The sickening story churned Skyla’s stomach and she had to bend over the bed to empty the contents of her last al on the floor. Her condition didn’t help as she already felt nauseated at tis.
She couldn’t even decide what made her sicker, that woman’s treatnt of Doran when he was a kid or her mal treatnt by Doran now.
For him, it was all revenge. The bottled-up emotions he had kept as a child had transford into a rage-breathing demon, who was now demolishing everything in its path.
All that pity she had been feeling for the woman, sohow evaporated.
What kind of sick person tortured kids? Sa kind who tortured Zyair.
First Zyair and now Doran. Both n in her life had such harsh childhoods and it astonished her at how different they turned out to be.
The human mind was indeed a mysterious place, one could never know the path one will take.
"Why don’t you tell my beautiful wife, how you burnt my privates when I couldn’t please you the way you wanted. Go on, don’t be shy. You never were when you tortured ," Doran drawled out in a tone that held buckets of hate.
Skyla had never seen him use such a tone with her or anyone else, He had raged at her but hate was never there. He despised the woman would be an understatent.
Arica was shivering like a wet cat who had been left for too long in cold water. The fear had dug deep into her flesh as she clasped her hands and begged Doran for rcy.
He roughly threw her against the wall and she scuttled away from him using her injured legs, whimpering in pain.
He straightened up and faced Skyla, who was teetering on the edge of losing her mind after losing her al. The ntal breakdown was just a breath away.
"You see, this was the truth I shielded you from. The woman who ruined and finally one day I had enough. That was the day I sealed her fate and vowed to myself that I would return everything to her tenfold."
His frigidly cold eyes wavered at Arica on the floor and Skyla could see the heaps of animosity in them, it made her gulp with difficulty.
He continued with a sneer.
"In the beginning, I kept her in an abandoned warehouse. But when you discovered with Karen, I didn’t want any more of my secrets unravelled. I found this room soon after, made so upgrades, had a secret passage built, and soundproofed it. I paid a hefty sum of money to have the people who worked on it keep their mouths shut. They worked at night so no one beca suspicious or discovered the location of this place. It beca my secret hideout and I shifted her here so she would watch with Karen. She needed to see what she had turned into and feel my wrath daily and she will continue to do so until I die."
Skyla was reeling from all the information he had bombarded her with. All that ti they had been together, he had been torturing Arica daily. That explained his disappearances and how no one was ever able to locate him.
She understood where all that rage was stemming from and wondered what kind of man Doran would have been if his childhood had been similar to Skyla’s.
They would have been a happy couple with two to three kids by now. She might have never even t Zyair. But that’s not how the High Decree worked for the ways of fate were twisted.
He stepped closer to her and she flinched but there was nowhere to go. Thankfully he only unlocked her chains for she had made a ss.
"You see now why we couldn’t have a proper married life. That’s all because of her and my parents. My father wished for a mistress and my mother couldn’t look past a random affair for . That’s why I didn’t want children. But we can fix it. We will be together now and raise our children better."
There was this tenderness in his voice which jagged Skyla’s heart. He wasn’t planning on letting her go ever, was he now? His delusions had completely fucked his brain, he wasn’t even thinking straight.
Skyla had no intention of setting the facts right for now when he was holding her arm in his grip and was leading her towards the bathroom so she could wash up. All she did was silently nod and send prayers for Zyair to find her soon and get her out of this hell hole. But she did feel pity for ex-husband.
"I am sorry, Doran. No child deserves abuse and I hate what she did to you." Skyla’s words were true. Even though she hated him, she wouldn’t want such a fate for her worst enemy. He simply watched her with conflicted eyes.
***
The blood sample police had gathered from Zyair and Skyla’s villa revealed the identity of one of the attackers. Although the bodies had been taken, the blood that remained behind helped them track the person and get his bio-data from the system.
Further investigation revealed he was linked to the most notorious mafia bosses of Angel City; Goridus. He operated underground and was notorious for child pornography, sex trafficking and drug dealing. As it turned out Goridus was one of the persons Skyla had exposed in that video she played during her press conference.
The information was discussed with Zyair and now it made perfect sense to him how Doran was keeping Adam Corporation afloat and was using resources to stay hidden and off the radar.
This also explained how their house was targeted, all caras were shot at and all their guards were killed. They were literally dealing with a ruthless mafia here.
"We have an undercover officer, trying to gather information on Goridus and his gang. We have left him a ssage and are waiting for him to get back to us with any information related to the case and Mrs Zyair. If she is in their custody our officer will know. We are very close to getting to their ring leader, actually, it was due to that footage your wife shared that led us to launch that operation against this gang and him."
The lead investigator in the case inford Zyair while showing him the different pictures of the man who had raped the man with blue eyes, multiple tis.
His jaw clenched and hands fisted seeing the pot belly fiend he hated with a passion but had been unable to get his hands on. The thought of his wife in his clutches just turned his insides. He grabbed one of the pictures and it crumbled in his hand as he shook with rage and asked.
"Can you quicken up the pace and find my wife? I have literally lost all of my patience."
The lead investigator understood that Zyair had been a victim to this man and now his wife could be too. He quickly replied.
"We are working day and night on this, you just carry on the other plan as we had discussed and we will see to it. This is sensitive information but I have shared it with you so you can understand we are very serious about this case."
His answer didn’t bring relief to Zyair but it rekindled a slight hope.
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