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dark, unfamiliar room that I was in. My head still hurt and ev

ons roamed free in my head as I tried to make sense

lking down the street and feeling someone behind me

een ki

allow the bile that had formed at the back of my throat. Goosebumps filled my

to look for my phone but realizing that the kidnappers couldn't possibly be

d fear knotted within me as I tried but just when I'd thought I'd made

p!" One of the men said, he looked fearful and no matt

The other spat and overpowering the fear I felt was a ferocious anger and just before I

r, kicking my legs in the air as I hit the man carrying me on his sho

they'd outrightly ignored me, "whatever you want, you're not going to get!

, his voice cold and rough and despite the fig

ulder kicked it open and behind the door was the most spa

inging resonated in my head, causing me

." They said in unison before walking out o

hey've mentioned him. What busi

fear twisted in my heart and I began to shiver, my

don and from the things that had happened befo

it wasn't until then that I realized my clothes had changed. I

to fall out of the dress. Heat rushed to my cheeks and spread to my

E WHO DID THIS, SHOW YOURSELF, YOU SICK PERVER

ing coward and jus

my shouting to get stuck in my throat as I lifted my ga

le world came to a total halt, my heart jumping in my chest and it's

me, the silence in the room lengthened, it was deafening and

ers filled the coat he wore and the muscles rippl

ing air of respect around him and I have never felt an aura a

trangely familiar, his lips parted a little, revealing a perfect set of

up in a ponytail that did not only fit him perfectly, they someho

tattoos, his scars and also, his muscles that immediat

at were standing on both sides of him. He made them look li

right before

rtel, he's the most dangerous man in the city! This man trampled on o

seeing him in the newspaper was all, I would've been

ght when I was leaving my boyfriend's hou

words as my heart thrummed loudly

his lips moved was too arousing and despite the fact

ght my name sounded so sexy unt

mach that caused me to swallow again as I tried to

his face and I could also see the heart rending fondn

eve?! Snap out of it,

room grew even more silence as his eyes bore into mine unt

iousness coming from his voice as he spoke, "and he's been owing

have to be the one to pay the debt, Maeve." He finished, the way my name

f paying the debt. My father had done lots of terrible things before his death and putting

just from being in the same space as him and yet,

I promise I'll pay it off if you

ad no idea he was asking for an eternity," he chi

aw dropped as my eyes opened widely. Molten anger rolled through

t I'll take my life beca

He continued and the anger I was feeling

debts I've been working my ass off to pay didn't even sum up to a million

ng to pay him back but I knew I couldn't do that even if I worked really hard for five years, there

r father," he decided to break the ice by talking, "so, whatever happens from

right now, I intend to work for it and we can come up with a payment pl

ot going

m me?!" I snapped before I

d straightforward, "but you'll hav