Warning!
The below chapter contains violence and abuse which few readers may find disturbing. I advise you to skip it if you can not handle it.
Davina’s pov:-
“What?” I whispered,
“Yes…” She sobbed, “They killed him!”
I stared at her in disbelief, tears rushed to my eyes, all my emotions rose at a time and I just couldn’t control myself. Tears rolled down my eyes as the memories of him hurried out in my mind,
“I’m so sorry,” his voice and the last words he said to me in the past rushed back to me,
“How did this all happen?” I asked controlling myself to cry in front of them,
I closed my eyes and controlled myself, I stared at her while she kept crying out. She tried to control herself and answered me,
“It… It all started… four years back…” She glanced at me, I could see guilt in her eyes as she avoided eye contact and stared at her lap.
“After… After Allen and I got married… we decided to leave this country and move to another place…” She began all the things that happened four years back flashed inside my head, I tried to shake it off and listen to her.
“We were driving to the airport… and suddenly a group of men, dressed in black suits with masks on their faces kidnapped us… they injected us and threw us in a car… when I woke up… my legs and hands had chains which were connected to the walls…. I was alone in a dark room,” She said,
I glanced at Arthur and saw him listening to her, “They held me and Allen captive for years…” She sobbed,
“They had us kept in different rooms… Every day a man wearing all black used to give me food and water…after brutally beating me,” She cried, “I don’t know why that person tortured me and Allen… I used to hear screams from Allen’s room… he would scream and beg the person to leave us…”
Jesus! Who was the person and why did they kidnap them?
“He never said why he kidnapped us or why he’s torturing us…” She sobbed, “Sometimes he left us without food and water for days… he would starve us for no reason… he made me eat raw meat multiple times… And I always used to find him laughing while he kept beating me… he enjoyed… watching me all beaten up… Covered in blood…” She said,
Hearing her words my insides shivered, I just can’t imagine the pain they went through. Tears rolled down my cheeks as Allen’s smiling face flashed in front of my eyes. I placed my hands over my mouth as I couldn’t just control myself.
Allen… I’m so sorry!
As I tried not to sob, I felt Arthur’s hand on my knee, I glanced at him with my tears full face and tried to calm myself.
“Do you see his face or anything?” Arthur asked,
“No… I never saw his face… he used to cover his face and use a different colour contact lens every time he visited me… Although once I tried to get away from him and saw a small skull tattoo on his forearm,” She said, staring at Arthur with her tear-stained face.
“But Allen saw him… before killing Allen he showed his face to him…” She said,
“The room you said… ” She turned to Arthur, “Where you saw the dead body… that’s where I was kept… they killed him in front of my eyes…” She said with a fresh set of tears filling her eyes.
“They?” Arthur asked,
“Yes… it was two of them…the person who used to torture me every day bought someone with him that day and … they both killed Allen by torturing him first and then taking his life… I still remember his last words… he was laying in the pool of blood… he kept begging them to leave me and do whatever they want with him,” She said while crying hard,
My heart clenched at her words, I let the pain wash over me as I stared at her with tears streaming down my eyes.
“Are you sure they’re men?” Arthur asked for which she nodded her head,
“Why did they do this?” I asked unable to control myself,
“I don’t know!” She moaned in pain, “I asked them… I begged them to tell me what we did to them and why were they doing this to us? But they never told us the reason…”
All of a sudden her pregnancy hit my mind, I glanced at her flat stomach and couldn’t stop the words which rushed out of my mouth.
“Your child? Where is your child?” I asked,
Hearing my words she glanced at me, and there was a sudden silence in the atmosphere. She just stared at me and I waited for her response. The tension in the air was high, my heart kept pounding against my ribcage as I stared at her blank face.
“My baby… ” She whispered while shedding tears, her hands moved to her stomach and tears rolled down her cheek.
“He said that I lost my baby…” She said while staring at my face,
“What?” I asked in confusion,
“From the day he kidnapped me… he kept beating me and abusing me… Because of his merciless physical abuse… I went into labour and lost my consciousness… when I woke up… he told me that the baby was no more… ” She said while closing her eyes and tears streamed down my eyes.
“He not only killed my baby… but also brutally tortured us for years…. And then… murdered my husband in front of my eyes…” She cried her eyes out.
I glanced at Arthur with tears rolling in my eyes, he wrapped his arm around her shoulder and tried to console her. She immediately wrapped her arms around him and began crying her eyes out while hugging him.
I stared at them quietly while letting myself feel regret and guilt for hating Allen, for thinking that he’s living happily with her when in reality he was mercilessly tortured for years. He was held captive for four years and here I was cursing him every single day for what he did to me.
I wiped my tears and got up from the bed, I glanced at them before turning back and walking out of the room with tears rolling down my cheeks. All these years I was so selfish, that I kept hating him for what he did, but in reality, he was suffering more than me in the hands of that man.
How stupid I was, I was so blind that I couldn’t see his sudden absence from here and not even bothered to care to know where he was.
Jesus!
I opened my bedroom door and saw April sitting in the middle of the bed, waiting for me with a sleepy face. I quickly wiped my tears and walked inside while closing the door behind.
“Where were you?” She asked while yawning,
I just smiled at her while trying to hide my sorrow and walked towards her, I climbed the bed and laid beside her while pulling her down with me. She moved closer to me and looked up at my face,
“What happened?” She asked staring at my face,
“Nothing,” I smiled while trying to make sure I masked my feelings,
She nodded her head, “Can I ask you something?” She asked while staring at the ceiling.
“Ask,” I replied stroking her hair,
“Who was that Aunty?” She asked,
Hearing her question I immediately understood who she was referring to, “She’s Arthur’s friend,” I replied shortly.
“Will she stay… with us?” she asked looking at my face,
Even though I don’t know the answer to that question, I thought.
“Sleep now, April,” I said while closing her eyes,
“No… Tell me!” She said while pushing my hand away,
“I don’t know… She’s not well,” I replied while sighing,
“Oh…” She said while staring into space.
She kept quiet for a while. I was lost in my thoughts, I glanced down at her and saw her sleeping peacefully. Pulling the blanket over her, I sat up and leaned my back to the headboard. I pulled my legs over my chest and laid my head back while staring at the ceiling.
Tears rolled down my eyes as the things she said earlier rushed to my mind, I don’t know what to say or feel right now. The thought of him being no more was hurting me as much as the day he left me for Olivia. I never thought he would go through this kind of torture for years, I was so wrapped in self sorrow that I never thought of other things.
For four years they both were held captive and tortured for reasons unknown to them, she lost her child and her husband was killed right in front of her eyes, I don’t know what she has been through. It’s horrible to even think about it.
Why would someone do such horrible things to them? What is the reason? They just killed him? Just like that? There has to be a reason behind killing him? Behind kidnapping them and torturing them? Holding them captive for four years and physically torturing a pregnant woman is a beyond terrible thing! She lost her baby because of the abuse.
Who was the person behind all this? Why would he do that to a pregnant woman?
Oh my god! Did the person who followed me back in the woods, was he the one she was talking about? Was he the man who killed Allen and her baby?
Jesus Christ!
Author’s Note:-
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