Finding Love

Chapter 21

HOOK

I don't know how long I've been hanging up by my wrist in these chains but I know it's been a while because I can no longer feel my arms or hand.

Clenching my jaw I turn my head to the door as it opens to reveal the little woman Rumple is so caught up with. It still boggles me how this woman cares for the crocodile. "What do you want?"

She glares at me and slowly shuts the door behind her. "I'm in here to get you down from there and give you some food. Be happy I came at all." She mumbles holding a bowl of soup and putting it down before releasing the chains pulley and letting me down on my feet. My arms still shackled and above my head.

"That doesn't answer my question. Why are you here? I tried to kill you and I'm honestly tempted to do it now if you relieve me of these chains." I say being honest.

"That's why I'm not going to relieve you of the chains. I'm going to feed you. You need to eat. Besides no one deserves to be tortured like that even you." She said firmly holding a spoon to my mouth like a mother feeding a child. I don't open my mouth because frankly I'd rather starve.

The door burst open causing Belle to jump in fright and drop the bowl of food. "Belle! What are you doing?!" Rumple shouts storming into the room.

"I- I thought I would feed him something." She stammered looking straight at him with zero fear written on her face. Huh, so it's not that he's attracted to a submissive it's that she has actual courage and he doesn't. She's not afraid of him.

"What?! No! Get out!" He shouts at her then snaps his fingers poofing her somewhere else.

I begin to laugh and shake my head at him. "I don't get what that woman sees in you."

"I could say the same thing to you about my daughter. She just admitted to loving you and made a deal with me." He said magicing off my chains and setting me free. "I can no longer harm you or torture you in anyway."

"What exactly did she have to do to make such a deal with you?" I grimace at the thought of her having to do something for him in order to save me. She loves me? But a treated her like shit.

"She drank a forgetting potion." He grinned maliciously.

"Let me guess, to forget about me?" I scoff and shaking my hand a couple times as the feeling is finally coming back into it.

"Oh no. I want her to remember you. You're my ticket to getting my family back together. Your heart to be exact is my ticket. But there's a different reason as to why I'm here. I want your help. There's a man that has caused my daughter great pain and I want your help to kill him. Call it a bonding moment between father and soon to be dead boyfriend." He giggles gesturing between the two of us.

"But you can't kill me if you promised not to harm or torture me." I frown confused as to how he plans to end my life.

Rumple sighs dramatically. "That's because Evi is the one that's going to end up killing you. Not me. Your death will finally reunite me with my son and we'll both be there for Evi to pick up the peices. You will be nothing but a rotting corpse. But so will the other man. Let's focus on his death shall we?" He asks as if my death by Evi wasn't a problem.

"Were you even able to get a name of the man out of her? Because I couldn't no matter how hard I tried. All I know is he tortured her enough emotionally that she has a split personality- shit." I curse after I said that. From his expression it's obvious he had no clue about that bit of information either.

"Split personality? Is that why she said her name was Evidence then Evelyn?" He asks and I stay silent not wanting to reveal anything else to him.

"Your silence gives me all the confirmation I need. This is wonderful news! I've decided to put the whole running after the other guy aside for now, dearie. You want my daughter? Let's find out if she really loves you as much as she says she does." He giggled and left the cell. The door clicking shut behind him. What could he be up to now?