Dark Chemistry

Chapter-20

Natalia's POV :

Beep.

Beep.

When I opened my eyes I realized I was laying on a hospital's bed. My head was pounding hard and I was feeling so cold and numb. Stephen was sitting on the couch and reading newspaper.

"Stephen―" I coughed as my throat was dry like Sahara desert.

"Natalia, you're awake." He said surprisingly.

He placed the newspaper on the couch beside him and made his way toward me wearing a concerned look. I managed to get up and rest my body against the pillow in a sitting position.

"How are you feeling now?" He gripped my both hands and asked softly, sitting on the bed beside me.

"Very cold and a disgusting headache." I chuckled dryly.

"Well, because of the fever. You'll be okay. Don't worry." He squeezed my palms and sighed.

"I'm sorry, Natalia." He whispered.

"Why?" I frowned.

"Because I wasn't there. I would never let that happen to you." He exhaled deeply.

"Don't be sorry. It wasn't your fault. Anyways you won't be with me every time." I murmured and sighed.

"You know we're like monsters. We have no hearts and no feelings. But today, I saw something in his eyes, I felt something inside me. And you know what it was? It was fear." He let go of my hands and spoke avoiding my eyes, looking blankly at the white wall.

"He was screaming and shouting at me and Alfredo like a madman when you weren't waking up, not in anger, in fear. He was so afraid of thinking that he might lose you." He whispered.

I knew he was talking about Nicolas. I didn't care what he was saying because what I felt that moment was like I saw the death in my eyes.

"Well, he seemed like he was enjoying it." I started laughing.

I didn't know what happened to me but I couldn't help but laughed. Isn't it funny when someone almost killed you and then he was screaming and shouting to get you back? It is totally an abnormal's habit. And Nicolas obviously wasn't a human, he was an inhuman and abnormal bastard.

"No, you know how desperate was he when he heard that you escaped? He started believing you, Natalia." Stephen sighed and rubbed his palms on his face.

I again laughed.

"Well, how many times I have to say that I didn't escape, someone kidnapped me?! Why can't you guys just believe me once?!!" I shouted in frustration.

"Then what happened that night?" He gasped and looked at me in surprise.

"I told everything to Nicolas. Go and ask him." I huffed and crossed my arms on my chest.

Stephen was about to say something then the door burst open and a tall muscular blonde walked inside the room. His feature was exactly the same as Stephen but the difference was their hair colour and Stephen was a bit taller than the blonde guy.

"God, Alfredo! You never learn how to enter in a room. You always come and go like storms." Stephen growled.

"That's the thing Dr. Stephen. Now kiss your ass and let me check my patient." He rolled his eyes and put his hands into his pant's pocket.

"You're a doctor, Stephen?" I gasped. Before he could open his mouth, Alfredo started speaking.

"Yes, he is. Now let me introduce myself, sweetheart. I'm Dr. Alfredo. And I'm also the one and only big brother of Dr. Stephen." Alfredo grinned and shook my hand.

"Well, you're only five minutes older than me, Alfredo." Stephen rolled his eyes.

"You guys are twins?" I looked at them in awe.

They nodded in unison. It was quite surprising that two devilishly handsome twin doctors are working for the mafia.

"Okay, now beautiful lady, let me do some check up." Alfredo smiled and sat on a chair beside the bed.

At first he checked my blood pressure and then measured the temperature of my body by a thermometer. I told him that I was feeling so cold and a headache.

"Well, her blood pressure and other reports are normal but she's burning, bro. You guys can take her home today but she needs to take care of properly." Alfredo nodded at Stephen.

"I know. Okay." Stephen sighed.

"See you then, Natalia. Have a good day." Alfredo smiled and left the room.

"So, for how long I was gone?" I turned to Stephen.

"Near 27 hours." He murmured.

"Oh." I wasn't surprised actually because this happened many times.

• • •

It was the evening as we finally made our way back to Nicolas's house. In the whole day, I hadn't seen Nicolas or his other friends except Stephen, Alfredo and Amelie.

The car stopped in front of the state as Stephen and I got out and made our way inside the house. I was surprised when I saw two scary-looking and tattooed girls were sitting on the couch of the living room. I never saw them in this house.

So Nicolas decided to fulfill his desire using them when I wasn't here.

The short blonde haired girl was more scary than the brown haired one. Her lower lip, eyebrow, both sides of nose and bellybutton were pierced and his full body was covered with tattoos, even there was a tattoo beside her left eye. She was wearing a lot of weird necklaces around her neck.

The brown haired one had less tattoos and she wasn't wearing weird necklaces like the blonde one. They stopped talking when they noticed our presence.

"Hey, you must be Natalia. I'm Eva." The brown haired one smiled. I nodded at her and smiled back.

"And I'm Bella. Nice to finally meet you, Natalia. You look more breathtakingly hot and sexy than the pictures. Well, don't ask me what picture. Mariano and Alexander took some candids of you in different angles and showed them to us." The blonde one giggled.

God, even her smile was so scary.

"Oh," I smiled awkwardly, not to find out what to say.

But I made a mental note about what to do with Alexander and Mariano later, for taking my pictures without my permission.

"Okay, now you should take some rest so we're letting you go now but we've a lot to discuss later." Eva giggled and waved at me.

I just nodded at her and made my way upstairs while Stephen was standing there talking with them about something which I didn't hear and didn't care to hear. I still could feel the high temperature of my body but I decided to take a shower.

So I took a quick warm shower and slipped into a comfortable loose t-shirt and shorts. I was so exhausted and upset about my life. I couldn't take this anymore. If he kept hurting me mentally and physically, I would end up dying.

A couple of hours passed and a maid came into the room to leave the dinner for me. I was too tired to get up but too hungry to lay down there. So I slowly got up, finished the dinner, took pills and then again laid down on the dear bed.

I didn't know when I fell asleep but a pair of strong arms forced me to awake. The familiar cologne was lingering through the air of the bedroom.

"Nick.. is that you?" I rasped through my closed sleepy eyes.

"Yes, angel. Now sleep." He whispered and started caressing my head.

That was so soft and soothing and relaxed the uncomfortable ache inside my head.

"Good night.." I heard myself murmuring.

"Good night, angel." I heard him whisper and felt him planting a soft kiss on my forehead.