CHAPTER 4

AMORE woke up and found herself lying on a soft mattress. Her eyes flutters and she immediately remembered what happened earlier. And so, she instantly rose from lying on the bed and roam her eyes on her surroundings.

She’s not in that interrogation room anymore. She’s now inside a luxiorious room, so different from what she’s used to.

The door suddenly opened that made Amore lost her attention on the room. One of the man that she have seen earlier, came inside. It was the man who haven’t talk.

Amore thought that she will be brought to the interrogation room again. But the man smiled at her that made her baffled.

“Oh, you’re awake. Here, take this and eat,” the man said as he walk across the room while carrying a plate with food on it. He put it on the side table.

“After you’re done eating, take care of yourself. There’s a bathroom in here. You can find some clothes in that cabinet,” the man continued after he put down the plate.

“T-Thank you,” said Amore, elated.

The man just nodded at her while still smiling and he was about to leave the room when Amore stopped him with a question.

“W-Will they kill me?” Amore asked.

The man look back at her, “Well, the final words will be from our boss. They are suspecting you as a spy. So, I think that they will not at least let you out of this place right now,” the man replied and eventually left the room.

‘Spy? What kind of people are they? They should have killed me earlier if they won’t let me go,’ Amore thought.

Amore started eating the food that was brought by the man. And after she ate, she found herself getting drowsy and eventually fell asleep.

“You f*cking brat!” Amore felt the panging pain from her uncle’s kick on her stomach.

Amore couldn’t help herself but just hug her knees as she’s lying on the cold floor, “U-Uncle why are you d-doing this?” Amore weakly asked. But it’s like her weak voice is not enough to reach her uncle’s ears as he kicked her back again.

Amore rose up from lying on the bed. Beads of sweat rolled down on her face. She was having a nightmare again.

“Who are you?” a cold voice suddenly interrupted her.

Amore didn’t noticed the man who is sitting beside the bed she’s laying. Amore look at the man and she was then greeted again with that blazing eyes of him that is always making her tremble.

“A-Amore I-Intima…” Amore replied in a termbling voice.

“Who sent you to spy on me?” the man asked.

Amore shook her head sideways, “I-I already told you the reason on h-how I ended up inside your c-car,” Amore replied.

The man laugh like he just heard a hilarious made up joke by a 4 year old kid, “And you expect me to believe your crappy excuse?” said the man.

“I-I’m telling the truth…” said Amore and look down. When suddenly, the man suddenly pinned her down on the bed. The man is now towering over her body as he stared at her eyes.

Amore’s eyes pooled, “I-If you won’t let me go, just k-kill me already. I-I’m already t-tired…” said Amore as she stared to his eyes, the blaze on his eyes is slowly cooling down as he drowned his eyes to hers.

Amore saw his jaw clenched as he stares at her, “Damn it!” the man whispered and was about to move away from towering over her body when she stopped him by clinging her arms on his hard arms.

“Please… just kill me already!” Amore pleaded as tears started falling from her eyes.

The man’s eyes darkened to her touch, “Let go of my arm, woman,” said the man in a voice with authority.

Still crying, Amore let go of his arms and he immediately get away from her like he’s about to catch some disease from her touch.

“So, that’s your technique? To seduce the man and kill him afterwards? Nice try, but that won’t work on me,” said the man and immediately left the room, leaving the dumbfounded Amore.

Amore sit up on the bed as she wipes away the tears on her face. She looked at the window in the room she’s in, it’s already dark. So, she look for a wall clock on the room she’s in and she found that it’s already 9 pm.

Amore remembered what the smiling man said to her earlier. There’s a bathroom inside the room. And so, she decided to take a bath to sooth herself. She get up from the bed and walks towards the bathroom.

When she got to the bathroom, she immediately removed her clothes and step under the shower and turn it on. When the water hits her skin, she closed her eyes and let her skin wet. With the water pouring down on her, memories from the past came raining down on her mind.

She’s in the small, dirty, and smelly room again. After she was beaten by her uncle and cry herself asleep. The room is so dark, the only thing that gave light is from the broken bulb that keeps on flickering.

“Why is this happening to me?” Amore spoke to herself as her tear keeps on streaming down from her eyes. With all the pain she’s receiving, she’s still doing her best to live on.

Amore snapped out from reality and shook her head to stop herself from breaking down again. And so, she proceed on taking a bath and immediately went out after. She searched for the cabinet that the smiling man said to her. When she found it, she immediately opened it. Inside, she found paper bags, in where the clothes are. There are still tags on it with prices.

She randomly choose her clothes, she also found some undergarments in there. Amore thought, ‘They are too generous for a captive like me.’

After she’s done, she walks towards the bed when the light inside the room suddenly went off. Her eyes widened as the light went off, she’s suddenly out of breath. She can’t take a breath as her heart pounds much faster than her normal heart beat.

It’s the darkness that makes her like this. She found herself on the basement where she experienced hell for the first time on her life. She cupped her breast as she’s gasping for air. It’s like she can hear her uncle’s demonic laugh in the background, laughing at her for getting caught again after all she’d been through.

‘You think you can get away from me?’ Amore heard her uncle’s voice inside her head like he’s just beside her.

“No… get away from me!” Amore shouted, trembling.

‘Thee’s no one here who can save you, Amore. You will be back to my hands again…’

“No, I won’t get back to that hell of a place again!” Amore shouted again as she presses her palmon her ears, thinking she can’t hear that voice again.

Amore stumbled on something as she keeps on walking, she fell down on the glass table inside the room and hurt herself as the shards of glass pierce through her skin. She yelp out of pain but that pain is not enough to make her numb system sobber. Just minutes later, her system was devoured by darkness as she lays on the floor where shards of glasses scattered.