Waiting for your gems
Days were gloomy after that drama. Renata lost her joy and charm. She stopped talking to almost everyone. She would reply in simple yes and no and won’t talk without any reason. She didn’t say a word when Angela ripped into her for losing the Venturi campaign. Michelangelo just called up Angela and pulled his project. He said Renata was not suitable for him and hence Athanasius was not suitable for him. Angela was extremely angry at her. Because of her, the company lost Yoshiro’s and Michelangelo’s business. But Renata didn’t mind. She was almost dead inside. The way Michelangelo treated her, her will to be happy died. She didn’t know how to smile or laugh anymore. It was not like she cried every time, she even forgot how to cry. It was like someone pulled her soul out of her body and crushed it. She would go to her office and then come home but not speak to anyone. The girls were getting worried about her. She also had stopped eating. After much pestering from the girls, she would
“Ren! Ren!” the girls ran after the cars barefoot, but nothing was there to help Renata no one was there to help her. She was kidnapped from her own home and was now going to be sold in the auction ring. “Should we call the police?” asked Ambrosia. “How will police help us? They are unable to stop the auction ring. Mafia rules here. Only vigilantes can help us,” said Sameeksha. “No there is one more who can help us,” said Hazel. “Who?” asked the girls. “Michel! He protected her when she was attacked by the harassers. Maybe he will help her now too. We need to talk to him,” said Hazel. “What? He left her abandoned. Why would he help her?” asked Valentina. “Because he saved her. He has been saving her. It means he cares for her. If not love, at least he cares for her. We need to approach him and beg him to help us, help Ren,” said Hazel. “But how are we going to find him?” asked Valentina. “I know where he lives,” said Hazel. One of them ran upstairs and grabbed everyone’s walle
“What?” shouted Severino. He was shocked that Narciso would do such a thing. “Michel!” “What proof is there that it was Narciso? And that he is taking Renata to auction her?” snapped Michelangelo. “He told us. He told us everything,” pleaded Sameeksha. “Please, save her. Please!” “We have to help her, Michel!” said Severino. “No one can escape the auction ring,” barked Michelangelo. “You can help her. I am begging here, please save her,” begged Hazel. Michelangelo lowered himself to Hazel’s level, grabbed Hazel’s hair and made her look at him. He could see the worry and fear in her eyes. “Just this once! For you! Because you pleaded like a beggar. Remember that! I will buy her, and I will make her my slave, my Odal,” he chided. “What?” shouted everyone present there. “No! no! no! I didn’t mean that. Please! Please!” Hazel kept shouting but Michelangelo signalled Severino and his posse, and they moved out of his luxurious house. “Throw them out and never let any of those four gi
“I will kill him, I will kill him. How dare he hit me in front of everyone? Ow! Watch the face,” snapped Narciso at the doctor who was taking care of the stitches. “Calm down! I told you not to go after the girl. Are you deaf or simply a moron?” shouted Vicktor. “He hit me for that girl twice now, twice. And you want me to calm down?” barked Narciso. Vicktor shoved the doctor aside and grabbed the face of Narciso. “Never forget your place, kid. I can kill you in a heartbeat and no one will be wiser. It will look like an accident. Don’t ever snap at me. Is that understood?” warned Vicktor. “Yes, sir. Sorry sir,” apologised Narciso. He was more embarrassed as he was again scolded in front of the doctor. “Doc!” Vicktor signalled the doctor to do what he was doing. “Why did you go after her?” he asked Narciso. The doctor again started working on Narciso’s face. He had two cuts over his pretty face. His lips were swollen and had two black eyes. “I wanted to make her mine. She was goin
“What have we done? What have we done?” sobbed Hazel. “He was the only one who could have helped her. We didn’t know he would buy her and make her slave,” said Sameeksha, crying. “He said he loved her. What the hell happened to him?” asked Ambrosia. She was a silent crier. Tears were falling down her eyes, but she was not sobbing just sniffling occasionally. “Question is was he successful in saving her? Where is she? Is she alright? We all saw Narciso drugging her. What was in that?” asked Valentina. “Should we ask Severino? He was at least on our side,” said Ambrosia. “But what if Michel is with him? He won’t be able to pick up the call,” said Hazel. “It won’t hurt to try,” said Sameeksha. “Call him,” she ordered. Ambrosia took out her phone and dialled his number. The phone kept ringing, but he didn’t pick up. She called again and again he didn’t pick up. “Nothing!” Ambrosia shook her head in no, tears kept flowing down her face. “What are we going to do? You heard him, we a
Prestige was busy with some phone calls while the girls kept waiting. Their faces were dripping with worry and fear. They had no idea what was happening with Renata or what Prestige was even doing. Was she going to help them? Who was she talking to for this long? “Wait here! Let me inform my captain. He will let us what to do next,” informed Prestige and left her seat. All the girls kept waiting for Prestige to return. They kept biting their nails, sniffling, looking around but Prestige didn’t come back. “Where is she?” asked Ambrosia, fidgeting with her fingers. She was getting anxious to her limit. It was a long time since Prestige went away to talk to her captain and didn’t come back. “She must be explaining everything to her captain. We must wait for a few more minutes for her to come back,” said Valentina. “What else can we do? We will have to wait for her. Try calling Severino once again in the meantime,” said Sameeksha. Ambrosia again took out her phone and dialled Severin
So much happened while Renata was sleeping. She was kidnapped, sold, bought, her friends were threatened and arrested. She had no idea what was happening in the world while she slept peacefully. Now she was a slave, she was in Venturi Mansion. She was in the house of a person who hated her.It was around midday when she slightly opened her eyes. Her whole body was aching. Her head was ready to explode. She knew she hadn’t drunk yesterday, so why was she feeling a hangover? Her bed felt strange to her. It was slightly softer today. Even the sheets felt different. Was it because of a hangover?She tried opening her eyes but the sharp light from outside made her shut her eyes immediately. She rubbed her temple to ease the pain and tried opening her eyes again. A sharp pain stopped her from doing that. She then remembered how Michelangelo treated her. What was the point of waking up? She didn’t want to do anything, just lie down. She sighed and kept her eyes cl
Renata broke down after hearing everything from Michelangelo. She didn’t even think about if he was telling her the truth. She knew she was not allowed outside. And that was only possible if she really was a slave. But why would her friends accept those terms?When she met Narciso he was a sweet man, yet she distinctly remembered how he barged into her house, how he broke the door, how he pulled her hair and injected her with something. Why can’t she remember anything after that? How did Michelangelo buy her? How did she end up in his house?She fell to her knees and kept crying. Michelangelo rolled his eyes at her. He didn’t want to see her drama. He had enough of her acting. He walked out of the room leaving her alone, crying.Renata could not believe that everyone in her life betrayed her, her friends, Narciso and even Michelangelo. How could he call her his slave? How could he buy her? She was not a commodity to be sold or bought. What was
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 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 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
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,
“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
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 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
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,
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