CHAPTER 14: DO NOT PUSH YOUR LUCK
CHAPTER 14: DO NOT PUSH YOUR LUCK
NIKOLAI’S POV:
I stormed out of the room and out of the mansion, my teeth grinding, I went to the car.
“The keys Lev”, I instructed Lev and he didn’t hesitate. I got the keys from him and drove out in anger.
I needed to blow some steam off.
‘How dare that little girl?! So ungrateful’, I thought as I drove.
How can she call me a psycho when I was the one who helped her?
Was she really thinking Nate would help her out of the mansion?! It was almost funny.
When I saw her at that auction, in a cage and naked, looking like a damsel in distress. I remembered the look on that detective’s face when I looked at the photo frame of him and his daughter.
I will not be in support of what they do in that auction but I was glad I went, immediately she was announced and the bidding on her started, I had a smirk on my face as I watched those hungry old fools try to bid on her.
Just when someone bid 10 million on her, I knew it was my turn to strike.
“50 million dollars”, I said.
I could remember the shock on the auctioneer and Ivan’s face.
“50 m-million? Are you crazy brother?!”, He asked me.
“What? You brought me to an auction and you expected me not to buy anything? Of course you know how competitive I can be”, I replied him.
I knew 50 million dollars was a ridiculous amount to spend on a sex slave but, I didn’t buy her for that purpose. She wasn’t my type.
I needed her for much bigger purposes and I thanked Ivan for bringing me here right after I broke his nose.
When I brought her home, I wasn’t sure what to do with her so I ordered them to lock her far away, her screams and pleas where annoying.
‘Maybe I should just shoot her in the head’, but then my money would be a waste, not that I cared about such little change.
I instructed the maids to feed and dress her and the guards to keep an eye on her.
A week after, something urgent came up back in Russia so I left to attend to it.
The issue was a minor issue but my mother wouldn’t let me go back to America that easily, I had to spend few more weeks with her.
After 3 weeks in Russia, I go a call from my head guard that the damsel at home has fainted.
I thought it to be one of her little tricks she usually pull to escape, I’ve been kept informed.
When I was certain that it was serious, I called Nate right away and he handed straight to the mansion.
Nate and I have known each other for more than 7 years, I helped his hospital from going bankrupt and he owed me a favor ever since then, he was like family and he came right away.
I took the earliest flight back to America and Nate briefed me on her health.
“It isn’t so serious, but thank goodness I got here on time”, he said.
“Yea sure”, I responded.
He had this suspicious look on his face, like he had a question to ask me.
“Go ahead, say it”, I told him.
“Who is she Nikolai?”.
I smirked, I knew that’s what bugging him.
“Nobody special”, I said, not taking my eyes off the unconscious figure on my bed.NôvelDrama.Org copyrighted © content.
“Nobody special? But you had me come here when you could have just sent her to a hospital”.
“Yes, because I trust you”, I smiled at him, my eyes now looking at him.
I was still driving, raging from the argument I just had with that… girl.
She has no idea how much I refrain myself from wanting to shoot her everyday.
I drove with speed, breaking all the traffic rules, I didn’t care about a ticket, I can just pay for it.
I parked at a hilly quiet place and I still wasn’t cooling off.
“Fucking… child! Fuck!!”, I cussed as I hit on the steering wheel.
I got out of the car and I checked my wrist watch, it was a few minutes pass 10pm.
I took out the pack of cigarette in my suit jacket, took out a stick of cigar, placed it between my lips and I lit it with a lighter.
I dragged in the smoke and let it out of my mouth and nose, then I sighed.
‘What am I doing?’, I didn’t know what was even wrong with me.
I would never let anyone talk back at me like that, she has crossed the line and she’ll pay.
***
It was two days after that incident, I let her starve by giving her smaller portions of food just twice a day.
I know she isn’t fully recovered but that was a warning for her to know her place. She was not in my league.
I was in my study room and I heard a knock on the door.
“Come in”, I said.
Lev came in with a brown envelope in his hands, he bowed briefly and handed the envelope to me.
“This was what you asked for Boss”, he said.
“You may leave”, he bowed again and left.
After that day of the argument, I asked Lev to do a background check on Lily, everything about her.
Her birth, school life, what she does, her friends, boyfriend and exes, even her shoe size, favorite food, height, allergies and pass illnesses, what she had for lunch the day she was kidnapped, how she was kidnapped, every little detail counted.
I took out the content from the envelope and read through it.
She was only 7 years of age when her parents died.
“So she’s an orphan and adopted huh?”, I raised an eyebrow.
Then why was that detective so protective of her?
I continued reading through all the findings till I came across a report that caught my fancy.
To it was a photo attached, it was Lily and a girl during their highschool graduation, they had a big smile on their faces, behind the photo was the date and [Friends For Life ~Lily and Olivia~]
It turns out that that night I first saw her in the red dress, drunk and when Lev almost ran over her, she caught her boyfriend with the girl in this photo, having sex.
The guy in question, Troy and Lily, have been dating for almost two years and Olivia, her then best friend have been having sex with the boy for 5 months.
“Interesting”, I said out loud.
What’s almost shocking is that this same Olivia is the person behind her kidnap and sex slavery.
‘This Olivia girl got balls huh?’, I scoffed.
One thing I hated more than anything in this world is betrayal.
I took out another photo from the envelope and it was Troy, her ex boyfriend.
I read through the rest of the report, uninterested and bored. I needed to see her.
I stood up and left my study room, down to the basement where she was and I instructed the guard to let me in.
I got in and there she was, lying down helpless and weak.
‘What a good sight’, I thought.
“Lily”, I called out and just like that, she shivered when she heard my voice, a reaction I will remember forever, I liked it.
She raised her head and looked at me, anger in her doe white eyes. That look says she hates me but I don’t give a fuck.
“Good, I’ve got your attention… I know you are hungry and tired of staying in this room–“.
“You are wrong, I fucking detest every second I spend in this entire mansion”, She did it again, she not only talked back but she interrupted me.
My jaw tighten and my eyes grew darker.
“You really need to know when not to speak back”, I warned her, with the faintest smirk on my lips.
“Or what? You would kill me or hang me–“, I didn’t let her finish her words, I rushed to her and grabbed her by the jaw, really tight.
“You have no idea how easy it would be for me to crush this jaw of yours in just zero point one second huh?”, I asked her.
Her eyes grew wide in disbelief, she couldn’t believe what I was doing.
‘Well, she shouldn’t have dared the devil’.
I could see the tiny little beads of tears forming at her eyes. She was hitting my hand, silently begging me to set her free, but the more she clawed, the more pressure I applied to her jaw.
She squeezed her eyes shut and the tears came rolling down, then I let go of her.
She tried catching her breathe, holding both sides of her jaw with her hands, trying to see if they were still intact.
“Next time I might not be so generous, do not push your luck”, I said to her, standing in all my glory, hands in my pocket, I was looking at her tiny frame on the floor as she cried in silence.
“Pathetic”, I scoffed and left the tiny room, totally forgetting why I came here in the first place.
Told the guards to watch her and I left the mansion to take care of some business.
I just got hold of some men who thought they could betray me and move on to the enemy’s side without it causing them a thing.
With my anger already fueled by that Lily girl, I drove by myself to where those traitors where. I just need a little chitchat with them.