[Cara]I asked Damon if we could take Aunt Margarette into his mansion while we waited for any update on where Nancy had been taken or if anyone called demanding ransom. Fortunately, he agreed, and we took Nancy’s mom with us.She was crying ceaselessly and I was doing my best to comfort her even though I was struggling myself either.Too many things had been going on, and the possibility of why she had been taken.One of our theories is that she had been targeted by one of the kidnap for ransom syndicates. Though Damon assures me, it’s not the case.Of course, he will know.He holds the largest ring in the city. However, he already explained to me that he does not condone such activity. He explicitly prohibited the entry of minor human trafficking and kidnap for ransom. Though he admits that he cannot control everything.It might be a possibility that Nancy was one of the unfortunate souls who happened to run into that place where the kidnappers were looking for their next victim.Bu
[Cara] Damon’s attention snaps on me, his grip on my arms tightens, and his dark gaze narrows.“You told him to come here?”Is he blind or something? Can’t he see that I am as flabbergasted as he is?“Are you mad? Why would I call him here?”Gaping, I pushed him away from me and put quite a distance between each other before I decided to smother him right here and now.Damon tilted his head, regarding me, with a hardened stare of incredulity. “Why wouldn’t you?”I snorted in mock outrage, crossed my arms, and pretended not to hear his allegations before shifting my attention to Davien.“Let him in,” I say, immediately earning vicious retaliation from the two of them.“What? Are you fucking mad?” While Davien keeps his mouth shut, which is very brilliant of him. Damon, on the other hand, did not take it lightly. I could see the angry veins at the side of his temple poking out in contempt.I know it may sound crazy, and letting a FED inside a mafia boss’s liar isn’t that much of a good
[3rd POV—Damon] “Bro, she has her fingers wrapped around your neck. She got you in a chokehold.” Davien teased his brother as Damon went up to the foyer with him while his gaze remained on the woman. He couldn’t say no.The bastard is smoking again, and as much as he wants to yank the blasted stick out of Davien’s lips, he stops and focuses his attention on Cara, patiently waiting for her friend in the driveway.It annoys him that she basically begged him for that FED guy to enter his domain and by allowing it. He was risking too many things. There are many possibilities that could go wrong with an FBI agent poking his nose about, but when Cara pleaded with him and offered something he couldn’t resist, he caved in and opened his gate for that goddamn agent, begrudgingly welcoming him into his abode.There’s no lie in Davien’s statement. Cara indeed had her grasp around his neck, and he didn’t even bother hiding it. She might not know it, but she had him so deep into her.“Wait till yo
[Cara]The dread has been filling me these past few hours after Nancy’s gone missing.Transient happiness brimmed me when mom came in. Though I was not expecting Simone’a appearance for tonight, his presence right now is greatly appreciated, and I could tell that it helped Aunt Margarette a little to be surrounded by those people she knew she could rely on.After the loss of his husband due to ruptured aneurysm years ago, Nancy was all she had left. Aunt Margarette and mom had been close friends before I was born. It was the right decision for me to make mom come over, aside from the fact that I mainly wanted her so that I could make sure she was alright. Aunt Margarette desperately needed emotional support to help her get through these dark times.We all needed each other.I could say Damon did not approve of this. He even treated Simone poorly. But somehow, I managed him to agree, even if this meant submitting myself to him completely.I mean, he may have already taken a lot from m
[3rd POV—Nancy]A bludgeoning headache hit Nancy soon as she roused to consciousness. The back of her throat eyes felt like they’d been sucked deep into her skull, and cotton balls jammed right into her throat. She tried to open her eyes, but the more she forced them wide, the more it hurt, eliciting a loud hiss to slip between her lips.What happened? She thought, wracking her brain with recollections of things. She was supposed to meet with her mother when things… ‘Have I got into a car accident? No, someone was following me,’ she recalled. Three cars tailing over her at the roundabout, and another came blocking her way.The reverberating sound of gunshots rang in her memories, jolting her body from where she had been laid flat, with each bullet striking her car. It was a miracle that she was not wounded, but she remembered people forcefully yanking her out of her vehicle. The sudden movement caused pain shooting down her back, prompting sudden gaps out of her and eyes peeled wide
[Cara]I could taste the bitter tension thick in the air, while my mom’s clammy hands gripped into mine tightly. I rub my thumb over the inside of her wrist, trying to calm her down. I need to act as if I am not scared, when in fact, I am. I know I am making a hasty decision and threats were prowling near us. But I just can’t take it anymore. I already have enough of everything and all I wanted to do is to save Nancy from wherever hellhole she might be now.Damon’s booming footsteps catch on us, and not a second later he appeared right in front of me. He looks like he was about to snap, but was hanging on a threat of patience left in him not to kill us all.That’s right. How could I ever forget that this man is a cold-blooded killer?How can I ever trust him with my life when he himself has already taken the lives of countless others without showing the slightest bit of remorse for his actions? For all I know, he doesn’t really have a plan for saving Nancy and was only trying to gasl
[Cara]I told Simone to take us to his place since that is the only place where I think Damon would not go. He suggested that we should all rest first and we’ll get into it tomorrow morning. Simone lived in a bachelor’s pad and it wasn’t much since he was just transferred here. Good thing he has one small vacant room that we can all squeeze in.Simone also initiated we should get ourselves some personal things on our way here so we can change our clothes into something comfortable. My mind seemed to have shut down for a moment, leaving my body in auto-pilot mode. I just pulled out a couple of random clothes off the rack and paid for everything we get.No one seemed to eat right after even though Simone had ordered us large boxes of pizza and fried noodles. Nothing seemed to be appetizing, so instead, I just went into the guest room and get ready to sleep. My body was almost drained of energy, exhausted, though my heart still ached after what happened back at the mansion. I let out a
[3rd POV—Davien]Davien watched Damon inside their torture room behind the thick glass wall. Flinging, throwing, kicking, and smashing everything he can get his hands on. He was screaming nonstop for hours and his hands were already bleeding from punching the wall and tearing the room apart.Ever since Cara left the mansion with that FED guy, Damon simply lost all control and turn feral. Davien couldn’t even control him anymore. Three men are dead because he beat the shit out of them. He basically turns into a beast the moment his beauty was gone. Davien didn’t know what to do with his brother anymore. It upsets him that they didn’t know where Burson had taken Nancy and now Cara knew about everything, she’s gone too.This is one of the reasons why he doesn’t want to get attached to someone that would soon leave him. Davien admits felt a twitch with Nancy and it made him so mad to find out she’s gone missing. If he doesn’t know how to control his emotions just like Damon, he would have