Monster

Cicilia's POV:

Why are Mondays so awful, they are so boring and tiring. Although I have to work from home only but then too...

It was late afternoon when Angela was sleeping in the room after I had fed her.

I got up from the sofa after I finished reviewing a book and stretched my body as I had been sitting there for hours.

"Angel are you--", I said as I went to check her but my words died when I saw that she was not on the bed.

Panic started to rise within me as she can't even crawl. I checked the sides of the bed thinking that she might have fallen down but she wasn't there even.

Tears were on the verge of my eyes as I desperately checked every corner of my house but she was nowhere.

Where the hell did she go? She can't walk, she can't crawl and she can't vanish into thin air.

In a hurry, I might have not noticed the window of my room that was wide open.

And it said only one thing, she was kidnapped!

Everything started looking blur as tears pooled my eyes. And holding my head in my hands, I fell to the ground.

My daughter, my only family was taken away from me.

And then as if like a lightning bolt it struck me, wiping my tears away, I got up and hiring a cab I told the driver my destination.

The cab stopped in front of a tall, flat building maybe it was 60 floor high but I didn't care.

Entering the building I made my way to the reception.

"I want to see, Mr.Arnold", I told the receptionist in a hurry and she eyed me before asking, "Sorry, ma'am but do you have an appointment?"

"To hell with the appointment, just tell him that Cicilia is here!", I growled and she flinched at my words.

She quickly pressed the telephone receiver to her ear before muttering, " Tell Mr.Arnold that a girl called Cicilia is here to meet him." She paused before continuing again, "No, she doesn't have an appointment, just tell him."

I tapped my foot on the floor impatiently as the receptionist kept looking at me weirdly. After a minute or two she finally said, "Sixty-fifth floor, ask his PS to direct you to his office."

I rushed to the elevator and getting in I pressed the button. The ride to his floor seemed to be infinite. And after what seemed like hours, the door opened to the sixty-fifth floor and I didn't ask his PS where his office was because I could see the bold letters stating 'The CEO', on a door.

I ran to the door and without knocking I bursted in. He was there, standing and leaning against his desk.

Before he could open his mouth, I grabbed him by his collar tightly almost choking him.

"Where the hell is Angela?!", I gritted out.

He yanked himself out of my grip as he coughed, breathing heavily, a surprised and a horrified look on his face.

"I asked you where is Angela?", I shouted shoving his shoulder and he caught me by my wrist tightly.

My eyes were burning with rage and anger was slowly building in his eyes too.

"How would I know where is Angela, she was supposed to be with you, wasn't she?!", he finally spoke.

"You kidnapped her Sebastian, she was sleeping in the room and when I went to check on her she was not there, I checked every nook and corner of the house, she is not there and I am bloody sure that you kidnapped her!!"

A look of concern covered his face as he looked at me.

"I did not leave my office except for the meetings I had across the floor and if you don't believe it you can ask my assistant."

"Who said you, yourself kidnapped her, you can pay others to do that, can't you? You are a monster, Sebastian!"

A look of hurt crossed his face as he was extremely pissed right now, he closed his eyes for a second and when he opened them his eyes were bloodshot.

"I might be a monster Cicilia, but this monster too has a small heart that is full of love for his daughter, I. Would. Never. Kidnap. My. Daughter."

Tears that I had been holding just bursted out at that moment.

"My daughter", I sobbed, "if I don't find her then you will take all the blame, did I make myself clear, Mr.Arnold?!"

So for the next hour or so, I found myself sitting on one of the chairs in his office as he kept barking orders over the phone to find Angela as soon as possible.

My head was hung down, in between my hands as I cried my heart out.

"If you don't find her till evening then I will run you out of the country!", I heard him threaten someone before he hung the phone and then there was silence, except for my sobbing that could be heard.

I felt a presence in front of me and I lifted my head a bit to see him kneeling down in front of me as he looked at me sadly.

He placed his hand over mine and gave it a squeeze saying, "We'll find her."

I nodded my head slowly, wiping away my tears. He got up and kissed my forehead and that made my heart skip a beat but I didn't have time to think about those things.

He quietly sat beside me on the chair and he intertwined our hands, if it had been some other day I might have yanked his hand away but right now I needed it, I needed someone to console me.

"Why did you run away from your home Cicilia?", he suddenly asked.

My head snapped to him.

"Run away? Who told you that I ran away?!"

"I went to your parent's house, they told me that you ran away after you got pregnant."

I looked away from him, they lied to him, they were the one who threw me out.

"Cicilia? What happened?"

"Nothing."

I laid my head against the wall behind me, feeling my heartbreak into millions of pieces, my daughter was kidnapped and I had no idea in what condition she might be. Whether she is hungry or is she crying?

"When will we find her Sebastian?", I asked in a soft voice.

He lifted our intertwined hands up to his mouth as he placed a kiss at the back of my palm.

"Very soon darling, she will be alright." His voice seemed to break but he covered it up quickly.

"And Cicilia, I would never hurt Angela in any way nor you let alone kidnapping her. I won't gain anything by doing that because I know how much she needs a mother", he explained gently.

"Sorry for accusing you", I apologised, "I wasn't thinking straight."

"I understand."

And I don't remember anything that happened after that because I drifted off to sleep only to be wakened up by the ringing of my phone. I found myself on one of the couches that I saw in his office with a blanket over me.

I got up slowly and taking my phone that was lying on a nearby table I answered it, it was an unknown number.

"Hello?"

"Your daughter is really beautiful Cicilia but sadly you might need to bid her goodbye", a masculine voice said making my blood boil.

"Who the hell is speaking?!"

"Oh, you can call me her grandfather."

"Dad?", my voice broke down.

"I am sending you an address, I need you to be there as soon as possible or you will never see your daughter again and better not bring that boyfriend of yours", he threatened and the call ended.

My phone beeped and I looked at the address that he messaged me.

I couldn't understand what was happening, my father kidnapped my daughter but why? After they threw me out I never troubled them.

Should I tell Sebastian but then dad might hurt Angela and I couldn't risk her life.

Sebastian was not there in his office and as I opened the door to go out, I bumped into him.

"Where are you going?", he questioned, his eyes were red, he seems to be crying.

"I have some important work", I lied and he looked at me suspiciously.

"More important than your daughter?" He will catch me lying like this.

"Sebastian please...let me go", I said moving past him and this time he let me go but not before giving me an angry look as if he knew I was lying.

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I was standing in front of an old, abandoned warehouse. I walked up to its door as I cautiously opened it as it made a creaking voice.

It was dark and smelly with a small window but I saw no one. My eyes fell on the door at one end and as I moved towards it, the door opened to reveal my dad. As his eyes fell on me an evil smirk spread across his face.

"Look, who finally decided to pay us a visit", he said wickedly.

"Where's Angela?", I shouted.

He laughed wickedly as my mom came out from that door along with Eugene trailing behind her. Angela was in her arms and my heart broke to see her, she had been crying you could make it out from the streaks of tears on her face.

I ran up to her and took Angela from her hands and surprisingly she let me take her away.

As soon as she was in my arms I kissed her cheeks, forehead, nose.

And clutched her tightly to me.

And the next thing I know is that I was thrown inside that room as I fell to the ground making sure that Angela didn't get hurt.

"What a nice family reunion, right?", dad said.

"What the hell do you all want?"

Dad knelt down as he cupped my chin tightly before speaking, "Because of you we had to deal with so much of disgrace, everyone questioned us where is Cicilia and all we could say was that she ran away."

"What do you want me to do?", I spatted.

He got up and said, "Either you leave your daughter and come back to live with us or we kill you both."

"I am not leaving my daughter to live with you guys, you are not my family, I hate you all, how could you do this?"

"Eugene", dad said and I watched Eugene taking out a revolver from his pocket as I looked at him, I was appalled.

He held the revolver at my temple. And I knew that within seconds I would be dead.

I could do nothing.

But my knight in shining armour was quick to burst in through the door along with guards with guns.

Everything went in a blur, my so-called parents and brother being arrested and I remember Sebastian as he engulfed me in a hug taking me by surprise along with Angela in my arms.

"You OK?", he asked kissing my forehead and I nodded and then he took Angela in his arms as he kissed her forehead as well.

"How did you find us?"

"I made my investigators follow you because you were acting really suspicious."

"Did you get hurt anywhere?", he asked and I shook my head.

And a part of my heart told me that I might trust him...