"I wished I have fallen in love with you earlier. We deserved each other's love long before now."

-Maddie-

"My my, look at you now my sweet, sweet Madilyn." I hear her shrill voice echo the room. It was dead silent. You could only hear her heels clicking as she continues to stride in my direction. "Madilyn!" Ren shouts from the side.

"Ah ah ah." Amy tuts, grabbing my hair before pressing the gun against my head. "Take a step closer and I'll blow her brains out. We wouldn't want that would we?" She smiles, almost insanely.

"What do you want Amy?" He asks, stopping mid way. Amy halts for a moment, lips curling up into a smirk. "You." She states, her voice sickeningly sweet. She eyes Ren before smiling coyly. "But there's just one problem." She pulls my hair making me wince. "Sweet cheeks over here, is getting in my way."

"But not for long dear." She turns to me, sending me a dark smile, enough to make shivers run down on my spine. Ren sneers as he watches Amy with a scowl filled with disgust and contempt. "You're not going to hurt her." He growls. She looks back at him, raising an eyebrow, twisted grin growing wider as she gestures towards me. "Really? I don't need to darling. She's already dying."

As if on cue, a skull splitting headache courses through my head, causing me to stumble and fall onto the ground in immense pain. I fought back the tears as I felt wave after wave of the same horrible feeling. "What did you do to her?" He says, giving a heated stare at Amy. "Nothing much, added a tiny bit of antifreeze in her wine." The twisted Amy grins widely. "It was too easy."

"Its a matter of time before her body begins to break down. The chemicals will interfere with her body, shutting down her kidney, lung and nervous system. Soon, she'll be a vegetable, unable to move. Isn't that just wonderful Renny Boo? We will finally be !" She cackles.

"Why? She hasn't done anything wrong!" Ren shouts in anger. "Oh she has." A deep chuckle can be heard. As I clutch my head in pain, I watched as Mr. Enrique strides over to stand right next to Amy.

He crouches down and grabs my chin, forcing me to look at him. "Too bad a beauty like you had to end up with a man like him." He mutters as he tucks a strand of hair behind my ear. I glare at him as I pull away, disgusted.

His eyes turn dark at my gesture. He slaps me across the face, making me fall unto the ground. I touch my stinging cheek as my eyes well up with salty tears. Don't cry in front of this man. He doesn't deserve your tears.

"You son of a—" Ren howls, ready to lunge at him. Mr. Enrique grabs my hair as he points a gun to my neck. "Would you like to continue that sentence?" He sneers, pressing it harder. Ren's eyes softens upon seeing me. My head begins to hurt once more and I felt a stabbing sensation in my abdomen. Experiencing all the pain hurled toward me at once was unbearable.

"Aw look at you playing the role of a loving boyfriend." He snickers, throwing me on the ground. "I have an idea! How about you both die together instead." He laughs psychotically. Cocking the gun, he holds it in his hands, tracing his fingers ever so slowly on the barrel before hovering his fingers over the trigger.

"I am tired of coming in second place, Ren." He sneers. "My company was always second best, people compare me to you. 'ACE is way better,' Nobody believes in me. My parents, my very own parents, trusts in your company more. All my life, they never supported me. Wanting to hear them support me at least once, I established my company. Tell me Ren! Do you know how fucking painful it feels to watch your parents, someone related to you by blood, favor someone else instead their own son. Do you?"

"So I am going to take away the person you cherish the most, just like how you took my parents away from me." He says angrily, his eyes blazing like fire.

"What do you want?" Ren asks, clenching his fists together. I could see his knuckles turning white.

"What do I want? Are you telling me that you are willing to give up everything?" He mockingly asks. Ren grits his teeth. "What I want is your company. ACE has such a wide variety of businesses and your stocks are huge too. Give it up and I'll let her live." He sneers.

"D-Don't..." I croak out. I felt my heartbeat slow down as I began to lose breath. I can't stand the thought of all his efforts going to waste. I choke as I felt this suffocating feeling take over my body.

"Tick tock, lover boy. Her life is on your hands." Mr. Enrique smirks.

"Ren, please don't. I'd rather die than watch you hand over all your hard work." I mutter, my voice cracking. I felt a lump rise in my throat as I struggle to breathe.

"Shut up turdbag! No one asked for your opinion." Amy screams, kicking my stomach. I wince as I wrap my arms around that area, trying to lessen the pain one way or another.

"I'll give you until three." Mr. Enrique says, walking slowly towards him as he raises three fingers. I felt helpless as I stay limp on the floor, my body not cooperating with me. I wanted to fight for Ren but I couldn't.

"What's it going to be?" He says, eyes twinkling with nothing but darkness. He clasps his hands in front of him as he smirks widely.

"Your life or hers?"

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