21. The truth

"...I...I'm sorry..."

" What for?" Layla spoke, calmly. Her overall attitude bespoke indifferent.

" For not protecting you,..." Adrian put down his backpack to the ground, holding her hands. His hands felt cold. Layla frowned.

" And?" She had a hunch that the next word could be something she never expected.

" ...and, our child."

Crack!

" What?" Layla stared blankly at the man. He went to hug her, trying to find some courage to disclosed this hurtful truth.

" Two years ago...you're pregnant."

Layla felt cold. Her scalp felt numbs and buzzing. Her ears ringing with something loud and she heard a distant shrill.

" Ugh!" She felt a sudden sting in her head. The tears broke uncontrollably, staining her face and Adrian's shirt. She trembled in his arms.

" Layla, please. Calm down!" Adrian anxiously hold her quaking body. She paled, sweating bucket all over.

Inside her consciousness, countless memories broken like a tide, crashing her mind.

" Layla! Rose...! Adriana, right?" A sinister sound of someone laughing creeps into her mind. She shuddered.

" ...Don't poke into someone business."

" Shut up! Shut up!" She felt some kind of pain on her abdomen. It's not a physical pain, but more to mental-physical consciousness.

A/N: ( Here is the continuous memories of Layla after she woke up from fainting previously.)

[Caution to the reader: This section has a mild gore description. Skip it if you felt uncomfortable.]

"...oh? What is this?" She open her eyes in a great difficulty.

" Hey, Boss. She's bleeding." Another sound of someone cackling entered her mind. Layla felt something ticklish at her legs. She found herself lying on a wide table in the middle of the room. She was surrounded by several people. She frowned as she felt a sharp pain in her abdomen area.

" Urghh..." She groaned, catching the people attention towards her.

" Ohoo...well, well, well...awake already?" She saw Dragon walking to her side, bending his waist to look at her. The man made a pleased face at the discovery his man found after this woman fainted.

" You...!" Layla hissed when she finds herself being tied in star shape. She struggles, trying to break free.

Dragon laughed sinisterly, chucking at her meaningless struggle to escape. " Layla, Layla...do you know what I found right now?" Dragon took hold her jaw, pinching it, forcing her to look at him.

With his eyes gleaming evilly, he stared at the woman while chuckling, " You. Are. PREGNANT!!"

Boom!

Layla stiffened. His words struck her like a thunder. Her eyes widened in shocked.

" W...what...?" She look at the man, an incredulous expression made Dragon cackled. His maniacal laughter bring Layla back to the earth.

" You had a baby. With who again? Oh, yeah. With that man called Adrian, isn't?" He made a funny look while pretending being forgetful, as if this news was something worth a celebration.

Despite her being in trance, Dragon turned to his men and asked out loud, " Its a ba*tard or a bi*ch?"

One of his men laugh, shaking his head playing fool with his leader. " Don't know. Shall we take a look, then?"

" Oh, how?" Dragon waiting for this question the most.

" We take it out, then we can check it. Afterwards, we put it back. How is it? I'm smart, isn't?" The man rubbing his palm as if anticipating for something incredible and worth a waiting. They laugh at his ridiculous words.

Blood drained from Layla' face. Her complexion turn white instantly.

" Then, let's do it." Dragon' words like some kind of damnable amnesty for her. " No! Stop it!" She roared. A dreadful thought of her baby being treated like a toy by this men made her shudder in terror.

" Ahahahhahaha! Why not? You also want to know, right?" Dragon cackled, gesturing for his men to do it.

" No! Stop! Dragon, you dare?!" Her struggles intensified when she saw two men hold her knees and spread it wide. In that instant, her lower part exposed. To her horror, the men already strip her skirt off, together with her underwear.

The men whistling, guffawing at the sight of her bare vagina. " Wohoo, Boss! So pretty." One of the men stretch out his hand and touch her fold with a lewd laughter.

" Oh, oh, there's a blood." They continues.

" What a sight. Hey, try poke inside. See if you can find that thing." Another man went closer, taking part in touching her vagina.

" No! Stop it! Dragon! Stop! Arghh!" She cried out in pain. One of the men penetrate inside, ravaging her inner side with his finger.

The men ignored her shout, trusting in and out of her, as if looking for something interesting. Layla felt something warm gushing with a feeling of a lump bursting out. " No!!" She cried out.

" Ah, Boss! Look! There's something coming out." The man shouted, gaining attention from the crowd.

Layla panted, feeling like something torn apart from her. ' No...no...'

She knows it.

The thing that comes out from her body was...the foetus. Her child.

She cries, and finally her sight turned black.

Layla fainted in despair.

(Author: What I imagined was something crueler than above description. But, I hold back as my hands shaking when trying to type this scene. So sorry, I can't do it.)

Layla' memory stopped until here. Her body shaking, as dread filled her mind and soul.

" The...the child...they..." She stuttered. Without looking at Adrian for answer, she knows it.

Adrian pull her into his arms, as if looking for a comfort from the painful memory.

" We...we found you. But, we're too late. Dragon and his men...they..." He couldn't bring himself to continues as this part wasn't something he bears to speak out.

" Adrian! Say it! I...I want to know...please..." She choked a sob, feeling despair.

Trembling, Adrian continues. " They...put the child in a jar...filled with...water..."

Yes. That was how they tortures the innocent child. He cries days and nights, feeling guilty and despair. He still remember how he hug the jar, crying like a child. The hurts losing their children was comparable to how they continues to tortures the powerless Layla. Not only that, Dragon brazenly records the process of him torturing both his wife and child, and sending out to him.

" Ahhhhhh!" Layla burst out, crying hard. Her body spasms, trembling in his arms.

Dragon! Dragon! Dragon!!

Her heart filled with intense hatred and resentment. That bas*tard!

I will kill him!

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