, he didn’t have much of a choice but to get his ass moving. And from there on, we did a search of our own. Verzi had a few of his men flown in from Texas to give a hand, and everyone got to help. With the FBI and more than 100 of our men on the search, we were guaranteed to find her. Either by nook or crook.As for me, I was weak. I felt it. Everything in me was barely hanging on and I knew if we didn’t find her before the end of today, then something was going to happen to me. Call it intuition or some voodoo, but it was all over my body and I couldn’t just ignore the signs. From the hospital, Xander had us piled into his car and drove us out of the city. It didn’t take long before he rolled into some clean neighborhood with clean, lined trees on the sidewalks and children milling around. It was a peaceful place an
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EPILOGUE*ONE YEAR LATER*LEIGH-ARI POV“The transplant was a great success and there were no signs of tissue rejection. We will be transferring her to the ward for further monitoring until she is good to leave the hospital.” The words rolled on my tongue smoothly as I kept my eyes on the folks in front of me. The small crowd broke into cries of happiness and expressed their heartfelt thanks to me, for saving the life of their loved one. The smiles on their faces were enough to light up the dark world. I left Stephanie with them and walked back to my office where I plopped myself on the small couch before letting my body relax after six whooping hours of surgery.My eyes flew across the office and landed on a big portrait on the wall, a picture of me and Laura that was taken when we were in Dubai, right before the twins found us, and turned my ass pink. A pang of dull ache hit me inside, prompting me to shut my eyes and focus on the small voice in my head that never died. It has been
Beautifully Ruined Chapter 84
LORENZO POVThug life.It was a different kind of fairytale they never showed you in movies. Or better yet, the ‘other’ side of fairytales they never delved deeper to portray. And now that I think of it, this world was indeed filled with more dipshits than I can possibly comprehend. For starters, in those little movies they all crowd together to watch, they never really tell the history of the villains. I get it, they are villains, they are the bad guys, the hated guys, and honestly; the reason behind so much hatred is understandable. But then again, it’s a little unfair that we never get to see their whole stories. So they go rogue, wanting to tell their own story, leaving behind them a trail of blood and open graves in the process.I was a villain myself, one of the bad guys. I was so used to this life that I was no longer phased by the idea of being normal. Like waking up and taking a train to work in the morning, and coming back at night to find a hearty dinner prepared by my wif
Beautifully Ruined Chapter 83
LEIGH-ARI POVThe rest of the day was spent with us slithering in the comfort of our bed, in a giant tangled mess of limbs. I was plowed to a point where I felt like my hoochie was on fire, scorching every little soft flesh to the inside. But luckily, the boys were lenient with me and didn’t try to overuse me. So we stayed there, just enjoying each other. The atmosphere created its own language, and they translated it. Everything was just so serene, so calm.And I finally like myself again. And damn, life has been like hell. I forgot how good it felt to just give up control and hand it over to somebody else. To be able to submit and be down to my knees, while being dominated in every possible way. It is true that even a superwoman sometimes needs a superman. And why wouldn’t I use them when I have three of them?“If this is how we make up, can we at least fight every time?” Xander purred hiding his face in the cradle between my boobs. A very unladylike snort came from me as I shook m
Beautifully Ruined Chapter 82
XANDER POVBack at the mansion, the tension between Ari and Verzi was so thick you could cut it with a night. For a successful mission like that one, you would have expected champaigns and a night of hot drunk sex till we couldn’t walk. Not only did we sabotage Oleg’s shipment that cost him millions, but we also managed to rescue some of the shit stashed in there and claimed it ourselves. And Enzo did as instructed by donating a million as soon as the word got out. I mean we were all righteous people who took care of their own, and nothing was even tracked back to us. Not that it would anyway, since we owned half of America as well as every inch of the public department that dealt with a lot of shit.Police, some media outlets, you name them.But all of that sense of triumph didn’t even make up for what had happened. And I hated every passing second of it. This wasn’t how it was supposed to be, this wasn’t how we were supposed to love. A day without talking to each other meant a dead
Beautifully Ruined Chapter 81
LEIGH-ARI POV Ava’s name faded with the wind, and nobody ever spoke of her ever again. I was afraid of what her death may do to Scar and what that may mean to his loyalty to us, but time proved that Scar was in this for life and there was nothing that could possibly happen in this life that would make him walk away from Alexander.“I owe him my life, he became the family I never had and gave me everything I have ever wished for.” Those are his words, and he lived the rest of his life trying to prove them. I felt stupid for even questioning his loyalty in the first place, but I couldn’t be sure, more because I had his sister’s blood on my hands. As much as we ignored it and never brought it up, Ava was his sister, they were blood. And blood is thicker than water.A few days went by with us watching over Oleg and his operations. We didn’t want to go head-on like headless chickens with no plan. Oleg was as cunning as it gets and I was not going to let him sidestep us and have us f
Beautifully Ruined Chapter 80
LEIGH-ARI POVI was in awe. I never knew that there were some people in this cruel world, who were very capable of living a lie and under a certain delusion for their entire life, believing that little voice in their heads while it continued spewing nonsense right into their brains for all days of their lives.But our dear Ava was living proof that some people, were just a pile of nutcases with nothing but crap running in their minds all day long. I seriously couldn’t bring myself to believe that she had fallen for that crap we said with Xander back at her hiding spot. Even an idiot would have figured out that the situation wasn't as it seems.She was a fuckin' traitor, who was on a run. Our sudden appearance had to say something to her. But nope. It didn't. For someone who had spent years in this kind of life, she was sure as hell as easy as it gets. Imagine if it had been Oleg who got to her... I went there expecting resistance, a bit of a fight; bloodied lips and aching muscles as
Beautifully Ruined Chapter 79
AVA POVThe phone dropped from my ear onto the table in front of me and all of a sudden, there wasn’t enough space in the vast roadside restaurant where I was. I shrunk into the corner booth where I was sitting and gently pulled over my scarf and slipped on my sunglasses.I managed to steer clear of the crowded places for 5 days, and in those 5 days, I was successful. I didn’t want to be found right now when I still hadn’t made a plan about my next move. Only God knows what was going to happen when they find where I am. So without further ado, I slipped the note into the bill and took off.I was the master of disguise, even if they had located me, they were going to have a hard time pinpointing me because I blended so damn well within the crowd. Walking to the small parking bay in front of the restaurant, I fished out the keys to the stolen Toyota Camry before hurriedly pulling out of the parking bay.My heart was pounding crazy, and it was as if it was inside of my mouth from how awf
Beautifully Ruined Chapter 78
SCAR POVWith a bitter taste in my mouth and a heavy heart, I stood on the terrace by the second floor and watched as the black G-wagon stretched out of the estate, taking off with a speed of light. I swallowed down the bile that was dancing on the surface of my mouth threatening to spill.The past few days have been nothing but a nauseating roller coaster of emotions, I have felt things I haven’t felt in all my life and it was fuckin' enough. I couldn't take up any more shit than I already have. Because within a mega pint of them all, there was this strong force that made me feel like I was sinking. My whole body was stiff and so were my insides. I don’t even know what it was, but it sucked elephant balls.I tried to accept with everything inside of me, to come to terms that Laura was gone and that there would never be one like her. But the more I thought of her, the more the hatred I had for Ava piled up inside of me. She was blood, we shared the same rotten womb and I watched her t
Beautifully Ruined Chapter 77
LEIGH-ARI POVThe day I rued the most arrived eventually. I woke up with a splitting headache and I was so sore and nauseous that I hated everyone and everything. I couldn't eat anything because whatever went into my mouth tasted so damn bitter that it made my stomach churn painfully. In a matter of days, I had lost a great deal of weight, and I am sure as hell I was no different from Morticia from Addams family. The cartoon version of course!Without further ado, I jumped into the shower and tried to keep myself on my feet the entire time while I cleaned up. It was nearly impossible,I was weak, my body was trembling violently because I haven't had a proper meal since 2000-and never. All I ever did was drink my own tears time and again. And the headache, it made me feel like I had died and sprung back to life.I was not feeling well at all.After washing up, I walked into the closet and pulled on my white slim-fitting jumpsuit and a white coat. I pulled on the white knee-length boot
