,,Carlos Della Morte''

,,Okay gentlemen, since we have no idea who kidnapped the girls, we'll act differently'' I said lighting a cigarette.
,,Every year there's a poker game for the leaders of the organization, this year it's in Germany, maybe I'll find out something there, Santiago you're going with me, Fernando you take over the leadership, GummyBear find out guest list, cameras, anything that can help us'' I said putting out my cigarette.
,,Doberman prepare a weapon for us, Psycho needs a translator to understand what they're talking about, Pitbull you'll go as a bodyguard, they won't let you into the poker room, but you'll keep an eye on the rest of the bodyguards, watch and listen, maybe one of the bodyguards will say something'' I said turning to Fernando.
,,Fernando you contact France, Nikolas and Fabien are Scarlett's friends, we can use all the help we can get'' I said getting up from the chair.
,,If anything I'm in the office'' I said leaving the room and went straight to my office, I have to relieve myself somehow because I'm going crazy soon.

Going inside I closed the door and went to pour myself a whiskey, I hope the girls are okay and no harm is coming to them. Why is no one calling with a ransom? Fuck! I can't stand sitting and waiting idly. Drinking in one sip I throw the glass against the wall, I'm a careful man and I didn't notice anyone watching us.
,,Fuck!'' I scream hitting the wall with my fist as hard as I could, and then again and again. I can't stand this peace, this silence, my thoughts are playing tricks on me in my head, my demons will return, because only my Queen knew how to stop them.
"Fuck!" I scream once again demolishing my office, piece by piece.
"Adriano! Stop it!" my mother screams, I didn't even hear her come in.
"Please son calm down" she screams trying to stop me, but I'm in such a frenzy that I can't stop.
"Santiago!!" I hear her scream, and after a moment I feel someone grab me from behind and pull me away from the wall.
"Adriano calm down, it won't do you any good to demolish the whole room" says Santiago holding me.
"How could I not notice that something was wrong, that someone was watching us?" I ask moving to the floor.
"Nobody noticed" he said letting go of me and went to the bottle of whiskey lying on the floor, picking it up, taking a sip and putting it next to me.

"You'll see we'll find them, we just have to be careful with every little gesture or detail, everything can lead us to the girls, we have to be focused now" he said adjusting the couch and then sat down on it.
"Alessandro was right, Scarlett will never be safe with me, as soon as we find them, Scarlett is going home, with her family" I said putting the bottle to my lips and taking a big sip.
"Scarlett should decide that herself" said my mother coming up to me.
"Exactly, my daughter will decide what she wants to do as soon as you find her" interjected Jasmina entering the room.
"My husband and I never ordered her to do something she didn't want to, Scarlett always acts according to her conscience and we always support her in that" she added.
"It will be the same now" said Alessandro entering the room.
"Boss, I have something," GummyBear shouts as he enters the room.
"What the fuck happened here? A tornado passed?" GummyBear laughed as he approached me with his laptop in his hand.

"Never mind, you told me to check the guest list, those who would be at the poker meeting and something took me to check if those on the guest list were visiting our country or if their family or someone related and I found 3 people who were in Italy, Finn Fischer, Aksel Erikson and Jules Mertens," said GummyBear as he turned the laptop towards me.
"I know two of them, Finn is the leader of a German organization and Aksel is from Norway, both of them contacted me faster, informing me that his meeting was on my territory," I said pointing at the two of them.
"Do you think they could to plot something behind your back?" asked GummyBear.
"I don't think so, we've been working with them for years, and the third one, do we know anything about him?" I asked.
"Not yet, I wanted to let you know what I've found so far, I'll get to it right away, my cousin is already taking care of it with Masha," he replied, closing his laptop and heading for the door.
"Adriano, maybe I can make you something to eat?" Mom suggested, but I don't want to, I'm not hungry, how can I eat when my beloved and sister are god knows where.
"I don't want to," I reply, getting up from the floor.
"Santiago, get ready and I'll see you at the gym in 5 minutes," I say, walking towards the door and heading straight to my bedroom to change, I need to let off steam or I'll go crazy.

                                         ,,Scarlett Marchetti''

When I wake up, I feel weak, I change position from lying to sitting and opening my eyes I see that I am not in Carlos's room, but in some strange room, but wait something is wrong, I don't know this room, hmm... what is going on the last thing I remember was I was with Kassandra in my salon doing her hair, when I finished we saw smoke and then two guys entered the room with masks on their faces, then I lost consciousness. Fuck Kassandra! I looked around the room but I don't see her anywhere, I saw 3 pairs of doors, quickly getting out of bed I went to the first one.

,,Kassandra'' I whispered quietly entering the interior, but unfortunately it turned out to be the bathroom, behind the second door there was a wardrobe, so the third door probably leads to the corridor, I have to find Kassandra and then find out where we are. I gently open the door and check if there is anyone on the other side, luckily there is no one, leaving the room I quietly close it again and go down the corridor to the next door, I open it quietly and peek inside. I immediately see that it is another bedroom, on the bed I see Kassandra sleeping, I quickly go inside and closing the door quietly I quickly go to her.

,,Kass, get up" I try to wake her from her sleep.
,,Kassandra" I call her again, gently shaking her.
,,Scarlett? What is going on?" she asks as soon as she opens her eyes weakened.
,,We were kidnapped from my salon, remember?" I ask looking around the room.
,,What? Oh god yes, I remember where we are?" she asked getting up from the bed.
"I don't know, but we have to run before he realizes we're awake" I said walking towards the door, I open it gently and peek if anyone is behind it.
"There's no one, let's go" I said leaving the room, but Kass grabs my hand and drags me back to the room.
"What are you doing Kass?" I asked turning to her.
"I'm scared, maybe we should wait for my brother, he's probably looking for us" she said terrified.
"Are you crazy? There's no time, we have to try to get out of here, then we'll contact Carlos" I said opening the door, but she stopped me again.

"Scarlett, I can't do it, I'm too scared" she started babbling in a terrified voice.
"Kassandra! If you keep talking crap like that I'll kick you somewhere you don't like, I've taught you enough, use your fucking instincts'' I hiss at her pissed off, there's no time for fear.
"Remember to keep your hands close to your face just in case to protect it from getting hurt. If they're bigger than you aim for places like the throat, kidneys, knees and groin.
When they're stronger and bigger than you you have to rely on your speed and skill. First you have to find their weak point and attack it whenever you can'' I instruct her.
"I'll go first, Kassandra this is no time for fear! Focus'' I adds as she leaves the room and she follows me.

We walk down the corridor, at the end of it stands a man, I motions for Kass to wait and I approach him, when I tries to get him from behind, he turns and hits me, but I lean back and punch him in the face, he wipes his hand across his mouth and looks at her and sees blood. The sucker starts to get nervous and starts throwing punch after punch, which luckily I manage to avoid, now it's my turn I punch him in the face with all my strength and it throws him away from me, I have a moment to collect myself. Not wanting to play fucking games anymore, I approach him, raise my knee and shove it hard into his crotch with all my strength. He hisses in pain and falls to his knees, squeezing his testicles with both hands. I quickly lift a vase from the stand and hit him in the head, he falls to the ground and I knocks him unconscious. Someone comes up behind me, grabs me with their hands and squeezes hard, wants to crush me, but I quickly tilt my head back, hitting the back of his head on his nose breaking it. The pain made him let me go, another bastard ran up to me and wanted to hit me, but I leaned back and avoided the blow, I quickly grabbed his arm and twisted his arm back with all my strength breaking it, then I pushed him onto the body of the loser whose head I smashed a vase on. I reach out to Kassandra, and when I take it we move further to the left, and then down the stairs, halfway down the stairs we hear voices, I stop at the last step and gently look what's going on. I see 4 guys standing at a table talking about something, I turn to Kass and gesture for her to be quiet and wait here for me, then I move towards them. As soon as they heard my footsteps they turned to me and one of them reaches out to me to catch me, before he can put his slimy hands down I grab his arm, I twist them around his back and kick the back of his knee making him fall to the ground. Once he's down, I kick him in the head a few times and knock him unconscious.

"I advise you to fuck off while you can" I hiss at them pissed off, ignoring my warning all three of them run at me, avoiding their blows I grab one by the hair and hit him in the nose with my knee and he falls to the ground, I quickly hit his leg with my foot and break it. The other two suckers seeing this surround me and one standing on the left side swings at me, so I dodge, then his punch ends up hitting his friend and knocks him out. Taking advantage of the fact that he is distracted I kick him in the face with a half turn and he falls to the ground and loses consciousness.
"Enough!!" I hear the voice of a pissed guy, I turn around and see a guy holding Kassandra and a knife to her throat.
"Be good or she will lose her life" he growls at me pissed off, pressing the knife harder to Kass's throat.
,,Put the fucking knife down!!'' I orders him taking a step towards them and I see him press the knife harder to her throat hurting her, she hisses in pain.
,,Okay put the knife down! I'll be good'' I tell him pissed off.
,,I think so too'' he laughed, moving the knife away from Kassandra's throat and hiding it he pulled out his phone.
,,Come here idiot and bring more people'' he ordered into the phone.

,,What are we doing here?'' I asked when he put the phone in his pocket holding Kass the whole time.
,,You'll find out everything in a moment'' he said walking up to his men and checking if they're alive.
,,They're alive, they lost consciousness'' I inform him with a smirk on my face.
,,Why do you need more people?'' some jerk asks entering the room and when he sees his men lying on the ground he pulls his phone out of his pocket.

,,Did she do everything?'' he asked clicking something on his phone.
,,Yes take care of them and then take her to the cell, I'll talk to Scarlett'' he said pushing Kassandra towards him.
,,No!! Leave her'' I hiss walking up to them and grabbing her hand pulling her closer to me.
,,I'll only be good if she's next to me'' I say emphatically, they can't separate us.
,,Okay, but just one mistake and she'll be locked in the cell'' he warns me.
,,Let's go to the dining room, I'm hungry'' he said walking in the opposite direction from which we came.
,,Double the security! I want all the people here!'' he ordered walking towards the door and we politely followed him.
,,Scarlett I'm sorry'' Kassandra whispered.
"It'll be fine, just watch our backs next time" I say as I follow the idiot who kidnapped us.

He leads us to a room with only a table and 4 chairs, he sits down at the table, after a moment a young girl comes in dressed like a prostitute. The top and skirt look like she stole it from her much younger sister and she puts a plate in front of him, then disappears behind the door and reappears with two more plates, which she puts next to him and leaves.
Poor girl, you could see she was afraid of him, she had her head down low and didn't look up from the ground.
"Sit down, you haven't eaten in two days, you must be hungry" he said turning to us, I went to the table and sat down next to him, and Kass next to me.
"Who are you?" I have to find out who I'm dealing with.
"Jules Victor Martens, the leader of the mafia" he replies smiling.
"Why are we here?" I asks another question as he takes a piece of steak into his mouth.
"You Scarlett are here to be by my side and she ended up here by accident" he replies once he swallows.
"I don't understand" I say surprised by his answer.
"I saw you on TV when I was at a business meeting and I fell in love with you" he says and my eyes widen in surprise, the guy is brainwashed, he saw me on TV and fell in love, well that even sounds stupid.
"When I saw you with that Italian loser a few days later, I knew I had to save you from him, so as soon as I found out that my friend was his uncle who wanted revenge on him, I used that to free you from him, and she came here for our protection, as long as I have his sister he won't do anything to us" he explains, and I immediately faint from the impression, that loser is insane, under the table I take Kassandra by the hand and calm her down, we have to play this right if we want to get out of here.

"Since you're not hungry, I'll show you to your rooms" he said getting up from the chair and heading for the door, following him I try to remember every detail, it might come in handy later when we try to get out of here.
"Here's your room, and her..." I interrupt him.
"I would like Kassandra to be with me... please" I have to be nice until we figure something out.
"Okay, but only for a week, because then you're moving into my bedroom" he replies with a smirk on his face, I fucking want to hit him, but for now I have to hold back.
"Last question, where are we?" I asked in a calm voice.
"In the south of Belgium in the city of Mons, you'll see, you'll like it here" what a cheeky guy, how can you kidnap someone and expect her to like it by force.
Entering the room with Kass, I close the door, we have a week to get out of here, I don't want to sleep with this idiot in bed.
"What are we going to do now?" Kass asked, approaching the bed and sitting on it.
"We have to somehow escape from here and contact Carlos," I added.
"Calm down, we have to think everything through, if I remember correctly, the city of Mons is about 300 or 400 kilometers from the French border, we have to get there somehow and then contact my friend Nicolas, he will help us," I think out loud.
"But how are we going to escape from here? Did you hear that he ordered to double the security," she asked in a desperate voice.
"We don't even know the way to the border," she added, clutching her head.
"Kassandra listen to me, you have to calm down and listen to me," I said, kneeling on the floor in front of her.

"We'll manage, you just have to remember every detail that can help us, I don't know, for example we have to find the exit door, or a window through which we could escape, if you hear someone whispering try to eavesdrop on what, everything can help us" I explain.
"First of all don't eat anything, because it could be poisoned or something worse, oh and only drink from a closed bottle, I'm saying this in case we get separated" I warn her.
"Now go to bed and get some sleep, I'll keep watch" I said getting up from the floor and going to bed, I can see she's still sleepy, they gave her too much sleeping pills or maybe all this just tired her out.

As soon as she fell asleep I got out of bed and started looking for something that could help us defend ourselves or escape, but there's nothing here, the window is blocked with metal bars, there's nothing in the bathroom except towels, fuck nothing that could help us. I hope Carlos is looking for us, because I don't know how long we'll last here. I miss him terribly, his touch, his voice and the safety he gives me in his arms.
I was torn from my thoughts when the door opened and the young girl who was serving dinner to that idiot entered.
"The Master asks you to join him and eat with him." she said in a hoarse voice.
"Tell him to kiss my ass," I said in a calm voice, this girl didn't do anything to me, I don't want to be mean to her, she's probably here against her own will too.
"Please, if you don't go I'll be punished," she asked in a broken voice.

,,Okay, tell him I'll join '' I reply getting out of bed.
,,Thank you'' she sighed with relief.
,,What's your name?'' I asked I need to know how to address her.
,,Rita'' she replied after a long moment.
,,I'm Scarlett, and this sleeping beauty is Kassandra, listen could you help us get out of here'' I asked approaching her.
,,There's no way to get out of here, when I first got here I tried many times, but with poor results, so I gave up'' she explains.
,,Don't you have anyone looking for you?'' I asked surprised.
,,Not anymore, I had a sister, but he made her his sex slave, after two months she drowned when he finally let her take a bath'' she said in a pained voice.
"I feel sorry for you, listen, when I get out of here, I'll take you with me," I assure her.
"If you try to escape, he'll kill her, I heard him order his men, I have to go now or I'll be punished," she said as she walked to the door.
As soon as she left I went back to bed, I have to rest, before meeting him.

Of course, some time later he sent Rita for me, and Kass took some sucker. Rita explained to me that Jules would lock her in a cell, and if I behaved, after the meeting Kassandra would come back to me and he kept his word.

I don't know how long we've been here, I think it's the fourth day, yesterday Jules was at the annual poker convention, someone got him an invitation and told me that he saw Adriano Della Morte and there was no sign of him missing me, he said he was with some woman, she even showed me a picture he took, it showed my Carlos with a black-haired woman, he shows me to break, but I won't give up that easily. I don't believe Carlos has forgotten me, and I don't believe he's found someone, he's definitely looking for me and Kassandra. I managed to find out that there's only one key to the cell where Kass is locked up and Willy always keeps it, if I managed to get the key to her cell, she'd be safe there and then I could take care of those bastards. I decided that today I'd do just that, I explained my plan to the girls and told them what to do, he's supposed to bring me some clothes that lunatic wanted. I took my clothes and went into the bathroom, when I got dressed I looked in the mirror at how I looked, a mirror! Fuck I didn't think of it sooner, I quickly ran to the room, grabbed a pillow, wrapped it around my hand and went back into the bathroom. I hit the end of the mirror with all my strength, I hope it doesn't make too much noise, part of the end of the mirror broke off and fell on the cabinet. I picked it up and wrapped it in toilet paper, then hid it in my bra, I won't give up that easily without a fight. As soon as Rita takes Kassandra to the cell, she manages to steal the key from Willy, then comes for me to take me to Jules, he's waiting for me in the dining room, we're supposed to have dinner together.

,,Hi honey'' the idiot says coming up to me and tries to kiss me, but I pull away, I can see that it pissed him off.

"Fuck, I'm sick of you rejecting me"' he hisses, grabbing me by the throat and squeezing his hand tightly.
"I told you, bitch, to listen to me"' he shouts, choking me, I grab his hand and dig my nails into it, I manage to push him away from me, but I can't attack him because his dog Adam pulls out a gun and aims it at me.
"Starting tomorrow, you're sleeping in my bedroom. Get ready, slut!!'' he shouts, pissed off, I keep quiet because I don't want to piss him off now, first I have to deal with his guards.
"Take her to her room, I've had enough of her for today"' he growls, pissed off, massaging his hand.
Now I have a chance Adam grabs me by the arm and leads me out of the dining room, we walk down the corridor I take advantage of the fact that there is no one next to us and I knock my hand away from him, then I hit him in the stomach with all my strength, and when he falls to his knees I quickly take the gun from him and hit him in the head with the tip, I knocks him unconscious and he falls to the floor. I grab him by the leg and drag him to the room and leave him there. I continue down the corridor, hearing someone sneak up behind me I turn to shoot when he knocks the gun out of my hand. I hit him twice in the face and when he is momentarily distracted I pull a piece of mirror from my bra and cut his throat. I push his body to the ground, when suddenly I am grabbed from behind, I tilt my head back hard and headbutt the person who is moaning in pain. I take advantage of his lack of attention and raising the gun I hit him in the head with all my strength the bastard loses consciousness. When I take a few steps further a huge guy with a smile on his face stands in front of me and starts attacking me I dodge and hit where I can, at some point he grabs me, I had to act quickly I grabbed his hand with all my strength and then I twisted it behind him violently, I took it behind his back and kicked him and he fell to the ground. Now I have a chance I run up to him and grabbing him by the hair I tilt his head back and cut his throat. Fuck I have no strength I am exhausted but now I can't give up, I am close to escaping this hell, I have to go get the girls. Walking down the corridor I hear the sounds of a gun, someone in the house is shooting, fuck I have to hurry, finally I find Rita's room, I go to the door and listen if anyone is inside, I hear some moaning, I open the door gently and I see a guy getting to Rita, what a bastard, I enter the room quietly and walking up to them I pick up a chair from the floor and then I hit the guy in the back, falling to the floor he screams in pain, I aim the gun at him and shoot the rapist right in the head, his body falls to the floor.

,,Rita, please tell me I made it, that he didn't have time to hurt you'' I say in a broken voice approaching her.

,,No, he didnt do no, you come just in time'' she replies hugging me.

,,There's no time we're running away from here before they find us'' I said walking towards the door.

,,We have to get Kassandra out of the cell quickly'' I say walking down the corridor and she follows me.
Going down the stairs we find ourselves in the basement where the cell is located, approaching the bend, I look if someone is guarding her cell and as usual only Willy is sitting by the door. Rita approaches him and talks to him, and I come up behind him and slit his throat with my piece of mirror, letting go of it he falls to the ground.
,,Here, open the door'' handing her the door key, I hide my piece of mirror in my bra, it might come in handy.
,,Well, bitch came to the rescue'' said Jules approaching me and punched me in the head with his fist and I fell to the ground.
,,First I'll kill you bitch and then I'll take care of your friends'' he hisses in my face and then punches me in the face again. I don't have the strength to fight anymore, but now I can't give up, as I fall to my knees, I dig my fingers hard into the ground and catching the sand, I throw it in his eyes.
"You bitch!" she screams, grabbing his face, now I have a chance, pulling out a shard of my mirror I stab him in the leg, he falls to the ground.
"Quickly! Let's run!" I scream to the girls, they run around the bend and up the stairs, and I follow them, but I don't manage to get to the end of the stairs because I gets shot in the leg.
"No!! Scarlett!!" Kassandra screams, coming up to me, but I reach out my hand to stop her.
"No! Run!" I order her, grabbing my thigh.
"Rita take her and run!" I scream to them, turning to Jules.
He's pointing a gun at me, the fucking bastard, I won't let him hurt the girls, either I kill him right here and now, or he'll kill me.
"Put the gun down and fight me, you bastard," I growl at him, and he starts laughing.
"You think you can handle me, bitch?" he asks, laughing at me.
"I can deal with motherfuckers like you" I joke with a smirk on my face, I can't show him that I'm scared as hell.
"You fucking fuckhead, I'll kill you," I growl at him, jump down the stairs on one leg.
"Come on, bitch," he says, hiding the gun behind his shirt.
When I manage to go down the stairs, I tear off a piece of my dress and squeeze my leg tightly in front of the wound so I don't bleed out. I hope the girls managed to escape because I can't hold out any longer.
Jules starts attacking me, luckily I manage to avoid his blows, he's too slow. I manage to hit him in the stomach, exactly where I stuck my mirror shard in him and he falls to his knees, this gives him the opportunity to grab my shot thigh and squeezes hard.
"A!!!" I squeal with all my strength in pain I close my eyes.
This is the end for me, I give up, I don't have the strength to fight anymore, I hope the girls will forgive me. I hear a shot and I feel relief as he lets go of my wound, I open my eyes and see his body fall to the ground. My body is so weak that it can't hold out and moving against the wall, I fall to the ground next to him.
"Scarlett!!" I hear his voice, I finally hear his voice, that's enough for me, I wanted, I didn't dream that before I died I would hear his voice, my Carlos.
"Scarlett darling can you hear me?" I feel his hands on my face but my body gives in.
"Carlos..." I choke out his name one last time as I lose consciousness.
I hope he saved Kassandra and Rita, that they are safe.

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