36 ~ Make My Body Drip With Blood

Bullet

“What?” I inquired, shocked at the question Don had asked me. 

Hours ago, I asked the question but now… He threw the question at me. Should I actually tell him what I think or I should lie? What have I put myself into? Would he accept the truth from me or would he prefer a lie to satisfy his ego?

I let out a sigh. “You love her. It is obvious. Even a blind man can see it.” I retorted, but with my head bowed. I dare not look him in the eye. 

His tone answered my question today. “How dare you? What did you say?” He thundered, his voice a baritone of anger and fury mixed together. There was even every bit of cruelty in it. 

I raised my head a bit to see his angry face. I looked sideways because he was just too furious to look at. Just then, the echo of his footsteps filled the room as he closed the gap between us. My chest tightened as it grew louder and closer. 

“Say it again,” he commanded before he pushed me to the metal door. His hand grabbed my neck, forcing me to look him in the eye. “Say it again.”

“You love Brinda,” I managed to get words out of my mouth. “Yes, you do.”

“That is rubbish. How can I love her?” He laughed — A sinister one that sent chills down my spine. “She is just a pawn in my strategy. And you know very well that I would do anything to achieve whatever I want. I want more power,not weaknesses.” He released his hold slowly from my neck.

I breathed heavily before I mustered the courage to speak. “Really?” I waggled an eyebrow. “Could it be that you are scared to accept the truth? You love Brinda and that is it. She is your past love. A pawn!!! Had Brinda truly been a pawn in your strategy, would you be trying so hard to save her?” I stepped away from his side. 

It is either now or never. I have to put some things in his head before Brinda gets better. She has a strong will, it won’t take her a long time to be back. 

“You can deceive everyone but not me. I am the number one person in this world that you can not deceive. The female gender might be delicate as you assume but we aren’t weak. Instead we are strong. And only a woman can see the love a man has for a woman.”

“Keep quiet! That is enough. Simply because I have given you freedom, it does not mean that you can say whatever you want, okay?” He barked, his blue eyes dancing left and right.

“Then prove it. Prove it, Don. Prove that you do not love this woman who is lying on the bed in a coma with a slim chance of survival.” I said in an outburst state as I stretched my hands in Brinda’s direction. 

“Yes, I can.” 

I smiled before my hands reached my pocket and I pulled out a pistol. “End her. End her, right now. That is the best way that you will prove that the love you once had for her has disappeared from your heart.”

I slowly made my way towards him. I pulled his hands and handed the gun over to him, my eyes never leaving his. “Here is a gun. Kill her if you can.” I tilted my head in Brinda’s direction. 

After I left the gun in his hand, he moved closer to the bed. He stood there for more than five minutes while he pointed the gun at Brinda. I hissed before I grabbed the gun from his hand and slammed it on the floor. 

“You cannot kill her. You have found yourself a weakness and she is.” I whispered slowly as if I was coiling my words into a razor blade that can pierce a skin roughly. “Having a weakness can make one lose years of hard work.”

He sucked in his lips while he stared at me. Then, he dipped his hands in his pocket which after he nodded his head. “If you know so much… Why don’t you help me get rid of this weakness?” He removed his hand from his pocket and tried touching my right shoulder. 

I stepped backward. “I can not help you. You can only help yourself.” I replied boldly, shocking him. 

I knew what he wanted and I could not fulfill his wish. “Whatever we had before has come to an end. I have already pledged my loyalty to you. I can help you in several ways.” 

“Are you thinking what I am thinking?” He smirked.

Love destroys, it does not strengthen. Love is a weakness that can even make a Lion become a Mouse.

As we got to his room, Don went on his knees and slowly took off his shirt. His eyes burned with hate and he clenched his fist.

Everything in this life has a specific time for payback. The time for Francesco to get punished for his sins has come. My father who I took as my whole life, the one I depended solely on was killed by Francesco and no other person. I was also turned to a killer by this very man and I was his oral sex slave. 

The only thing that remains now is vengeance. I have found you. I am taming you and I would also destroy you, Francesco Dante. I will also let you know the pain of separating a father from a daughter. 

You love Brinda, right?

The love you have for her is your weakness and I would turn it to my strength. I will watch the two of you suffer and as for Brinda… I won’t send her to the jaws of death. You will and that will be only after she wakes up. You will kill her with your bare hands and I will watch you destroy yourself but before then, you have to be punished like the sinner that you are. 

“Whip me. Whip me to the extent that I will forget whatever I am feeling again.” He called for his own death wish. “Make my body drip with blood that I will never forget.”

I rolled the iron belt he handed to me around my right hand. My eyes travelled to the back of his neck. That was exactly where he had flogged me the night he killed my father and forced me to take Makula — A poison that can render the female womb infertile. Four years later, he poisoned me with the Deadly Nightshade. 

How wrong am I in this situation?

My face twisted into a happy one as I released the belt in the air. The irons clapped against each other signalling at his own call for a death wish. It landed at the back of his neck with a loud ‘Thwack’ when I whipped him hard.  

He let out a cry full of regret, pain, frustration and lastly… Strength. But I will break it.