Marie stirred in her sleep, as light penetrated directly from the window to her eyes.
She groaned loudly , and opened her eyes slowly because she never sleeps with her window blinds open.A strong wave of headache hit her, and she winced Loudly in pain. She studied her surroundings, and went into full panic mode. She was in a large unfamiliar room, on a bed thrice the size of her bed back home. She tried to stand up, but the pain she was feeling wouldn’t let her.“Did I get drunk again?” She thought to herself, while almost pulling her hairs out in agonyShe got drunk for the first time in high school, and she promised herself never to do it again. It was at a pool party organized by one of the popular girls in school, so everyone who was anyone was present.Engrossed in the moment, she kept taking several shots while dancing crazily. After some time, she had taken more than she could handle, and she naturally went ahead to puke on herself while in the middle of the dance floor.The music stopped, and all eyes were on her in confusion and disgust. With teary eyes from embarrassment , she started scrambling to clean it off, she accidentally fell into the pool fully clothed. That was the beginning of her social ruin in high school, and her last invite to any party.On top of all that, she didn’t remember the details of her embarrassing act till her best friend explained it to her the next day. And since, she had made sure to never drink past her limit, as she is a lightweight…until yesterday.Scenes from before she got drunk flashed back into her head, and her headache intensified. She decided to pull a surprise visit on her fiancée after she just returned from a quick trip outside town. On getting to his house, she used her spare key to gain access as he wasn’t responding to her repeated knocks.Heading straight to the bedroom, she found her fiancée having sex with a woman she had never seen in her entire life.The grocery bag she was holding fell to the ground with a thud, which caught the attention of her husband that was engrossed in the act. His eyes widened and she could see the visible panic in his eyes, as he began to stutter“I thought you were out of town till tomorrow” he asked her with a shaky voice.Without hesitation, she removed the engagement ring off her finger and threw it to him on the bed.“Fuck you” she gathered herself, and walked out of the house angrily. A part of her wished he would run after her and beg, but she couldn’t hear him calling after her.Blinded by rage and sadness, she entered the nearest bar, and found herself in this mess.From the look of things, it seems like she had sex with someone, but she couldn’t even remember what he looked like. She was mentally scolding herself and trying hard to figure her thoughts out, when her ringtone cut through her thoughts. She looked down at the phone, and saw it was her mother calling.“Hi ma-““Marie, you need to come now! We’re in danger, and you need to be here right now” Her mother cut her short before they could even exchange pleasantries, and hung up right after.“Danger” was all Marie needed to hear she got dressed, and dashed right out of the hotel. On getting out, she realized she was in one of the biggest and most expensive hotels in the city, but that was the least of her worries.“At least, I didn’t sleep with an homeless man”While on the bus back home, she thought of the million and one things that could have happened, and what her mother meant by danger. Yes, her mother was pretty dramatic, but she wouldn’t use danger when knew it would make her scared. She had an elder sister, who was the apple of her parents’ eyes.In contrast to her, her sister had always received more attention and care from her parents as she was the image of a “perfect child”. On the other hand, she was left to do the hard work and take on tasks because she wasn’t what they wanted her to be.Unlike her sister who was currently in Law school, Marie had always enjoyed being behind the computer. She took on computer courses at a very young age, and started hacking mini sites from the age of 15. Seven years later, her parents see her as a disappointment and not what they envisioned their second daughter to be like. Her parents were not rich, neither were they poor. However, her father and mother have to work two jobs each to make them live comfortably.The bus stopped, and she rushed out as fast as she could, heading two her house which was about two minutes away.On getting home, she saw two black heavily tinted cars parked outside her house. There were two hefty men dressed in all black standing beside each car, and she began to get scraped. The plate number of the car read “Big Boss”, and that was all she needed to know.Someone from the biggest mafia in the city, “The Shadow Empire” is here. But, what could be the affiliation of her family with them? She dashed inside to see her father and mother kneeling in front of an unknown man, who was holding a pistol.She let out a shriek as soon as she saw the sight and rushed over to kneel with them.“What’s going on mama, papa?” She screamed in tears and shook them vigorously.The man with the pistol stood up, and raised her face up roughly to look at her properly. He was dressed in a black suit, and was vicious looking with his gold teeth.“Is this the girl you’ll be giving up?” The vicious man directed the question at her parents.“Who is giving whom up?” Marie looked at her parents with tears in her eyes.“Yes sir” her father ignored her, and bowed his head.“Dad, what is going on here?” Marie shouted as loud as she could.Her parents looked away, ignoring her, as the man grabbed her by her arm nearly penetrating his fingers into her skin.“Let me off” Marie struggled as she tried to bite him and fight him off, but to no avail.“Dad, Ma can you say something please?” She said as she cried heavily, as she was dragged off the house.The man with the gold teeth grimaced. “You are now a property of The Shadow Empire”Marie stared out the black limousine she was bundled into by the scary-looking man. Her face was full of dried up tears. She had cried, screamed, fought and done everything within her little capability to avoid being taken away by the members of the gang.However, neither her father nor mother moved to rescue her or intervene. Till now, she doesn’t know the reason she is being carried away, so she just decides to give up, and let fate decide as she cannot win the battle, whatever it is.After two full hours of driving, the driver took a turn into what seemed like the woods, and she began to panic immediately.“What if they’re taking me into the woods to kill me” “Is this how my miserable life will come to an end?”Her thoughts began to travel all over the place, as they drove deeper into the forest.Just when she was about to shout for help, the most magnificent mansion she had ever seen came into view. A little gasp escaped her mouth as the gigantic gate opened by itself slowly, and
The big boss happened to be Drey Sandler, son of the biggest Mafia Boss in this whole of the city. The man with whom she encountered last night. However, she couldn’t recognize him, but he did.Drey was pretty shocked to see that his newly acquired property is the same person he had a one night stand with just the day before. However, he perfectly masked his shock, and scanned the young lady in front of him.Marie opened her mouth in awe unconsciously as she looked at the man behind the desk. He was completely different from what she had imagined he would look like. It was just like in the stories, but unlike books, she was a victim and she wasn’t finding anything funny.He cleared his throat, and gave them his most serious look“Bob, excuse us” he said with a straight face.Immediately Bob stepped out, Drey looked back at the girl probably expecting her to break character, or say something about their encounter , but she stood there, staring blankly.“Can I know why I have been kidna
“We just received intel that there’s been a breach in the main site where we keep our top and private information.” Bob said all in one breath as he rushed into the living room.The atmosphere immediately changed, and Marie dropped the plate of spaghetti she was intensely feeding on to assess the situation. She saw how Drey clenched his fists tightly, and rose up to immediately snatch the tablet off Bob’s hand.He stared at the tablet intently and she could see his face muscles tense up. “Who could do such a thing? I made sure there were no loopholes upon creation of this site!” Drey thundered, as he faced Bob who was also visibly panicking.Marie didn’t know exactly how to act, or what to do, but she knew dinner for that night was ruined, and she hadn’t properly eaten.Some seconds later, two other men dressed in all black rushed into the dining area as well, and one of them whispered something into Drey’s ears. Drey slammed his fists heavily on the table, and Marie flinched from t
Marie turned for the sixth time on her bed in one night and sighed heavily. After the whole drama that happened at dinner last night, she had found it impossible to sleep. The adrenaline from solving a major case was unmatched, so she felt giddy. For the first time in a while, she was satisfied.It was 3am in the morning, and she had barely been able to catch two hours of sleep altogether. The bed was messy from the amount of times she had rolled on the bed. She doesn’t know why, but her mind was all over the place.Of course, there was so much to think about but she couldn’t exactly say what was going through her head. Tired of the struggle to sleep, she finally got off the bed and sat. “Hot milk would slap right now” Marie thought to herself in the dimly lit room.She remembered how her mother would always prepare hot milk and bake cookies for her elder sister whenever she was having difficulty sleeping. Marie, a bit envious of that, would also pretend to have sleeping problems ju
Marie brushed her hands through the numerous dresses on the movable hanger in front of her. It was two days after Drey had asked, or rather commanded her to be his date for a ball, and it was that day of the ball.It was 2pm in the evening, and a team of beauty experts had come to drag her literally from the comfort of her room to doll her up for the event. She didn’t know why Drey had asked her, of all the women at his disposal, to be his date to the ball. She didn’t know much of his personal life, but there had been rumors of the son of The Shadow Empire being a playboy, but she really couldn’t care less.Now, she was in a dressing room with nothing less than eight beauty workers in the room, some with makeup products, some hair tools, and the others were trying to get her to pick a dress from the options lined up. She was dressed in a robe, as they made her have her bath all over again in a bid to get to work.After scanning the clothes for the 100th time, her eyes landed on a red,
Marie woke up feeling all giddy from the previous night. It is so ironic that she was kidnapped into a life much better than the life she is coming from. But, she was having an eerie feeling that things would soon take a turn, but until then, she decided to just live in the moment and have fun.Her mind went back to yesterday, and a large grin broke out on her face. She remembered how Drey’s hands felt against her waist as they danced into the night, and how all eyes were on them throughout, including Percy’s. Right, Percy!! Drey’s ex. The woman gave her an edgy vibe yesterday night, and she could really see why she could fit in as Drey’s ex.However, she had never heard any rumors whatsoever regarding Drey having an ex, a popular one at that. And from what she saw, it seemed like she was either involved in the Mafia or belonged to a very powerful organization in the country. Curiousity was eating her up, and she wanted answers.She looked over at the laptop across the room which was
It was exactly six days since Marie had last seen Drey, and six days from when they had their last training featuring his outburst. Within those days, she had been made to attend the boxing trainings with other teachers, and they were introducing some elements of Martial Arts as well. She didn’t what she was preparing for, but she went along with it anyways. Now, it made more sense as to why she is his property; they’ll probably train her till she ready to start running dirty errands for them. She felt caged, and she desperately yearned for freedom. In her freetime, she would brush up on her hacking skills, and play around a bit, however her internet usage was strictly monitored.Other times, she would take night strolls within the compound, only with the accompaniment of her personal watcher, Iroh. He was assigned to her during the course of the week to make sure she doesn’t run away or do something that’ll put them at risk. She found it frustrating at first that a man had to follow
The truck was barely kilometers away from them and Drey was left in a pickle. If they remained there, they would be crushed by the oncoming truck, and there was no sufficient time to run and ditch the car. Marie was in full panic mode, and hyperventilating heavily. Suddenly, Drey began to reverse on top speed, but the truck kept coming at them, and then it dawned on him.“This is an assasination attempt” he took a quick look at the plate number from the windshield and memorized carefully. Realizing he had take a drastic decision, Drey turned off the road and drove into the forest on the right side of the road. The car was hitting trees left and right, but Drey knew he had to drive as far away from the road as he could. After driving crazily in the forest for about a minute, the car stopped moving as they hit a very strong tree. Both of their heads were saved by the Airbag who came on as a result of the impact. However, Marie still sustained an injury on the side of her head as she wa