Chapter 24: Paying Gratitude
Kristin was in her bedroom alone in the night after the horrible villa attack. She was sitting on her bed deep in her thoughts when Edgar opened the door.
He hesitated in her presence as it was the first time he was all alone with her. He approached her gently.
"I know it's hard for you Kristin but trust me we will go away far from here" Edgar tried to satisfy her approaching to her.
She didn't responded to him. Edgar got near her and held her hand. She hesitated a bit. Edgar tried to make her feel comfortable.
Edgar got close to her neck and started licking her neck and breast.
"Edgar stop!!! Stop it Edgar!!!!" She told him in a soft voice.
"It's okay!!! You are my wife now" he started giving her neck kisses, rubbing his hands on her slim waist all the way to her hips. She wasn't enjoying it at all.
Those dead bodies, blood, violence, screams and about Farhan's behaviour. She had always loved him.
Edgar moved upwards to her chin kissing her when suddenly she pushed him back gently.
"Edgar please!!! Stop it"
He asked her annoyingly.
"What is it Kristin? It will make you feel relax and good. I can understand you are going through a lot but I am sorry for that" he answered sadly.
She took a long breath. She looked stranded.
She stood up and moved towards the window to avoid eye contact.
"It's okay!! If you don't want to have it tonight" Edgar comforted her approaching her from behind.
"Edgar..... I don't love you... You are wise and a good person but I love someone else" she confessed hesitatingly staring outside the window.
Edgar was shocked to hear that.
"Then what the fuck about the wedding and all that!!. Why didn't you tell me before if you weren't ready!!!!!!" He yelled at her.
She got frightened.
"Because my father wanted me to marry you just for his fucking business and greed!!!" She answered him crackingly.
Edgar was shocked but he never intended to hurt her.
"So, it's because of your father!!! How could... I was a fool dreaming about you and our relation!!"
He realized her crying. He couldn't see his love crying.
"Don't cry!!! Just don't cry" he answered her trying to control his anger.
"I love someone else just like you love me!!! And I believe only he has right over my body and my soul" she answered him while crying.
"Who is he??" Edgar asked her curiously tightening his fingers over his palm.
"I can't tell you. If you want to kill me for that then so be it. But I won't answer that"
"It's all right!! Just don't cry, you are hurting me. I can't watch you crying like this" Edgar told her softly and hugged her gently while she was crying and shaking in fear.
"It's all right!!! It's okay. Have some rest, you had a horrible day"
They never had sex that night. Kristin slept on his bed while he rested on the couch separately to make her feel comfortable.
Edgar had satisfied her and pretended that everything was fine but he couldn't sleep that night as he unable to digest all of it. He was thinking the whole night in sorrows and regrets.
He was thinking that she betrayed him but he loved her and couldn't hurt her for that because we can not control whom to love. He was unable to hate her all due to his love.
He was blessed with polite and understanding personality.
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Farhan was in his room accompanied by Joe. He was completly stoned and thinking about her with Edgar. He was thinking that they must be having sex and his love would have been crushed under Edgar by now.
He sniffed powder and smoked pots. He was burning powder over almunium foil by providing it heat from beneath and inhaling it's smoke.
"Bro!! Take it easy. It will kill you" joe alarmed him.
"Then let be it!!!! At least it is fading away my sorrow" he answered him in a dizzy voice completly stoned.
"I somehow estimated you were a junkie but never knew you were into drugs"
He was sitting on his bed with empty bottles, squeezed almunium foils and ceggrette between his lips.
"But what for?" Joe asked him curiously as he was sitting on a chair next to him having wine.
Farhan chuckled dizzily.
"Bro!!! I have a friend... once he told me that love will crucify your soul.... and see he was right. Look at me completly broken and without a reason to live" he confessed him.
"Why does it hurt so badly. I can't bare my pain. What is happening to me all of a sudden" he got emotional. Tapping the bed with his hand gently.
"Oh!!! Indeed Behind every broken man, Love is the only reason"
"You are right absolutely right..." he answered waving his hand unconsciously.
"Don't do this to yourself... people like us can't be loved. Why are you doing this to yourself" Joe answered him confessing the bitter truth.
Farhan stood up dangling here and there completly stoned. He struggled towards the door out of his room.
"I never wanted this life!!! I hate my fucking life" he confessed in a dizzy voice until he fell on the ground unconsciously.
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Early morning Di Vinci recieved a invitation from the town's mayor. He was hosting a meeting to sort out the matter between Lucas and Di Vinci.
The villa was being cleaned up and bodies were dumped. The family was having a meeting in the hall at breakfast.
It was Kristin first day in the villa. She was sleeping like a baby in her bed after a her wedding full of violence and gore. Neither she expected her wedding like that nor she expected her groom rather than Farhan.
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Whole family was on the table having breakfast. Kristin and Edgar were sitting together pretending to be a happy couple.
"Eric wants us to meet him" Di Vinci informed them.
"What for" Edgar asked him curiously.
"He wants peace in the town. He wants to sort the matter between Lucas and us by mutual understanding"
"But what if it's a trap" Edgar asked worriedly.
"I think he is right!!! They are luring us again" Joe expressed his will.
"We must go" Farhan answered him angrily.
His eyes were red and he was not in his senses completly. He was puffing a ceggrette at the breakfast table.
Everyone was staring at him.
"We are not scared of him. And why the fuck is he after us" he addressed Di Vinci.
"He is my elder brother. He wants the damn town which is my fucking inheritance" he looked at Edgar.
"Father!! We should handover this town to him. He won't stop" Edgar answered as he was frightened from Lucas.
"I never expected that from you son. I doubt you are not my blood!!" Di Vinci was angry at his statement.
"It's our fucking inheritance. Your grandfather trust me with this because he believed I was worth it and so do I for you. You want me to dishonor your grandfather and prove him wrong to this whole town!!!!" He was red with anger after his son statement.
"You wants us to pay for you enmity Like mother did. We can't afford to loose more!!" Edgar answered him.
"We are going and you will come with us!! Di Vinci ordered him angrily as he stood up and walked away.
Kristin was sitting having her breakfast while observing Farhan. She was unable divert her mind from his thoughts that he must be thinking about her night with Edgar and their sex that never happened.
Farhan poured the powder on the breakfast table.
Edgar just stared at him.
"Bro!! What are you doing?" Joe questioned him astonishingly. He was trying to respect Kristin as it was her first breakfast with them.
Farhan just ignored him and rolled the dollar bill. Kristin couldn't watch him so she stood up angrily and left the breakfast table.
Edgar gave her an unpleasent look and continued eating his breakfast.
"You should keep these things away from breakfast table" Edgar adviced him softly.
Farhan just looked at him with half opened eyes and sniffed the powder.
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Di Vinci was red with anger at his son. He never expected that from his son. He was in the terrace having wine. He tookout his phone and dialled Eric:
"You should come Di Vinci!! Don't disappoint me on this"
"Is Lucas ready?" Di Vinci asked him curiously.
"Yes!! He is" Eric tried to comfort him.
"He must be!! The whole town is after him!!" He mummered angrily.
"Don't forget Di Vinci!!! Army and Police is also waiting for opportunity to get you" Eric gibed at him.
"Then I guess I don't have any choice" he confessed taking potation of wine.
"I am afraid so!!" Eric answered worriedly.
"Okay!! Count me in"
"I don't want any violence!! I know he has done a lot to you but you must respect the agreement"
"Don't worry about me!! Just handle Lucas"
Di Vinci ended the call and waved at Williams who was
Walking towards him along his wife inside the villa.
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"What a disguise!!! Like nothing had ever happened here" Mr.s Stewart addressed Williams looking around the garden while walking on the footpath towards the villa.
William tookout a cigar and started puffing it without answering.
"I never knew. I think she should go with us for sometime" she continued.
"Where are these thoughts coming from!!"
"She will be safer here!! I don't want Di Vinci to doubt me for Loyalty. I trust him" he answered her softly.
"We will be regretfull at our decision!!! We have handed over our daughter to beasts" she confessed unpleasantly.
William looked towards Di Vinci standing at the terrace for them.
"They will take care of our daughter more than us" he answered her confidently.
"Why are you acting like their one of their puppets!!!"
"For God sake!! Shut up. Don't dare to talk this shit in front of him" he warned her as they went inside the villa.
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Farhan had wore 3-piece suit and was standing next to mirror in his room. He was looking at himself. He slicked back his hair and repositioned his collars until he heard someone opened his room's door.
Kristin entered his room. He ignored her. She observed his room. His room looked very untidy with empty bottles all over. She saw buds of cigarettes all over his room and burnt almunium foils.
"So that's why you chose this life!! They have facilitated you with luxuries" she gibed at him.
"So I was right!! You were into drugs since college. I should have stopped you there"
He kept ignoring her.
She was getting irritated as she was never ignored by him.
"Please get yourself out of this fucking life!!! I am worried for you" she was emotional as she always cared for him. She approached him from behind.
He saw her standing behind her in the mirror. Her face was shining while her fringed hairs covering side of her face. She had applied dark red lipstick which was killing him.
He turned to her.
"Why do you care!!! Better worry for you husband not me" he taunted at her angrily as her presence with Edgar was irritating him a lot.
"Why don't you understand!!! You will get yourself killed. I beg you" she answer irritatingly.
"You always considered me that Farhan hiding under his bed running away from his fucking problems and waiting for you to comfort him from fucking darkness" he answered angrily trying to keep his voice as low as possible.
"I can take care of myself!! Just don't tense yourself for me"
She just stared at him while tears were pouring from her eyes. She was wearing pink dress while her hair covering her left eye.
"That fear was temporary but this pride is forever" he answered her as he was feeling invincible.
"I can't recognize you. You are not that Farhan I knew. He was not a killer!!" She was crying while he was just staring her.
"Take yourself out of here Kristin. I am made for this hell. I can feel the my fear in their eyes when they hear my name. That what this fucking world deserves!!!!" He walked out of his room.
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The meeting was held in the downtown in a luxurious hotel.
Di Vinci along with Farhan, Joe,William and Edgar entered the hotel. Their weapons were collected at the gate.
The meeting was on the 7th floor. They saw two guards at the door dressed in black holding rifles.
They entered inside and saw a long table with water bottles placed on it. Lucas,Officer Jeff and a man in army uniform was also sitting.
He saw Eric standing with a paper in his hand. They settled down as everyone stared them.
"I knew you will come" Eric addressed him happily.
Di Vinci cleared his throat.
"I also want peace, Eric you know that!!" He gave an unpleasant look to Lucas.
Lucas had brought few of his trust worthy men along with Duke.
"Your father and I had good relations Di Vinci, I thought you must have sorted out this matter personally but you failed us" he continued.
"Your enmity is destroying our reputation. Don't forget we are also answerable to someone over us"
"My father trusted me that's why he handed over this town to me and not him. I gave him everything but he always wanted more!!" Di Vinci answered angrily.
Lucas stood up in anger.
"You never considered me worthy. You always forced your decisions upon me. I never had a choice" Lucas yelled angrily.
"You tried to kill me, that's why I abandoned you" Di Vinci confessed the truth.
Corporal Foster stood up. Foster was a tall strong black guy.
"I think we are here for a fucking solution!!!" He spoke softly.
Farhan stood staring at Corporal Foster. He was grinding his teeth and clenching his jaws.
"Don't fuck with me kid!!!" Corporal Foster got angrier.
Farhan kept on staring him. Edgar grabbed his arm forcing him to sit down.
"Cooldown your puppet Di Vinci or you are gonna loose a man here"
"Hhhhhh, why are you always fucking talking. I wanna see what you can do!! Scumbag"
"Ohh really!! Let's see what have you got" Fostor left his chair and started approaching him.
Farhan stood up waiting for him to get face to face.
Officer Jeff was just laughing and enjoying the tense situation.
"I think we are here for a solution!! Please be seated, I don't want any mess here" Eric tried to relax everyone.
"Alright!! What does he want" William addressed Lucas.
William stood up trying to stop Fostor and prevent him from making a scene.
"Cool this young motherfucker!!! He is gonna get wasted from my hands"
"Don't abuse my mother!! You son of a bitch!!" He yelled at Fostor and rushed towards him but Joe grabbed him trying to control him.
"I think you have ruled over this land for too long!! It's my turn now" Lucas cleared his intentions.
Di Vinci gave Eric an unpalatable look.
Eric took a long breath.
"He killed my fucking wife!!" Di Vinci told him.
Di Vinci diverted the conversation.
"Alright!! Rule for as long as you want brotherrrrrrr!!! But I will be next to rule after you not Edgar" Lucas spoke softly.
"I believe this is agreeable" Eric continued in that surrounding.
Farhan lit up his ceggrette. He started puffing the cigarette. Foster was giving him dirty looks but he never cared.
Suddenly his sight was caught by Duke sitting next to Lucas. He was trying to assure what he had seen when Eric passed the Agreement paper to Di Vinci.
"What is written in this fucking paper, Eric" Di Vinci asked him while holding the paper in his hands looking at it.
"It say that: After your death, Lucas will be next on the throne and if anyone from your family interfered then they will be relinquished from the town"
Di Vinci giggled. He started tearing the paper:
"This is fucking bullshit Eric!! He tried to kill me and don't forget you were the mayor of this fucking town due to my father" he threw the pieces of paper and stood up.
"Di Vinci wait!!! We can still sort this out" Eric tried to stop him.
"Trust me it is for your benifit!!" He continued.
"Really!! You think so"
"Officer Jeff and Corporal has given clear orders to execute you and your family!! We are trying to save you"
He smirked at him.
"I am being praised by the whole town Eric!! Let's see how you get the seat of mayor next time and trust me you all will be going along with me" he answered him.
"Lucas!! Beware the whole town is hungry for your flesh after What you did at the wedding!!!"
Edgar got near to his father:
"Father we shouldn't leave right now!!!"
"Fuck you!! Edgar" he turned to Edgar trying to keep his voice as low as possible when he saw Lucas running towards him holding a knife.
He pushed Edgar away and tried to tackle him but he was too late. Lucas stabbed him in his chest near to his heart. He went for the second try,
But Farhan punched him on his cheek with knuckle duster which he was hiding the whole meeting. Lucas fell on the ground.
Farhan turned back to Foster but Foster hit him hard and threw him on the table. He grabbed him from his collar and slided him all the way to Eric.
The door opened and both guards entered. William was waiting for them inside and took his chance. He leant and held the rifle from one of the guard.
He forced his body in his direction and twisted his wrists. The guard prevented but he hit him hard in jaw with his elbow. He aimed at the other guard and filled his body with bullets.
"Edgar!! Take the fucking rifle!!!!!!!" He yelled at Edgar who was aiding his father.
Farhan was on the ground with Foster on top of him. He was punching him in face when suddenly out of nowhere Joe hit his head with his knee. He screamed and fell on the ground.
Eric was screaming and hiding beneath the table due to fear.
William dialed up number and yelled:
"Breach the fucking hotel!!!! We are being attacked" until he saw Lucas talking on his phone. He aimed at him but he jumped into cover. He rained his bullets until his Mag ended.
Lucas heard ticking of his trigger and took his chance.
Edgar dragged his father out of the room holding the rifle.
"Father are you alright!!" He was extremly worried while his father was smiling and happy to see him worried for his father after a long time.
"Lucas wants me dead!! But won't be until I have my family,Son!!"
Police, Lucas men and Di vinci men were storming inside the hotel in masses, heavily armed.
Farhan stood taking heavy breaths. He saw Foster struggling to stand up holding his head with his hands. He rushed towards him and before he could realize he punched him hard with his knuckle duster.
"Motherfuckerrrrr!!! Son of a bitch!!!!" He was yelling at him while punching him hard.
The room was crowded and everyone was fighting like a dogs.
He was searching for Duke in the crowd but he only saw Officer Jeff beating the shit out of one of Lucas men.
"Let's get the fuckout of here!!!" He heard William at the door holding empty rifle. Farhan rushed towards him along with Joe.
"They are fighting like animals!!! Take me out of here"Eric was screaming at his phone under the table.
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"How are you? Kristin" Mr.s Stewart asked her sweetly. They were sitting near the pool taking dappled sunlight.
"How should I be mother!!" She answered unpleasantly.
"I know it's hard for you especially after What happened at the wedding"
"Mom!! You fucked my whole life. You forced me to marry someone I never wanted to" she answered her emotionally.
"It was your father's will, My child and you know him"
"You could have stopped him. You always knew I loved Farhan"
"He was not good for you!! You know that"
"Well Mom, Fuck you!!! You dragged me in this fucking hell" she yelled at her and left.
"You never let me decide and look what have you done to me. I dies every day, He is destroying his life in front of me and I can't I anything for him"
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They rushed towards the elevator.
"Edgar!!! Take him via elevator!!! We are coming by stairs" Farhan told him sighing.
He dragged his father inside the elevator with blood staining the floor.
Edgar was holding the rifle but he wasn't that type and he had never used it. It was quite awkward that son of a great underworld don couldn't even handle a rifle.
William realized it in an instant.
"I will go with them!!" He looked at Farhan. Farhan shoved his head and he rushed towards the elevator.
The doors of the elevator started closing slowly.
"Lucas went that way!!!" William pointed towards the stairs until the doors closed.
"Let's go!!" He addressed Joe.
The climbed down the stairs hurriedly.
They ended up in the reception of the hotel.
"Where the fuck did he go? He mummered as he reckoned around.
Crowd was screaming and running for their lives as he his men were climbing upstairs.
He saw Lucas and Duke fleeing from the back door with his men. Joe rushed toward one of his men and grabbed 2 rifles and few Mags.
Farhan followed Lucas all the way to the parking in the basement.
"Duke, you son of bitch! Coward face me!!!!!!" He yelled at him. He entered his car hurriedly and ignited the engine.
Farhan was gasping until he heard rustle of his car wheel. He saw Lucas throttling his car in his direction to hit him but he jumped and prevented it.
"You coward!!!! Motherfuckerrrrrrr.." he yelled but it was too late.
Joe entered the parking gasping.
"Where the fuck did he go"
"He got away!!!" He answered sighing until he heard gunshots and screams in the reception.
His phone rang. It was William.
"Where the fuck are you!!! We are taking heavy fire!!!!"
William yelled in the gunshots.
He ended the call.
"Joe!! Wait for us at the entrance. We have to take him out of here alive" he ordered Joe.
Joe shove his head and rushed towards the car. Farhan rushed back to the reception.
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He reached the reception and saw his men resisting and covering Di Vinci.
He aimed at the constables up the stairs and took few of them until they fired back.
He rushed towards the counter and took cover behind it. He was taking heavy fire unable to fire back.
The things on the counter flew away in the air impacted by the bullets.
He saw William and Edgar crouched in cover while Di Vinci taking heavy breaths. William was covering them.
"William!! William!!" He yelled at him until he noticed him.
"Joe is waiting outside!! I will cover you!! Take him out of here" he awared them.
Farhan stood up and rained bullets blindly at the constables upstairs.
Edgar took his chance and dragged Di Vinci towards the entrance while William and his men protecting them.
Farhan also moved towards the entrance while firing at the constables upstairs. They were outnumbering as policemen were efficient.
He rushed outside and helped them to get Di Vinci in the Rover. They left hurriedly with Joe.
Farhan rushed towards his rover and opened it's door when suddenly Foster rained his bullets on him. He jumped in the back seat and closed the door.
Foster continued firing as his rifle was dancing in his hand. The glasses and widescreen shattered. He was closing on him while he was embracing with his head down.
When his Mag emptied Farhan saw his men dead on the front seats and his abdomen bleeding. A bullet entered his stomach. He jumped to the driving seat struggling with the dead body.
He ignite the engine when suddenly the rover's door opened and Foster grabbed him from his arm. He resisted. Foster head was bleeding and he was grunting.
"Get the fuck off me!! You motherfucker!!" He yelled trying to resist his grip when atlast he punched him once again with his knuckle duster. Foster dangled and lost his grip. Farhan kicked him out of the rover and fled away without looking back.
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They had lost too many men in the hotel as they fled away leaving them behind to death. Policemen dominated them and killed them mercilessly.
Farhan was not driving back to villa. He threw the bodies out of the rover in the way. Blood was leaking inside his body and his organs were damaged. His tissues were damaged and skin pierced.
He somehow managed to drove his rover out of the downtown.
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H
is life was like a ferris wheel. He was advancing up day by day and it's a natural phenomenon that everything that reaches it pinnacle has to confront decline.