78. The Flashback!

Author's POV

"Why are you up?"

Egon frowned. 

She was dressed in comfy pyjamas. 

"Vendors can't stop calling me... I'll finish my work and then think about resting. About whom were you talking? Who can't leave you this time?"

"His cat!"

Arabella replied quickly because Egon looked blank.

"He has a pet cat and she always escapes from the house... This time, she is missing again, and he said once she comes back, she can't leave him again."

"Poor thing!"

Emerald chuckled. 

"Lock her in your basement once she comes back."

Egon could feel his hair on his arms stand as she said that. He rubbed his face in guilt. 

"No, this time I'll win her with love."

"Aww, how cute!"

She chuckled and walked towards the kitchen. 

She called Ruby while rubbing her head. 

"Hi Emerald, what's wrong. Paint will be delivered tonight."

Ruby informed. 

"No, Ruby... Actually, my head is throbbing... I was having flashbacks... Can you give me that medicine which you used to feed me?"

Emerald poured a coffee for herself. 

Ruby turned tense. It was the drug Egon had given her, and he had stopped supplying it. 

"Emerald, actually... Okay, I'll send."

Ruby didn't know how to explain it to her, so she said yes and filled the empty bottle with vitamin tablets, then sent it to her. 

Emerald focused on her work for the rest of the day and was going back to her room but Egon blocked her way on the stairs. 

"Where are you going?"

He tried to touch her loose hair but she slapped his hand away. 

"Don't think you have a chance just because I didn't stop you this morning."

She teased. 

He smirked. 

"I don't believe you... Prove it!"

He pulled her closer by the waist. 

She couldn't stop her little smile. 

"Not happening... I am not trying anything!"

"Because you fear that you will give in..."

He inhaled her divine scent. 

"Shut up, Egon... I am tired, let me go!"

She chuckled while playfully pushing him back. 

"Nahh, you are just scared to face me... Is the little girl embarrassed?"

He teased her more. 

"You are delusional..."

She grabbed his jaw and gave it a cute shake. 

"Mr King"

"Then prove it!"

He scooped her into his arms.

"Where?"

She asked curiously while holding him around the neck. 

"Movie night!"

He carried her. 

"But it's so late, do you think we can go and come back before morning?"

She asked confused. 

"You are with a billionaire, my love. And billionaires don't go to the theatre for movies. They have a multiplex at home."

He smirked. 

"Hmm, arrogant much?"

She mocked. 

"You don't look like a man who is interested in movies."

"I watch my movies on a big screen."

He smirked mischievously. 

"I didn't hear that."

She doesn't want to know what he watches. Probably some fucked up tortures. 

She gasped excitedly when they entered the lavish room. Big screen and comfortable sofa chairs. 

Snacks were already there and the interior was so dreamy. She loved it. 

He placed her on the chair and sat beside her. She cocooned herself in a warm bedsheet as he played the movie. 

She snuggled into him, too focused on the movie and enjoying it while Egon fed her popcorn. 

"Wow, this experience is better than the theatre. You are so cool!"

"You liked it?"

He smiled. 

"I loved it!"

She grinned. 

They were enjoying their personal time until he realised that she had fallen asleep. He smiled and kissed her head. 

His phone rang and he quickly answered. 

"What's wrong?"

"King, we have a rat in the basement!"

His man informed. 

"Need you here."

"Coming!"

He disconnected the call and looked at Emerald. He kissed her head again and got up, he tucked her in the bed sheet securely and walked out. 

Emerald suddenly woke up and looked around, confused when she found herself alone in the room. 

"Where is he?"

She yawned lazily. Thinking he must be outside to answer the call, she walked out to find him. 

When she got out, she didn't find him and felt left out. How can he invite her to watch a movie and leave her alone without saying anything? 

"Where is Egon?"

She asked the guard who was on duty. 

"King went to the basement."

He informed. He usually doesn't let people go there, but for him, she is the queen who is equally dangerous as his King, so he didn't dare to stop her. 

"Basement?"

Emerald frowned, thinking why he was in the basement so late. That too, during their good time. 

She shouldn't have done that, but she went to the basement, her nose scrunched as she smelled rotten blood on the walls and the dust tasted on her tongue through the air. She dusted her hands after pushing the door open. She took a few steps and her heart screamed. She didn't realise that she didn't flinch at the scream like her body recognised the familiar feeling. She wasn't scared but curious. 

She stopped by the door and watched Egon, who was asking something to the man who was battered in blood, and Egon wasn't showing any mercy to him. 

"Where is the stolen material?"

Emerald has never seen him so evil. 

She was silently watching him until a few of his words triggered something in her. She started having blurred flashbacks, and the walls of the basement started feeling familiar. 

She placed her hand on her chest as breathing became difficult for her. 

She couldn't understand what was happening; her body was in shock, and her mind was flooded with flashbacks. 

"Egon!"

She tried to call him but it was a mere whisper.

Her voice was tangled in her confused flashbacks. 

Within her blurry flashbacks, one strong flashback came out and she heard Egon's voice. 

'I am destroying you, the way you destroyed me.'

She gasped for breath, she felt her mouth was closed, but in reality she had opened it so big that her jaw could break. 

She couldn't hear her own voice but she screamed so hard that the basement walls echoed it and finally grabbed Egon's attention.