Chapter 20

"How are you feeling, Scarlett?"

Antonio removed the drink from my hand and I tried to move my mouth to speak, but it wasn't possible. He turned me to face him and smiled a sinister smile. He leaned in and kissed my lips while everything in me screamed for him not to touch me.

"You did this to yourself, you know." He said while removing my book bag and then my jacket. "I went to your house before I went to the lab to tell you the news about Santiago, but somehow you already knew. Would you like to tell me how you knew?"

Antonio ran his hand over my neck and then his hand trailed down to my breasts. My eyes followed him as he continued touching me against my will.

"You wouldn't tell me even if you were able to speak. You stubborn, little girl." He said, shaking his head and pulling my body closer to him while taking a long sniff of my hair. "God, you smell beautiful."

I wanted to fight, scream, curse and kill him, but I remained frozen. Antonio removed my shirt, exposing my breasts and my nipples constricted underneath his touch. I wanted to kill my body for reacting to him, but I wasn't in control, he was. He leaned down and licked between the valley of my breasts.

"You don't know how long I've wanted to do that. I need to get you upstairs, Scar. I need to get inside of you."

Antonio lifted me over his shoulder and it reminded me of when Giovanni carried me over his, but it was far from the same. No hard slaps or deep, heated bites to my ass. As he carried me, he began speaking.

"It's called locked-in syndrome, Scar. It only takes a few drops before you're completely paralyzed. You will remain aware, but won't be able to move or communicate verbally, due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body, except for eye movements and blinking."

Fear and more fear consumed me. I was going to be completely awake and aware of everything he's about to say and do. Which means there's no way I'm leaving here alive. I want to ask so many questions, but there's no way that I can and even if I could, death would fall on me swiftly.

Antonio lays me on the bed and gazes down at me hungrily. It was a hunger I was not willing to fulfill, but now I have no choice. Regret and pain were all I could feel. This is betrayal at its best. I'd known Antonio for years and never once thought he'd be this dark and deadly.

My eyes shifted to his hands as they began to remove my boots. One by one, they hit the floor and then he kissed each foot as if I were his loyal lover. I was neither and I prayed that the effects wouldn't last long. His hands slowly ran up my legs and before long, he was at my hips. I took a breath as he undid my pants and proceeded to pull them down.

"He bruised you, Scar. I won't do that to you." He says as he comes back to remove my panties.

Antonio stares down at me and I want to die because I know that this will take more from me than has already been taken. There are many things you lose in life, but when you lose your soul, there's nothing and no way to get it back. I nearly died when he took his face between my legs and sniffed my pussy.

"Mmmmm," He says as he takes a taste of me. "You want this, Scar. You're nice and wet for me."

More licks to my pussy which made me close my eyes and try to go somewhere where he can't hurt me. Giovanni. Giovanni was all I could see as I closed my eyes. I wished that for a second he had followed me here and at any moment, he'd burst in and kill Antonio. But I knew better than to wish for a knight to rescue me, especially a man like Gio. He's far from a knight in shining armor.

"Scarlett, baby, you're coming and you don't even know it. How beautiful is that?"

Antonio hovered over me and then kissed me, holding my mouth to his. He sucked my lips and then sucked on my neck while squeezing my breasts. I just want death to come soon so that I no longer have to endure this. I nearly jumped out of my own skin when the doorbell rang. Antonio sighed in irritation as he lifted himself off of me and looked out the window. Then, his eyes found mine.

"Time to say goodbye to Griffin, Scar." He said as he walked from the window to the door, but just before he hit the hall, he turned and said, "I'll be right back, don't you go anywhere."

I blinked and blinked trying to wear the drug down, but nothing. I tried to move my hands, legs, head and even tried opening my mouth, but still silence and stillness. I heard him open the door and my heart began beating uncontrollably.

"Hey, Griff. What's up?"