3- "Held captive."

"GO back here, you woman!" Greg chased her though he was still moaning in pain.

He managed to run after her and caught her with his strength and without even asking for the help of his men. She almost moaned in pain too when she got caught and his fingers pressed against her arm with the tightness of his grip there, almost digging his nails on her bare skin! Probably out of anger at what she did.

"Don't wait for me to run out all of the patience I have for you!" His thunder-like voice echoed almost in the entire huge building.

She was frightened because he was like lightning and a volcano that erupted out of his anger. 

He dragged her upstairs again and he closely threw her inside the elevator. For a while, he calmed himself down with the foot pain she caused him and soon after, he was finally feeling relieved and had no more aches.

When they reached the top floor, some of Greg's men appeared to them as if guarding all day and all night there.

"Boss Greg!" said a hyper-faced man and then smiled when he saw her. "You're with a new girl, boss?"

Greg didn't answer that perverted man but just went through it as if he hadn't noticed or heard.

Olivia almost killed the said man because of the viscosity of the way he looked at her as if he was having a fantasy of her being undressed!

"F*ck it, sexy!" the bastard even whistled.

Greg stopped walking so she also stopped, and then he turned to the rude man who had previously been ignored. He glared at the latter.

"Shut up or I’ll kill you!" Greg warned his personnel.

The pervert was afraid for his life and finally behaved like a sheep. "Yes, boss. Sorry."

She smirked at the back of her mind. The bastard deserved to be called out by his big boss! Served him best!

They continued walking and Greg dragged her into who-the-heck knows where!

But wait... what did that man just say? Besides her, Greg also used to bring other women into this place? For what purposes? Kidnapping them just like he's doing now to her? Human trafficking? Maybe he is planning to trade her for the sake of billions of money? Does he rape them? Is he a rapist?

Those thoughts scared her to the bones!

"Women came here willingly for pleasure, always throwing themselves to me. I don't have to force them. They were the ones dying to be with me and in my bed," he immediately spoke as if he had read what was exactly on her mind.

She looked at him, appalled. Wow! What an overflowing confidence and self-esteem, huh! Such a narcissist!

They finally got into a room. He pushed her inside. The whole room is big and white and clean. From there, he freed her mouth from the handkerchief but not the handcuffs on her hands. She felt a little relieved that her mouth had been freed.

Now that he no longer holds her, she runs to the windows to shout for help, hoping to be rescued from this nightmare of hers!

"Help! Help me! Help!" she shouted repeatedly.

"Stop it, lady. You're just wasting your energy screaming because no one will hear you from here," shruggingly, Greg said.

But she did not stop. He just watched her with a bored look. Eventually, she just got tired and didn't get anything. He was right then. Nobody would and could hear her.

"This building is built on an isolated land. The houses before this building are still far away. It is far from the city and there are no other people here except me and my armed men so I am sorry to tell you, darling, but no one will ever come to rescue you here."

She looked at him with fury and full hatred. She just simply despises him!

"This is kidnapping!" she hissed.

He just shrugged her accusation out.

"What do you want? What do you need to release me?!" She didn't care if she sounded begging and desperate to be freed. "Money? Do you want money? How much do you want? Daddy can provide you even a million, just let me go. Just please let me go!"

He only smirked instead of getting encouraged by her no-joke kind of offer. "I don't need even a single centavo from your clan, De Vera."

Her blood boils up again for him. "In that case, what do you want then?!"

He did not answer, something that only made her blood boil more.

"Once daddy and our whole family find out about what you did tonight, I am so sure as hell that you'll pay big time for this!"

When she said that, he didn't move nor even showed a hint of fear.

She knew it. He's really a jerk and a bastard!

A few seconds later, her eyes almost widened when he grabbed her bag and searched for her phone inside.

"Text, at least, one of your cousins or your parents, and tell them that you're away and you are safe," he ordered her as he handed her her phone!

She sarcastically laughed in disbelief. "After pretending as if a good person and kidnapping me, now you want me to lie to my family?!"

When he knew, she wouldn't follow, he strategized by bringing the phone in front of her face so it unlocked effortlessly! D*mn it! Now she regrets that she only uses a face recognition lock and not a passcode so it opened that easily!

"Give me back my phone, d*mn you!" She hissed but that's what she could only do because her hands are still tightly handcuffed!

"Mommy, don't worry about me. I decided to separate from my cousins without telling them first because I won't go home tonight yet. I'll be needing to breathe some fresh air for a while and unwind. Don't contact me, please. I'll be going home when I'm bored. Sent to Mommy. " The f*ck he even had the face to read aloud the lies he texted to her mother using her own phone!

"F*ck you!"

If only eyes could kill, he must be laying down on his own blood now!

"Thanks," he just answered her sarcastically then ejected the sim cards inserted in her phone.

"What are you doing?!"

"Getting your cards out from your phone, obviously!"

"I know but why do you need to do that?!"

"So you can't contact your family to rescue you. Simple.” 

He threw her now useless cellphone on the bed because there are no more cellular cards on it!

Now, there is no way for her to contact anyone to ask for help! If there is Wi-fi here, it's either she can't connect or it comes up with a secured password. So, there's no way really to connect with anybody from the outside!

"I've never done anything wrong for me to be put on a terrible situation like this. I don't freakin 'deserve this!"

"You are guilty. The moment you were born being a De Vera, you were guilty and you will pay for the sin you committed that aggravated my family," Greg stated seriously and firmly.

"In what sense?" She laughed in disbelief. "By almost having everything that we had? As far as I know, my family always gives a way for you. We never get on your way and almost got you spoiled because whenever you want something, we are the ones to adjust for you. There is no more trouble and there will be no more trouble between the two families. If there is a need to avoid it, we will avoid it first so that there will be peace for both clans!"

"D*mn you!" His voice roared in anger and clenched his fists, something that aroused fear in her again. "If it was true that you really wanted to avoid any trouble, Caitlyn De Vera would have not shown interest and hurt my brother in the very first place!"

Olivia was stunned. And now, the realization hit her. She now seems to know what it is all about and where Greg’s anger comes from. He thinks that his family's pride was aggravated and trampled on when Caitlyn and Salvador Florencio once fell in love but it also did not last because apart from opposing their love, Caitlyn ended up falling in love with another man so when she moved away, her cousin moved on immediately.

"And now... now, your playboy cousin Hayden is also trying to hit and seduce my sister—the youngest girl of the Florencio family! For what? For a De Vera to hurt a Florencio again? Why, you De Veras, always like to play fires with us? Why do you always want to hurt us? Does that hobby boost your ego and confidence to the nth level, huh!" he continued with his cents, and from there, she heard a little hint of misery and pain in his voice.

She couldn't move for a moment. What did he just say?! Did he just involve her cousin, particularly Hayden De Vera, on his grudge against their clan?

"No. No, I don't believe what you're saying! That's not true. Hayden De Vera is well-aware of what happened to Caitlyn and Salvador before. He wouldn't dare to repeat the same mistake his cousin had once committed!"

"Oh so, it seems like you don't really know all of your cousins that much!" Greg said angrily then grabbed her arm violently. "You know about it and you love hurting us because our families are your enemies, and in any way, you always want to get even so you play dirty tricks on us!"

She strongly stared straight to fight his glaring eyes. "First of all, yes, I know the history between Caitlyn and Salvador. But it wasn't my fault at all when Caitlyn was able to move on immediately after the separation she had with your brother! It's not my fault that Salvador Florencio was head over heels in love with my cousin, that after they were separated and Caitlyn had moved on, he stayed miserable and unable to move on with his life! I absolutely have nothing to do with my cousin’s past issues and affair with your brother!" 

She took a deep breath and mustered up the strength to continue speaking. "And about Hayden, I don't know about it! If you hadn't mentioned it today I wouldn't even have known that my cousin is actually pursuing another Florencio! I never knew about it until now. But I won't believe it, anyway. He won't dare do the same mistake as Caitlyn did in the past."

"Well now, you knew it. And you must believe it because it’s the truth," he said and laughed sarcastically without any hint of humor. "But to heck I will let another De Vera touch even a single strand of a Florencio's hair ever again!"

With that, he left her alone in the room with the door fully locked and with no resort for escaping. He was firm with his words, she knew it. And all she could do was think about everything that he said, his threats, his revenge, and the danger he might do to her for the next few days that he would hold her captive!