Betrayal

"To look into my eyes and lie,

Is courage.

But to think I believed your lying words and fake smiles,

Your foolishness.

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Her heart was rapidly beating in her chest as she drove towards David's house.

Her eyes falling on the piece of paper placed on the passenger seat.

Vincenzo will never forgive her after this, and she knows very soon he will come to know about this.

Tears leaked her eyes, making the road look hazy.

Why does love hurt so much?

She never thought she will fall in love,especially with a person like Vince.

He was cold, distant and arrogant inially but slowly she came to know of his hidden side.

The side he keeps protected and unseen.

From who you ask?

From people like her, who break hearts and are a disgrace to the 4 letter word ,love.

Her hands were tied in this situation.

It was her brother over her love for Vince.

And no matter what, she can't be selfish.

Her journey was interrupted when she saw two cars following her.

Having learned driving in just last 2 months, she was still a learner.

The cars, instead of overtaking , drove parallel to her.

Making her hands to tremble and heart to explode.

Before she could do much, one car hits her intentionally and next she knows, her car diverted from the road and collided with a tree.

Her senses numbed all of a sudden as she felt glass shards showered over her.

Warm liquid was running down her forehead and she struggled with the door handle to get out.

The men surrounded the car, one of them pulled the door open and harshly dragged her out from the car.

The other one pulled out the papers with a victorious smile.

She knew they were stronger.

She can't fight them, but she has to survive.

Looking around she found herself near one of Vince's warehouses.

Hope sparked and she managed to run as the men looked busy scanning the papers.

She heard Vince talking in the morning, she was sure he was here.

Looking back, she saw them following her now.

Shouting at her to stop.

Making her to increase her pace instead

Her lungs were burning but she refused to stop.

The warehouse gates only few meters away.

Surprisingly, she found the men slowing down.

Making her to relax a bit.

Opening the big doors, she rushed in ,in search of those black eyes and brown hair.

His big frame and black tuxedo separating him from others present there.

He was busy talking with someone, his eyes fixed on the bags in front of them.

Sighing in relief, she ran and engulfed him from behind.

Making his body to go stiff all of a sudden.

" Thank God! Thank God you are here Vince! I was so scared...they...they tried to kill me.."

He refused to turn, his hands fisting as she placed her cheeks on his back.

The man he was talking to was dismissed with just a stare and soon the men following her entered the warehouse.

He finally turned around, and she desperately climbed to him for safety.

Her grip tight while he stood there, stoic like a statue.

Instead of looking at her, he started at the two men behind her with anger.

She pulled his collar, making him to finally look at her.

Her face was red with tears and fatigue, eyes helpless and scared.

Blood was oozing out of the cut on her forehead, but he did nothing to clean her tears or blood.

He just started as she pleaded.

"Vince...they..they tried killing me..I..."

Her scared eyes stared back at the two men.

Her hand holding Vince's arm as she called for his attention.

But to her surprise, the two men bowed down.

Her eyes moving between Vince and them and the very next second, her hand dropped from Vince's arm.

The reality settled in and her steps faltered.

"We are sorry boss, she escaped from the car"

Her heart sank as she started at those black orbs which no longer held warmness and comfort.

They were pools of darkness and she found herself moving back further.

No!

He can't...

I love him!

He can't be this inhuman.

He can't hate me to this extent.

One of two dared to step forward, his hands shaking as he gave Vince the file.

Her eyes tearing at her fate's stageplay and timing.

Vince held the file, his eyes shifting to her almost instantly.

As if he knew what was there in the file.

She gulped.

His eyes were cold and dominating.

Not anything like that of  the man she slept with last night and gave away her virginity to.

She have never been at the receiving end of his anger, but today.

It was just her and her apologies.

Be practical!

He ordered to get me killed..my apology won't do sh**

She thought.

But if I go to David without the file,he will harm my brother more.

If not him, he will make sure to punish me or kick me in the dungeons.

Life was so unfair sometimes 

"Vince please I can explain..."

He continues to stare at her with those emotionless eyes and the words he spoke next made her to shudder in fear and close her eyes.

"Finish these useless mutts. They can't do one thing right!"

And with this, more men approaches and dragged their pleading forms.

Are they going to kill them?

His eagle eyes stared at her with coldness.

Few seconds of silence passed making her more scared than earlier.

He stepped forward, she stepped back.

Hands in front of her as some sort of shield to protect herself.

Her eyes refused to match his deadly one's.

With her little frame quivering under his coldness she wished for heavens to save her from this person's hell.

"Pleas-"

"Shhhhhhhh"

He moved closer to her, showing her his long slender finger, but not touching her lips.

"Give me one fuck*** reason mio amore...just one reason why I should not empty these bullets into your unitille(useless) brain?"

A gun was pulled out from his back pocket, making her eyes to widen.

The muzzle of the gun was pressed to her temple making her tremble with fear.

His cologne engulfed her, intensifying the level of her anxiety.

Her eyes were shut tightly as he entrapped her between the wall and his body, with not to forget a gun pressed to her head.

"Answer me!!"

His booming voice made her press herself to the wall tightly.

Her right cheek brushing it as she refused to look back, let alone answer him.

His beast was on the verge of getting unleashed and her silence was aggravating it.

Moving the nozzle of the gun from her temple to her chin, his left hand tilted her face towards him.

"Tell me mi amore...just one reason and you are free from my prison"

His coldness dropped a few degrees lower as he whispered in her ear.

"Because.....because I love you, Vincenzo...I...."

She couldn't continue any further when she saw his reaction.

The air gushed into her lungs as he suddenly moved back from her and smiled.

The gun moved down to her relief but his eyes? they showed incredulity.

"Love?"

This time he let his head fall back and laugh like a crazy person.

His eyes looking around to find others looking at the floor.

"Did you listen to her guys? This cagna here tells me she loves me?"

He was making a joke of her feelings.

The way he sarcastically and publically degraded her made tears well in her eyes.

"Vincenzo...please I am sorry"

Her voice was low enough for only him to hear.

But as soon as he heard them, they were like a trigger.

Within seconds she was again pressed onto the wall, his tattooed arms caging her.

"Don't...just don't you dare say that word!!"

He roared like a feral beast.

Her eyes failing to hold back the tears that were lining her lids.

Gathering all the courage in her, her trembling fingers progressed towards his beautiful face.

As soon as her cold fingers touched him, he rumbled at her.

Her advances were stopped as he held her wrists in his deadly grip and knocked them above her head.

Making her flinch in fear and a whimper to leave her lips.

"Don't you dare touch me with your disgusting hands again!!"

Her breathing stopped and her mouth went dry.

The anger in his eyes was something she never saw before.

Vincenzo was famous for his calmness and temper.

Then who was this deadly disaster standing in front of her?

The same hands that had caressed her body with a gentleness that no man has ever shown her before were hurting her.

They were treating her like trash when earlier they treated her like a piece of delicate glass.

"But it's true Vince...I...lov-"

"How does it matter puttana...you will be dead in few minutes anyways.

So tell me a reason to not kill you for your treason?"

She was willing to accept death.

If this is the punishment for betraying him in love, she deserved this.

Her body was quivering,ready to fall down any second without the support of his arms.

One last time she looked up at him.

His eyelashes looking longer than usual and those black orbs sucking her in their darkness.

"My answer will not change...I have and will always love you"

Her voice came out stronger than before.

With determination and truth in her eyes, she laid her heart open to the one she has loved and betrayed

His eyes held surprise for a second to be followed by indifference.

With no emotion on his beautiful face, he pulled down the barrel, ready to shoot her.

"Tst tsk wrong answer mio amore"

The coldness of the muzzle made her close her eyes.

His breath on her face, the only thing she could feel.

Taking in her last breath that was intermixed with his, she was ready to accept her fate.

"Rule 2: to kill who betrays and you puttana...."

His cold finger trailed the path of her tears and she twitched under his touch.

"You betrayed me of everything"

*bang*

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