"This pointless" she said breathing hard and fast as she quickly sat herself on the floor, sweat was glistening her body

"Get up" he muttered watching her with the same emotionless look she was used, only now it no longer scared her, it just pissed her off

She rolled her eyes at him not even bothering to hide her irritation at his tone

"Are you deaf or you're just stupid, can't you see I'm clearly exhausted? This whole thing is pointless, I don't get why I need to even learn by the way, it's not like I'm going to be helping you fight anyone off" she huffed dusting her hands in front of her.

She really didn't get why she had to train with him or why he suddenly wanted her to learn hand to hand combat.

She's never needed it all her life and she definitely didn't need it now To her it was pointless and torturous maybe

"Get up" he gritted out to her, as much as he wanted to keep his frustration at bay, she wasn't making it any easy for him

She needed to learn to defend herself, even if not completely at least a few things should come in handy

"You don't scare me Dimitri so drop the act and just let me have a moment to myself" she snapped at him

"Stop being a little brat and get up" he growled out to her, she scoffed looking at him Did he just call her a brat?

"You know what? Screw this, I don't even know why I let you talk me into agreeing to this in the first place" she said getting up and dusting off her hands "I don't need your stupid training, and I sure as hell don't need you telling me what to do, I'm going home" she spat at him before attempting to walk out on him

"I'm doing this for your sake принцесса" his tone was much softer now, he really needed to keep his anger at bay around her, if at all he wanted her to listen to him.

She scoffed turning around to look at him, there were beads of sweat on his forehead and the sleeveless shirt he wore clung to his body, the sun from the window did nothing to hide his body and how firm his muscles were

His hair was looking rather out of place but it suit him, those sage green eyes illuminated well with the sun peeking in

The tattoos scattered around his arms were a piece of art work, they looked more dark and sexy under the sweat and sun

Overall he looked attractive But not to her and not at this moment. Now she was pissed at him, what the hell was he doing making her train with him, she never had to train with Enzo or Cara so why with him?

"Why do you care if I know how to fight or not"? She asked him with disdain

"Because you have to be able to protect yourself" he muttered, that was the truth, she needed something to protect herself, he didn't like that she carried a very risky and dangerous face around but yet had zero experience on stuff like this

"From who? Let me guess, men like you" she spat angrily feeling her blood boil, before he came into her life she had no reason to learn hand to hand combat because she had no reason to protect herself, but now she'd become vulnerable.

Everyone in the mafia world knew of how he took her, but what they didn't know was the fact that she wasn't Cara, but that didn't stop them from making her a target.

He could understand her anger, hell it was justified but he just needed her to understand his plight He wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't necessary.

There were a lot of bad people out there that'd give anything to have her begging on her knees, if she thought he was cruel then she hadn't seen anything.

Men worse than he was were crawling the underworld, and the last thing he wanted was to have her stuck in a position she was with him a few months ago.

Unlike him, others won't hesitate to do far worse things to her

"Trust me Cora, there are worse men out there" he muttered not moving his gaze from her, for her she would only see his emotionless hardened gaze but for him, he was being soft and caring

"Oh yeah" she scoffed "You think there's anyone worse than you, I don't think so" she spat at him all the anger becoming worse as she let her mind take her down memory lane

He knew there was worse than him, way worse than him.

"You're the worst of them Dimitri" she snapped at him, the fact that he looked unaffected by her words was annoying her to no end, she just wanted him to react, show some sort of emotion at her outburst but he just stood unbothered

"You're insufferable, you're evil, you're vile, you're a monster" she all but rushed out to him, the tears were now spilling like water fall She couldn't control them She didn't know what was wrong with her but she knew she needed this, this vent, she needed it.

"You're a rapist" she spat "and that is the worst thing anyone can be and that's what you are" she said her voice croaking

At the mention of that word, his heart picked up, if there was a monitor close by he's sure it'll be beeping at how fast his heartbeat was right now.

This is what he'd been avoiding and at the same time, expecting He knew sooner or later she'd break and snap but he didn't expect it to feel this bad and suffocating.

But he had to keep his expression neutral, even if he felt like his chest was hurting and his ears were ringing, he had to show that he wasn't affected.

Not because he was selfish, no. But because she needed the closure, as much as she was pissed right now, if he as much as show any form of discomfort she'd definitely stop her rants and she might never get a chance to vent out like this again.

She was too nice for her own sake. She might hate him but she wasn't that heartless to pretend not to notice if he showed her words affected him.

"There may be worse out there Dimitri, but they weren't the ones that kidnapped me, held me against my will, tortured me, humiliated me, raped me" she sobbed with huge hiccups following.

She pointed her finger at him "You, you did that to me Dimitri, You raped me" she croaked choking on her sobs.

She was feeling too many emotions all at once and it was telling on her. This would be the first time she was admitting it out loud what he'd done to her

He almost flinched at her tone, almost. He didn't like hearing her say it, even though it was the truth, it left a bitter taste in his mouth.

If only she knew how much he regretted what he'd done, if only she knew how her tear stricken face plagued his dreams every night and how he'd turn back to smoking seeking solace from the guilt gnawing at him every now and then.

"And you know the funny thing about all this"? She asked trying to regain herself, he just stood there unmoving, watching her release all the pent up anger "Ivan promised that you'd never do something like that, said something along the lines of it not being your thing" she sniffled "and as stupid as I was, I believed him, I believed him up until the moment you did it, and even when I woke up and saw you looking at me with that crazed look, I still believed him" she choked out

Deep down he badly wanted to move close to her, he wanted to comfort her and tell her how sorry he was and how much he wished he could take back the hands of time and made sure that day never happened, or that he never kidnapped her

But he couldn't, instead he just stood there and watched her until she walked out of the gym, he heard the door banging

He breathe out and ran his hands down his face. Everything was messed up. He knew how bad he had hurt her but he never expected her to speak this much to him about it.

She called him a rapist And he didn't blame her That was exactly what he was to her She'd never see him in a different light.

To her, he'd always be her abductor The man that tortured and plagued her dreams The man that took everything away from her in just one second

To Cora, Dimitri was nothing but a Rapist

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