Consequences

Chapter 28: My Girl

ARIANA'S POV:

When my eyes were wandering around that magnificent and familiar room, I noticed a photo frame on the vanity. Wrinkles formed between my two brows as I narrowed my eyelids to understand whose photograph was in it. I was feeling extremely nauseated and dizzy which made it more difficult for me to see things that were in a distance from me. Something about that photo frame ignited a eagerness in me and instead of running away from that place, I decided to take a closer look at it. I took two steps when someone walked into the room and stood right behind me as he asked, "What are you doing here, Red?"

I gasped out of shock and fear as I heard that voice which sounded too familiar. I turned around and was surprised... in a good way. I saw someone I could trust in a place full of unreliable people. One of Xander's most trusted men was here to help me escape this place! Tears of joy and longing rolled down my cheeks as I muttered, "Thank God, Xander sent you to rescue me!"

"No," he said in a dreadfully cold and evil voice, "Stefani didn't send me."

I frowned and asked, "Then who sent you?"

"My brother," he replied. His voice was drained of emotions.

"Never knew you have one," I sheepishly said and then, asked, "Who's your brother?"

"I'm his brother," Jax said in a deep and wicked voice as he entered the room. A devilish smirk was there on his face which made my core treble with terror. I could neither believe my eyes nor could I believe what I was hearing. I was in a state of stupefaction as I retorted, "WHAT?! How's that possible?! D-don't you work for X-xander?!"

"It's just for show," that backstabber replied with a smirk, "The only thing I do is act as a trustworthy person in front of Xander Stefani so that I can spy on the whole gang and have them all killed!"

This made me furious and I fumed, "He fucking trusts you and you're backstabbing him?! He'll kill you as soon as he finds out about this!"

"We don't need to worry about that, Red," Jax giggled, "Because right now, he thinks that you're the traitor who backstabbed him and he won't hesitate to kill you as soon as he'll get his hands on you. We manipulated him into thinking that you're the spy and not my brother."

He slowly walked towards me and I froze with horror at every word he spoke. Then, he whispered on my ears, "That's why he hates you more than anyone or anything else, little one."

Reality hit me like thunder. This was the reason why he never came to save me! I could feel a staggering pain on my chest as a knot formed on my stomach. Tears rolled down my cheeks, continuously. I was shuddering for breath and was sniffling.

He hated me. He wanted to kill me. He misunderstood me just because his enemy filled his ears with words of hatred against me. He trusted them over me and this could only mean one thing. He never trusted me enough because I was always a no one to him.

"Does it hurt thinking that he trusted us over you? That he never trusted you enough in the first place?" Jax asked with a sarcastic sad face.

His brother remarked, "He hates you so much that all he wants to do right now is kill you. Everybody wants you dead, Ariana. Your existence doesn't matter to anyone!"

I felt lost and broken. My only hope... my only light in this darkness, faded. I didn't know whether to cry or feel numb. The hardest thing to let go are the things you never really had. And at this point, I decided to shut down my emotions and be blank. I wanted to be numb because I'd rather let pain destroy me than everyone else.

"Jax, lock her inside her room and tie her up," he continued, "We need to prepare her for the auction!"

I didn't say anything. I didn't even gasp out of shock or trembled out of fear. I didn't wail out of anguish either. What I felt at that moment wasn't something I could express. I felt worn off as if my limbs were about to stop functioning. I felt as if my heart was about to explode. I felt as if my brain lost it's ability to think properly. It felt like I was a moving corpse. I looked at the floor as they pulled me to the shabby room I was in and then, they locked me there. I sat on the ground with my knees on my chest. My hands were on top of my head as I started pull my hair. My eyes were bloodshoot. But, I still didn't cry. All the good memories I had with Xander and his family circled my mind. But, I still didn't cry. Flashbacks of the funny and crazy moments with my best friend came right in front of my eyes. But, I still didn't cry. Thoughts about how my freedom got snatched away from me five years ago shrouded my mind like a heavy covering of snow on top of a dark mountain. Terrible memories of how they killed my family and then, raped, tortured and abused me in each and every day of my life hit me like a dagger into one's heart. But, I still didn't cry. But tomorrow, I was going to become a sex slave, a prostitute whose body was on sale for some desires of some starving monsters. No matter how hard I tried, I always ended up being forced into submission and from tomorrow onwards, rape would become a part of my fate. I couldn't hold my emotions anymore. There was no one over there to see me. So, I burst into tears.