121 The Birth of the Ruthless Queen

A contended sigh escaped from Aisha's mouth as she washed all the blood from her body. She massaged her body and scalp with rose scented body gel and shampoo before settling in the infinity pool with fresh rose petals floating around the tub.

She closes her eyes as her tensed body relaxes under the warm water. She run her fingers through her damp hair before she feels that familiar feeling of dried blood in her hair.

Aisha sighs in a frustrated way and washed the blood again.

It was always a hassle for her to wash the blood off of her body. Sometimes she takes more than one bath before getting rid of all the blood. Though, she was used to this. How could she not? When almost everytime she bathed with the blood of others.

However, Aisha always hated the smell and feel of blood.

It started when she was three years old. Her body was soaked with her Mother's blood. Several maids cleaned her after they found out what happened, but no matter how meticulous they wash Aisha, she always found herself covered in blood.

It was frightening, Aisha grabbed the sponge and scrubbed her body so hard to the point that she is already bleeding from the scratches and cuts in her body. The maids tried to stop her but to no vain.

Aisha started wailing as she cried out, "Why does the blood doesn't come out!?" She stared at her bloodied hands in horror until she had a panic attack and fainted.

When she woke up from fainting, she had a panic attack again and suffer from constant nightmares of what happened that cruel night. A week had passed, and the doctor deemed her suffering from PTSD[1].

Aisha will always have an illusion of herself covered in blood, and sometimes she will just see her mother lying on the ground while clutching Aisha's clothes, asking her why did she kill her.

For Aisha, that time was pure agony. Nightmares, panic attacks, illusion of blood and her dead mother, and constant flashbacks... for a three years old girl, it was all too much for her to take that she attempted to commit a suicide numerous of times.

But every attempt was a failure.

Everytime Aisha touches a gun, or any sharp objects, she will suddenly see herself killing her mother with that weapon. And she will have a mental breakdown and faint.

The cycle continues for so long that Aisha just... isolated herself from the world. Not even Morano can make her respond to him. It was as if Aisha build her own world and just stayed there.

Years had passed, Aisha never thought that she will kill someone again because she can't even stand holding a weapon. But life sure is unpredictable and cruel.

Because when she turned ten, she annihilated one famiglia.

She was kidnapped by the Bravia famiglia's men when Morano flew to Country H. They whipped her, poisoned her, tortured her, starved her and threatened to end her life but Aisha didn't bat an eye for them.

They could end her life for all she care and she will even thank them from hèll.

One of the man who execute her torture is a pedophile, and on her third day in the torture room, the others left and she was left alone in that room with that man.

The man first dirty talked her as he keeps on touching her small body. Meanwhile, Aisha just closes her eyes and feel... numb. However, the man took it as a submission and starts undressing himself.

Fortunately though, the Boss of the Bravia famiglia came and the man ended his molestation to Aisha. Their Boss demanded for her to plead for Morano's help and transfer the De La Torre famiglia to him in exchange for her.

Aisha thought it was foolish, hence, she ignored him. But this only enrage the man, and start threatening to kill Morano.

And for someone who only has her Father with her, Aisha... snapped.

She didn't know how did she free herself from the shackles, nor how did she get up despite from her injuries and wounds, but the next thing she knew, a gun was in her hand and all men in the torture room was lying in a pool of blood.

Unlike her first kill, she didn't feel scared or regrets at all. That time, she just wants to annihilate the threat of her Father's life.

And so she did.

That time, she annihilated the whole Bravia famiglia, and cease for them to exist...

And the birth of the so-called ruthless Queen.

[1] Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.