CHAPTER 5

SLOANE. 

"So this is it, the big bad Chase Zorin Sokolov... All I see is an ordinary boy who makes others do his dirty work" I mocked and he raised one dark brow. 

"You talk a lot for someone on their knees currently bleeding out on my rug, in my house. Should I remind you why you are here?" He asked and I rolled my eyes. 

"You blew up my warehouse and I did the same with your precious hotel. We are even now" I shrugged and he furrowed his brows. 

"If I'm not mistaken, you think I have something to do with the attack on your warehouse so you went after my hotel?" He said it like he didn't know what I was talking about and I felt livid. 

Fucking assshole. 

"I'm surprised you aren't completely deaf" I scoffed and he stood up from his chair the scary-looking men beside him looked small compared to him. 

He's wearing a black button-down long sleeve paired with a grey vest with black slacks, his dark brown hair slicked back giving him some sort of charming look, he looked polished, shiny, unlike the gruesome rumors about him above all... 

He's huge. 

With wide broad shoulders and intimidating height, he pivoted around the desk and stood in front of me. 

It felt as if my neck was on fire as I strained my neck holding eye contact with him and refusing to look away, that would be a sign of weakness and I can't have that with a man like Chase. 

"The renovations cost two hundred million, I spent three hundred to build the hotel" He stated towering over me. 

"How's that supposed to be my business? You didn't think about how much worth of supplies were in my warehouses before you sent your goons to blow them up. If I can't get access to your warehouse then I will take the hotel, it's not the first time I have taken something special to you is it?" I smirked and his eyes darkened. 

"Leave us" He ordered coldly and a voice at the back of my mind screamed for me to shut up, I'm the one at his mercy now and he could kill me and send my body back to my useless father. 

The men in the study with us all left the sound of the door slamming shut echoed, I didn't see it coming in a swift moment he was in my personal space and his longer fingers gripped my neck choking me as he squats to my height on the ground still taller than me even with the position. 

His grip on my neck tightened and my lungs were on fire, I struggled but I couldn't do anything with my hands tied to my back. 

"Je...rk" I gritted out tears blurred my vision as I held his glooming gaze, I was slowly yielding spots danced in my vision and I felt my consciousness slipping away. 

He was suddenly moving up pulling me up with him as he stood up and my eyes widened when I felt my neck crack under his tight grip, then he let me go. 

I coughed greedily sucking in oxygen, my chest heaving as I glared at him, he walked away from me putting some distance between us. 

"What? Scared I might retaliate?" I panted and he scoffed looking down at the hand he had around my neck a few seconds ago. I watched him stare at that hand for a while before he shoved both hands in the pockets of his black slacks. 

"It's either you are brave or you are extremely impulsive, running your pretty little mouth when you know I hold your life in the palm of my hand. You should be begging for me to spare you, I can call off the deal with your father by sending your corpse in a body bag to him" He threatened and I chuckled, he furrowed his brows as if he didn't expect that from me. 

"Aren't you a generous one, sending my corpse in one piece so I can be buried properly. Do you know what I would do if I were in your position?" I questioned and he raised an eyebrow at me. 

"I would cut you open and fill your insides with acid while you are still alive and breathing, do you know acid can be injected into the heart and the kidneys? I will patch you back up and see if you'll survive it while I clip off all your fingernails and toenails then switch to your eyes and of course my favorite, I will slice your throat just enough to make you bleed but not enough to kill you. Then when I see the lights fading from your eyes, I will dismember your body while you're still alive and send each piece to be disposed of in dumpsters across the states and maybe ship your head to Russia so the others can see. After what you did to my friends I imagined how I want to kill you, I dream about it all the time until of course this useless deal you had with my father maybe I will give up on taking my sweet time with killing you and just recreate what I did to your brother so I can leave this place" I shrugged and he stare at me with rapt attention then the corners of his lips tugged. 

"What a beautiful detailed fantasy you've got. I didn't know that some people dream about what they want to do with their enemies sounds like an obsession to me, Lisichka, it's a shame you won't be doing any of that. We are going to be married soon, maybe we can find somewhere else you can channel that energy to" He smirked and I scowled. 

"Call it off! I would rather die than be tied to a beast like you" I seethed. 

"That's the point, or are you too dense to know why I chose that deal? I know you would never want to be tied down by anyone, I'm sure the way things are done here you might even take over your father's empire without getting married, I know how hard you'd fight and lose. I know how much it would break you to be married to me and I would watch you suffer until you fall apart. Only then will I free you of our union, death would do us part but you'll take the trip to hell first for me as the good little wife you would be" He divulged without a flicker of emotion in his eyes. 

He wants to marry me for revenge? 

To make me his so he can torture me? 

"I expected more from you, this petty man can't be Chase Sokolov," I scoffed, glaring at him as his gaze swept over me. 

"And I expected someone more... Appealing, you don't look like an angel I wonder why they call you that" He tsked and looked away dismissively, my blood boiled. 

"When am I going back?" I inquired sick of his shit. 

"You're not." He stated. 

"What?" My voice raised a bit and he diverted his gaze back to me with a blank expression. 

"You destroyed my hotel and you are currently bleeding on my rug, did you think I would let you get away with that?" He asked. 

"Whose fault is that?!" I screamed. 

"Have you forgotten you are my fiancée? I own you now and I'm keeping you"