Chapter 42: Chapter 42

Marietta P.O.V

"My sweet princes!

How many times had I warned you? Just count, 1,2,3,4. Look! 4 damn times I had warned you! But you don't even give it a bloody glance. That shows how fearless you are, right? So, I thought of fearing you. I did what I said. You know very well what I'm going to do next. You know who is on my list on the next number. Save them if you can!" Bre snatched the paper and loudly read it.

My heart was just about to jump out of my chest. Did he warn me? When? I didn't know. My brain didn't recall any stuff related to any kind of warning. My brain was spinning right now. Everything around me was spinning right now.

"Did he warn you?" Veward asked.

No! Nothing! There was nothing like a warning or something. I sat hopelessly on the chair. I caged my head in between my palms. God! Why me?

"Nothing. There is nothing." I whispered. I felt a presence beside me as he hugged me and caressed my back to comfort me, I closed my eyes and relaxed a bit but not enough.

He spoke very calmly, "Relax! Don't get panic."

I noticed that I was badly trembling. I took a deep breath as I tried to remember something when I heard a 'ting' sound. For a brief moment, I froze and looked up at Veward face.

"What was that sound?" I asked.

"It's a message tune. Why?" He asked confused and curious at the same time.

I immediately unlocked my phone and started to check emails. If he had warned me and I didn't notice it. Then he had probably emailed me. Because in these past days, the thing I had ignored was emails.

I didn't know which brain cell had suddenly started to work so smartly. But I really appreciate that right now. I scrolled through many emails when 4 unchecked mails caught my attention which was from an unknown same email and had no particular subject. They could be from the blue-eyed guy.

"What happened?" Veward asked.

"Do you know anything?" Bre asked.

I opened those emails and a tear rolled down on my cheek. The first one was, "Hi princes! I like the way you fight back as you get succeed in saving Antonio. Congratulations but that hurts me. So, it would be better if you back off right now. Before it gets too late." I read it loudly.

The second one was, "Hi princes! That's too bad. DON'T GO TO THAT STREET FIGHT! Or else, before you would get him, I would kill him." I read it loudly too. As I continued to read, cold chills were running down on my whole body. Why was he always one step ahead of us?

The third one was, "Woah! You guys are really fearless and that impressed me. Finally, I got the people who have the guts to fight with me. Then let's just enjoy the game." As I read it my voice broke with fear.

What did he want? Why was he doing all this? What we had ever done to him?

"Hello, competitors! I got bored. Let's add some thrill to this game. A thrill like some blood and deaths. So, I have a list. Of course, I'm going to finish all of you but one by one. On top of the list is Antonio as he has seen my face. Then your family princess. You, I have some big plans for you. As far as your boyfriend and best friend are concerned, I will kill them before you and after your family. Let's begin it! Good luck!"

When I finished it, Bre and Veward both were bewildered as their eyes were about to bulge out of their sockets. There was an unexplainable tension in the air. We looked at each other unable to say something right now. When the door of that room opened, where Antonio was fighting in between death and life. The doctor came out and said, "I'm sorry. We can't save him..."

After hearing the doctor, the next second, we ran.

We ran because the next number according to his creepy list was my family. Mom, Daddy, and Caro. We stopped near the car.

"Ok-ok. We don't have enough time. We have to split up." Veward said.

"Daddy is supposed to be in the office. What about Mom and Caro?" I said.

"Mom! We should ask Mom." Bre said and called Anna. We were panicked. It was clearly written on our faces. Just one wrong move and one wrong direction and he would succeed in killing one more person.

"Mom, listen to me. Where are Caro and Ma'am Emily?" Bre asked as soon as Anna picked the call.

"Which mall?" He asked once again. "Ok." He said and added, "Mom nothing. I'll call you later." He looked at us. "Maybe they are in a shopping mall. We can catch them."

We were about to move towards the car when we heard a sound. We stopped interrupted by an ambulance. Not a single, there were two of them arrived together. The devil inside my mind was telling me something really bad.

'No! Please no! It can't be!'

The door of that ambulance opened. Doctors and nursing were running in a hurry from here to there. I tried to ask a nurse about what happened. But my tongue was twisting inside my mouth.

"What happened?" Bre asked.

One of the nurses stopped and then said hurriedly and left. She said, "Two women got into a terrible accident."

Two women! No!

They bring the stretchers and shifted the patients on them. We moved forward to saw the faces. I looked at the first woman, whose white dress was covered in blood. I slowly moved my gaze towards her face. My breath and heart stopped working as I collapsed on the floor over my knees.

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"It's all your fault!" I whisper yelled. I wasn't crying. I wanted to cry but I didn't find any tears in my eyes, to came and scrolled down on my cheeks.

"Marie..." The person, who was sitting beside me, whispered back.

"I told you! He wants to kill all of us." I again whisper yelled. My gaze was fixed on the white marble floor, which was now looking slightly blurred.

"Sweety..." He again whispered back. His voice seemed too heavy to my ears.

"Just because of you. It's all your fault." I again whisper yelled. Black dots appeared in front of my eyes as I felt the slow spinning of the floor. It could be because I was glaring at pure white marble for so long. I shifted my blurry gaze to the person sitting beside me.

"Daddy, why someone wants to finish us? Do you know him? Have you ever did something wrong with someone? Just tell me already. Why? Why does someone so badly want to finish our family? Tell me, why????" I screamed at him.

"I'm so sorry..." He said in a low whispered which was barely audible. He looked into my eyes. "I'm so sorry! I'm very ashamed that I have been ignoring you. I'm sorry for neglecting you..." He whispered and guilt was clear in his voice. With the smokey and doted vision, I could saw the regret in his eyes.

I humorlessly chuckled, "I told you, one day, you will regret." My head started to being heavy. It became difficult to even breathe. "I...I told...you...so..." With the incomplete sentence. My head knocked over Daddy's shoulder and I drifted to deep black darkness.

That was so funny. There was darkness everywhere, you couldn't see a single thing over here yet you tried to find the light to escape. So, you could see in the dark and find a way to jump out from this haunting and absorbing darkness.

Darkness...from which, I was trying to escape since childhood. But looked like darkness couldn't live without me. That's the reason, it always found me, and no matter how fast I ran, I always ended up reaching nowhere.

I ran and ran till my feet hurt to death, till my breath became a mess but never reached the end. No light. No hope. I was stuck. I was stuck in a world, where you couldn't find any traces of hope.

Fortunately, if you found any, it never existed for long. It always disappeared.

Someone took hold of you, on everything, just like that anonymous sound, who always took hold of me. Who controlled my mind and body, who froze me. I tried several times but failed, every time I moved yet I couldn't even move. That sound was snatching my consciousness and it was becoming difficult to stay conscious.

As always, I lost. I lost everything. I lost my mind and body.

"Ahhh!!!" I SCREAMED.

In a shot, I opened my eyes only to found that I was in my room. I shifted in a sitting position. When I remembered what happened last time before fainting, I couldn't control it anymore.

"That's enough! I don't care who it could be. I will kill him by my own bare hands." I muttered with gritted teeth.

"Whom you are going to kill? And why are you screaming?" I heard a voice. I angled my face towards the source of it. There he was standing beside the window and staring outside.

"Please! Take me away from this merciless world." I almost pleaded.

"All Worlds are merciless and that depends on you. That depends on your viewpoint on how you see the world and cop with it." He said and walked toward my bed.

"Let's go!" Walter said, showing me his hand and I immediately grabbed it.