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The Billionaire's Toy You trapped him.
Her head throbbed. She could feel her pulse in her temples.The low hum of distant conversation could be heard. Her wrists were raw from rubbing against the rope that bound them. The dark room was cold, and her teeth hurt from chattering. The side of her face stung from where she’d been slapped some time earlier. She’d never known how much fear could hurt. It chilled her bones with an ache so powerful it took over her senses. It ate away at her focus and strength. The worst pain of all though, came from her chest. Her breasts were swollen with the milk that should be feeding her baby.“My baby,” she groaned.“She’s fine, Audrey. Don’t lose hope. You know she’s safe.”“Becca,” Audrey whimpered. “It hurts so much.”“I know,” Becca winced at the sound of Audrey’s voice. The agony she was in was evident. She feared that infection may set it soon. If it hadn’t already. “I know it hurts. But everything is going to be okay. Think of Bella, and Lucien, and Tracy, your dad, and Damian. Think o
The Billionaire's Toy Get a suit.
“If you kill her, he’ll hate you!”Becca yelled, trying to get Mia to stop.“At first,” another slash, another scream. “But overtime, he will learn to love me again!”“What the fuck is going on here?” a man’s voice echoed over them, and the door opened again. With the light that streamed in, Becca was able to glance at Audrey. She looked to be bleeding everywhere. Her face, belly, chest, arms.“If Audrey dies, your plan won’t work!”“Dies?” the man seemed annoyed, but then he took in the scene. “You dumb bitch! Get the hell out of here!” he yelled at Mia.“But…”“I said get out!”Mia scrambled off the floor and scurried out of the room.“Fuck,” he swore. “Now I have to get someone to patch this up. Shit.”“Please just send her to a hospital!” Becca implored.“Not until Lucien completes his end of the deal. Then he can take you both to the hospital himself.” He walked out, muttering about sending someone soon to bandage her up.“No, please! Come back!” But he was gone. “Audrey?”“Becca…
The Billionaire's Toy His own happiness
“No, Lucien.Not a ‘good’ suit. This needs to be a bad ass suit. The kind that people wear in movies for this kind of thing. It’ll give everything more impact.”“I thought he wanted me humiliated,” Lucien raised an eyebrow.“Well, yeah. But you’re going into battle. You’re going to need armor.”Lucien pondered about that. Captain Whitlock was right of course. This was a war. But all of his suits were at his home, and he couldn’t send anyone there for risk of them being followed back. Until Audrey was safely back in his arms, and Becca was freed, he couldn’t allow any mistakes or slipups. Everything had to be precise. But something in the back of his mind tugged at him. Something will go wrong.“This is going to work… isn’t it?” Lucien asked.“What do you mean?”“Following the plan. Doing what Eugene wants.”“As long as he reacts the right way, it will.” Captain Whitlock sat back. His body language said relaxed. But his eyes… There’s that look again. “Follow your instincts, Lucien. This
The Billionaire's Toy The crowd.
Lucien’s phone rang, startling everyone. Captain Whitlock rushed back into the room. He wordlessly signaled his team to begin recording and set up another trace. After everything was set up, he made sure that everyone knew to remain silent. With a nod, he told Lucien to answer.“You have some more demands for me?” Lucien answered.“I’m beginning to hear some rumblings about an announcement,” the caller said. “That’s good. However, I am inpatient. I am moving up the deadline to two o’clock this afternoon.”“Fine,” Lucien answered. He tried to sound unbothered. But the truth was his blood froze in his veins. Do we have enough time?“Fine?” the caller repeated. “Well, well, well. Aren’t we confident?”“Is there anything else?”“The contract we spoke of will be sent to your office. After the press conference, you’ll walk up to it and sign it. The instructions on how to send it to me and how to recover your precious women will be with it. Understood?”“Yes. Let me speak to her.”“I’m afrai
The Billionaire's Toy Not following the plan
Right. Lucien walked up to the large collection of microphones and took a deep breath. You are Lucien fucking Reynolds, he reminded himself. You’re going to do this and get your woman back.**********Back at Mark’s home, the pressure was thick. The three of them were glued to the TV, barely able to breathe.“This is it,” Damian said as they watched Lucien walk to the podium. “You think he’s got it?”“I know he’s got it,” Mark said.“He has to,” Tracy added. “Everything is riding on this.”“It’s going to be okay,Tracy. You’ll see. Captain Whitlock already has people in position. As soon as the announcement is made, he’ll give them the signal to move in.”**********Lucien could feel every eye on him. Mark, Tracy, and even Damian’s were on him as well. It was unnerving, but somehow empowering at the same time.“Hello everyone,” he said into the microphones. “If you’d give me your attention, I’d like to begin.”The unrest among the press died down and their rapt attention was his.Lucie
The Billionaire's Toy Tricked.
“Let us go, Mia!” Becca begged. “Let us go. We’ll tell the police you helped us. Then they can get you the help you need. Please let us go!”Mia looked at Becca and rushed over to her.“Why? So, you all can just forget me and move on? So, Lucien can cast me aside and pretend that I never existed?” she yelled.“You were the love of his life!” Audrey sobbed.Mia turned and slapped Audrey with her gun.“I AM the love of his life!” she shouted. “I taught him what happiness was! He can’t have it without me! But don’t worry! I’ll take care of it.”“Please don’t hurt him,” Audrey cried.“I would never hurt him,” Mia grabbed a rough handful of Audrey’s hair. “I’ll make sure he never forgets me. Never. I’ll stay with him forever.” She threw Audrey to the side.Audrey groaned as her head thudded against the concrete floor.Mia walked out of the room but didn’t shut the door.“Audrey?” Becca’s voice quivered.“I’m okay,” Audrey whimpered. “The door is open. Do you think we can get out of here?”
The Billionaire's Toy We found them
Yes, sir!”“Thank you all for coming,”Lucien said as he concluded the press conference. “I am giving this city my solemn vow that Reynolds Industries will continue to serve its people with the utmost veracity and transparency. I am personally dedicated to bringing this individual or group to justice. Another press conference will be held at such a time when more is uncovered. No further questions or comments at this time. Thank you all again.”Calls and cries erupted from the crowd, begging for another statement as Lucien walked away. Once he was away from prying eyes, he removed the earpiece and called the captain.“Do we have them?” Lucien asked.“There’s a problem,” Captain Whitlock answered.“What problem? Are they hurt?”“They weren’t there. The call was being fed through a burner phone. Essentially, Eugene called this phone, and someone else added you to the call. It’s sloppy, but good enough to throw off a trace.”“What does that mean? Did we fail?” His stomach fell to his feet
The Billionaire's Toy At the hospital.
“We haven’t gotten an update in a while,” Damian paced the length of the dining room. “Should we call?”“No,” Mark said. “They could be in the middle of something.”“Lucien’s press conference sure has stirred things up,” Tracy said, flipping through the channels. Every channel was replaying his announcement and subsequent aftermath. The city was in an uproar.Lucien had been right about one thing. Reynolds Industries was a household name. In some form or fashion, everyone depended on that company. “Come look.”Mark and Damian walked over. They expected for the press conference to create waves, but not of this magnitude.Tracy kept flipping through channels but stopped when she found one that wasn’t covering the conference.“We are coming to you live minutes after Lucien Reynolds shocked the city to its core. Troops of police officers were seen surrounding this building behind me, currently under construction. Slated to be a small office suite, just moments ago, an object was seen fall
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The Billionaire's Toy FINAL CHAPTER.
NEARLY TEN YEARS LATER….Lucien came to a halt in front of a school,he sometimes come to get the kids from school,sometimes Audrey does that or their driver.He got down from his car and saw them approaching,all three of them.Louis ran up to him excitedly.Lucien caught him and carried him on his arms.“How was school today?”Lucien asked.“It was fine.”His eldest child,Bella replied with a broad smile.He gave Braylon,his second child who was seven years old a fist bump as they got into the car.***********Lucien hurried around the kitchen,Audrey was busy with work today so he had wanted to take care of the children,feed them and put them to sleep before she comes back home so that when she gets back,she can have a good rest…well a good rest after they finish making love.He was preparing pasta for the kids and he knew he had to make it perfect,otherwise,Braylon would complain and tease him for days.Audrey has been busy these past couple of days but she promised to make it up to him
The Billionaire's Toy Determination.
“What does that even mean?”“He had a strange obsession with Lucien. Everything Lucien did, he wanted to do. Everything Lucien had, he wanted to have. There was one year that he intentionally matched everything Lucien wore. He used to tell everyone that they had the same middle name. He even started talking to another girl in our class named Mia just because that was Lucien’s girlfriend’s name. I never liked him.”“Lucien never noticed this?”Mark let out a long, heavy sigh.“What you need to understand about Lucien, especially at that age, is that he was hungry for validation. Starving for it. If anything, all that strange attention made him feel important. To be perfectly honest, there may even be a good chance he didn’t even notice it. He was so wrapped up in Mia… his world didn’t have capacity for anything else.”Audrey felt small for a moment.“He really loved her, didn’t he?”Mark glanced at her for a moment and noted the sadness in her eyes.“He thinks he did. That wasn’t love,
The Billionaire's Toy Jailed again.
“We saw that sexy ass car out here, and Nathan got the keys to go move it,” another young officer explained with tears in eyes and panic in his voice. “We all wanted… we all wanted to see. But when he turned the key… when he turned the key…” the young man sobbed. “Some people were too close and got caught in the explosion.”Captain Whitlock looked over at Lucien.“I think you were already bait and didn’t even know.”It was as though he was moving through sand. Nothing registered. Nothing clicked. Not the unnatural metal of the handcuffs as they tightened around his wrists. Not the officers’ angry voices as the read him his rights, or the rough hands that pushed and shoved him into a cell. Not when those cell doors slid home with a loud, echoing clang. Captain Whitlock tried to stop the way they were mishandling him. But they had lost one of their own. A young man who was vibrant and full of life, at the beginning of his career.Another one. Because of me?“I get one phone call. I need
The Billionaire's Toy The explosion.
Lucien’s eyes flashed up at the captain, filled with anger and anguish.“She contacted me while I was in Italy,” he almost snarled.“After you and Audrey had just been married?” Captain Whitlock raised an eyebrow.“Don’t judge me. There were… circumstances about that marriage. Either way, I didn’t want to see her. But she said that she needed someone to keep her from… Hurting herself.”The irony. She had run to him once to prevent that. But in the end, she had forced him to witness it. His eyes were dark and stony as he fought to keep his emotions in check. Part of him wanted to give in. To breakdown and just give in to himself. Anything to make these feelings go away forever.Captain Whitlock softened as he realized what was going on in Lucien’s mind.“Sorry. Why was she seeking such an intense escape?”“She was running from him. She said their marriage was in shambles and that things had gone horribly wrong, that he was cheating on her.”“That was it? He wasn’t hurting her?”“She sa
The Billionaire's Toy We were friends
“Philip Carson”The name hung in the air between them, like a two-ton brick. After all this time, Ghost had a name. Now the hunter, could become the hunted.“Holy shit,” the captain fell back into his chair. All the air left his lungs. “That punk? That punk is Ghost?”“You know him?” Lucien’s eyes almost fell from his head.“I had him. Right here in this office years ago,” Captain Whitlock seethed. “Right there!” he shouted and kicked his chair across the room. “Ghost was right there!”“What the hell for?”“That piece of shit kid was always getting into trouble. Vandalism, petty theft, property theft, arson… all kinds of stuff. Typical spoiled rich boy shit. No offense. I always knew that kid was disturbed. He had no remorse for anything. The only thing he ever regretted was getting caught”“This was before he became Ghost obviously.”“Well, yes. But do you know that this means?”“What?”“It’s insanity. It’s the most oversimplification of anything that has ever happened.”“What?” Luci
The Billionaire's Toy Philip Carson.
He began spending most of his time at the building. “Command” they’d been calling it. Eugene and Mia couldn’t be trusted. The first prisoner,Racheal…Rebecca … whatever her name was, was being beaten even though he had given explicit instructions that she was not to be touched. And Mia could not at all be trusted with the other one. God, what was that one’s name? Ava? Avery? It was something with an “A”he was certain. Either way, it didn’t matter. They had to keep them both alive and the two overly emotional idiots he was working with were going to mess it up.Lucien was supposed to do a press conference and announce that he was relinquishing the company over to his cousin. The press conference was Eugene’s idea. He wanted a public take down and humiliation of his cousin. He was all for anything that made Lucien suffer. This plan wasn’t going to work. But he was interested to see how it would unfold.They planned to watch the press conference together. After it, his plan was to slink
The Billionaire's Toy A better way.
His life had become a tunnel and the only light at the end of it was the demise of Lucien. It was the driving force in his soul. It was the pulsing his blood. His first meeting with Eugene set his plan back into motion. There was no improvising. Without even realizing, Lucien had been slipping through his fingers like fine sand. Always just beyond his reach. But this time he would get inside of Lucien’s world and destroy him from within.He kept a close watch on Lucien’s personal life. It seemed Mia had run back to marry him as he had anticipated. What he didn’t anticipate was the wrath it fueled in him. It was interesting. It had been so long since he felt any real emotion that it caught him off guard. Ever since he’d killed his father, it was as though he’d murdered his own feelings as well. Other than hate, nothing else lived within him. He often wondered why he even continued to do anything. He did have to admit that he was chasing the thrill of that first kill. Nothing ever seeme
The Billionaire's Toy Closer to Lucien.
“I told you not to get involved with her. Her father is my rival, and he has been encroaching on our territory. This,” he indicated the dead woman. “is a message.”“I loved her!” he screamed back, cradling her corpse in his arms.“You loved the other one too.”“This was different,” he cried. “She was pregnant! You killed my woman and my baby! We were going to tell you tomorrow night at dinner!”“Then I did you a favor. Children are a weakness, and you aren’t strong enough yet.”“Not strong enough?” he saw red. The vestiges of whatever humanity he had left dissipated. All that was left behind was anger and a thirst for vengeance. All the warmth left his soul. There was nothing left now. Nothing except an abyss with no end. He leveled his own gun at his father. “No one is stronger than me.”“Son, be careful.” His father’s eyes went wide. He dropped his gun and threw up his hands. He walked backwards slowly, like an animal being cornered by a predator. “You’re overly emotional right now.
The Billionaire's Toy No emotion.
Once she made the mistake of asking him what he and his father did. He brandished a gun and held it to her chest. To her immense relief, it wasn’t loaded. But she found that out only after he fired it. Bone aching terror was all she knew. Whatever life she had was almost gone. The only thing that was left was the memory of Lucien.Being with him was the last time she felt happy and safe. She clung onto the memories, and they were the only things keeping her afloat. Life was a nightmare and she just wanted to sleep.He knew he should have been treating her better. He knew that, but he just couldn’t seem to care. They were in love once. Or perhaps they just thought they were. The truth was that he was an escape to her. An escape from a life she thought she didn’t want. It was obvious that she wanted out. But his one issue was who she wanted to run to. He’d let her go if he knew that she wasn’t going back to him, back to Lucien.He refused to lose to him. So, as long as he knew she would r
