Stolen And Shattered Dreams

chapter 9

"How did this happen ?", Stefano asks while cutting Antonio's bloody white shirt revealing and tattoo on the left side of his breast ,I guess its a mafia thing .

" Scarlet ,you might want to wait in your room ",he says.

I nod and I start walking to my and Antonio's hotel room ,the place looks welcoming for the first time and I plop on the bed .
I get up and head to the bathroom and rinse my face and then I walk back into the room.

" Salut ,Miz Tornare or should I say Miss Scarlet Jones ."
I gasp in shock as I look at the red couch and see Frances ,the man from the party .

I take steps back until I hit the bathroom door.
He laughs at my sudden fear and stands from his seat and stalks toward me .
"Please", I beg

He doesn't pay heed to my plea and walks until he stands in front of me .
" You know for a second Anton had us all fooled ,the marriage ."
,he says in a bitter tone .

I scream for help and that earns me a slap across the face and I land with a thud on the floor .
"Please ,just let me go ", I plead .

He grabs me by my hair, I wince in pain  and he whispers into my ear ," You're coming with me. "

"I had nothing to do with this please ,let me go "

He pulls me to my feet and then punches me and soon darkness takes over me .

When will it all end , I think to myself ...

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Antonio's P . O . V

"You have a lot of explaining to do ",Stefan says stitching up the wound .

" No ,I don't . ",I say through gritted teeth trying to block out the pain .

" You put that girl's life in danger and now yours too ,but that's not the biggest part ,you get her involved in the mafia ?", he says  cutting the thread  ," How do you think this is going to go when she finds out why you  really took her and then just to top it off ,you start kissing her "

"We talked about this Stefano ,I won't discuss this any further ."

"Okay Anton ,but remember you don't play with fire and hope not to get burnt . This is gonna bite you in the ass but the worst part is that its not just gonna bite you but all of us too .",he starts clearing up .

" Lets go ,you should get some rest "

He helps me up and starts walking me to my room .
When we get there the door is not closed properly .
"Something's not right ", I tell Stefan

"Maybe Scarlet didn't close the door ,she must be tired ",he suggests but not even he believes his statement .

I open the door and turn on the light .
Stefano let's out a curse and starts panicking.

" She escaped ",he says.
I look around the room and its in tact ,not a single hair out of place but that alone is too suspicious.
" No ,she didn't ",I say

He looks at me like I'm unhinged.

" Why are you so sure ?"he challenges

"Because :
1) she has no legitimate identity in this country
2) she has nowhere to run to and she knows no one
3)she knows how dangerous it is out there
She wouldn't run even if she saw the chance too many mistakes and it would be easy to find her ...She was taken "

I walk in to room and see a letter on the nightstand.
I had to go ,sorry but I couldn't just wait for my death to come .
I really need to get back to my old life before things get any worse .

PS. I didn't mean to ,I had to ...

~Scarlet.

"This makes no sense ",I grab a shirt and grab the keys ," Let's go ,Stefan "

We drive in the darkness and its gonna be midnight soon .
Scarlet has been missing for two hours and I haven't gotten a message for whoever took her ,they always do .

I stop driving when it hits one and I park the car at a near by diner .

Buzz.

I check my phone and it has an address with a picture of Scarlet in the same red dress but now there's blood on the side of he lip ,her eyes are closed and she's in a bad state .

"Let's move ", I say to Stefan and we begin driving .

When I get there its an abandoned warehouse that looks deserted and I find it hard to believe that she's even here .

We go in and open the doors and then in the middle of the dusty room sits Scarlet on a chair tied up and knocked out cold .
It looks like no one is there .
I move towards her and then try to wake her but its of no use .
I untie and grab her ,once we leave we head to the hotel.

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After I put her in bed ,Stefano examines her eyes and looks at me with a worried expression .

" What's wrong ?", I ask him

"She looks drugged ,high if you may but it doesn't look good ."

"How ?,with what ?"

"I can't tell ,but I think we should get her to a specialist"

I nod and start calling Susana ,she's a family doctor and most trusted my myself and she has save my ass a couple of time .

"What's the problem", she asks walking in with her medical bag .

" I need you to run some tests ,find out what's in her blood and get rid of it ." ,I instruct.

She wastes no time and starts pulling out her instruments and drawing blood .

6 hours later ...

"I think you have to see this !", Susana says dragging me out of Stefan's room .
" What's wrong ?"

We entre and she starts handing me papers .
"What's this ?", I ask.

" It reports ,she has more than enough lethal  drug in her body to drug the entire mafia. I have never seen anything like it ,its a miracle that she survived   ",

" What took you so long ?"

"I don't have a lab so I did the best I could.
She has  pure nicotine and narcotic running in her blood ."

"You're telling me that there's tobacco and cocaine in her ? They drugged her just to bring her back .
Is she going to be okay ?"

"I think so ,just a couple more hours and the drugs should be leaving her blood "

"She has been out for six hours how much longer can she continue this way ?"

"Just calm down ,I put her on insulin therapy treatment .
She'll be fine ", she says and leaves .

I watch as Scarlet sleeps and then Stefano walks in and stands beside me .

" I think we should let her rest .", he says

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Hi readers

Things are getting rougher for Scarlet and now she's been drugged .

I hope you'll enjoyed the chapter .

Yours truly...