35A knock at the door woke me up from my trance, “Come in,” “Malady, everyone’s waiting for you,” a lady in mid-forties exclaimed in tightfistedness with a touch of fearCombing my hair, I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn’t realize the timing even for once but what I do catch was the most annoying word to my ears, ‘Malady’I huffed to let out my exertion, “Tell him, I’m coming,” That was enough to send her off but didn’t miss to see her imperceptible bow to me as in fucking respect before heading outside, “Oh hell again,” slipped out of my mouth, not sure if she heard it or not. I tied my hair in a high ponytail and gave a wink to cheer up my already-blown mood. Gathered stamina to walk out of the room, I finally took a step out of there and reached down to the left corridor.While walking straight to reach the dining room, I was looking down to the ground, not in a sense of respect but casually. As I entered the room, my eyes didn’t catch Armando but the woman standing behi
36Warning: This Chapter Includes Excessive Foul Language, Please Read It At Your RiskArmando’s P.O.V I shut the file I was holding in my hand and placed it on the front table, while still being in the conference room, I closed my eyes and exerted a sigh loudly. After dismissing the meeting, I was only forward to be lost in the thoughts of the girl whom I terribly fell in love with where she didn’t give a fuck about it. The one who made me crazy like an obsessive freak, why the fuck would she care about it? Mind threw some dirt at me After all, I’m just a manwhore for her, maybe I’m still acting the same idiot to her because there’s no such positive change in her behaviour towards me but I had noticed further distance between us.Why the fuck should she consider your feelings for her? You forced her to have sex with you. she did the right thing to leave you and have fallen with Nathan, Now, bear it chipmunk. My mind scolded “How could she fall for him? What does that worthless h
37Lana’s P.O.VMy face was stained with tears which I couldn’t hold in sight of Nancy. My face was pinned on her chest meanwhile her shirt was soaked by my crying session. I had been hugging her for nearly an hour, she kept patting my back and I had been hysterical; telling her every thick and thin I went through, and how my destiny decided to give me unendurable shocks at the last moment of my about-to-heaven life. “I know, Nancy, nothing’s ever gonna be fine, It’ll always be like this,” I wept,“No, this is wrong to even think like this, buddy, why don’t you try to see the bright side?” Nancy enquired lowly while running her hand in my hairI, who have been hysterically sobbing, replied, “There’s no bright side f-for me, just look at me, the brigh-ter was coming to me but it was snatched in n-no minute, this man has been blessed as a curse in my life,” Nancy sighed loudly, “You need to fill up your strength at the moment, little friend. This is a temporary circumstance, it’ll be
38“What did you say?” Armando asked me with surprise plastered on his face and a bit of curve on the lips, “Say it again, I want to hear,” he added after pressing my shoulders with his fingers. All I could feel was him forcing me to submit to him, It had been so frustrating to me for not marrying the man I loved, Instead of dealing with my rapist “I-I didn’t mean that to say, It was a tongue-slip,” I elucidated “Kitten, don’t hide yourself to me, I can see through all the intensity you’re hiding from me for a long time,” he politely mumbled, his thumb laid on my chin and pulled up to make me meet his eyes.Coming closer to my left cheek, he whispered, “Let’s not be tough with each other anymore,”“Stop! Stop forcing me to feel for you, why don’t you see what you did to me? Instead of giving me a mental break, you keep pushing me to my limits, Stop it, Armando, I’m done with your games!” I pulled back and hastened to leave the room to avoid the aftermath I created by yelling, As I
39PresentLana’s P.O.V Armando came closer to my face toward an extent where our lips were inches away, his hold over my arm was still the same; forceful and paining me while those eyes were radiating red flags, “Armando, let go of me! You’re hurting me!” I scolded him as I forced my arm out of his fist but he didn’t move even an inch, just too busy in shaping his jaw and glaring at me, “What lullaby did he put in your head?---That I bought you from your parents?” He deeply questioned, his eyes were still emitting an intense dreadful aura“Ethan, Miley, go to your room I’ll be joining you both there,” I spoke, not wanting my fragile kids to be exposed with his ugly word too soon. Both of them quietly stood up and left in no time. I could feel them low already, three of us had always been sensitive to such situations but felt like I was no longer included in a sensitive category. I got used to all of this mess. The door got closed and I continued, “It’s not a myth, it’s the truth
40FlashbackArmando’s P.O.VHouston, TXI was in my Audi SUV, resting on the seat with one leg above another. My eyes loosened as I gazed out of the tinted window with an iPad in my hands. The screen was displaying reports of Los Angeles which needed my urgent attention but I was completely distracted; distracted by a girl who made me a lovesick puppy, I needed every bit of her focus on me, My heart was struggling to keep back the lusty desires which I was visibly failing. It was all over my face that I missed her but never knew I would’ve missed her this severely. I kept being hard on myself by lying that I wasn’t missing her but deep down I knew it was a fucking boogie lie. Every time I tried to concentrate on the screen, her face popped up in my eyes and left me half-hearted. I felt like betraying my kitten for not telling her the truth about my whereabouts. I shouldn’t have lied to her about it nor I should’ve fallen too deeply in love with her that everything I do would leave
8This was it. I had enough, I was so done of everything I encountered back in that room, My mind was spinning all the way back to Miley and Ethan. I no longer wished life for myself because I wasn’t living it for myself after my abduction and I didn’t see any end, I was running to my sibling’s room; wanting to vanish my existence in the snap of a finger but that wasn’t possible, so the best choice I had was to lock myself along with my naive kids in a room and starve to death, I was way too emotional, tears were out of my control and they blurred my vision. I kept running towards the direction which I guessed led to my sibling’s room which I thought they were in. After crossing the corridor, I stopped in front of a door at my left and turned the knob, as I got in, my eyes captured my babies in frightening form; their knees were crouched to their chests. I couldn’t help but weep silently as the scenario broke my break, I was torn to see them shivering, “Guys, are you both alright
42As I cut the call, my world felt like on earth and I finally could breathe freely; knowing my knight in shining armor was coming to rescue me and my family and for a moment I was the happiest person alive until the door knocked, We all stopped in our tracks and both of them snapped their neck towards me with furrow,I nodded and indirectly asked Ethan to check out, “Yes?” Ethan enquired, “Chico, open up,” The voice which I wanted to hear the least made its way to my ears, Ethan got up to open the door but I pulled him back, “What?” he questioned as he turned his head around, “Don’t open it just,” I hesitantly said, “What’s wrong?” he immediately turned into a pack of stress as I restrained him from opening the door, millions of questions pictured on his face, “I don’t wanna see his face right now,” that was the perfect excuse I could come up with, somehow it was true too, Ethan’s eyes were scanning my face to detect lie on my face, his eyes narrowed and fixated on me, “Budd