Rescue Me

Playlist for This Chapter: Rescue Me by OneRepublic.

When we went back to his house, I was taken to my room where I changed and immediately got out of the dress and make up, putting on a pair of silky nightwear that I found in the closet and slumping down on the bed.

But I couldn't sleep. At all. I tossed and turned and it was nearly 3 am when the door to my room was burst open and in stumbled a drunk Giovanni with a bottle of alcohol in his hand. I scrambled away from him in fear, my back against the headboard as he watched with predator like eyes.

Like he was ready to hunt me down.

He started asking me questions about Nicholas that I didn't know the answer to. He came closer and brought out his hand and I flinched, closing my eyes as his fingers stroked my face and went down to my neck.

I shivered and moved his hand away but he gripped my neck and brought me closer to him. I could smell the alcohol on him and tried to wriggle out of his grip but he was holding on tightly despite being intoxicated.

"You fucked him didn't you? Will you let me fuck you too?" He asked with a sick grin on his face and I pushed him off of me and screamed for help.

"No one can hear you darling, it's just us." He said lazily and chuckled, coming closer to me. Looking around frantically, I grabbed the alarm clock on the night stand and flung it at him.

Obviously, it hit him and he dropped the bottle of alcohol on the floor and hissed in pain. I looked at the door of my room and tried to make a run for it but he caught my arm and flung me aside, my head hitting the night stand.

A searing pain shot through my head as he cursed me and swore at me, taking off his belt.

Was he going to...? No...

My vision became blurry and I tried to free myself from his grasp but to no avail. He didn't rape me. He did something completely different. He hit me with his belt. More times than I could count.

And it hurt like a bitch.

"Please stop! Please! I don't know anything!" I screamed and shouted in pain but he didn't hear me.

My body burned, I was bruised and blood flowed from the side of my head as I screamed and thrashed around until m vision became black and I slipped into oblivion.

The next few days were hell. I was beaten up by him, whipped with his belt and he even tried to rape me. Almost, but I was saved when there were an emergency at his warehouse he couldn't ignore.

I slumped against the cold shower tiles as the water flowed down my body, mixing with the hot tears streaming down my face. My body was covered in whip marks, bruises, and scratches. My lip was busted and my ankle was sprained from when I fell down trying to run away from him.

My face was swollen and my hair, a tangled mess. I was given looks of pity by the maids who tried to tend to my wounds but I would snap at them for trying to touch me. I was disgusted with myself, and all I wanted to do was end my misery.

The only things keeping me going the deep, velvety voice that haunted my dreams. The deep blue eyes that drowned me in their depths and the smile that lit up my world.

Him.

They kept my room door locked from the outside and it was also guarded so I wouldn't try to escape. One night I was trying to apply an ointment to the bruises on my stomach when my door was opened suddenly and he walked in again with alcohol in his hand.

Whenever he was drunk, his punishments would be a whole lot severe and harder to take. I instinctively stood up and took a step back as approached me and set the bottle of alcohol on the table.

"Now. Your dear boyfriend hasn't tried looking for you so I'll ask you one last time? Where the fuck is he? Where does he hide?" He hissed and I shook my head frantically.

"I don't know, please you have to believe me." I pleaded but he clicked his tongue and shook his head in annoyance. Suddenly he lunged at me and punched my face. I fell back with a thud an touched my nose, wincing.

I saw blood on my fingers and felt the all too familiar taste of it in my mouth. I was used to it now. Blood was my only companion these days.

"Lies!" He shouted and grabbed my hair, pulling my face back as I winced from the pain.

"Where does he hide?!" He shouted again and a sob escaped my lips.

"I don't know." I answered but I knew my words were worthless to him. He flung me so that my back hit the wall and I slumped on the floor, too weak too move. He kicked me in the stomach and I felt like the wind had been knocked out of me as he whipped me with his belt one again.

I tried to remember the good things through the pain, his voice, his eyes, his smile, his face, his everything... It made the pain more bearable most days until I would eventually pass out.

"NO! Please! I don't know anything!" I shouted, but he only swore at me.

"Fucking pathetic Lies!" He shouted, continuing to hit me like I was a rag doll. I couldn't protect myself, I couldn't do anything to save myself. All I did was shout out his name expecting him to come and save me, but he didn't.

So all I did was call out to him in hope he would hear my cries and come to my rescue.

"Nico!" I shouted, my voice weak, struggling to come out as pain shot through my body, but I didn't stop.

Please help me.

"Nico please! Help me!" I shouted once more as I felt the darkness around me dissipate and a blinding light that blinded me, Giovanni's curses ringing in my ears as his whips and harsh words bruised me, followed by a steady beeping in the background that seemed to be increasing its pace every second.

Voices, muffled voices surrounded me as hot tears streamed down my cheeks from the burning in my body that felt like it was being torn apart.

"Nico!" I shouted once more until my voice gave up and I felt the darkness slowly consume me all over again.

Come rescue me.