Warning:- Traumatic scene ahead! Mention of blood and violence....Please proceed with caution!

"AUGH!" Eleanora's eyes snapped open at the sound of screaming coming from downstairs, somewhere. She picked herself up from the bed and slowly walked in the direction of door.

Just like first, the door was locked from the outside. Hesitantly, Nora pressed her ear against the door while trying to listen clearly.

"P-PLEASE I'M SORRY! I H-HAVE A W-WIFE AND K-KIDS! P-PLEASE S-SIR! YOU G-GOTTA BELIEVE M-ME! I W-WAS FOR-FORCED TO D-DO TH--" The screaming was cut off by a loud clank like something had hit him. It followed by his loud shrill and wheezing sound.

Nora shivered and backed away a little from the door. Her breathing hardened and tears filled her eyes.

Two loud gunshots rang in her ears and at the same moment, her legs gave out. She collapsed on the floor almost like a corpse.

There was silence. Extreme silence.

All of a sudden, Nora heard the sound of footsteps. It was coming closer to this room.

She watched in fear as the door knob started to twist.

Her guts wrenched.

She was not prepared to see that monster's face.

Not yet!

"Sir!"

"What is it?" Gianni's annoyed voice rang out.

"We got the 'key'!" The unfamiliar voice announced, quite eagerly.

Nora frowned at Gianni's bizzare act as he started to laugh all like cruelly.

"I see. See through her needs, I will be back by midnight." He stated and walked away from there.

Nora waited for another moment and the second pair of footsteps walked away too. It felt like she was all alone and she knew it was a better chance.

She looked around the room. Her eyes shone with hope as they fell on a transparent glass vase kept on the cabinet.

Following her guts, she picked it up and hugged it to her chest, her eyes prickling with another set of fresh tears. But it was mostly due to anxiety.

An hour or something later, she again heard the sound of footsteps as it reached her room. She pressed herself against the wall as the door opened and a man in black suit appeared at the entrance with a tray of food in his hands.

As soon as he took a step inside, looking straight, she slammed the vase down on the back of his head. He grunted and dropped the tray as it clattered on the floor loudly.

"Bitch!" A curse left his mouth as he realized that she was already running out of the door.

Ignoring the trail of blood falling down his head, he ran behind her. She hardly managed to find the stairs in the maze of hallways, a hand grabbed her hair from behind.

A painful shrill left her lips as she was tugged back and picked up from the floor with an arm around her waist.

"LET GO!" She screamed, kicking her legs in the air and thrashing around, trying to get away from the harsh grip.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" He growled and dragged her back into the earlier room.

Carelessly, he threw her on the bed and grabbed her wrists, pinning them above her head.

"Don't do this shit again! You should be glad that Sir is not here!" He squeezed her wrists tightly, enough to make them bruise.

Nora could no longer hold her sobs in. She broke down.

The man pulled himself up and glared at her while his hand went up to examine his wound.

"No food for you, ungrateful witch." Muttering something along these lines, he left the room.

True to his statement, Gianni came back in the midnight and he was extremely pissed hearing about the stunt Nora pulled.

He stormed upstairs and found her passed out on the bed.

All the rage he felt earlier, melted somewhat as he looked at her tear-stained face.

His fingers reached up to brush her cheek, enjoying the tenderness of her skin.

But it was opposite for Nora.

She was wide awake, the moment he touched her and she was quivering with fear and tears prickling in her eyes once again.

"Why are you crying? I have not even hurt you yet, Eleanora." He placed his rough hands on her face warningly, although what he felt like lovingly.

"I will not hit you but if you try to run away again, I might do something worse." His words sent chilly shiver down her spine.

"Do you wanna know what?" He cooed mockingly. His mismatched eyes twinkling with dark amusement as he grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the bed.

He made his way downstairs, all the way pulling her behind him like a rag doll. They passed by the same man from earlier who had a bandage wrapped around his head and he was smoking while looking through a bunch of screens which showed various footages around the city.

Before Nora could get a clear view of even one of them to find out where she might be, Gianni dragged her out of there to the same dark room in basement where she was kept earlier.

They passed by that room. Nora was visibly struggling to breathe in the horrid stench of blood and death. She wanted to be out of there.

Please....

She whimpered.

Suddenly he stopped at the end of a strange hallway. It had a rusty gray metal door at the entrance where on a white plate, block 3 was written. Nora blinked in confusion as she tried to memorize the similar plate she had seen earlier in front of the dark room where she was kept. At the front of entrance, it had block 1 written. She somehow may have skipped block 2 in between.

He pressed his thumb on the security system and the access was granted. The door slid open and he again dragged her in ultimate shed of red light hallway.

She looked around, gasping. There were many cells and people were really getting tortured inside. The screams were haunting. Her hand unknowingly gripped Gianni's hand who smirked at her reaction that showed like she just stepped into some horror movie.

He pulled her further in and immediately, Nora started to feel cold air biting her skin. The temperature around here was really at some extreme below level.

As they kept moving further, she realized that these cells were remote. There was not even a single person.

After what seemed like forever, they finally stopped in front of a cell. Nora was petrified to see the pool of dried blood on the ground and splattered across the bars.

She froze as she heard the clink of metal chains.

Someone was inside!

She squinted her eyes to look in the darkness but to no avail.

All of a sudden, Gianni placed his arm around her shoulder and smirked staring ahead.

The chains started to make noise even more frantically.

"Easy easy easy!" Gianni chuckled raising his one hand while pulling Nora even more closer to his side.

The chains rattled even more louder in response.

Nora frowned and tried to pull away from Gianni but she was also staring in the darkness intact. She didn't know why but she was having a sinking feeling in her heart.

Suddenly the bright lights in the cell turned on. Nora squeezed her eyes shut at the sudden brightness.

Slowly, she opened her eyes while blinking. As her eyes adjusted to the brightness, they went wide. A loud gasp left her lips as a sudden breeze blew her hair back.

"Angel..."

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