Entwined With the Villainous Guardian
Chapter 203: The Tape

Chapter 203: The Tape

Viviana went to greet Leander. He did not look good. But he didn’t look angry either. He looked at her and then climbed up the stairs.

Viviana took it as a cue to follow him. He went to his office, and so she wondered if she should return and maybe prepare lunch.

"Get in!"

Just as she turned to leave, Leander called her.

"I got it," he showed her a pen drive.

Viviana didn’t know what he was meaning.

"The one you asked for?" he added.

"Yes," Viviana stepped inside the room realizing that he meant the tape Gabriella mentioned.

"Um...have you..." she cleared her throat as she hesitated to ask him. But she needs to. "...watched it yet?"

Leander sighed. He then shook his head.

"Mmm..." Viviana chewed her lips. "You are not going to?" she asked.

Leander stared at her. Viviana didn’t understand what he meant. She stared back at him. After some time, she wondered if she should leave.

It’s odd that she cannot figure him out at certain times. Then she could never understand what she should do. It would be better if he tells her what he wants her to do.

He then sighed the dreaded sigh of exasperation. He looked at his laptop on the table.

Does he want to watch it now? Why is it hard for him to speak when it is needed? It’s not like I can read his mind! And why is he not having a MacBook? He can afford it! Come to think of it, he doesn’t use iPhone either. He uses android. Is there any particular reason for it?

Mumbling under her breath, she gave the pen drive back to him. But he stared at her and pointed at the laptop.

Viviana sighed. "You want me to..."

As she was speaking, he pulled out the chair for her. Having no other way, she sat on his chair and opened the laptop.

"You can watch alone," she said tilting her head at him.

She did not have the mental capacity to watch another assault done by Evander. She really didn’t think she could handle it.

"You’re watching. I’m not," he said. He sounded angry.

Leander having forgotten the important tidbit that his wife told him about the time she watched his brother sexually assault a fourteen-year-old girl, did get angry.

How can she ask him to watch another woman—the girl he was friends with—doing stuff with his brother? BROTHER? Does she have no sense?

Viviana was angry. But she was more determined to make sure that Leander knows what his brother does. Gritting her teeth, she decided to watch whatever that was.

"It’s asking for a password," she said and turned the laptop to him. She didn’t think that he will tell her his password.

"2909," he said blankly.

Viviana was surprised. Actually, she was double surprised. She didn’t think Leander would give up his password to her so easily. And the other thing...

It’s her birthday! 29th September is her REAL birthday. Why is he having that as his password? Is this a threat? Is he threatening me that he knows who I am?

"2909," he repeated.

His deep voice laced with impatience snapped her out of her reverie.

"Yes," she typed in the password and connected the pen drive. Her hands shook as she pressed ’Play’.

And the terrifying video started. Her heart was pounding she thought she might faint unable to bear it. It hurt her physically to watch it.

"The camera is on the table focusing on the bed. I see a hand...It’s Evander. He’s walking out of the room," Viviana described the scene she was seeing. Leander didn’t say anything. But she had decided to continue her commentary even if Leander tried to stop her. He needs to know.

"Gabby looks drunk...or...drugged, roofies, perhaps... She can’t even walk straight..." she clutched her jaws. "He’s throwing her on the bed. He’s making sure the camera is working again... He’s smiling looking down on her..."

Viviana’s hands shook. She checked the sound. It was at the lowest setting and she raised it. Not for her, no. She would rather die than be in this room watching this tape. But for Leander to hear, she increased the sound.

"Leander’s b*tch, huh?" Evander said and made thrusting motions in a pretty vulgar way. "I got your b*tch, little brother!" he shouted. Evander then turned on the music. It was not loud but soft, as if a lover was setting the mood for a steamy night with his beloved.

Viviana’s stomach churned. The camera caught the sound pretty well. Viviana didn’t dare to look at Leander. But she knew he could hear what his brother said.

"He’s undressing Gabby," she said. "And...he’s..." she turned her face away.

The sound of the bed creaking followed. Along with the soft music that creaking sound clashed. And there was the other sound she dreaded. The sound of flesh slapping.

It’s weird when she hears elsewhere. She didn’t mind it when it happened to her though.

Viviana didn’t look at it. But she let the video run for Leander to hear the sound. She had to swallow again and again to stop herself from throwing up.

"It was the mix Lionel made for her," Leander’s low voice made her look at him. He was sitting on the couch in front of her with his legs crossed. Staring out of the window, he looked sad.

"The songs..." Leander then pointed at the laptop. "For whatever reason, he thought that it would be better to say that I made that mix for her. I still remember the days he spent collecting those songs and burned them to a DVD for her to have a physical copy of her favorite songs..."

Leander’s eyes were on her. Viviana didn’t avert her eyes either. She saw the pain in his eyes. His eyes were rimmed red.

So, Evander was playing those songs he thought Leander mixed for her while he was r*ping her... How despicable is he? Well, she knew how despicable he was. He is lower than a snake’s belly.

The creaking sound of the bed stopped. Viviana let out a sigh and looked at the screen. Evander stood up with a victorious smile on his face. Pulling a chair, he sat beside Gabby and watched her lying motionless.

"Let’s see how your lover is going to feel about you now..." Evander said. "If he still f*cks you, he’ll be indirectly f*cking me..." he laughed. "That would be a very interesting dinner table conversation... how we f*cked each other, don’t you think, Brie...?"

Viviana gritted her teeth.

She thought it was over. She tried to stop the video and it was then she noticed.

"It’s more than two hours long..." she said. Her hands trembled and she couldn’t even move her hands.

"Maybe there is more than one tape," Leander said. "There might be other women..."

Just as Viviana watched, there was an edit, and then... it continued.

"It’s still Gabby and...He’s... with a bottle..." Viviana covered her mouth. She gagged as she couldn’t watch it.

There were screams. Gabby had woken up by the pain. "Stop," she shouted. "Please... someone help me...Leander, please..."

"You can shout all you want," Evander sneered. "Our rooms are sound-proofed. You see that wall over there... we share that wall. Leander is sleeping in that room right next to me...But he won’t hear you. Doesn’t that make this interesting? See, my d*ck agrees! It’s up again..."

"No..." Gabby pleaded. "Please stop. Let me go. I won’t talk about this to anyone. Just let me go... Please... Please... just let me go..."

Viviana got up from the chair. Leander was sitting like a frozen statue. He was mumbling something. She couldn’t hear him over the ringing voice in her head.

Gabby’s screams continued. Viviana didn’t dare to look at the screen anymore. Even the sounds were so horrible to watch.

*Tap*

She opened her eyes to see Leander slamming shut the laptop. He then stormed out of the room. She stood up and followed him to see what he was up to.

He went to the bathroom and locked it. She sat beside the door as she didn’t have the energy to move.

She thought Leander needed privacy. But she heard him emptying his stomach in the toilet. He was throwing up uncontrollably.

She wanted to move but she couldn’t. While she stayed outside the bathroom, he stayed inside the bathroom.

Both were not fine.

And Viviana cried thinking how hard it might be for Gabby to go through all that just when she was sixteen. All because one psychopath thought that she was the one his brother loved.

How cruel!

Viviana tried to knock on the bathroom door to call for Leander. But he didn’t answer her. She figured that he might want his privacy and let him be.

She went to bed. Her head was splitting with a headache.

She couldn’t fall asleep. But she pretended that she was asleep when Mary came to wake her up for lunch. Leander still wasn’t out of the bathroom.

In the evening, Leander came out of the bathroom. Viviana sat up hearing him in the closet.

"Aren’t you getting ready for the party?" he asked with his usual poker face.

Viviana wanted to scream.

What the... He still wants to attend his brother’s party?