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Chapter Three

Vanessa’s POV

1 week later

 I watched Eugene, Alena’s father, lie in his bed.  His Blankets were pulled high, his frail body lost in the mass of covers. His eyes were closed, and he breathed like one with half a nose.

I swallowed.

Will he survive this?  Oh, I pray he does. I have the money now. I have some money aside from the diamonds. That will be enough for his treatment. I mean, after what he had done for me, he deserves to live. He surely does. No one has ever made me feel wanted like Mr. Eugene after Dad’s passing.  It was and still feels like I and Alena are sisters.

Staring at him trembled like a leaf broke something in me. Illness had reduced the tall man to this. This thought hardens my hate when I recall how I had robbed my ex-boyfriend.

“Nessa!” Alena screamed, and I roughly wiped my tears. And went to clean his room.

“Nessa, please can you get the door!”

I groaned and dropped the mop. She was closer to the door. Why do I have to be the one to go answer it? I marched downstairs and wiped my hands dry. It must be Alena’s too many packages. She just loves online shopping. If I had known what opening that door would mean, I would not have listened.

As soon as I opened the door, someone grabbed me and covered my head with a plastic bag.

“Let me go!” The plastic bag muffled my screams as I kicked and pushed. I was lifted, and I could feel the person moving. I was struggling to be free and also not to die of suffocation. As quickly as I was taken, the bag was also taken away from my head, and I was harshly dropped to the floor. The door was slammed shut.  I turned frantically around. Where was I?

I was inside a car.

Then there was a pair of intimidating grays that made my heart sink. Goosebumps crept up my arms. My heart thundered as I stared into his eyes, and I could see a myriad of emotions, but three stood out to me.  Anger. Desire. Vengeance. I swallowed.

“We meet again, Vanessa,” Kai said in a velvety deep voice, as he leaned back and watched me intently. 

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I breathed deeply as I looked around. There was nowhere I could escape.  The windows were tinted, and nobody would hear me scream for help.

I slowly turned around and saw him staring at me.  He had an amused yet intense, angry gaze. All the willpower to escape evaporated from me. He still had not said a word, and I was dying from the silence. I looked up to meet his intense gaze, and I flinched. He looked different, scarier.

“O-ope…. Open the door.” I mumbled. I tried to unlock the door and—

“Don’t,” came the cold reply. I quickly removed my hands like the door was some hot food.  I slowly turned around.

“Wh… what do you want, Kai?” I said slowly. He looked at me with wide eyes. I raised an eyebrow. What was that look for?

He began to clap. “Nice… nice.” He smirked. “The audacity to ask me that after robbing me.”

I immediately looked at the floor. “Look at me,” and I did immediately.

Kai stared at me and then looked out through the window. “Why haven’t you enriched yourself, even after stealing from me?” I looked out at the little cottage I lived in. “Is it not enough?” he said. “Or…don’t tell me you gave all that money to your lover.”

I lifted my chin up. “That’s none of your business.”

Kai smirked. “You’ve not changed one bit. Always loving the men in your lives more than yourself”

“That’s nonsense. How would you know that?” I glared at him.

“You did it to me, “Kai said, and I felt like the ground should open and let me in; all the cringe worthy things I had done when I was head over heels in love with him flashed through my mind. “You worshiped me, Vanessa.”

 And when I found my voice, I gave him the most daunting look I could muster. “You are disgusting.”

He shrugged casually with a smug smile on his face. “You didn’t think I was disgusting when you wanted nothing but to marry me.”

I looked away. Those were my stupid days. I know better now.

Suddenly, Kai leaned away and knocked softly on the glass. “Let’s go.”

I swiftly turned. “What? Where… where are you taking me?”

“Away from here,” he calmly said.

“What? You can't do that! I need to go home.” I jerked the handle of the door countless times, but it wouldn’t budge.

“Kai, don’t do this!”  I screamed my lungs out. Hitting the glass and pushing the door harder. My sides were hurting from all that, but I didn’t care.

“If you scream one more time, Vanessa, I promise I’ll gag you,” he warned and began to go through his phone.

My life flashed before my eyes, and furious tears pressed at the back of my eyes.

Oh, Mr. Eugene. What will happen now that I am gone? How could Alena work one job to provide for her dad’s meds and also feed each other?

I put my hand against my mouth to stop the flood before it could break, but a tear slipped past my eyes. I quickly wiped it. Kai didn’t deserve my tears. I slowly turned to him.

“Where are you taking me?”

 His gaze grew sharp. “Back to the red moon pack princess.”

“What! You can’t do that!” My voice broke. I can’t go to the werewolf side now. I have debts to pay. No one would accept me. Tears fell from my eyes freely, and this time I didn’t do anything to stop them.

“I beg you, please. I can’t leave,” I cried. “I will do anything, please don’t take me back. People need me—“

“I did warn you,” Kai said, his voice mild against the fire in his gaze.

I turned to my side of the window and wept bitterly.