WHO ARE YOU?

Pearl’s pov~

“What beautiful breasts you have” I heard a voice say before cold hands fondled them gently.

The voice sounded soft, like a dream.

I've heard this voice before….

I tried to stir but my body was numb and it felt like I was bound up.

“I wonder what happens if …..” the voice continued before I imagined her tracing her fingers down my body, but instead I felt something cold trickling down.

Like heavy metal, it felt like a gun...

I gasped in horror, realising what was happening, I opened my eyes and almost immediately I closed them as bright light penetrated deep into my eyes.

I groaned in pain before turning away, and slowly I opened them again.

As soon as I realised I'd been kidnapped, I saw a gun pointing at the middle of my face.

A woman’s bright smile welcomed me as she held the other side of the gun firmly.

“We were having so much fun, you've ruined it and now I've got no choice but to kill you if you don't do what we say” she grinned happily.

Fear overtook me, I looked closer, I'd seen her before.

At the hospital, I struggled to pin her face but then it struck me.

“Dr Renata!” I exclaimed, springing up from where I lay but I couldn't move much, my hands were bound together.

“Finally awake” she smiled, what the hell is going on, did Nico put her up to this?

“I've already fulfilled my end of the bargain so why am I being held against my will?” I asked.

She smirked, turned and walked towards the table in front of her.

I looked around as she leaned on it, trying to understand where I was.

“Oh don't bother trying to figure it out, you’ll never guess where but after we are done with our talk I'll let you go if you cooperate” she finished.

“I don't understand. What else does Nico want from me?” I asked, trying to pull the binds off me but they were fastened too well.

She laughed again before picking up a syringe from the table, “who said anything about Nico?”

I gasped in horror, if she’s not doing this on Nico’s orders then why am I here?

So many questions, and no answers.

My life had just taken a dramatic turn in the past 24 hours, Dr Renata adding to the list was the last thing I expected when I walked out of the hospital.

“You sneaky little bitch, you tried to run didn't you, thought I wouldn't know?” she continued before flicking the needle, the golden fluid from the syringe squirted out from the opening and she smiled.

“There’s someone who’d like to meet you, and I think you’ll be more than glad to hear what they have to say” She paused before injecting me with the syringe.

“What the hell do you want from me….” she smiled again and pushed the content into me,

“Please stop! Please….sto……”

My voice shivered with fear as it trailed off into silence.

I slumped into a deep calming sleep.

“Mmmmm” I mumbled as I woke up, this time my hands were free, and the smell was different.

The soft smell of the ocean greeted my nose.

I opened my eyes and looked around, I was alone in the room, there was a portrait of a beauty queen at the centre of the room.

Her smile was beautiful, the type to never forget.

As I slowly got out of the bed I lay in I stretched, somehow I needed that sleep.

But I wasn't safe, I had to know who my captor was and how Dr Renata was involved in this.

My mind strayed to Nico, he probably thought I abandoned him and little Sophie.

Guilt washed over me and regret crept right after, if only I didn't step out of the hospital all of this could have been avoided.

I turned to the open balcony that beckoned to me, I walked slowly to it as I yawned, my eyes still heavy.

The beautiful scene before me was the vastness of the ocean.

“Where am I?” I asked myself looking around but all I could see were rocks below and it seemed the house was on top of it.

“You are in my beach home” came a reply, I turned almost immediately.

That voice.

“Nico!” I gasped in horror, my face fell as I saw my handsome saviour standing in front of me.

Hands inside his pocket and he stood elegantly before me.

He gave off a mystic aura that I couldn't help but be drawn to.

“You kidnapped me?” I asked, stepping backwards, as fear overtook me yet again.

“You left without a proper goodbye, I wanted to see you again” he smiled.

I was mute, maybe I did and so what I don't owe him anything I have one thing in mind and one thing only.

Revenge.

“No I didn't kidnap you I saved you yet again” he assured me.

I was sceptical, but the door was open suggesting that I could leave at any moment.

“But Dr Renata….”

“I'm sorry about her, turns out she’s been feeding my enemies information about my daughter.

One of my guards saw her acting suspicious so we had her followed” he paused before taking out his left hand from his pocket to rub his chin.

“Now I'm afraid you have been caught in the crossfires of an ongoing turf war, and for that I'm sorry”

I was confused, what exactly was this man talking about, what is a turf war?

“I don't understand. What has that got to do with me leaving, what turf war I don't remember my husband… Sorry ex-husband discussing wars, he is a businessman”

Nico looked away and gave a small laugh before turning back to me.

“Oh pretty pearl” he started before moving closer to me, he touched my cheek lightly with the back of his hand.

I flinched back in fear as the air between us suddenly grew tense.

“Your husband never told you anything about me and our dealings, did he?” he asked, looking down at my confused face.

“Tell me what?”

“Who I am, who Nico D’Angelo is?”

I stepped back again and again as I watched him stand motionless looking at me.

I clenched the iron rails of the balcony as waves crashed below creating an aura of mystery as this handsome man with beautiful piercing eyes looked back at me.

I could tell that I'd plunged myself into something dangerous.

“Who….who are you?” my lips quivered in fear as I asked.

“I'm the most dangerous Man in all of New York City Pearlita, the most feared Don In all the states, Don Nico D’angelo and now you have become mine to protect”