Chapter 17Marcel huffed in exhaustion as he turned around trying to find Elena.The girl just refused to disappear. Initially, he had been kind of sad for her.I mean the trap for her had taken her innocent sister. But maybe it was better, in a way.“Marcellus! There you are!” Maria cried as she jogged to catch up with him.He hissed in irritation. I mean he liked María on a perfectly good day. But not now.Not when every second spent conversing meant Elena could get away.“Yes?” Marcel asked Maria in a strained voice.“Calm down. I just wanted to ask you to take the petrol to meet Mr Sánchez. He needs it for the bonfire tonight,” She explained as she passed him the keg.He wanted to refuse. How on earth would he run after the bitch with a keg full of petrol?“Look Maria-“ he started to protest when she dropped it in front of him.“No excuses. I’ve given it to you. Do whatever the hell you want. It’s your job on the line not mine,” Maria smirked as she turned around and left.With a
Chapter 18Elena gasped in shock as her body launched off the edge of the cliff and began to roll down the mountain.Tears streamed from her eyes and her screams intensified as she rolled down the mountain.With her eyes shut and her skin burning, her secrets intensified. She couldn’t break her fall, not that she had any strength to do so.Her body got hit over and over again as her forehead violently scratched different branches, her legs breaking through thick trunks, her back hitting hard rocks and her flesh being consumed by fire which didn’t seem to be reducing.Halfway through her fall, Elena passed out from the pain and finally came to rest at the foot of the mountain.The last dregs of the fire spluttered and went out, and thick smoke and the smell of roasted flesh rose from Elena.************~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*********************Marco hissed in irritation as his phone beeped and his mother’s name appeared again.The woman was really getting on his nerves. She had done nothing
Chapter 19Marco’sPOVI jolted awake on the metal reception chair and flitted my eyes to the neon sign above the operating theatre that indicated where Vvissuta had been undergoing surgery for the last ten hours.That was what I had decided to call the unknown woman Sopravvisuta. It means Survivor and only a survivor could had survived that nasty fall from the top of the mountain.When we rushed her into the hospital, the doctors were as appalled and astonished as I was. Tyically they wait in cases like this to file a police report before surgery but her condition was critical and with her face likely to be unrecognisable to the police anyway, we ha all decided I stand in for her as a guardian slash relative.They had immediately began surgery and I had gone off to fill what forms I could, and pay some part of the bill.Next I had proceeded to wait for the doctors to come out and tell me if she survived or not.And so, one hour had turned to three, and three had turned to ten. Someti
Chapter 20~~~~~~~~~~SEVEN MONTH TIME SPAN~~~~~~~~~~~~~`“Look I don’t understand why you keep on giving excuses! You clearly told me that you would be back on friday and now you’ve suddenly developed another thing you have to do that’ll keep you for another what? Three months?!” Mrs Donatelli screeched on the phone.For the last seven months, she had been trying to set her son up with the daughter of her friend Valentina. Whose daughter, Francesca, was a beautiful, properly educated, well brought-up young lady. Not only was she elegant, she was from the prestigious Bernandi family.Valentina had trained her girl from birth to handle a conglomerate family.And Mrs. Donatelli was confident Francesca would adjust to life as Marco’s wife beautifully and maybe even teach her son a thing or two about elegance.But no. Marco was determined to frustrate her efforts despite not pulling any body of his own.If he had a girlfriend, it would be different, but her son was obsessed with work and
Chapter 21The last thing Elena remembered was holding on To the man’s arm, the man who had been there when she fell off the cliff.She had rolled, tumbling in fire, her body battered by rocks on the mountain, and the smell of petrol choking her.Then suddenly, the fire was out. But Elena barely noticed with the way her skin still burned and the intense pain in her stomach.She was going to die, the thought filled her with dread but she couldn't move.Then he was there. She heard him more than saw him but a man had definitely found her and he was speaking to some other people.Maybe she would survive, maybe somehow she could make it past this hell. She groaned internally as two sets of hands hoisted her up onto a flat hard surface.It was marginally better than the rocks she had been on, but her flesh resting on the hard stretcher only bought her pain.She was blacking out, or at least something like it when she heard the man, her savior, mention the police. All thoughts of pain flew
Elena sat facing the wall mutely. She had cried so much in the last five hours that she was sure her body had no more moisture. She supposed she should be grateful that she hadn’t birthed a child with that monster, David. But in truth, all she felt was exhaustion. She felt a bit of pity for the man. Marco. That was how he introduced himself. He had spent all this time and money treating her, and now that she was awake, she couldn’t bear to look at him. He had such piercing eyes that she knew the truth of her circumstances would come flowing out if she dared to look into them. “I’m going to the lobby to get some snacks. Would you like anything?” He asked her calmly as he stood up from the bed side chair where he had been perched all day doing nothing but watching over her. Elena blushed in embarrassment and shook her head. Her voice was still hoarse from disuse, and she knew she should speak, but something about Marco made her subconcious, and she opted for gestures whenever she c
Chapter 23Marco stood outside the bathroom door, unsure if he should go in when he heard a loud scream.He got so scared that he felt like his heart would burst from his chest. Surely, she hadn’t survived a fall from a mountain just to crack her skull open in the bathroom?Without thinking twice about how appropriate it was, he burst open the bathroom door and saw her on the floor.Clawing at her face, eyes wide in fear, and screaming at the top of her lungs.“Hey, hey, hey, it’s okay,” Marco whispered in dread as he placed his hands on her shoulders and looked her over to make sure she was okay.But she kept staring behind him and screaming in terror. “It’s fine. You’re fine,” He muttered repeatedly as a part of him wondered if he was trying to convince her or himself.His reassurance didn’t seem to work, though. She was trembling badly and pointing behind him while muttering incoherently.Marco scrunched his face in confusion and turned behind him to see what had so thoroughly sca
Chapter 24 A knock sounded at the door. Tamara heaved a heavy sigh as she got up from the bed and slowly walked over to open her bedroom door. It wasn’t her bedroom. Well, not exactly. The past three weeks since she woke up had been a rollercoaster and she was still trying to collect her emotions but one thing was clear. Marco was hellbent on helping her. Over the weeks, it had taken every strength in her to become reacquainted with her body. With her going to physio every day, she had barely seen Marco but he had settled everything. The man had connections and just like she had suspected, he was filthy rich. “Hey, good evening,” Tamara whispered as she unlocked the door and moved aside for Marco to come into the room. Marco cleared his throat and smiled gently. “Good evening, Sutta” He replied as he stepped past her into the room. “Sutta?” She asked amused as she shut the door and turned around to face him with her arms crossed. “Sorry, habit. For the longest time, I had no i