BRUTAL MINDS (A DARK ROMANCE)

CHAPTER 50- FINDING ALLISON

            It was getting dark. Hades wasn't coming. She kept sobbing hopelessly in the dark. Her stomach was growling from hunger. She hadn't eaten anything since the day before and breakfast that morning was too foul to consume. Besides, she wouldn't trust whatever those men gave her. Was this how she was actually going to die? From starvation?

Careful darling, this world would be in trouble if you died.

                 She smiled, faintly hearing his voice in her head. That was solace enough. Knowing that if she were to die there and then, he wouldn't rest until he's found the perpetrators of this crime. The door came open much later. She heard footsteps approaching her.

Hades?

"Why haven't you been eating, darling?"
She got stunned by the familiar voice that brought back bitter memories. He crouched down and took off her blindfold. Allison squinted her eyes in the dark.
"Davian?" She gasped.
"I could say that I've missed you but it wrenches my heart that you do not feel the same." He smiled. His eyes trailed the cuts on her arm and legs. "You shouldn't have refused to eat, now look at your perfect skin." He added, remorselessly.
"What do you want now? I have no more business with you."
"And you wouldn't have if not for your husband."
"Hades?"
"How could you Ally? You left me for my uncle? That psychopath?! I expected better!"
"Atleast he wasn't the one who cheated on me with my best friend." She retaliated, sharply.
"Oh...? Esra....it would interest you to know that she's lying cold now."
"Wh...what? What the hell? What did you do to her?"
Davian shook his head. "Nothing, she tried to run off with my money. I had men trail her down. She wasn't willing to give up the money and they had no choice but to gun her down."
Allison gasped, horrified.
"Oh don't worry, dear. You won't be dying by a gun. If I'm going to pay Hades back in his own coin, I'll have to use the methods he used on me."
"What... do...you mean? She stuttered, no doubt scared.
"That scumbag kept me locked up in a dungeon and tortured me for four years all because of you!" Davian yelled, upset.
"Why?" She asked, confused.
"He blamed your death on me. Said I was the reason you tried to get away from LA and met your fatal end in that road accident but you're alive, aren't you?"
"What? But that...but that wouldn't make any sense!" _Why would Hades do such a thing, four years ago?_
"However, all those punishments I suffered, just can't be in vain now, can they?"
"No please no."
"I'll just have to make sure you die....for real this time."
Allison fisted her hands, upset.
"You wouldn't dare touch me!"
"Oh? Is that so?" He mocked.
"He'll find me and God so help you because he will kill you and that'll be after he's made you suffer ten times worse."
Davian laughed, mockingly.
"Now I feel sorry for you Allison because why? No one is coming to get you out of here and certainly not my uncle."
"You don't know that!"
"I do...because I've sent Lisa to him. As a diversion."

Lisa?

              Urgh! Why did that make her feel nauseous. His perfect ex with killer hips. Perfect! She was going to make sure to keep steering him away from where she was actually held and all in the guise of helping.

I'm screwed!

"Before you die in a few days, I might as well make one confession."
"What?"
He leaned in and whispered. "I was the one who turned off your father's support and ended his pathetic life."
Allison gasped, shocked. "YOU!"
"Yes darling, I thought that after his death, you would run right back into my warm arms like you always did. Given that I'd be the only you could think of that would love you at that time but you just had to go running away, didn't you?"
"It was you! You animal!" She cried out. "And you made me blame it on Hades all these years."
"Turns out the two of us are just a couple of sadists but what made Hades so special to get married to?"
"He would never hurt me." She said, having no idea where those words came from.
"Oh? Is that so?"
"Why that look?" Allison feared he had something to reveal that she wouldn't like and she had had just about enough of being disappointed by the ones she loved.
"Did you know that the conditions for your contracted marriage was on his terms?"
"What do you mean?"
"All he wants from you is a child."
"I know that."
"Oh? So you do know that this will be your next only chance to give birth and you'll be handing him your child. Leaving you childless forever?"
"Childless? Forever?" She scoffed. "Come on Davian, I thought better of you. I can always have another child."
"Then you don't even know your own history."
"What history?"
"A genetic flaw among women from the Doreen line. They only give birth once."
"That's not true!"
"How do you explain your aunt not being able to give birth after her first miscarriage?"
Allison bit her lips, refusing to believe him.
"Hades knew all that and still went ahead with that condition." Davian added.
"What? No...I'm sure there's some sort of explanation...he wouldn't..." Tears of hurt, welled up in her eyes.
"Yes he did. I'm sorry Ally, seems no one truely ever loves you."
"N..o." Tear streaked down her eyes.