Elena's POV'
All my life I ran behind love. That was the reason why I ended up being a heart surgeon. I even got my first love, but the images are too blurry and livid to remember. I often get flashbacks, but the pictures are still too blurry to figure out due to my Amnesia. Yes! I have that mental illness and curse it on my faith. Why out of all people does it have to be me with that illness? I shouldn't say something like that considering I'm a doctor myself, but I can't help it because, in the end, I'm a human too. I'm human with frustration and anger. I even had some emotional mental breakdown because of it. Considering, I put my past life in blurry pictures instead of remembering all the events. Some beautiful events of which I still get flashbacks about.
How has my life turned into swift seconds of moments? How did I get myself into this? Just how? How does saving a life got me into something like this? There are so many questions but no answers! What does this man want from me? From the first day, he was acting strangely towards me. The day he looks at me is enough to make me shiver at just one glance. I need to admit that bastard is very devilishly handsome, who can make any woman go on their knees and beg for him, not me though. I'm a woman of my own rules and I bend for no one.
I sighed eventually, thinking about my mother. I hope she's doing well. But I know at the same time she will do just fine after she's Malika Rajvanshi. A strong Indian woman and I'm proud to say that I'm her daughter. Annika Rajvanshi. Yes, we are both Indians. At least I remember this thanks to my mother. I had to keep this a secret since my mother married that bastard, James. He doesn't deserve her.
I only remember my name from my mother and other things which she had told me about, but I'm more than curious to know about my past seventeen years of life of which I have blurry images rather than memories. The only memories I have are from the past seven years. My whole seventeen years of life is missing, and I'm so eager to find out about it. I'm twenty-four, but I only remember my past seven years and the past seventeen are missing. My memories before I turned seventeen are all missing.
I sighed exhausted at my mind-battles and looked around the luxurious room. I was sitting near the big glass window from the past hours, but there were no signs of Vincenzo yet. Not that I want to deal with him. I really want to escape so badly, but looking down at those scary guards makes me a scared kitten to even glance at them. Oh god, how am I supposed to get out of here? I scrunched my face in annoyance. I need someone to talk to or else I will go crazy.
As if hearing my thoughts god sent someone. The opening of the door caught my attention and I quickly got out of the window alert.
"Here is your food!"
I stared stunned at Lorenzo when he came with a food tray in his hand. The same guy whom I met on that day. He was the one holding a gun with that arrogant smile of his. He was a charmingly handsome man, maybe five-seven ft, looking at his tall and lean physique. He was lean compared to Vincenzo in both height and physique, where Vincenzo was more muscular and taller than Lorenzo, but handsome nonetheless. Vincenzo has sharp, devilishly handsome features. Lorenzo was charmingly handsome with his peaceful beauty.
Soon I flinched when Lorenzo spoke with an arrogant smile on his face.
"The food will turn cold if you continue gazing at me like that, Doc."
Doc, that's what he calls me from the first day like he doesn't know my name yet.
"I wasn't staring at you."
I defended myself or tried to.
He arched an eyebrow before saying.
"Really? But I caught you staring at me, doc, you can't lie to me."
"I was thinking about something else, Mr. Lorenzo!"
I snapped at him because he was the reason why I was here in the first place. He dragged me here.
He chuckles amused even when I burst out on him? This man is crazy.
"Or maybe you were thinking about Vincenzo while sitting near that glass window?"
I flushed red in embarrassment when he pointed at the same window where I was sitting earlier. How did he guess so right but not so right? Because what if Vincenzo came into my thoughts? But there were also other things which I was thinking of.
I cleared my throat before saying.
"He's the last thing I wish to think about."
He again chuckles, amused like he found me interesting.
"You're funny, you know that?"
I rolled my eyes at him, but he's less scary than Vincenzo. I gave him that.
He gestured me to eat, but I shook my head, saying.
"This is the last thing I want to do, especially in a situation like this."
His expression turned serious.
"You need strength for what's coming for you."
I blinked my eyes at his dry reply, and before I could say something, he opened the door and left, closing the door behind him. I continued to stare at the door with my scrunched eyebrows. What does he mean by that? What's coming for me? My brain turned into puzzles thinking about the possibilities.
Without thinking twice, I ran towards the door trying to open it, but it was locked. Turning around, I rushed towards the glass window to see if the guards were still there, but to my bad luck, they were still there standing like a black statue with a gun in their hands.
Sweat started streaming down my forehead as the door opened.
"Miss, Capo has called for you!"
I gasped for air when he kissed like there was no tomorrow. His hands and lips sinfully explored every inch of my body while I gasped for air. I moaned against his mouth, forgetting everything behind.Heaving his head up a little, he gave me that nasty stare before throwing off onto the bed, making me gasp. Before I could nag, he started to take off his shirt and my mouth turned dry. I gulped down the words which were about to come earlier. The power he has over me is speechless.When did I become so powerless? That I handed my soul to the devil only for him to crush it beneath his palm. My mouth watered at the sight of his bare chest, broody shoulders and muscled torso.The man was to die for. My lungs barely expanded with my attempts to inhale and exhale.clink..clink.I flinched coming out of my daze when the sounds of his cufflinks hitting the floor echoed in the dark and throbbed low in my belly.He stared at me unwaveringly."Take off your dress, Elena."My cheeks flamed hot. As
A little girl was running.Not too long ago, I watched them promising each other to meet again.The sound of laughter echoed through the woods—high-pitched, distant, and wrong. Not the laughter of joy, but something older, something buried in the cracks between childhood and grief. I couldn’t see them, but I could feel them. The little girl and the boy.“Come find me!” the girl’s voice called, sing-song and airy.The trees twisted around her, tall and shadowed, the moonlight slicing through their branches like blades. My feet crunched over dead leaves, my breath ragged. I didn’t know why I was chasing them—only that I had to.Then I saw them.Two children, no older than six or seven. The girl wore a white dress smeared with earth. The boy’s hands were clasped over his eyes, counting, forehead pressed onto a tree trunk. The girl giggled and ran, vanishing into the woods.“One... two... three...”His voice was hollow.I tried to call out, but no sound came. My feet felt rooted. A cold w
"If that's what you want."I refused the urge to look at him, still shocked and trying to process his words. Is he playing around? I had to make sure because why would he give in to my demand?When I asked him in the beginning I wanted to work, he brutally declined, crushing my dreams for which I worked so hard for years. I even ran away from my house even after when I couldn't stay away from my mother, but I knew I had to do it for my mother and myself."Would you?"I asked again because I wanted to make sure I wasn't hearing things.I felt him regarding me with his eyes for a while."Have I ever lied to you, Elena?"But you hide I forced it down my throat as I almost felt excited, but forced it down because he wasn't doing me a favor. It was my right from the start, but I realize it now that my heart is broken by him. How stupid was I to fall for him when I clearly warned myself? He had already played with my body and used it against me.Maybe my heart was always meant to be broken.
Elena's POV'I felt every fiber in my body paining as hell and I don't know why that is. It's been a few minutes since I woke up and found myself on the hospital bed.The fruits were placed beside me on the table. I was surprised when the doctor said I was admitted yesterday and woke up today. When I asked her why it was? In response, she said, I was drugged, so it was probably of that.I didn't dare to ask from her more. I was still traumatized from the event where I was tied to a chair inside a nasty basement with no way out, not to mention the old psycho. I didn't expect Devis to be evil, but to forget that I always got bad vibes from him since the beginning.Watching the emotionless look in his eyes when he tortured Devis was too much for me to handle. I just couldn't. That day I watched the real him.....Him turning into a monster like I called him that day. He proved me right. Now I couldn't look him in the eyes. I was starting feel for him before he made me numb with his past.W
The door shoots open while the whole area was surrounded by non-stop firing, making Elena shiver. A sighed in relief after looking at her husband.The door exploded inward with a thunderous crack, splinters flying. Dust and smoke rolled through the doorway like a wave. Devis didn’t flinch. But his men did—guns raised, shouts barked.And out of the smoke came Vincenzo.Black coat. Black shirt. Eyes like gunmetal. And a pistol in his hand, steady as death.“Let her go.” he said, his voice a growl edged with steel.The two guards hesitated.Devis didn’t.He raised a hand—calm, like a man conducting a meeting rather than a hostage standoff.“Son,” he said, voice smooth."Lower the gun. This doesn’t have to end in blood.”Vincenzo moved slowly, deliberately, his eyes locked on Elena. Her chest rose and fell in shallow breaths. She lifted her head slightly at the sound of his voice — hope flickering behind bruised lids.“You chained my wife.”Vincenzo said.“Fucking drugged her. Hurt her an
"Track my wife before I blow out your heads fuckers."Vincenzo yelled at his men in the digital room. Ever since he heard his wife was kidnapped, he was out of control, and it's been twelve hours since she went missing. He was still recovering from his mother's last footage when his wife went missing. All in one moment. He still tried to mask his emotions.The digital was a mess in itself as Vincenzo unleashed his anger on those non-living things. He was so close to shooting one of his men who tried to piss him off."Play the last footage of Elena."He ordered before focusing on the screen when Elena came into view. He saw her tear-drenched face, making him clench his jaw as she left their bedroom and descended the stairs, nearly bumping with one of his men.They communicated before he led her out of the mansion, making Vincenzo's blood boil."Who the hell let her out of my fucking mansion?"His men gulped in fear, sensing the ragging anger lurking in their boss's threatening voice."