Trapped

Chapter Four

Vanessa’s POV

  I jerked awake. I looked around me. Where was I?

“See anything familiar?” I swiftly turned around to find a figure standing in front of a window in the dark. I was on the verge of asking the question ‘who are you?’ when he turned.

It was Kai.

Kai Vega.

And immediately, everything began to flood in.

“Where have you brought me?”

Kai walked away from the window and came towards me.  I backed away further to the end of the bed on the bed.

“What are you doing? Stay back! Don’t come any closer,” I yelled.

Kai smirked, “I don’t bite Vanessa…yet.” There was a wicked gleam in his eyes. I looked around me, and there was a shoe.

“If you come any closer, I’ll throw this on you,” I warned.

He chuckled. “I’ll love to see you try, Nessa.”

“Stop toying with me, Kai. And don’t call me Nessa.”

His gaze grew darker. “I thought you liked it.”

That was his pet name for me while we dated. I had asked him to call me that.

I looked around the room for any means to escape. It was hard. This was the room where I robbed Kai.  I recognized it.  I looked back at Kai, who had drawn up a seat beside the bed. He had his eyes on me. On my body. I wrapped my arms around myself as an eerie feeling crept up on me. My heart thundered. What was Kai thinking? What would he use me for? The word sex slave danced in front of my eyes, and I broke down as a tear slipped past my eyes. This man was nothing like the man I loved years ago, though he was morally grey, but he was good for me.

Kai had changed. He wasn’t just rich, but I could feel an air of royalty around him.

I wrung my hands out. “Please, I have to go, I can’t be gone for long. Mr. Eugene needs me. Alena—“

“I can’t,” he said simply.

“Please,” I begged as I went on to my knees. “I’ll do anything, please don’t take me back to the pack.”

It was at that moment that he got a call. Kai stared at me and back at the phone. “Better don’t do anything stupid or I won’t hesitate to rip your heart out,” he muttered and walked away.

I sat on the bed, fresh tears began to fall from my eyes.  What have I done? Almost immediately, Kai walked back into the room. He had a smug look. My heart skipped a beat. What now?

“You will do anything?”

“Yes,” I said immediately.

Kai’s eyes roamed my body, and I felt every inch naked. I put my arms around myself and briefly looked away. He smirked.

Strip.”

“What!?” My heart sank into my stomach.

“You heard me,” he said with a bored look on his face, like he was reading some boring newspaper.

“But Kai, I….” Words seemed to fail me. What do I say?

“But what? You said you would do anything to make it up to me,” he said, standing. He put his hands in his pockets, his eyes not leaving mine.

“Yes, I said so...” he cut me off.

“So you lied?” he turned. Still, that bored expression on his face.

 I shook my head eagerly. “No, I didn’t. I meant it when I said so, but me.....I…” I didn’t know what to say.

He took a step towards me, not breaking his stare. I had this strong desire to run, but I couldn’t seem to move my legs. My heart raced. What was he doing?

“Then you do not know what the word’ anything' means.”

I nodded my head eagerly again. “I do. I do”

“No, you don’t.” Another step towards me. He is closer now. I can perceive his perfume.

“I want to make it up to you. I… I do,” I stammered. I quickly stood up. Ready to flee, as he kept advancing towards me.

As he took another step, I took one back, but I found out that I was against a wall. Now I have been cornered. I look up to find him watching me. He has covered up the distance between us. I began to hyperventilate,

“You know a 100,000, 000 thousand dollar debt can’t be paid off…easily— he paused— but I am willing to let it go if you do this one thing for me.”

“Which is?” I asked, a bit confused. Are we still talking about the money?

“Strip.”

I opened my mouth to talk, but no words came out. He has rendered me utterly speechless.

“I’m waiting,” he said as he stared into my eyes. I touched the Hem of my top, but that is where it ends.  I can’t do it. And at the same time, I remember my father’s cries when I visited him.”

“Please, Kai, have mercy,” I plead.

“Mercy? — He scoffs, looking away— you don’t know me, girl,” he said. I look into his eyes. They are the most beautiful I have ever seen, but they are cold. Tears flew from my eyes. 

“Please have mercy,” I cried.

“Do you want to make it up to me?”

I nodded eagerly and roughly wiped the tears off my face. “Yes,” I sniffed.

He looked at me. A ghost smile played on his lips as he toyed with it. “I was teasing you about stripping,” then suddenly he looked me straight in the eye. All trace of smugness or playfulness gone. “Marry me.”

It felt like I had been smacked hard in the face. I blinked amidst the tears. “What?” I whispered

He didn’t say another word.

“Is… isn’t there any other—“

“There’ no other way,” he said deadpanned. “If you marry me, you have made it up to me.”

I opened my mouth to speak, but no words made it out. I looked into his face and I couldn’t recognize who I was seeing.  Kai had changed.

I swallowed. “That’s insane,” I wiped my face.” I won't do it

“Yet that is my price. It’s of no use thinking it through’ he said, walking to the table and pouring himself a glass of brandy. He took a sip and looked me straight in the eye. Smirking

“You have no choice.”

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