Chapter 1 PRELOGUE

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The door kept pounding repeatedly, and a voice which I had always feared as a nightmare and a dilemma to my soul sounded.

"Open up, Laura. Why are you getting me so stressed on this? I just want to have my knife stroll on the layer of your skin, gently and slowly, I promise you, it won't hurt that much."

The fright at which that voice impulsed into me was like a dagger piercing through my heart, a chill of terrors short my spin as I could feel my legs go numb. My hands trembling, heart raising.

This voice was no other than my husband, Caspian. He hated me-he hated me more than anything in this life and had sworn with his life to torture me till I secumme to pain itself. His intentions weren't clear on what he wanted to do with me, but I think his aim was to kill me-and in a painful way. And this was all my fault, because I chose not to sign the divorce paper he had offered to me, I couldn't because I love him alot.

I was a married woman, and I worked in the Clinton Company as one of the accountants. The CEO of the Clinton Company mostly came once in a while, always busy. But what people regularly said about him was that he was the worst person anyone would ever choose to see, talk to, or spend time with. I was curious about all they were saying because I had never seen him, nor conversed with him, even for once.

Everything changed when I went clubbing with my best friend, Jessica. It wasn't intentional, but what I didn't know was that this was where my nightmare would begin. I had a one-night stand with a stranger out of the influence of alcohol, and when I realized who it was, I was speechless. It was no other person than Orion, the CEO of the company I worked for, whom people referred to as one of the most ruthless, worst, and inhuman beings in the whole existence of life.

After the one-night stand with him, he had been obsessed about me and wanted me to be with him by all means. He had sworn to do anything in order to get me, even if it meant tearing the world apart.

This was just the tip of the iceberg because the torture was just beginning. He even offered my husband ten billion dollars only if I divorced him willingly, he promised to give me all the riches I had ever wanted but I refused. My husband hated me for that. This was where my husband Caspian, turns into something I refer to as a demon in human form making me experience hell on earth, a nightmare I couldn't run from, neither hide from, and this was all because of a billionaire who wants to fuck me by all means.