Bought For A Baby, Kept For A Lifetime-Chapter 314: She Hurt My Wife

Clara woke up to a shower of water falling over her face. She was in an extremely dark place.

There was a searing pain on her face that assaulted her immediately she regained her senses, the pain was so gutwrenching she let out a loud pain filled wail, her hands reaching for her face only to touch raw painful patches of blood.

"Aarghhh!"

"Aaarghhhh!"

She continued to cry out repeatedly. All she felt was agony all over her face as if she had been skinned to leave nothing but flesh and bones.

A bright light suddenly shone down on her and she stiffened, seeing a tall mirror in front of her.

Her vision was dulled by drops of blood pouring over her eyes. She screamed out once more when she saw her own face crying out hysterically.

"What.... what have you done to my face?" She cried repeatedly.

There was no face, just mangled flesh, blood and flesh all over her. Who had done something so ruthless to her?

Her entire face was completely ruined.

There was suddenly a repeated clanking of footsteps approaching her as the whole room lit up.

A dangerous looking man was approaching her at this moment. He took his seat opposite her in the darkness of this room.

The man leaned against the shadows as though they belonged to him, he looked like a creature carved from moonlight and danger. His shirt hung open slipping from his shoulders in a careless tease that revealed the sculpted lines of his torso. Tattoos curled over his skin like dark sinuous patters, disappearing beneath neck chains that glinted softly against the soft hue of his body.

This man...who was he?

He was as breathtaking as he was dangerous.

"Hello, beautiful." The man said with a sinful smirk on his lips. His compliment evidently a sarcastic comment tossed at Clara’s barely human looking face.

"Who are you? Did you do this to me?" Clara’s voice sounded as if she had been force fed boiling water that scorched her throat and ruined her vocal chords. Her voice no longer sounded human but like a strange creature.

"I don’t usually deal with people personally, but for dear Andrew I wanted to take on this one. Especially when you threatened the life of his beloved woman."

The man leaned closer, disgust showing in his roving dark eyes.

"Haven’t your heard of the saying, Sterling is royalty, Sterling is death?"

There couldn’t be a visibly expression on Clara’s face, she just watched with dead eyes, pain sucking her into an abyss but she could no longer cry out loud. She could only struggle, trying to loosen the binds that kept her tied to a chair but they would come loose.

Pain was driving her crazy at this moment.

The man seemed to enjoy her pain immensely, but he continued to speak nevertheless.

"You asked who I am, I usually let people take a wild guess, but for you I’ll do the honors. Eryx Sterling, at your service." He gave a mock bow of his head then raised with a devil like glint in his eyes.

Clara’s struggling stopped in this moment, shock showing in her blood red eyes.

Sterling?

Eryx smiled leaning back in his seat.

"Many know of the Sterling family in the outside world, the pristine royal like clan everyone fears and respects, but very little know of the Sterling family in the underworld."

Years ago two brothers had separated, one choosing to follow the paths of their father to become the lord of all mafias, and the other going out to the world to start his own corporation which became a huge success and made the Sterling family name akin to royalty.

Elder Sterling created the noble family everyone knew and loved, but his brother created the Sterling mafia clan whose sole name meant bloodshed, destruction, death.

Just like Andrew now ruled the Sterling empire, Eryx ruled the underworld domains.

A black gun swirled around Eryx’s finger. He pointed it to Clara’s forehead, then at the wall, then back at Clara’s forehead and then back at the wall again.

"Will Andrew choose to kill you or save you? We’ll see in ten seconds, count down with me.."

Eryx said before he began to count.

"Ten...

"Nine...

"Eight...

"Seven...

"Six..

"Five...

"Four...

"Three...

"Two...

"One..."

As the last word fell, the door to the dark room swung open, the tall shadow of a man stood at the entrance.

Clara trailed her bloody gaze up that figure. He looked just as alluring, just as captivating, just as handsome and till the very end, she had failed to make him hers.

Was there such a thing as destiny? If there was, it had completely deprived her of ever being anywhere close to Andrew Sterling’s heart, and no matter how hard she’d tried, no matter how much she tried to fight against destiny, he still was never hers.

The more Clara looked at her own destroyed reflection, the more looking at Andrew hurt.

She let out a cry that sounded like a wounded animal and began to struggle even more fiercely.

Eryx, upon seeing Andrew beamed.

"There you are brother. I was wondering if you would want me to finish off this little prey of yours or if you would like to do the honors."

Eryx had been acquainted with Andrew for a very long time, though they were just second cousins, he liked to treat Andrew like his brother. A few times, Andrew had gotten shot while being with him, as an important figure in the mafia world, Eryx was prone to becoming a target from his opponents many times.

Andrew’s face was stoic as he walked into the room, no expression to be seen on his countenance.

Eryx handed him the gun he had been twirling around.

"My grandfather always says to kill the snake before it gets a second chance to bite." Eryx added.

Clara’s eyes was fixed on that gun as she struggled.

She would never accept this fate.

She was ruined, her face, her reputation, and only death was waiting for her, but before she would leave this world, she would take Andrew Sterling first.

She was determined to get the gun Eryx was holding. She knew Andrew would never choose to have her shot, and that was where he would have made the mistake. Clara was beginning to loosen some of the ropes that bound her, when she felt her hands slowly coming free, she smiled despite the pain and her mangled face looked extremely hideous.

She was almost there... almost there.

’Andrew Sterling, I hope you’ve said goodbye to your beloved wife and daughter, you are going to hell!’

At the very moment Clara finished lossening the ropes, about to lunge at Andrew, he took the gun from Eryx in one swift move, pointed it directly to Clara’s head and took the shot.

Bam!

The sound of a gunshot resounded in the dark room but it didn’t stop there. Three more shots sounded before silence fell once again.

"Oof! Who knew you could be this ruthless Andrew." Eryx said clicking his tongue.

"She hurt my wife, she didn’t deserve to live." Andrew threw the gun back to Eryx, not sparing Clara’s disfigured corpse another glance, he turned and walked away.

The woman who had lived a life of pampering, elegance in high society, scheming and manipulating the people around her to get what she wanted now laid lifeless in a pool of her own blood.

At her very end, the countless souls who’d suffered in her hands, would finally be free.

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A/N: If you haven’t guessed it yet, we’re at the end of this book. Actually, I got a bit nervous seeing @aiza_marie’s comment about how frustrating it is for a book to end rushed, because when I saw that comment, I had already written the final Chapter for this book. I do hope you don’t think this is a rushed ending though because the plot has genuinely come to an end, and I believe it would be really boring to continue reading if I’m just trying to prolong the plot when it should have ended. The final Chapter will be posted shortly. That being said, I’d like to thank everyone for supporting me so far. I have so many familiar names I’ve seen supporting me from the very beginning and if I should mention everyone, I’d probably overflow the entire page but to everyone who has read this book from start to finish, I’m truly, truly grateful and I hope to see you again on my next book as well. Please check out my next book on my profile. Please don’t forget to leave your reviews for this book after reading!!! Thanks a lot once again!