Chapter 32: Chapter 32

Author’s POV

“Okay I will do as you say, just don’t do anything to him” Cara let out with shaky breath.

Chase stood there stunned. His wide open eyes were stuck on his girlfriend who just said something which shook him to his core.

She said those words so easily as if it wasn’t a big deal. But Chase knew better. He knows how she must be feeling in her heart while uttering those words.

How scared she must be feeling deep inside, he knows. He can clearly see the goosebumps covering her entire body even from this distance.

The way her voice trembled while uttering those words, her shaky breath, everything, he could see everything.

He knew how she felt about him. He knew the feelings she had in her heart for him were as strong as he had for her.

Just like how he can do anything for her safety, how he can sacrifice himself just to protect her from any danger, she can also do anything for his sake, he knew.

But still what she just uttered left him feeling shocked out of his senses. No girl would ever agree to what she is agreeing right now, for anyone’s sake.

But she is agreeing to let such a horrid thing happen to her and for what?

‘For your sake' his inner voice said to him.

Knowing that someone holds you so dear to their heart that they are willing to sacrifice themselves for your sake, it spreads a feeling of warmth in your whole being. It makes you feel special, makes you feel that you are being loved.

But what he is feeling at this moment is pure fear. He is feeling helpless, useless to let his Cara make such a choice.

He doesn’t want her to do this for him. He doesn’t want her to ruin her life like this. She is going to be broken beyond repair if anyone tonight laid their hands on her body and it will kill him.

No, he won’t be able to tolerate it. He won’t be able to bear the fact that something so horrible like this happened to her because of him, he won’t be able to live with himself after that.

He knows she has a heart of gold. She is an angel who doesn’t know how to be selfish.

But today he just wants her to be selfish and not think about him. He wants her to say no to Albert’s condition even if that means he is going to get beaten to death by Albert’s men.

He just wants her to think about herself at this moment and ignore him completely.

Cara shifted her gaze back to Chase when she felt the intensity of his gaze on her face.

Chase swallowed the lump in his throat with great difficulty and shook his head side to side when her eyes met with his.

‘Don’t do this Cara’ he was saying it through his eyes, was almost begging in desperation.

But she just gave him a small smile telling him that she is okay.

But Chase could see the fear in her eyes. The terror, the feeling of helplessness, were clear in those blue orbs of hers and it was ripping his heart apart in a most brutal way possible.

On the other hand Albert smirked at her words and glanced back at Chase. “You found yourself an angel, don’t you think? You are lucky. I am jealous of you”.

His words were like a petrol to Chase’s burning rage, but the fear of what might happen to his Cara if he didn’t do anything soon was overpowering all of his other emotions.

He shifted his eyes to look at Albert with pleading gaze. “Let her go Albert please. I don’t care if you beat me to death at this moment. You can do anything to me, if you want anything I can give it to you, even if it’s my life that you want. But just…” he choked on his words.

“Just leave her alone, I am begging you on my knees” Chase whispered in broken voice as once again tears started stinging the back of his eyes but he didn’t let them fall.

He never thought that he could ever be put in such a situation where he would feel so afraid for any reason.

He thought all he could ever feel was anger and no other emotions could ever build so strongly inside him like this.

He always cared about himself. He knew himself as an unfeeling bastard who can never change. He never had anything to lose so he didn’t have any fear in his heart.

All he had was his anger which could destroy the world around him. He believed he could conquer anything in this world with his anger.

Before meeting Cara he could have never imagined himself being on his knees, pleading like this. What he would have surely expected himself to do was get enraged and burn everything around him without a care in the world.

But right now, even though he is still burning from inside, his blood is still boiling in anger, his heart which he thought he never had, is desperate to protect the one who made him know how it feels to have emotions other than anger building inside you, who made him believe that he is also capable of feeling other emotions.

“As much as I like seeing you beg like this, I swear I want to see to what lengths your sweet little Cara can go to protect you” Albert said and again turned around to look at Cara whose teary eyes were fixed on Chase.

It broke her heart to see Chase begging like this. She could see the pain and fear in those gray orbs of his, which used be blank all the time. Not to her but for others, of course.

It was one of those rare times when he was not guarding his emotions and was leaving them bare to be seen by anyone.

She saw panic taking over his features and the fear in those gray orbs increased tenfold when Albert continued.

“So let’s start the new game, shall we?” Albert said, excitement again evident in his tone as he looked at Law who looked surprised himself and a little hesitant too.

If he was doing the right thing at the moment by helping Albert, he was not sure anymore about it.

Yes, he wanted to take revenge on Chase. He wanted to see Chase feeling the pain of losing someone who is precious to him and right now that pain is clearly visible in his eyes.

But for some reason he is not feeling happy the way he thought he would feel if he saw Chase in pain. He is not liking the situation he is in right now.

He doesn’t know why, but doing what Albert wants him to do to Cara, feels wrong to him. That is why he couldn’t take her shirt off of her body earlier, even though he knew it will torture Chase.

Albert saw the hesitation in Law’s eyes and a scowl formed on his face. He can’t let his plan fall apart and ruin his entertainment because of that stupid bastard’s hesitation.

He fished his phone out of his pocket and typed a text message. Soon Law heard his phone buzz in his pocket and fished it out of his pocket to check the text.

The hesitation he was feeling got replaced by anger when he read,

‘Did you forget how Chase separated you from your love? Did he hesitate before doing that? No!’

‘So don’t think too much and let him feel the same pain. Only then you are going to be free of your miseries’.

Law lifted his burning gaze to glare at Chase and Albert smirk made it’s way back to his lips.

‘You are really an expert in doing this’ Albert complimented his own manipulative skills.

‘I will punish you for taking my Kate away from me. I will make sure that you feel more pain than I did, when you see your Cara getting tainted by me in front of your eyes' Law promised himself.

His hands reached up and he proceeded removing the unbuttoned shirt off of Cara’s body, while keeping his eyes fixed on Chase’s face to see him getting hurt.

Cara felt shivers running down her spine and a cracked sob left her lips as he shut her eyes close in helplessness.

She wanted to stop Law and struggle out of his hold but the image of Chase getting beaten up by Albert’s men if she did that, crossed her mind and she stopped herself.

“No… no…” Chase shouted. His heart dropped in the pit of his stomach when Law started doing as Albert said.

Cara’s body started getting revealed as Law slowly removed the shirt, leaving her in her bra.

“No!” Chase growled out as a lone tear rolled down on his cheek. He used all of his strength to get up on his feet.

The men who were holding him tried to stop him but they couldn’t. He was like a beast thirsty for blood. More men had to come forward to stop him from making his way towards Cara.

Chase was trying to pull his wrists out of the cuffs. If he wasn’t tied like this then it would have been easier for him to fight back and protect Cara from these monsters.

Cara was crying bitterly as Law buried his face in the crook of her neck and started sucking on her skin like a hungry beast.

Her fists were clenched so tight that her nails were piercing into her palms, drawing blood.

The sight was driving Chase insane. He felt as if someone was stabbing his heart with knife. He was feeling the kind of pain he had never felt before.

Albert was enjoying the scene unfolding in front of his eyes. He was feeling satisfied. Finally he was feeling like he was punishing Chase for what he did years ago.

But his happiness was short lived as before anything more could happen, a loud gun shot was heard in this old warehouse making each head to turn in the direction of sound.

Albert turned around to find a gang of people with gun in their hands, wearing a uniform of some kind of security company, entering in the warehouse and circling around his men.

Chase finally sighed in relief when he saw the men of his father arriving.

He looked around to see his father’s men were holding Albert’s men on gunpoint. Police was also here and they were arresting those thugs. But his main focus was to get to Cara and pull her into his arms. As about other things his father and his friends will take care of it.

He saw Albert trying to run away from the scene but police officers were quick to hold him.

Soon everyone who was trying to block Chase’s way were pushed off of him and he heard the voice of his friend.

“Sorry men, it took longer than expected” John apologized. One of those uniformed men came running to Chase and used some kind of tool to uncuff his hands.

As soon as he was freed, he stormed towards Cara who was still crying bitterly in Law’s hold, who looked shocked by the turn of events.

Law saw Chase marching towards himself and he couldn’t help but gulp in fear. He tried to scare Chase away by threatening him to hurt Cara but it didn’t stop Chase.

Earlier he was helpless as he was restricted by those damn cuffs and Albert’s men were holding him. But right now he was a free man and no way in the f**king hell he would let anyone hurt his Cara.

Chase grabbed Law by his collars and pulled him away from Cara. He landed a strong punch on his face and then kicked him in his gut making him fall on the floor with a loud thud.

He wanted to continue beating that bastard until he can’t walk on his feet ever again but he had to take care of Cara first.

George came forward and decided to take over for Chase. “I will take care of this bastard” he said with a nod. He grabbed Law by his collar making him stand on his feet and dragged him to hand him over to police.

Chase heard his father’s voice at a distance speaking to Albert as police put handcuffs on to him.

Ignoring all of it he turned on his heels to look at his Cara. He quickly kneeled in front of her.

She lifted her teary eyes to stare into his own teary ones and a throaty sob escaped her lips.

Chase didn’t waste even a single moment and pulled her trembling body into himself. She instantly wrapped her arms around him and buried her face in the crook of his neck before breaking into the fit of sobs.

He could feel her heart pounding loudly in her chest where their bodies were connected. His own heart was going crazy in his ribcage.

Chase tightened his hold around her as he pulled her more into himself letting her cry in his arms and pressed his lips on top of her head finally being able to breath properly.

“Chase…” he heard his father’s voice and lifted his eyes up to look at his father who was holding out his suit jacket in his hand.

Chase took the jacket from him and gave him a slight nod showing his appreciation. Frank gave a light squeeze to his son’s shoulder and walked out of there.

After few moments Chase tried to pull away from the hug so that he can make her wear the jacket but she tightened her hold onto him, not wanting to pull away.

“Don’t pull away Chase… don’t leave me. I am scared… I am very scared” she sobbed against his skin.

He tightened his hold around her even more if it was even possible. He lifted her off of the ground and made her sit on his lap. He used one of his hand to caress her back to calm her down a little.

“I am not leaving you Cara. So don’t be scared. I am right here, in your arms” he whispered back softly.

“I was so scared Chase…” she whimpered out and Chase’s gut tightened. He is feeling guilty for not being able to protect her as he had promised her he would do. He let her go through something so terrifying.

But soon the feeling of guilt washed away and his heart filled with warmth when she continued, “I was so scared that he would hurt you”.

She was still thinking about him. She was still worried for him. She is not angry at him for making her go through such a horrible situation, as it happened to her because Albert wanted to take revenge on him.

“But see, I am completely fine. You… you protected me Cara. So don’t be scared anymore” he whispered in her ears.

She slightly pulled away to stare into his eyes but was still holding onto him, tightly.

Her eyes roamed all over his face and stopped on his busted lips. She loosened her hold around his waist and brought her hands up to cup his face and caress his bruised lip with her thumbs.

“Doesn’t it hurt?” she asked softly, slowly starting to calm.

Chase leaned into her touch and put his left hand over hers which was resting on his cheek. He shook his head and whispered, “It doesn’t”.

His eyes then move to see the red bruise on her left cheek he saw earlier which was clearly telling him that someone had slapped her.

His jaw clenched upon seeing it. He reached to caress her cheek with his thumb and asked, “Who did this?”

Cara felt the muscle of his jaw twitch under her palm and she could also hear the hint of anger in his tone but she didn’t want him to get angry at this moment.

“It doesn’t matter right now. I don’t want you to get angry” she whispered. His features softened immediately and Cara couldn’t help but smile at his obedience.

“Let’s go Chase” John spoke from the door and chase gave him a slight nod before diverting his whole attention back to Cara.

“Let’s go home” Chase whispered and she nodded her head. He made her wear the jacket his father gave him.

He called one of his father’s man to break the chain which were still binding her hand. Once it was done, Chase helped her get up on her feet.

They walked out of the warehouse and Chase looked around to see dozens of police car parked outside.

His eyes fell on Albert who was being pushed into one of those police car. As if Albert felt Chase’s gaze on him, he turned around to look at him and an evil smirk appeared on Albert’s lips.

Chase’s insides again started burning with rage. He wanted to storm towards him and wipe that smirk off of his face. His hands balled into tight fists.

Cara felt the anger radiating from his body. She took his balled fist in her hand and unclenched it to intertwine her fingers with his, making him look down at her.

“Let’s go” she whispered softly and it was not possible that he would ever deny her words.

He tightened his hold on to her hand and started walking towards John’s car, where both of his best friends were waiting for them.

They could take only two step forward when a little commotion was heard behind them. They turned around to see what is going on and both of their eyes widened in shock.

There stood Albert aiming a gun at Chase, he just pulled out from one of the police officer’s pocket.

“Our relationship won’t end just like that my boy. I won’t be satisfied until I see you in pain” Albert sneered.

Chase stood there glaring at him, not scared even a little. But soon that changed when Albert smirked at him and moved his arms a little so that the gun was aiming at Cara.

Fear gripped his insides but before he could make any move a loud gunshot echoed around him and a gut wrenching scream escaped his mouth.

“Cara….!”