CHAPTER 9

Nicole

"Lucky you." Sienna mumbled sarcastically while throwing the box away at the table where it landed with a small clang.

I glanced up just in time to see a man walking out of the room wearing a grey suit that emphasize his back muscles perfectly.

The other guy who came in with sienna ran after him and I saw Sofia stepped into the light while glaring at sienna.

"That was too much sienna, you almost killed her!" Sofia said angrily at sienna, who chuckled.

"Almost. But she's still alive right?" Sofia scoffed while looking over at me with concern.

My body still lingered with that shocking sensation and I'm starting to feel dizzy. That, was the most traumatic experience I've ever been through. I suddenly felt weak and pain seems to be taking over everywhere.

For a minute back there, when sienna was still electrocuting me, a sudden urge of giving up tempted me. I was about to give up everything and tell them the truth because I cant handle the pain that I was going through anymore.

But I'm not that weak and fragile. Instead of giving up, I urged myself to be strong and keep holding on and not giving up so soon. But that voice, that masculine dangerous voice that yelled out those words for sienna to stop, made me flinched during that moment.

Who was he? Is he the one whose controlling everything here? Is he the one that made them kidnapped me?

"Since you're the enemy here, its best if we keep you from seeing things that you don't need to see." Sienna said while tying that damn blindfold over my eyes once again and making sure to tie it very tightly at the back of my head.

I remained quiet, while I heard shuffling around me and then I felt the ropes tied around my hands became loose. I sighed in relief when I felt the ropes left my wrist and a painful sting shoots up from both of my wrists.

Must be the bruises.

"Lets go." Sienna said while grabbing my left arm and pulling me up to stand. Since I've been trapped down here for so long while sitting at that chair without moving, the numbness and soreness jolted through my body making me stumble forward and if it wasn't for Sienna's tight grip on my arm, I would've landed on my ass and kissing the floor.

"Watch it!" Sienna yelled in my ear and I scoffed.

"Yeah as if that's gonna help, I'm fucking blindfolded!" She tighten her grip on my arm harder while her nails dug into my skin.

"You really don't know when to shut up do you?" She asked harshly while tugging harder on my arm and leading me to wherever she's taking me to.

"Thought you would be used to it by now. I'm not that surprised that your brain is too slow to progress any changes." I replied back sarcastically.

"Shut it. You're lucky I'm the first one to deal with that fucked up sarcasm of yours instead of Shane. Say one wrong thing to him and you'll be dead in seconds." I remained quiet while I let her tug me forward with the only sounds of our footsteps echoing around us.

Shane? Who is that? Is he the one that was inside the room earlier and the one who yelled for sienna to stop? If he's really the one who's in charge around here then my fucked up attitude wont be the only thing he's gonna get from me.

I heard a door being opened in front of me and sienna pushed me in.

"Sit." She says while pushing me down to sit on a hard chair.

"Take off her blindfold." That familiar deep voice spoke again with a firm demanding tone. And I'm now aware that he's sitting right in front of me.

Shane

Sienna ripped her blindfold away and Nicole closed her eyes while a small groan escaped her lips. She squinted her eyes and blinked a few times and finally looked up.

As soon as her eyes met mine, I felt this weird sensation surged through my whole body. A low sigh escaped my lips the minute I stared into her gorgeous brown eyes.

Whoa

I caught her eyes quickly scanned my face while she stared at me again with a blank look . Even though, she looks messy right now with blood smeared on her face and a few cuts and bruises here and there, she still looks mesmerizing.

Shane she's the enemy

I snapped out of my gaze immediately and cleared my throat while looking back at her with a cold stare.

"Nicole parish." I stated. She tilted her head upwards and narrowed her eyes at me.

"Am I really that popular around here? Is that why I keep hearing you all say my name repeatedly? Cos I'm really flattered, I really am, if I'm really  that famous here which is why you and your sidekick bitch over here keep uttering my name like some fucking chant!"

The room went silent after her sudden outburst and I held back a chuckle.

She's

feisty. Too feisty

"Do you know why you're here?" I asked slowly while propping my arms on top of my desk and intertwined my fingers together.

"Do I look like I fucking know everything that's going on here? I was kidnapped the minute I stepped out of the airport so how the hell am I suppose to know the real reason why I'm here and what the hell do you all want from me?!"

I narrowed my eyes at her.

She doesn't know

"You really don't know do you?" She scoffed while leaning back on her seat.

"Yeah no shit sherlock." I stood up from my seat and went around the table and leaned on it right in front of where Nicole is sitting.

"Do you know who your father really is? Do you know what he does for a living? Do you even know, the real reason why he kept you away and safe for the past 4 years?"

She glared at me and I caught her glare slightly wavered.

"You do realize that your father is not really who you think he is right? He's the reason why you're here, suffering and in pain. Why? Do you even wanna know why?" I asked. She looked away while glaring at the wall.

"Cut the bullshit! Just tell me why I'm really here!"

"Don't talk while I'm talking!" I yelled down at her with warning tone and she quickly glanced back at me and frowned.

"You wanna know why you're here? Well here's the truth sweetheart. Your father is drake parish. He runs the most biggest drug syndicate here in whole of Chicago and has connections to the most biggest, dangerous gangs and Mafia's here in whole of america except with me." She stared at me with an angry scowl.

"You wanna know why? Because he's my enemy right now. He's the reason why you're stuck here Nicole. He messed with my business and my people and that's simply mean he's messing with me. He messed with the wrong people." I folded my arms across my chest, while letting her take in what I just explained.

"You're lying. My father is not the man you're describing. He owned a normal business not some drug shit you're making up!" My anger flared up within me and I caught sienna and Cameron looking at me, both afraid of what I might actually do if I let my anger take over.

"I guess he wasn't going to tell you anytime sooner. I mean, he's been running his drug organization for over 40 years right now and you still don't know? Damn, I should give him an award for the best liar and father of the year." She kept glaring at me and I smirked.

I signaled to Toby immediately and he step forward towards her side while shoving an iPad in her face with the ugly pictures of drake in it doing his dirty work.

I watched her expression turned into anger and then confusion and then denial and then her face completely went blank. I was a bit surprised that she has the ability to mask her emotions immediately and put up her guard every time she's about to break apart.

"There you go. The truth." She shook her head furiously.

"Hell no. These are fucking photo shopped, that's not my father." I held back a yell of annoyance. Can't she just accept the fact that her father was lying to her this whole time?!

"Stop forcing yourself in denial. That's your damn father right there, and now you know what he truly does. So accept it!" I yelled in her face and her blank expression slightly wavers.

"Why am I here?" I clutched the edge of the table with both hands.

"I'm going to end your father and then you. So tell me where he is." She gazed at me with cold expressionless eyes.

"I don't know." She muttered out loud harshly.

"Don't expect me to believe you. You know where he's hiding." She scoffed.

"Where he's hiding? Are you kidding me right now? You just told me not even five minutes ago who my father really is and what he secretly does and you just saw how clueless I was to all this! I fucking got kidnapped the minute I stepped foot here in Chicago after 4 fucking years in UK without knowing the real reason why I had to live there and not being able to return home to see my dad even on weekends!" She yelled.

"You think I came back here on purpose to get myself taken away by you people and knew that my father is in hiding from you? And that I knew that you'll try to find me and make me tell you where he is? You think that I came back knowing that I have to risk my and my fathers life?"

She does have a point.

"Just tell us where he is!" I growled.

"I fucking don't know! I don't know where he is and its not like he tells me where he is all the time cos he knows that I will always thought he's either at home or work so he doesn't bother to even tell me." She said while bowing her head down. I inhaled deeply and went back around the table and sat down in my seat while facing her.

"Fine. If you don't wanna tell us then we're keeping you here for as long as I like till you decide to tell us the truth." I replied and she stared back at me with a glare.

"Sofia, you'll take care of her." Sofia stepped up to her side and was ready to help her out of the chair when she spoke again,

"Wait!" We all looked at her expectedly.

"I still don't know who you all are." I chuckled while leaning back in my seat.

"Since you're gonna be here for a while I might as well introduce us to you."

"Yeah cos I'm that excited to know who my kidnappers are." She shot back sarcastically. I gritted my teeth in frustration.

Her stupid sarcasm is really starting to piss me off.

"You've met sienna and Sofia, that's Cameron and Toby and I'm Shane." I introduced while nodding at each of them to show her which one is which.

"I didn't ask for your fucking names! I want to know what you are and who you're all working for." She said with an annoying tone. I raised a brow at her and smirked.

"We're the knight Ryder's darling. And you're stuck in a room full of dangerous people that are part of the most powerful, dangerous and ruthless Mafia that has America under control by their Mafia king who's in charge of everything that is happening all around you, and their Mafia king who won't take no for an answer from a clueless feisty women like you."

Her eyes slowly widen as she glanced around the room with cautious.

"Mafia king?" She asked out loud with confusion.

"Yes darling. Mafia king." I repeated. She stared at me with wide shocked eyes and I smiled at her.

"Me."