Chapter 70 - HOPELESS

The room had a large glass wall and she could see the horrible state of herself but he had no more tears or power to cry and grieved for herself. She stared blankly at her reflection in the mirror.

"You look terrible." She looked up at the ceiling when she heard the familiar voice, she blinked her eyes as it started to swell, and there was hope in her eyes as it became alive.

"A-alyx? I-is that you? Alyx? Alyx! Help! H-help me! I-I am abducted!" She cried and screamed as much as she could and frantically searched where his voice was coming from. She thought her body was already dry and there were no more tears that could fall from her eyes, but she was overjoyed by the thought Alyx was here to save her.

"Yeah, I know," Alyx replied in a cold voice. There was a pause of silence between them. She's been starving for who knows how long has it been. No food, no water, no sunlight. She was isolated from the world and was covered in her pee and feces for days. She's tired, she's depressed and she's losing her mind. Nevertheless, she couldn't be mistaken on how she perceived Alyx's tone of mockery.

Her ray of light disappeared in a split of seconds. "You know?" She mumbled to herself and shifted her eyes on the floor. She clenched her hand though she couldn't feel it because of numbness.

"How do you know?" She asked again, with a louder voice this time.

Her brain started to function to analyze her whole situation, her breathing destabilized as realization struck her. It all made sense, this all made sense! Alyx, Yanarym, and Alvan, her contract, the film, the apartment, this building, and the personal assistant. Her blank lifeless expression and pale face gradually reddened with the extreme anger she was feeling.

"How do you know!? HOW DO YOU KNOW?!" She screamed louder and louder while punching the mirror in front of her. Her first began to bleed and the tears on her cheeks dried up. "HOW DO YOU KNOW ALYX! HOW DO YOU KNOW!" Her adrenaline from her fury ran out and she felt more exhausted than before.

Alyana slowly knelt and stopped moving. She's hurt but doesn't know where it hurts the most. She feels so betrayed, so humiliated, so hungry, so hurt, so stupid, so mad, so confuse and so empty. The devastation she had felt the first day she came here couldn't compare to the feeling she is undergoing now.

"Naturally, I know because I did this to you," Alyx answered her with his casual cold voice. Alyana looked up to the ceiling. She wanted to cry the overwhelming emotion surging through her yet…

"Why?" She asked lifelessly, "Why would you do this to me?"

Alyx on the other side of the room peered at her. The wild-spirited and very drive-will-ridden woman who would do anything to attain her dream was nowhere the Alyana he knew. He didn't pity her at all, her condition did not disappoint him, he was delighted that she looked tame and learned her lesson.

"You should have expected this. Actually, you're still lucky that I will spare your life since Rym is looking for your whereabouts. If not, I will just kill you through starvation." Alyx looked at the glass of wine in his hand and gently twirls the content of it. The blood-red color of the champagne reflects the darkness of his eyes. "After all, you tried to kill my woman by feeding her so many of those nuts." He chuckled but the way to that could make someone feel the chill at the back of their head when they heard it. "Isn't it funny that you would have suffered from the same thing but in a different way?"

The reflection of Alyana in the mirror disappeared. She saw Alyx sitting on a comfortable wide comfortable sofa while holding a wine glass in his right hand, playing with it. He was not looking at her but focused his attention on the glass, with a grin on his expression that looked so devilish.

"And who would have thought that a proud person like you, would consider eating your own disposals just to live?"

"A ... alyx." She reached out for him in the mirror, "You- you needed me first. You wanted me first, you pursued me first! you loved me first! Wh-why her ?! Why change to her ?! She's just a slut who also plays with your brother! She's using you! She's just using you for her gain! Don't you know that?! " Alyana screamed, her voice was hoarse and even though she had no strength left she was still able to shout the pain in the depths of her heart.

Alyx frowned at what he heard from her but it didn't show any other emotion.

"I don't really want to satisfy your curiosity but let me answer you, I think it's clever for me to know that fact. Of course, I know that she's using me." Alyx nodded with a smile on his face. As if proud about what he said. But Alyana didn't see the happiness plastered in his expression.

"If you know then, why?" She thought he was aware and would get angry about what she told him. After all, he's a very prideful man, and being used by a woman would trample his ego. At least, that was what Alyana thought.

"I'm so useful that she likes me the most and also because of my usefulness, I'm the one who's marrying her. Oh, yeah, I'll welcome your congratulations." Alyx said and glanced at his hand which was wearing an engagement ring. A flash of affection filled his eyes.

This time Alyana was able to see the contentment in Alyx's countenance. He looks very satisfied and happy with what he had stated, with no hint of anger nor disappointment and displeasure about the fact he's being used by that woman- by that slut!