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Celeste kept getting blurry vision, "k-k-keep ...g-going..." she said as she struggled to grasp onto air. She could swear she almost felt her lungs collapsing but she didn't care. Death sounded better than torture for the rest of her how ever long life she has.

Luca let go and gave out a sinister chuckle that sent shivers through Celeste's body. "I already told you. I won't let you die this easily." and left.

Tears streamed down her face. How is she possibility going to live through this? Her fingers grazed her neck and it stung and burned like someone threw sizzling boiled water on it. It hadn't even been one day since the wedding and her life already turned miserable.

She takes a shower again, hoping maybe, just maybe, the shower would help her scrub the emotional and physical pain away. Newsflash, that didn't help with the emotional pain but did ease the physical pain.

After she came out of the bathroom, she goes back to the sitting area and picked up the Red Queen to read where she left off.

"Ahem," Luca cleared his throat. "I'll be leaving for a week for business purposes. Don't misbehave and meddle around." he continues, "Or else your punishments are going to become far worst..." his eyes darken.

Celeste didn't look up from her book, but she nods. And he left.

Celeste calls Asha.

*Phone Call*

A: Celeste! You finally called! I was getting worried!

C: ...

A: Celeste? Hello?

C: ...

A: Celestina?

C: *Lets out loud sobs*

A: Oh my God, Celeste, what happened? What did that fucker do?

C: I'm screwed, Ash. I'm goddamn screwed. My dad screwed over my whole life by marrying me off to this monster. *Continues crying*

A: Oh my, poor sweetheart... I'll be over ASA- wait, is he home?

C: No, he left for a business trip. He won't be back for a week. Please, Asha, please come over. I don't want to be here alone. Please... Celeste says as her voice cracks.

Asha's heart drops. Celeste wasn't a crier. She never cried in front of anyone because she hates worrying people. The only time she'll cry to someone was when she, herself, couldn't handle the burden of something. It broke Asha to pieces hearing Celeste's usually chirpy and excited voice so weak and hurt.

A: I'll be right there!!! TEXT ME THE ADDRESS, QUICK!

C: Okay. *texts the address*

A: Got it! I'll be there soon, byeeee!! DON'T BEAT YOURSELF UP TOO MUCH, OKAY?? I'LL BE THERE!

*Call Ends*

With that, she hung up. Celeste smiled in happiness in which it felt like forever because of Asha's supportive words. Celeste always thought of herself as such a lucky gal for having a best friend like Asha, who's normal and the total opposite of her. That's what made her so great.

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"Sir, we've captured the spies who were trying to destroy our alliance with Bianchi clan."

A sadistic smile crept across Luca's face. He loved his job. He loved the feeling of crushed bones in the palm of his hands, he loved the rush he got from pulling a trigger, he loved the high he received from slicing open someone's throat. He loved it all. His love for it made him who he is known as now: a sick, twisted, cold-blooded monster.

"well, well, well, what shall we do with the lot of you?" He said as he picked through the options of how he should eliminate each one.

"Please, sir, please spare us. We won't let it happen again, sir, please!" one begged.

Luca laughed with dark monstrous tone. "You talk too much." He said as he ripped out the man's tongue out of his mouth in one smooth pull. Blood gushed out of the man's mouth, as he screamed painstakingly.

One by one, he eliminated them all using various methods, knives, gun, his bare hands. His soldiers and associates were both in aw and pleased watching the blood bath every single time it happened. But fear also creeped into them as they knew what Luca was capable of. There were dead bodies scattered all over the floor. Some with their bones sticking out of their bodies, some with body parts on different sides of the room, some with their head twisted around a full 180° and some with their heads twisted around a full 360°.

They knew all too well never to double-cross Luca or else their deaths would be the most foul and brutal of them all. Luca's consigliere, also known as his brother, Dante, was always surprised at Luca's killing power. No matter how many times he has seen Luca kill, he's amused every damn time.

Luca looked calm, cool, and collected as he grinned throughout the whole thing. He's done this more than enough times to go through with it without flinching one bit.  This brought him pure joy.

"How's Mrs. Luca Battaglia doing so far?" Dante asked as their people started to clean up the mess.

"Don't fucking call her that, she doesn't deserve my name joined with hers." Luca spat.

Dante raised his hands in defence, "Woah, woah, okay bro. I was just asking if she's still alive."

Luca smirked, "After the deal goes through, I won't need her anymore. For now, she's alive, but barely holding up."

The thought of her fearful and terror-stricken every time he's around brings him satisfaction. His smiles creeps through, "I can't wait to go back home to my, dear wife" The way he said dear wife sounded like poison in his mouth. Dante became concerned for Celeste. He liked her as a sister-in-law. She wasn't like most daughters of Mafia bosses. She wasn't a spoiled brat, neither did she have any interest in violence. She would almost pass as a normal girl, if it weren't for her Mafia background. He loved the fact that she was innocent and sweet, and most importantly nothing like Luca.

Even though he would never admit this to his brother (mostly because he doesn't want his brother to be disappointed), he wants someone normal around in his family who will keep Luca sane. He just hopes and prays Celeste will be able to bring Luca some peace in his mind. He's been a damn mess since her. He randomly smiled to himself, I wonder how Asha's doing, he thought to himself.

"What? Why are you smiling like that?" Luca asks.

Dante raises an eyebrow, "well... once your done with sis-in-law, can I marry her?" Luca looked at him shocked for a few seconds and Dante bursts out laughing, "YOU SHOULD'VE SEEN YOUR FACE!"

Luca shakes his head. How are we related? Luca thought.

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"Uh, Ma'am, there's someone named Asha here to-" Lorenzo gets cut off by a screaming Asha.

"CELESTINAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" She screamed as she pushed Lorenzo over and ran to hug Celeste.

"Asha! Oh, how much I've missed you in the past 24 hours." Celeste said as excitedly as Asha but in a quieter voice as she started to cry.

Asha patted Celeste's head and took Celeste's hands in hers. Her eyes fall on Celeste's bruises from last night as well as some fresh new bruises from today. Her eyes trailed up all the way to her neck to see Celeste's neck with blue, purple, red bruise lines as if someone gripped her neck with major force.

Asha had tears in her eyes as she gasped, "what has he done to you?" She was getting angry at the fact that he hurt her, she was angry at the fact that she was helpless, she angry at the fact that she let this wedding go through in the first place.

She storms up to Lorenzo knowing well enough that he was either someone from security or a bodyguard of some sort from his uniform and built body. "You!" She screams at him, which throws him off of balance, "Aren't you here to protect her? YOU LET HIM ABUSE HER? DO YOU SEE HER? SHE'S A DAMN BRUISED UP PEAR! WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU DOING WHILE HE HURT HER?"

"I-, uh, Ma'am, I'm sorry but I'm not allowed to interfere with the situations that occur between Mr. and Mrs. Battaglia. My job is to protect them from outer harm." He explains. You could tell he clearly felt bad because he flinched when Asha told him to look at Celeste's bruises.

"YOUR SORRY ASS IS USELESS! AT LEAST YOU COULD'VE INTERRUPTED HIM AND KEPT HIM BUSY WITH SOMETHING ELSE! ANYTHING WOULD'VE WORKED BUT YOU LET HIM BEAT UP A DAMN WOMAN! SHAME ON YOUR FUCKING ASS." Asha was furious.

Celeste gave Lorenzo a sorry look and nodded at him to make an exit before Asha ends up killing him for something that's not his fault. He nodded back, apologized once more, and walked out of the apartment.

"Asha! Stop yelling at that poor guy! He wasn't even there! Besides, his loyalty lies with Luca and has been with him for years! He wouldn't jeopardize his life to help someone who he's met literally a few hours ago.. jeez..." Celeste says.

Asha starts crying uncontrollably. "I'm so sorry! I'm so so so sorry! I'm sorry I cant't protect you from this monster! I'm so sorry I can't do anything about this. I'm so sorry I let you get married in the first place. I should've helped you escape when you still had the chance." Asha looks at Celeste, "I'm sorry I'm the one crying to you when it should be the other way around."

That made Celeste giggle because even though Asha looks like the tougher one, she cries more than Celeste because she's more open about her feelings and emotions.

"Why are you laughing?" Asha says in between her sniffles.

"Because, I'm thinking what I did to deserve such an amazing best friend like you." Celeste smiles.

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A week had already flown by and Celeste had no clue when Luca would be home. Asha insisted she wanted to exchange some greetings with Luca before she headed home so she'd wait until he got home. Celeste thought that was a very bad idea, but Asha made her feel safer in a way so she agreed.  Honestly, Celeste thought Asha just wanted a glimpse of Dante.

She heard the front door open and her heart dropped. She felt sick to her stomach already. Asha already saw the change within Celeste's emotions in the matter of seconds, but she decided to pretend she hasn't heard the door and kept talking.

Luca walked into the living room, looked at the two girls, raised his eyebrow and went inside his room. Dante walked in and was extremely glad to have found Asha sitting right there.

He plops down in between Asha and Celeste. He looked at Celeste, clearly noticing her frightened face. "Heeeey, sis-in-law!" he says in a cheerful tone hoping to make her feel relaxed. "Did you miss me?"

Celeste cracks a smile, "Of course I did." She wondered how different the two brothers can be even though they were blood related and had the same exact job. They even looked a lot different physically. Different hair colour, different eye shades, different styles, just different from each other.

Asha rolled her eyes, "I'm curious about something." she says to Dante.

"Anything for you, babe." he says in a flirtatious tone.

"I feel like I rolled my eyes at you so much since I've met you that I'm shocked my eyeballs aren't permanently stuck at the back of my head." Asha says and Dante faked a hurt expression as Celeste giggled. "Anyways, are you Luca's little brother?"

Dante smirked, "you seem to have taken an interest in me, I see. We could set up a date and you can get to know anything you want about me." He winked, Asha rolled her eyes again. "But, no, we're twins. Didn't he tell you?"

"WHAT?!" Celeste and Asha, both said in sync. "You two barely look related, what the heck..." said Asha bluntly as Celeste elbowed her.

Dante raised an eyebrow and smiled, "No, it's fine. We're fraternal twins. I look more like our mamma and he got papa's looks. Also, people say I look younger, probably because I act more looser than him."

Celeste and Asha were both still stunned from the new information. "You do look like the younger brother, haha." Celeste agrees. "How was your business trip?"

"You should ask your husband first." Dante and Asha said at the same time. They look at each other for a few seconds and bursted out in laughter. 

Celeste sighed, "Yeah, as if he's going to tell me. That man doesn't even know what small talk is."

"What's with all the laughing?" Luca said as he stepped inside the living room. He had just come out of the shower and his hair was still wet. He slid his hand through his hair, "Well? What's so funny?"

"None of your business. You already missed it." Asha said.

Celeste threw Asha a look and Asha shrugged her shoulders. Luca ignored her and sat down on the opposite side of them and started texting someone.

Asha couldn't stand being near Luca for long enough. She knew she had to leave before she made a scene that would result in Celestina hurt.

Asha stood up and cleared her throat. "I'm going to head home. It's getting late." She said to Dante and Celeste. She turned to look at Luca and said in a genuine and almost pleasing way that even shocked Luca, "Please, don't give Celeste such a hard time. Give her a break, please, she's a good person."

Celeste felt a pang of guilt. She realized how her horrible situation has stressed out her friend.

Luca scoffed, "yeah, sure, whatever." He said, without looking up from his phone.

Celeste got up and hugged Asha and was about to lead her to the door, when she thought, "Hey, Dante! Do you want to drop off Asha at home? It's getting late and I'm not sure if I trust any Uber at this time." Low-key, Celeste just wants them to get to know each other because she could already see sparks between them.

Asha protested, "No! It's fine! I'll be fine. Don't worry!"

"He doesn't need to drop her off." Luca said in a stern tone.

"I wouldn't be a gentleman if I declined that offer, now would I?" Dante grabbed his chance with alone time with Asha.

Luca shook his head, "do whatever you want."

Asha protested some more before finally agreeing, "Fine, but if he starts being pervy, I'm jumping out of the car."

Celeste and Dante laughed. "Okay, text me when you get home! Bye!"

The apartment fell quiet once Dante and Asha departed. She felt extremely unsafe being alone with Luca.

He was so frightening yet so beautiful. His dark hair looked smooth and well put together. His lips looked as smooth as a flower petal and as soft as a cloud in the perfect shade of pink. His eyes, oh his eyes, were the best part of him, according to Celeste; a glistening grey pair that would change into a hue of blue or green depending on the lighting around him. They were so enchanting and mesmerizing that Celeste had a hard time looking away every time their eyes met.

She wished that there would be a time in her life where she wouldn't have to look into his eyes under fearful circumstances, where he's terrorizing her; a time where she's looking into his eyes because they are happy or in love. The thought made her laugh because of how unrealistic and impossible it is.

She realized she was examining him for too long because he was staring back at her. Her eyes turned wide open as she blushed. She apologized under her breathe and started walking towards their bedroom.

But before she could step inside the room, Luca grabbed her wrist, which made her instantly turn cold inside. He turned her around and they were inches apart. Her heart was beating out of her chest, not because of how close they were, but because she wasn't sure if he was going to hurt her or if she was going to end up with a million more cuts and bruises or if he was going to yell at her till her ears bled.

"You're not sleeping on my bed." He finally said.

"W-what? Why not?" Celeste asked.

"Because it's my fucking bed. It was mine before you came. It will be mine forever, whatever I say goes. And I don't want to share it with a swine like you." With that, he let go of my wrist.

"I- never mind. Okay." She didn't want to say anything further because she was afraid enough. She thought that by agreeing with him, he'll be less aggressive with her. But, boy, was she wrong.

She decided to make the sitting area in their room her bed. She quietly made herself comfortable without a single complaint. This is okay. I might actually get used to this, she thought to herself.

In reality, she wanted to scream. She wanted this nightmare to be over. She wanted to disappear. She wanted this to end. But little did she know, this was just the beginning of her nightmare in his Hell-ish world.

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