CHAPTER 63

At the Black's house, they were planning the reception for Mark and Jenna's engagement, Antonni had proposed to do it at his estate to host many people and cover the expenses of everything, everyone agreed.

Juliet and Marcus wanted to take care of the wedding expenses instead, find the church, the priest, the reception and everything else, then again Antonni spoke very happily.

"I am going to give them the honeymoon trip and I am going to give Jenna the power to manage all my properties, of course after she graduated from college, she is the most suitable and she is my blood, I do not trust my grandson Carlo very much he is a botarata and a little irresponsible, besides I already gave him his".

Carla spoke "Mr. Lombardi we thank you for that, Jenna is a very upright and decent woman, she's a very nice person, we all love her very much".

Marcus stood up commenting "That's what I say, she is our only granddaughter and we will also leave what is ours in her hands".

Everyone was in high spirits when Antonni received a call from one of Carlo's guards.

"Hello,, what do you want Lucca?"

"Mr. Carlo is parked outside, of Mrs. Amanda's house and he said that... he was going to kill the man who is with her."

"What? Lucca, I'm on my way, don't tell him anything".

He closed the call, got up in a hurry and spoke.

"Excuse me, I'm going to avoid a disgrace, excuse me".

He went out and left in his car, the others only remained with the doubt that he said that he was going to avoid a misfortune.

While the Lombardi patriarch left, Ralph and Loretta said they were going to the clinic to find out about Marck, said goodbye to everyone and left.

A few hours passed when Mark woke up in his bed, he was already free of serum and others, the nurse when she saw him called the doctor who arrived in a hurry to see him.

"Mr. Black, you are awake, how are you feeling?

"Fine, just a little dizzy, what... what am I doing back here?" he replied confusedly to what the doctor said.

"They brought you in the ambulance, your father came with you, you suffered a sequel to the gunshot, but I prescribed you some medicine and very soon everything will be over, I put you on some medicine and you should feel calm."

The nurse had warned Dereck who came in at that moment asking.

"Mark son, are you feeling all right?"

"Dad I feel fine, but I don't remember what happened and why am I here?"

"You were mad at us for... ehm because we hid Jenna from you, but it was for your own good, you were rude and unfair to her, we are parents that's why we did it, but you were reunited again."

"I remembered dad, but it's over now, I want to get back with Jenna I must be with her."

"Mr. Black, don't forget to take the medicines so that you don't have any more sequels of the wound, you can be calm from now on" commented the doctor looking at Mark.

He nodded and got up with the help of his father, just as his friends arrived and happily welcomed him back home, they hugged him and left the clinic, got in the car and headed home, Mark was excited to be with his beloved Jenna again.

When they arrived they were greeted with joy by everyone, he didn't even let anyone speak and asked.

"Where is she?" Alice was coming down the stairs and when she saw him she spoke to him.

"Mr. Mark, you're all right now, come on, Jenna is up here, she's going to be very happy."

He went up the stairs very slowly, he was full of love, full of longing to see her again, at the bottom of the stairs they watched him as he reached the last step and disappeared to the bedroom.

When he reached the threshold of the door that was open he saw a beautiful landscape, Jenna was leaning out on the balcony caressing her belly, she was distracted she did not feel him coming, he approached very slowly and put his arms around her, sighing in the back of her neck saying.

"My love I'm here with you already, I missed you so much".

Jenna hearing his voice melted with love as she mused happily.

"Marck, oh, Marck,. you're here already, I was so scared" she kissed him passionately with desperation as if she no longer wanted him to leave her side.

He pressed her against his body he loved her so much he needed her so much, his kisses in love were long, he carried her receiving a slight laugh from her, he deposited her on top of the bed, he went to lock the door.

He walked to her and laid down on top of her with great care to say.

"I love you, I love you like my life itself, you are that love that takes my sleep away, that love that I belong to, that love that disturbs me, that love that has me thinking, that has me wanting the kisses from her lips, the one that gives me wings to fly, because she knows I love her and I won't leave her."

Jenna smiled as she listened to him tell her he loves her with those pretty words, they kissed, took off their clothes a little at a time and made love with desire with love, proving to each other that they can't live apart anymore.

While love triumphed in the Black's house, Carlo Lombardi was frightened in the car where he was accompanied by his grandfather, they arrived at one of the farms, they went in the car almost to the borders where there was a small house where the Lombardi patriarch entered first and ordered to take his grandson to the lower part of the house.

Carlo struggled with his grandfather's men and went around shouting in panic.

"Grandfather forgive me, don't do this to me, noooo please grandfather".

Once inside they put handcuffs behind his body and a mask that covered his eyes, he felt that he was being lifted up, his feet stopped touching the ground and only his pitiful screams could be heard.

"Grandfather please don't do this to me, grandfather I am your grandson."

Antonni ordered everyone out and closed a shielded door as the hidden room was soundproofed, no one would hear anything that would happen there, then Carlo's grandfather spoke.

"I gave you an order and what I order is obeyed without any complaint, you had no right to bother Amanda, besides you almost killed her, you are going to pay for that Carlo".

Carlo shouted trying to justify himself.

"Grandfather I wanted to kill him, not her, please grandfather what are you going to do to me?"

Without saying anything he bent down to take off his shoes and socks, then his pants, he tore his shirt and threw it aside, leaving him alone in his boxer shorts saying.

"What I did to Luiggi does not compare to what I am going to do to you, at least that idiot was wrong, you did it with premeditation knowing that I had already ordered you not to go near her and what I order is fulfilled".

Carlo was very frightened and cried out pleadingly.

"Grandfather please forgive me, I... I was angry with that man, grandfather."

Antonni had previously ordered to light an oven where he had some irons that were already red hot, he approached and took one of them and spoke to his grandson hanging there.

"This will remind you that you are a fucking Lombardi, you will carry the initial of our surname".

He put the iron with the letter "L" on Carlo's back who screamed in pain as he felt how his flesh burned in contact with that red-hot iron, he writhed hanging there trying to get loose, his body trembled with the painful spasms, the room was filled with the smell of burning flesh, he took the iron off his grandson's back looking how the letter "L" was well legible.

In the silence Carlo could be heard sobbing, his tears had already wet the floor where he was, but his grandfather was really angry, he went to a small refrigerator he had there, he grabbed a bottle with a greenish juice.

He approached Carlo's back and poured all the contents on that raw L, receiving as a result the screams of pain of his grandson, that liquid was pure lemon juice with salt, something that made him burn like hell itself, those screams only his grandfather heard as music in his ears.

"Noooo it hurts me grandpa, don't do this to me, grandpa please."

He just reached over to tell him in his ear.

"For your sake I hope you rest because tomorrow will be another day dear grandson, disobedience is paid with pain and blood, see you tomorrow."

Carlo on hearing him cried out in fright.

"Don't leave me alone here grandfather, forgive me grandfather".

Before leaving Antonni pulled a lever that let Carlo fall to the ground, but without removing the handcuffs that were attached to chains with pulleys, Carlo managed to take off his mask and ask.

"Grandfather why do you hate me so much, why do you hurt me like this?"

Patriarch Lombardi turned around looking at him with his angry gaze saying.

"I don't hate you, what I am doing is punishing you for being disobedient besides you shouldn't question my decisions, tomorrow we will talk about that, so rest oh I almost forgot, here I leave this for you, drink."

He passed him a bowl with water, it was so little that there were only two sips and Carlo just sobbed, his grandfather was really going to punish him for hunger, thirst and pain, he drank all the water and his grandfather laughed out loud.

"Wow you drank it like it was your stupid whiskey, be thankful I took pity on you, but it wasn't just water, hahahahaha, you'll figure it out, hahahahaha."

"What, what... what was in that water? Grandpa, tell me grandpa."

He only received guffaws and went away closing the door leaving him alone there in that place where he went through his look and saw, whips, chains, ropes, knives and the oven was on causing him to be filled with a lot of heat there, he was sweating profusely and the wound was burning because his sweat was pouring down there.

About an hour later he began to feel dizzy and his vision blurred, he began to see misty things, to hear malevolent laughter, people mocking him, his situation, then he began to hallucinate watching how some monsters wanted to eat him, he screamed like crazy, alone in there, that torture was hours until fatigue made sleep overcome him, he was sweating profusely already.

What no one knew was that Antonni had cameras and watched everything that happened in there, when he saw his unconscious grandson he got up from the guard post and went inside carrying a bucket of water, a first aid kit and some clean rags.

She settled next to Carlo and cleaned him starting with the wound, disinfected it with alcohol, cleaned the sweat from the body, when she finished she turned off the oven and turned on a fan that was on the ceiling and opened a small window that was also upstairs, before leaving she bent down to give him a kiss on the cheek saying.

"I never thought I should punish you like that, but you asked for it Carlo, what you did was the last straw, tomorrow we will continue, I know you will put up with it because I will have no mercy on you, disobedience is paid in the family".

He went out of there closing the door again leaving his grandson asleep waiting for the new punishment the next day.

They met again Mark and Jenna, their love is strong and true, the engagement party is already planned, even the wedding, while another Lombardi was punished in a cruel way, but he himself asked for it because he knew very well that an order of the Lombardi patriarch is fulfilled because it is fulfilled or pay the consequences.