XXXV

"I cannot sit here and get better when I can finally see Yuki again. These two months without him has shown me how madly I've fallen for him." I said as I removed the drip connected in my hand.

It has been three hours ago that Keita told me that he found Yuki but he forbade me from leaving the security of this hospital because there was a bounty on my head in the underground business. But I couldn't sit around knowing that Yuki was coming home, I had to help them.

"If you leave here then your only making things difficult. Just rest and let the rescue team handle this. If you want to help Yuki then recover so that you can take care of him. Stay for your son who still needs his father to protect him when his mother is away." Dad convinced me as he held my hand that was gathering my things.

I sighed as I looked at my older carbon copy and sighed. He was right; if I wanted to be useful it would be to charge up and take care of Takato as always while the rescue team rescued victims of that horrible organization.

"Okay but I'm doing this for Yuki and Takato not because you told me to." I frowned before my father messed my hair and laughed.

"Of course."


**Yuki**
Claire was taking longer than usual to come and pay me a visit. Usually after check up, she would be here but if I was mentally correct from the time I saw before being locked back, she was four hours late.

I read the paper that Takato sent me a month ago while I rubbed my baby bump and talked to my five months pregnant bump about Haru.

I stopped my excited stories about Haru when the door opened. I hugged myself, my eyes looking wearily at the masked man as he stepped inside. He brought another bag with him, something he made a daily activity and dropped it by my side.

"You already know that I won't kill you so stop making it look like I'm the bad person here."

"That is what you are. The bad person." I said with a enough hostility as I used my shirt and hands to protect my baby.

"Have some fruits, I heard that strawberries are one of your five favourites." He said as he brought out the strawberry and tried to feed me but I hit his hand away from my mouth.

"Take your strawberries and die."

"Do you want me to force feed you again? I thought we were over this but it seems like you enjoy pain." I rolled my eyes as I took a strawberry from the plate and ate it slowly.

"Well a little birdie told me that someone has been sending you messages from your husband like the one you hid inside your pillow." He said as my hand froze from picking another strawberry why my heart started to beat fast.

"So I hit the nail. Well I was told that snitches get stitches, want to see what I did." He said in an excited manner making my heart to beat as I shook my head.

"Please don't hurt her."

"Too late. Bring her in boys." He said and then the door opened, revealing two guards who threw Claire to the ground.

The masked man went closer to her, squatted and lifted her head making me to puke hard on the ground as I cried from disgust.

He stitched her eyes and mouth in a herring bone style and it was clear that he made her suffer with all the bruises on her body. Claire wasn't just brutally beaten she was raped from the signs I saw on her body and it wasn't by one person, it was a lot.

I started coughing after puking everything I ate as I cried hard before the masked man grabbed me from my hair and waist and threw me to her body.

"It's all your fault why this had to happen to her. I remember her begging me not to hurt you as I stitched her eyes stitch by stitch. It was beautiful, I should have made a video." He said as he gave a sinister laugh as I cradled Claire in my hands.

"She was your daughter. Why would you do this to your flesh and blood?" I asked before he gave me a confused expression.

"Daughter? Ha! Is that what she told you? Such a beautiful liar. She was my bitch, her father sold her mother to me to pay off debts so I kept her around but I can't say the same about her mother. She lies in the belly of pigs." He said and laughed as I held Claire close to me.

"That doesn't give you any right to play god and hurt her!" I shouted as I brought her closer to my body. She was barely breathing but she was alive.

"Playing god? How about I do that? Grab him." He said before the two guards held me against my will as I screamed and kicked.

They forced me to my knees as they made me look at what the masked man was doing. He had a knife to Claire's throat making me struggle more.

"Please don't do this. She's just a child, just forgive her." I begged as my eyes trailed to Claire who regained consciousness. She heard my voice because she started to cry before the masked man smiled.

"Unfortunately, she's used up her chances." He said before he sliced her throat right in my front.

I watched her blood flow from her throat before he left her body and the men left me alone. For the short time I spent in this hell, she was the only comfort I had and because she was helping me...she died. She lived a short live and she didn't even get her wish to find someone that will love her.

I was in shock as I watched the red flowing from her lifeless body. I was snapped out of my shock when I felt two hands that grabbed arms and holstered me up.

I was face to face with the man who killed Claire. I saw as his hand slowly stretched to his face before he removed the mask and revealed his face to me.

He had green eyes and sand brown hair which were disheveled. On his face was an ugly scar from a sharp object but it didn't make him ugly, it just made him scary. He seemed familiar but I could swear I've never seen him.

"Why do you have this effect on me, Yuki? That woman warned me that you do this to everyone but I didn't listen and now I just want you. You should consider yourself lucky, your the only person in this building that has seen my face and lived." He said as he forcefully pressed his lips against me. I struggled to get away from him but he just got more forceful as he forced his way into my mouth.

He kissed my neck as I struggled to push him away because he was hurting him and leaving marks. I was scared and my heart was so fast that it was affecting my stomach. I felt so much pain that I started to scream making him to pause in his advancements.

"My baby!" I shouted as I hugged my stomach, feeling something warm touching my thighs.

I watched as the masked man picked back his mask and wore before the door opened and two nurses along with Ayami entered. They carried me away as I cried hard before she injected me and I slowly closed my eyes.


When I woke up, my hands quickly touched my stomach as I sighed in relief that my bump was still there. Everything was okay, baby was safe and I was alive.

I sat up from the bed and heard a one-sided scolding from Ayami. When I heard the second person, I already knew that it was the masked man and I started to hyperventilate in fear.

The door opened when a loud beeping was heard and then Ayami walked in. She said something but I couldn't hear her so she made a motion for me to copy how she was breathing. I copied her action until I calmed down.

"Don't let him here, his a monster! He killed Claire, he killed her!" I begged Ayami who rubbed my back softly before offering me water and laying me down.

"He won't be coming any time soon. Just sleep, we almost lost you two back there." She said as she ran her hand through my hair before I relaxed and closed my eyes, feeling the comfortable darkness engulfing me.