Till Death Do us Apart - Episode 83&84

 

TILL D£ATH DO US APART

Till Death Do us Apart - Episode 83&84

(The•Devil•I•Loved)

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[Cooper Siblings Apartment]

The pounding palms by the door wasn't enough to jolt Leonardo out of his eating exercise.

Ivanna's chest was thundering when she heard the whispers coming from Robert's voice.

She could swear he's outside with Nino cos she heard breathings of two people. The over-sweetness of Leonardo's kiss didn't stop her. 

The warmness of his hands on her breàsts didn't stop her either. She broke the kiss, and Leonardo wasn't unrestrained this time. He let go.

But he only broke the kiss, he refused to lift his body from hers and free her. He lowered his gaze from her face to her chest, staring at the nîpples which are pointing, deeper brown and begging for his fingers.

He touched them again, caressing with his thumbs. He pressed them, keeping the heat attached.

"You've got the s+×iest nîpples I've ever laid eyes on," he whispered.

"My brother is outside, Leo." She replied, wanting to pull her singlet down to cover up.

He held her hands, pinning them up to the doorframe.

"You mean to tell me he doesn't deserve to see this drool-worthy scene?" He whispered.

"Gawd... You're so filthy!" She pushed herself free from him, pulling down her singlet fast.

She began arranging herself, wanting to erase all suspicions, and as she did, Leonardo watched her with sleepy, needy eyes, so hungry and wanting with a clean curvy smile on his lips.

After she was sure of her wellness, she opened the door, and she wasn't surprised to see Nino is already holding door-breaking tools.

Robert is ready to hold the doorknob for him too, but they both stopped when they saw them.

"Sir Leo?" Robert blinked.

"Ivanna?" Nino blinked too.

Leonardo simply walked off, ignoring both guys totally.

"F+ker.." Ivanna muttered to herself, making sure the two guys didn't hear.

She could still feel her n+ples breathing under her singlet. No—her br+sts as a whole is throbbing, wanting more of his savage touch.

She folded her toes inside her sneakers, staring at his back view with the guys till Leonardo went out of view completely.

"What was that?" Robert and Nino asked at the same time.

"Um... nothing much!" She quickly replied, going inside.

"Nothing? Sir Leo entered our apartment and you said nothing? I swear I've never seen him entering any apartment in this estate except his Citadel. That man doesn't even enter his siblings apartments!" Robert said loudly, following her sister.

Nino stayed outside, staring at the door as if he was suddenly gummed with the ground.

He heard faint m+ns from inside earlier, so he knew exactly what was going on. He knew something intimate went down between Ivanna and Leonardo.

He turned his back to the wall, staying there with a heavy chest.

"What do you mean nothing? Tell me why exactly he came here! Did he hurt you again?" Robert said inside, still following Ivanna around.

"Robert get off it. He just came to have a talk, now excuse me!" She snapped, entering the bathroom and shutting the door at his face.

She stripped and got under the shower, surprised at how she's at peace with herself.

Last time when his mouth was on her tîts, she had stayed in this bathroom, clothed, drenched and feeling like filth for more than an hour, but now...

She looked down at her chest. It's still so pointed, craving and obviously starved. She felt throbs down there too—between her legs.

"F+k... Ivanna..."

She closed her eyes and hugged her n+ked body as water slapped her skin gently from above.

--

[Sheepfold]

Lissa ordered Emma to get a chair and chain the couple to each one.

Emma did just that.

Erica and Leroy were bound to different chairs, and they even look more miserable now.

Long dirty nails, their barefoot looks like they've been rolling in mud all their lives. They stink.

Lissa sighed, and she stepped in after Emma stepped away.

She rested her palms on the armrest of Erica's chair, bending her figure so her face is just above the woman's.

"Your daughter Ivanna sinned again, Erica. How do you want me to punish you this time?" She whispered.

"Do... Don't touch my baby girl.. Don't.. hurt her..." Erica murmured, her voice grainy and pained.

Lissa laughed, pushing the woman's head with the pliers she's holding.

"Your love for your daughter is bringing tears to my eyes,...this is so lovely to watch...aww. She was daring enough to try and take Leo away?" She laughed again, scorning and evil.

Using Erica's hair, she dragged her neck to the backrest of the chair, so it hung there like a sinner's neck waiting for the death blade.

"Stop telling me to not hurt your daughter. Hurt is not even on the list of things I wanna do to her. I wanna kill her!" Lissa snarled.

When she let go of Erica, she went to Leroy, holding the man in the same position she had held the wife.

"And you...so what if my father cheated you and took the money you both worked for? Do you even deserve the money? You're an illiterate who has no idea how to use money, your wife is even useful than you cos at least she went to school! Your children entered the clan to claim my family money, and Leo was merciful enough to let them into the mob! Now it's my duty to make sure they never survive, especially your Senior Girl!" She laughed.

"Please...don't touch...Ivie..." Leroy cried bitterly, helplessly.

Lissa let go of him, then stood between the two chairs.

"I took you both from the hospital and had Emma perform surgery on you both to save you, then I brought you both here cos I knew I'd need people to vent on anytime your daughter annoyed me. Also, I needed trump cards—something to control your daughter with later." She said.

Her eyes balanced back on Leroy, and she took the man's right finger.

She clipped his thumbnail with her sharp pliers.

"Now I want you to scream!!" She shouted, pulling at that thumbnail with the pliers till that nail pulled out of his thumb.

That nail spot was white for a second, then blood poured.

"Arghhhhhhh!!!!!!" Leroy's mouth opened up, his scream rattling the fold to it's foundation.

Emma stood still by the door, watching like she doesn't spare a care in the world. She doesn't care.

She picked her phone and texted island......

• Hey, slave. You have a job to do on Christmas. Call immediately you see this, or you'll be dead!

--

[Dew Hospital]

Thaddeus was escorted inside by his guards, his bald head catching the shine of the hallway lights. 

Every nurse, resident or doctor on the way gave him a bow cos basically, his family owns this hospital.

When he entered Penny's ward, the woman has been tilted up by a pillow behind her head, and she's eating fruits from the hand of a nurse

"Look who's getting better," Thaddeus smiled, taking the fruit plate from the nurse. He took over the feeding of his wife, but Penny held his hand.

"How did it go? No one gave me the full gist. You told me to deny Felicia, I need to know the reason." She said.

"She was locked up, Padrino is gonna settle her case after Christmas. I suggested crown of thorns, seems she'd really get killed with that. Now that Anthony's biggest supporter will soon be gone, one problem solved," Thaddeus shrugged.

"You're still not telling me everything," Penny said.

Thaddeus fed her a slice of peeled apple which she ate.

"Of course. I want my family to climb even higher, which is why I've been itching to make Lissa carry Leo's baby and give birth to The Outfit heir, but Leo doesn't look like he's ready to listen to his granddad. The Senior Girl bewitched him, I think." Thaddeus shrugged.

"And?" Penny pressed.

"He got sent to Britain to deliver our biggest sales ever to the British kingpin, and he'll be going without the clan's protection." Thaddeus further talked.

"It gets interesting from here...I guess." Penny smiled.

"Yeah. It's either my daughter carries the future heir, or I become the Don myself." Thaddeus said.

"Don has to leave the position for that to happen. Also, Leo has to..."

Penny locked eyes with Thaddeus, the air stilled around them, and the man smiled.

"I get it, like mad." Penny replied, eating another apple slice from him.

"You've always been my biggest backbone, Penny. You don't stress me, but our daughter is doing just that. I don't understand what Lalissa is keeping," he sighed.

"Trust me, I'm more fed up than you are. I even thought her episodes has ended cos she never had one when you were in prison, but now she got it so bad she stabbed me." Penny said.

"I know what to do to make her open up, leave it to me. But when did she start going to this secret place of hers?" Thaddeus asked.

"It was after Stanley's death. After you burnt Stanley on that bridge and went to jail, she started going to that place." Penny replied.

"Also, before I went to jail, she was against getting in a childbearing relationship with Leo, but after I went to jail, she started claiming Leo as hers," Thaddeus muttered.

"You think this is connected to Stanley's death?" Penny inched close.

"We'll have to find out, wife." He nodded, suspiciously.

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[Four Days Later, House Of Esposito~ Dungeon]

The dungeon looks like a hellhole, one of the underground chambers of the estate. This place is even darker than the Padrino's office.

Smells like cockroaches and bugs, sounds like crickets and croaking frogs. The lights are shaking, so if you do not watch your steps, you'll fall into the sandy ground.

The ground isn't concreted, so it's all sand and filth.

To avoid falling over, Don Anthony held a yellow lantern as he entered the dungeon through the stairwell.

His hair has too much snowflakes like he has been staying in the snowfall all his life. Even his suit is full too.

It's snowing heavily outside cos it's one day to Christmas. 

Christmas Eve is tomorrow.

He finished descending the steps and even became more watchful of the stumbling stones on the ground. His lantern caught lizards crawling the wall, cockroaches crawling.

He walked in the embrace of silence till he got to the gate of Felicia's holding cell.

She sat on the bare ground, shaking with cold and chills, but she shot up immediately she saw him.

"Thony! Thony are you here to get me out? Huh?" 

He placed his hands on the cell metals, and she held it with the metals from inside.

"It must be so hard in here..." Anthony muttered with contagious pains in his eyes.

"Thony..." She sniffled.

The hole in the cell isn't enough for him to stretch his hand inside, so he has to make do with the little hold she has on his knuckles.

"Why would you do that? I never complained about your childlessness. Why would you even cut your fingers for Island?" He muttered.

"Thony I swear. I never made such plan with Island to make her birth me a baby. I agree that I added the crushed taboo rose to Nino's tea at the teaparty, and it made him lose his senses till he slept with Island."

"We decided to call it rape to trap him with Island cos Island liked him, and I just couldn't watch her suffer unrequited love. I couldn't watch her suffer. When I picked her up as a kid, I was still poor back then, but I still did it cos I loved kids. Even if I can't have one, she was like my own child."

"I loved her too much I sacrificed my fingers to get her the ointment at the underworld hub, I just didn't expect her to... to deny..."

"Felly..." Anthony cut her off, and she wiped the tears on her face.

"Mmn,"

"I believe you," he replied.

"You do?" Hope shimmered in her eyes immediately.

Anthony nodded.

"But the control of this empire fell in the hands of Marko already. Even my position as Don can do nothing cos it's being threatened. Now, Thaddeus is even more powerful than I am presently cos Marko trusts him more than anyone. I see myself getting retired soon." He said.

"What!"

"I knew I wouldn't last cos even my name is unheard in this empire. I'm Anthony Coker, but Vera forced me to bear her surname Esposito. I was like his wife while she was the husband. Then she died and I married you, and you even beared her surname with me..." Anthony smiled.

"Why are you saying all these?" Felicia asked.

"I promise I'll find a way out. I'll get you out of here. But you have to endure the cold cos I'm not even allowed to bring you cover clothes..." He said,  still smiling.

"I can endure, and I'll wait. I'll surely wait..." She nodded.

"I have to go now before I get caught here and Marko will get mad." He stepped back.

"Tell Nino I'm sorry, and tell Sandra I'm sorry too. If I'm lucky to get out of here alive, I'll personally apologize to them." She quickly said.

Anthony nodded, and he didn't look back the moment he turned.

He wiped his tears till he was on top of the stairwell, then he looked back once before leaving.

After he made his exit, Leonardo came out from behind the door.

He stood on top of that stairwell, eyes unreadable, darkness looming uncontrollably in the two.

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[Padrino Marko's Office]

Bobby ditched the warehouse for this place, but he didn't put the sales on hold so he won't alert Marko.

He simply told the mobsters to carry on with the sales while he came here for what he wanted.

He stole the key card from Renata's pocket, so opening the door was cake.

He sneaked in and got to work, searching the pile of documents on the table and the ones on the shelves.

Marko has lots of documents about his killings, and his eyes nearly started turning at a point.

One hour was all it took for him to get done. There's no sign of Wendy.

He picked the laptop on the table and opened it, maybe there'd be clues in there, but password...

Password is needed, but he has no idea what it might be.

What would the password of a man like Marko probably be?

He's too dark to comprehend.

He tried Vera's birthday, and of course it wasn't it.

"Shit hole," he muttered.

He tried Leo's birthday, but it still flashed red.

Incorrect.

He was about to try for the third time when the door opened, letting Renata inside. Her hands in her coat pockets.

Bobby straightened, turning around.

"You stole the key card from my pocket and think I didn't know?" She said frankly, staying still.

"Aunt Rena, I needed it." Bobby groaned, short of words.

"You're not daft, Bobby. You know whatever dad hides from his grandkids, he won't leave it in this office, and you think he's not watching you right now?" She pointed up at the hidden camera on the office shelf.

"He's watching this office from his room in the valley. You won't find anything here, Bob."

Bobby came to get her immediately, pulling her out of the office.

"I suspect Wendy's betrayal was a setup, she didn't really betray me!" He said desperately.

Renata's eyes shadowed, but not for long. She sighed.

"I can't help, Bob. I'm currently trying to have a merry Christmas for the next three days, so I'm staying off father's case." She said and left him there on the hall alone.

Bobby snickered, acidic and sour. "Everyone's scared of that man, and it's starting to grate on my nerves."

--

[Cyber Hall]

Tierney and Ginny are surely having the best time of their lives, eating gizzards and working. There are tons of empty plates around them.

Hilda is like their anchor. 

The old woman stayed behind them, hyping them up and encouraging them to click faster.

Ginny is on the tenth mathematical illustration, and Tierney is trying to hack the eleventh game.

"Whoever finishes first gets to eat the rest of the gizzards!" Tierney suddenly said.

"You'll do anything to have food on your table, isn't it?" Ginny scoffed, and he laughed.

They focused again, each tapping away like born professionals, and as fate would have it, they both finished up at the same time.

They grabbed the gizzard plate at the same time too, standing.

"On our next mission with Crimson Cave, I'll be the one to give clear direction to the mob!" Ginny said.

"And I'll be the one to open the vault! Don't try to talk me down! It won't work!" Tierney glared.

They started dragging the plate, and Hilda just left them alone, sitting to watch who'd later get the plate.

"You and your two last born again," Renata smiled, coming in.

"Rena! You should have told me you were coming, would have made spicy snails!" Hilda stood.

"It's Christmas Eve tommorow, so leave it all till tomorrow. We'll have the fun we all want and we can even go clubbing!" Renata held her.

"As much as you're trying to look and sound lively, your voice lacks life. Why?" Hilda asked.

Renata sat, doing the last two buttons in her coat. "I don't feel good about Leo's flight to Britain tommorow."

"The flight is tomorrow?" Hilda sat.

"He'll be meeting the kingpin on Christmas day, so yeah...he has to fly tomorrow." Renata replied.

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[Don Anthony's Office]

Anthony came straight here from the dungeon. He just sat tiredly on his chair, palm covering his face.

Christmas period like this is always festive here especially tommorow that's the Eve. 

Leonardo and his siblings would gather under the oak tree to spend time and share their childhood dramas, and Anthony always made sure to spend every Christmas Eve with them under that oak tree.

They mightn't like his presence, but he always stayed.

Now it's in chaos this year.

They've all been busy since the start of this week, and even tommorow and that Christmas day will be more busy for everyone.

Leonardo is flying to Britain for a meet tomorrow too.

Felicia is in the dungeon.

Thaddeus is rising fast, and Marko is scattering things.

Can this Christmas get any darker?

Anthony's hand left his face when Leonardo entered the office.

"Son?" He stood quickly.

Leonardo didn't talk, he just sat in front of the man like a visitor.

"Did you have the bombardier jet prepared already? You're flying tommorow yunno? And try as much as possible to her careful. There'll be no clan protection, but I trust you" Anthony said awkwardly.

"Have you eaten at all since the past four days?" Leonardo asked suddenly, blank and unfriendly.

"Huh?" Anthony blinked.

That question from Leonardo?

"Oh...I...ate some cereal and—"

"Follow me, to my Citadel. Come for a meal." Leonardo rolled eyes and stood, leading the way out.

Anthony blinked in disbelief after Leo exited, then he gasped.

"Wait for me!"

He rushed out.

--

[A Free Road]

No car in sight except two sports cars.

Nino and Robert are in the one—Nino on the driver's seat and Robert as his passenger.

Ivanna is in the second car, alone.

She wore a cowboy hat, bum shorts, a armless cropped top. Hair is down and dyed wine, excess makeup.

She's trying her best to make Christmas memorable for herself, trying to forget the struggles for today, tomorrow, and Christmas.

Her false lashes weren't blinking, so her eyes are on par with the sleek road as she drove smoothly.

She wasn't even driving. She was jumping, flying.

She's currently in a driving competition with Nino, and she can't even deny the fact that Nino is living up to his 'Chaser' nickname.

Nino can even drive a jalopy car, so this new sports car in his hands looks like an automatic card to madness.

The asphalt stretched out before them, wide and silent, a black ribbon glistening under the pale wash of streetlights. No crowds. No engines but theirs. Ivanna’s fingers tightened around the wheel, pulse syncing with the low growl of her car as Nino’s headlights slid up beside her like a challenge whispered in the dark. 

As he drove, he gave Ivanna glances through the car window.

When Ivanna slammed the accelerator, the silence shattered. Tires screamed, engines roared.

They flew down the empty road, the night wind clawing at Ivanna through the open window as Nino tried to box her in. 

His car edging closer, daring her to flinch—she didn’t. She cut hard, drifting just enough to steal the lane and his breath with it. 

At the final stretch, Nino surged, desperation in the way his engine howled, but Ivanna pushed harder, her headlights swallowing the road.

"Howwwlllllllll!!!!" Nino screamed with pumping excitement from the passenger seat.

The cars jumped on a sloppy part of the road, and they both screeched down, reversing before entering a new street entirely.

They entered a junkyard at the same time. No winner, no loser.

The yard is the rendezvous of a minor drug cartel, so they came here intentionally.

They've been eliminating cartels since the start of this week, following Marko's orders.

They started from the small ones, and they're still on the small ones. They might start with the big cartels tomorrow, and by then, they'd get out of this playful mood.

At the junkyard, the druggies are in clusters, but the moment they sighted the cars and the drivers tattoos especially the one on Ivanna's neck, they bolted off, leaving the three cartel owners in the yard.

The three men didn't get the chance to run off, so they beared it all alone.

Nino and Ivanna continued their chase, using their cars to chase the three men. The men ran around the yard fearfully, begging for their lives.

Robert is just laughing at the back, stuffing his mouth with chips.

Ivanna nearly hit the third man, but she reversed sharply, giving him false hope that she's done with him.

Then...she started chasing him with the back of the car. She's driving backwards, chasing like that.

"She's insane," Nino laughed with admiration from his car.

"I know I know. Hilda said she's the Whip Huntress, now I agree." Robert replied, and Nino grinned.

They chased the three men around the yard for as long as they liked before Ivanna finally called it off.

Robert pulled his gun first. He started the crusade, shooting the first man on his forehead.

Nino went next. He shot the second man on his heart.

Ivanna picked her whip and came out of the car, heels drawing patterns on the concrete as she followed the third man. 

She began whipping.

No stop. No halt. No mercy.

Nino and Robert watched her heartless whippings till she whipped the man to death.

For real. To. Death.

The man fell on a pile of drugs, lifeless and bleeding from his several peeled pounded flesh.

Ivanna's bloody whip was dragging sassily the ground as she began walking back to the car.

Her waist whined without trying, her hips moved gracefully. The bum shorts carried the body.

Nino gulped at the unparalleled perfection, he couldn't look away till she entered her car.

They drove away from the yard.

"Our mission will get too serious as from tomorrow. We're done with the minor cartels now. Tommorow, we start with the Toga brothers!" Robert said loudly.

Ivanna's earbuds are on, so she can hear him from her car.

Toga brothers own the second largest cartel in this city. They come after the clan's Hellfire Brothel.

"I can't wait..." Ivanna sighed.

She wants to smile, but her eyes are on a street board that says...

"Parents are the biggest treasures"

She kept staring deeply, and all her highness and excitement from some minutes ago flew away instantly.

"It's Christmas Eve tommorow, and this wicked Padrino won't even let us club?" Nino clicked his tongue.

"Simple, we can just finish early and go clubbing." Robert said.

"Toga brothers aren't people you can just finish early," Nino said.

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[Drug Control Office]

The Esposito sisters are outside the building—in their car.

They've been staking out since four days ago, waiting for when they'd get their hands on the bold CEO, but there has been no sign.

It's like someone informed him, but if that was the case, he'd have fled the country totally.

He's still in the country, just hiding, and soon, he'll come out of his hole.

"He posted another article, just now." Sandra said, handing her tab to Bacardi. Bacardi took it and read.

INHUMANE! TWENTY CITIZENS ARE IN THE PSYCH WARD AFTER THEY INHALED THE BANNED DRUG VELKRONA. VELKRONA IS STILL IN SUPPLY BY THE TOUGHEST EMPIRE IN THE COUNTRY—THE OUTFIT. I HOPE THE GOVERNMENT CLOSES DOWN THE WAREHOUSE!

"Twenty? The count just rose to eighteen this morning and he's saying twenty? When I catch this bastard!" Bacardi spat.

"It's Christmas in one day, he's gonna come out of his cocoon." Sandra shrugged sharply.

Bacardi dropped the tablet and drove them away from the office.

"Are you holding back from Robert cos of granddad?" Sandra suddenly asked beside her.

"Sandra—"

"If you keep holding back for the rest of your life, you might really stay virgin till you die like Bob would say..." Sandra said.

"I hate you and Bob," Bacardi muttered, and Sandra chuckled.

She rarely smokes, she uses vape pen when she wants to feel hot, so she fished out a vape pen for herself.

As she smoked, Bacardi stepped heavily on the accelerator, speeding with Robert in mind.

--

[Crimson Cave, Hayden's Room]

Hayden threw his last pair of clothes into his black backpack, then he zipped it up and sat in bed.

It has been confirmed that Leonardo is flying tommorow, so Monika is sending him to Britain too.

He was already spacing out when Bradshaw entered the room.

"Here," he handed him his new passport which Hayden took slowly.

"First time you'll be flying first-class, right? When you left New Orleans and came here, you probably flew economy." Bradshaw mocked.

"You're from New Orleans, I heard you have a sick mother there. I'm also from New Orleans, and I've been meeting cool New Orlean peeps all my life. You happen to be different—a inbred monkey. Each time I see you, i wanna puke!" Hayden slammed.

"You don't wanna start!" Bradshaw pulled him up from the bed.

He almost slammed him with a punch, but Moo entered.

"Were you both cursed to raise fists anytime you both meet?" 

Hayden pushed Bradshaw away from himself, then he dusted his clothes as if Bradshaw is dirt.

Bradshaw scoffed.

"We have the Toga brothers to work with tommorow, Bradshaw, and Hayden has Britain to fly to. Stop being a divk." Moo cautioned.

"Of course I'm the problem, he's your lackey anyways." Bradshaw huffed and barged out.

"I didn't do that to save you," Moo told Hayden.

"I've never needed your saving, Moona." He replied sharply.

"I noticed you call me my full name. Only Leader does that, you're unruly." She said.

"I do what I want. She has me on a weekly poison leash, I should at least anchor my own activities since she's already anchoring my life." He replied and entered the bathroom.

Moo stepped back, smiling slyly before eventually stepping out of the small room.

"Wonder what kinda poison Leader has been making since yesterday. She hasn't left the distillery." She muttered by the door.

--

[House Of Esposito, 9pm]

The two sports cars ate up different spaces in the general estate park as they drove in, and the occupants came out at the same time.

Nino immediately hung his arm on Robert's shoulder.

"We should go drink. Let's go to the estate general bar!"

"I'll meet you guys there. I'm going to go see Tier and Gin first." Ivanna said.

"Don't take long!" Nino smiled and pulled Robert away.

Ivanna opened the car door again, getting her phone from inside.

When she shut the door, she wasn't surprised to see Leonardo behind her already. Since four days ago, she has been busy with cartel clearance.

She returns to the clan at 11 or 12 with Nino and Robert, always tired. They returned early today, so she expected him to appear.

"You actually wore that out on a mission with two male genders?" He said, voice charged but controlled, eyes on her navel.

"One is my brother, and the other is my friend." She replied boredly.

"With your chest popping like that and your arse cheeks out at the back? Your navel is fuckin' out!" He snapped, eyes turning.

"Cos it's my body! MINE! Even if I f+k men, it's none of your business, Leo. I allow you to touch me doesn't mean I'm feeling you!" She snapped.

Leonardo's head tilted, that coal-like redness crossing his eyes. His brows curved, his lips tightened. His knuckles felt tied, bloodless.

"F+k..." He muttered, suppressing the anger inside him that says KILL HER, BURY HER, BURN HER BODY.

"What? You thought I was feeling you? It's basically h+rniness. Anyone can feel horny and allowing you to touch is a way of using you to take care of myself! I won't feel someone who still has the skeleton of his mother in his possession!" She continued, and he fled to her.

Her neck received his hand again, squeezing tightly with the intent of killing. Digging into her windpipe and blocking her trachea.

Her legs left the ground. She began coughing. Their eyes locked. Toxicity met craziness. Stubbornness and Madness. Her eyes reddened like his own. Difference is that hers is cos of pain but his cos of anger.

She didn't struggle. She stayed slumped in his arms, even smiling obstinately as he choked her against the sports car.

Her phone fell from her to the ground.

"F+k another man? You seem to not know the intensity of what you're inside. The p+×sy between your legs is for my c+k to claim, even if I have to rape your @r$e ti take it!" He growled, slamming her back on the car window.

It cracked, her neck muscle sprained.

"You're just a love-starved man who gains pleasure from control! You want to control everyone and everything! You attack people who won't bend for you even females! And I repeat. I own my body! Allowing your touch was using you to cure my h0rniness! You're the same person who won't even allow me to see my parents what the f+k!" She shouted, saliva drooling from the corners of her lips.

He leg go of her, and the moment her legs hit the ground, he wanted to slap her immediately...

"CHUBBY!" She shouted.

His hand paused, his eyes dilated a bit. His head turned.

Ivanna held her neck, coughing out blood as she spit saliva out...

"CHUBBY!" She shouted again, and he stepped back.

"CHUBBY!" She said for the third time, and that was the last.

He turned around and walked away from that park.

Each step he took, the nickname resounded in his skull. The closer he got to his Citadel, the closer he got to insanity too. Vera's voice sounded in his head and resounded.

Even his one voice sounded.

It happened when he was just three years old.

"Lock him up in the dungeon! No food! No water! No air! Let him deflate and lose all that weight! He should have started trainings since he was two, but I waited cos of his chubbiness, thinking he'd lose weight naturally, but he's not! Get him locked up!!!" Vera's voice resounded in his head.

"Sis, you can't do that! He's naturally chubby, so what? You can still train him like that! Don't do this to him!" Renata's voice said.

"Train him like that? Everything is too much for him! The hair, the weight, even the fairness! Get me the clan barber to give him a buzz cut, get him tanning cream for his skin, lock him in the dungeon. No visitation! He only gets a drop of water and three spoons of food per two days! I'll make him hate food so much he'd be scared to eat! He wasn't born to eat! He was born to be a king for this empire!" Vera's voice said.

"Lock him up!!!"

"Mum no. Mum... Mum!!!!!!!" Leo's voice screamed.

By now, Leonardo is inside his Citadel already, but the voices still hasn't stopped in his head.

As he had the flashbacks, he felt his chest tightening.

He wasn't breathing till he got to Mommy's Room, and pushed the coffin containing the skeleton away from the table.

He brought out his lighter, hit it on and threw it in the coffin.

The coffin wood is flammable, so it caught fire immediately.

He stood there, watching it burn. His breaths came back, but he was inhaling smokes as he breathed.

The fire spread from the coffin to the ground to the tank to the ceiling, eating everything till it bursted out of the roof, burning bright.

Fire surrounded him inside the room, but he didn't move.

He looked like a hellhound as the fire blaze brightened his face.

He still didn't move. His head is still buzzing with the flashbacks.

"THREE SPOONS! YOU EAT MORE THAN THREE SPOONS, THEN YOU'RE AN UNFORTUNATE CHILD!"

"A SMALL CUP OF WATER, TWO MILLILITERS!" 

"BARB THE HAIR AWAY! HE LOOKS UGLY WITH IT! IN FACT, SHAVE HIS EYEBROWS!"

"HE'S A WARRIOR, NOT A MODEL!"

"TWO HOURS OF SLEEP IS ENOUGH FOR A GOOD BOY! UP!!!"

He was laughing dementedly as the words resounded, over and over.

Inside the estate, Bacardi and Sandra are just arriving at the park, and when they came down, first thing they saw was the fire.

"What the hell what the hell!! Fire in the Citadel!!!!!" Sandra shouted.

"Oh no! Water system! Leo better not be inside! Water system!!!" Bacardi screamed as the mobsters started rushing out of their apartments with wide shocked eyes.

Ivanna who's still sitting at the park got up, and her eyes widened too.

"Leo!..."

TBC.

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