Chapter 79

The laughters and giggles filled the living room as Danial was spending some time with his friends from work while Yenail stayed in her room as her legs were crawled up near her face and after pouting her bottom lip, she sat over the bed. Her stomach was already full by the tasty breakfast that Danial made. Soon after few hours, Danial's friends left when he bid them goodbyes and closed the main door. Later, he straight went to her room when after a slight knock that he entered and she got alerted immediately after seeing him there.

“Hey! Come out. They're gone.” While holding the doorknob, Danial chimed when he wanted her to leave the dead room for the sake of happiness, whereas Yenail was scared to talk with Louis's siblings whenever he's gone somewhere or not being around.

“Danial! You are caring so much for that bitch.” Leena's voice came from the back of the man when she was staring down and saw her other brother standing at her door.

“Leena. For god's sake. Stop it.” Danial compiled his words softly as possible as he could.

“No. I won't! What will you do anyway?” She scoffed when her glare like fire arrows captured Yenail's figure.

“You're so stubborn as always. I don't know what to do with that.” After saying his words which almost got Leena mad, Danial made a turn when he interacted with the other girl. “Yenail, come out from that dead room. Let her be like that.”

After listening his next words, Leena got even more mad when she grumbled swearing words under her breath as Yenail silently crossed her and sat over the couch in the living room while still being afraid, when just then, a knock that they heard over the main door when Leena rushed to get it first while thinking it would be her husband's arrival time as at the same time, she decided to bash Louis's intruder along with him as right after opening the door, another fine tall man passed through it and entered the house when Yenail also turned to see the guy.

His height was tall and compared to Danial’s and his black fluffy hair settled astonishingly over his plane fair forehead, his eyes had a beam of anger and happiness merged together, when his face was being so handsome yet heavenly along with a lip piercing at his bottom lip. His ears had two to three small metal rings attached with the smooth skin of his ear bones while his earlobes were filled with danglers.

“Hey dear.” His deep throaty voice filled the interior of the house when he stared his wife lovingly.

“Max!!” Leena hugged his chest after running at him, as after watching the purity in the actions of husband and wife, it healed everything of another girl who was also present over there when Yenail smiled warmly after sighting them both as further that they walked forward together in the house when Leena was hugging him from the side.

The guy named Max, Leena's husband, waved towards Danial’s direction after he saw him seated at the couch but soon than his mind swirled when his eyes dropped on another unknown girl which made him knit his brows.

“Pardon. But, do I know you? Are you...” Asked Max after he raised his thick dark brow while seeing the unknown girl when he inquired further ahead “....perhaps Leena's friend or someone?”

Yenail gulped when she hesitantly stood up after meeting the new person in the house as she introduced herself in the most politest way possible. “I'm Yenail. I'm—”

“She's one of Marquis's slut.” Leena spilled out the poison so proudly right after cutting her off, when she flashed a smirk so shamelessly and added further ahead when she sweetly pouted while clinging over Max's arm. “And my brother Louis? Huh. He was too silly yet stupid to get in her trap. He's like a soft teddy bear being attracted by almost everyone.”

Both of the males stood shocked in the living room along with their wide eyes almost popping out, when Danial made a step forward while stopping her from talking anymore trash about another girl. “She's not his dirty slut or something! She's Marquis's girlfriend.”

“He has tons of them already.” Later, his sister's husband started bashing the girl and Danial was already aware with his attitude. Yet according to elder's expectation, Max scoffed with arrogance.

“She's his special one.” Danial defended her anyway.

“He loves me.” Yenail's soft shaky voice raised among them all.

“Huh. So what? Everyone will go head over heels towards the beautiful lies that people like him always says.” Max's taunting didn't stop there when he passed a smirk to Danial while now conveying some cruel words about him. “I guess, your weekends will be going well enough.”

“Don't cross your limits, Max.” Danial warned him the next moment when Max tried to splash dirt over his character as Danial and Louis were being a mirror effects of each other in treating people nicely. But Leena? She got someone of her own size.

“I guess you've already crossed yours.” Max's smirk was as dirty as his intentions towards his wife's elder brother as he scoffed daringly.

“Now, you're not arguing back for your brother?” Yenail's words filled the air while pointing out Leena when she tried supporting Danial as her intentions were to support the person who was supporting her but her timing was so hell wrong. “You were being so mad back then for Louis and now your husband is talking bad—”

“Shut the fuck up! You whore!” Leena yelled right at her face out of frustration and made the already terrifying girl, flinch.

“You shut up, Leena!” Danial yelled back at her in her reply when his voice became harsh and loud enough to be heard by even every corner of their house. “She's just being polite and all from the time she's here and you're just bashing her for no reason at all!”

“Look what you did! You mother fucking bit--” Leena raised her voice even more while cursing Yenail when she rushed to almost choke her for putting up a fight between them, but so early that she got stopped in her mid-tracks by another person when her husband covered her mouth so soon from the back and started pulling her backwards.

“Woah! Woah! Woah! Leena! Let's go in the room!” Max started to push her towards the stairs when Leena was continuously throwing those curse words at Yenail, even from the back of that roughness of her husband's hand.

Danial turned with an annoying huff while being angry on both of them when she too watched Max dragging away the real witch upstairs.

“I'm really sorry for such scene to be created.” Yenail heard the elder talking to her when she turned.

“It's okay.” While holding a gentle smile, that was all that she could convey when all of the situation just made the elder feel dead embarrassed as he ran his fingers through his blonde hair in complete disbelief. Yenail twirled while squealing her shoulders when she went to the designated guest room, for the sake of no more disturbance among them. Well more. For Leena. After hesitantly stating her words. “I--I'll be in the room.”

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With his face dug between his elbows when he was all balled up in the corner of the cold metal walls while his eyes were enduring a nap. He was tired and in need of her touch but his fate shattered him and only he knew how he was compelling that strength at keeping himself apart from her when at the same time, he was breathing her love.

A camera was eyeing him already as over the screen, his small figure could be seen while being curled up in the corner as Marquis was being under observation. Even his head didn't lift when a tray dressed with rough shabby food on it, got dragged inside the cell from beneath a small squared compartment, where Marquis was being captured. The scribbling sound that scrubbed between the tray and the surface beneath it, was the only noise being created up till now, from the time he arrived here.

“Eat.” A rough manly voice rung his ears and his head slowly lifted.

Marquis's glare was harsh yet fierce enough to slice the food even by just staring it when he was dreadfully burning in the fire of revenge and anger.

“You all are being safe. Just because of my angel.” His voice shredded along with a death glare when his sight fixated on that thick red iron door of the cell as his voice was hard enough to torn up those walls around him when his chest heaved with anger. Later that his mind diverted towards his only lifesaving loveable fuel. His heartbeat, his soul, his love, as he whispered to himself when his heart was being worried for her. “I hope that she's safe with Louis.”

An undeniable and indestructible pain was hovering around his heart while thinking about her when Marquis slowly approached the food tray after crawling a little towards it.

His dull sight captured the meal but not that he could think of eating it. He never thought that he would be facing these hardships which surely provided him some time to think about the things that he does, that he learned, but more, that he conquered when slowly his weak hands touched the food and he just stared it with an empty feeling inside his heart, after tons of thoughts that he decided to kill his appetite when with a sigh in dismay that he started to eat. After hours that he lied down upon the cold floor and stared the rock roof above him. While outside, there was being light? Dark? Morning? Evening? Or whatever it was being, he doesn't really knew when all that Marquis was facing was just the silence that surrounded him 24/7 from past days, the metal walls which were squaring him up and the rough food almost looking like a rotten egg meal to be served two times the whole day. He only knew these things.

Marquis's senses alerted immediately when his eardrums distracted by some kind of a noise over the cells door when it didn't open but a manly voice that he heard later afterwards as the masculine vocals snickered from the other side of the iron door. “Roam around, criminal!”

They were allowed to leave their cells every once in a week and the day was today. It wasn't the first day for the other usual criminals but surely for Marquis, it was being the very start of everything around here as among that small metallic compartment fitted inside the door, Marquis’s hands went through and the man at the other side of the door locked the metal hand cuffs around Marquis’s wrists and he took his hands back when the cell door opened. Marquis's front scarlet bangs slickened by his forehead after the other man put a blind fold around his eyes. In order to not make him see or remember any paths or ways as the other man started to lead the way as his one hand harshly held Marquis’s arm and dragged him onwards. By the time the criminal was being here, Marquis exchanged the attire into their uniform which was being a grey round neck shirt along with loose pants of exact same colour which hid his toned body underneath it along with black slippers completing the dress code.

After reaching a certain area where other types of noises and chattering rung his ears when the man who got hold of Marquis, pushed him after they removed the black cloth from his sight and freed his hands from the metal cuffs when he rubbed the shaded red area upon his wrists and made some steps forward while mingling up with the people around him, when a new arrival didn't bother them at all as Marquis was delighted by their gazes for very less time.

The new criminal.

CRMNL - 11596.

The wide serial number in block letters was present behind Marquis’s shirt.

Marquis wanted to be (not so bothered) at all by anyone nor by any chance when his babyface caressed a stern yet serious look, he walked past by few other men in grey shirts who were scattered around the whole place like melted ice upon the floor, whereas some men who were totally yet fully covered in black stood at every spot, railing, gate, ceiling, corner yet almost everywhere while guarding the whole area.

Marquis was the only criminal with delicate yet soft features as they almost teased him and cooed like a baby until the time when they were being unknown to the death glare that he held everytime, whenever other men tried talking to him, he ignored them like hell as if they doesn't even exist. In return, he received grunts and annoying growls yet of course the words that touched his own favorite lovely language, swearing, which filled his space so early in no time as he completely ignored them all. Marquis was beautiful, affectionate yet too much eye-catching when his astonishing presence was suddenly drawing attention of the others as he started feeling disturbing gazes burning his skull while he was seated in the most corner of the area.

The blue crystal earing was gracefully connected with the fair skin of his ear when along with his head low that his eyes glanced through the bangs that covered his view. He had his elbows rested upon the metal table yet his hands were straightened in front with his fingers intertwined and his mind diving into deep thoughts. His earpiece soon caught the attention of an unknown person in no time.

“Hello ~” A manly voice slurred aside him, to which Marquis just ignored but he got disturbed once again when the fingers of the strange man suddenly touched his special earing as the guy seemed so excited after sighting a rare piece of attraction. “Is that the blue heaven that you're wearing?”

“Don't touch it!!” The owner of the attractive eye catching piece hissed, when Marquis aggressively yanked his hand away.

The man was young too but less attractive than Marquis, they both held the same crimes as he was being crazy for girls too, just the difference was that, that man got to kill the girls after raping them. The strange man contained a tan yet gleam skin somehow which was being rare attraction towards the audience and his hair were straight and pasted over his forehead but his features were being just fine. His figure was middle heighted and he had few tattoos drawn over his arms.

“And that's the power of eternity!” The other man spoke again with wide eyes when his gaze landed upon the white crystal above the blue one.

“Stop bothering me and fuck off!” Marquis gritted his teeth when his words trailed the path of annoyance and he turned away after arrogantly crossing his arms near his chest.

But the words that the man delivered the next minute, surely surprised Marquis or what expressions that he should be showing upon it, he couldn’t decide.

“Hmm. A rare yet beautiful combination of love and power.”

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“What the hell are you saying? You didn't tell us that thing.” Danial exerted along with his face showing an expression of complete shock and confusion.

“Yes. She doesn't have any siblings nor parents.” Louis replied after he heaved a depressing sigh.

“Are you sure, Louis? Because sometimes, people aren't like the way we see them as.” Max talked with a slightly suspicious glint in his eyes.

“But Yenail is the most purest yet the most innocent being that I've ever met.” Louis said when he wanted them to believe him.

“Exactly. She was badly terrified when she came here for the first time.” Danial joined in the conversation while agreeing to what Louis just told right after he stopped talking.

Whereas while hovering hands in the air and making random gestures, Max talked so casually but was interrupted afterwards. “What if she's acting? To find the shelter? Maybe she has some personal connections with hi--”

“Marquis's phone is right here. With her! No one can make any contact with him. For a whole year.” Louis explained following a stern tone.

The basic males of the house sat at the living room in their comfy night attires when in the night, the clock struck nine and the matter got touched once again after Leena expelled about the fight between her and the elder and Max couldn't do anything about it as Louis made them believe that she would be no harm. It really worked out for the elder when Danial observed her in his own ways yet eyes, simply finding out no such signs of danger that radiates Yenail's surrounding. She was calm. Scared but humble. During these previous couple of days, Max too was having an observing eye over her as well, as being the family matter, it could affect the respect of the whole family. Louis bringing up an unknown girl. Surely, the key points to be noticed sharply by the society as well as a pure gossiping yet spiced up matter being touched by almost everyone.

Leena slept early tonight in order to avoid the girl that she hated the most in her whole life by now, as she was just being jealous about how that unknown girl controlled her brothers' mind so like magic when her mind was blowing even in her slumber while thinking about her. In her opinion, Yenail abandoned her happiness.

While the family members were having the conversations, two eyes were also peaking from behind the wall of the living room as the innocence was shining in the way those eyes were watching them. Max's sight diverted towards the peaking pair of eyes and he stopped talking right away, which also made Louis and Danial follow the gaze as they also twirled their heads towards the directions and caught the pair of eyes which disappeared after moments.

“Yenail?” A giggle left Danial’s lips and a smile later held his next words. “Come, sit with us.”

After hearing him, very slowly that Yenail reached them along with a sacred feeling, when her shoulders squealed as so hesitantly that she pulled out a chair from the table that they had in the living room and sat on it on a distance from them.

“I'm really sorry for my behavior earlier.” Max pulled an apology right after his eyes captured her small figure and earned a smile from the girl.

“It's okay. I didn't mind anything at all.” Yenail simply told him when her innocent tone captured their hearts.

“Is that really true? That you don't have parents nor....any siblings or relatives?” Being an elder, Danial asked her in the most politest way possible in order to not hurt her feelings and she nodded at first when later that she spoke after few minutes.

“Yes, it's true. My father died by a heart attack when I was just four years old. Later, my mother raised me. I was the only child of my parents. We weren't that much rich. Our house was the only property that we had to ourselves. No relatives. No friends. Just our family. A happy family. Until, Marquis happened.” The smile followed her conversation but than it surely vanished after she mentioned him and a sting that she also felt, but so early a feeling so lovely removed it afterwards she went silent all of a sudden and Louis talked on behalf of her.

“Her mother also got killed by him.”

“You forgave your mother's killer and fell in love with him afterwards?!” Max surprisingly raised his voice in utter shock.

“He was being too caring. He never hurt me and when he confessed? Which that he usually does almost everytime but I always got to ignore him and he never stops trying.” A cute little chuckle settled Yenail's lips when she thought about her only admiration. Her love. Marquis.

“Woah.” It left the mouths of Danial and Max altogether, and Louis just chuckled over them.

“What made him fall in love with you?” Max asked excitingly along with a shining spark in his eyes.

“Marquis had this crazy habit of tasting my lips so oftenly.” She happily squealed her shoulders with hot blush heating up her cheeks when she replied.

“OOHHH. MY. GOD!!” Except Louis, the two other males raised their eyebrows along with their voices slightly rising in excitement, amaze yet astonishment, when Yenail suddenly said the words that vanished their smiles out of the blues.

“I'm really sorry for disturbing the private space so suddenly.”

“Huh?” Danial raised an eyebrow while being confused and after a sigh that she started talking once again.

“I understand her behavior and it's completely appropriate. I disturbed you all. Tomorrow morning, I'll leave and go to somewh—” Yenail got cut off in between.

“Are you crazy??” Danial interrupted her so instantly when a warm gentle smile settled his lips afterwards. “You can stay here as long as you want.”

“You're really sweet. We believe you now.” Max mentioned while following a chuckle, at which a relaxing sigh left Louis's mouth.

After minutes, Danial made a stand and approached the only girl who sat near the dining table when he patted her head and spoke with the gentlest vocals but before he could speak, Yenail talked first.

“Leena will forgive me? Right?”

The innocence that permanently shone brighter than those thousands of sapphires, pearls and emeralds in her pair of orbs, never forgets to melt their hearts. Plus, the way she speaks everytime with the lowest yet most gentlest voice.

“Go sleep now. We will take care of her later. Have good rest and don't worry about Marquis. He's breathing your love. No power can even think of touching him. I know he'd be fine.”

Danial comforted her well with words that she was expecting when an appealing yet assuring smile that Danial could provide her at the moment, surely healed her heart as he patted her head like an elder brother. Now, after knowing that she lacked the love of brothers and sisters, they decided to help her in filling this hollow space in her life too, when with a nod that she stood up silently and went to her room that they provided her for the stay.

“She's really sweet and innocent.”

After smiling at her figure disappearing from his sight, Danial turned and caught the mischievous smiles setting up the faces of Max and Louis when a laughter sets free to any kind of tightening in the air as the two other males never forgets to tease Danial.

The real meaning behind the love of a family.

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In the room where the girl was present, being truly known to her surroundings yet also the shitty situation that she has created and yet was being aware of it as Yenail just sighed while her mind was mixing in the chemistry of their behaviors. Even that they were siblings and were born of the same parents but they were being differently possessed.

“Maybe that's whom we call siblings. Another lovely relations.” Yenail's soft vocals held her words when the innocence in the tone was catchy. She wore a big comfy light grey sweater and underneath it was a short along with high knee socks when she held her own phone, her delicate cylindrical fingers started tapping the screen curiously when she does a thing over it. “Let me mark the day of his comeback.” With a wide smile that was pasted over her tinted lips, she opened the calendar and marked the day along with the date over it, exactly after one year as the love and affection caressed the words that she uttered afterwards which were being a truly strong feeling for her to inhale. “I'm waiting for you, Marquis.”

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TBC