Sofia’s pov
I could barely drag in a deep breath without my chest rattling from pain. It must have been over three days with me not getting a wink of sleep. Somehow, I still found myself wondering how tears are still able to slide out of my eyes. It felt like I had cried out every damn teardrop in me, but still, the tears still kept on falling.
My wrist hurt from the amount of hours it spent being tied up, and every inch of my body felt like it was on fire from too much pain.
“Luca is such a bastard, such an undeserving one which I can’t wait to put a bullet into.” Ryan had muttered with so much venom while littering kissed the bruises over my arms.
As he kept going on and on, I wondered how he had managed to hide the fact that he hated Luca for over a year while diligently following all his orders.
“Did you know that at first, I wanted to take your life?” He asked one night out of nowhere, jolting me out of the sleep I had begun to fall into. It felt like he had brought that topic up in order to keep me awake throughout another night as a form of punishment.
“I initially wanted to kill Luca, actually. Let me start from the start. I joined his train of guards by killing someone and taking on his identity, and it wasn’t too hard to manipulate the information uploaded on goggle, thanks to the hackers on my team. Luca is extremely tough to crack, way tougher than I expected, which was why it took a while for me to even come close to taking him out, because Iike I anticipated, I never got stationed to directly guard him: the guards allowed to directly guard and follow him everywhere are people who have worked with him for years.”
He paused and threw me a look, and then he rolled his eyes. “You seem very curious, princess. Want me to continue?”
I remained silent, but he continued either ways.
“As if the heavens wanted to help me out, you came around at the perfect time. Before you even accompanied him home, I had made the needed plans with my team. I planned to take you out, easy peasy.”
He let out a sigh and took another sip of his drink. “Do you know what happened?”
Once again, I remained silent.
“I fell for you. That’s what happened.” He explained. “I couldn’t bring myself to hurt you despite how much I tried, and believe me, I tried. You were just too cute, a scared lil Angel, what sane man would wanna hurt you?”
“Since I cared for you more than I should, I decided to have you for myself and take Luca out of the picture. Isn’t that the perfect plan? Everyone in my gang loved the plan. They all love you, by the way. They’ve met you a handful of times without you knowing and they all like how cute you are. If they didn’t like you, they’d have wanted you dead instantly.”
After that, he said a few more things but at that point, I was no longer listening. When he rose from his spot on the couch, he brushed his lips over mine before exiting the room, and I dry-heaved from disgust once the door closed after him. If there was a little food in me, they’d have all come up by now, but my stomach was completely empty, another means of punishing me so I wouldn’t ever try running away.
Each time I think about the woman who had apparently tried to save me, my heart always goes out to her because of how she had just died for nothing, and I didn’t even know what she looked like. Apparently, the woman had been someone working for Ryan’s team, like a house help. I tried forcing myself to stop thinking about that for now because of the pain it was bringing upon me right now, and it worked– but next, my mind went back to what had happened the night before.
It had happened in slow motion, that I had almost not believed it. Ryan had quietly entered the bedroom and joined me on the bed. My hands had still been tied, and he had begun to kiss and touch me. As I struggled, he reassured me he wasn’t gonna fully take me yet, but was going to wait until he had completely taken Luca out of the picture. That didn’t stop the tears from falling, nor did it stop me from feeling less disgusted. His hands wandered over my body as he shoved himself between my legs. His hands felt like insects crawling over every inch of my body, which brought back dark, horrible memories of my childhood which with the help of Luca, I’ve been able to fully bury. When his hand settled on my bare chest, his lips trailed over my face, lapping my tears up like the sick monster that he is before lightly trailing over my throat and in then between my bare breasts.
I let my eyes fall shut and tried to make myself feel nothing as he took, and took, and took.
When he finally rose off my body, he promised to make it feel nice for the both of us when he’d finally get to have me fully, right before exiting the room, leaving me feeling extremely tainted and broken.
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“Hurry the fuck up, honey, we don’t have time.” Ryan held the car open for me while his eyes darted around.
“Why?” I croaked out.
“Cause your dear husband has somehow found out about this new location and is on his way, but we’d be out of here before they get here. All they’d meet here is a bomb, which would lead to their deaths, easy peasy… I’m such a genius, don’t you think so?”
As he continued to speak, all my mind registered on was the fact that he said Luca was coming for me, and that he planned on setting a trap for Luca here.
I took a hesitant step back and shook my head, pulling the coat tighter around me. “I don’t want to.”
He threw his head back and groaned a little. “I don’t have time for this, Sofia. Get into the car right now.”
And once again, I refused. Before I could blink, a slap had landed on my face. I let out a sharp cry but was still adamant on staying behind. That prompted him into rolling his eyes and bundling me into the back of the car.
He stayed outside and made some arrangements before finally settling in the driver’s seat, and as the car pulled out of the compound, I noticed another car pulling up, filled with men dressed in black, carrying equipments which I assumed is for setting up the bomb.
I kept on staring out the window as the car sped up, with my heart in my throat, while saying a silent prayer to heaven to keep Luca safe for me.