It was all Enzio’s doing. Jesus Christ, he was framing my brother…for murder.
I sucked in a breath. “Enzio, no.”
He leaned in, his vile breath slithering over my skin. “Oh, yes, Karina. But like I said, thatwasthe plan. Framing someone is a delicate matter, and I ran out of patience. So I decided to leave the fate of your dear brother in your hands.”
My skin burned as his fingers moved up my inner thigh. “Don’t fucking touch me!” I pressed my legs tightly together and squirmed trying to get away from him. But he forced them apart, fingertips brushing against my panties.
“What do you want from me, Enzio?” My voice was nothing more than a shaky whisper, fear running rampant through every bone in my body.
His slimy lips touched my collarbone. “Oh, I think you already know, little lamb.”
More tears moved down my face as his tongue lapped against the skin of my shoulder. “You’ve always known. You were waiting for this day to come.”
I whimpered, biting into my bottom lip when I felt him pull my panties to the side. I tasted blood on my tongue, and my stomach twisted with every vile stroke of his fingers. The last time he was this close to me, touching me there, I didn’t know I was about to have my heart ripped out. But this time I knew. I knew the darkness that possessed him, how evil and manipulative he was.
Again, I tried to move, screaming for him to leave me alone, trying to push my legs together. But he was too strong, forcing my legs open and tightening his grip at the back of my head.
“Please, Enzio!”
“Oh, yes, Karina. Keep fighting me. It’s turning me the fuck on.” He pushed a finger inside me, and I cried out.
“Please stop!”
“Jesus. I can still feel his fucking cum inside your pussy. I’ll make sure to fuck every trace of that son of bitch out of you as well.” He forced a second finger into me, and I wept while his touch burned me from the inside out. “After all, as my wife, it would be very inappropriate for you to walk around with another man’s seed between your legs.”
The blood in my veins froze, my heart a giant block of ice lodged in my chest. “What did you say?”
He pulled his hand from between my legs, but my body remained rigid. With a grin on his face, he brought his finger up to his nose, inhaling deeply. I fought to keep myself from gagging at the sight.
“You will marry me, Karina. You will give me what I’ve always wanted, and that’s you on your knees at my feet…every goddamn day for the rest of your life.”
More chills wracked my body. I felt physically ill, the need to vomit almost uncontrollable.
“I’ll do no such thing, Enzio. There is no way in hell you can make me marry you.”
“Oh, I can.” He pulled his phone from his jacket pocket, flipped over the screen, and held it in front of my face.
When the video started playing, I gasped and placed my hand in front of my mouth. I had to swallow back the bile that was pushing up my throat as I watched the video he and his father made of us that night at the beach house. The son of bitch was carrying it around on his phone? How sick and twisted could one individual be?
“Wait, let me show you my favorite part.” He moved the cursor before pressing play, and I no longer felt my heart beat. All I felt was pain, panic, and so much betrayal.
“Watch,” Enzio urged and pushed the screen closer to my face. I didn’t want to watch. I didn’t want to look at how I made the biggest mistake of my entire life. How my innocence was ripped away from me with one big lie and tons of deceit. But Enzio forced me to watch the video while tears streamed down my face.
On the screen, Enzio was on top of me, thrusting forward. I literally felt everything I’d felt back then. I felt him moving between my legs, the sharp, stabbing pain when he first entered me. And then the pain slowly subsiding until finally…it felt good.
I remembered how my mind drifted from one place to the other. How one second I felt unsure, wondering if I had what it took to make the man I loved then happy. If my body would satisfy him. And then the next moment, when my own body started to climb, reaching the pinnacle of something I thought was beautiful, all I could think about was how much I loved him. How much he loved me. And then…he tore my heart inside out. Ripped it into pieces of regret and pain. For a few moments, it was the best night of my life…until it wasn’t.
Enzio tapped on the screen. “Look at your face, little lamb. Look at the pleasure plastered all over it.”
I could barely see through the tears in my eyes.
“Oh, Enzio…”I heard my own words through the recording. I knew it was me, my voice. It just didn’t sound like me. That person sounded happy, high on sex.
“Karina, I love you,”Enzio said, which I believed with all my heart back then. But it was all a lie, a ruse so he could use me.
“What’s happening?”I was so innocent back then, inexperienced, and when I felt my body climbing, I had no idea what was about to happen. Three words that best described me that night—vulnerable, clueless…and stupid.
“Let go, Karina. Let your body guide you.”