TILL D£ATH DO US APART
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Ivanna was stunned, and when she tried to withdraw her hand from under his own, he didn't give her the chance. He pushed harder.
The knife blade entered more, and blood spread on his chest.
"Let go of the knife you sick thing!" Ivanna gnarled. "I won't let you die by a simple silly knife! Let it go!"
Leonardo looked like he's not even hearing her speak.
His whole mind is on the pain he's chasing, but after the little one he felt earlier, he felt nothing again.
Even as he pushed the knife deeper into himself, he felt zero, and that disappointed him so much he roughly let go of the knife.
More blood followed it out.
The knife fell from the two bloodstained hands, and a new flash of red rimmed his eyes.
He wanted to grab Ivanna's neck, too, but Robert jumped in.
His palm wrapped on Robert's neck instead, and as he choked him too, his eyes went slightly hazy.
He might not be feeling pains from the stab, but he's losing blood, and he's feeling slightly drowsy.
He didn't choke Robert for a second before letting him go.
Robert coughed out.
Ivanna stood where she stood, watching the man she hates as he displayed.
His eyes rolled, and they turned too as his legs moved back, his eyelids went red like his eyes.
Using his hand, he grabbed his bleeding chest, and he smirked, shaking his head and slipping his hair away from his face with it.
"Any guards close?!" He shouted.
As if they've been waiting for his orders, two guards came in a fast run.
"Take her, to the estate hell. Beat her till she won't be able to breathe. Till she loses blood, and her voice seizes." He ordered thickly.
"Bîtch!" Ivanna cussed as she was grabbed by the guards. "Mad bî+ch!"
Robert wanted to follow the guards and drag, but Nino pulled his legs from the ground, and Robert looked down immediately.
"No... don't go. In this state, he'll kill you if you try to stop the guards," Nino said weakly.
That was enough to stop Robert, and with helplessness, he watched as his sister was taken away.
Leonardo stepped away, too. He held his chest, and his eyes were seeing red as he moved.
Minutes later, Nino was finally able to stand from the ground, but he didn't regain balance till he drank a large amount of water.
Water poured from his mouth to his neck, chest, clothes as he drank directly from the tap.
When he was done, he still held the wall for balance.
"I shouldn't have tried to defy his orders. I was too blinded thinking Ivanna was in danger, so I wasn't thinking, and now because of me..."
"No. It's not your fault," Robert squatted beside him. "Don't blame yourself, but what technique is that? He choked you and you were powerless on the ground for over ten minutes?"
Nino looked at him and sighed. "You think he was trained by VV for jokes? He's got a number of evil tactics at hand which is why I told you to not block the guards. If he choked me for one more minute earlier, I'd die. Martial arts shii, Tai chi and the rest."
"Crazy," Robert muttered. "But how do we save my sister? She's in trouble again."
"Maybe Hilda can help?" Nino said.
--
[Healthood]
Leonardo came here by himself, from the Cooper siblings apartment.
His dizziness got worse the closer he got to this place, and when he arrived, he entered the only private ward and lay in bed.
He pressed the bell by the wall, and in two seconds, the doctor rushed in.
His eyes widened when he saw the amount of blood that has soaked his shirt, and he didn't wait before tearing off the shirt.
Seeing the stab wound, he gasped.
"Sir, did you stab yourself like this cos of your pain hunt? It's nothing you cannot do but pleasseeee! You're not a robot so stop these acts.... You don't feel pains, but you can die! What if the knife met a vital organ like your heart!" He said urgently.
Nothing came from Leonardo, and that was when he realized his eyes are closed... he's unconscious.
The doctor assembled his assistant nurses immediately.
"Prepare the stitch ward, I'm stitching him up, and get his blood type, ASAP!" He ordered.
--
[Hilda's Ward]
Robert and Nino entered, and luckily, they met the woman awake.
She didn't see them coming, she'd have pretended to be asleep again.
"Hilda!" Robert sat beside her.
"It's past 1am, you should be asleep! Didn't y'all go for the mission? You must be tired, and tommorow might be busier cos the initiation is always long, and the tattoo and—"
"Stop worrying, Hilda. We're fine, but someone's not fine" Nino cut her off.
Hilda blinked, coming to realization...
"Ivanna! Where's my girl!"
"You guessed right, she's in trouble again, she stabbed Sir Leo!" Robert said quickly.
"What!!!" Hilda got down from the bed, not minding her bandaged tummy. The pain isn't there anymore though, she's healing fast.
"How could she do that!"
"Nino thought she got poisoned, and he was trying to take her here for help when Sir Leo appeared and told her to follow. Nino tried to decline cos of Ivanna, but that angered Sir Leo and he choked him!" Robert narrated.
"What!!" Hilda shouted again. "He choked Nino? And Nino is still alive?"
"Luckily, Ivanna stepped in and stabbed Sir Leo. He could have easily dodged the stab, but you know how he is. He never runs from wounds." Nino explained.
"And now?" Hilda asked.
"He's ordered her to be taken to the estate hell, and we need your help." Robert said.
"Estate what?" Hilda gasped, covering her mouth.
She gasped again, not even knowing what to say or how to handle this.
Then she remembered Penny's visit from earlier.
<Earlier>
Hilda was eating fruits on her bed as advised by the doctor when Penny came inside.
First thing the woman did was push the fruits bowl away, and Hilda looked up.
"Mrs. Penny Armando?"
Penny slapped her, and Hilda nearly fell off the bed.
"My daughter made a move to sabotage the governor's son mission with the pollens, but I heard you gave Ivanna an ephedra hanky to fight her asthma, you're bold." Penny said, sadism crossing her eyes.
Hilda stayed quiet.
"How many years have you spent here? You've spent more than thirty years in this clan, Hilda. You were Violent Vera's only maid when she was still alive, and now that she's gone, your life is as unimportant as a passing dog's bark. Listen to me if your survival is important..." Penny climbed the bed with her.
Her heels stained the bedspread with wet sand, but she didn't care.
"You will never be a helper to the Cooper siblings again, and that can only be possible if they're gone, right? You'll help them crossover." Penny said with a scoff.
"What do you mean?" Hilda gulped.
Penny dropped a small wrap of something on her palm, and Hilda froze in place.
It's poison.
"Monika might be the poison master in this country, but there are good poison makers in the underworld hub too. I got this poison from one of em. All you have to do is sprinkle it in their food. When they die, it'd look like they died of sudden heart attack, so you'll be safe, no one will know you poisoned them," Penny explained.
"No! I like those two. Please don't make me do this!" Hilda dropped the poison.
Penny grabbed her chin, and Hilda's breaths seized.
"If you fail to do it, you know only your spine is dislocated right now, I'll have to dislocate your legs too...you know no one's gonna ask me why." Penny grinned.
Hilda went cold.
<Present Time>
"Hilda?" Robert called.
The woman has been zoned out for more than a minute now.
"Hilda!" Nino repeated.
"Huh!" Hilda looked up, getting out of her flashback.
"Are you ok?" Robert asked.
"I'm sorry, but I won't be able to help with Ivanna's trouble. You know I'm here because I gave her the hanky. Helping again would spell my doom, and besides...I don't even know how to help...no idea." Hilda said.
"Right..." Robert said awkwardly. "It was inconsiderate of us to come here. Rest well, Hilda."
Nino was looking at the sand stain on the bedspread as Robert pulled him out of the ward.
Hilda sat back in bed, pinching herself very hard.
The poison wrap felt heavy in her gown pocket, and she hated herself immediately.
Meanwhile, when Robert and Nino got outside, Robert noticed Nino's walk is somehow slow, so he went back...
"You ok?"
"Why do I feel like Hilda is under pressure from someone?" Nino replied.
"Why do you say so?"
"On her bedspread, there's a sand stain like someone climbed the bed with their shoes or something.." Nino said suspiciously.
"You think someone threatened her to not help? Then check the cameras. You have access to the footages." Robert said.
"Oh..." Nino jerked. "Gee, thanks for the reminder!"
They both left for the estate Computer Base.
--
[Estate Hell]
This place is rarely in use since there's the Painhood, but anytime sinners are much that the hood isn't even enough to contain them, then some gets transferred here.
Ivanna is the only sinner inside, and this place has the shape of a police cell with the square-spaced gate.
She's kneeling behind the gate, and her head is inside one of the squares. Her chin is resting on the metal, and her hands are wrapped on them too.
Two guards were ordered to take her, but now there are more. There are like ten of them inside this room, and their hate for her is raw.
Their comments made that visible...
• The Don is speaking good of you now, so you feel it's time to fly?
• We all know our bipolar underboss allowed the stab.
• Still, how could she stab him?
• You shouldn't be shocked by the audacity of this wench. Since they were caught on the day of their break-in and they weren't killed, you should know her wings would grow.
• She only needs a good f+k. Ghost has to shove his D up her arse and destroy her completely, then her mind will settle.
• Heard she sucked his c+k once, at the Painhood!
• Then the f+k should come next. A raw, rough one that'd make her die.
As they made the sinful statements, they unwrapped their whips.
Not horsewhips, but canes. Big, long canes which smells like hell.
Exactly the name of this place.
Two of them held the whips behind her, and after exchanging glances, they started the beatings.
Ivanna didn't move, nor did she cry.
She stayed there, sweating from the face and bleeding from the back as the canes wounded her much.
But she kept grabbing the metals tighter, till her knuckles whitened, and her chin nearly gummed with the metal she placed it on.
Vengeance, resentment and pain. Everything battled inside her head as the canes tore her.
Don't cry, Ivanna. You mustn't.
Take it. You can definitely take it.
She talked to herself till the canes broke on her, and her body slumped.
--
[Hellfire Brothel, Warehouse]
"Nicotine! Only nicotine in the front! You guys don't have ears? Nicotine! Then the ecstasy and the new xax drag can follow!" Bobby instructed the mobsters arranging.
He slammed a metal pipe on the head of one particular guy, and the guy fainted, then he proceeded the slamming the pipe on his head even when he fainted.
He kept slamming, and the guy's head smashed like pudding.
"Bob!" Bacardi stepped into the scene to stop him.
She took the pipe from him and signalled at the others to carry the dead body of the guy away.
"You f+kin killed him! Why? He made a mistake with the settings!" Bacardi cautioned.
"He shouldn't have made a mistake to start with! Get lost!" Bobby glared.
"Big bro!" Bacardi held him back.
Bobby took a deep breath.
"Now talk...what going on? You've been edgy since we returned from the mission!" Bacardi asked.
"I guess I just miss mum overly sometimes... just sometimes." Bobby replied genuinely.
Bacardi smiled...
"Me you both."
"Get lost..." Bobby pushed her forehead, and she chuckled.
Then...they got a buzz, on their phones. A text from Sandra.
Sandra; Leo was stabbed, by YKW. He's unconscious.
"Oh I'm gonna kill that girl tonight, Cardi. Call the estate funeral manager!" Bobby said, rushing out.
"Hey! Bob!" Bacardi followed.
--
[Leonardo's Citadel]
Lissa has been waiting beside the window since Leonardo left earlier, but there has been no sign of his comeback at all.
She didn't sit, she waited with unblinking eyes like a witch, and after sixty long minutes, she got perplexed and picked her phone.
She was about making a call to Emma when Emma's call came in.
"Did you see Leo leaving the Citadel? Where did he go and where's he now?" She asked immediately she swiped green.
"Sir Leo got stabbed on the chest," Emma reported.
"What!" Lissa blinked.
"And you can already guess who did it," Emma said.
Lissa's anger shot straight to her brain, so impactful.
"Trashvanna? That whoring hoe again? Her again?" Lissa repeated, getting out of the citadel already.
Emma is still waiting outside, but Penny is gone.
"Ma'am Penny left just five minutes ago cos Sir Leo didn't allow us in." Emma said.
"I don't care about mum, escort me to the hood!" Lissa snarled.
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Emma followed her lead, to the Healthood.
The doctor and his nurses has finished the stitching, and Leonardo was just getting wheeled back to his private ward when Lissa arrived.
He's still unconscious.
"Darn, tell me he's not in coma!" Lissa gasped.
"He's not that simple. He's not in coma, it's not even unconsciousness. He's just sleeping, a deep sleep as a result of the crazy blood loss." The doctor explained.
"F+k, thank shit." Lissa climbed the bed with him.
The doctor vacated the ward, and Emma left to stay in front of the door.
Lissa touched Leonardo's hair first, and then his lashes, his brows...
"I still remember when we were still youngsters, I called you Hairnaddo cos of this hairy gene you got..." She smiled, touching his angular jaws.
"No idea why you keep allowing that hoe to wound you. If you wanted pain that much, you could have told me and I'd readily whip you though it'd be hard to do, but still... It's better for me to do it than that hoe..."
When her hand got to his lips, she felt her throat moving, and her head went down instinctively.
Before she could kiss him, Bacardi came inside, ruining it.
"Oh Lissa...I know those lips are naturally and temptingly red like cherries, but you're not getting a taste. Not now, not ever!"
"I don't understand your sudden grudge with me, Cardi, but is this necessary? Are you still mad that Leo is closer to me than you even when you're his sister? Are you still mad that late Donna Vera adored me more than you when she was still alive?" Lissa laughed.
"I'm not shallow, Lissa. Leo is closer to you than us, is that why you offered him your p+$x¥ on a platter like a wh+re? Best friends with benefits," Bacardi laughed back.
Lissa's eyes widened.
"Oh don't be shocked...we were at Leo's Citadel the morning after he f+ked you, and we felt it..." Bacardi said, leaning closer.
"Jokes on you..." Lissa suddenly grinned. "Yes, we upgraded, and you should be scared cos now I have him wrapped around my fingers!"
With that, she barged out, and Bacardi blinked.
"Have who wrapped around her fingers? Leo?" Bacardi laughed, flipping her hair.
"This isn't obsession...it's something else—a desire I can't name." She muttered, facing Leonardo in bed.
"Finally you got to rest, you crazy bull," she muttered.
--
[Estate Hell]
The guards left after they threw Ivanna in the state Leonardo ordered.
They made her bleed, wounded her till she couldn't move.
She lay on the cell ground, and her breaths are faint and narrow when Lissa came inside.
With a sharp spin, Lissa laughed, spreading her arms like she's dancing.
"You have no idea how long I've awaited this day, and you look too well even with blood all-over you. I intend to worsen your situation."
Her voice carried hate and the need to destroy and ruin.
She snapped her fingers, and Emma came in with a bowl of sand.
Lissa pulled Ivanna to sit, then she held her bloody face and laughed.
Ivanna's red eyes didn't change. No expression on her face. No stir.
She looks like a killer despite her weakness, and the hate in her eyes.
"You must be hungry, you should eat something!" Lissa said, scooping sand from Emma's bowl.
She brought the sand to Ivanna's lips, trying to pour it there, but Ivanna tightened her lips, so the sand poured away wastefully.
"Mongrel! Open your smelly mouth!" Lissa slammed her head to the cell gate, and it made a loud sound.
She scooped sand again, forcing her mouth open, and this time, she was able to pour it inside.
As Ivanna struggled, fought, jerked and wriggled to break free, Lissa smirked, pouring another handful of sand into her mouth.
Ivanna's legs were going back and forth, flailing and drawing lines on the ground with the sweat.
Her eyes were stinging as she tried to not swallow any grain of sand so her asthma won't get triggered.
She gagged, and some of the sand flew out of her mouth, entering Lissa's eyes.
"Sl+t!" Lissa took the bowl from Emma, pouring the sand on Ivanna's head before grabbing her neck.
She lay her on the cell gate, pressing her neck with it.
"You will not touch Leo anymore! You will not touch him even if he gives you the chance to do that!" He yelled.
Surprisingly, Ivanna laughed through her near-death condition.
Despite the fact that Lissa is pressing her neck that hard, she talked...
"Seems like...me messing with him...drives you...mad. Watch how I do more. I won't stop till I...make you insane... Lissa Armando." Ivanna laughed through her gag.
"Sl+t!!" Lissa let go of her neck then raised her hand to slap her...
And that was when Bobby entered.
Lissa's hand stopped in the air, and Bobby scanned the cell, seeing the mess of sand and sweat on the floor.
"She stabbed Leo, she should be punished accordingly!" Lissa said.
"You won't be the one to decide that. Step away, I wanna be the only one inside with her." Bobby said point-blank.
Lissa stood.
"Are you starting to shun me? You grew up together with I and Leo! You were like the third wheel of our friendship and—"
"I've never been a fan of history, Lalissa, don't be an idiot. I'm not shunning you, just telling you to step away...for now." Bobby said blandly.
Lissa snickered at his face, then she left with Emma.
Slowly, Bobby squatted.
"I came here with plans to kill you after I heard what you did to my Leo..." He whispered.
"Then why aren't you killing me?" She asked weakly, blood staining her teeth and whole mouth.
"Leo isn't daft, he let you stab him and you know it. He let you whip him, too. He's a pain-addict. I'm gonna leave the judgement to his hands when he wakes from his deep sleep, but I can't say the same for Lissa. Lissa would probably kill you before then..." Bobby replied.
"Why are you saying this?" Ivanna asked slowly.
"I'll station my personal guards here, they'd stop Lissa's entrance, and in return...when you get pardoned, you'll go on a mission for me." Bobby said craftily.
Ivanna spit out sand and blood, then she faced him again, shaking.
"Deal."
Bobby smiled, the menacing one.
--
[Penthouse]
Don Anthony has been in his gazebo since he left the sanctuary.
He hasn't entered the main penthouse, talk more of the bedroom. Whenever Felicia is mad at him like this, he stays away.
Not because he can't calm her, but he's not in the mood to put her to sleep this night.
If Violent Vera was still alive, tommorow would be her birthday for this year, so she's partly in his mind.
As he sipped his Budweiser alone, he received a call from Padrino Marko.
The Padrino is late Vera's father, and he still remained the Padrino when after Vera's death cos...
Their family is crazily powerful. No one can stand them, down in Italy... They rule the Ndrangheta.
Padrino Marko is probably gonna talk about Vera again, so Don Anthony didn't pick the call.
When the ringing ceased, he received another call.
Thinking it's Padrino Marko, he didn't bother, but when his eyes caught the screen, he blinked.
It's not the Padrino, it's Thaddeus Armando—Lissa's father.
Thaddeus is Anthony's best friend just like Lissa is Leo's.
"What's up, rogue!" Anthony laughed.
"I'm not in any mood to laugh, Anthony. My ears are full. What's the thing with you taking thieves into the mob? And that too without calling the brigadier meeting to inform the brigadiers?" Thaddeus said.
"Even in jail, you're well-informed than outsiders," Anthony muttered.
"Leo is in on this. I mean Leo—your favorite man—the man you've always wanted for your daughter—he's the biggest supporter, so why make a fuss? Besides, the Cooper siblings are good, I witnessed their performance." Anthony said.
"I'm still gonna talk to Leo myself, but for now...you know better than to take them in without proper information...this would implicate you in the future, and my daughter is mad about it, even my wife! We're closer than this, Anthony. We shouldn't hurt each other." Thaddeus said persuasively.
"By tomorrow, they receive the tattoo. When you come back, you'll witness their performance yourself." Anthony replied and hung up.
He resumed drinking, and Felicia snooped back from the gazebo corner where she has been listening from.
She went back to the bedroom and dialled Penny's line...
"Thaddeus talked to him already, but seems Thony is madly determined this time..." She said.
--
[Computer Base]
Nino and Robert ransacked every system, watched and rewatched every footage, but they found nothing at all.
No footage in the base showed that anyone came to threaten Hilda in her ward.
"You think we were wrong?" Robert asked as they stepped out together.
"Can't say, yet. Something still feels fishy..." Nino said.
"I can go to Miss Bacardi, for help..." Robert suddenly said.
"Why didn't I think of that!" Nino snapped his fingers.
Before he could say more, Robert was already bolting off.
"Such a dutiful big brother..." Nino chuckled.
Moving forward, he met Sandra in front of the base.
"I need someone to wash my underwear, and I feel like I got the perfect person." She said bossily.
"Under what?" Nino mumbled.
"I'm not repeating my words, come with me.." Sandra led the way.
"The hell?" Nino muttered, but he masked his reluctance and just followed to avoid additional trouble.
--
[Next Morning, Crimson Cave~Trap Room]
Hayden sat on the ground, face down and elbows on his knees, breathing in the smell of melting wires.
This is how he has been sitting since last night like a statue.
His head went up when Bradshaw came in, and he quickly stood.
Bradshaw held a tray of food which he dropped down in front of him.
"I'm not hungry, let me see Monika," Hayden said.
Bradshaw picked the food tray back, smashing it on Hayden's head, crashing the glass and wasting the food away.
"It's Leader, how dare you call her by her name!"
Hayden touched his head, seeing blood, he gulped.
"Let me see Leader..."
"Much better, but you won't see Leader cos you wanna see her, you'll see her whenever she wants to see you. For now, you'll stay here!" Bradshaw growled.
"Aw, you're being too harsh," Moo replied, entering the room.
Hayden exhaled.
"Leader said we can let him out and allow him mingle with the gangsters this morning. By noon, she'll call for him." Moo continued.
Hayden was pushed out of the room, and when they got to the corridor, they left him.
Hayden gulped, again.
Looking up, he found himself in the midst of dangerous looking gangsters, and they're all looking at him like he's their meal, their prey.
They're all more than 5 and 6 ft tall, so tall he feels like the shortest despite his own height.
The air felt new, the eyes felt thorny, and their presence felt choky.
He eventually moved his legs, but one of them instantly walked to him...
"In here, only Bradshaw and Moo and Leader have showers in their rooms, the rest of us have to get water from the well at the back. Leader believes carrying the buckets of water upstairs is a form of training us too,"
"So?" Hayden said.
"Now that you're here, why not fetch? There are twenty barrels upstairs. Pick two buckets, and start fetching from the well into the barrels. You're not stopping till you fill em up," they instructed.
"And if I say no?" Hayden talked again, and that was replied with a tummy blow from that gangster.
Hayden's body slammed on the corridor pillar, and he groaned as he was dragged upstairs.
They shoved his face into a barrel of water, forcefully making him gulp it while their laughter shattered.
At the upper staircase, Moo and Bradshaw watched with crossed arms
"Poor him, his welcoming ceremony will be painful." Moo smiled.
Bradshaw was silent.
--
[Years Ago~House Of Esposito]
Ten year old Lissa stood under a fig tree somewhere in the clan, trying to reach for her earring that's hanging on one of the branches.
The earring somehow flew out of her ear when she was self-training under the tree, and she might be averagely tall, but the branch is taller.
She kept tipping on her toes, arm raised as she tried to reach it.
No success.
"Goddamn! Stupid tree!" She cussed.
Then...a taller shadow covered her from behind, and a longer hand stretched higher to take the earring.
Her nostrils recognized that cedar scent and musk, so she turned with a little smile to see Leonardo.
They both wore black training gears, same design and pattern. They finished their morning training with Violent Vera just an hour ago, and Lissa came here for self-training alone afterwards.
"Hairnaddo," she teased.
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Leonardo immediately threw the earring back to that branch.
"F+k you!" She pushed him.
"Stop calling me that tasteless name, I'm not the first hairy dude alive," Leonardo replied dryly.
Lissa twisted her lips, then she released a sigh.
"Ice cream later? Your mum forbids us from having it, but we can hide in the crypt and have as much as we want," she whispered.
"Sorry to disappoint you, but we have an outing with mum right now. We're going with her to the amusement park," Leonardo replied flat.
"Master is taking us to the park? Why?" Lissa asked.
"No idea yet... We'll have to find out." Leonardo shrugged.
"Nardo! Lalissa!" Vera called from the park, and the two marched there.
They got in the backseat of the car, and Vera drove them in the front, looking as stoic as ever.
Lissa placed her head on Leonardo's shoulder, dozing off.
Leonardo stirred in the private ward bed, and his eyes opened, taking in the bright lights at once.
It's a dream, not a nightmare this time. A simple dream.
He sat up in bed, and the doctor entered at the same time.
"You're awake, sir!"
"How many stitches did I get?" Leonardo asked, cracking his neck and knuckles.
He got down from the bed.
"Just seven stitches on the stab, sir." The doctor said.
"Yo! Brother!" Bobby strolled leisurely into the ward.
"You have a knack for showing up unannounced," Leonardo said as he walked past him.
"I live for n+k£d surprises, especially if it's for the one who had his pawn locked up since last night." Bobby said intentionally.
Then... Leonardo's mind revved back. He remembered ordering the guards to take Ivanna last night.
He instantly left the hood, strolling to the estate hell.
Even before he entered, he could already hear the thrashing sounds from the guards. They've started the round two of the beatings.
Entering the cell, the guards stepped back, acknowledging his entry.
"Welcome sir..."
He only gave them an eye twitch, and they understood immediately.
They left the cell.
"You're a tough one, wonder woman, and it mightn't be cute, but sometimes...it's s+×y." He muttered, taking a bucket of water laying by the dry wall.
He poured the water on Ivanna's body on the ground before going on a slow squat in front of her.
Her eyes are red, again. He has barely seen her without those red eyes before, and it made him smirk.
"You're a interesting one, too." He laughed shortly, crazily.
When the laughter stopped, it's like he wasn't the one who just did it. He snapped back abnormally.
Then he brought his hand to her face, staining his thumb with her blood.
That intrigued smile is on his face as he dragged the bloody thumb from her cheek to her chin where he pressed hard.
"What are you gonna do now? Beat me another uninteresting hundred?" She muttered.
Leonardo sighed, lips redder.
"That's boringly repetitive, I don't plan to give you that revenge yet. Die with anticipation, and for now...you should get a breath of fresh air to prepare you for what's coming." He whispered devilishly.
Before she could say something degrading, he already swept her up into his arms, fast as air.
Ivanna didn't struggle. It'd amount to nothing anyways.
Instead, she stayed still, looking forward to where this is going.
Leonardo left the cell, stepping out into the estate. It's still as early as 5, so just the guards are on standby.
Corridors and hallways are still unfilled, and there's still silence.
Just the sound of his footings and her own harsh breaths accompanied them to wherever he's going.
She was looking at him throughout, and when he felt her hate on his skin, he gazed down at her.
Seeing her hateful stare, he smirked again, mixed with his sick smile.
No utterance at all, till he arrived at his Citadel.
He wanted to open the elevator door with his face recognition, but before he could, the door opened.
Lissa came out, and her eyes popped when she saw the waiting scene.
Ivanna in his arms???
"Leo, what are you —"
"Go to Bobby's Suite or Sandra's Condo. Don't come back here in the next one hour." Leonardo said.
He entered the elevator, and Lissa's arms dropped.
"Leo!!!"
Her voice echoed in the elevator, and as the elevator door started closing, Ivanna looked up.
Her patience payed, after all. Lissa,now it's your time to run mad.
Her eyes met with Lissa's, and her dry bloody lips parted...
"Whore..." She mouthed, then intentionally placed her head on Leonardo's chest, smiling psychotically before shutting her eyes
Lissa's mind scattered, literally.
The elevator door closed softly, locking her outside.
TBC.
I love the outbursts ending 😂
ReplyDeleteomo ,hmmmm
ReplyDeleteSis Naomi next please
ReplyDeleteHaters should go and die
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