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CHAPTER 3

TAYLOR 

He was looking at me. His eyes were blank and icily condescending as he stared at me from where he stood but I could still strangely feel a weird warmth creeping from my stomach up to my chest.

He was handsome. So good looking that I momentarily forgot that all in one night, I'd been betrayed by my boyfriend and was sold to him, a mafia lord who was said to be ruthless. 

I had no idea what mafia lords did exactly since I'd never come across one before but judging from the gun and silencer he held, it was obvious that he was indeed dangerous. 

His gaze finally shifted from mine as he turned to look at the guards and he waved his hand up for them to raise their heads which they did.

My eyes rounded when he began to fix the silencer on the gun and I watched the guards give each other questioning looks.

“Who hurt her?” His voice, still deep, cold and spine chilling like from the auction, asked the guards while he gestured toward me and I was confused at first.

But then I remembered the mascara stained tears on my face which must have given me away and I aggressively began to wipe them off even though I knew my face was only becoming more of a mess.

“I asked a question and I hate repeating myself so give me an answer before I blow your brains out” he said, his voice still calm while he drilled holes through them with blazing eyes and I saw one guard swallowing in fear.

It was satisfying to see them scared and I wondered just how ruthless this Mr Rover was to make them look this terrified.

They still didn't say a word and obviously losing his patience, he shot straight into the knees of two of them and I screamed as their blood splattered all over the place while they fell and writhed in pain.

I looked at Mr Rover in fright and I went stiff when I didn't find a hint of remorse or empathy in his eyes. Instead, he looked exhausted, like he didn't want to be there but at the same time, wanted to teach them each a lesson.

With that, he turned toward the one he didn't shoot and pressed the tip of his gun against his throat while looking him right in the eyes.

“So tell me, who hurt her and made her cry?” He asked, his voice still calm and the man shook all over in utmost terror while he looked anywhere but Mr Rover's eyes.

“I did” he whispered shakily and Mr Rover chuckled as a cold smile spread across his lips.

“And why did you?” He asked him and the guard inhaled deeply.

“She was rude so I wanted to teach her a lesson” he lied and I was so close to speaking up but I feared he would hurt me so I kept shut.

“What he said. Is it true?” He suddenly directed a question at me and I went even stiffer as our eyes locked again.

I looked at the guard then back at him before I swallowed in fear and he noticed I was scared.

So he pressed the gun harder against the guards neck while maintaining eye contact with me.

“Speak to me. Did he say the truth?” He repeated his question and I exhaled before I slowly shook my head and the guard growled at me but Mr Rover was quick to knock him on the head with the butt of his gun.

“What exactly did he do to hurt you then?” He asked and I broke eye contact with him since his eyes looked too terrifying to look into. 

“He touched me in the car…”

“Where?” he asked me unshakenly and I glanced at him before looking away again.

“On my thigh. He told me he wanted to have fun with me”

“Then what happened?”

“I told him to get his hand off me and he slapped me thrice on the same cheek” I explained and slowly, he turned toward the guard who was shivering even more while blood trickled down his head to his face.

“Is that true, what she said?” He asked and the guard closed his eyes for a second before he opened them and nodded his head.

“Hold your hands out now” Mr Rover ordered and still shaky, the guard did as he was told.

Then Mr Rover took two steps back and it all happened so fast. He shot him twice in both palms and I couldn't even scream this time. I just stared in a state of shock… like I was stuck in a trance.

“You were assigned to bring her to me but you had the audacity to hit her and even lied to me. Nobody touches what's mine and you did just that… so let's see how you can use those hands to hit anyone again. That's your payback, bastard” 

Mr Rover hissed in the guard's face while he yelled and cried in pain then he turned toward his own bodyguards who stood by all along and instructed them to take all three of them away with their car even as they bled.

After the whole ruckus, he discarded his gun and walked toward me where I remained on the ground, transfixed in shock and horror.

Then he knelt before me and grabbed my chin to make me look into his eyes and while I was still drowning in shock and terror, I couldn't help but get drawn to his electric blue eyes.

Something about them made my heart unexplainably race with both fear and another emotion I couldn't place a finger on. Then he suddenly pressed his thumbs beneath my eyes and I let out a gasp when he wiped my tears away very delicately.

“Are you alright?” He asked me softly and I didn't know what to say since he himself scared me. I knew he got back at the guards for me even as he didn't know me but how could I be alright after seeing him shoot three able bodied men so nonchalantly?

“See what I did to them just now?” He suddenly asked when I didn't give an answer to his question yet and I fearfully nodded my head in response.

“If you try to run from me, I'll do the same to you because I bought you and you now belong to me so don't cross the line” he warned and my heart had never sunk so deep from fear. 

“Y…yes sir” I stammered and he patted me on the head.

“Good” he said and with that, he was gone.

No one had to tell me because with what I'd witnessed, I knew I was in deep shit.