Tattered Love

Chapter 22

I don't know how long it's been since I was knocked out. I don't even know where I am besides chained up by my wrists and ankles in a dusty old cellar. I also know I'm lying on a cot. I do know I have a pounding headache. I've never missed home more than I do now. When I say home I mean the home where I live with Alessio; not my parents' home.

What the hell did they inject me with?

Knock out gas?!

Heels clacking against the wooden floor draws my attention away from my pounding skull. The cellar door flies open as I curl tighter into a ball on the cot. I press my eyelids close to where my face looks like I am in pain. Through my tightly closed lids, I can see the light turn on.

"How much ketamine did Arcabald give her?" A female's low voice echos in my splitting skull.

"I don't know. But, she's been out almost a week. I know one thing; she needs a fucking shower. She smells." A male voice muffles in the room. Slowly, I open my eyes and see two blurred figures hidden in the bright lights.

"Sleeping beauty has woken up. Good, you need a shower. You smell like shit." The male says in an unusual chipper tone. His accent is thick as he speaks. Before I could protest anything, I'm grabbed roughly from the chains around my wrists. I'm yanked out of the small uncomfortable cot and stumbling across the uneven rough wooden floors. Through my hazy vision, I'm shoved roughly again to a small room by my chamber.

"Shower!" Is all the female says. I recognize her voice but I can't put a face to it. The heavinessof the chains are lifted from my body.

"Don't try anything stupid. Guards are stationed around this building. We will be outside this door. Clothes are on the sink. Now, shower." He orders.

"If you must try anything stupid. Just know we aren't afraid to shoot Mrs. Greco in the head and send back Alessio's wife head in a box." The woman threatens in a cold tone. I do as they said... I hop into the shower. The old tub has no hot water. As the cold water hits my delicate skin, my soul soars out of my body. The coldness of the water has me rushing through my shower routine just so I can feel the warmth of clothing back on my body. My shower lasts only five minutes. I literally jump out of the tub and slide into the skin just to escape the coldness. My nipples are so hard, it hurts. I quickly change into fresh clothing. The sweats seem a little big as well as the sweatshirt. It smells as if it's from a male. Do I care at this moment? No, it's keeping me warm and that's all I care about. I open the door to better vision and see the two people I should have known.

Ana and Andrè.

Andrè snaps the chains back around my wrists and ankles yet again.

"Let's go." Ana snaps as Andrè pulls on my chains. I do as I'm told because what can I do in chains? Nothing. We enter my lovely smelly chamber and the door slams shut behind me.

"This is what you're going to do." Ana starts. Halfway through her rambling I zoned her out. Until she had mentioned divorcing Alessio. This peaks my interest. Why do they want me to end my arranged marriage for? Thinking about divorcing Alessio, my heart tightens. Maybe I have fallen for my asshole husband but I won't let anyone see the effects he has on me.

"If not, important people will die because of you." She finishes. I raise my brow for someone to continue the explanation.

"We have guns pointed to your loved ones and the Greco's. Now, go through with the divorce and no one will get hurt." Andrè threatens in a cold tone. Now this has my attention on both of them.

They're that selfish they'd murder innocent people? They'd kill Andrè's own blood? What is wrong with these people. Without thinking, I knew instantly what I must do.

"I'll do it."

"Good, just know we'll be watching you. If you pull any stunts; we'll end your life along with everyone else's." Ana says with a smirk on her face. As if she just won the fucking lottery. Just like that, I'm blindfolded and whisked out of my smelly torturous room. A clicking noise sounds as I'm shoved into an opening. Metal slams and before I can process what is happening. The car starts and begins to take off like a bat out of Hell itself. The trip isn't long, maybe twenty minutes drive. My blindfold is taken off and lastly my chains. The door opens and I'm shoved out the parked car. I glance around and realize, I'm half a mile away from home. The SUV speeds off and disappears from my sights. Each step I take, the more my heart tightens. The more I dread making it home. The more I dread seeing Alessio. He might not want me as a wife and I sure didn't want him as a husband.... But, I've grown to love the evil man. It was inventible from the start. As I walk up to the gates, I can hear the guard screaming for someone. By the time the gates opened, a masculine body collides with my own before my sight completely goes out.

The smell of the male as I go unconscious tells me I'm safe because I'm in the arms of Alessio.