Caged By The Devil [18+]

Chapter 5

Elena's POV:

I was crying my heart out as my all hopes of staying with Aunt Jenna peacefully for a few days, is now broken. I again feel defeated by my father as I can't stop him from controlling my life. And now I have nothing to do without crying being a pathetic loner.

I really don't know why me? Why I got this kind of father in my life whom I can't even hate him? I feel disgust when I try to hate him because he isn't capable of anyone's hate. He destroy the happiness from my life and make my life hell for his greediness.

"I never gonna forgive you, dad... Never.....", I said and broke into tears. My emotions were taking me to the memory lane when our all happiness end and destroyed by my father.

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Fifteen years ago, everything was different in my life. That time I was only seven years old and was living a happy and perfect life with my mom and dad who also loved me very much. Our family wasn't rich or high class at all rather we belong from a middle-class family of Miami.

On the other hand, my dad's elder brother, Alaric Martinez was the most successful billionaire in Miami and my dad used to do a job in his brother company.

Although, uncle Alaric was rich, but he had no arrogance or pride for his richness. He never considered my dad and our family poorly. Rather, Uncle Alaric and his wife, Aunt Jenna always treat us and consider us like their own family. And their son Stefan who is my cousin brother, was also very kind and generous like his parents.

Stefan was five years older than me, and he was my best friend since the moment which I can't even memorize because I saw him always with me since my childhood. We always used to stay together like a magnet because it was hard for us to stay apart as since our childhood we started loving each other and promised our love is forever.

I was beyond happy at that time which I can't even explain because I had the most lovable family, uncle, aunt, and my love Stefan. And our life was going on happily without any grief. Everything was so perfect that no one imagine of something bad happen because there wasn't any enemy in our life. We never thought that all this happiness will turn into grief one day.

In my childhood, I considered my dad one of the greatest people and best dad in the world because he loves me and my mom very much, and we both are his world. Even not me, everyone praise my dad as much as they did uncle Alaric because my uncle never considered my dad only an employee of his company rather he treated him as his business partner and his shadow which also brought my dad great honor from people which he never earned by himself.

But unfortunately, no one finds the real face of my dad which was hidden behind the fake face which he always showed to everyone. It says, greediness makes people blind but it made my dad so blind that it turned him into a living life monster.

When everything was going on usually, one day my dad and uncle Alaric went on a business trip to Spain but when they return, uncle Alaric was dead. The news of uncle's death wasn't shocking rather it was unbelievable for all of us. His death broke down everyone and I can't even describe the condition of Aunt Jenna and Stefan because I never saw them in so much pain.

My dad described the death of uncle Alaric as an accident because he said uncle was very much drunk and fall on the swimming pool accidentally when no one was around. Hearing him, everyone also believed that it was an accident.

After that, everything started changing. My dad took over the position of CEO in uncle's company as Stefan was only 12 years old boy and Aunt Jenna didn't want to get involved in the business, so they let my father run the company.

We start going back to normal forgetting the loss but until then everything was all messed up as my father was planning something more dangerous. My dad thought my mom also greedy like him and will support him if he told my mom about his plan of making all the wealth of Uncle Alaric by his name. As he thought, he told everything to my mom but my mom was a very kind, honest, and loving person, unlike my dad. As soon as she heard everything she becomes shocked. It was hard for my mother to believe that her husband kill his own brother for his money. It doesn't take a second for my mom to start hating my dad for killing a great person like uncle Alaric.

But my mom become more shocked when she heard that my dad is planning to kill Aunt Jenna and Stefan. Although she was afraid, but she pretends like she was agreed with his plan because she wanted to save Aunt Jenna and Stefan from dad.

After that, My mom said everything to Aunt Jenna which also left Aunt speechless. My mom asked her to go to the police and told everything, but Aunt Jenna denied as they had no proves and it will cause more harm to them. So, Aunt Jenna decided to leave from there with Stefan so that my dad never could find them.

On the day, when Aunt Jenna left with Stefan, my dad understands that my mom betrayed him, and he can't be the owner of everything until Aunt Jenna and Stefan died. So, he started torturing my mom to say where was them but my mom didn't say a word. And other than my mom, I also knew that where Aunt and Stefan went as Stefan told me about that before he left.

When my dad got no answer from mom, he came to me and asked me. My mom told me before not to say anything about that, so I wasn't telling anything until my dad threaten me by my mom's life. When he said that he is going to kill my mom, I told him where Aunt Jenna and Stefan were.

My dad again brings them back in Miami forcedly and until that time they lose the chance to go to the police. Even my mom wasn't able to do that as my father threaten her by Aunt and Stefan's life.

And one night, My dad shot Aunt Jenna although she was willing to give him all the property so that he let her and Stefan go. But my dad was so brutal that he doesn't show any pity.

He didn't kill Stefan at that time. Rather, he took Stefan from there as he was saying that Stefan is needed to be alive for the next six months to make everything by my dad's name. And that was the last I saw Stefan all broken and shocked by losing both parents.

When one of my dad's man was taking Aunt Jenna's body from there to hide forever, my mom suddenly saw her hand was moving, and she was alive. Luckily my dad wasn't there. My mom started pleading to the man to save Aunt. Although the man wasn't agreeing at first but at last he agreed as he was kind enough.

The man helped mom to take Aunt Jenna in the hospital, and he also agreed to hide all this from my dad. My mom asked my grams to stay with Aunt and take her away when she recovered.

My mom and I started pretending that Aunt Jenna died, and my mom starts pleading to dad every day not to kill Stefan, and we don't even know where my dad hides him. When my dad wasn't listening to my mom’s pleading, she threatens him saying that she will reveal his real face to everyone and will say that he is a murderer of his brother and brother's wife.

Hearing her threat, my dad also killed her by grabbing her throat tightly and it was happening in front of my eyes. I tried to stop my dad, but I couldn't because I was a child.

After her death, I realized, she knew that she will die because a few days ago she makes me do two promises which are taken care of Aunt Jenna and bring Stefan back to Aunt as my mom believed that Stefan wouldn't die, and also ask me not to tell anyone about this.

After losing every single loving person, I was dead inside. There wasn't anyone in my life except my inhuman dad. Every day I used to wait for Stefan, but he never came. The loss was so unbearable for me as a child that I didn't speak a word to anyone for seven years because I was sick and broken mentally. I also forgot the word happiness from my life after every pain I encountered.

As the days go by, every incident starts becoming clear and understandable to me which was making me hate my dad even more. Sometimes, I decided to kill him but every time I realized that there will be no difference in me and him if I become a murderer. Even I thought to kill myself numerous times but the promises which my mom made me do, stopped me to kill myself.

I started hating my dad so much that his presence made me insane and crazy. I started acting like a mad person whenever he tried to show his fatherly affection.

There wasn't any day when I didn't hate my father seeing him living a luxurious and rich life happily by killing and destroying his own people's life. He wasn't a father to me rather I always considered him a thief, a murderer, a cheater, a selfish, inhuman, and a monster who destroyed two happy families, and the happiness of our life.

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Even today the pain created by my father didn't change a bit because the wound which was created in my heart is still bleeding. For the last six years, I'm trying to find Stefan but I'm still failing to find him back which only made me think that he isn't alive anymore. I don't even know what I will do if I find him dead.

But one thing I know, if it turns out that Stefan is really dead then I will kill my dad, and myself because I won't be able to live in a world without Stefan. All I want to find him back and to be loved by him again like before.

It was already night, and I was still crying continuously by skipping my lunch and dinner. I tried to stop crying, but I can't because every time I remind that horrible phase when I lose every happiness, I left heartbroken and depressed, and that tears become my only companion.

But my crying stopped by a sudden phone call, and it was from the detective whom I hired to search for Stefan.

I smiled looking at the call as I was hoping that this time I must find my Stefan back.