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In the incarceration of a large cage, there she was running around the corner of the massive foyer, high ceiling of the mansion doing nothing to stop her little feet from running, her hair flowing in the air behind as the sound of her small giggles flared in the silent hallway, my own footsteps masking the sounds of her barely heard ones, she was light on her feet just like an angel, my angel.

"If I catch you, you'll be in for a punishment, love!" I laughed behind her, easily catching up to her slim body, my own giggles coming out faintly, she was a like fresh breath of air in this confinement, keeping me sane to go on with my mission rather than killing everyone at the first chance I got.

"Y-You can't catch me!" She squealed over her panting, darting into the gigantic glass sunroom, the aroma of flowers filling the air like a drug, from the queen of the night to the rare jade vine every flower was in there, thriving just like she did, her white sundress floating behind her, easily mixing with the white flower creepers in the huge glass room, sunlight peeking through the windows and finally landing on her smooth skin as she basked in the feeling of sovereignty, forgetting about me who was leaning on the doorframe, taking in the rare beauty.

"Is that a challenge I hear, my dear?" I asked, slowly slithering inside the room, closing the glass doors behind me as she settled her brown doe eyes on me, grinning cheekily, showing her pearly smile making my heart melt just like that. She stumbled back as I stepped closer, blushing profusely as the distance between us kept on reducing, her tiny palms clutching the hem of her sundress in a tight hold as she anticipatedly waited for me.

"Not so fast now, are you my dear?" I asked encircling her tiny waist and pulling her close, gently tucking a piece of hair behind her ear as her chest heaved against mine, I smiled knowing she was getting affected by my closeness.

"What did I tell you about stating your feelings? You can assert when feeling uncomfortable," I slowly reminded her and she nodded her head, my height towering over 5'2" stature, she nodded her head to my words before softly asking, a hopeful glint shining in her eyes.

"Can-Can we go out in the garden today?" Her small voice making me smile at her innocence.

I smirked, playfully pulling her close, my lips dancing behind her ear as I whispered, "Does that we include me?" I pulled back to see her blushing like a freaking tomato when she timidly answered.

"Yes," my smirk widened as I made her look at me with her chin.

"And what exactly are you planning to do there?" I asked huskily, eyeing her lips as she happily squealed, bouncing in my embrace, unintentionally rubbing herself to me.

"Bird watching! An-and picnic!" I controlled my filthy thoughts and joined in her excitement, squealing as well.

"And we can make out behind the trees!" She scowled, my smile dropped reckoning that maybe she didn't like my idea, fearful that she would pull back, become closed off in her own hell which I pulled her out of with so much endeavour.

"B-But I like our relationship i-intimate and I-what if he finds out, he'll k-" I stopped her from saying any more as my grip tightened on her waist.

"He can't hurt you, I'll kill him if he as much as touch you again or anyone else for that matter," I asserted as she gasped, lightly hitting my chest to gain my attention.

"You don't threaten to kill someone!" She pouted making my heart constrict for this beautiful soul that they kept caged, and tainted her with the worst pain possible, my heart ached for thousands of others that we weren't able to save before, I sighed softly hiding my face in the crook of her neck.

"I'm sorry love,"

"It's ok,"

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I groaned as my body ached all over like hell, skin burning from scratches he left, opening eyes in the basement yet again to observe where the f*ck I was now, I glanced down at myself to see my clothes changed to a white sundress while my hair didn't feel greasy as they should be, the patch on my leg was resuscitated as well, I groaned again when there was too much moment of my calf, I was retied on the chair with my hands behind the chair in deadlock, my head killed me with excessive throbbing causing me to close my eyes with a whimper, I ignored the questions that were swirling inside my head to stop the pain, one of the main beings where the f*cking hell was my switchblade, I would be f*cked if he threw it somewhere before reaching here.

My thoughts were cut short when the opening sound of the metal door followed the punching of the passcode, I was caught off-guard when instead of Arcadius his second, Rafael stepped inside, his expressionless gaze meeting mine as he slowly locked the door behind him.

Just like the door closed, his expressionless face seized too, letting a twisted smirk to contour his face, his filthy scar giving his smirk a gruesome spectacle, his body jacked inside a black three-piece as he stalked towards me with metal knuckles adjusted on his hands, the sound of his footsteps reflecting through the basement alongside the dripping sound of the water, his smirk provoking one of my own to resurface on my lips as he stopped in front of me.

His dark hair tousled around, small stains of blood smearing his earlobes, easily giving out that this wasn't the only cell he stopped in today, his dark eyes settled on my small figure with intrigue and hate, the respect long gone, what left was hatred and scorn.

"How's your thigh, Rafael?" I asked smirking, my lips twitching with smugness watching his anger increasing a thousandfold, my smirk was wiped out when his iron-clad punch settled on my face with so much force that my chair fell down with me on it.

I coughed and sputtered out blood, my white sundress smudging with blood as it carelessly trailed down my chin, I exhaled and staggeringly inhaled before settling my gaze on him, seeing him walking across the room and picking up another unrestricted chair that was stacked in the corner, I failed to notice it before, he dragged it towards me, screeching sound of the chair being dragged along the hard floor piercing through my skull, gaining a lazy groan of resistance from me.

He stopped right in front of me, his shoes just centimetres away from my face as he sat down on his chair carelessly, letting me cough up blood on the floor beside his feet, pulling out a cigarette he placed it between his lips before rummaging out a lighter from his suit jacket and lightening it, taking a huge puff in and blowing the smoke out as he watched me writhe in pain.

It was silence inside for a while, both in the basement and my heart.

"Regina?-" he scoffed mockingly, letting his shoe land on my head gently before twisting it hard on my face, gaining another week resisting moan from me, "-non sei nemmeno degno di essere uno schiavo in famiglia, (you're not even worthy of being a slave in the family)" he completed disgustingly, suddenly removing his feet and picking my chair up harshly, my breath ragged from his punch, I could feel a deep cut on my chin still gushing out blood, my head swaying in different directions due to small black dots forming in front of my eyes.

"So-are you going to tell me where the USB key is or do I need to torture it out of you?" He asked lazily, leaning back in his chair as he smoked his cigarette, his face looked like he wanted to be anywhere rather than here, when I didn't answer his question he answered it for me.

"Torture it is, I guess," he huffed exaggeratingly, taking a last huge puff of the cigarette, throwing it on the floor and stomping it with his foot, slapping his thighs before standing up, loosening his wrists as he settled yet another punch on my face, cracking sound following his punches as he continued punching me again and again. In midway, he abruptly stopped, his hands clutching my almost numb face in his fingers as he analysed it with a frown on his face.

"Capo isn't going to like it if I deform this pretty face of yours," he mumbled to himself as he yanked my face away before walking up to the door, opening it and ordering someone something, eventually coming back to his seat, sitting infront of me leisurely while analyzing me, his legs wide open and his back hauled on the chair as he continued watching me like a hawk.

"You know-Capo gave me a free pass to you in return for extracting the information of USB Key from you," his eyes squinted on me as I looked at him from under my lashes, a single blood drop threatening to fall from my eyebrow as the cut on my chin stung with pain, everything was slowly clearing out since the haze of his punches gradually deteriorated. I sighed tsking as I moved my head back, yeeting the blood on my eyebrow in a swift motion of my neck, my neck cracking giving me some relief, he visibly jerked on his seat in reflex to my sudden reaction.

I crooked the tips of my lips downwards, masking a taunting perplexed expression and muttering, "umm...what USB Key?" Now come on, I knew what the f*ck he was talking about, I just wasn't in the mood of getting in trouble with supposedly two international undercover agencies, maybe three after counting in the FBI.

He smiled, not a friendly one but a grim one which came off terrible because of the cut on his face, before he could say anything I beat him to it. "Ew. Don't smile, doesn't suit you," he didn't appreciate my humour but took my advice anyway as his smile vanished when he hauled forward to grab me but restrained from doing so.

"You are the reason of my f*cked up face, but don't worry I'll make sure to return the favour," he spitted out, his face just mere centimetres away from me, gaining an amused smirk from me when he resistantly trudged back and slipped in his chair.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, the cat is out of the box, the alluring artwork on this gentleman's face is my doing, it was a hasty work but it came out pretty good now that I look at it.

"Well, in my defence you were right behind me!!" I huffed out exaggeratingly as he scoffed at my silly tantrum of justifying my attempt to carve his face out, my temper was interrupted when a knock resonated through the basement, his eyes met mine and a gnarled smirk formed on his lips, standing up from his seat he walked up to the door and hauled it open, revealing another man with a metal box sort of handing in his hand, twice the weight of any toolbox we see in our households.

I kept quiet, analysing my options and quickly coming to the decision that I need him to stuff something in my mouth if he wants to subside my screams cause there is no way in hell I'm going to utter even a single word about the USB Key, if he anyhow gets even a small hint about its location then the marketing of human trafficking and drug dealing that had dwindled after Arcadius downfall will bring hell over several countries just like before.

My thoughts were cut short when he locked the door with a loud bang, whirling around with a torture toolbox in his hands as his eyes twinkled with revenge, God let me keep my limbs.

"Let's start shall we?" He asked, loudly adjusting the toolbox on his chair and striping his coat away before folding the sleeves of his shirt as he rummaged out a plier, smugly examining it and focusing his gaze on me.

"Can I-Can I borrow your belt?"

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"Ahh!! F*ck! " I screamed on the top of my lungs as he ripped out yet another fingernail, heaving in agony as my body trembled with pain.

"Where is the f*cking USB?!" He yelled on my face, as blood trailed down my forehead from hitting the floor multiple times after taking his frustrated punches.

"I-I don-t kn-" before I could complete he settled another punch on my face, his patience kept degrading every time I denied knowing about the location of the USB.

"Again! Where." He gritted out through clenched jaw, exasperation written all over his face as he stared at my swollen and blood smudged face, even breathing felt like a task at this point.

"I d-don't-" I coughed out blood causing the response to die in my throat.

He huffed, looking at me with disgust as he slumped down on his chair, glaring at me for some time.

"You f*cking Cagna (b*tch), this-" he waved a finger infront of my face "-isn't going to last for long." I wasn't even in the condition to decipher what the hell he was saying. My eyes dropping from his face as blood dripped down my lashes.

"Well, consider this a farewell gift," and with that, he stabbed me in the thigh, chilling pain coursing through my body as my veins twisted inside me, a spirit writhing wail leaving my lips as he yanked it out of me, tears smearing out of my eyes carelessly as blood and spit sputtered out of my mouth, that weird numb tune going through my head as he stood up, leaving me beat and bruised, my hands struggling behind to break free and tend to my wound but it was impossible with the deadlock they had applied, my leg was numb with the stabbing wound as sounds of my outcries continued thundering in the basement, marking his dismissal as he locked the door on his way out.

After a little while, my sobs decreased to sniffles and whimpers as blood didn't stop, my vision dimming slowly, my body was unrecognisable for anyone with the amount of cuts and bruises that were left on my body.

My eyes gradually closed and I slipped into another dream in my sleepless unconsciousness.

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"They are going to blacklist us!" I hissed at him causing his smirk to widen at my obvious hesitation, I furrowed my eyebrows at him when he playfully pulled me closer.

"Come on Jann (life), Maja aayega! (It will be fun!)" He whispered excitedly in my ear and I struggled to hide my smirk behind as his eyes twinkled with mischief upon noticing my expression.

"I dare you," he whispered and the smirk finally blossomed on my lips, accepting his challenge, turning around to face the huge glass doors I lightly bit my lip, forming a plan to complete the stupid dare.

"You're going to fix the mess," I stated, my gaze stuck on the front glass door while he nodded nonchalantly, not having any problem in accepting my condition, removing his hands he gently nudged me in, I analysed the cameras placed in the corners and hastily inhaled a deep breath before putting my plan in action, sensually stepping inside the campus library and removing my scarf in a swift motion, jacking it at one of the many men whose eyes were stuck on me.

Winking at others I dropped my jacket as I stepped closer to the first lengthy desk, smoothly tugging the top over my head leaving myself in nothing other than my red Victoria secret bra as all eyes turned to me, I heard various curses around, some of sheer panic and some of the amazement but most of them being horny, I knew the moment I stepped in I completed my dare but what's the fun in leaving without doing anything, after all we have the reputation of troublemakers to behold.

I did a backflip, landing on the table as hungry eyes trailed over my body while mine were trained onto the person standing at the entrance of the library, taking in the blunder I was causing because of his dare, smirking at him I finally pulled out my hairtie, leaving my waist length brunette hair to dmoothly flow on my bare back leaving myself in my exotic piece of bra and leather pants.

"Holy shit!" I heard cursing all around making my smirk to widen, It was easy to seduce men, but it was speciality to seduce women, grabbing hold of my top I hauled it at him which he caught easily, his eyes burning with desire as I looked at him, swiftly diverting my gaze from him I turned to the only girl sitting on the table and smugly replied.

"Close your mouth kitten," she blushed, nervously tucking her black locks behind her ear, I finally stepped down when various black suit-clad figures aka bodyguards hauled out from everywhere in a panic, walking over to him with a stupid grin plastered on my face.

"Here," I felt him covering me with his jacket while my eyes were stuck on his handsome face, protecting away from the eyes of horny jerks inside, I mischievously replied over the uproar of the library instructor who was cursing me and was currently getting manhandled by this idiots bodyguards, turning my head around from the library I softly let out but in a mischievous tone.

"Thanks, boyfriend,"

"You're welcome, girlfriend,"

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"Do you know why you're getting punished?" I asked as I adjusted the leather cuffs on her hands that were attached to the four-poster sized bed. She kept her gaze down from my face, never really making eye contact just like I ordered her to, when she didn't answer I spanked her ass making her jolt in her place, her naked body trembling with need.

"Because I-I didn't speak my mind when I wanted to," she mumbled looking at my half-naked body with heaving rise and fall of her breasts.

"Exactly. You do know I ordered you otherwise," I answered hypothetically, tying her legs in a telescopic tube as she opened them wider only to get them stuck at that position, leaving her core bare to me, wet and leaking of juices as it trailed down her ass onto the red satin sheets.

"Do you know your safe word?" I asked in haze, seeing her like this was teasing and tempting me to take her like a f*cking whore but she needed to know that she has a say in everything, and being someone's submissive is all about trust, she has to be needing this as much as I do as her dom.

"Yes," Her squeaky answer reached my ears only making me reflexively settle another hard spank on her sensitive core, making her gasp and moan at the feeling of pain and pleasure.

"Yes, What?"

"Yes, Domina,"