Missing Ruth

ERICKSON ROERIG:

I'm a one woman man.

And for me, that woman has always been Ruth.

Leslie... Just wanted to get her pregnant. I don't fuck two or more women at a time and I won't sleep with Leslie tonight, because I'm never giving up my Ruth!

So, spent the entire night showing around my kingdom to Martin talking buisness. Even went to see him off to his private jet, basically I had to kill my time throughout the time we are here stuck with the wedding shit in St. Diego.

"Leslie has signed the marriage license, there's just your sign needed here, Erickson!"

Dad said, bringing those papers upto me.

"I'm not signing them now!" I said clear and cold.

"What?! What is that supposed to mean?!" Dad picked up his irritation again.

"You wanted me married in front of all these men, I did the ritual. I need time to accept that woman as my bride, which is not happening tonight, neither in the near future, at least a few months from now!" I rolled my eyes, taking out my cigarette.

"Eric, don't show me your fucking tantrums! You cannot do shit as you like! This family has some rules and-" Dad started yelling at me again when I shushed him midway and scoffed.

"Rules? Really father? How many rules did you follow when you kidnapped mama, killed your fiance and forcefully marry her?!"

I had just lit up my cigarette but damn, this old shit-head ruined my mood, so I flicked it off my fingers and crushed it under my shoe.

"Listen to me, father! Marrying Leslie Aldrin, I've overcome one thing. I'm the fucking king now, officially. To be a king I need to be married, right? I did that for you. And now, I'm the high power, not you! So, mind your own fucking buisness and stop interfering in my life!"

Saying it all I walked past him towards the sea.

~~

Sitting at the sand, I gazed at the beauty the ocean held.

My mind throwing pictures of past at me.

All the moments we spent together at the beach started spinning in my mind.

It's hard!

When your brains tell you to not listen to your heart and your heart starts screaming out loud, it becomes really hard to fight the battle.

Heart has some god damn power.

It wins, every. fucking. time.

I had a strong urge to have a drag. I took out a cigarette again and set it to my lips, was about to torch my lighter and light my cigarette a voice stopped me.

'Smoking Kills! Do you want to die?'

Fuck!

And I threw all the cigarettes and lighter I had on me in the ocean and took out my gun, loaded the bullet and started to fire blindly at the ocean.

Wasting my bullets.

Causing the loud roars of bullets in the silent peaceful night, cause I have nothing better to do!

Moments later, Leslie walked over me and sat besides me.

"I heard you don't wanna sign the marriage license yet?" She asked in a calm voice.

"Disappointed?" I scoff.

"No! I know you won't sign them. You can't marry anyone soulfully, cause it's Ruth here!" She used her index and poked my chest, the side where heart resides.

"She's the one in your heart. You just don't wanna see it. Try reasoning out with your feelings by torturing her, killing her everyday, hurting her like nobody. You wanna be the guy she hates to her core!" She said and turned over her head to look at the ocean too.

"But you know something Erickson Roerig? It doesn't work like that. No matter how hard you try, when you love someone, you try and do everything to make him yours. That's what I did, that's what you do."

I scoff, "Since when did you gave up the role of a villain?"

"I used to be your best friend before love and all that shit kicked in. Remember?" She smiled.

"..."

I turn my head saying nothing. I don't even have anything to say to her, or to anybody else as a matter of fact

I go back and look at my life.

Look at mine and Ruth's life.

Yeah, I know, I fucked up. A lot. Things beyond repair. But even after so much, even if there was more damage to occur to her, I know if I wanted Ruth, there is no powers in heavens or hell which could keep me from having her

She is mine. And these are not just words. No-one can change this ever for her and for me.

"If you're hoping talking romantic shits to me, you'll get me to make out with you, that's not gonna happen. You're ugly and after Ruth, my standards are pretty high!"

"..."

She didn't say anything just grit her jaw and gave me a crooked smile.

"Anyways!" I yawn as I lay back over the beach under the open sky staring the sky full of stars.

"If you're done talking shit, please leave. Don't disturb my peace. I would rather spend my night gazing stars, than spending it inside a luxurious room with you!" I say and close my eyes.

She may have extended her both hands to try and choke me to death right away, the annoying piece of scum that I am.

Thank you, by the way!

But she didn't dare do that. Just took a deep sigh and got up to leave.

Can't miss the luxury for me, and here she claims that she loves me!

The kind of love which ensures her comfort enough!

The night crickets made buzzing sounds which filled the silence in the sky. The busy and messy day I had, I was happy that finally everything was peaceful. Ruth was back with me, Leslie is five months pregnant. Four months and I'll be done with her.

Future.

I don't plant on that.

Here, in this moment, I know I have Ruth with me. Sleeping. Peaceful in deep slumber back at Roerig castle. I know she was with Mike, Rico was there too to protect her.

Who would even harm her with all my men around her?!

Right?

~~~~

I got up with the sun blazing hot right in my face. My cellphone ringing inside my blazer.

28 fucking missed calls from Rico and 34 from Mike?!

What the fuck?!

"Hello?"

"WHERE IS RUTH, YOU GOD DAMN MOTHERFUCKER?!" Mike yelled at me completely full of rage.

"What?"

Man I just woke up on a beach, at the ruins of my exotic wedding. How would I know where is Ruth?!

"Right...! How would you know? You gave her to Martin, now you must be planning to gift her as a bride to the Lucifer Brothers next?! What is she to you ERICKSON?! WHY DONT YOU FUCKING LET HER BE, NOW THAT YOU'RE MARRIED?!"

Okay, why are we shouting at me, first thing in the morning?!

So annoying!!

"Hang on a second! I left Ruth, with you, Mike! You dragged her away! Wherever Ruth is, you should be the one knowing it, shouldn't it?"

"You sent Rico to take her away from me!"

"What?! Why would I ask Rico to take her away from you when I myself let you take her away in the first place?"

"So it wasn't your orders last night, for Rico to take Ruth upstairs and tuck her back in her bed!?"

"No!"

"Fuck!"

He cursed and hanged up.

Okay, what was going on here exactly?!

Did Rico try something to hurt Ruth? Or to hide her away?!

No!

He doesn't really have the courage to do that.

So then?

'She's the one in your heart. You just don't wanna see it!'

Out of nowhere, Leslie's weird words clicked into my head from last night

So, it's Leslie again!

That Fucking Cunt!!

~~~~

Standing right in front of a mirror, she was checking out her baby bump, petting it with love, as if how fucking impatiently she was waiting for the kid growing inside her to be born.

I went upto her and grabbed her throat, shoving her against the wall.

"Where is Ruth, Les?!"

I ask, glaring at her. I am beyond angry right now, I'll kill this bitch if my Ruth even suffers a minor scratch back at my castle.

"Ruth? I-I don't know w-what you're talking ab-about! E-Eric leave me!!" She started coughing, struggling against my fist, choking.

I grabbed her from her throat drove her to the opposite wall and slammed her head against the pillar hard.

"Now do you remember?!"

I yell. She denied.

I bang again.

"Tell me where is Ruth, Leslie fucking Aldrin?!"

"I don't know Eric!! And it's Leslie Roerig now! I'm your wife now!"

This bitch?!!

I'm fucking gonna kill her tonight!!

"Les! I'll ask you for the last time. WHAT DID YOU DO TO RUTH?!"

"Eric! I don't know what you're talk about!" She grunts.

She has hard skin on her, it's not gonna be easy for me to make this bitch to confess!

"Alright then! Serve your duty as my wife! Your husband is angry and now, I need to vent it all out on you!"

I shoved her against a wal and crack my knuckles, folding my sleeves upwards and loosening up my tie

She is so fucking dead tonight!

Over and over again I bang her head and her body to the walls, broke her hands legs, choked her bleed her out so much but this fucking bitch has her lips sealed tight.

She would just do anything to get Ruth out if the picture here, won't she?!

"Well tell you what Leslie Aldrin. If you're married to Erickson Roerig, it's only because of Ruth Walker. If you're breathing in front of me, it's only because of Ruth Walker. Infact the reason you have me standing before yourself is because of Ruth Walker! You won't tell me where she is, would you?"

She nod her head negatively and mumbled weakly, laughing.

"I love you Erickson Roerig. All these beatings, it's never gonna make me give up. All I know is that, if Ruth disappeared, you will be all mine again."

Dammit!!

How the fuck do I make her speak?!

And then I looked at her belly.

Wonderful!

I broke the table kept at the corner of the room and picked up a fat wooden block from there.

Holding it like a javelin I asked her again.

"Tell me where is Ruth, or your child dies right away!"

This time I saw the fear in her eyes finally. The kind I have been dying to see from long.

"Yo-you would never kill it! I-It's your baby too!"

I laugh at that like a maniac, "Oh well then, you don't know me Les. I can do things way worse that this, tell me where the fuck is Ruth?"

"I don't know!" She said again and I drive my arm over to stab her right in her belly when she finally cowered and hugged her belly closely and yelled out

"She's with Chris. He took her to your farmhouse in Brooklyn. Has planned to rape her there alongwith twenty more men. I-I told him to do that to Ruth. Be-because I'm jealous of the place she has in your heart!"

She spout all of this immediately.

I couldn't feel my nerves after what she just confessed. Dammit Ruth, what did I-?

Damn!

I fucking don't have time for this!

The knocked out of my freaking senses that I was started calling heavens and hell anybody who could fly me back to Brooklyn to my Ruth immediately.

Within an hour I was at my castle's helipad, running crazily over to my car.

Mike was beating the crap out of Rico for touching Ruth without anyone's permission. He was hitting on the wrong side, as usual.

But I really don't have time for this.

"Stop, will ya! Ruth is not with him. She is in Brooklyn!"

I say and both the men looked at me completely shocked.

"How? Why? Who took her?" Mike started asking thousands of questions.

"I don't have time for your stupid questions right now Mike. Get in the car and Rico, gather as many men as you can and get them to the farmhouse in Brooklyn. That's where Chris has kept Ruth!"

I said looking at Mike again.

"Chris?! What the fuck?!" Mike frowned.

"Not now, Mike! GET IN THE FUCKING CAR!!" I yell at him and he immediately walked back to the car.

"Rico, be in touch with me!"

He nodded, wiping away all the blood and bruises Mike gave him and rushed back to work.

"How did you know where is Ruth? Who told you about her?"

He kept asking me useless questions which I was least interested to answer in this fucking moment.

I roll my eyes, going back at looking out of the window as he cussed me and Chris and everyone else he could think of under his breath.

Whatever!

This is all my fault.

And I promise you Ruth, I'm gonna make it all right!