Zack's POV:
I was sitting in my room, going through my plan. It's really reckless and it puts even more danger for Jennifer but I just can't sit around and do nothing when she's there suffering all alone.
I know Marcus. He's a cruel shithole who would stop at nothing to get what he wants. I've seen him mercilessly kill children and women. He spares no one.
And my Jennifer is trapped in his claws. I had promised her that I would not let anything happen to her but I failed to keep my promise.
"Zack?" I turned to look at Isabella standing at the door of my room. She had a tray of food in her hand.
"No. I don't want to eat anything, Bella. And you won't convince me otherwise." I stated.
"Shut up." She said and sat beside me on the bed. "Look at yourself. I don't want my handsome son to look like a zombie." She said and kept her hand on my cheek. "I know you're worried about her, Zack. But not eating anything won't bring her back to you. You're just making your health worse."
"You don't know them, Bella! Do you think they would be giving her any food?!" I said and looked away.
"Zack. I know exactly how cruel they are. But do you think Jennifer would be happy to know that you're not taking care of yourself because of her?"
"No... She won't be." I muttered.
"Exactly. Now, please eat something son."
Isabella raised her hand to feed me but I stopped her. "Mom, you don't have to baby feed me-" I stopped in mid sentence as I realised what I had just called her.
"What did you just call me?" Isabella asked with widened eyes. "Sorry, Bella. I didn't mean to-"
"No.... I loved when you called me that." Her eyes moistened with tears and she hugged me.
"So....It's okay if I call you mom?" I hesitantly asked while hugging her back.
"No. It's not okay."
"It's wonderful!" She said and kissed my forehead.
"Alright. I'll eat this but you don't have to feed me yourself, mom."
Both of us were staring at each other with teary eyes. I never thought it would feel this amazing to finally be able to call someone mom. And it's possible only because of that silly girl who has stolen my heart. I'd forever be thankful to Jennifer for this.
After I was almost done eating, we both heard Max yelling downstairs like a maniac.
Isabella and I rushed down to see Max pulling his hair and yell some curses.
"What happened?" I asked as I approached him.
"This happened." Liam gave me Max's phone. Damien was looking really tensed and Charlotte was crying.
My eyes widened as I looked at the screen of the phone. The blood in my veins started boiling and all I felt at that moment was to squeeze the life out of Marcus.
It was a picture of Jennifer, tied up in chains, all bloodied and bruised up. She appeared to be unconscious as her hair covered her face.
"WHAT THE FUCK?!" I yelled and grabbed Max by his arm and started dragging him outside.
"What the fuck are you doing?! Have you lost it?" Max tried to get out of my hold.
"I will kill all of them! Tell the mafia to get ready we don't have time to waste anymore!" I ordered.
*****
I knew he would hurt her. I knew he would. But seeing that picture of her in such a condition, I have lost my sanity. How dare he hurt her?!
How dare he hurt my Jennifer?!
"Are you sure about this, Zack?" Max asked.
"I wouldn't have been doing this if I wasn't and you ask me this stupid question one more time, you'll be the first person to be killed my me." I threatened.
"What if they hurt her more?" Max looked worried.
"They won't."
"And how do you know that?"
I turned to look at Max and grabbed his collar. "I don't have time for your bullshit. If you don't have the guts to do this then you better go and kill flies at home." I glared at him with all the anger I could muster.
"You said to kill everyone in sight. How will that help us to find Jennifer?!" Max looked defeated.
"There are only two people here who could know where he has taken Jennifer. Rest are all just his slaves who are of no use to us and this world. We're just lessening the burden on earth."
"And those two people are?"
"Ron and Jack." I smirked.
"Marcus's left and right hands?"
"Exactly right."
"But they're not bad, Zack. They were the only people who cared about us when we were in this mafia."
"I don't care. I am going to hunt for Jack while you go for Ron." I commanded.
"What if Ron didn't know anything about this?"
"Then just kill him, I don't give a shit."
"You're back to being your old self, Zack." Max said, almost hesitantly.
"And how exactly is my old self, Maxy?" I asked in a dangerously quiet tone.
"Cruel and heartless."
Max's POV:
"Cruel and heartless." I answered. On hearing my answer, Zack's face broke into an evil smirk. He stared dead into my eyes with no emotion.
"Let's go." He said and went towards the building with nothing but murder on his mind.
"C'mon guys. Let's go." I ordered to everyone who nodded and got all their weapons ready.
Just like Zack had said, we were killing everyone who was coming in our way, not sparing anyone's life.
I was blindly shooting the members of Evil Skulls, whoever was coming in my way. It didn't feel good at all. But then that horrible picture of Jennifer being all bruised up and tied in chains appears in my mind and all I can feel is rage.
I looked over at Zack who had guns in both of his hands and was shooting mercilessly. A young boy, almost our age tried punching him but Zack dodged it and got a hold of his arm, twisted it behind his back and shot him in the head.
Tristan and all our other men were defending and shooting. Dead bodies were falling on the ground, some their men, some ours. It was a bloody nightmare, with an only aim to kill.
Zack's POV:
I kicked this guy in his guts before shooting him in the head. I threw my now empty of bullets gun, and grabbed his. Max and others were doing well so far. Marcus has really increased the number of people working for him but the thing is, they're all weak.
Marcus never really paid much attention to the training of his men, all he ever focused on was to get more and more people working for him.
There was chaos going all around me. Splashes of blood and firing of guns. There were dead bodies everywhere. But none of that mattered to me in the moment.
A guy, who appeared to be really old, was lying on the ground in front of me. His leg was bleeding and he looked quite injured. He gave me a pleading look when he saw me. "Please save me. It is my daughter's wedding tomorrow. I really want to be there. You can kill me after that."
Tears flowed down his wrinkled face as he cried, repeatedly asking me to spare his life. But I didn't feel any pity for him.
"Where is she?" I demanded as I bent down in front of him.
"I d-don't know who you're talking about." He gulped nervously.
"Jennifer. Where has Marcus taken her?!" I grabbed his hair and pulled them tightly, making him whimper in pain.
"I r-really don't know. Please don't k-kill me." He begged.
"This world is really cruel, right? Let me do you a favour." I said as I pointed the gun at him.
The man's eyes widened and he looked scared for dear life but it didn't make me stop from pulling the trigger. One single shot and he laid dead on the ground.
I moved over his dead body to search for Jack. If Jack doesn't know where Jennifer is, then no one in this place would.
"There you fucking are!" I yelled as I barged inside Jack's office and found him frantically searching for something.
"What are you doing Zack?! Stop this madness!" Jack held his hands up in surrender as I pointed my gun at him.
"Just tell me where she is and I'll stop this." I said as I moved closer to him.
"Do you even have any idea about what you've done?!" Jack yelled. "You're killing everyone! They all have families waiting for them, Zack!"
"Marcus and you all should have thought about that before hurting Jennifer!" I yelled back and knocked his head with my gun. I dragged his leg behind with my foot and made him trip. He hit his head on the table and winced.
His head started to bleed. "You won't kill me, Zack. I always treated you like a younger brother." Jack tried to be confident but his voice betrayed him.
"Younger brother?" I smirked and grabbed his collar.
"Why did you let them kidnap my girlfriend then?" I asked, glaring dead into his soul.
"Marcus didn't listen to me. You know how he is." Jack defended himself.
"I will not kill you, Jack. If you just tell me where he has taken her."
Jack seemed to be in a debate in his mind. Then almost hesitantly, he answered. "I don't know exactly but Marcus told me that they were taking her to the opposite end of the country. I know nothing more about this."
"Are you telling the truth, Jack?" I asked as I kept the gun down on the floor beside me.
"Yes, Zack...Trust me."
I grabbed his throat and his eyes widened. I choked him to death while he kept trying to push me away and begging me to stop.
I sat in his office for some time, thinking about everything. She's somewhere on the other side of the country but where?!
I killed so many people all for nothing. I am definitely going to hell after I die but that's a worry for later.
Max came barging inside the office. I looked at him in question.
"Ron didn't knew about anything. He said that Jack might know somethi-" his gaze fell on a dead Jack and he stopped in mid sentence.
"Marcus took her to the other side of the country but Jack didn't know exactly where." I said and got up.
"Tell our men to burn all the dead bodies."
"What will we do now? How will we find her?" Max seemed to be on the verge of tears.
"Marcus will definitely contact us after hearing about the situation. We just have to be quick to track his cell then."
"What if he doesn't? I mean, he's pretty heartless. He won't even care about all his men that died."
"His men aren't my concern. My concern is Jennifer and I just want her back." I stated and started walking out of the abondened building, which was Marcus's hideout.
Jennifer's POV:
"This stuff looks ancient. I'll definitely die after eating this if not because of the torture." I scrunched up my nose in disgust after seeing the food Casper brought for me to eat.
"They won't give you anything else and don't worry, I double checked and it's fresh... Just cooked by a.. Bad cook." Casper gave me a sympathetic look.
"You eat it first." I challenged.
Casper chuckled. "Alright." After many attempts of bringing the spoon to his mouth and putting it back down, he finally ate it.
He slowly started chewing it while making weird faces and trying so hard not to gag.
"That was horrible!" Casper covered his mouth and tried not to throw up.
I sighed before taking a bite. I slowly chewed it with a neutral expression while Casper stared at me with wide eyes, still covering his mouth.
I took another bite and Casper's eyes looked ready to jump out of their sockets.
After I was done eating that thing which he called food, I yawned.
"Are you still alive?" Casper asked and touched my face.
"I guess so, yeah."
"I wouldn't have been, after eating that thing." He gave me an incredulous look.
"When you're given food after two days, you should be grateful, instead of throwing a tantrum. And it wasn't even that bad as you made it seem." I narrowed my eyes at him.
"Yeah. It wasn't that bad. It was worse."
We just sat there, on the ground staring at each other.
"Either say something or go?" I tilted my head.
Casper lightly shook his head and got up to leave.
"You're acting strange, Casper." I noted.
"No. I am not?" He took the empty tray and walked towards the door. Just before reaching the door, he tripped but somehow managed not to fall while I burst out laughing.
"See what I mean?" I asked and chuckled again.
Casper smiled on seeing me laugh and stared at me with an emotion in his eyes that I could not comprehend.
"Go?" I nodded to the door.
"Uh. Right." he said before leaving.
Why is he acting strange?
*****
A few hours later I woke up from my slumber due to someone heavily shaking me.
"Wake up Jennifer." It was Casper.
"What now?" I yawned and covered my mouth.
"You won't believe what happened!" Casper sat in front of me with crossed legs.
"What happened?" I rubbed my eyes to get rid of the sleep.
"Your brother and Zack along with their mafia killed everyone in our previous hideout to find out about you!"
It took me a few seconds to process that.
"WHAT?!" I asked with widened eyes.
"Yes! Everyone! I mean, some of our men managed to escape but majority of our men are no more. We couldn't even have the count of the dead because all the dead bodies were burned!"
"But why- how?! They can't kill that many people!"
"But they did, Jennifer! All for you!"
"Oh God!"
How can they be so heartless?!
It's all because of you, blob fish. If only you had shown those threatening messages to them before.
I know! I was so dumb to just ignore them!
You were always dumb.
"How did Marcus react?!" I asked with worry.
"He was freaking amused!" Casper gritted out.
"It didn't bother him that so many of his men died! I can't even imagine how such a monster is my father?!"
"Maybe you're adopted?"
Casper's neck snapped in my direction real quick. "No. Of course not. I look like my mom."
"Maybe Marcus is not your biological father? I mean, neither do you look like him nor do you have his personality." I shrugged. "What do I know."
"You might be right." Casper seemed to be in thought.
"I have a brother, Chris. He's exactly like Marcus." Casper looked at me.
"And he hates my mom." he muttered slowly.
Just on cue, the room door opened and someone walked in.
"Speak of the devil." Casper said and quickly covered me behind himself.
"Long time no see, brother." The guy appeared to be Casper's age and looked like a younger version of Marcus.
"Chris." Casper said through gritted teeth.
Chris smirked. "Dad's calling you."
"What does he want?!" Casper said and got up.
"I don't know." Chris smirked and looked at me. I felt scared under his scrutinizing gaze.
"Don't even think." Casper said in a threatening tone.
"What you gonna do?" Chris amused.
"I swear, Chris. Don't even think of doing anything to her."
Chris chuckled. "She is now my duty. Dad's transferring you to somewhere else." He grinned.
"What?!" Casper panicked.
"Mhm. Now, go."
"He can't do that!" Casper yelled.
"Oh brother. But he did." Chris smiled.
"You are coming with me." Casper said. "I won't leave you alone with Jennifer."
"Why? Do you like her or something?" Chris grinned again.
Casper blushed while my eyes widened.
"I got my answer." Chris said and walked out of the room.
"Casper?" I called out.
"He was just talking rubbish! It's nothing like that." Casper said without looking at me and followed after Chris.
Um... Okay.
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A/N: I m back after a not-so-long time :D
But it's not like anyone missed me ð
I am so done with school ð¥ and I really want a break from life.
Fall into a void or something so that I can untangle my messed up brain.
Or sleep for two days straight ð
Or fall into the world of one of my favorite wattpad books ð¯
I wish I could do that ð
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