CHAPTER 3

AMORE found herself in the darkness, and suddenly she found herself writhing in pain on the floor as someone keeps on kicking her.

“Uncle Robert, it hurts! Please stop it! I want to go home now! Please—” Amore was stopped from talking when her uncle grab her chin and made her look at his eyes, devilish eyes.

“Listen Amore, you will never ever get out of this place from now on. So just be a good girl and stop doing things that will make me angry if you want me to stop from hurting you. Do you understand that?” her uncle said as its eyes are glaring at her.

Amore who was just taken into the basement couldn’t stop herself from crying and just nodded at what her uncle said.

“Good,” her uncle said while smirking and got out of the room.

“No… I don’t want to be here… I already got away! Why am I here?! No!” Amore got up from lying down the bed as beads of sweat is rolling on her face down to her neck. She was having a nightmare in which she was mixed in with reality.

Amore immediately roamed her eyes on the room she was in. She immediately panic at the thought that she was really brought back by her uncle. But then, she realized that the room she’s in is new to her as well as the accent of the room. Far different from the accent of the house of her uncle.

“Where am I?” she asked to herself. And with that, a roll of memories came flooding to her mind. As far back as she remembered, she went inside a car to hide from her uncle.

“Oh, she’s awake. Alright, see you.”

Amore’s brows immediately furrowed when she heard a man’s voice just nearby. When she roamed her eyes on where she heard the voice, she found a man who’s wearing a formal attire. When she saw him, she immediately thought of the man that her uncle that made her sold to.

‘Is he the man?’ Amore said to her thought. She scanned the man, he looks like a decent man. Clean hair cut, no stubbles on the face, neat style and handsome. But then, when the man starts on walking towards her, she immediately guarded herself. Amore doesn’t feel good on how he looks at her. He looks like he would eat her whole if she’ll do something that will make him mad.

Just when Amore was about to speak, the man suddenly pointed a gun on in the middle of her forehead. Amore’s eyes widened to the sudden move of the man.

“Who are you?” the man asked in a dark dangerous voice.

Out of fear, Amore couldn’t answer him instantly. Her jaw dropped as her heart starts beating on faster. ‘What is this… after getting out of that hell on my uncle’s hand, am I back on another’s devil’s den?’ Amore thought.

When Amore didn’t answer, the man pushes the gun on her forehead with force that made her fall back to the bed. And now, she’s now laying on the bed as the man is towering over her as its gun is still pointing at her. With that sudden move, Amore winced when she felt tha panging pain from her left shoulder which was hit by a gun.

“Again, don’t make me repeat myself. Because if you do…” the man stopped talking for a second as he loaded a bullet to his pistol that made a sound, “blood will pour out of this little head of yours,” the man continued.

“A-Amore I-Intima…” Amore answered, trembling. As she stared into the  man’s striking blue eyes, she can’t help but to tremble even more. The color of his eyes is like the color of an ice, but ironically, this man’s blue eyes is blazing with fire.

“What were you trying to do inside of my car?” the man continued to interogate her.

Amore breaks away from staring on his eyes, “I was h-hiding—” before Amore can even answer, his phone suddenly rang. He brought down the gun he was pointing at her and answer the call.

“Yes, no not yet. Alright,” the man answered the call. After he hung up, his eyes landed on her gray orbs again. And Amore couldn’t help herself but to tremble again.

“I’m not done yet. Get up,” the man commanded. And when Amore didn’t move an inch, he forcefully grabbed her arms to get her up. Luckily, he grab her right arm in which the wounded one is her left shoulder. And Amore just now realized that her left shoulder is wrapped in gauze.

The man pulled her outside the room. As she was being pulled, Amore couldn’t help but question god. She have just gotten out from hell, and now it seems like she’s gonna go to another hell again. But then, is this man didn’t help her clean her wound and take care of it, she would’ve been dead in some ditch.

“T-thanks,” Amore simply said.

The man look back at her for a second and scoffed at her with a smirk, “Is that your last words before you die?” the man replied.

Amore didn’t realize that they are now on their way to a basement… again. And when she noticed that, she can’t help but bitterly smile. ‘Again?’ she said to her mind. All the things that she experiences from her uncle’s care flooded to her mind. ‘Will this be my end now?’ Amore spoke to her mind.

Amore didn’t notice that the man stopped walking, so she bumped on his broad lean back.

“Tss,” the man scoffed and pulled her inside a room whom she though is a basement like her uncle’s. But then, when they went inside, it was different from the basement on her uncle’s house. There’s nothing in this room, except for a chair and table in the midle.

“Sit,” the man said. Since there are only two of them in the room, Amore immediately abided what he said. She sat in the chair and the man followed her. And there, he tied her hands from the back.

Right after the man was done tying her hands, the door in front suddenly opened. Two more men in formal suit entered the room. All of them does have a similar expression and aura—devils. Now, comparing her uncle to these people, Amore couldn’t help but feels more fear from these people.

The man with blue eyes, nodded at the man who last entered the room. The new man then stood in front of her. And again, Amore was then pointed by a gun.

“What were you trying to do inside my car?” the man asked.

This man’s aura is seems overwhelming than the blue eyed man. This man is more dangerous. It likes she can sense his killing intent.

“I-I was h-hiding from—” Amore was stopped from talking when then man suddenly slammed his other hand on the table in front of Amore. That made the latter gasp, terrified.

“Stop speaking some bullsh*t! Speak or you want a bullet digs its way in your skull to your brain?” the man asked in a chilling voice that made Amore trembles.

To save herself, even if she’s trembling in fear, Amore managed to shook her head sideways. She looks to his gray eyes, same as hers.

“I’m t-telling the truth! S-someone was c-coming after me, I-I was just s-so desperate to get away from t-them… And I-I have no where to go to and I heard your car unlocking, and I t-thought of hiding inside the car,” Amore answered in trembling voice as the tears on her eyes starts on dropping one after another.

“Who was coming after you?” the man asked with authority on his voice.

“M-my uncle, his two men, and the man who has supposedly bought m-me…” Amore answered.

“Who?” the man asked again, entailing for a detail about the man who bought her.

“I-I don’t know. Because before the man who bought me can even get to the meeting place, I-I escaped from my uncle and made my way through the woods and t-that’s where I made my way to the r-restaurant where your c-car was parked,” Amore answered. She cried even more thinking of the things she had gone through because of her uncle’s doings.

Amore looked down and her tears fell from her eyes to the floor, “I-I was just so d-desperate to get away from my u-uncle. I-I wanted to live. I-I just wanted to be free,” Amore answered between her sobs.

Amore is now thinking that this is really the end of her life. After her attempts for her freedom, she’s here again. A place in which she was first being held captive. She’s now tired of everything.

She looked up to look at the man, but then he’s already walking out of the room, leaving her with the two men. With that, she faces the blue eyes man whom she first talks to.

“Just kill me now,” said Amore.

“Our boss didn’t make any order. Don’t worry, you will surely be killed soon,” the man answered with a smirk. And the remaining men went out of the room leaving her all alone behind.

Amore cried and bite her sleeps out of anger and pain. She tasted the tungy taste of blood from her lips, but that’s nothing compare to what she’s going through now.

‘I don’t want to be here anymore… Just kill me already…’ Amore spoke to her mind. Just being in this secluded room is making her out of air. With all of the stress, pain, and exhaust, Amore is feeling, her conciousness was swallowed by darkness again.