Marked by Her
1036 Words
Los Angeles 9:30 Am
Elaine sat on the edge of her bed wrapped in her hoodie, and her fingers curling tight around her mug of untouched tea.
Her boyfriend Drew, sat across from her his eyebrows drawn in concern.
"They had guns Drew, one of them even shot at the ceiling. Everybody was so scared. I couldn't breathe. They needed to treat their boss who was shot. So I helped him."
Drew stared at her stunned " What? you never cease to amaze me Elaine. What if something bad happened? They could have shot you too"
"I just couldn't let him die, when I knew I could help him at least"
Drew got up from his seat looking at her in utter disbelief "Him? Do you even know him? If something had happened to him you won't have been here right now Elaine, please be careful baby. I love you too much, I can't imagine my life without you in it."
She walked to where he stood and hugged him tightly. " I love you too Drew so much. I'm never leaving you."
Russia - Unknown Location 8:00 pm
Nicholas Galatzine stood in the cold concrete room. The room was under his exquisite mansion, made solely for the purpose of torture and punishment.
He paced with boiling anger, his shirt off, his body was bandaged. Blood smeared on his skin, some his, most were not.
The man hanging from the chains cried out as the knife pierced his lower side.
"I swear, it was not me. I swear on my life"
"Then your life is worthless" Nicholas said as he pulled out the knife in a slow and torturous manner.
His second in command Zayn walked up to him
"He was the last one to know our route. If he's not the mole then -"
"There is someone else in here" Nicholas glanced at his men. His most loyal men. His eyes zeroed on them. A thought came to his mind.
"Bring in his wife and little daughter" he ordered which made the man cry more and try to wiggle out of the chains.
"Boss! Boss! I swear I did not betray you, please spare my family. You can kill me but not them" he pleaded.
"I don't need your life, I want answers and the truth."
Nicholas turned to his most trusted men.
"Strip them all"
No clue until something fell off. A burner phone. He smiled darkly.
Dmitri's face drained of all colour
"It's not mine boss"
"I know. Unlock it" he spoke looking uninterested.
Dmitri hesitated
"Unlock it I said" his voice sharper this time.
Zayn took it after he unlocked it .
"Target en route. East tunnel.
Time : 1:20 Am.
thirty minutes before Nicholas was ambushed.
The silence was ice cold.
He walked towards him slowly " You've been with me for years now. How did I offend you?"
"It was not intentional boss, I, I"
"No one accidentally betrays their boss, or are you Judas? he said mockingly.
He brought the phone up and shoved it in his mouth " Chew it and leave no pieces".
"Izbav’sya ot nego. – Get rid of him."
45 MINUTES LATER - Nicholas Private Quarters
He sat on his velvet chair. Blood still drying on his knuckles, a drink in his hand.
A woman knelt between his legs, naked, breathing heavily and lips swollen from trying to pleasure him. She was desperate, for his touch which he'd never give her.
He didn't even look at her.
She raised her hand to touch him but he caught it mid air.
"Da zhe ne dumay ob etom."
(Don’t even think about it.)
He stood up "I'm done with you. Leave"
She looked confused. He didn't climax yet.
He was already walking away.
Nicholas stripped off his shirt, threw the glass across the room and laid back on his bed, he closed his eyes and there she was
Elaine.
Her trembling voice
Her calm hands
Her amber eyes, filled with fear but steady
Her breath on his skin felt like fire. He had never felt that way before with a woman.
She was not even up to par with the women he messed with, but something in him keeps yearning for her. The need to taint her innocent soul was consuming.
She had touched him like a man not a monster.
He knew how much restraint he executed that day. He wanted to have his way with her with reckless abandon.
Nicholas's hand slid beneath the sheets. He imagined her breath against his throat.
Her whimpers while he have her the way he wanted.
Her whispering his name over and over.
"Elaine" he muttered low and sharp.
His jaw clenched as he reached his release with her name on his lips.
The fire in him didn't go out. It only grew.
"Yebat!!!" he cursed as he felt his arousal growing again
(f**k!!)
Los Angeles
Elaine stood in the tiny cabin bathroom, towel drying her hair. The mirror was fogged from her bath, cleaning it up, she caught sight of her reflection. Her features looking softer than the past few days.
She's been having nightmares about that night. The gun they had and the man in ski mask.
Her phone buzzed she picked it up. It was Drew
"Hey babe, can you come over for a while, I have something to tell you"
"I , what is it about?" she asked him
"Just come over you'll find out babe" he ended the call.
"I can't believe he forgot my birthday" she sounded disappointed.
Russia - Galatzine Mansion
Nicholas sat with Zayn enjoying the hennessy when one of his men came in.
"Boss, I got everything you asked for" he handed over the file to him.
He waved his hand off signalling him to go .
He smirked looking down at the file in his hands. He opened it and read everything word for word.
"Interesting" he thought as he glanced through it again
Zayn already catching a hint of what Nicholas was reading, stood up and placed his hand on his shoulder.
"You are catching something Nick" .
He left Nicholas sipping his drink with an unreadable expression.
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