Chapter 100 - I'm not proposing to you, girl!

"No, no, please… stop!" she screamed desperately seeing the amount of blood gushing down on Riggs broad body making the dusty floor to a pool of blood. The continuous firing stops for some reason.

"Miss… Sorry -- I couldn't protect… you."  Riggs whispers before his life fades away from him. His last words wretched her already shattered heart to a million more pieces. Tears wouldn't stop from streaming down her eyes as Seraphina tighten her grip on Riggs lifeless body preventing it from falling.

"No, please, don't die… please." her muffled cries screamed across the dark place they were in. Even though she knew that Riggs is already dead, she still desperately cried for help.

"My dear, how can you do this? I'm jealous." in front of her, an alluring voice of a man was heard. Alas, her amnesiac self couldn't be bothered by the man who came to the scene as she continues her grieving.

"Please… please… don't die… don't leave me."

The man whose face was unseen by the obscurity of the surrounding was obviously lost his cool by her feigning ignorance. His slender hands clenched into a fist as visible veins pop out on his masculine hands.

He harshly dragged her upward by the shoulder, he growled.

"Don't leave you? My dear wife, how can you say that in front of me?" with that said note, she was harshly pushed down on the ground. The man violently loosens his tie and started to unbutton his ironed out polo shirt -- showing his tattooed, masculine body. By the next second, he pounces on her then violently invades her body.

As if on cue, the crowd that was firing moments ago immediately left the premises leaving just them. Then and there, Seraphina watched herself being r_a_p_ed by this man, again and again. His kissed and touched were evidently forceful with the red marks traces left on her body.

However, the scene that was violating her as a woman didn't bother her as she was supposed to.

What made her in a daze was Riggs death. In her memory, Ace should be the one to die in that lifetime, albeit, why does Riggs died too? She recalled that he was gravely injured but not dead. Yet, why in this dream showed her a scene she doesn't remember happening? Or rather it did happen but why is Riggs also in this scene?

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"Don't tell me we'll soon declare bankruptcy." Wren inquired with his dispirited tone. However, Riggs and Tito only look at him with disdain.

"Yes. So what?" Riggs was the first to answer.

"Man, I can't believe you're underestimating your business partner." Tito commented ignoring Riggs sassiness.

"Oh, my sworn brother, don't take it to the heart. I was just asking." Wren explicates in relieved as he threw a can of beer to Tito. He continued,

"Well, if it's good, well… Holy mother of me! What the f*ck happened to your arm?!" Wren was about to go sit on one of the sofas, alas, he halted noticing the very detectable gauze wrapped around on Tito's arm up to his elbow.

"Uh, this…"

A loud sound of the entrance chime interrupted Tito's explanation. Turning their heads on the person who abruptly infiltrates the establishment, Tito and Riggs' eyes widen seeing Seraphina's appearance.

Her face was slightly pale with her untidy clothes. When she left them a few hours ago, she surely looked quite messy. But now, there was also a visible mud clung on her clothes and hair.

Riggs flinched a little seeing her fix gaze on him. Since the moment she arrived, she only looked at him with a rather complex eye.

'The hell did I do this time?' he panics inwardly as he concluded about his upcoming fate.

Without a care with the people present, Seraphina took small strides directly on Riggs position.

"Bo-- young miss! I didn't-- what the!" Riggs abruptly swung his arm shielding his face as he anticipates a smack from her. Alas, seconds after she reached his seat, the pain he was anticipating didn't come. Instead, he felt a light pat on his head.

Her unusual gentleness made Riggs jolted from his seat. Staring down on Seraphina's seemingly homeless image, with an 'are-you-possessed' bearing on his face, he affirmed.

"Boss! Is that really you?" Riggs loud voice could be heard up to the next city. He mindlessly inquired not minding Tito and Wren who had a surprise expression as well. However, Seraphina only let out a sigh of relief as a response. It only took her a second before getting back from her usual self. She dissed,

"heck, I'm not proposing to you, girl."

-end of volume 1-