Onika's POV....
"What happend slut, I told you to dance like the whore you are". Agustin's voice resonated in my ears, making me flinch. My hands shaking in fear.
"Please Agustin don't do this to me. I beg of you-" I was cut off before I could even complete my sentence.
"Shhh... Do as I say Onika, or else this will get a lot more worse. By now you must have realized nothing you say is going to save you. But I think you like every thing the hard way, don't you?" He asked rhetorically.
"Lets make it simple, so that your little brain can comprehend your options. I give you two choices either you do what I say or I destroy each and every person you care for. So shall we start with your friend, what was her name, Claire? I have heard that she desperately needs money for her father's surgery. " I looked at him dumbfounded.
I don't know this person anymore, I don't know who he has become. He can't be the same person I loved once with all that I possessed. He knew the arrow had hit right where he aimed as he saw all the colour leave my face. With a satisfied look on his face he continued,
"What happens if she looses her job all of a sudden or what if the hospital where her father is admitted throws him out."
"No please! Not her please" I started sobbing uncontrollably.
"No? Not her?" He gave me a ominous smile.
"So how about her brother, John. I guess he has a soft corner for you. Isn't that correct my sweet, sweet whore of a wife?"
I looked at him as if he had just struck me, where it hurts the most.
"How can you say like that to me Agustin? What's wrong with you. Please come to your senses before it's too late. Don't kill me like this. Can't you see how much its hurting me? Don't punish me for loving you. I loved you so much and this is how--"
Suddenly his whole demeanour changed and he grabbed my hair and shouted on my face making me whimpered in pain and fear, "You bitch you have the audacity to use my name and love in the same sentence. Tell me this, did you even sleep with him behind my back. Tell me!"
I was too stunned to say any thing how someone can be so cruel. How can anyone stoop so low?
I looked at him in the eye, but couldn't hold his gaze as I saw the evil lurking behind his eyes, the dangerous glint that it held made me want to run far away.
"Decide fast I don't have whole day what would it be, you following my orders or death of that little old man. I will hate to see them on roads in this cold winter without any food or any money. So I am asking for the last time."
I closed my eyes in agony, everything in me was hurting.
"Enough of your dramas now I am gonna count till five and if before that you don't star dancing You will be responsible for what happens next".
"One"
I don't believe this, my own husband is forcing me to dance in this dress of a hooker in front of his servants.
"Two"
Tears were continuosly streaming down my face.
"Three"
I was shaking from head to toe with anger, humiliation and helplessness.
"Four"
I looked up and saw each and every servant's head were bowed, not wanting to look at me. At least they have more shame than their employer. They always treated me like there daughter and now here they were forced to see me dancing like a stripper.
But I don't blame them because I know their hands are tied, they are as much helpless in this as I am. After all no one has got the power to defy Agustin, if someone dare do that then that will be the last thing they do.
I looked at the face of my husband. Is it the same face I use to admire day and night. Now the mere site of it nauseates me. Finally taking a deep breath I consoled myself that I am doing this for Clarie if anything happens to her or her family because of me I will never be able to forgive myself. No one needs to pay for my bad choices.
She had always stood by my side and her brother John has always supported me whenever I needed them.
I was pulled out of my thought by Agustin's voice.
"Fiv-"
Before he can complete I stopped him and replied "I will do it", my voice devoid of any emotion.
He chuckled in victory "Good decision" Saying that he played the music.
I sucked in a breath as I realized it was one of my favourite. I remember telling him that whenever I hear this song I forget all my worries for the time being.
So this is what he is doing, he wants to take away every good memories from me and replace them with a bad ones. Now whenever I will hear this song I am going to burn remembering this day.
I took a deep breath and stopped feeling anything, I just numbed my senses to make it easier for me.
"You are not to stop unless I say so" he added casually.
After what seems like an hour he finally stopped the music and taunted,
"Very good whore you did a very good job and it's time for your reward . Didn't I tell you that you would have to earn every bite of food you eat. And I know you must be starving after all you haven't ate anything in two days."
Oh so he remembered I thought he stopped counting. As if on cue my stomach growled in hunger. Then I saw what he was carried, and my eyes widened in utter shock.
Dog's food.
Tears started blurring my vision, yet again.
He kept it on the floor and said, "Get on all fours and start eating, what are you waiting for" he ordered, raising a brow at me as if daring me to defy him.
I stood there still as a statue thinking, thinking how would I ever go back to being normal from this point on. The fact that was hurting me the most was realising that Agustin never actually loved me, not even before the misunderstanding.
Everything was fake, he was faking everything. He asked me, 'even after the way he loved me how can I betray him like this', It's a pity that Agustin doesn't realise he never really loved me. Because you may hurt the person you love, but you don't destroy them. At least not deliberately.
He motioned me to get down on the floor.
It ignited a fire within me and I wanted to burn him in it. I could feel my heart roaring in my ears. Enough. I have had enough. I can't take it any more.
"No. I. Won't." I announced defiantly
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