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The Auction Ring The Lifeless Body
“Sev! Sev!” shouted Michelangelo at the top of his lungs. “Come fast!” he shouted. “What? What?” Severino came running. He saw that Michelangelo had Renata in his arms covered with his robe. “What happened, Michel?” he asked. “She is not… not breathing!” Michelangelo stammered. He was on the verge of hyperventilating. “What are you talking about?” shouted Severino. “Please! Sev!” said Michelangelo. A single tear dropped from his eye. Severino ran to Michelangelo and placed his finger over Renata’s nose. He then moved his finger to her neck to check for her pulse. “There is a faint pulse, Michel! We have to take her to the doctor, NOW!!” ordered Severino. “I… did this,” sobbed Michelangelo. “I killed her.” “Stop it! Stop doing that! You don’t think when you are angry and now you are feeling guilty? Snap out of it. First, think about her, and then think about your guilt,” snapped Severino. Michelangelo realized that he was right. She needed medical assistance as soon as possible.
The Auction Ring The Death
Sameeksha was on the other end of the hospital treating her patients when she received a message from a nurse. “Come to ER stat! Your friend is here!” Sameeksha didn’t know which friend, but she read ‘stat’ and knew that she had to run. And people only came to the ER in emergencies. Which of her friends came to the ER, she didn’t need to know, she just wanted to be with them, whoever they were. The moment she saw Severino and Michelangelo standing inside the ER she understood it was Renata. Why always her? Why did she keep getting hurt when she was near Michelangelo? Why couldn’t he protect her? What happened this time? All the questions kept swirling inside her brain. “What happened to her? Why is she here?” she shouted from the other end of the room. She could see tears in Michelangelo’s eyes. But Michelangelo didn’t say a word. Severino asked her how did she know that Renata was in the hospital. She replied that everyone in the hospital knew about her and her friends. She demanded
The Auction Ring The Guilt
Sameeksha went inside the ER room and placed her head on Renata’s shoulder. Her tears kept falling on Renata’s shoulder. She didn’t know how she was going to tell everyone about the death of Renata. She kept her hands over the dead body and kept crying for long. Michelangelo wanted to run in but didn’t want to make Sameeksha angrier. She was right. He killed Renata. He didn’t know his anger was capable of such a thing. He could not believe that the girl he loved, he killed her himself. He stood outside the room and kept looking at Sameeksha lying over Renata’s chest and wailing her eyes out. His guilt was on the verge of killing him. He wanted to grab a scalpel and stab himself in his heart. The death of his love broke Michelangelo. The tears kept falling from his eyes. He was not allowed inside the room, he could not leave the hospital. He didn’t know what he should do. “Michel! Let’s go,” suggested Severino. “Where? Where can I go? My home is lying dead on that bed. Where can I
The Auction Ring The Morgue
Sameeksha shut the door in Severino’s and Michelangelo’s faces and lowered her face to cry. She could not believe that the girl who saved her, was dead. And now she had to inform all the other girls. How was she going to do that? Her hands and her mouth were not working properly. How was she going to tell them or even type about Renata on her phone. She decided that telling the girls over the phone about Renata was not the right way to tell them about her. This was a piece of face-to-face news. She curled her quivering lips into a small ‘O’ and exhaled a few times. She took out her phone and typed in, “I need you all to come to the hospital ASAP. There is something I have to tell you. Don’t call as I won’t pick up the phone, just come and I will tell you everything.” And she hit ‘send’. The cryptic message was enough to give anyone a heart attack. The girls saw the message and immediately left their jobs to come to the hospital. “Dr. Malhotra, we will need this room,” said a nurse.
The Auction Ring The Funeral Arrangements
A staring match was happening between the girls and Vicktor. They didn’t want him inside and he didn’t want to leave without saying his piece. “Girls! I…” Vicktor opened his mouth. But Hazel stopped him midway. “Don’t! don’t say that you are sorry. Your syndicate murdered her. Your Michel murdered her. What is there to say? What could you possibly say that we would want to listen.” “It’s true that I am here to say sorry, on Michel’s behalf, on my syndicate’s behalf. But I am also here to tell you that we need to organize her funeral. You guys cannot keep her here all her life. She needs to go,” said Vicktor. “She is already gone. And what life are you talking about? The life that your Michel took?” snapped Sameeksha. “Girls! What I meant was you guys need to bury her and get peace. Not suffer the way she suffered after meeting with Michel. Rest assured, Michel is suffering enough. He is going crazy. He kept hitting himself because he killed her in his anger. The doctor had to seda
The Auction Ring The Acceptance
The morning of the funeral arrived. Just like the rain took her, it came back to say sorry at her funeral. It was raining cats and dogs. The dark and gloomy day became darker and gloomier. The girls wore black dresses and came out of their rooms. “Are you guys ready?” asked Sameeksha. “I don’t think I will ever be,” sobbed Hazel. “Me too,” said Ambrosia. “How can this happen? We saw her one night before. She drank with us, she talked with us. How? How??” sniffled Valentina. “We will never forget her,” said Sameeksha and extended her arms to hug everyone. All ran to her, and the girls remained in each other embrace for minutes. The girls took their umbrellas and came out of the house. For the first time, no one was standing outside. Since the day they met Michelangelo, they always had someone at their door, if not someone at least their bodyguards. Today, the corridor was empty. They slowly walked to the lift and entered. Tears kept dropping from their eyes. Today was the last day
The Auction Ring The Eulogy
Tikhon did not say a single word after that and left with Aurora before the funeral started. All were standing scared, even the girls. Was he not afraid of giving kill orders before so many people? Angela and her people screamed the moment Vicktor moved a step forward. Thank God! He didn’t take out his gun or they would have fainted for sure. “What the hell was that?” screamed Angela. “Don’t worry about that. Father, please continue,” ordered Vicktor. He looked around, a few people left with Tikhon, but a few remained. All the Consiglieres made sure the nominees remained behind. They didn’t one point cut because they didn’t pay their respect to an Odal. The father opened a page of his diary and started reading from it. He had made a small speech in honour of Renata. “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. The times of loss come to all the time for mourning comes to all but in all those times, the Lord is with us to show us the path. We are
The Auction Ring The Attack
Tikhon was not ready to come to the funeral as it was just an Odal’s funeral. Vicktor sent him the invitation and also asked him to support Michelangelo. “If you come, he might say yes to Supreme Boss,” pleaded Vicktor. “People don’t say no to me. If I select him, he will have to say yes or I will wipe out his whole family, his whole clan,” said Tikhon. “But if you do that,” suddenly Vittore walked in, “he will become Supreme boss reluctantly. If you want him to do your bidding, you will have to make him think that it was his idea.” “What do you mean?” asked Tikhon. “I know my boy. If you kill us all, he will make his life mission to kill you. But if he becomes Supreme boss on his own, he will do everything that will make SMS even greater,” said Vittore. “How?” “Come to the funeral. Pay respect to the only girl he cared about. To save her he bought her. He even hit Narciso, Marcellus, and Yoshiro because they touched her. He killed Stephan because he touched her. And then threat
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The Auction Ring Epilogue
One year later….Michelangelo snaked his hand under Renata’s waist and pulled her closer to himself. She moaned a little in her sleep but adjusted herself as the small spoon. He kissed on her neck and sighed happily.His love was sleeping close to him and there were no enemies around except the two alarm clocks, one boy and a girl, who could wake up at any time disturbing Renata’s beauty sleep. She needed that sleep to look good tomorrow. After one whole year of proposing, Renata finally said yes to him and they were going to be married tomorrow. He could not sleep due to excitement. He again looked at Renata. She had gained weight because of childbirth and her full figure made her look even prettier. If she was hot before, she was irresistible now.He lowered the string of her spaghetti top and started planting wet kisses all over her neck and shoulder. Renata groaned a little and tried to move away from him but he pulled her even closer and wrapped his arms around her tightly.“Mic
The Auction Ring The End of The Auction Ring
The big court was full of people. The head of coscas, Tikhon, Consiglieres, the enforcers, the footmen, everyone was present there waiting for their hearing. Tikhon was sitting beside his lawyer in his seat with his head down. After the death of Aurora, he spoke the bare minimum. He just opened his mouth to answer whatever was being asked to him. It was like he was broken from the inside. The woman he loved the most was dead. His vast empire had crumbled down. All the people working for him were under arrest. His wife, his daughter hated him. No one was with him, no one cared about him anymore. He was a broken shell of a man. The judge arrived and everyone stood up. The girls and Michelangelo were sitting in the back behind the Aagua State Attorney (ASA). Interpol had done its job and handed everything to the local government. After Aagua would be done punishing, Tikhon and the head of Coscas would go back to Siago to face charges there too. Aagua state attorney stood up first and g
The Auction Ring The Repayment of The Debt
The precinct was filled with people from SMS. There was no place inside the prison for their holding. Tikhon was still screaming for Aurora but she was dead. Nika was taken to the hospital and Aurora to the morgue. Yekaterina was not officially arrested yet she never left Renata’s side. She clung to her as if her life depended on it. Interpol people were reviewing all the evidence collected and matching names with everyone present there. The whole precinct was echoing with sounds like ‘I didn’t do anything’, ‘I am innocent’, ‘I never laid hands on anyone’, ‘I was just the bodyguard’, ‘let me go’, etc. “You need to sit down. I have to go to prison, Yeka,” said Renata. “You are not under arrest, you cannot come inside.” “But where should I go? I have no one left,” sobbed Yekaterina. “You have your mother. Prestige! Can you take her to the hospital? Yeka! You need to be with her. If you need anything say Renata Zyanya have sent you,” ordered Renata. “Who?” asked Yekaterina. “Renata
The Auction Ring The Final Showdown
Aurora was not ready for what Renata was saying. What did she mean by she was four steps ahead? With one move Aurora was sure that she would make Renata bend her knees before her then why was she smiling and not afraid? Did she stop loving her sister? Did she not care about her? Was her hatred of her father so great that she was ready to sacrifice her sister? Aurora looked to her side where Renata was staring. What was she doing? Why was she looking at Yekaterina? “Bring her to me,” snapped Aurora and signalled Aurelie. Aurora looked at Renata and spewed poison, “You are against auction ring. Then see what I will do to your sister in the auction ring. I will sell her again and again to different people for one night each. She will be branded odal over and over again till we run out of the skin to brand her. I will turn your sister into a whore, a prostitute. She will live to pleasure men and women. Your sister will beg for death, but I will not allow her to die. She will be my whore,
The Auction Ring The Sister
“Fanasi! What…?” Vicktor was shocked to his core.“She killed Samiul, Vicktor, she killed him. She told everything to Tikhon. She told him how I wanted to shut down the auction ring. But it was the greatest source of her income. How could she let that go? She is behind everything, Tikhon is just her puppet, smitten by her. You think Tikhon hit her, abused her, no, he never laid a hand on her. Everything was a ruse.“You are such a great actress. Aren’t you? You made everyone believe that you were the victim, but everyone else was the victim. I hated Nika for torturing you, but you endured all because you had to get sympathy from everyone. The first odal!” Renata scoffed. “You sold yourself to show everyone how good the auction ring business was. He bought you because you asked him to.“You even let him brand you. You are the one who started this kidnapping, this torture, this buying and selling, this abuse-culture. How sadist are you? Just to get some money you are okay to sell young
The Auction Ring The Real Culprit
Renata was shocked to the core. She could not believe what was happening. Tikhon was coming close to her. But it was not the way she hoped for. She had her mother in his grip. She was ready to kill his first odal just to get Renata. So many guns were pointed at her and her team. How was she going to get out of this situation? Tikhon was almost in her face. He grabbed her neck and brought her face closer to himself. His eyes were dripping fear but his hands were not afraid of her. He knew she loved her mother and would do anything to save her. “I am going to kill you. I will burn the skin off you and then chop you into pieces. This time you will stay dead. No one is taking SMS away from me. SMS will live,” he kept gritting his teeth. His saliva kept flying on Renata’s face. She never even flinched. “No, please,” Aurora begged. “Oh, but I forgot, you are pregnant. You daughter of a whore, you are pregnant. Are you sure your kid is Michel’s? or are you trying to trap him just like yo
The Auction Ring The Betrayal
The day was extremely bright that day. The day of the coronation arrived. Renata was locked in her house as she knew she was going to get her father. He was going to lose. Michelangelo had planned everything, and she was ready for it. But was she really ready to destroy her father and his empire? Her mind was occupied with Yeka and her mother, Aurora. She knew that Tikhon knew that she was coming, and he would definitely use them as a shield. Although she had a plan in motion, she was not sure if she would succeed. Something was going to be wrong she had an intuition. “Are you ready?” Sameeksha knocked at the door. Renata opened the door and exhaled loudly. “Woah! You don’t look good,” said Sameeksha. Renata raised one finger and ran to the bathroom. Whatever she ate last night, she puked everything. Sameeksha ran to the bathroom after her and kept caressing her back. Renata sat down on the bathroom floor after puking her guts. “Oh!” Renata groaned. “Feeling okay, now?” asked Same
The Auction Ring The Plan is Successful
Renata’s plan to irk them was working. Her plan to teach everyone a lesson was working.“You bastard! You daughter of an odal. You dare do this to us,” snapped all three at her and stood up. Vikentiy raised his gun at her.Renata lowered her eyes and took a deep sigh. She then raised her head to look at him and with fire in her eyes stood up. She walked up to him and put her head on the barrel of his gun.“Do it! Let’s see how much courage you have,” taunted Renata. “If you kill me, my people might give you your kids back.”“Ren!” shouted Hazel and a few of Renata’s team members stood up in shock.Renata raised her finger to shut her up. Everyone sat back down. Looking at her fierce eyes Vikentiy backed down. He lowered his gun and went down to his knees. “Please, not my daughter. She did nothing to you. Please let her go! She is just a kid.”Renata grabbed a chuck of his hair and yanked it hard, making him look at her. She lowered her face to look directly into his eyes and snapped,
The Auction Ring The Restaurant
Renata had to work fast. Even though she knew the abductees were safe in her place she didn’t want to give Tikhon a chance to rescue them. Well, no one knew where she was except her team and now Michelangelo. His plan was on point. On the day of the coronation, he would smuggle everyone inside the hall and then they could attack Tikhon as the security around him would be minimal. All eyes would be on Michelangelo that day, but Renata’s eyes would be on Tikhon. She knew her mother would be there, and he might use her. But Tikhon loved Aurora the most in his life, maybe he might not put her in harm’s way. The only person she was concerned about was, Yekaterina, her half-sister. She sent her people to keep an eye on her, but Yekaterina was surrounded by Tikhon’s people. It would be difficult to get her out. Her people had scheduled the meeting with Octavius, Zhaohui and Vikentiy. The meeting was fixed in a public place. A big table was reserved at a famous restaurant, and everyone was s
