“How dare you, bitch!” Dante yelled at the top of his voice as he sent a hot slap across Elisabeth’s cheek. After looking for her everywhere, Viper was finally able to get her from the hotel where Max had hidden her all this while.
“I told you to never mess with me, but you didn’t want to listen to me. How dare you!” He yelled for the second time, sending another hot slap across her cheek. Her mouth is already bleeding. She is supposed to be in tears, but she is rather smiling as she stares back at him with a satisfactory look on.
“Do you want to slap me again? Go ahead and do it. Do you want to kill me? Then just go ahead and shoot me right here… Don’t forget that Maxwell and Alex will be coming for you. They won’t stop, until they hunt you down,” A smirk settles on her lips as she emphasizes her words, and he finally punches her hard in the face this time, sending her roughly to the floor along with the chair she was tied to.
He squats in front of her and grabs her hair roughly, raising her gaze to meet his forcefully. His eyes blazing with anger, his blood boiling in rage, and his fingers clamping tightly around her hair as if he is going to rip them off their scalp.
“Because of you, my family found out about everything… They are now mad at me. My precious wife is now…”
“What about Zara? What about the love you claimed to have for her? You’ve been with her for years before she demised, and all those years were filled with you lying to her. You had a family somewhere else, and yet you deceived her. And now that you want the properties, you decided to turn the little boys against each other. Aren’t you a monster?” She yells, regardless of the pain she is feeling in her scalp.
“Zara? She was just my tool for making money. I never loved her from the beginning, and when she was married to another man, I decided to be with the woman I loved. Well, I thought it’ll end there, not until after the death of Jaxon. It was an opportunity on a platter of gold, so who wouldn’t grab it if such came to them?” He scoffs as he finally stands up to his feet, and smirks.
“I was just on the verge of getting what I want, and you decided to ruin everything for me. Aren’t you shameless and a wicked woman?” He yells for the second time.
“Why don’t you just kill me, Dante?” She whimpers as she breathes heavily.
“Yes, I’m going to do just that, Elisabeth. What’s the point of keeping you alive when you’ve ruined everything for me? I have lived you alive all this while for old time sake… Because you were once my friend, but you ruined that chance, and now, you would have to pay for it with your life,” He utters before he grabs the pistol Viper was holding, and just like that, he pulls the trigger and shoots her right in her forehead.
The door suddenly bursts open, and footsteps fill the entire warehouse. Soon, Viper and Dante are surrounded by cops.
“Freeze! Drop your weapon!” The cop command Dante, and he slowly raises his hands in surrender. The gun was taken from him before he was taken away with Viper.
“Ma’am… Ma’am… You have to open your eyes, please,” Max shakes Elizabeth several times as tears drop from his eyes. He tries to bring her back, and he tries to keep his hope high that she is going to be fine, but this woman is dead. She is gone the moment she was shot in her forehead, and there’s nothing that can be done to bring her back.
“We have to take her away, Mr. Max,” One of the cops utters as they bring a stretcher to carry her.
“She needs to be taken to the hospital, ok? She can’t be dead… She is still alive,” Max cries as he watches them carry her away.
“She is dead, Max,” One of the cops pats his shoulder and releases the news to him, even though he was aware of it before.
Tears stream down his cheeks, his heart wrenches in pain and he falls to his knees, crying all alone in the warehouse. He feels this guilt that wants to consume her, this feeling that he failed to protect her. Just the thought of it is driving him crazy.
Yesterday after he left the hospital to check on Miss Elizabeth in the hotel she has been at, he realized that she was no longer there. By the time he was able to get what happened through the CCTV footage, it was already 11pm, and he had to go on the search for Dante since he was the one that took her. For the fear of having the woman’s life in danger, he had to stay up all night, trying to track down Dante’s location, since the woman’s cellphone was off and couldn’t detect the location. He could only find the location this morning and informed the cops immediately.
As he cries his eyes out, his phone suddenly starts ringing and he reaches out for it. He swipes the answer button as soon as he sees that the caller is Alex. He has asked Alex to check on Ariel at the hospital earlier since he had to come here. They have been together all night, but he asked her to go check on his wife instead of going with him to rescue Elizabeth.
“She is dead, Alex… He killed her,” He cries when he answers the call.
“Max, there is a bigger problem…” Alex’s voice sounds through the phone, and he creases his eyebrows.
“Where are you now, Alex? Is everything alright? Did something happen to my wife and babies? Is Ariel ok?” He asks worriedly as he stands up to his feet, waiting eagerly for an answer.
“The babies are here, but Ariel is missing. I’m heading to check the CCTV footage now. There is no trace of her,” Alex releases the news, and his heart sinks into his stomach as his hand drops beside him. He gulps down nothing nervously, his heartbeat suddenly stops abruptly. The time seems to be paused as he just stares into space. He wanted to at least think about something, but nothing is coming through right now.
His phone suddenly starts ringing, and he answers the call without even bothering to check who the caller is.
“Hey, Max. It has been a while,” That voice he will always recognize even in his deep sleep, sounds through the phone, and he freezes on the spot. Slowly, he brings the phone down to check the caller, and his eyes widen when he sees Mr. Daniel’s number displayed on the screen. What the hell is going on?
“Why do you have Mr. Daniel’s phone?” He asks with a snap of his voice.
“You should come and save them. I have your wife with me here, along with all her family…”
“Don’t come here, please, Max. He is going to harm you,” Ariel yells from the background, her voice fills with pain, and he feels a sting in his heart. No, this is not happening, please…