Chapter 60 Awoken darkness II
Heaven’s eyes widened in shock. Her lips parted but no sound came.
Maverick’s grip tightened.
His fingers dug into her throat with a cruel intensity, cutting off her breath, cutting off her thoughts, cutting off everything but the pain and the terror.
Her toes lifted off the floor, her face flamed red instantly, veins visible beneath her skin. Her lungs burned, collapsing on themselves. Her fingers clawed at his wrist, not to escape, just to survive.
“M…Maverick…” she choked, barely a thread of sound.
His eyes were unrecognizable,Black,soulless. Feral.
The eyes of a man that was dragged through hell and dropped into madness.
“I’ll ask you one more time,” he growled, his voice deadly cold, vibrating through her bones.
“Who touched you?”
Heaven shook her head wildly, every muscle straining for air.
“N…no….nobody… just you…” she gasped out.
“LIAR.”
His roar shook her.
His free hand slammed into the wall beside her head.
Causing the items on the shelf to scatter around, loudly.
Heaven flinched violently, shaking uncontrollably. He released her.
She dropped to the floor like a ragdoll, coughing, heaving, desperately sucking in air. Her vision blurred. Her head pulsed. Her neck throbbed with the imprint of his hand, a perfect red brand.
She stared up at him in shock.
"Ma..verick what's going on?"
she didn't understand what she was being accused of. When she left him in his room everything had been okay.
Maverick’s voice tore through the room.
“I wake up…” cold with betrayal,“…and this is what’s waiting for me? You fucking someone else behind my back?”
"I didn't do that" Heaven denied deeply hurt and shocked by his accusations.
He threw something at her, his phone. A video played automatically.
Heaven froze, the person in the video was her, the same body,bed, room, and she even had the bracelet on.
And a man was fucking her, his face was blurred out.
Her blood turned to ice. Her eyes widened. She understood his anger, she was shocked as hell. She looked up at him.
“Maverick…” she whispered, horrified. “me… I swear I don't know how I got into this video… this is my face… but it’s…”
“Shut up!” he snapped, stalking toward her. “You’re still lying to me.”
He fisted her arm, yanking her up. He slammed her back against the wall. Her head hit with a dull thud and she cried out.
His face was inches from hers. Their noses touched. His breath was hot, furious, intoxicating.
“While I was lying there bleeding out, dying…” his voice broke into a growl,“…you were opening your legs for another man?”
“Maverick, no, please…I will never do such a thing…” Heaven tried so hard to explain..
His thumb gripped her jaw, forcing her face up to him. “Look at me.”
She did, she obeyed, her body trembled in his arms, sweat poured from her hair down to face and her neck. Her face was crimson from the pain. Her heart was beating like it might burst.
Maverick looked like a man standing on the last edge of sanity.
“The thought of you alone with another man sets my blood on fire with a hatred so pure it borders on ecstasy. I loathe it violently because you belong to no one else. You are mine alone to devour, to consume slowly, completely, until there is nothing left for the world but the echo of your surrender.” he whispered, voice dark and broken.
“Yet you!..." he hissd "I’ll break every bone in whoever touched you.”
His fingers dug into her hips, pinning her to the wall. His other hand slid to the back of her throat tighter, angrier this time. Heaven winced in pain, tears spilled from her hazel eyes, as she shook her head.
“Tell me his name,” he hissed.
“Say it! before I rip the truth out myself.”
Heaven sobbed harder, shaking.
“It's looks like me but It's not me" she paused "see… I got a message… a picture… someone sent a video of us in Boyle’s altar room… saying I’m a… a bitch…and…that they know…what we are doing..” she choked on her words.
Maverick’s grip faltered for a second.
A single beat of hesitation, as he looked at her eyes.
“You can check my phone… please… I swear someone is toying with me.”
Her phone dinged where it had fallen.
“Maverick… check..”
He released her and snatched the phone off the floor.
The first thing he saw made his vision blur with more rage.
“Young madam, I sneaked out without getting caught…”
His nostrils flared. His jaw flexed like stone.
Another message appeared.
“Don’t forget you promised to take me shopping on Friday…with the black card”
Heaven who stood beside him so she read it too. Her entire body went cold. She didn’t know whoever send that message was.
Someone was trying to frame her up.
The phone dinged again.
This time it was a photo. A naked image of her and the man with a blurred face.
Her stomach dropped.
Before she could think, Maverick dialed the number.
It rang once.
Then a male voice answered casually:
“I thought you said no calls…”
“WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?”
Maverick’s voice was a weapon, sharp enough to cut flesh.
The line disconnected immediately.
Maverick tried again and again but it kept going to voice mail. Maverick was losing it and that was it.
Something inside him snapped.
He threw the phone against the wall. Half the screen shattered into pieces.
He turned on her, his eyes lost every ounce of warmth, he looked like he could kill her.
“You fucking whore.”
Heaven backed away, sobbing. “Maverick, you’re the only one… the only one I’ve ever been with, please…”
He stalked toward her, fury radiating off him in waves. He lifted his fist towards her, Heaven covered her face bracing for the impact.
Boom.