CHAPTER XXXVII
Sophia froze, feeling blood rushing to her ears. It couldn’t be true, right?
“What-what are you saying? Where is he? Who did it? Maya? Alecia? Where are they? I- I -,”
Chase was standing in a corner, watching the drama unfold between Sophia and Roman. It made him even more angrier. Sophia wasn’t even looking his way. Her whole attention was solely fixed on Roman.
“He-Cha-,”Before Roman could complete his sentence, Chase’s fists connected with his face, and a gasp eluded Sophia’s lips.
He hadn’t touched him since he walked into the room. He had only allowed one of his men to torture him and beat him up. He only wanted to do it when Sophia was awake.
“Cha-chase,” Sophia called out.
Chase didn’t turn to look at her, he only stared down at Roman. He snapped his fingers at one of his men standing in the room, and another bulb was illuminated in another corner of the room.
Sophia’s eyes fell on the particular spot where the light was switched on, and a louder gasp left her lips. Her eyes widened, and the color drained off her face.
Hanging on the wall with their arms tied and pinned above their heads were the unconscious figures of Maya and Alecia, their hair falling over their faces, giving Sophia a clear view of the blood staining Alecia’s hair.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.
“Maya-,” She whispered out. “Alecia,” Sophia turned to Chase. “Chase-what-what did you do to them? Please leave them out of this. They-they – they all have nothing to do with this. It’s-it’s between me and you,”
Chase knelt down in front of Roman and wrapped Roman’s blonde hair around his fingers, tugging his head upwards so he’d be able to match his stare. “Should I tell you an interesting story, Costello?”
Sophia pleaded. “Chase, please,”
Chase ignored her and continued speaking. “Your choice doesn’t matter anyway. I’m still going to tell you the story. So this is it. There was this young teenage blonde haired boy who always wanted to be an engineer. You know, his life was the perfect definition of complete? He lived with his mum, dad and lousy twin sister. The boy and his twin sister worked in this small coffee shop along with a naive and innocent, pretty girl who happened to be his sister’s best friend. He then started having this crush on that girl. It started off as a small liking for her-,”Chase kept quiet to access the expression on Roman’s face.
Just as expected, he looked shocked and scared.
Chase continued. “And then, his little crush blossomed into something deeper and fierce when they all got into college. His sister and her second best friend noticed. Everyone around them noticed except from that innocent girl. She was so oblivious to his feelings, and instead of manning up to tell her, he kept it to himself like a fucking coward. He let people tease him and he blushed deeply like a fucking kid anytime he was teased about it. Then, one night, the girl he loved disappeared all of a sudden. He searched for weeks along with her two best friends and Nana, but found nothing. Eventually, her Nana stopped searching until she suddenly showed up back in college. He was the happiest man on earth to see her but he still remained a fool and said nothing about how he felt. Even when she told him and her best friends about what happened to her when she was kidnapped, he chose to remain a coward. He then brought up an escape plan to help her escape the devil she was with. Do you know what he planned?” Chase stopped.
“Let us all go,” Roman breathed out. He didn’t wish for Sophia to find out about his feelings like that. It was meant to be under the moonlight, where he would confess his undying love for her. Give her first kiss and ask her to be his girlfriend. Not that way. Not in a torture room and from someone else. Someone who clearly hated every fiber he was made of.
A small sly smile appeared on Chase’s lips. “He planned to be the hero so he would save the day. He wanted to be a gentleman and for that, he had to escape with the girl and her Nana, leaving behind his own dreams. He thought the girl would accept him but he was wrong. So fucking wrong because she belonged to the devil. To the boy, his plan was a full proof plan. A well planned one where he made fake passports and plane tickets to leave his home country. He even planned a disguise for them and a particular time where they would escape from the program organized by their college under the devil’s nose, but then, destiny didn’t want him with her. The devil was two steps ahead of him and so, his plans got ruined at the last minute. He was taken away when he got to her Nana’s place to take her and didn’t find her. The innocent girl was taken away by the devil. At the same time, his little sister was killed along with their other best friend. They were gone,” He made a pet sound and Sophia gasped but he ignored her. “They were taken away because they betrayed the man who ruled their city, and that was the perfect punishment for betrayers. Did I tell you what happened to the family of one of the best friends? They were sent off too. Their little family was sent off by the devil to go and live happily in hell,” When Roman didn’t say anything, Chase tugged on his hair harder. “Don’t you want to know how tragically this one-sided love story ended?”
Roman said nothing. He just let out a low grunt.
Chase snorted out loud. “At the end of the story, the devil showed that crush boy what being a man is. He tortured him. He told him a very short story. The boy might have wanted to hear more of the story but the devil couldn’t tell him again. His story had ended and there was nothing to offer. After that, his parents were brought into the room,” At the same time, the door clicked open and two guards walked in dragging a couple.