All Chapters of Owned By The Enemy : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

IVY'S POV‘Ms. Laurent?’The voice in my ear was trembling. It was not mine. It was hers. A woman over the phone. Or it was a man. I couldn’t tell through the pounding in my head. I felt so sleepy. It was 2am in the morning for God's sake. ‘Yes,’ I rasped, my voice dry and scratchy. ‘What happened? What…who are you?’ ‘Your sister’s been in an accident.’The world thinned. My vision blurred. I scrambled up from the bed, but my knees buckled and I pressed my palm to the wall to keep myself from hitting the floor.‘No. No, no, no—’‘She’s alive,’ the woman rushed to say, her words clipped and breathless, like she had been running around, ‘But her condition is critical. We need you at the hospital now. I’m so sorry, Ms. Laurent, but—’‘Where?’ I cut her off, already shoving my feet into the sneakers I had kicked under the couch.One second I was sleeping in bed with my heart pounding violently in my chest, and the next I was shoving my legs into jeans, grabbing my wallet and keys with sh

Sebastian's POVThe sound of bone breaking is different in a warehouse at night.It’s sharper and colder with no background noise to soften it… only the echo of pain against concrete walls.The man on his knees in front of me wheezed, blood dripping from his nose. His wrists were bound behind him with cable ties. He had been crying for the last fifteen minutes, but I didn’t mind. Fear was useful. Fear kept people quiet. Fear made people bend to your every whim.‘You had three weeks,’ I said, my voice calm. Calm always scared them more. ‘Three weeks to pay what you owed.’‘I—I tried, Mr. Wolfe—’‘You bought yourself a car,’ I said, glancing at the sleek keys in his jacket pocket. ‘A car instead of paying me.’He stammered something about needing it for work. I didn’t care. Behind me, Lucien stepped forward. He was my enforcer. He was silent, big, and with a look in his eyes that said he would kill for fun.Lucien didn’t wait for my nod. The crowbar in his hands came down hard on his le