A Mafia’s Obsession

CRYSTAL

My heart was thumping. It was slamming against its rib cages, threatening to be let out so it could sink into its deepest abyss of sadness and despair.

I was still trying to grasp the events that just occurred. I can’t believe Leonardo had chase beaten up and the brute actually called me his damn woman!?

When did i become his woman?

Wasn’t I the same Crystal he embarrassed in his function and had me flogged because I refused to have dinner with him.

So when the hell did i become his woman?

Why was he trying to make me feel accountable to him? I hated all these.

This pain, this heartache is hard to bear.

Leonardo is gradually turning my life into hell. I’m struggling to keep myself afloat in this abyss of darkness that has become my world.

My feets quickened in their own accord making me run sharply towards my room.

Once inside I shut the door hard with the noise reverberate through the air and carried my staggering legs to the shower.

My lips quivered with each breath I took as the tears like a raging flood came crumbling down, distorting my vision.

My knees buckled to the ground and I sat underneath the shower.

I screamed out in pain and anguish. Why was Leonardo doing this to me?

“Leonardo why are you taking everything away from me?!”I found myself yelling in bitter rage.

My fist balled up in an instant and I crumbled on to the cold tiles of the bathroom, screaming and cursing Leonardo.

My eyes glanced up whilst my hands trailed along the walls of the shower, reaching for the shower rotating valve. I immedately turned it clockwise.

In no instant did the cold waters of the shower start descending in droplets on to my skin.

I laid down on the floor and let the icy waters hit my skin like a heavenly downpour, drowning my cries and sorrow in its flow.

My heart was being shattered into a million pieces when I remembered the look on Maya’s face.

The harsh words she scoffed at me all because of Leonardo.

Heavenly deeply knows I bear no harm against chase. He was my childhood crush.

And now when I finally realised that he loved me, when he finally told me that he had real feelings for me, that mind blowing moment got snatched away from my grasp even before it blossomed.

My first love was ripped away from me, shredded into pieces and burnt to ashes.

Leonardo just proved me today that he is the most selfish and inhumane being I’ve met.

My heart ceased to beat whenever I imagined not ever seeing life in those beautiful hazel eyes of chase again as I watched him getting brutally beaten up by Leonardo’s thugs.

The bloody pool that surrounded his body couldn’t get out of my mind. It kept on flashing like it was on repeat making me feel worse of myself.

It felt like I was the cause of everything. I felt like such a badluck to every good person out there.

Nothing good ever stayed in my life.

Whilst trying to pay my dad’s debt off, I got myself signed off to this devil of a man.

He had taken away everything from me. I just can’t bear this any more.

I cried even more harder as I thought of every turbulent moment i faced till my eyelids became weak and my throat became hoarse.

As the waters of the shower kept on hitting me, I could feel my eyelids becoming heavy.Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

An unknown darkness shrouded my vision and I let myself sink into it.

Darkness. It was all I ever knew.

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“Crystal?”Maya called out as she stepped into Crystal’s room.

She was surprised to see the bed was still looking unused. The sheets were still perfectly laid and it didn’t even seem like Crystal slept on it.

Her gaze narrowed to the wide open windows that welcomed the awe inspiring rays of the sun into the warm bedroom.

Maya had her brows furrowed.

Where could Crystal be?

Suddenly a sound could be heard. It sounded like gushing of waters and it was coming from the bathroom.

Maya shuffled her feets towards the bathroom only to meet Crystal lying unconscious on the tiles with the shower waters running down on her endlessly.

She was terribly soaked.

A horrified scream escaped the elderly lady’s mouth and she dashed outside in fear.

“Leonardo”maya panted the moment she set her eyes on him strolling through the hallways.

He tilted his head at her giving her the audience she needed.

Maya sweated and pointed her hands towards the direction of Crystal’s room.

Leonardo’s features hardened.

“It’s cr-crystal. She’s un-unconscious”Maya stuttered with trepadised hands.

“What!?”Leonardo bellowed.

In a bolt, he immedately ran over to crystals room.

His chest heaved repeatedly in anxiety and anger.

“Where is she?”He asked hyper as his eyes roved around her room.

“In the shower”maya sobbed.

Leonardo swiftly ran into the shower and met the same daunting sight that Maya earlier met.

The waters of the shower rained continuously on Crystal and she wasn’t moving an inch.

Leonardo immediately picked her up. Her wet clothes were sticking on to her body like glue, her hair becoming so thin in size and her face looking so pale, flushed of its colours.

For the first time in forever, Leonardo could feel himself sinking with fear. Horror washed over his face as he carried Crystal like a lifeless body to her bed.

Dropping her ever so gently of the bed, he turned to face Maya who was already sobbing.

“Maya chiamare il dottore- Maya call the doctor” Leonardo’s frantic voice rang across all corners of the room.

Maya scurried out at once as Leonardo headed towards the shower to turn off the valve.

In an instant, he came to Crystal’s side, tears pooling in his eyes as he watched her lie unconscious.

His hands trailed to hers.

Gripping hold of her pale, cold fingers, he interlocked his carouse hands with hers.

His fingers were gently caressing her pale skin as he gazed at her.

“I promise, you will be fine Crystal”he whispered.