THĒ JÃILBĪRD
Thē Jãilbīrd - Episode 97&98
(Female•In•Disguise)
★★★★★★★★★★★★★
#UNEDITED
"Beg me! Say please!!! Beg me bastard!!" She yelled angrily, hitting his head on the edge again.
The blood from his cut ear reddened the pool even more, and blood came out of his other ear too, worsening everything.
"Beg me Dominic!!!" She screamed, hitting his head for the third time...
"P..pleas...
He was still stuttering at her mercy when the estate guards poured into the hall, like ten of them.
Two jumped into the pool and forcefully took Dominic from her.
She'd have fought them just to keep Dominic in the pool, but they're armed, and they might shoot her since they're just as terrible as Dominic himself.
She can't risk that, so she let him go. At least, she gave him enough injuries to last for a while, and he's already unconscious.
The guards were glaring at her but can't do anything as they took him out of the water.
The last one suddenly raised his hand on her to slap her in the face, but before he could do it, the others stopped him.
"You wanna die? Boss is the only one who has the right to torture her!" They told him.
"You saw how badly injured he is! You saw what she did to him so she deserves a little punishment before boss wakes up, don't you think?" That one replied adamantly.
Seems like he's their head guard.
"Don't touch her. Boss knows what to do with her when he wakes" another one said, and they all left the hall at the same time except that adamant one.
He faced Adeline slowly with lots of hate in his eyes.
"Tessa never did this when she was still alive. She took the beatings with respect! If boss doesn't kill you, then I'd do it myself" he said.
"That's if I don't kill you first, ugly frog. I am Adeline, not Tessa. Before you can kill me, you have a lot of sacrifices to make cos I am not your toy! Now run along and take your rotten face away, it disgusts me" Adeline said ridiculously, and she saw him grind his jaws.
Obviously, the words hit him hard.
He gave her another hateful look before climbing out of the pool, rushing out to meet the others.
Adeline released the breaths she has been holding immediately, and her cramps came back in a more horrible form.
She has been trying to hold it down since the start of the fight, and her anger helped dousing it too, but now that her anger is gone and the fight is over, she's in pains again .
She held her tummy as she climbed out of the the now red pool, and she gasped when she remembered Vernon.
She looked around but he's nowhere to be found in the hall.
He must have been long gone.
She gasped again, picking her robe from the floor.
Her nose remembered his scent, and her body remembered his touch, making her shudder suddenly.
No.
It can't be, right?
He can't be her Madden.
It can f+çking be.
She literally ran out of the hall, managing to wear her robe before she got to the front door.
The pain from her tummy came sharply again, and she held it with an hand as she ran the remaining race to Vernon's suite.
She barged inside, her wet hair running around her face in gummed locks, but there's no Vernon around.
The only people in the suite are the guards from the penthouse who're installing more air conditioner and changing the white bulbs to red.
"Red...bulb?" She muttered, gulping before rushing inside.
"Vernon!" She was calling as she took two steps at a time.
"Vernon!!" She screamed again, more desperately this time.
The working guards stopped their work and started looking at her like she's mad or something.
"Vernon!!!" She yelled, barging into the first room she saw
It's his room, and she could see his bag on the bed. He didn't even bother to unpack or arrange his things in the wardrobe at all.
She was hiccuping as she rushed there, but just as she was about to open the bag, Baron came in with guards.
"Tessa? This is not allowed in this estate! You're not allowed to trespass into the visitor's suite without the visitor's permission!" He said sternly.
Adeline didn't even reply before trying to unzip the bag.
Baron gave the guards a nod, and they all came for her, grabbing her arms and trying to take her out.
"Leave me alone bastards!!" She slipped out of their hold, kicking them in the faces
The kick sent them all staggering away from her, but then one of them punched her in the right eye.
Her eyes dwindled, and despite the turn, she tried punching back, but her tummy cramps came again, and she held her tummy tightly.
"Gawd... Please please not now!!! Not now!!!" She cried, going for the bag again.
She was able to unzip it before the guards came to get her again.
They started pulling her out by the arms, and she quickly raised her legs, kicking the bag away from the bed.
The bag fell to the ground, and thanks to the open zip, everything inside fell out.
Red and white sweatshirts and sweatpants, slacks and all of them. Out of everything, she recognizes the biggest sweatshirt.
The one she wore to bed the last night she spent at the manor.
Her eyes widened cos that's not the only thing she recognizes.
There's the balm container too, the one she gave him, then there's a stem of plastic rose... Blood moon rose.
"Oh no" she shook her head.
"How come? How...how come" she muttered as she was finally dragged out of the room.
Getting to the front of the suite, they let her go, then Trixie and Fatima came for her.
"You should caution your sis! My visitor is very cranky and hates when people touches his things, and I see no reason why she should barge into his apartment right after hurting my son!" Baron barked.
"I'll talk to her" Trixie replied, taking Adeline away.
"Where is Dominic?" Baron asked Fatima.
"He's receiving home treatment at the sickroom. His ear is pretty damaged" Fatima shrugged.
"Told him to return the lady immediately she woke up, but he'd stay stubborn till the end" Baron said.
"You know he never listens, and now I'm more scared for Tessa cos when he wakes up, he's surely killing her. Why don't you send her away before then,mm?" Fatima stylishly said.
"He might be unconscious, but did you forget that he's in charge of all the hundreds guards surrounding this estate? Trying to release her is even more dangerous, so let her be. I'll just talk to him when he wakes" Baron said and left.
"Talk to Dominic? What a joke. As if he has ever listened to you. Aren't you also scared of him?" Fatima scoffed.
She was about to go meet Adeline and Trixie when a guard blocked her.
It's the head guard, the one who threatened Adeline earlier.
"What?" Fatima blinked.
"I need you to do something" he replied.
*
DOMINIC'S SUITE*
"What are you talking about!" Trixie said unbelievably, facing Adeline who's restless in front of her.
"I said he might be Madden...he's...
"Vernon might be Madden? Can you hear yourself? When did Madden change face?" Trixie cut her off.
"I dunno Trixie! I dunno but I heard his voice! It's exactly like Madden's. He scents exactly like him. He doesn't smell like cologne like most of the men do...his scent is unique and my nose will recognize it anywhere! He touched me too! I swear my body doesn't respond to touches if it's not his own, but it f+çking did! I know what I'm talking about Trixie...
"Maybe you're finally running mad like you said yesterday... What do I do? You don't look normal anymore Adeline. You should see your face right now you look sick!" Trixie said and started crying.
"Please believe me I'm not sick. I know what I'm saying... Vernon is...
"Shhh" Trixie shut her up and took her hand.
"Trixie please believe me...I'm not mad I...
Trixie didn't even listen till she got to the bedroom where she made her change her pad and change to a gown and a jacket.
She wore socks on her foot and made her lay in bed.
"Trixie I...
"Don't talk anymore, sis. Just rest, else, the cramps will get worse" Trixie cut her off.
Adeline bit her inner mouth, releasing tears from the corner of her eyes.
*
APEX SYNDICATE HOSPITAL*
* What the hell is he doing!
* Someone stop him!
* Stop him? I believe we're all seeing the gun in his pocket.
* Then call the cops this isn't right!
* Cops to a drug syndicate hospital? Oh please.
* Then are we gonna continue looking at him?
The nurses and doctors and some patients are gathered in a small crowd at the graveyard, watching as Madden digged Adeline's grave.
He wanted to believe his head earlier about Tessa, but the moment he sniffed her robe and it didn't smell like her, he lost all hope.
Maybe she only just shared those resemblances with Adeline... Maybe she's her body double.
He had left the pool with these thoughts in his head, but he was too restless to return to his suite, and that's why he came here to see for himself.
He destroyed the concrete with digger first before starting to dig, and now he has digged six feet, but there's still no sign of a coffin or bones.
Still, he continued digging, shovelling out the earth.
"Someone call Dominic!" One of the doctors said, and someone did the calling, but he's not picking.
They called Baron too, but it's the same with him.
Madden dropped the shovel at this point, looking up at everyone of them with sweaty angry face.
"Get me a ladder" he said.
They all exchanged glances, not moving an inch.
"Get. Me. A. Ladder" he grinded out, and one of the nurses quickly got the ladder.
He climbed up with it, and everyone shifted back.
"Where is Adeline's body?" He demanded darkly.
No one answered, they all just shifted back again.
"Where is Adeline's body!!!" He yelled impatiently, getting his gun.
"There was never a body! It's..."
One of the nurses started talking, but she was shut up by another nurse.
"You can't talk! You want Dominic to kill you?" The second nurse said, and Madden didn't waste time before shooting her between the eyes.
She went down dead in the middle of the nurses, and the others screamed out with the doctors.
"Where is Adeline's body?" Madden demanded again, preparing to pull the trigger on the second nurse
"We're not under any obligation to speak, young man. We don't even know who you are!" One of the doctors shouted, and Madden lowered his hand, smirking.
"Madden... Madden Smirnov, her f+çking owner!" He yelled, and that particular doctor peed on himself immediately.
"Mad... Madden...the... Russian...maf..ia... prince?... Death?" He stuttered.
The rest of the doctors and nurses couldn't believe their ears, and the patients were already shivering.
"Last chance... Where is Adeline's body?" He demanded.
"It's... It's at the...at..."
Another nurse began stuttering, and he shot that one down too, then the next, then the next, and the next, and the...
"Stop!!!!!" The head doctor screamed terrifically, shaking so much.
He already peed on himself too.
"If you don't start talking now, I'm killing everyone in this hospital, including the patients." Madden muttered.
"Fo...follow me sir" the head doctor stuttered, leading the way into the hospital.
Madden followed with the gun to his head, and he took him to the records room where he brought out the record of the surgeries one year ago.
Madden opened the file on the table, checking everything out with his eyes wide open till he got to the most important part.
Tessa's face___Adeline's new face.
"F+ck" he muttered, not waiting another minute before dashing out of the room.
*
APEX SYNDICATE EMPIRE, DOMINIC'S SUITE*
Adeline still hasn't been able to sleep cos of the pains in her tummy. She hasn't stopped crying either.
She looks drained physically and mentally, and Trixie already ran out of ideas to ease her pains.
Fatima came in with a tray of warm cocoa, and Trixie stood.
"Time for me to take over" Fatima smiled, dropping the tray on the bedstand.
"Can you stay with her? I need to go shower" Trixie said.
"Sure" Fatima winked, and Trixie kissed Adeline's forehead before leaving the room.
"Here...drink this... it'd ease your period cramps" Fatima said, taking the cup.
She supported Adeline's back with a pillow before bringing it to her mouth.
Adeline took a sip, then another and another.
"Good" Fatima said, smiling before dropping the cup.
Immediately she did, Adeline grabbed her stomach tightly.
"What's happening to...ahh!!" She cried, holding the tummy with her other hand too.
It's like the cocoa worsened her pains times ten.
"Ahhh!!!" She groaned, unable to speak as she rolled down from the bed, wriggling in insane pains.
"Fati...ma!!" She cried, hot sweat covering her completely.
"I'm so sorry... Tessa...I'm sorry" Fatima muttered, and the head guard came in with ten others.
"Are you sure you won't kill her?" Fatima asked.
"Dominic will kill us if we kill her, so chill... We only wanna teach her how to be obedient" that one replied, snapping his fingers at the others.
Adeline was picked up, and her pains grew hellish as they took her out of the room, throwing her in a van.
The van drove out of the estate almost immediately, and Fatima started panicking in front of the suite.
Trixie returned surprisingly, and her eyes widened.
"Are you done showering?" She awkwardly asked.
"Nope. I brought more pads for my sister since it seems her flow is pretty much. She needs to change" Trixie replied and tried entering, but Fatima blocked her.
"She's... She's actually resting" she said.
"Doesn't mean I can't drop the pad without waking her" Trixie replied and tried entering again.
Fatima blocked her for the second time, and her eyes flicked suspiciously, then he pushed Fatima out of the way.
Fatima fell on the ground, and Trixie entered the suite, running into the bedroom.
She was breathless when she got there and couldn't find Adeline in bed.
She ran out again, and she met Fatima shaking already.
She grabbed her blouse in the front with her two hands, slamming her back on the pillar.
"Where is my sister! Where is she!!!" She yelled impatiently.
"I'm...I'm sorry it's...
"Where is Adeline!!!" Trixie yelled again, grabbing Fatima's hair this time.
"Trixie" the unique deep voice said behind them, and Trixie slowly let go of her, turning back to see Madden standing there with his eyes hooded.
"Mr. Vernon?" Trixie muttered.
"Madden" Madden corrected, and Trixie covered her mouth in raw shock.
Fatima almost entered the ground, and fear made her start running, but Madden grabbed her in no time.
She was thrown to the ground, and she started shifting back on her butt.
"The head guard made me do it. He said if I didn't bring her the poisoned cocoa, he'd have to kill Trixie. I had no choice cos he said they wouldn't kill her, they just wanna teach her a lesson" Fatima said fearfully.
"Where did they take her?" He asked calmly.
"I dunno! I dunno!" She shook her head innocently, and Madden pointed the gun at her.
"No! No!" Fatima cried.
Baron was quick to appear, covering her.
"I knew you're no ordinary person... Madden Smirnov" he said.
He already heard the news from the hospital.
"Where is my woman?" Madden demanded dangerously, his gun still up at Baron's chest.
"I'll give you a list of all the possible hideouts, you'll find her before nightfall" Baron assured.
*
HONG KONG*
The hospital has been in chaos since last night.
After the twins went missing, Nazeera arrested every doctor and nurse on duty that particular time, and the cops are all-over the city, searching relentlessly for the kids.
There has been no success since last night, and Nazeera is at the verge of going crazy right now.
The just finished cops searching another unsuccessful location, and she faced them angrily.
"Y'all are not searching enough! You are not searching enough!!!!" She yelled frustratedly.
"We're trying our biggest best as you can see, ma'am" they replied, and she'd have shouted at them again, but the ringing of her phone stopped her.
She stepped back to pick. It's her hitmen.
"Yes?"
"I'm sending you pictures of Madden's new face right now, captured at the syndicate hospital not long ago" the thick voice came.
Nazeera hung up, and almost immediately, she received the pictures and started laughing.
"I knew it! You can't escape my pain, Madden... I have to move fast" she muttered, rushing back to join the search.
...
Meanwhile, in a rural street of Hong Kong, the twins are hiding behind some garbage drums.
Their faces are smudged with soot, dirt, and mud.
Angelika's leg is even swollen from too much running, but surprisingly, she's not crying as usual.
"Are you sure this is a good idea? I'm sure our faces are all-over the streets now, and I'm hungry" she muttered.
Her eyes suddenly caught a trashed pizza in the garbage, and she took it
Before she could eat, Aleksandr hit it away from her.
"But I'm hungry" she whined.
"Just keep calm and let me handle this" he replied, and she nodded.
Aleks slowly sneaked out from behind the can, grabbing a passing lady by her jacket.
"Ma'am, can I use your phone?" He asked politely.
"néih whu gong matyeh? (What are you saying?)" The woman replied in Cantonese.
"I don't understand Cantonese, but... Phone" Aleksandr replied, demonstrating.
"Phone?" The woman caught on, and he nodded, then she gave him her phone.
Aleksandr dialled Zoya's line straight away, and throughout the first ring, she didn't pick, so he dialled again.
This time, she picked.
"Mum?" He said.
"Aleks! Aleks is that you?" Zoya shouted in instant recognition.
"Mommy!!" Angelika cried, coming out from behind the drums.
"Angel! Oh my gawd! My gawd!" Zoya exclaimed.
"We're in Hong Kong, and..."
The phone died at this point, and their faces fell.
Aleksandr returned the phone to the woman slowly.
"dōu jeih (thank you)" he said.
It's the only Cantonese word he understands.
The woman nodded in understanding before leaving.
"What are we gonna do now?" Angelika asked.
"We continue hiding. I'm sure mum will track us" Aleksandr replied, pulling her into another corner.
*
RUSSIA, THE BAYOU*
"Are we celebrating New year's in like four days time? This is about to be the most boring New year's day ever" Maya complained.
"That shouldn't come from someone who never came out of her witchy room when we were still at the compound" Andrei replied, and she grinned, resting on his chest.
They're sitting on the couch with several others while expecting dinner.
It's 6pm.
Jinx is on Loud's laps while Malik and Sin are opposite them.
Malik is glaring at them but Sin is sketching Trixie's picture on his laptop.
Igor is sitting on the adjacent couch, reading his journals as usual.
The other mobsters are chatting, so it's a busy living room.
Ksenia suddenly rushed out of the room, breathing hard.
"Father called just now! The twins called Zoya... they're in Hong Kong!" She broke the news.
Everyone spranged up, and then Maya got a call from Madden almost immediately too.
She picked hastily, her eyes widening with each second till the call ended.
"Adeline...is alive" she muttered, and the shock doubled.
"What are y'all waiting for? Get the jet ready!" Igor shouted, and the living room scattered.
*
COLORADO, APEX SYNDICATE EMPIRE~ SICKROOM*
The doctor had to stitch Dominic's ear and head, and by logic, he's not supposed to wake up till daybreak, but maybe his system is adamant too, cos at exactly 6pm, his eyes opened.
He sat up in bed, but he can't hear anything with his second ear, and his head his banging with unfunny headache.
The cut ear affected it a lot, and the pain is immeasurable.
He was about to stand when the guards at the door rushed in.
"Boss! Turns out Vernon is Madden!" He announced, but Dominic heard nothing at all.
"What did you say?" He replied, cringing in pains.
The guard got his phone and typed VERNON IS MADDEN WITH A NEW FACE.
He showed him, and immediately Dominic saw it, his skull clanged.
The guard further informed him about how the head guard took Adeline away and how Madden is on his way to get her.
"Well then... gather all my guards from the east, north, and south. Get the mercenaries and terminators too. I'm gonna have to paint this city with his blood if he tries to take her, and if worse comes to worse, I'm killing the two of them. She's mine, and if she can't accept that, then she'd accept death. They're not leaving this country" he said.
The guard smiled, bowing.
"Yes boss. I'll gather everyone" he said, rushing out.
*
A DARK ALLEY*
A heavy downpour of water came down on Adeline's face, and that woke her up.
She actually passed out during the ride here.
The pain in her tummy resumed immediately, and she grabbed the tummy with her two hands as she tried to stand up.
She could hear the guards laughing at her weakness, and the laughter of the ugly head guard was the loudest.
She was staggering, and her legs were shaking sickly on the ground as she tried to take a stand.
"C'mon run your mouth again! Call me a ugly frog again!" The head guard pushed her, and when she tried attacking him back, her stomach turned.
"Hmmm!!!" She groaned, holding it tighter as she staggered on the wall.
"You can't? You can't speak anymore? Then run! Run little girl!" He pushed her again, and she fell on the ground.
She started crawling, and the guards followed her, laughing harder and enjoying this moment too much.
The pains is starting to enter Adeline's head, and her eyes white is starting to turn yellow as a result of the poison.
She scrambled to her feet, and they pushed her again. She weakly fell.
Their laughter increased as she crawled to her feet again, but they still pushed her.
Each time she stood, they pushed her back to the ground heavily till they came out of the dark alley, to a dark silent street.
When they pushed her for the twentieth time, her knees peeled and were bleeding already, staining her white gown.
She was crawling on her hands and knees, and they're still laughing.
"You shouldn't have messed with the boss! Tessa is dead because she disobeyed him too much! Who do you think you are?" The head guard spat again.
Adeline couldn't even stand anymore, she just continued crawling, her eyes turning and her bones crushing.
Seems like her flesh is getting blended too, and her blood feels too hot it's evaporating.
"Madd... Madden..." She drooled, their mocking laughter drowning her weak words.
"Madden... Madd...en" she muttered again, ages at the verge of fainting again.
But then something flew into the air, sliding into that angle and ramming into the head of the head guard.
It's a digger!
The sharp blade of the digger tore into his head, splitting his skull brutally into two.
The rest of the guards stepped back petrified as he fell with a loud thud, landing hard on the ground.
A blurry light suddenly came on in the tower not far from them, shinning on the road as the shadow of a devilish human appeared, walking giantly to them.
Adeline scrambled powerlessly to her feet, feeling so f+çking dizzy as dragged breaths escaped her hot nostrils.
The light from the tower shone directly on the coming devil, revealing the necklace on his chest.
The cross necklace, it was dangling sinfully on his chest.
Adeline's rapid heartbeats came back, and hot tears escaped her eyes as she watched him...
She could have fainted, but his deep voice stopped her.
His words came filtering through the blurry light.
"Dusha...
TBC.
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