I'D RATHER BURN IN HELL THAN LOVE YOU AGAIN.

7: "LET'S GET MARRIED"

RIA POV.

Pain. That was the first thing i felt lying down on the road, i could feel my blood soak into my clothes, could feel my chest ache really back, could feel my head throbbing like someone was using it as a drum. I could feel myself growing weak.

Had i not die, why was i still breathing, why won’t the cruel dream hurt but most of all, why was everywhere quiet, I know it was a buzzling street, I know I should hear noise, if i was still on the road. I pause, trying to seat up and with a lot push, I manage to.

“I thought I told you, I told you to bring her alive. Who dares hurt her?” I heard him scream. “It can’t be,” I muttered, in a shaky tone. It is not possible. “Dimitri,” I called, but it became more like a whispered.

I heard him pause, he rushed to him, screaming to get the car ready. Then I watched him pull my face towards him. “Why do you do this? Why can’t you see I love you? Why can’t you see Adrian is not right for you? Just why, why do you keep escaping?” he whispered, and only now could I hear the sincerity.

I punched myself to make sure it was real, to make sure, I wasn’t dreaming. “Get the car,” he yelled, stopping only when he saw the noise affecting my ears. “What date and year is this?” I managed to ask.

“April, 22nd, 2023” he replied as I gasped. I was born three years back. Yes, I remember now, this was my first failed escape. I had tried to gain his trust, because he only chained me naked, he had killed the man who once saw me naked, even though he was his own men..

Dimitri had only given me clothes once he saw I wasn’t resisting, and I had made him feel safe. But his trusted right hand had seen me running and alerted me and his men, had hurt me badly because I had said I would rather choose death than go back.

A week from now, I will send a message to Adrian. Only then did DImitri sister, his and my parents come to save me. My parents were killed that night and Dimitri sister had shot him.

My life went down the moment i chose Adrian and this time, I would never choose him again. “I am sorry,” I whispered as he picked me up. He wasn’t going to take me to the hospital. He was too insecure to do so. He didn’t want to lose me, he had a private wing with all the hospital equipment there, was it an MRI, there was nothing in that room that couldn’t be found in a hospital. It was his special wing.

“I am sorry i tried to escape,” I apologise, watching him look shock, doubtful, thinking it was one of mye trick. I wanted to say more, but my body won’t let me, I collapse in his arm, smiling because for the first time in a long while, I felt safe.

I woke up to his voice. “Cut him, slow, deep but not to kill, then hang him, no one dare hurt my Rose” He ordered. The only person who called me by rose, because to him, I was his beauty flower.

“Boss” Someone called him, only then did i notice a man standing close to me. “She is awake” He announce with Dimitri rushing to me. “Out, all of you” He bark and they left, practically running.

“Are you?” He pause, feeling guilty. “Two broken ribs and few bruise one, he handled you rough, no one dare hurt you” and I know he was only trying to explain why hr order that man death. “I remember now” I mumbled.

Remembering how I felt met him. I had just been bullied, no one came to my rescue, I was the only daughter to a wealthy family but bad at making friends. My parents were too busy to care and I had ran to the back of school.

There, I met him, he was young but dark eyes. He looked hungry and alone just like me and I offered him my lunch. I called him my friend, I complained to him, I gave him the cash I had.

Then we met at the playground, I remember being pushed to the floor, I remember crying that I didn’t like beingbullied, but no one defend me, that I would wished someone to be so powerful to fight for me.

Then one time, I was bullied that I ran away from school, I didn’t know my way back, I was starving. I saw him, in an uncompleted building, he gave me his only food, he let me sleep and help me found my way back.

We talked five more times, always lunch time, but when i was badly bullied that I was in the hospital, he disappeared, I never heard from him again. Till he came back and claimed me, abducted me on my way back and I have been here ever since.

“Why did you leave?” I asked. He didn’t answer, but his eyes got cold. “You are mine” He whispered, pulling my hand tight. “And If this is one of your schemes to get me to trust you, to lose guard, then”

“No” I stop him. “I don’t want to run anymore and I want you to know that I mean it. I am tired of running, or making the wrong decision, of defining poorly what is love” I muttered.

“You said you were tired before” He brought up.

“Then let me prove it. Let’s get married” I propose, making sure in this lifetime, I chose him.

I watch him pause, freeze, think, like he couldn’t believe it. “You are Dimitri Volkov, if you doubt I would run, I am sure you can make any court register our marriage at this time, I mean it, I want to get married to you” I repeated again.

“I want to be yours because i know, you won’t let anyone harm me” I explained, looking deep in his eyes. “You are saying, you can get married to me now” He asked in doubt.

“Yes, because I only realise to Adrian, I am just a rebound and to you,” I paused. “You are mine, will always be and I would rather die than watch you be with someone else” he muttered.

“Then let’s get married, you can chain me, I know you have a new tighter lock, till we get to the court,” I explained, watching him look at me, for the first time, his eyes that were unreadable, showed surprise.