Differences

Chapter 24 - Luke

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Warning: This chapter mentions a lot of inappropriate language, gory images, violence & abuses continued from the previous chapter. Please take care of yourself and read what is most comfortable for you.

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I was unable to return back home for a couple of nights.

With the project now well underway, a lot of other shit had to be written up, checked, and finalised. Where should we locate the casino? In which way should we offer our goods in the most tempting way? How should I present myself to successfully fool the filthy rich in believing they were in safe hands? The questions, the plans, the ideas, were now never ending, but it was now definitely on the right track.

Courtesy of Alaina's ideas. God I missed her so much now.

But even though I was returning back home for the first time in almost a week, I was going back to an empty home.

Unfortunately, Alaina was going back to her home, something about talking to her parents. I genuinely wished that I was able to go with her. Her parents are definitely fucked up in the head one way or another. I don't trust them at all. But my hands were tied with my duties, and I was more than aware she was capable of taking care of herself.

I arrive at my home and begin to walk my way up the driveway to the front door, the house dark, no lights on. Obviously. I punch in the code and let myself inside but instantly feel something odd lingering with my own home. The faint smell of copper filled my noise.

Blood.

I abruptly turn on the lights and find blood trailing up the stairs, coming from the back exit. I instinctively check my waist to make sure I had a gun within reach, and inch closer to the trail of blood.

No one was supposed to be home tonight. Noah was at some school camp, Charlotte was out with her friends for some sleepover, my parents were still working, and Alaina was supposed to be back at the De Luca residence for the weekend, knowing that, my parents gave Leila and Ryan a few day leave because they weren't needed for the time. That only left one reason.

Someone, dared to intrude inside. But who?

But why would there be blood if it was an intruder?

I walk along the trail of blood, going as quietly as I could, anticipating the intruder to still be inside, which was highly unlikely, but if anything was taught in this life as part of this world, it was always better to be safe than to be dead for stupidity. 

The trail of blood led up the stairs which then abruptly stops in front of Alaina's door.

I open without knocking, anticipating the said intruder to be in my wife's room, but no one was to be seen. But as I look around the room more closely, I could see the light from the ensuite seeping through the cracks. I walk towards it, slowly, cautiously, and softly open the door.

A faint gasp falls from her mouth. My wife's mouth, as though she was caught doing something she shouldn't have been doing. She was half naked and I could see the sea of purple bruises that covered almost every inch of her body that I could visibly see. What I imagined to be wounds on her thighs were covered in thick layers of bandage, but the blood continued to seep through spreading down to the tiled bathroom floor. And her face. Her eyes were bloodshot, cheeks puffy and red, and her lips, still ever so slightly bleeding.