Angelina’s POV
The wait for a reply was torturous.
Lucas didn’t bother to look at me the whole time we were waiting for a response.
He just sat on the sofa across from me and played candy crush on his phone, smiling every now and then when he made a victorious move.
Just when I think that I’ve seen every crazy, deranged side of him, he surprises me again.
After about ten minutes; which surely felt like ten hours to me, his phone started ringing.
He looked at me with a smirk as he got up and said playfully “Looks like daddy got our cute little selfie together, finally”
He supported his phone on the vase that was on the middle of the coffee table in front of me before he swiped to answer the video call, then moved to stand behind me.
I blinked through my watery eyes to see who was staring at us through the screen and was met with a very angry looking old man. Probably in his late forties with deep blue eyes, a black trimmed bear, and clean shaved head.
The deep blue eyes left no flicker of a doubt of who he was. They were a replica of mine. And it made the bile rise up to my throat. If I wasn’t already gagged, I would have probably threw up right there, but I had to force it down by gulping repeatedly. He was sitting on what looked to be an office chair with two stoic looking men standing behind him.
Lucas’s excited voice boomed over me, startling me “Damian Zade! Finally honoring us with his personal appearance. What a delightful event! Guess we needed to capture your daughter in order to see your ugly face”
I can see the muscles of Zade’s jaw flexing from how hard he was gritting his teeth before he snarled in a scary tone “You son of a bitch, don’t you dare harm a hair on her head!”
Lucas tsked as he got right down to business and grabbed a handful of my hair tightly, making me wince, as he leaned down next to my ear level and said seriously “Oh I will dare, because she is fair game to me. But I’m willing to delay the damage I’m about to inflict on her if you agree to come to my town in no more than three days, and swap places with her”
He scoffed and said sarcastically “You want me to come to you on my own so you could kill me? Just like that?”
“Well, when you put it like that….it sounds a little ridiculous I know. But think of it like this, if you won’t come on your own, I will make your little bundle of joy here pay for everything you’ve done to us. And I don’t mean I’m going to put a bullet in her head. No, that would be so anticlimactic. I’ll keep her alive, here, with me, wishing for death every single second of every day” he said darkly.
I held my breath waiting to see what Zade will say to that.
I mean the man is a monster, he would never trade his life for me, a girl he’s never met before. A girl that was raised by a woman who escaped from him and hid his child from him, raised her to be someone so different from him.
“I will come with my men, you will let us through your borders, you hand over the girl to my men and you will get me in exchange” he said tightly.
“Nah, you will pass through the borders alone. We settle our score and only then will I release her” he said seriously.
“What guarantees that you won’t just kill us both?” he finally said after a period of silence.
“Nothing, other than my word. And if you know anything about me, then you know that I am a man of my word, Zade” said Lucas lightly.
Zade shook his head and said impatiently “No, that’s not guarantee enough. I also know you are a crazy son of a bitch and you will not stick to your word just out of spite! My men will come or we won’t have a deal”
“Suit yourself, then. I’m just going to be here having fun with your girl” he said humorously.
He released his tight grip on my hair, extracted his knife slowly from his side jeans pocket and brought it close to my neck while I tried the best I could to lean as far away as I can from it.
Just when I thought he was going to cut me for real this time and closed my eyes, I heard something rip.
My eyes flew wide open and I looked down to see my white sweater cut in half, exposing a small part of my middle upper front body and the middle of my uncut bra.
I heard Zade growl but it didn’t stop Lucas from doing what he did next.
He hid the knife back in his pocket, then his hands sneaked down from behind and started touching my front, exposed body.
I whimpered terrifyingly, trying to fight him off but failing because I was tied to the chair and had no way of getting his hands off me.
His palms crossed on either sides of my torn sweater, and disappeared from view inside my still covered sides.
To Zade, it appeared as if Lucas’s hands were grabbing my breasts underneath my bra, but in reality, his hands were holding on to my bra from the outside and messaging them lightly through it.
It still drove me wild with fear and still made me struggle against his hands, trying to get his hands off me.
“Your angel doesn’t look like she’s enjoying my touch on her not so perky nipples, maybe I should try something else, that might turn her on for me. Not that I really need her to be ready for me to do what I want to do” Lucas said tauntingly.
He removed his hands from inside my sweater, and before I had time to breathe again, his hands traveled down to my pants.
That’s when I lost my shit and started screaming and wailing against the tape on my mouth.
It never deterred him as his right hand disappeared inside the front of my pants and started to trace my privates over the fabric of my underwear very lightly.
He wasn’t pressing his fingers at all and they never went past my pubic area, but it did not lessen the horrible dread that was flooding my system as I kept screaming at the top of my lungs and trying to close my legs unconsciously even though that wasn’t really possible given that they were tied apart to the legs of the chair.
“Stop touching her!” I heard Zade yell angrily over my screaming.
“You know the magic words” said Lucas cheerfully as he continued to barely trace his fingers over my underwear.
“Okay! Okay! I’ll come alone, but my men will be at the border waiting to take her with them. You will hand her over to them do you understand me Lucas Snow?” said Zade tensely.
Lucas finally removed his hands from inside my pants and rested his chin on my shoulder as he said dead serious “Don’t bother putting up a plan to screw with me Zade, it will only get your precious angel killed. I will be seeing you in three days from now, at ten in the morning sharp. If you’re late, your angel will be introduced to the devil in me and trust me, when I’m through with her, she won’t be an angel no more. Don’t bother calling in the next three days, I’ll be too busy to pick up, see ya”
He moved forward and ended the video call before Zade could say anything else.