Chapter One

As I got ready for school that morning and headed to the bus stop, I had no fucking idea that my life was about to get this shitty.

When the black luxury van had swerved past me, I had shrugged it off to the mere careless driving but here I was in a locked dark room, no idea of how I got here, my head banging terribly and some really huge men standing before me. I made to stand and felt a sharp pain, I was cuffed.

Shit.

"What am I doing here?, Who are you guys!?"

My voice broke at each stop. 

They made a jeering sneer at me and laughed out loudly.

I felt pain as one of them grabbed my chin so hard and pulled me forward.

"You better learn how to lower your voice here girl. If you weren't the boss special order, we wouldn't mind having you "

I was mad at this point and I did what next came to my mind. I spitted out my saliva on him and before I could think of what was about to happen, he slapped me..so hard I felt my eyes spin. My blurry eyes saw his hand coming up again and I tried scurrying away from him until the deep voice echoed in the room.

"I will take it from here Gora"

My fuzzy sight couldn't allow me picture his face but he was so tall and broad and at that moment, a look of familiarity flashed through my eyes.

"Alice"

That was the last thing I heard before I gave up to the dark.

White curtains, white wall, Tv, glassed vases, white cushions, a long office tables, I can't remember having all that. When I felt a hand touch mine, I was snapped back to reality. My hand pressed down to my pounding heart as I sat up.

My eyes fully open. I turned to my side, he was a miniature being, a small being so to say. I looked down on his big fat hands, the fact that he had touched me with those hands made me want to cringe so hard. 

The firm stride sound had me turn the other way. Memories of the dark room flashed through my eyes. He was the voice I heard, he had called my name and I knew him. His name was Logan.

Owner of the popular D'Nores film production Company.

The famous D'Nores Logan that I can't get enough of. I probably know all his movies by heart, watched all of course. His pictures are definitely more than mine in my phone, I stalk him on social media. I wouldn't be lying if I say, I'm his number one.

Well, So many girls will claim that too.  

I've always dreamt of meeting D'Nores one on one someday, as a poor girl from the countryside, that sounded much more impossible but here I am except this wasn't the Logan I thought he was.

I drew the duvet closer to myself and stared. Afraid he was going to get angry if I looked for too long and scared they were going to do something not so good to me if l look down, so I just took the safer way, stare.

I watched him tilt his head to the side and looked at me. His piercing gaze was so not helping matters. I pressed my hands more tightly to the duvet and tried to breathe. His eyes fixed on mine as he came closer.

 He clicked his fingers to the air and i watched the small man bow and leave. Was this some sort of royalty, I was tempted to ask. 

"Alice"

It dropped from his lips, so delicate yet firm. I would be crying right now if this was some other circumstance. This man up until now was my fave. A star I stanned. 

"You will be getting married to me"

Was I mad?..no

Was I about to turn crazy... yes.

I was up on my feet the next second, shouting to his face.

"You literally take me against my will Logan D'Nores and you haven't even given a fucking explanation to what I'm doing here and all you can come up with is that I'm getting married to you?, You're a monster!, A murderer. I saw your men kill that man outside in that dark room. It was your order"

I watched him smile, the dry type of smile and in one go, grabbed me by the hand and thrudged me forward, I almost fell. I Yelped out in a pain trying to loosen my hand from his hold. Truth be told I was scared at that point. I called him a murderer a while ago and he indeed at that moment had a murderous look to his eyes. 

"Do you have an idea who that man was?"

He snarled. I shook my head, water forming in my eyes 

"He was your brother"

My hand fell from his hold and when my wobbling legs couldn't carry me anymore, My body met the cold floor. The memories came flooding in. The chain the man had on was the same as my brother's, the haircut, the tattoo below his neck, the voice too. 

Why didn't I see all these?. I would have stopped it, I would have shouted to the men to stop. The sound of the knife plunging in and out of him. my heart sank. I tried, I tried to keep the tears from coming, not to give him the satisfaction he wanted but it came rolling down so uncontrollably. I wept so hard.

I think I must have slept off on the floor because when I opened my eyes to the blinding lights of the room, I could see the dark from the open window. I stared. I could find an escape from this window if there was or fall from it and end this whole drama. My brother was dead now, there was no much living for. He was the only support I ever had, he was a parent to me and they took his life right in front of me. I made small steps to the window and just when I was about to look down.

"You wouldn't want to do that now you know"

My heart jumped. I snapped my head behind me. It was a woman, a blonde. She looked like the celebrity hosts on Fame Diva's show that I never missed but when I looked more closely, the eyes, her blond waves, her body, the smile and the D'Nores tattoo on her naked arm, I almost scoffed. So this was all it. They never were what you thought they were. She was the famous Leah D'Nores on the Diva's show, in other words, Logan's only sister.

"I'm Leah, Leah D'Nores and I will be taking care of you until I leave for my modelling campaign. It's nice to meet you Alice"

I zoned out on her for once, I couldn't stand her presence, the urge to kill her at that moment was high.

 I wouldn't be able to do much on that aspect though and even if I succeeded, I won't get away with it. I'm sure her brother was going to make sure, it's a painful death on my part. So staying mute was the best option.

She bathed me, said she had to see the body herself, she gave me clothes and brought me food. I don't know what this shit was all about but at the end of the evening, killing myself was a pressing option.

"Logan will be here any minute, Don't shout at him, don't say shitty things, just hear him out" she shrugged "listen to him. It will do you more good"

She gave me a pat on the shoulder and walked out mouthing a goodbye from the door. Overall, she was nice, more nice compared to her brother but I really did doubt if she was.

I was already thinking of going to bed when the monster showed up in the room. Watching him from the bed where I laid, he really was the same man I saw from my television screen.

His black hair, he always had gelled to the side, the dimple even with the smallest smile, his grey eyes, the pursed lips every time. I think I must have dreamt of kissing them countless times. Nothing had changed except that I was seeing him right now and he killed my family.

I looked away, the tears were threatening to come again.

He sat on the single sofa opposite the bed and spoke

"So here are the rules Alice. Now that you're in town, you will be going to a new school, Gab, your driver will be taking you to school and bringing you back. You ain't going nowhere else apart from school until we wed and also here's a phone"

He threw the phone pack to the bed. I glanced at it and looked away.