Mystery person

Jax

⚠️TW: may involve severe forms of disturbing torture⚠️

I spit the blood out and smile at the guard in front of me. My teeth are bloody from the numerous beatings I had received. My hands are tied behind me to the chair, and my legs are bound together.

Blood drips from the cut on my eyebrow into my eyes as I try to blink it away. My hair sticks to my forehead due to the mixture of blood and sweat.

Veronica had ordered them to beat me to a pulp. I'm guessing the beating will be worse when they find out Micheal can't hand over the company as expected.

Pain.

I've welcomed pain all my life, I'm almost immune to it.

Pain has always been a necessity in my life. They must be so damn stupid to think a few punches here and there will break me.

I laugh out loud. The guard by the door halts his movements and stares at me "What are you laughing at?" He must be enjoying the superiority of being in charge of me for the short period he's got.

I ignore him and cast my head down to my legs. I'm only wearing pants. No shirt, revealing the bruises from the torture that was inflicted on me earlier. My tattoos have trails of blood leading from them to my dirty and bloodied pants.

The sound of heels drags my focus back but I don't bother raising my head "Ah there you are, I always loved you shirtless" she says before running her fingers across my shoulders slowly

"Leave me"

She tsked "You see, baby, that's one thing I can't do. Because you need me, without me how are you going to become what you're meant to be?" She touches my lower lip "I'm only trying to help you reach your highest peak, darling. You'll see" she smiles as she trails my body with her eyes

She has lost it "You sound deranged."

She laughs and walks to my back "You know Micheal was nice enough to lend us the basement of his Casino" She brings her mouth close to my ear "I could kill you right now and the people upstairs won't even flinch"

"You won't. Do you know why? Because you're a henchman and you can't do shit without command from your boss, whoever it is. So please threaten all you want, I've got time"

Her gaze hardened with anger and I know I'd provoked her because I'm right "I don't need command to do this" She picked up a small knife on the table before using it to cut a small line on my chest

I grunt and bite my lip to stop myself from giving her the pleasure to know she's causing me pain.

My hair is pulled tightly by someone behind me, and suddenly a bright light from across me is turned on and pointed directly at me. The person gripping my hair twists my head so I face the light directly. I can see the shadow of someone but I'm unsure of who it is.

Veronica walks out of the room after her failed attempt. But I'm sure she'll be coming back soon, with whoever is in charge I hope.

I raise my head and turn my gaze to the camera in the room "If you're going to kill me, might as well do it now, because you're never getting those shares" I yell loudly with my eyes still on the camera

"Shut up!" The guard walks up and punches me in the face.

I spit out the blood and bend my head down to avoid direct contact with the light.

I focus my thoughts on the one thing that makes me happy.

Imaani.

God! I hate myself for what I did to her and all those things I said.

Fuck!

I miss her. I miss her smile and the way she throws her head back when she's laughing.

How she always forgets to take off her bonnet sometimes.

Her lips, her eyes, her hair. God, I love her hair. I love how it looks when she lets it down, or how it smells when she washes it. The way I can differentiate between the scent of her body and the one of her hair is still a mystery to me, but I'm obsessed with both.

I miss how she lets me run my fingers through them slowly massaging her scalp.

God, I'm madly in love with this woman and I might not even get the chance to tell her.

I just want to hold her, kiss her, and just relish her presence.

I close my eyes and imagine her here with me, touching my face. Running her fingers through my hair.

I want to drown myself with thoughts of her because it's the only way I know to survive this torture I'm currently in.

My darling, Imaani.

I hear the sound of Veronica's heels "Surprise surprise, Jaxon. Look who I found lurking around" Veronica says before pushing Imaani forward from behind her

"Imaani!" I pull against my restraints "Don't you fucking hurt her! You got what you want" she taped her mouth

"I don't have what I want yet Jax! But I'm sure you know that" she pushes Imaani into a chair beside me before restraining her "So I'm just gonna plop sweet little Imaani right here, as motivation. So by the time I'm back, you better be ready to hand over that company!" She walks out leaving just me, Imaani, and that haughty guard I'm going to fucking kill.

The guard talks into his phone for a while before coming to remove the tape from Imaani's mouth "Did they hurt you?" My gorgeous woman

"Nothing I can't handle, love. What about you? Are you okay? Any injuries?"

"No, Jax I've been worried about you"

"She said she found you? What did she mean?"

She looks at me before looking away and I knew she was about to say something I won't like "Sarah and Matteo were able to track you... so I snuck away from them and came on my own" she added the last part quietly

"You did what! Why would you do that, love? What if something happened to you?"

"As you can see, I'm fine" she replied snarkily

She's mad at me.

"Yeah but we're both stuck here now, I was perfectly okay being here alone, knowing you were safe"

She ignored me "Why did they bring you to Michael's casino?" She asked looking around

"He's the mole, they're working together"

"Micheal? No that's a lie!"

"I saw him, love. Veronica told him Vanessa is alive."

"What?" Her eyebrows furrow from confusion "Is she?

"Of course not" Veronica's heels become louder as she moves closer to where we are "I was given a contract, of course, I killed the bitch." She giggled and placed her finger on her mouth "Our newest recruit mustn't know though" she shushed and whispered

"You're fucking dumb!" Imaani yelled at her

"Oh shut up!" She yelled. "I'm just the messenger when all this is done you can all return to your lives" She looks at Imaani with a sly smile "Maybe"

"I'm sure Micheal has already given you the company, he's obviously on your side. So just.... just let us go" Imaani tugged at her restraints

"Oh don't give me credit for that alone" Veronica circled Imaani slowly "Your break up? Was it because I asked him to" Imaani turned her head to look at me "Yes! It was so much fun listening to him break your tiny little heart" she laughs loudly "Who knew you were suffocating, Imaani"

"Why? You want the company more so how does the breakup benefit you?" I genuinely didn't care about why she wanted us to break up. I didn't feel like giving her the satisfaction of knowing she won

Veronica turned to look at me "Because you distract him, he has the potential to be the biggest in this line of business. And after our plan works we're gonna need him and we can't have someone like you ruining him for us" God! She has lost it more than I thought "But don't worry, I'm here to mold him into what he's meant to be, and without you in his life, piece of cake"

Imaani stared at her and started laughing "Damn! You're crazy!" She laughed again and if you look hard enough it looked like the vein in Veronica's forehead would pop "How do you cope? Being so stupid and making up all these, useless ideas in that chicken brain of yours?" Veronica was fuming "I mean it can't be easy. I'd have killed myself if I was you, anyway I can't be you soo... I guess I'm safe then." Imaani kept her gaze on Veronica "You're a stupid, crazy, manipulative dumb bitch. You better pray to God that you kill me first because I have so much planned for you when I get out of these" She tugged at her restraints angrily.

God! Is it possible to be more turned on than she already makes me?

This is the quietest I've ever seen Veronica, which means she's pissed. Imaani got to her.

I stifle a laugh and just keep my eyes on Imaani. She keeps her gaze on Veronica

The sound of my laugh removes Veronica from whatever trance she's in, she walks towards the table where they kept all the torture tools they used on me. She picked up a small knife from it and made her way to Imaani "NO! Don't you fucking touch her" I pulled on the restraints roughly trying to get away. The guard there walked over to me and held me down by my shoulders. "No! Let go of me! I'll kill you! I'll fucking kill all of you!"

Veronica stood behind Imaani and held her head back from her neck "Where should I cut Jax?" She touched her neck slowly "Here" she pointed at her throat "Or right here?" She placed her hands on her carotid artery "You taught me that remember? The right incision and dear Imaani will suffer a bloody, painful death" She brought the knife down trailing a line up down her throat "What if I just press har-

"NO!

"Enough Veronica!

I yelled at the same time as the voice from the person shouting in the shadows

Veronica sighed annoyingly then bent to Imaani's ear and whispered "You won't be lucky next time" She let go

"Hey baby, Are you okay? Did she hurt you?" God, I want to hold her

She shook her head "I'm fine"

"I'm so sorry, for everything I said. I had to" I explained referring to our break up

Imaani is about to say something when we both hear footsteps and we look towards the door "We have a problem" Micheal walks in and says to Veronica and whoever the owner of the mystery voice is

"Micheal" Imaani whispered. His eyes stay on her longer than I'd like before he looks away

"What's the problem?" Veronica asked him

"I can't be the one to hand over the shares because I'm not listed as the owner"

I smile and relax in the chair I'm seated in.

About time.

"What do you mean? I thought he handed over to you!" She sounds mad.

"He did. But there's a clause that I signed. My ownership over the company was for a short period, it's over"

"Long story short. You dumb fucks can't get your grimy hands on my company" I gloated

"You said we were going to get it!" The other man's voice sounds angry

"Stop being a coward and show your face! Using a woman to do your dirty work" I laughed and spat blood out

"I know. I did, I'll get it I promise you. Even if it means I have to kill the girl for him to hand it over. I -I promise you baby I'll do-"

He slapped her.

"Oh my God" Imaani flinched at the noise

Veronica turned and glared at Imaani, with her hand still on her cheek. She walks briskly to Imaani "This is all your fault!

"How's it my fault your boss is a woman beater!" She laughs "I'm so sorry, I'm not supposed to be laughing. I just can't help it" She's breathing heavily as she tries to control her laugh "What was that walk?" She laughs shortly again provoking her more

"Enough!" The man yelled making her stop.

He walked forward coming out of the shadows and into the light. Where his features began to reveal. The light shone on his face clearly and I knew then and there that I wasn't hallucinating

"You?" Imaani's brows furrow

I'm too deep in shock to even ask how she knows him.

He laughs but his eyes were on me just like mine are on him "Imaani, meet Christopher Nolan, someone who is supposed to be... very dead" I glare at Veronica, and she just smiles and waves at me.

"Hello, son." He smiles and walks closer to the middle of the room.