Author's note: VIEWERS DISCRETION is advised..The story is entering a more horrific angle..so don't say I didn't warn you..Read at your own Accord..This is entirely fiction based on real events and I mean no disrespect to any character mentioned in this chapter..so please don't take it seriously because I highly disdain such practices done to any human being.. It's only for edutainment..Read and be inspired^^.

The News:THE POLICE ARE CURRENTLY CARRYING OUT A COLOSSAL MANHUNT FOR BOTH MR DE LA CRUZ AND MISS LONDON DELVON..AND IT'S BEEN THREE DAYS SINCE THEIR SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE..AND A LOT OF FINGERS ARE BEING POINTED AT LEWIS FOR THEIR DISAPPEARANCE.. HE'S BEEN ALLEGEDLY ACCUSED FOR THE SUPPOSED MURDER OF ARMANDO DE LA CRUZ..AND NOW FOR THE ABDUCTION OF ARMANDO'S SON AND GIRLFRIEND.. COULD LEWIS BE TAKING REVENGE ON THE COMPANY?..

(Meanwhile..

Damien wasn't able to sleep for the past three days after my disappearance..He was now certain that maybe Lewis had something to do with it but he didn't know why his mind couldn't believe it.. something seemed awfully fishy to him..but he didn't even know what to do or which other way to go..He grew even more frightened and worried about me..

(Later..

Before Leonardo left,He had revealed to one of Mace's bodyguards.. Jermaine..that Mace had abducted me for the wrong reasons and he had secretly told the bodyguard to help me escape in case he wasn't available..and the bodyguard instantly figured everything out and decided to create a plan for my escape..

Mace had seen on the news that the police were searching for us and he instantly changed the channel feeling annoyed by it.

I struggled to come downstairs because Mace had told the servant to get me ready for our post engagement ceremony and I didn't want to stay engaged to him at all..I needed to get this ring off my finger..

Mace had summoned a private priest that was going to carry out our small ceremony and he requested me to sit next to Mace and I did..

Before the ceremony commenced..I decided to show my palm to the priest..

London:Read my palm and tell me if I'll get married or not..

Mace stared at me seriously in confusion and the priest didn't know how to reply..

Mace decided to joke sarcastically to cover up..

Mace:Priest you didn't laugh..My Mami just cracked a joke..my London is very sharp.. anyways begin..

London: Alright..so should I tell the priest that this is an inauspicious way of getting engaged..

The priest paused and stared at Mace..

London:Take a look at this ring.. it's not fit for an engagement at all..

Priest: She's right..A more classical and traditional ring would be suitable for the ceremony..

Mace stared at me in anger and I laughed..

London:This ring won't even come off.. it's literally in my veins..

The priest was shocked by what I had said and turned to Mace..

Mace:She means to say that it's tight on her finger..

London:If so then I demand you to chop off my finger so that the ring will come off..

I extended my hand to Mace and the priest got frightened instantly and tried to talk me out of it..

London:No..since it's going to be inauspicious with this one on..It needs to be chopped off..Right Handsome?..

I smirked at Mace and he brought out a nut chopper from a drawer and inserted my finger into it and the priest stood up in fear and was telling Mace not to listen to me and tried to also tell him not to chop my finger off..

Mace: I'm just fulfilling the vows of the ceremony..and her wishes..

I smiled at Mace and he smiled forcefully..

London:Then go ahead..try it..

Mace paused and stared at me..

Mace:You are my pride..my prestige..if it was someone else's..

Priest:Sir please!..

Mace:I would have chopped their head off!..

I stared at Mace in anger and before I knew it he chopped my ring finger off making blood splatter all over his face and he stared blanky into my eyes reeling with shock..

I walked with unsteady feet outside in shock with my mortified finger and it soon started to rain heavily and I fell to the ground and fainted with my finger bleeding profusely and there was a huge thunderstorm afterwards..

(A while later..

Mace was still reeling in shock with what he had done and he was so distracted with walking back and forth that he didn't know that his bodyguard Jermaine was creeping up behind him to attack him and free me..

Mace instantly felt his presence and turned back..lifted him up and slammed him to the ground..then he got a big fat rope of chains..wrapped it around his hand and punched his bodyguard till he passed out..

I had regained consciousness and witnessed what was going on and because of how much pain I was in..I wanted Mace to take me to the hospital..

I walking slowly towards him still in a lot of pain from behind and as he wanted to hit his bodyguard..by swinging his hand sideways and back..he had mistakenly hit me on the head once again in that same area of the injury that was inflicted on me from yesterday with his hand that had been wrapped up in big fat metal chains..

The impact was so hard that I fell to the ground like I had become weightless and started convulsing and bleeding profusely and then he turned back and screamed my name in shock with tears in his eyes ..

Without further wastage of time..he took me to his room upstairs and called another private doctor..

(Moments later..

Mace had reported and lied to the Italian police that His bodyguard was a con artist that disguised himself as a worker to kidnap me and he became quite popular in Italy already because of his riches and fame and because of that the police simply believed his story and arrested Jermaine.

After the doctor was done with me,Mace hastenly asked him about how I was doing..

Doctor Samuel:Her accident was quite brutal and it could have ended her life..but Luckily she survived.. even with multiple injuries on her scalp..

Mace felt relief and sadness at the same time..

Doctor Samuel:You also said that she was convulsing..

Mace:Yes quite badly..

Doctor Samuel:I managed to stop it but she's unconscious right now so don't disturb her..allow her to rest..

Mace:Yes Doctor..

Doctor Samuel:Ok then.. I'll be taking your leave..

The Doctor then left and moments later during the evening time Mace decided to visit me in the room and he almost fainted seeing how vulnerable and battered up I looked as I was unconscious..

He stared at me for a long time before looking at his hands feeling like a complete devil and then he fell to the ground in shock and started hitting the ground in anger and then he got up and punched the wall till his hands bled..while groaning in pain and then he went downstairs and continued injuring himself by hitting himself on the walls and finally he spotted the bloody nut chopper that he used to cut off my finger and cut his ring finger  that didn't have a ring on it..

He screamed in pain for a minute or so before calming down and then he drank again like the previous night..and walked around the house sobbing..

Then he stopped at my door and looked through a glass window and was looking at me in tears feeling remorseful..

"My heart crossed swords with yours,In a feud as flawed as love"..

"A love that changed my persona"..

Mace wiped the foggy window pane with one slow swipe with his mortified finger and his blood stained the window and he was able to see me clearly..

"My name is love"

"Your name is love"..

"My name is love"

"Your name is love"

"My love is red..The red remorse,of rivalry and regret"..

I was laying on the bed on my left side with the bandage on my finger completely soaked in my blood and it had stained the white bed sheets and I instantly felt Mace's presence and slowly opened my eyes and looked towards the window but he was gone..

I struggled to keep my eyes open but I was in so much pain that I couldn't even move and I lost consciousness once again and passed out due to shock.

The more chapters..The more intense it gets!.. I'm speechless right now..

Another attempt made for London to escape failed once again..And honestly I feel bad that she has to go through so much pain despite being with her soulmate..The one that she's actually destined to be with..

First it was her gut wrenching fall at the De la Cruz company that completely cracked her skull,and now she's been hit on the head up to 3 times already in the worst way possible..all hits being completely brutal to her head..along with her finger being chopped off..wow!..

It's indeed a gruesome love story..A twisted one at that!^^..

But the torture doesn't end here (°-°)..

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