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Did she just scream at the one who has her life on the tip of his palm? People tell her that she was being too stubborn for a girl and it would lead her to a lot of trouble. Guess what they all said was coming true. She was in a bigger trouble. She expected to hear a big bang and then wake up in heaven or hell but felt nothing.

Slowly, she opened her eyes and caught his gaze on her with the gun away from her father's head. He didn't kill him?

The man looked at her from head to toe for the first time and drew his brows together. He was only focused on his traitor and never bothered about the daughter as he planned to kill them both anyway but she got his attention.

A girl so daring that she dared yell at him and call him an asshole when she was at the point of being gunned down?

He curled up the corner of his lips in amusement and faced her completely. "Guess you want to trade sides with him since you are so daring." 

"Please don't. Please don't touch her!" It was Edward's turn to panic as the intimidating man walked to his daughter and pointed the gun at her forehead. "Please I will bring your money. Let go of my daughter!" Edward's plead fell on deaf ears.

Loretta tried so hard to remain calm even though deep within her was an ocean of unsettled water, wanting to burst out of her.

"We will bring your money to you. Just let us go and get it. We can't do anything while being tied down here." She boldly offered even though her eyes were filled with the fear she was trying so much to hide.

He laughed and she felt her stomach tightened. At that moment, his laughter wasn't pleasant. She wasn't admiring him anymore as all she saw was a man who would kill her without any remorse if she made a mistake.

He had a gun to her forehead. Not the pleasant way she wished to die.

"Do you think you can pay four million dollars?"

Her eyes widened as she shot her gaze to her father who lowered his head. Four million dollars? She never saw him with that huge amount nor did he do anything meaningful with it.

What was she thinking? That her father would be redeemed soon enough and would go back to his former self? 

She was pushed out of her thoughts when the gunshot echoed in her ear. She heard a scream and her mouth pooped open as her eyes were filled with terror.

"Father!" She screamed out.

The man shut him without any feeling of sympathy. Edward placed his hand on his bleeding leg, crying out loud.

"He won't die until twenty minutes."

"You monster!" She tried to pull out of her chains and reach out to him but to no avail. She only caused more wounds to her wrist.

"Any time you waste, blame it on yourself. You either calm down and let's talk or you watch him die while trying to get out of your binds and attack me."

Loretta bit her lower lips knowing she didn't have a choice. She couldn't watch her father die no matter what he did. 

The man drew a chair and sat down before her. "So, what can you offer in exchange for my money?"

She sniffed and lowered her head, not daring to look at the face she had come to hate in a minute.

"We can both be quiet right now and watch your precious daddy die or you talk."

"I don't know," she answered and finally raised her eyes to meet his gaze. "You can decide and tell me what you want. As long as you treat my father and he doesn't die, I will do whatever you wish."

A smirk played on his lips, amazed by her boldness again. Not everyone would talk back to someone who was holding a gun and ready to pull the trigger.

He was rather amazed by her boldness then furious. Who was she? She was different from anyone he had seen before. They all shudder at the sight of him and go on their knees when they speak to him, but not her. 

He suddenly wants her. He suddenly wanted her for himself. He is Fabian Antonio, and he gets whatever he wants.

"Can you offer what I request? I can be very demanding." A smirk played on his lips, forcing her to swallow hard even though it was deemed hard for anything to pass through her throat.

"As long as you let go of my father, I will do whatever you want. Please just let him go."

He pressed forward and rubbed the gun on his neck before he pointed it at her. "Are you sure? There is no backing out once this is agreed on. If you try to run or hide from me, that would be the last day on earth for you. I am never a forgiving person and someone without a heart, so it wouldn't cost me anything to see your blood." He threatened and she was shaken by it.

She shivered and held her breath. No matter what, she would be dead anyway.

He took his gaze to her lips and slowly licked the seam of her lips as he went on to make his offer, "I will let go of you and your father and forget that he ever cheated me and ran away with my money. You just have to pay me back by being my pet for six months and after that, you will be free from me."

Her eyes popped open. 

Be his pet for six months? That wasn't what she thought it would be. The man before her is anything but good.

Without knowing who he was, she could tell by just the way he carried himself and the way he was staring at her. It seemed he was ready to rip out her heart and feed it to her in an instant without batting an eyebrow.

He was someone who definitely had his hand stained and didn't have any hope of redemption again. Someone who might be wanted by the cops and she needed no sorcerer to tell her that.

He let go of her and stood up, walking with slow strides to her father. With every step he took, her heart jumped as it warned of the danger her father was in.

"I will not be your pet. Aren't there any other options?" She questioned with her voice filled with anger, for him thinking he could make her his pet, and worry, about what he might do to her or her father if she didn't accept.

He pointed a gun to his head and looked at her again, this time, the smirk he had plastered on his face wasn't there anymore. His face was void of any emotion and she couldn't tell what he was thinking.

Does he feel amazed that he was about to get a plaything or not, she just couldn't tell. He pointed the gun again at her father's forehead and placed his hand on the trigger.

"I don't bargain. You either agree or you bring out my money right now or I pull the trigger in his skull and you watch him die."