I stormed over to the window, leaning over to glance down with far heavy raindrops pummeling my face and head, bathing me with water. The distance from this window to the ground was survivable, and Tina landed in a hedge of flowers, overflowing with mud from the blindingly raging storm.
She flailed around in the flowers, trying to get up but kept falling back into a bed of leaves and swaying stems. She let out a wild scream, struggling now, covered with mud, to get out of the hedge but she couldn’t. She was stuck.Fuck yes!My eyes abruptly caught the car parked right in front of the house in the heavy downpour, but what sent alarm bursting out in my head, was the sight of a male figure under the heavy rain, hurrying towards Tina trapped in the hedge. No. Fuck, no! I dashed back around at top speed out of the room and down the winding hallways with my heart pounding hard from all the action, and with adrenaline pumping through my muscles.That fucking man wAdonisRape?!What the actual flying fuck?!I was fucking bristling. “You fucking came here because of Belle? And you have the goddamn galls to accuse me of-” Things just kept getting more and more ridiculous with each fucking passing second standing drenched in this unrelenting downpour. This fucker claims he fucking helped Tina simply because he thought she was trying to escape from a monster like me? He was trying to paint me as the fucking devil and he’s the fucking saint?Guess the fuck what? He was right. I am a fucking devil, and this devil would smash his nose in for fucking meddling in my business over a woman I don’t give two shits about.“That’s fucking right, you asshole! I was only trying to help her because I know you would damn well try to get into any woman’s fucking skirt if you fucking wanted!” Spence yelled, pulling off his drenched jacket and throwing it to the floor, water streaming down hi
LeilaniThe storm was so unexpected and violent, that I had been so shocked when one moment, I was having a wholesome lunch buffet with my manager and assistant manager in the cool, classy and glistening interior of The Royal Meating Place building, and the next moment, thunder was crashing through the ugly, dark skies and rain was pouring down torrentially. Staring at the storm through the glass, and it literally looked like a whole climatic Armageddon.We had not had a storm as bad as this in a long while, and we had to wait a lot longer than I initially planned at the restaurant, waiting for the storm to die down. When it looked like it was letting up a little, I had booked a ride that would take me back home, because I was exhausted and sleepy due to all the walking around I did in stores, work appointments, eating a big lunch and then, the darkening, cold weather.The combination made me crave the warmth and comfort of my bed.But immediately my ride got me
LeilaniMy stomach was twisting in raw shock and fear as I stumbled back a little, face draining. Oh God, Sara. She was unconscious, and sprawled over the space of Chase’s dog room. Her head was bent at an odd angle, with her hair messy and sticking out of her bun. An ugly and bruised swelling stuck out on her forehead, stained with dried blood.My heart was pounding in a rhythm of dread. Her entire body was crudely tied together with some random ropes that I recognized from the garage. The ropes were so tight around Sara's arms and legs that it dug right into her flesh, turning the spots into an ugly, swollen shade of red. I was panicking. ‘How…what…why...? Someone was in the house. Someone had attacked Sara and tied her up in here.’ My heels clattered as I stumbled back away from the horrible scene. ‘I have to get out of here-‘A sharp prick of a cold object pierced through my clothes to the skin of my back, making me stop
With a gasp, I crumbled to the floor at the last minute, just a second before the knife sliced past my head to pin a few strands of my hair against the wall briefly and the large knife clattered to the floor beside me. I was shaking from adrenaline and fear, but as my eyes rested on the knife, I realized that Tina just made a big mistake.And she realized that too.“All of this is your fucking fault! Look at me, bitch. I look like this, because of you!” She was yelling like a lunatic, storming closer to grab the knife away but I was faster. In a flash, I had grabbed the knife and I scrambled up to my feet, staggering out of my heels as I attacked her with a yell. I knocked my body into hers, pushing her back so she stumbled to the floor with a shriek, her eyes wide with rage.I was at an advantage now. I pointed the butcher knife at her, dragging my hair back out of my face with one trembling hand. “Stay down you fucking bitch or I swear to God, I&rs
LeilaniAnd if I can’t keep her out, I had to get out of here somehow. With my heart in my mouth and my breath shaky, I turned away from the door towards the large glass windows spanning the wall of the kitchen. However, as I got closer, I realized that there was no way I could get the windows open, because the protection screen had been activated from outside the kitchen.Sara must have put the house on protection mode when the storm began.And now I can’t even get out through the kitchen window. I could feel the dread jolting down my spine with each heavy thump on the other side of the door, with the pathetic groan of the door, coupled with the deranged laughter coming from Tina. Oh god oh god oh god- My panicking eyes travelled around the kitchen for another escape and I noticed that everything that I could have used as a weapon was missing.Knives.Cutlery.Other potential weapons.All gone. That was when I realized I was fucked up.
Tina turned away from me to point the knife at Chase angrily. “I thought I fucking killed this damn dog!”Chase let out a deep, resounding bark that sounded purely deadly as he took off and lounged powerfully at her, baring his sharp teeth murderously. It all happened in a flash, Tina crouched down and shot out her hand holding the large, sharp knife, stabbing Chase right in the ribs as he pounced on her. She screamed and pushed Chase away, and his body was flung to the other side of the kitchen, bleeding afresh as pained howls escaped him. He tried to get back up but collapsed down on his side… with blood pooling under him.I let out a raw scream, hatred and blinding anger poisoning my soul as strength from nowhere lifted me up from the floor and I pounced on Tina from the back, grabbing her throat with my bare hands and trying my hardest to strangle her to fucking death. She gasped, struggling against me desperately. She was swiping the knife wildly, b
LeilaniI felt warm hands encircling my cold, aching and heavy body, slightly shaking me back to consciousness. I groaned and shifted my head slowly, feeling an excruciating pain attack my brain from all corners of my skull. I felt sticky all over, and I soon faintly realized when I opened my eyes to a little squint, that I was laying in a pool of congealed dark blood…“She’s alive!”“All that blood came from the dog. It’s half dead except for a faint pulse.”My strained heart started to pound again as fear suddenly gripped my soul. All I could remember was Tina. Tina. Tina. Tina- My lungs constricted from the too sudden panic and adrenaline that seized my confused brain and I started to gasp for air.“She’s fucking panicking, give us space and fucking call an ambulance!” A familiar dark voice growled and there was a bustle of activity around me. I could barely focus on my surroundings, except for
LeilaniNine whole days.I had been discharged from the hospital.But in these nine punishing days….I had not set my eyes on Adonis, after that heart-rending moment when I had cried in his arms, sticky with blood and grime. Shivering from the cold. The pain. The fear. It all felt like yesterday. I had not seen nor heard from him since that day, and nobody was really talking about him.They were all talking about how the police were vigorously searching for Tina. Now it was not just a one family battle. Tina had successfully angered the Giles family and all their powerful and influential friends, so resources have been put in, angry flames have been fanned into a blaze and Tina would burn in it. There has been a full-on search announced by the police for Tina, but so far, she had been silent and in hiding, probably nursing the grave wounds Chase inflicted on her.I ran the brush down my luxuriant brown hair in front of the mirror, slowly, staring
Leilani‘Iris, I’m in love with you.’Those words rang loud and clear in my mind as I hurried as far away from there as I could manage with tears pouring down my reddened face. I had heard their whole conversation. And he had said those words. Those words that I was dying to hear him say, those words that meant so much, so much to me… he had finally said them.But to another woman.My heart was physically searing up with pain at this point, and I just could not see the point of life anymore. After all of this, everyone left me all alone and abandoned. He is leaving. With Iris. I would never see him again. The memories were all I had, and they were like scalding hot coals burning everywhere they landed on my mind. It did not matter now that Freya was dead and Brooke was in jail. I had lost everything.They won.I stumbled out a set of glass doors, and out into the open, only to
One week later.Leilani“I am so glad that you are well enough to leave the hospital, now.” Belle smiled at me eagerly, as mom and Ashley packed my stuff into bags so they could take me home, since I just got discharged. My face was permanently set in a flat expression, and I just stared at the wall like I have done for days now, not bothering to say a word in response.Ashley muttered to Belle. “She has not said a word to anyone ever since she saw Adonis in the ICU. I am worried about her mental health.”I could not bear listening to them talk about me like I was not even there, so I got up from the bed and moved out of the ward, randomly walking around hallways and down stairs like a fucking lunatic. I lifted my hand to wipe the tears which now poured out randomly, anytime they liked. The first time I thought I was experiencing heartbreak, it’s nothing compared to what I was feeling now.
LeilaniI shot up from the bed with a gasp, eyes flinging wide open while the heart monitor began to beep drastically. I recognized that I was on a hospital bed, but my soul, my mind and heart were going insane to know what had happened to Adonis. I had collapsed like a pathetic weakling instead of helping Iris get him out of the wreck.“Leila?”I tore off the tubes connected to my hands and flung my legs off the bed, feeling the hospital gown drag down against my skin. I was hurriedly disconnecting all the shit that had been attached to me, while someone kept calling my name. “Leila?! Nurse! She’s awake- Leila!” I got up from the bed, but I was hit with a wave of dizziness so hard that I fell back on the bed, unable to even see clearly. Arms held me, and I tried to resist, muttering hoarsely. “A-Adonis… I need to see…”“She’s still disoriented. Pass me the
AdonisThe hostess was standing in the middle of the race track, a harsh white spotlight bathing down on her as she placed one hand on her hip, her skimpy leather clothes shining under the light. She let out a wicked grin, “READY!”The crowd had simmered down, eagerly watching, hundreds of eager eyes straining to catch every tiny bit if the action. Engines revved. Breaths slowed. Gloved hands gripped harder. Boots inched down on the accelerator. Adrenaline spiked. Heartbeats pounded. She raised her other hand, holding a red flag, slowly bracing her legs in stripper heels apart for more balance. My eyes followed her movements like a hawk, ready to fly the moment she brought that flag down.The race track was some kind of very dangerous road with sharp bends and ugly surprises, and like any illegal race, there was no fucking way to monitor whatever the racers do once they speed out of here.
I spread my arms and shifted to shield Cora away completely. “You’ll have to hurt me first, Freya.”She sighed. “Neil. I thought we already made some progress in our relationship as mother and son? Why are you taking her side after all that we discussed? Remember, you came to me, broken and destroyed and I welcomed you with open arms and helped you deal with all these problems-”“Problems that you planned?!” I yelled, the tendons on my neck straining against my skin. “You just fucking murdered someone right in front of me! So, it was you all along. How could you be so disgusting to make a sex tape of anyone, no matter who they are! How could you give Tina, a fucking psychopath, the power to destroy my honeymoon and shoot some shit up my neck? I thought Tina was crazy, but you are a fucking lunatic who should be locked up in that hospital forever!” I snarled. Cora whispered behind me, &ldqu
NeilI had experienced the three stages of severe emotional devastation these past few weeks. Pain. Sadness. Rage. But tonight, I just realized that I had slipped into a stage that was more destructive than the other three combined. And that was Numbness. I had gone cold. My heart had finally stopped feeling.From Leilani. To Adonis. To my fucking mother. They were all monsters, and I knew what to do now. I had gone back to Freya after I saw the sex tape, and she had gladly welcomed me… only to find out now that she orchestrated all of this in the first place. She was a fucking monster. I had struggled with accepting that fact all my life, and now it had forcefully sunk into my brain like lead.The night was bleak. Leilani was still missing. And I have been walking for fuck knows how long, with my hands buried in the pocket of my sweats, face thrown back to stare at the darkness above, my shirt drenched with cold sweat. Cor
He moved back from the camera to reveal a room, and in the middle of that damn room, was Leilani… tied to a fucking chair. My heart thudded in anger and rage as I saw Kygo, my old rival from when I was still an illegal underground racer, hunched over Leilani’s body, pressing a gun into her cleavage with a sick smile on his damn fucking face. Kygo yelled, “Come get her from me if you’re man enough, Ace. Try anything fucking funny and I will rape this bitch and send you the video. The way we almost did back then with Lily. Remember?”He laughed.“You fucked my woman, right? Iris, if you are there, know that your pussy is going to be mine whether you want it or not, bitch. When I get you, I will chain you down in a cage like my fucking dog and fuck you like the slut you are!” My eyes darkened as I whipped my face to look at Iris in shock. How the fuck does Kygo know Iris? And why does she not look confused?
LeilaniWhen I opened my eyes, I was well aware of my pathetic situation even before the dark and miserable appearance of my surroundings reminded me. I had been abducted by Adonis’ biological father. The man that reeked of pure evil. I slowly straightened up in the corner of the room that I have been thrown in, shaking my head to clear the headache that was starting to grow.I did not even have the strength to panic.“Oh, the princess is awake!” A male voice said and I jolted with a startle, gasping lightly. My widened eyes looked around the room again to discover that it was not empty. Adonis’ father -or Saint, fuck, I could not even call his name- was sitting on a dark king-sized chair at the other end of the room, smoking a big wrap of weed. The room had dim lighting, but I could see the outlines of his terrifyingly familiar face, and the white smoke curling out of his mouth.“Is t
The detective opened another file. “Let us take a look at Ms. Freya Declan's case study. Now, we shall agree that this woman has a history of being violent towards both Adonis and Cora. There are records of her hiring thugs to harm these people and their properties. Again, this woman has a lot of influence. Enough influence that she escaped punishments for her actions for a very long time, until she ended up in a hospital. And with this influence, she was able to make a mysterious visit to Dubai… and then left immediately, as if she was trying to distance herself from all the troubles that would start popping up after she left.“Again, she then mysteriously communicated with skilled armed men, to break her out of the hospital even when she could have easily manipulated her way out. Then she went into hiding. Disappearing the same way Tina disappeared when she was wanted. We have gone into very in-depth analysis of her activities and transactions, a