Chapter 3

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Eden: Our target is a man with the name tag Mason.

On the other end of the room, on the dance floor, Grace sees another man with the name tag ‘Mason’, not knowing that Eden meant someone else.

Grace saw the nametag, and without once thinking of notifying any of her friends that she had found him, she decided to go ahead with the plan alone. He was drunk dancing, grinding his hips against a drunk girl. She thought to herself, ‘Wow, weird choice, but let's get on with it.’ 

She blended with people on the dance floor and started swaying her way toward this man. She was very slick with her motions and in a quick moment, she was the one with her hips crammed against Mason’s crotch, swaying to the rhythm of the beat. He was too drunk to complain about Grace’s curvy and slender body and the way it moved at just the right pace, sensual enough to make his body tingle with desire. He clasped her narrow waist gently, with her back facing him, and started dancing with her.

“Turn around,” he drunkenly whispers in Grace’s ear, his hot breath hitting her skin.

Grace turns around and puts her hands on his shoulder and he pulls her closer to himself, and they both start dancing passionately. Grace had enchanted his mind and nothing in the world could take his attention off her at that moment.

“Let me see you, take your mask off,” he commanded her, clasping tighter on her waist. 

“If we can go somewhere private, I’ll be glad to show you more than that.”

There was no way he could have let go of that opportunity. She grabbed his hand and pulled him into an empty room. She pulled out a little vial with a transparent liquid and asked the man to drink it, saying it was one of the oldest, most exotic whisky in the world.

“Why should I trust you?” he smiled and asked playfully, not meaning it.

“I don’t think you’re in the position to deny me anything,” Grace smirked and put the vial against his lips. He gladly obliged and downed the whole vile.

“Let me see you now.”

Grace removes her mask, but he never gets to see her face, he is already on the floor, being pulled by Grace’s bodyguards into her car.

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Eden had a family penthouse where she decided to take the man. The family that used to own the penthouse had a sex dungeon built in the basement. It was completely soundproof which worked to her benefit. Her bodyguards carried him to the basement, with his hands and legs tied. When she walked into the basement it was pitch black and she stumbled to find the light switch. 

On turning on the light, Eden nearly fell in shock when she saw a man sitting in a chair, with his hands and legs tied. What in the world is going on?

Eden hears footsteps walking down the stairs of the basement, and then Grace’s voice is heard.

“Hey, Eden, are you back already? Did you see my surprise-” her sentence cut short when she entered the basement.

“What?”

“Yeah exactly. WHAT?” Eden shouted.

Grace was dumbfounded, she was seeing two men tied to separate chairs. 

“Eden you better start explaining why we got TWO men down here,” said Grace with her voice shaking.

“I was looking forward to getting an explanation from you, who the hell is that man over there?” Eden points to the man Grace had kidnapped.

“That’s Mason, you said that this was our target!” Grace screeched, still confused beyond measure.

“No, you absolute blockhead, THIS is Mason,” Eden says pointing to the man she kidnapped.

They scuttled towards the men to check the names on their wrists. Both of them said: ‘Mason’.

“Oh.”

“Oh.”

“Oh,” said a third voice. It came from Sophia, who stood at the doorway with Natalia. “Aw hell no. You guys did not just kidnap not one but two men.” 

Natalia just stood there looking at them with wide eyes, knowing by the look in their eyes that they messed up.

“See, there was a miscommunication, we did not mean this to happen- NO NO SOPHIA COME BACK HERE!” Eden runs after Sophia who is completely panicking and trying to leave the scene of the crime. “You are the smartest one of us all, God knows we are going to die without you, please just don’t leave.”

While Eden is trying to get Sophia to not panic, they hear a grunt coming from the man that Eden kidnapped. All four of them look at him as if he is a ticking time bomb like he would blow up if they made any movement.

The man slowly opens his eyes, still dizzy from the drugs. As he regains his vision, he starts looking around the room, at all their faces, calm like a river. He looked at everything as if he was examining every single detail of the room. The girls are still staring at his mask-covered face with wide eyes.

Almost immediately, the other Mason opens his eyes and starts to panic and shout.

“Where am I?! What is this place?! Untie me RIGHT NOW!” His shouting stopped when his eyes landed on Grace.

“You. You goddamn bitch you drugged me, I am going to kill you!”

“I mean you get to see my face now haha?” Grace said with her voice shaking, a sad attempt at trying to calm him down.

“You sadistic whore, I’m going to get you for this, oh you just wait.”

The calmer man looked at the panicking one and said, “Theo. Look at me.”

It was the kind of deep voice that was so very easy to fall in love with, that auditory caramel. ‘Theo’ stopped panicking and looked at the man with wide, shocked eyes that immediately turned to relief.

“Ben, what is happening?” Theo asked the man.

Something clicked inside Natalia and she chimed “You are Bennett and Theo Mason? The heirs to that diamond industry?”

Instead of answering, Theo and Bennett looked at the girls and stayed silent for a few seconds. Theo’s eyes were locked with Eden’s the entire time, his piercing blue eyes trying to figure out what a girl who looks this innocent wants from kidnapping him and his brother. 

As the leader of this operation, Eden builds up the courage to say something but is stopped by a loud thud, a bang, smoke filling the entire room, and the sound of footsteps from heavy boots entering the basement.