Chapter 18: The Secret

Liam Hunt's POV

Damn it, Mia. After what we have before, you still betrayed me, in the end, to be in that stupid organization.

"Yes, I need to, Liam, even though I don't want to," was the last thing that I remembered what she said to me before darkness took over me. I felt like my body was heavy as I did not know what happened to me after that.

"ugh," I grunted as I tried to open my eyes. It hurts like hell.

"Damn it," I whispered as my head was spinning like crazy. Now I know how it feels to be tied up and torture, even though myself has been captured a few many times.

"Finally, Romeo has awake. I thought it might take a little while after the sedative that we gave to you," a voice was filling inside my eardrum and it was not familiar at all. I was trying to figure out who was speaking to me but the first thing that I saw was Mia's slate orbs that I have come to love.

"well, aren't you a charmer? Only looking at the beautiful woman, huh?" The same voice was playing around my head as I was trying to locate the source.

"who the hell are you? And why are you inside my head?" I screamed that made Mia budged in her seat. She woke up after I was screaming.

"yes, that's right. You're crazy. You don't deserve her at all," the voice continues to tell me over and over again.

"who the fuck are you?" I was losing my patience as Mia was trying to calm me down.

"Liam, Liam, calm down. It was the effect of the bioweapon," she said as I can barely hear what she was saying.

"get off me. Show yourself, you coward!" I screamed into the empty room as there was no one else except for Mia. She was trying to calm me but I keep hearing those voices and her voice was dying compared to those little suckers.

"Ah! Great, now we know it is working just fine," someone that has the same voice like the ones that I have been hearing, came into the view as he was walking through the door. He has the same slate eyes but with blond hair.

"who the fuck are you?" I asked him as he was sitting right in front of me. He was smirking evilly before turning his head to whisper into my ear.

"I'm your worst nightmare," he whispered before he clapped his hands and went to Mia.

"now that you have proven your loyalty to us by giving Liam Hunt that was investigating the death of his father," he said as he looked at me briefly.

"I shall award you to sit at the big boy's table. You have deserved it, Mija," the man said as he put his hand on Mia's shoulder. The blood was boiling in my head as I cannot imagine Mia with someone else besides me.

"Get your fucking hand off her, you sick fuck," I spatted at him. The mysterious guy turned to look at me, amused at my outburst.

"wow, Mia, you really nailed this one. He can't even stand me, your own uncle. anyway, don't get carried away," he said as he was pointing finger at Mia.

"yes, uncle," she said as she bowed to him. He nodded at Mia before getting off to the door.

"remember your root, Mia," he said before looking at me as he was smiling wickedly.

"but don't forget to have fun as well," was the last thing he said before he closed the door that left me with Mia.

"Mia, Mia! What did he mean by that?" I asked as I looked at Mia. She was closing her eyes and was taking a deep breath. I can't understand what she was doing before she opened her eyes. She looked at me like I was a prey to her, nothing more, nothing less.

"Mia, don't listen to your uncle. He's a liar," I said as Mia was going toward the trolley that was situated in the corner of the room.

"I think the real liar here is you, Liam Hunt," she said as she took the knife as she was slaying it around.

"Tell me, have you been sliced before?" Mia's voice was echoing through the room.

"why you wanted to now?" I asked as I was eyeing her hand that was carrying the knife.

"Just wanted to know if I will be the first to cut your body," she said as she was walking toward me very slowly.

"Mia, stop. You're insane. Remember what is your purpose. You wanted to get out of here," I said as I looked at her. Her slate orbs were dancing dangerously as she was eyeing me with passion, a passion to kill me more likely.

"Mia, Mia!" I said before she went onto me. She held up the knife and cut through me. I can feel the blood that was running on my thighs. I was screaming frantically as I was hearing a click inside the room. weirdly, I don't even feel pain on my feet or thighs.

"don't stop screaming, damn it," Mia's whisper was filling my ears. I opened my eyes and I saw that the knife was stuck between my thighs, dangerously close to my in-between.

"what?" I asked her confused.

"start screaming again like you're in pain," she hissed at me as she was punching the knife over and over again. The blood, fake blood, was spewing all over my body like I was being cut by the knife.

"Ahhh!" I screamed like I was in pain as Mia was urging me to scream again and again. Even louder this time.

"Stay still and don't breathe," she whispered as she went to look up.

"I have done what you said, uncle. Even better. Now take me to the lost tomb," Mia's voice was echoing in the darkroom. I did not know what she was screaming to until a clap was coming from the darkness.

"I must say, Mia, I was impressed that you ever wanted to kill your own lover," her uncle said as he walked out from the dark.

Lover?

"now that we have our deal, can you give me the map and let me say the last goodbye to my lover," Mia said as she was looking down at the ground. Her uncle chuckled as he went to Mia's side.

"of course, Mija, whatever you wish for since you have killed this irritated man that keeps on bugging me when I was alive. You see, Mia, this is why we need to keep our loop small and our family smaller," he said as he went to touch me.

"No! I mean, you can't touch it, uncle, unless you wanted to go to jail," Mia said as she pulled the hands off her uncle before it settled on me.

"that's right. They might not be able to get me since I'm already dead," her uncle said before he laughed hysterically.

"yes, let me handle the gruesome stuff and you go to your bed. It's nap time," she said as she walked out of the room with her uncle. I heard a click as I was laid, playing dead like a possum.

"man, this stinks," I said as I was sure that I was alone.

"pretty mess up, if you asked me," a voice that I was annoyed because of Mia's feeling to him. I got up really fast as I saw Marco was standing in the corner with an unamused expression on his face.

Damn it, Hunt, you blow it, again.

Marco Conti's POV

"Relax, man. Mia had explained everything to me, well most of it," I said as I looked at Detective Harsh that was covered with blood on his thighs and near his groin. Really, Mia knows how to make it dramatic.

"Why are you here?" Liam asked. As always, never fail to be a complete idiot.

"what do you think I'm doing here?" I said as I unlocked his handcuffs and got him up on his feet.

"I'm busting you out of here," I said as I went to the secret door that will lead us off the island.

"why did not you tell me that Mia's uncle was alive. I thought he was dead," Liam said as we were running in the tunnel. I was the one that leads us, so I have the flashlight in my hand.

"look, do you want to live or not?" I stopped as I asked him that question. He nodded.

"Get your fucking feet moving and stop asking so many questions," I said as I went to open the hidden door. I already parked the boat that Liam can use to get out of the deserted island.

"what about Mia?" He asked as I was helping him to get the boat off.

"she will find you, now go," I said as I pushed the boat off and Liam drove the boat out of there.

"she will always do," I whispered as I saw the boat was out of my eyesight.