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 Sliver pov {the devil himself}

Sleeping became impossible after that.

Everytime sliver closed her eyes, she kept seeing the underground hall ways stained with bloods and people crying out for help echoing behind those metal doors. By morning, her whole body felt weak, sunlight passed through the cracked church windows as she turned and stared at her reflection in the small mirror near the fire place.

she could barely recognized her self.

Her dark hair loose around her shoulders, still wet a bit from yesterday down pour. The oversized black sweater swallowed her body completely, exposing the bruises around her wrist, making them standout more.

She looked more like a ghost than a bride who ran away from the church. A knock sounded at the door, making her turn instantly

“come in”

The door opened slowly, showing an old woman holding a tray filled with food. She smiled after noticing Sliver was awake.

“you should eat” she spoke quietly.

Sliver hesitated before moving towards her, she removed the cover and saw the tray was arranged with coffe, toast, fruit and scrambled eggs.

Strangely looking normal for a place like this?

“thank you, ma” Sliver murmured.

The woman stood stiffly but avoided making eye contact with her while still standing , holding the tray.

Like she was nervous or afraid.

Before she could leave after dropping the tray slivers poke again.

“wait”

She froze immediately.

“who’s azuka?” she spoke carefully. “who exactly is he?”

The woman whole body went still. For several seconds, she didn’t say anything. Then slowly, she looked towards the door before turning to sliver.

“you should never ask any question related to the man”

Fear passed through her.

“why?”

The look on her face changed “because questions like that are very dangerous here”. Then she hurriedly ran from the room before sliver could ask her more questions, shutting the door quickly behind her.

Sliver stared at the door in silence, those words didn’t only answer her questions but made her more curious. An hour later, she was finally able to leave the bedroom. The church felt some how light though it was day light and less more hunted but stilling scary unlike yesterday night. Dust flew through the hall shinning as light passed through the window, candles still burning during the day, with the flames dancing on the alter slowly in silence.

But now every thing became clear to me now, things she didn’t noticed yesterday .

Men.

Armed looking men with guns on black.

Some standing near the church entrances wearing black suits and ear pieces, while others moving around quietly through some hidden hallways behind the church walls.

Nobody spoke loudly.

No one with smiles on their faces.

And everyone looking very dangerous.

“she’s the runaway bride?” a low voice suddenly moved from nearby.

Sliver moved slowing, hiding behide one of the stone pillars. she saw two men standing not too far from her speaking with low tones.

“she truly has no ideas whose place she took shelter in”

The other man scoffed softly. “does azuka plan on keeping her here?”

“when has Azuka Lorreto ever done any wild or dangerous thing with a hidden reason?”

her heart skipped a beat.

Lorreto.

The name sounds familiar, then suddenly she remembered.

Many years ago, a lot of news papers always mentioned the Lorreto family.

Old blood money.

Powerful beings.

Very untouchable. Until it all collapsed overnight, murder accusations.

People disappearing.

Being entagled in political scandals.

But one person name always repeated over and over again.

Azuka Lorreto.

The main devil of the underworld.

The man many people feared enough to whisper his name.

her stomach twisted painfully.

So this is him?

The same man who locked her inside his world.

The same man whose also hiding beneath this church. Before Sliver could think further, footstep began echoing near the entrance few meters away from her. the old church door opened, and Azuka walked in.

Talks died instantly.

Everyone inside, positioned well by straightening their back with there face looking ahed, the moment they saw him.

Not by restpect.

Fear.

Azuka walked calmly through the church wearing a dark gray shirt with his sleeves rolled up, past his arms. Dark skulls tattoos round his skins in dark inks, disappearing under his shirt.

He looked tired.

Very dangerous.

But still handsome. Sliver bit her bottom lips for noticing those things about him.

“we noticed some movement near south tunnels” one of the guards who  approached him immediately spoke.

Azuka face remained unreadable as he stared at them.

“double security”

“yes boss” he bowed then left.

Boss.

The word echoed in her head. Then Azuka looked up, their eyes met instantly across the church. Sliver chest tightened as she saw him moving towards her slowly, every stepped calculated. The more close he came the more it was hard for her to breath well.

“yoy left your room, again”

she folded her hands under her two breast, ready to defend her self again.

“you left my room unlocked”

Something showed on his face.

Probably amusement, but went quickly.

“were you able to sleep?”

“I couldn’t”

His eyes stayed on the dark circle under her eyes before looking away. For some reason, it really annoyed her.

“you could have given me a heads up or like warned me there were armed men stationed around every corner”.

“and you still stayed”

she was about to talk then stopped , because he was damn right.

she saw everything, bloods on the walls, people screamimg and crying everywhere……..and she still stayed.

Azuka noticed she wasn’t talking back like before.

His eyes watched her closely, before either of them could talk again, shouting erupted outside the church.

Sliver froze with her heart pounding loudly.

A guard ran through the entrance towards them.

“there’s a black SUV coming near the big gates”

Cold air passed through her chest instantly.

Felix.

His here to drag her back home.