MASSIMO’S POV
Anamika’s every word pierced through my heart like an arrow. I am stunned, my head is spinning…
My angel, my tigress. How did she manage to survive that brutality, I knew that she is strong but never thought that she is this much strong.
I looked at her and she looks so emotionless. Like she is not feeling anything, Like it doesn’t matter, but I know it does.
She can’t hold everything in, she has to let it go.
I cupped her face in my hands and gently caressed it…
” Cry Anamika… Cry, let it out baby, don’t hold it back… I am here for you, you’re not alone anymore… Please cry…”
She looked into my eyes and they were totally empty, broken. No… I won’t let that happen, I want to see that fire in her eyes, I like that fire.
” You’re here for me?… You will never leave me alone, right?… Do you love me Massimo…?”
Her voice broke and tears started to gather in her eyes. Yes that’s it baby, cry, cry for me… Let it all out…
“No, I will never leave you baby… Never…
I love you, i will never leave you alone… I am here for you…”
I took her in my embrace and she hugged me back clutching onto me tightly.
“Don’t leave me alone Massimo, please I need you… I can’t live without you… Please”
And she broke down in my arms, her tears started flowing freely from her beautiful blue eyes.
” I will never leave you Anamika… I promise, baby… Never”
My grip tightened on her.
It’s almost been one hour since she is crying in my arms, my shirt is wet from her tears and I am still consoling her, saying sweet things to her.
“What was my fault, why did this happened with me, I have never hurt anyone… Then why me, Massimo… Why?…”
She was sobbing loudly and my heart broke.
” It’s was not your fault baby..
none of this is your fault… I know you never hurted anyone…
Everything is fine now, tigress. See you fought back and won. No one can hurt you now, I will not let anyone do that. I will protect you forever, trust me… I love you Anamika… ”
I tried my hardest to console her since it’s really hard for me, I have never did this before.
After sometime her crying stopped and I looked at her messy state. Her eyes are swollen and red from all the crying.
I carried her bridal style into the bathroom and placing her down I unzipped her dress, leaving her only in her lingerie, I took them of too.
I got rid of my clothes and made her stand under the shower. I slowly washed her hair and body gently. She wasn’t saying anything, she just stood there like a statue watching me.
And then she hugged me, my heart felt at peace when she did that. I am glad that she needs me, she doesn’t want me to leave her and I never will. I wrapped my arms around her and kissed her forehead, caressing her back.
I dried her’s and my body and carried her to the bed. I held her in my arms and she held me back tightly like I will vanish. I pecked her soft lips and assured her…
“Sleep baby, I am here, I am not going anywhere…”
She slowly closed her eyes and slept on my chest, close to my heart.
Now I don’t have any reason to complain why she is not loving me back, why it’s hard for her to trust me. I can understand how difficult it is for her to do it, how can she trust someone when her own family betrayed her and that too this brutally.
She is mine… I am proud of her that she fought and didn’t let her inner demons win.
She is not only a tigress but a wounded tigress and they become more dangerous and lethal when they are wounded… And that’s what exactly she did, she destroyed everything.
I was caressing her hair, helping her to fall asleep but I am far away from sleeping.
How will she react when she will learn that I am a mafia too, I am a monster too, I kill people too… That I am her worst nightmare, The mafia king.
How should I tell her that, It was me who killed those scorpions. I burned them alive…
I know how psycho they were. They kidnapped my baby sister too, they had raped her and tortured her too but before they could kill her I rescued her. She was just like Anamika, young and innocent. I did rescued her but I couldn’t save her, she lost her sanity there. Whatever happened broke her, we were there for her. Mom, dad, me and everyone tried to save her, tried to make her fight back but she didn’t. She gave up on everything, our love, her happiness, her life. She gave up before fighting and killed herself. She didn’t even tried to fight back. I can’t describe in words that how much I wanted her to fight like Anamika did. She went through all this alone, no one was there for her and still she won.
I am proud that the woman I love is strong. She is a fighter.
I killed those bastards. I Watched them burning alive, how they screamed and begged when the flames consumed their filthy bodies, it was music to my ears and a beautiful sight.
But I never thought that I am not only saving my baby sister but my love too…
Is that what we call fate, the girl I unknowingly saved few years back is now the love of my life.
I am glad that it was me who killed them, I took my revenge for hurting two precious woman of my life. I am glad that she got her freedom because of me.
But will she accept me when she will see my real face.
This is the first time in my life that I am scared.
She will not accept me if she will learn the truth.
I can’t tell her that I am mafia, she will hate me… She will leave me…
No, I will never tell her the truth…
She doesn’t need to know who I am, I will keep her far away from my dark world…
” I will never let you go Anamika… Never… You’re mine… Forever…”