Kidnapped, But For Protection?

(A/N: This chapter contains slight suicidal thoughts, suicide is not an answer to your problems. If you are suffering from depression please consult to helpline numbers of your respective country or seek consultation through doctor or your parents. Proceed at your own risk, thank you for reading.)

Gianna soon woke up and realized that her hands were tied up, and she felt her legs and mouth were also previously tied, but now they were free. Realization soon hit her that she had got kidnapped.

"Are you awake now?" A man said and went outside to call his employer. Gianna was feeling very thirsty, and she trembled as she was feeling cold, she was wearing thigh length dress, so she felt chill run through her spine due to cold. She sat up in sitting position, the ground was also cold. She heard the door opening and the noise of shoes coming near her, she backed away in fear.

"Don't worry sister, you're safe here, with us." A man's voice entered her ears and she flinched in fear.

"W-Who're you!? Why have you kidnapped me!? R-Release me! I've to go back h-home!" Gianna exclaimed impatiently. The man clicked his tongue a few times and caught hold of her chin gently. She flinched again in fear,

"Don't be this much scared sister, we'll not harm you in any manner, but you'll have to obediently sit here until we tell you to do so." The man said and laid a blanket on top of her legs. Gianna was confused, scared, flustered and devastated at the same moment.

"Why're you continuously calling me 'sister'? I'm not your sister, please release me! Let me go!" Gianna said in a pleading tone. The man sighed and gave her a glass of water in her hand. She was feeling extremely thirsty, so she drank the water without complaining.

"To answer why I'm calling you sister is because--" The man was interrupted by someone entering the room.

"That's because he's your brother, Gianna." Robert's voice came into her ears and she flinched in shock.

"You!?" Gianna exclaimed in shock.

"Yes, me. I'm Robert Allen whom you know already." Robert exclaimed.

"Why have you kidnapped me Robert!?" Gianna exclaimed sternly.

"Because you refused to get adopted by me and I already told you that Moretti family is dangerous, so you should stay away from them, but you were busy doing parties with them." Gianna scoffed listening to this.

"Are you being serious? The one who seems more dangerous to me right now is you, Robert!" Gianna said and backed away a little.

"Gianna try to understand, I had to do this... for your protection. Trust me, let me adopt you, I'll talk with best doctors available and treat your eyes too!" Robert exclaimed making Gianna feel disgusted with him even more. Gianna thought there must be some motive behind the reason he's insisting on adopting her this much.

"Why do you want to adopt me only? I've a sister too, if you don't know. Real sister, Amelia." Gianna said and frowned in contemplation.

"W-Well I'll adopt you both alright? Please just agree, I need your approval so that I can adopt you." Robert was stubborn enough and not letting out any information why he needs to adopt them.

"C'mon dad, let's go, give her some time to think it out." The man who was son of Robert said.

"Well... okay." Robert agreed and they both left from the room. Gianna sighed in relief when she was left alone, she heard some low voice outside the room so she slowly and silently stood up and went near the door following the source of the voice. She attached her ear to the door to listen carefully.

"Increase the security outside and inside the building and give her food and ice pack for her wound after a while." The son's voice came through outside the door. Gianna was very confused. Why would these kidnappers treat her like this? What was the motive behind Robert persistently insisting on adopting her especially? Why was he not focusing on Amelia and only her? Gianna sighed as she felt helpless and went back to sit in her original position.

Soon after a while, a guard came inside and gave her a plate of food and an ice pack, and he left from there without saying much. Gianna's stomach grumbled a little in hunger as she smelled the delicious aroma wafting from the food. She started eating slowly and finished her food a while later. She then applied the ice pack on her cheek to reduce the swelling due to the slap.

"Why me... why do I always have to face all kinds of problems? God... just kill me if you don't like me... why do you always make me suffer this much, I'm tired now... I don't know what the future holds for me but please god save me..." Gianna prayed for her safety genuinely and wiped away the tears which had flowed down her cheeks unknowingly.

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"Gianna please be safe..." Xavier said desperately and clenched the stirring wheel, he was driving towards 'Le Fiamma Del Mondo' his mafia headquarters. He had called Derek and informed him about her kidnapping, he told him to drop Amelia at her apartment and convince her that Gianna would return safely.

Whereas Adam and Lorenzo took the responsibility to handle all the guest. After all the guest left from the event, they ordered the staff to do all the clean-up, and they left from there towards Moretti mansion. Brinley was very tired, so she slept on Adam's shoulder while they were going back.

Xavier reached and ordered his men to start negotiating with his enemies, his enemies might have kidnapped her, who knew it was none other than Gianna's relative! Xavier called many people the whole night and did many meetings with his opposing groups, but he got no clue. The sun was about to rise, and he facepalmed as he couldn't get any clue at all. In anger, he banged the center table which was in front of the sofa where he was sitting, the whole glass of center table broke into small shards of pieces with a huge crash and his hand started bleeding uncontrollably.

Listening to the chaos, his assistant ran inside and saw what had happened, he immediately called the doctor from the infirmary of headquarter. Remembering how she used to talk, hum sweet melodies while baking and cooking, wear beautiful floral dresses and giggle at small things... Xavier's heart started beating deeply in sadness and grief. He was so scared for the first time in his life, he could only imagine what might happen to her.

"I don't believe in god, but Gianna does... if you've even a little bit of mercy for your followers then keep her safe, that's my only request from you." Xavier muttered and rubbed his eyes as his eyes started filling with unshed tears.

He mustered up his courage again and after getting bandaged up by the doctor, he decided to contact the security team of venues again. He told them to ask and request CCTV footage from nearby premises, he had already seen the CCTV footage of the venue of engagement in which Gianna was getting kidnapped but having more footages might help in the investigation.

After a few hours of hard work and negotiations, Xavier finally got hold of other CCTV footages. Adam also arrived at the office with breakfast for him, they both sat together and went through all other footages they received.

Thankfully in one of the footage they saw the kidnapper had a black tattoo behind his neck. When they zoomed in to some extent they realized the tattoo was of a tiger, lion, leopard or any other similar animal, and it was situated exactly on the back of his neck. Adam and Xavier thought for a while but couldn't guess whom it might be.

"Are there any mafias related to the name of animal?" Xavier asked Adam, and he went into a deep thought for a while.

"I have heard of White Leopards, but they all have White leopard tattoos on their hands... other than that I can only think of Black Panthers..." Adam said in a low voice, but this made Xavier snap his head up from his thinking posture and his eyes widened in realization.

"But why would that mafia group kidnap Gianna? They're not my enemies..." Xavier said and Adam nodded in approval.

"They're just a small gang-like mafia, they never even tried to have contact with us." Adam commented and Xavier sighed.

"Well we don't have much time, if our assumption is correct and if they're the ones who kidnapped her then I swear on my name, I will make sure they experience the hell on Earth." Xavier said in a cold voice and Adam sighed.

"Calm down, first have breakfast, you didn't even have your dinner properly last night." Adam said as he pushed the breakfast box a little ahead towards him.

"I'm not hungry. All that matters now is to find her, then only I'll be able to eat and sleep comfortably."

"Well... I can do the rest of the work, you need energy if you want to find her and mother has ordered to bring this box empty, and before you offer me to eat this, I already had my breakfast, so no chance of argument." Xavier sighed and glared at Adam, but he just looked away, so Xavier had to give up.

"Smart ass." Xavier said and slowly and hesitatingly took the box and started eating his breakfast.

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