Chapter 40 Fight For A Heart

Elena Davis,

My heart froze hearing him, he was talking about the marriage of my Arius. He is not anymore mine, he never was mine, I should have realized that earlier living in a mirage will always leave you heartbroken when reality strikes hard.

"Daughter of Carlo Binachi, soon will be daughter in law of the Accardo family." He announced, holding his sinister smile. It took me a moment to compose myself hearing him, my body couldn't understand what to do and what not, everything suddenly became unnecessary for me. I left his hand but he was still holding mine, locking his long rough fingers around my palm. With great effort I restricted them to curl around him.

"Father, not her. She is just as important as a doormat." Marc roared in disbelief, staring at his father, creasing his forehead.

"That doormat is going to be your sister in law soon, you better watch your tongue in front of her." He replied calmly, taking a seat again, indicating to the maid to serve him coffee.

"But father, you know how everything is, still you want that slut to enter in this family? Have you lost it? How could you do it with him?" Marc yelled, getting up from his seat. His face was flaming red with anger. He glanced back at Arius who was calm watching him holding my hand caressing it with the tip of his fingers using his other hand. I still refused to hold his hand, keeping my fingers straight.

"She is not going to marry you Marc and besides Arius agrees too." He responded while taking another bite of his breakfast keeping his tone calculated. Marc jerked his face at Arius. Nicole and Alex were also turned to look at him too but I kept my gaze on my plate without blinking for a second.

"I have figured it out." Arius answered their unspoken questions and teardrop escaped from the cage of my eyes. I lowered my head, removing it before it could roll down my cheek. How easily he accepted it and here I was gluping my pain down before it could voice it.

Thrashing sound thundered the room , startling a few maids as angered Marc threw his breakfast plate over the wall breathing heavily glaring at Arius.

"Sab, bring a few pests from the cellar, we have. I can't wait anymore to greet them." He yelled at the bodyguard who was standing a few meters away from Arius holding a machine gun in his hand. He nodded and left following the flaring Marc.

Alex was staring at her plate with tearful eyes and her fork was shaking. Nicole kept playing with food stabbing it repeatedly, he got up and pulled Alex with him holding her shoulder. He took her away from the table without looking back. Maids were already vanished from sight as soon as Marc increased his voice at his father. Silence was roaring in the whole room making it suffocating for me.

"Congratulations, sir." I asserted in a low tone looking at his father who had a proud smile on his face, while watching me. He didn't reply but continued with his breakfast.

"Congratulations Mr. Accardo." I added looking at Arius with great difficulty and stood up to go. I should go away from his sight before I break in front of him but couldn't take more than two steps, he was still holding my hand. I turned, holding his hand in place and walked away from him.

I approached the main door hurriedly ignoring his calls but as soon as I reached there I felt his rough grip over my wrist and within a blink of an eye he jerked me over him.

"Where are you going?" He asked furrowing his eyebrows at me. Unknown discomfort was shadowing his green eyes in which I was searching my world a few hours ago but now I could see only darkness instead of my future and that darkness was scary enough for me to run away from him.

"Where are you going? Without even listening to me?" He asked again, shaking me lightly pulling me out from my trance because I couldn't believe he was the same I fell for.

"My home, Florida." I mumbled coming out of his embrace softly without using force at all. He narrowed his eyes at me in his flaming anger.

"This is your home." He yelled pointing his finger at the entrance of the house. I turned without answering him but he jerked me back again without even allowing me to take a step.

"Let me go back, Mr. Accardo." I screamed pushing him back with all my energy bursting my eyes into tears but he pulled me more, trapping me in his arms. My heart was aching every muscle in my body and was tensed up to cause pain after I heard the grave news of his marriage.

" No, you are mine." He refused to cage me more and more.

"I am not yours. I am never going to belong to you. You - you-" I yelled from the bottom of my heart until my throat couldn't continue further. Slight dizziness formed over my eyes causing me to lose my balance but I controlled myself again. I was going to curse but he picked me up in his arms.

"What are you doing? Put me down Mr. Accardo." I screamed struggling in my arms but my yelling and struggle couldn't stop him. He was walking normally towards his room, everyone in the hall ignored us. Few servants even bowed as he passed behind them.

I started punching his cheating screaming at me to put down but my words went totally unheard by him.

"I am not your property to bring me wherever your heart desires." I yelled at him moving my legs violently, continuing to punch him.

"Stop punching me or your wrist will fracture." He responded in an equally loud tone entering his room.

"Shut up, you are not my property but the Owner of my heart." He mentioned approaching the bed. His words made me stop struggling but my streams of tears kept flowing. His face was fuming red with anger.

"How could you do this to me?" I mumbled, Does he not even think for a minute about me before he made this decision? Nor thought it's important or essential to tell me about this? How could I even expect this from him? He is the mighty Arius Accardo, why would he tell me if he was going to spend his life with someone else and that wasn't me.

He laid me over his bed but pinned me down as soon as I tried to get up and crushed his rough lips over me tightening his hold over my wrist. I shut my mouth close forming a thin line forbidding him to kiss me further. Continuous tears were pooling near my ears flowing mercilessly from my eyes.

"It's not going to change anything between us." He retorded angrily as I didn't give access to devour my mouth.

"How could you even say that? Everything is going to change. She is going to be your wife, Arius." I yelled trying to break from his strong muscular arms.

"It's just business, nothing else." He responded by decreasing his angry tone, rubbing his face on my neck and shoulder.

"Why did you agree to this marriage?" I questioned pushing him from me over as unknown energy surgered in my body. I was feeling like someone hammering a sharp nail over my wounded heart and he had to rub salt over it by saying it was for a business. May it be insignificant for him to get so easily that he came so happy last night in my room.

"To achieve something, I am needing her father's help." He confessed getting up from the bed. I was wondering if it was unimportant for him not to even share when he made that decision for him and here I was happy thinking that I have fallen in love with him but he didn't even love me, not for a second.

I left speechless listening to his words, absolutely I was worth sacrificing for anything other to achieve his business deals, who am I? Just an employee working in his company, nothing better than his regular whores who he used to call on a daily basis. We just had a difference that they were professional in their work and I wasn't. I couldn't stop myself from comparing myself with them, he didn't leave me any dignity.

"Why are you silent?" He questioned but my lips got glued by his words. Drops of tears were dripping over my neck, wetting the neckline of my dress. He forwarded his hand cupping my face in his and cleaned the cheeks with his thumb. I withdrew my face from his grasp but he didn't lashed out but was struggling to suppress his flaming anger.

"I want to go back, Mr. Accardo." I demanded stubbornly controlling my teary eyes and hoarse voice keeping my eyes over the floor, I don't want to see him anymore. He was clutching his hands so tight that he was shaking slightly.

"No. You are mine and alway be around me." I refused immediately and took a small silent but deadly step towards me as he was crossing the undefined borders between us which he had never desired to cross before this.

"Why do you want me? How am I to you? Why are you doing this to me?" I yelled at him, losing all my temper, hearing his refusal, which had the intention to trap in his world just to suffer to watch him becoming someone else's for the rest of my life. He froze hearing those words from me, I sucked air eagerly as it knocked out my lungs because of the pain he caused in my heart. His breathing was ragged, eyes were flaring blaze at me and he jerked me towards him, caging me in his arms making me prisoner of his touch and my emotions which flowed unbounded river in my heart searching for a sea of his love which was dried for me.

"You don't need to know all these, just remember I know how to keep my belongings with me." He warned, gritting his teeth, he had already lost his mind and his rough lips came crashing down on mine, devouring them as they were only made exclusively for him to devastate. My struggles were ignored by him but he finally allowed me to take a breath. I collapsed in his arms, losing all my strength as he sucked out my soul in his overly possessive kiss.

"I wo-nt be wi-th you." I breathed out difficulty collecting every ounce of energy left in my body. He smirked evilly holding my limp body in his arms securely near his heart as he was holding some precious and took my mouth again in his sucking them as his life was depending on it, suffocating me in his kiss. My hand was pulling his shirt as I was short of breath, tears were flowing all across my neck leaving traces behind of their existence and he picked my lifeless body up in his arms approaching the bed and lay down both of us without breaking the kiss.

"I am marrying her and beside having such a gorgeous, sensitive mistress daily in my bed for pleasure endlessly is the most beautiful thought. Isn't it?" He remarked meeting my terrified eyes with his intentions which was holding clear determination in them.