Zeke ventured inside the bar after being informed by his people about what had happened. He basically didn’t have to conduct his own search for Abigail because he was too damn busy cleaning up after the man who had gone on a rampage. He sighed as he saw more dead bodies lying on the ground in a crumpled mess,
blood splattered everywhere. Alex was leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake and Zeke had no choice but to clean up after his mess. This couldn’t go on. Alex needed to be stopped. No matter how enraged he was, this wasn’t the solution.
Zeke bent down and surveyed the lifeless men lying on the ground. He didn’t feel any sympathy towards these people. These men made up the bottom of the food chain, dealing in all sorts of illegal activities from weapon distribution to human trafficking.
They also were the people who would take a sum of money in exchange for kidnapping people. They were the dredge of society and they would have eventually met the same end. He only wished it wasn’t by Alex because then he wouldn’t have to clean up this bloody mess.
After leaving his men in the underground bar, Zeke boarded in his car. He, of course, didn’t have to stay and do the dirty work. That was what his men were for. Sitting in the driver’s seat of his car, Zeke pulled out his phone and dialed a number.
He decided to call Alex to see if he would be able to stop this maniac from doing any more harm. When the phone rang and rang and rang, he thought that it was a long shot for Alex to pick up his phone, especially when he was like a madman. He sighed and as he was about to hang up, the call was picked up on the other line, surprisingly.
“Hello? Alex?” Zeke said because the man didn’t answer. Alex didn’t say a word but knowing that he was listening, Zeke continued to talk. “Alex, I am 100% certain Abigail is still in the city.” Zeke assured him. “Also, stop doing unnecessary things.
Stop spilling blood because at this rate, whoever took her will be scared to come forward to demand their ransom. Don’t worry, I’m certain they will not hurt her. It’s not Abigail’s life they want, but yours.”
When Alex still didn’t respond, Zeke eventually ended the call. He only hoped that Alex listened to what he had to say and would stop being a rampaging demon who was hellbent on taking down the entire city, if not the world, to find his wife.
After analysing all the evidence from Abigail’s disappearance, he was certain that this wasn’t done by his people or people who sided with him because if it was, Abigail would have been found dead by now. Besides, he knew no one would dare defy his order to leave Abigail be.
Damn! He needed to get to Alex before the man found Abigail otherwise, he might be too late. At least the man was leaving a bloody obvious trail so he could follow that to find him.
With a serious expression, Zeke’s car sped up like a bullet.
The sky was already dark and inside another underground office, Alex had his hand on a man’s throat, slowly squeezing the life out of him.
“Tell me, where is she?” Alex demanded. The tone of his voice made it seem like he was calm and collected but on the inside, rage filled him like an active volcano about to erupt. Alex loosened his grip to allow the man to answer him.
“I… don’t know. I-I don’t know a-anything! We never receive any orders to abduct your wife,” the man sputtered.
Wrong answer! Alex’s grip tightened again. “WHERE IS SHE?!” Alex yelled at the man as he finally burst. It was as if the thin thread that was holding on to his sanity finally broke and there was no humanity left in him.
His eyes were wild and unseeing as he stared at the man he held in his hand. And before he knew it, snap! The man became limp and Alex threw him aside as if he was a lightweight doll.
Soaked with blood, Alex somehow found his way to Abi’s house. It was past midnight already. Abi had been missing for about 12 hours – 12 hours too long! He had searched the entire city, leaving a trail of blood behind him.
This place was the last place he didn’t check. He stared up the closed window of her room, wishing, hoping that Abigail was there. He remembered that night he jumped through her window and confessed to her.
He jumped up and landed softly on the veranda. He broke the glass window and opened it. It was dark but even though he couldn’t see anything, he couldn’t sense her presence. She wasn’t there.
The rain started to fall, pounding hard on the rooftop. Thunder and lightning roared as if the world was raging, as if it responded to his rampant emotions.
After some time, Alex began to crumble. The rage that had fueled him, that had kept his fear at bay, was slowly fading. He looked devastated. Every minute that went by… He couldn’t bear to think about it. No! He was not going to stop until he found her, even if he had to go berserk and destroy everything.
Why? Why would they take his Abigail at this crucial moment? Abigail had to be found. Her surgery was early tomorrow. He must find her!
His demon was starting to eat him, driving him to stray from his goal of finding Abigail first. The demon in him wanted to just kill. His aura started blazing, his eyes turned red as fire. He was losing himself.
But at that moment, his eyes were drawn to the small aquarium on Abi’s bedside table. Abi’s smiling face started to appear in his head, like a bright light persisting to peek out from the ominous clouds. And then, her voice rang in his mind, ‘Let’s go home, Alex.’
Alex’s eyes widened. That was right, there was one place he hadn’t checked yet!
His heart began to beat wildly. He jumped down the window and once he got in his car, he skyrocketed out of there towards his house, their house.
Hope started to bloom. She must be there!
His car stopped in front of his house with a screech. He leaped out as the heavy rain poured on him and the lightning tore the sky in a blinding flash.
He clenched his fists tight as he took one long deep breath. He couldn’t afford to lose himself here. His priority was to take Abigail back to the hospital. He needed to shackle his demons and keep from going berserk.
He opened the door. The house was quiet. Too quiet. He could hear the sound of his footsteps echo in the large living room. His ears were straining, trying to listen to other sounds that would indicate movement or life or something!
He looked up the grand staircase and ascended, still trying to calm himself down. He finally halted in front of his room. He didn’t know what drew him back here.
He didn’t know why he didn’t check her room first. For some reason, the uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach led him here, in front of his door. He didn’t know what he would find. He hoped to all the gods above and below that he would find her alive and unharmed.
He took another breath as he reached a hand out to the metal door knob. His reddened eyes were back to normal. He was calmer now.
He pushed the door open and it creaked ominously. He stepped inside and closed the door behind him. His body almost trembled as soon as his eyes adjusted to what was before him.
She was there, tied to a pole in the middle of his room. He could just make out her figure from the dim light of the candle. He saw that her hands were tied behind her back and that her head was hanging down,
as if she was unconscious. His heart trembled and he wanted to go to her but he stopped himself, because as his eyes looked behind her, he saw another figure. There was a man behind her, a man whose face was familiar to both himself and Abigail.
A man whom Abigail would have trusted enough to follow, to take his words as truth and not question them.
Alex knew how strict Zeke’s protocols were at the hospital. Zeke was superbly skilled in all things technological. Alex also went through and double checked the systems to make sure it was robust and it would have been nearly impossible for an outsider to abduct Abigail.
But this man wasn’t an outsider. This man had come to him under the guise of wanting to help him but in reality, this man had done it so he could find out his routines, gather as much information as he could so that he could use all the things he learned to eventually turn on him.
It seemed he had underestimated this man before him. Somehow, he successfully managed to lure Abi out, erasing his trail and to actually have the gall to take her to this very place. Only one person could do this, only one person would dare.
It was none other than Xavier.
Alex mentally scolded himself. How could he have let his guard down? He had been around long enough to know that the people closest to you would be the one who would betray you.
The last person whom you never thought would ever betray you, would turn out to be the one that would betray you the most. That was just how this world seemed to work. He did have that mantra in mind when he asked Kai to watch Zeke but it seemed he had given the order to watch the wrong person.
“You’re finally here, Alex.” Xavier’s voice was calm but emotionless.
Abi, who seemed to have dozed off, was awakened by his cold voice.
When she looked up, Alex was standing there before her. Her eyes widened and she blinked a few times to make sure that she wasn’t hallucinating. Was he really here?
She saw that his clothes stuck to him, as if they were drenched, almost looking like a lone warrior who just came from a battle. His eyes looked calm but Abi’s heart squeezed in pain, looking at him. She knew that he had probably spent the day looking for her, being worried to death about her.
“Alex!” she called out, her voice hoarse, as if it hadn’t been used for some time. Tears started to form and slide down her cheeks. She didn’t know what happened. The last thing she remembered was that she had met Xavier in the hallway and he had told her that Alex had asked him to escort her to see Alex.
After boarding the elevator, Xavier put a handkerchief over her nose and mouth and the next thing she knew, she was here, in Alex’s dark room, her body tied to a pole.
Alex surveyed her body and was relieved when he saw that she didn’t seem to be hurt anywhere, although it was hard to be sure.
“Don’t worry. I didn’t hurt even a single strand of her hair,” Xavier said, almost gloating.
Alex was about to move past her towards Xavier, intending to end this once and for all but when he saw Abi straighten up, his eyes became fixated on the foreign object strapped around her.
Alex stopped and he glared at Xavier with deadly eyes, a promise to the other guy to rip his limbs from his body, slowly, until he begged for the mercy of death.
It was all he could do at this point because at that moment, Abigail was at the mercy of this maniac, having wrapped a homemade bomb around her body.
Hours ago.
Inside a dark room, Abi slowly opened her eyes. The room seemed familiar but it was too dark for her to be able to make anything out.
She tried to move but realized that she was tied. What was going on? Was this another nightmare? No, this was real! How did she end up in this place?
“Alex!!!” Abi began to call out her husband’s name when suddenly a voice stopped her.
“Shhh! Don’t shout… I might get angry and harm you,” A voice echoed around her. It was emotionless and cold but it was also a very familiar voice that Abigail knew too well.
“X-xavier?” she uttered in disbelief. She finally recalled what happened to her. When she left her room, she met Xavier on the hallway and he said he would take her to Alex. She followed him and the moment they were in the elevator, she lost consciousness.
She choked in utter disbelief and betrayal. Why? Xavier was such a good guy. He always smiled at her and was always the jovial one out of everybody. He was never cold to her and he was always cheerful and happy when he spoke with her.
Abi didn’t get a reply. Instead, she heard his quiet footsteps. He lit up the candle and she could finally see where she was. She was shocked. What?! She was inside Alex’s room? Why in Alex’s room of all places? Why would Xavier bring her here and tie her up here?
She looked at Xavier with millions of questions in her eyes.
“W-why?” her voice hoarse as she stuttered. “W-why are you doing this? Why did you bring me here?”
The once sweet and pretty cheerful guy looked at her with sad and disdainful eyes. He leaned by the wall looking at her.
“Well, I needed time to set up the bomb so I had to bring you somewhere where I could work without worry,” he replied and Abi looked down. What? A bomb? What was happening right now?
When she saw that there were indeed things wrapped around her, her throat constricted and her eyes widened in horror. Was he planning on killing her?
“Alex would never think that the kidnapper would bring you to this very place,” he added as he looked at his watch. “It’s been seven hours and he hasn’t found us yet. If I hadn’t quickly taken you away,
I bet he would have found us before I would have been able to leave the hospital. It seemed that luck is on my side today.” He flashed a sardonic smile but his eyes still sad.
Abi couldn’t speak. He was right. Who would even guess that she would be brought to Alex’s very own room of all places?! She felt her heart break when she heard him say it had been seven hours since he had taken her. She could only think about how Alex must be feeling, of what he must have been going through.
“But don’t worry, he will definitely find us…” he uttered, looking at the window. “Tonight.”
“W-why? Why are you doing this? Xavier… you’re… you’re like Alex’s brother.” Abi’s eyes were welling as she looked at him. She never would have imagined that Xavier would do something like this. Not once did it occur to her that he might have harbored these kinds of thoughts.
“Well, yeah… I think of him as my brother, too,” he murmured before he looked her into her eyes. “Kidding,” he smirked and then too soon, his smile faded. “Do you know why Alex’s room is like this.”
Abi gulped at his sudden question.
“No. Alex will tell me when the time comes.” Abi didn’t succ.u.mb to the temptation and her refusal made Xavier look surprised.
“You are a strange person, Miss Abigail. I would say you’re the strangest person I’ve ever met. Do you know why? It’s because you actually managed to make that man fall in love.”
“Why would you think that? How am I strange just because he fell in love with me? Is it so hard to believe that Alex can love? He’s only human. He has a heart.
It’s not strange for him to fall in love and I’m not strange for being the object of that love,” she argued, trying to stay calm.
Xavier burst out in an almost quiet chuckle. “He’s human. He has a heart,” he mocked as he laughed. A hint of sarcasm marred his polite voice. “This is why I said you’re strange.”
He shook his head and walked slowly over to her. His eyes changed again, from sadness to pure hatred.
“Do you know how many lives Alex has claimed with his own two hands? You wouldn’t be able to count high enough. Should I tell you that he even killed women and children? And yet,
you call him human? You’re telling me he has a heart? Don’t make me laugh!” He hissed, his eyes changing again. They were changing colours, from dark as night to blood red, freaking Abi out.
Abi froze. She almost forgot to breathe as she looked into his eyes in horror.
Seeing her expression, Xavier realized that his anger had taken the better of him. He backed off and calmed himself down. “Poor little lamb, you’ve been completely left in the dark despite marrying Alex, of all men.” He smirked again as he bent forward and whispered. “Let me show you something interesting.”
He backed off and then his eyes flared into red again. And then, he showed her his perfect white teeth. It was hard to see in the dim light but she was sure his canines were growing.
Abi’s lips parted. She felt like her brain was about to shut down. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing. She must be dreaming. This must be another nightmare.
“Surprised?” he smiled. “Well, even though you humans know so much about us, you would never believe we exist. It’s pretty ironic though… you guys believe that god exists, yet you don’t believe that creatures like us exist too,
” he added and then Abi’s body went limp. Her face became white as a ghost. Her mind and body couldn’t take it. Her body already felt weak and she felt like her mind was being forcefully shut down.
When Abi lost consciousness again, Xavier’s face returned to normal. “Don’t worry, you will forget about everything that you’ve heard and seen after everything is over,” he murmured and he backed off and leaned by the wall again, waiting patiently.
Hellbound With You Chapter 254 – Story
“Xavier!” Alex gritted his teeth. His eyes blazed like hellfire, stopping himself with all his might.
Xavier didn’t move and he looked back at Alex with a cold expression.
“Let her go,” Alex demanded but a small smile just curved on Xavier’s lips. He averted his gaze towards Abi, and then he lifted his hand. He held something and showed Alex – he held the trigger of the bomb in his hand.
“I know you are fast Alex, so this is the only way. No matter how fast you are, you can’t be as fast as me pressing this button,” Xavier said causing Alex to clench his fists tight.
“Tell me, why are you doing this?” Alex asked after a while of silence. His eyes calm but Xavier knew that behind those calmness lies a demon ready to go berserk.
Xavier looked intently into Alex’s eyes again and he sighed. “So this is how it feels to have the most powerful man at your mercy, huh?” He smirked, his eyes moving yet sad again.
“Alex… do you remember me when I was young?” he asked. His eyes were now being clouded with nothing but hate. “No, right? Because I was nothing in your eyes. I know about your story so I thought you would understand mine. I am like you. A so-called prince, but also an outcast.
And you… do you even remember who my mother was? Alex… I was there when you executed my mother. She was not a traitor. She begged for your mercy but you were heartless. You were a monster! And then, you bedded my sister before she too died in your hands.
I wished countless times that I could make you feel what I felt then. I wanted to kill Abigail before your eyes, Alex, so you would understand the pain. I wanted to torture her right before your eyes so you would know how it felt.”
As those words came out of Xavier, Alex didn’t speak and Abi, who was silently tearing up, could only stand there and look at Alex. She didn’t want to think and process all the things she was hearing. No, this wasn’t true! Alex… he… he wouldn’t have done… any of these things, right?
“But I’m not going to do that. Your wife doesn’t even know what kind of disgusting monster you are. And I am not sure if you really have the heart to even feel and experience everything I went through from losing all the people close to me. You are a monster after all, with no heart. That’s why…” he trailed off and carefully moved towards Abi, not averting his eyes from Alex.
Xavier dropped an ancient looking dagger at Alex’s feet.
When Abi saw that dagger, her throat constricted, like she was being strangled. She had seen that dagger before. That was the same dagger that dripped with blood she had seen in her nightmares. Her face turned pale as she looked at Alex in horror.
“Now if you don’t want me to blow your woman up, do it, Alex,” Xavier said. He looked like a maniac. His eyes turned red again as his thumb itched to press the button. “Move now, Alex!” Xavier ordered. “Or I’ll blow her up!”
Alex stared at Abi. Terror, confusion, questions, and fear flooded her eyes. She tried to open her lips to say something but she couldn’t seem to be able to do it.
Alex glanced at Xavier one more time. The man was deadly serious, almost as if he was possessed so Alex bent down slowly and picked the dagger.
When his eyes met Abi’s, he saw tears flowing down her face like a waterfall. He took a single step and Abi began to shake her head. Her body shivered in fear. The memories. Those nightmares. That look in Alex’s eyes. She felt like her dream was being reenacted. No, no, no… this couldn’t be real! This was nonsense! She had to be dreaming! Abi, wake up! wake up from this now!
She was praying that she would wake up but it didn’t work. Her thoughts were so scrambled. But the chaos halted when Alex halted just inches before her. He lifted his hand and wiped her tears away. His touch felt so real, his hands so warm on her skin.
“Abigail…” he called out. His voice was hoarse and filled with guilt and sadness. “I’m sorry it came out to this. I’m sorry,” he whispered and then he placed the dagger in her tied hands.
It was then that Abi remembered the story he told her. She shook her head again and finally she found her voice.
“T-that book… The book you read to me,” she stuttered, her lips trembling. She didn’t know what she was saying anymore. That morning, that day before she heard the news about Betty was when Abi saw Alex’s back.
The back that should have been covered by wounds and scars and scratches from their car accident was completely smooth and flawless. Abi started to connect the dots, no matter how ridiculous they seemed. She couldn’t get the story he told her out of her mind so she went and searched for it.
She found the book and to her surprise, the book was just a biography of some person she had never heard of. The story he told her wasn’t there. The story wasn’t about a ruthless emperor. “W-was that your story?”
Abi held her breath as she wept nonstop. Her body and mind starting to go numb.
Alex’s jaws clenched.
“Yes,” he replied and Abi sobbed even harder. Her heart was breaking into million pieces. The only thing she wanted to believe at that moment was that this was all just a dream. This was just a nightmare and that it wasn’t real.
“So are you saying that… this is how you die… that the person who would be born to kill you, is me?”
Hellbound With You Chapter 255 – Vision
Abi wanted to fling the dagger away from her as far as possible. She wanted to touch him and hug him instead but Alex was holding her hands in place in a tight grip,
with the dagger between them. He wouldn’t let her pull away, as his eyes trapped her, not releasing her from the force of his hypnotic stare even as he answered her question.
“Yes,” he uttered. His voice was weak but she heard it all the same. And his answer shattered Abigail. The corner of her lips twitched and she shook her head.
“No, you’re lying. No… this doesn’t make sense. There’s no way this is real. Immortals, dragons, witches, prophecies?! None of that is real! This must be a joke, right? Ok…
you guys got me. You can stop joking around now!” Her mouth spouted out these words of denial as she looked back at Alex, her eyes wholly begging him to tell her that this was just a prank,
a very dark and intense prank, but a prank nonetheless. Would they stop this madness now that she caught them out? Would they finally stop playing these tricks on her? Would he finally turn to her and laugh and say that this was all just a big joke?
She waited for them to tell her it was all a joke but no such mercy came. His eyes told her this wasn’t a joke or a nightmare, but reality.
“Please Alex… let go of my hand. Keep this dagger away from me,” she begged as she looked down, looking at his hand on hers and the dagger in between them.
Alex felt his heart being smashed and crumpled and shredded over and over again. His agony and pain was reflected in his wife’s face.
The pure innocence radiating from her eyes were gone. All he could see now was her unimaginable fear and burning pain. The pain from seeing her like this, the pain from knowing that he was responsible for all this, and the pain from making the only person he had ever cared for this miserable…
It acc.u.mulated and compounded within him that he could feel nothing else. He had never felt anything come close to this that he was almost paralysed by it.
His blood blazed, intent on burning him from the inside, out. No, to him, this was worse than being burned alive. Worse than being cut into pieces alive. If that knife was plunged into him at that moment,
he wouldn’t have felt any pain from that because it would be overshadowed by what he was feeling at that moment. Maybe that would be a mercy, a way for all this pain to stop.
“How can you be so sure that I am the one who was born to kill you? You don’t have any proof Alex! All you have are some mumbo jumbo words from a woman! How do you know what she said was even real? She could have been making things up so you wouldn’t ki-”
“I’m sorry… Abigail,” Alex cut her off before those words could come out of her lips. He didn’t want to hear those words from her lips, the words that spoke of what he had done, things he now regretted.
After watching this moving scene, Xavier finally cut in.
“Do you want me to tell her, Alex?” he asked with a mocking smile. When Alex didn’t even glance at him, Abigail demanded to know everything!
“Well, okay. Since Abigail wants to know, why not spill all the beans out? She’ll forget about all of this anyway,” Xavier said, almost gloating. “Besides, I’d like to see her expression, and yours, when she finally realises that tonight, she will kill the man she loves.”
“Just spill it out, Xavier!” she yelled in pain. Xavier looked at the immobile Alex and he smirked.
“Sure,” he agreed. “Indeed, you are right, Miss Abigail. We have no proof that it is you. Alex had been with countless girls for this one purpose. He had been trying to find this so-called someone – a woman – for centuries, to no success. You wouldn’t believe how many women he has taken to his bed.
I doubt you could imagine it,” he said, intently looking at Abi’s face as he figuratively pushed a knife into her heart. He smiled with glee when he got a reaction from her.
“He actually hypnotised these women and he forcefully made them stab him but it didn’t work. Every single attempt to end his life had failed. But you see…
vampires aren’t the only creatures that exist in this world. Witches are also still out there, keeping their powers hidden. Do you know what the queen had envisioned? I heard that these were the words the queen said: ‘She will be born, a woman who would give you both life and death.’
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” Xavier paused, as if he was thinking about this phrase and its meaning. It was all an act, of course, and he continued a second later.
“You see, before you came into Alex’s life, Alex was nothing but a living vessel, exactly like the living dead. But when you came along, he became almost human. He actually looked alive.
You have been the only one who has made him that way. But not only that, the witches have confirmed it. You are the one in that ancient queen’s vision.”
Abi felt like she was being choked. “That’s just a vision. What if there was some kind of mistake?” she trembled. “I don’t have any connection to any of this! How could I be the one you guys are looking for? This doesn’t make sense!” Abi argued, in tears.
“Well, I am not really sure if you really don’t have any connection, though,” Xavier uttered as he looked at Alex. “But I don’t think that’s of any relevance. You people always don’t believe this sort of thing anyway,” Xavier answered, shutting down her arguments.
“Should we light up the incense, Alex? Your wife has been kind to me so I think I, at least, should be a little kinder to her. Besides, this was your plan all along, wasn’t it,
to hypnotize her into doing your bidding? And then, once you’re dead, she would forget everything and it would be like Abigail Chen had never met Alexander Qin.” Xavier said with a disdainful smirk on his lips.
Hellbound With You Chapter 256 – Hell and nothing more
Abi’s eyes widened as she looked at Alex, utterly shocked again.
“W-what did he say? This was y-your plan?” Abi stuttered, as her tears silently fell. “Tell me, Alex… please tell me it’s not true…”
Alex finally averted his eyes. He looked down, hiding his eyes from her as he spoke. There was no more reason to hide his secrets. If he knew that Abi would come to know all his secrets in the worst possible way,
he would’ve told her all of it on that day she cried for him in the rain. But there was no use in looking back. The past couldn’t be changed, not even by him.
“He’s right.” Alex started. “The first time I saw you, I felt something I didn’t understand. I didn’t look into it any further. I put it down to momentary surprise because I was surprised by you,
that first time we met. But again, the moment was fleeting. After I left, I never thought I would see you again so I didn’t think anymore of it.” Alex looked at her at this point and said, “If you had only listened to me then… but you didn’t. You came to me,
you threw yourself at me and that strange feeling returned. It was then that I delved deeper into what this was and why. The first few days with you, I noticed that you were able to move me,
sway my decisions despite centuries of callousness and coldness, and that made me wonder if I had finally found the person I’ve been searching for, for so long.
Xavier is right. This was my plan, the same plan I had since I learned of the witch’s words. It didn’t change when I met you. I’ve longed for death for so long and if my hunch was right,
I would finally be able to breathe my last breath, to finally be free. How could I let that chance go, to let it slip between my fingers? I have lived for so long that I had forgotten what life was, what it meant to live. So if you were my only chance to end this hollow, cursed life, then I would take it.
If I let you go now, I would live forever because this chance will never come again. That’s why I planned all this. To bring you here in this room one day and hypnotize you before forcing you to kill me with this dagger.
After my death, you would forget everything to do with me. You would forget it all and be able to live your life again in unknowing bliss. That was my plan, Abigail…” Alex trailed off.
Abi’s body began to tremble with all these emotions, mercilessly crashing like raging waves on her. She wanted to feel no more, to escape this. She didn’t know what to say, or think, or do. But Alex wasn’t finished.
“I wasn’t sure if you were the one, so I had my people investigate. However, in the few days I had spent with you, you turned my life inside out. You were so innocent, so good, an unexpected breath of fresh air, filling my lungs with oxygen, with life again.
I looked at you and it made me think. My decision had never wavered before until you. I thought it was solid, unshakeable, unbreakable, but you poked a hole through it, unknowingly. I looked at you and I started to doubt myself. You were so pure that I didn’t want to dirty your hands with my blood.
The mere thought of it makes me… You have this unnerving effect on me, this hold on me, that I couldn’t break. And then I started to hope…”
“Because you fell in love with me…?” Abi forced herself to speak.
Alex took a sharp painful breath. “Yes. Because I fell in love with you.” He smiled. And it was the most bitter smile she had ever seen. The smoke from the incense began to fill the room, slowly.
It seemed that Xavier had lit them up. The scent was hypnotic and Abi remembered the smoke from her nightmares. She finally realized where she had seen that incense pot before. She saw it in her nightmares.
“Since you came into my life, everything changed.” Alex continued. “Before I knew it, my hollow heart, the void within me started to be filled. The world of nothing that I’ve been encased in for so long began to overflow. You were like a fearless diver.
Even though you saw how deep and dark the water was, you dove into it, not afraid of drowning, persistently reaching the bottom where my heart was hidden and bravely brought it into the surface. You showed it all to me. You cracked all my frozen bones and opened my eyes.
I couldn’t believe that finding you… that falling in love with you… would make up for all the long sufferings, for all the times I asked a stranger to slaughter me, for all of the times I tried to break myself into pieces.
I have longed for death for too long, have been so desperate to meet it, but now that I’ve found it…” he trailed off and smiled again. “I don’t want to die anymore.”
Alex looked up at her and Abi saw the raw, bleeding pain in his eyes. The kind of pain that was far worse than hers. It came from a lifetime of suffering and torment that he had experienced. She remembered those moments when Alex was just sitting there, silently and looking far off into the distance.
She thought back then that he looked like a child who needed soothing, like a child who was left alone in this world, wandering about aimlessly, a child who had felt nothing but pain. Now that she experienced the worst pain she ever felt in her life, she began to understand why, to him, death was mercy. He must have been so tired of feeling nothing but that…
Abi could only cry again because she could see it – how Alex was just one more blow away from breaking.
She wished she could hug him. She wished she could have shown more of her love to him.
“Then… don’t die. Stay with me. My love for you… even if you’re the devil, I will not leave you. I will love you forever, Alex.” Abi was becoming desperate.
She had to step up right now or she would lose him forever. She needed to demonstrate her love for him now or she would regret it forever. “I would die for you, suffer for you, and ultimately, live for you, Alex. I will walk with you through the gates of hell and feel the same torture I know you bore. Just don’t leave me alone,” she begged. “Don’t leave me.”
Alex moved and kissed her tears and then her forehead.
“Don’t worry… after this, everything will be alright. Once I’m gone, you will be set free. You will no longer be hellbound with me. I’m so sorry for hurting you. I thought I could protect you but it seemed I was wrong. I always ended up hurting you, putting you in danger… all I can give you is hell and nothing more.”
“No! No! Alex! Please! Xavier stop this!” Abi screamed as Alex lifted her hands towards his chest.
Hellbound With You Chapter 257 – The best thing
“No! Please, don’t do this to me, Alex. Please!” Abi pleaded. Her voice shook as she tried to pull her hands away from him. Her mind was going numb, the pain in her heart had reached its peak and she didn’t know if it would be able to take any more.
It hurt so much that her tears had dried up and her body lost all its strength. If not for the rope that was tied around her, she would have fallen to her knees.
The smoke filled her lungs. There was no way she couldn’t breathe it in. The smoke made her feel dizzy. No, please… she couldn’t succ.u.mb to this. If she did, her Alex, her husband would… she would lose him forever.
Abi gritted her teeth and she begged him again and again.
“Alex… you said you love me. I am your wife! You can’t do this to me! Please! I don’t know what I would do without you! You are my reason for living. Please, don’t!,” she cried in agony, filling the room with unbearable pain.
The storm outside still raged. The rain kept pounding on the roof, the thunder roared and the lightning flashed through the dark curtain, mirroring the turmoil inside that dark room.
It was as if the world knew that something momentous was going to happen and it showed up to watch it happen.
Alex nearly broke down as he watched her. She was in so much pain. This girl didn’t deserve any of this. He needed this to end now. Her pain needed to end now.
“She isn’t hypnotised yet! Why?” he hissed in an ice cold voice as he looked at Xavier. His eyes were no longer calm. It was filled with an intent to kill – to kill Xavier – right then.
Xavier immediately felt the immense danger and he lifted his hand, with his thumb ready to press the button. He knew that even the tiniest mistake, a single moment of dropping his guard down,
would cost him his life and he’d end up failing his mission. This was something he would never allow. He knew that this was probably going to be his only chance to kill Alex – the only and last chance he would ever have.
“Then, that means the incense isn’t working on her?” Xavier told him, alert as ever.
“No, that’s impossible!” Alex’s voice was firm as Abi continued begging.
“Then why is she not affected by it?!” Xavier lost it. His eyes were glowing red now and the hair on his skin stood up. Alex’s aura was triggering his natural defensive instincts. “Just do it now, Alex or I’ll blow her up!!” he threatened, dead serious, showing his canines for good measure.
Alex’s jaws clenched and Abi wailed even louder. “No, Alex! No! Don’t do this, don’t do this!”
Alex looked at Abi and he kissed her eyes, down to her lips.
“I’m so sorry,” he whispered and Abi pleaded even harder, cried even harder, feeling like her throat was bleeding from all her pleading.
“Don’t make me wait! Do it now, Alex! Plunge it straight into your chest!!” Xavier butted in, impatience and fear evident in his eyes.
But Alex just looked at him in the eyes.
“No, I need to wait. She needs to forget everything! She has to be hypnotized before killing me or she won’t forget!” Alex demanded. His authoritative aura,
the kind of authority nobody in this world could ever ignore, blazed from him and Xavier found himself being f.u.c.k.i.e.d up.
He couldn’t believe this. Xavier couldn’t believe that he was making him feel this kind of fear despite the fact that Alex was the one in his mercy.
“Xavier… this is all I am asking… you will get what you want. You will have your revenge on me. Just don’t drag Abigail into this. She shouldn’t live a life of endless pain because of me. The incense, you must have used the wrong ones, not the ones that the witch gave me,” Alex told Xavier.
Xavier gnashed his teeth. “Don’t even try doing anything funny, Alex. Remember, she will immediately explode into pieces once I press this button.” Xavier warned, his red eyes blazing with threat and then before he knew it, his head turned to look at the incense pot.
“F*ck! There’s nothing wrong with the incense!!” Xavier said, cursing. He couldn’t believe the serpent was able to trick him.
He immediately looked up and saw that Alex was still there. His jaws clenched as he lifted his hand again.
“Damn it! I will give you three seconds! Push the dagger in your chest now or your wife will be blown into pieces!! I’m telling you I will press it! You refuse to die? Then I’ll just take her away with me then. I will take away your wife!” he laughed. Xavier had turned into a maniac vampire and Alex knew that he couldn’t talk some sense into him anymore. “1… 2…”
“I’ll do it!” Alex’s voice thundered and Xavier smirked. “I’ll do it. Why would I let this chance slip away? I’m finally going to die,” he added and his gaze fell back on Abigail.
Abigail had lost her voice. She could only shake her head and weep. Even her heart was numb now.
Alex took the dagger and pointed it at his chest again. He stared at Abigail and he smiled.
All the memories they shared together flashed between them, from the moment he had ordered Abi to step out from the pillar that she was hiding behind in that cold dark garage, until their wedding day and the passionate moments they shared.
Alex bumped his head on hers. “Thank you for everything, my wife… you are by far the best thing that has ever come into my life in my thousands of years of existence. These few weeks with you happily sums up my lifetime. I love you,” he whispered and then he held her hands, with the dagger still between them, and drove it towards his chest.
Hellbound With You Chapter 258 – Explosion
Abi’s world halted. Her mind and body went blank. Even her heart seemed to shut down. She was falling. Falling down into an endless abyss.
Blood began to flow out of his chest, staining his hands and hers with his blood. His eyes were still wide open and clear as he looked at Xavier. “Happy, now?”
Alex asked him with a bitter smile as his blood started to flow out of his mouth. Alex staggered but he managed to hold on to Abi. His arms were wrapped around her now as he hugged her.
Xavier gulped. He didn’t dare walk towards them, not until he was completely sure of the outcome. The room had become eerily silent. As if time stood still, the three of them just stood there, unmoving.
Alex was still glaring at Xavier, not breaking eye contact. Xavier knew he had really pushed the dagger through his chest and that it wasn’t a trick because this was the first time he saw blood coming out from Alex’s mouth.
His wounds usually healed before blood could even spill. Alex had never been affected by anything like this before. He knew because he had seen it.
There was one time when he saw Alex make one of his women stab him in the heart. No blood came out from his mouth at all, only a few drops from the small chest wound that immediately healed.
“Now… remove… the bomb off her,” Alex demanded, blood spilling out as he forced himself to speak.
Xavier slowly moved closer, still gripping the button, afraid that if he let his guard down, Alex would strike.
Alex then let go of Abi and he stumbled backward, until his back hit the wall. Xavier saw the dagger was still stuck on his body, plunged so deeply that only the hilt could be seen.
He was finally convinced that it succeeded. He felt slightly relieved and somewhat elated. He actually did it! Alex was going to finally die! He would finally get his revenge!
“I want you to remove… the bomb off her… before I… she needs to go back to the hospital… now…” Alex coughed out blood, falling to his knees as he held onto the wall.
Abi could only watch him. She felt dead inside. She couldn’t even cry anymore. It was like she had left her body and was hovering over the scene in this room,
watching it like it was a movie that had nothing to do with her. Her body had no strength left to hold on. The man she loved, the man she was going to spend her life with, no matter how short, was dying right in front of her and there was nothing she could do. Her tears had dried up, making a salty trail down her face.
“Alex… I love you” she whispered. The room was so quiet that her words reached him. He looked at her, his expression, unfathomable. She didn’t know what else to say to him. She didn’t want to say goodbye because she wasn’t ready to let him go. She didn’t want to let him go!
Abi’s thoughts were jumbled but there was one thought that broke through. Was he happy that he was finally freed from the tortured life he led?
Xavier looked at Alex and he didn’t know why but he moved and did as Alex had asked. Alex was finally going to die now so he might as well do this as a parting gift, to let Alex see that he would set his wife free.
As Xavier took off the bomb and the ropes around Abi, Alex’s eyes were burning as he looked at Xavier.
The moment the bomb and ropes were untied, Abi slid down to the floor like her bones had turned into jelly. She was just looking up to see how Alex was when suddenly, a strong gust of wind blew on her face. Before she knew it, Xavier, who was standing before her, disappeared and Alex was no longer by the wall.
The next second, a loud explosion thundered in one corner of the room, as she felt a warm body cover her.
Abi’s almost dead senses were jolted back to life and the only thing she could hear was the deafening ringing resulting from the loud bang.
She lifted her face, immediately looking for Alex.
The warm body belonged to him and he used his body to cover her again. “Are you okay?” he asked, smiling, down at her.
Abi just gaped at him as he winced in pain. “Wait a moment, okay?” he asked, kissing her forehead before he turned to check if Xavier was still there. The room was no longer dark.
The corner wall and adjacent windows were now gaping holes as a result of the blast. The rain outside poured even harder, finding their way inside the room, as the lightning struck down. The rain was soaking him as he stood there looking down, a trail of red running down his body and pooling at his feet.
And that moment, Abi looked at Alex’s back and she saw his flesh coming together, rapidly healing itself. She watched all the open wounds on his back all come together and how his body repaired itself until his wounds were no more. His dragon tattoo was still there, unharmed and intact, without even the tiniest scratch.
“He’s gone,” Alex mumbled before he turned and looked at her. His eyes were flooded with guilt.
Abi’s lips trembled and she forced herself to lift her hands out to reach out to him.
“It’s about time for your surgery,” he said and he knelt down next to her. He was about to pick her up when Abi’s eyes fell on the dagger, still protruding from his chest.
Her trembling hands were about to reach out for it but Alex stopped her.
“Don’t touch it, Abigail,” he said gently. He then picked her up in his arms and then he jumped from the third floor to the ground. He landed lightly on his feet, as if he had wings.
Hellbound With You Chapter 259 – Don’t cry
Alex sat on the driver’s seat with Abi still in his arms.
“Hang in there, we’ll get there in no time,” he told her as the car flew down the wet road like a bullet.
Abi had lost all her strength. Her body was so weak and she felt like passing out. If not for her fear that Alex wouldn’t be there anymore when she woke up, she would have already passed out long ago.
She must not pass out. She must stay awake. Those were the constant thoughts that whirled inside her brain, keeping her sane, keeping her conscious.
Her eyes fell on the dagger still plunged on his chest. He wasn’t even wincing in pain. Why won’t he pull it out? Why didn’t he want her to touch it? Could it be that…?
Abi’s grip on his shirt tightened as her body trembled once again because of the thoughts in her head. But she denied it and refused to consider it as a possibility because Alex was moving just fine. He was strong.
Maybe they were all mistaken after all. Maybe, she wasn’t the one Alex had been looking for. Yes, that must be it! If she wasn’t the one…then Alex would not die! Maybe the story was all made up by that woman and that maybe,
there was no one that would be able to do what she said. She consoled herself with these kinds of thoughts. She had to, because the other outcome was unbearable to think of.
Abi closed her eyes and her grip tightened around Alex. She wasn’t going to let go. She wasn’t going to let him out of her sight. She wasn’t going to fall asleep or close her eyes or blink ever again! She wasn’t going to let him leave her side. Her thoughts were becoming hysterical the closer they got to hospital.
In what seemed like no time all, they arrived at the hospital. The storm was still raging outside, without any sign of going away anytime soon. Alex lifted her up, acting just fine, like the dagger that was still plunged into his heart was nothing but a halloween prop.
He walked hastily, inhumanely fast, but the rain still got them and they were both drenched by the time they got to the entrance. Abi finally remembered all those times that she would just find Alex right behind her and as if he had teleported, but now she knew it was because of his lightning speed.
When they reached the surgery room, a man in white was leaning by the wall right next to the door. It was Zeke. He didn’t move from his spot until Alex stood in front of him.
Their eyes met before Zeke’s eyes fell on the dagger in his chest. His blank expression immediately sharpened as he looked at Alex intently, looking for signs, any sign at all, that would tell him whether this was it for him. Once he was done surveying the situation, he finally spoke.
“She needs to have a hot shower first and change into warm clothes, Alex.” Zeke said, calmly. There was a hint of anger in Zeke’s eyes as he looked at the injured man before him. “Don’t worry, there’s still time,” he added, seeing the hesitation in Alex’s eyes.
“Okay,” was all Alex replied before he turned and left with Abigail.
Zeke creased his brows once Alex was gone. He threw his head back and dialed his phone with a grave expression on his face.
In the bathroom, Alex carefully put Abi down. He started undressing her until she was n.a.k.e.d and he proceeded to carefully wash her body with warm water.
Abigail didn’t move – she didn’t push him away, nor did she move to make it easier for him. Her eyes never left him. She didn’t even want to blink for fear that she would find him gone once she opened her eyes again.
As Alex cleaned her, Abigail still didn’t say a word, and nor did Alex.
Alex was washing her hair gently when Abi could no longer bear it. She couldn’t bear seeing that dagger in his chest anymore.
“Why aren’t you pulling the dagger out? You will heal immediately if you pull that out, right, Alex?” she asked him, her voice hoarse and weak, like a little child asking if there was a possibility that Bambi’s mother survived from being shot by a hunter.
Her question made Alex pause for a moment but then he continued what he was doing. He didn’t give her an answer and Abi’s body began to tremble.
“Alex… I can’t bear it… seeing you like that. It’s like an invisible knife has been stabbed in my chest, too.” She wept. Her reaction made Alex look so miserable. ‘When will this be over? When will she stop hurting because of him?’ he thought, his heart full of sorrow.
Alex moved and kissed her. “Shh… don’t cry anymore, my wife. You’ve been crying all night. Please, stop now.”
“But you’re… how can I not cry where you’re hurting? When you’re bleeding like that? How can I…” Abi couldn’t stop herself from weeping for him. It was too much. She loved this man so much that any pain that he felt, she felt like it was her own.
“Don’t worry, Abigail. It really doesn’t hurt. I’m already immune to any physical pain. What I can’t bear however, is you hurting like this. So please, stop crying.
You’re about to undergo a surgery.” He tried to reassure her, kissing her again. “Please, wife. Don’t cry anymore,” he begged and she could only hug him.
She could hear the helplessness in his voice, and Abi didn’t want to add to his pain anymore. But what was she supposed to do? Was she going to just watch him bleed?
He carried her out of the bathroom after he, too, took off all his drenched clothes. He changed to a new set of clothes, hastily putting on a shirt without buttoning it.
He helped Abi get dressed and he dried her hair. After that, he gathered her in his arms again as he took her back to the surgery room.
Alex carefully put her down on the bed but Abi didn’t let go. She was scared, scared to let him go. She clutched onto his arm, determined to keep him by her side.
Hellbound With You Chapter 260 – Promise me
“Don’t go anywhere, Alex,” she told him.
“I won’t. So please don’t think about what happened, okay. Don’t think about that; just think about our happy times together, okay?” he smiled, kissing her forehead. Although Alex tried his best to make her feel at ease, to stop her from worrying, Abi couldn’t do it. Her fear had taken hold of her and it wasn’t going to let her be.
“But… I’m scared Alex. You’re not going to die, right? Tell me… please… tell me you’re going to live. I’m scared that the reason why you’re not pulling out this dagger is because… is because…”
“Shh…” Alex planted a kiss on her lips. He could see she was starting to cry again. “Don’t worry… this…” he averted his gaze away from her and looked at the dagger on his chest. “I actually made you miss my heart,” he looked up and flashed her a sarcastic smile.
“Then why are you not pulling it out?”
“Well, this dagger can only be pulled out by a powerful witch. There’s a curse on this too. It will suck the memories out of the person who pulls it out,” he answered, making Abi’s brows crease in confusion.
She was still unable to fully grasp all these supernatural things she had seen and heard. Everything was still hard for her to believe, but she didn’t care anymore.
What bugged her at that moment was the unsettling feelings she had. She felt like somewhere in Alex’s statement was a lie and she hated herself for doubting him. Maybe she was just being paranoid?
“R-really?” she asked, asking for his confirmation once again. She so wanted to believe him, that all they needed to do now was find a powerful witch to pull the dagger out.
“Yes, Abigail. Don’t worry anymore. This dagger won’t be in my chest anymore once you wake up. You have to think positive to get through this surgery,” he encouraged and Abi finally looked a little better.
A nurse came in and asked Alex to leave as she placed a mask over Abi’s nose and mouth.
“Wife, I need to go now. I’ll be just outside. I won’t leave until the surgery is over,” he told her and she cupped his face and kissed him. She started to feel drowsy as whatever she was breathing in took effect.
“Please promise me… you’ll be here when I wake up. Promise me, Alex. Please,” she begged and Alex bumped his forehead on hers as he uttered his answer.
“I promise, Abigail.”
“Thank you, I love you.”
“I love you too. I will wait for you outside.”
“Mm. Wait for me outside, hubby…”
Once Abi finally lost consciousness, Alex bent and kissed her forehead again, looked at everybody’s faces and nodded at them, before he glanced at his wife one last time and left.
The moment Alex stepped out from the room, someone grabbed him by the collar and pinned him against the wall, hard.
“What is the meaning of this? Huh, Alex?” the oh-so-calm and unfathomable Zeke looked so angry. The knuckles on his fists, which were holding on to Alex’s collar tightly, turned white as Zeke glared at this damn foolish man before him.
“Relax, Zeke,” Alex smirked, but then he quickly covered his mouth as he coughed. It wasn’t a healthy sounding cough and when he took his hand away from his mouth,
it was filled with his blood. Alex looked at his hand and then he wiped his mouth with his forearm, staining his shirt red.
Zeke gritted his teeth as he let go of Alex’s collar. He watched Alex slide down the wall and sit on the floor, as if his superhuman strength had left him.
“Don’t worry about me. You go inside and save my wife –”
“Ha!” Zeke snorted. His rage was becoming more inflamed at each passing second as he thought about Alex and what he had just done. Zeke then squatted before Alex so that their eyes were on the same level.
“What makes you think that I would keep my promise and save her when you’re the one who broke our deal?!” He smirked devilishly.
Alex leaned his head by the wall, closed his eyes as if he was in pain, and wiped the blood that dribbled from his mouth, with his wrist.
“Had you come and helped me out, this wouldn’t have happened, Zeke,” Alex opened his eyes and smiled despite the pain, like he was enjoying Zeke’s angered face.
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“Don’t make me laugh! You know that had I barged in, Abigail would be dead by now! Xavier would have truly killed Abigail if he thought for a second that his plan wouldn’t succeed!
His plan was to kill you but if that failed, then he would have been satisfied to have you watch her die, to experience the pain and torment he had experienced in your hands.”
“Of course you know that,” Alex responded. “Had you barged in and something happened to her, you would have been the first one I would kill,” he added with a smile and he coughed up blood again.
“Stop playing around, Alex,” Zeke said, becoming more serious than ever. He couldn’t contain his anger anymore. “Don’t you dare think I will save her now. You broke the deal. You were supposed to stay alive. That’s all you had to do for me to save her, but it seems you couldn’t even do that! Useless!”
“I’m still alive, Zeke.”
“Don’t give me that bullish*t, Alex. You’re dying! We both know it.” Zeke retorted, sounding sure as if he just said that the sun would rise in the East and set in the West. “Damn it, Alex! Why the hell did you let this happen?!”
Alex finally looked at him with a serious gaze. He held Zeke’s shoulder and moved his face near his shoulder. “Listen, Zeke…”
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