ARIA'S POV:

Mum helped me change my clothes after a bath. I looked at her quizzically so that she answers my questions.

"Mom, how did we escape h--him?", I asked worriedly. Before she could answer, Ryan barged into the room of this big penthouse, whose owner I still don't know.

"Aria..ARIA...", He shouted happily and hugged me tightly.

"Ryan....", I whispered as we both hugged each other after so long. He is my brother but he has always cared for me like I was his daughter even though we don't have a much age gap between us.

"You're fine. I was so scared.", He whispered to himself and swayed me from side to side in his embrace making me giggle softly. I missed him.

"I missed you Ri.", I told him and he hummed, not irritated by the nickname that I had given him when I was four.

"Did you find Iris?", Mom asked him and he nodded finally pulling away slowly.

"You found her?", I asked eagerly. The day on which I had to take the flight was the day that I was going to meet Iris. But our plan failed and I couldn't meet her.

"Yes, she's safe.", He said pecking my head making me smile.

"I will protect you baby Ari..", he whispered making me laugh. When I was a newborn, he used to say this line always. I sniffled as the memories hit me like a truck and then my sobs became full blown cries. Mum and Ryan hugged me in between them as they whispered soothing words in my ears.

I could finally breathe. I was away from his clutches. He won't come back.

"Dad?", I asked when I felt slightly better.

"He is making sure that your kidnapper doesn't come near you again.", Ryan said angrily and for the first time, I saw that much rage and hatred in his eyes.

"Ry--an, call dad. He.. he's very dang--erous. He will hurt daddy. P--lease.", I cried and he shook his head and rubbed my back.

"Shh baby..he will be fine.. there's a lot that you don't know right now. Dad is a strong man and he will keep you safe.", He said and mum nodded smiling at me.

"N--o..call him p--lease.", I pleaded. They don't know what that monster is like.

"Hey, hey..look at me Aria..breathe...come on....I'm calling him..calm down.", Ryan whispered rubbing my back as I tried to breathe through my nose. The stress was suddenly too much and I just want my father safe and away from that monster.

"Hello dad....yes..I know...yeah talk to Aria.", He said after having a small chit-chat with dad.

"Dad, come back home please. D-don't go near h-him.", I said taking the phone.

"I'll handle everything baby. Why don't you sleep? I'll be there when you wake up, I promise.", He said and then I heard a voice, his voice.

"D--ad, is he t-here?", I asked shivering in fear.

"I'll be there soon baby after finishing this piece of shit.", He said and ended the call. Mom laid me down after I gulped my medicines which the new doctor prescribed.

"Sleep baby. I'm here.", Mum said kissing my head and holding my hand tightly and I nodded feeling tired and worried about dad. What did he mean by 'finishing'?

"Stop thinking Aria. Dad will be here when you're up.", Ryan said from the other side and I finally went to sleep.

HADES'S POV:

"My m-en will be here soon. I'll t--ake Aria away.", I laughed loudly as Alexander's face twisted into a scowl.

"STOP. TALKING. ABOUT. MY. DAUGHTER.", He said each word punching my face repeatedly.

His hand held my neck and put pressure on it making me struggle. I can't die.

"You won't die this easily.", He smirked and put something sharp in my arm making me scream in pain.

"LEAVE ME.", I groaned in pain and he twisted it twice. I couldn't take it for longer and I gave into darkness hoping that my men will rescue me before I die.

ALEXANDER'S POV:

Alexander cleaned the blade and put it on the wall with his toys. He ran the Russian mafia and was a big investor in Hades's companies. After knowing the truth, he had taken every penny back leaving the companies share dying. He made it his motive to clean the bastard's existence from Earth.

Aria was his daughter who had born after three miscarriages. She was the apple of his and his wife's eyes. They had always protected her from the mafia business making her believe that they were a normal family which was far away from truth.

They had searched for four months for her and one day they get a call from Hades. They thought that it was due to business or maybe about his daughter since his father was a mayor. But when he found out his daughter there on his bed half dead and crying miserably, his blood boiled.

"босс, он будет спасен?", Maxim, my right hand man asked. He was a young boy still in his early twenties but he was as evil as a person could be. He was twisted in his brain and I love the way he tortures. (Boss, will he be saved?)

"На моем гребаном мертвом теле.", I snarled. I looked at the bloodied man who was unconscious now. My eyebrows furrowed as I watched his neck. There was something wierd. I bent down to touch it and growled when I found a chip inserted there. That's why he was so sure that he will be saved. (On my fucking dead body.)

"Maxim, put him into the 'lost' tunnel. Let's see how he gets out.", I smirked at him and he laughed nodding. He twisted the knife slowly in his neck and pulled out the chip before crushing it under his foot. Taking the stairway, he threw him in the back of the car while I took my own car and started following him.

Half an hour later, we were at the tunnel and we both were giddy to make the fucked struggle here. There were poisonous snakes and crocodiles inside. It was our favorite place to torture people. The darkness of this maze like tunnel makes the culprits mad while the snakes enjoy feasting over them.

"It has been a year.", Maxim snorted making me laugh but my laugh died down as the sad and fear filled eyes of my daughter came in front of me.

"He tortured my daughter for months. She was half dead when I found her.", I told him and his eyes gleamed with anger.

"Let's torture him more then.", He smirked as a madness filled him. Taking the unconscious Hades out, he dragged him inside the tunnel and threw hot water over his face making him scream and get up.

"W--here am I?", He asked looking here and there in the darkness. We could see him through our glasses but he couldn't because there wasn't a single source of light inside.

It was going to be fun.

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HAHAHA! *EVIL LAUGH*

I'm having so much fun in making Hades suffer.╰(*'︶'*)╯

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