Chapter 14

As she slowly opened her eyes adjusting to the bright light she had come to the realization that she had been tied up.

"Finally awake I see" One of the two man seated across from the female gruffly stated as the man next to him had a dumb smile on his face as he doze off.

"No dip sherlock" she retorted rolling her eyes.

"State your business" Perla ordered glaring at the two males before her.

"Who are you to order us around?" he smirked walked forward as he got up from his chair.

"someone who you don't wanna mess with now state your business" The amber eyed female once again ordered getting impatient as she waited for his answer.

"Money, after all you broke into our bosses office and killed his men so we'll take your money" he dumbly stated making the female smirk as she realized he did not recognize her as one of their bosses who worked under the big boss.

"At least untie me it's not like someone as frail and weak as me can escape, after all i didn't kill your subordinates since i can't fight it was my partner" she lied looking at them with an 'innocent' and 'scared' expression.

"if you play cards with me" The other man with the stupid childish smile piped up as if he had won a toy like a child.

"Okay" she agreed internally smirking at the opportunity.

Never once in her life had she played cards with a kidnapper.

This should be interesting.

"I'm going to lock the door and leave also i'll be watching you if you escape i have cameras" he glared as he walked out the door locking it in the process.

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A whole night went by with no sleep as the trio tirelessly worked to find their friend.

Ace had finally had enough as he stormed out of his house leaving everyone behind as he went out to find her himself. He had been worried sick as he searched everywhere for Perla.

For the past month he had been denying any feelings towards the female but now that she was gone he regretted it.

Guilt seeped his gut as he felt sick at the horrible things that could have been happening.

Meanwhile

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"GOLD FISH" Perla screamed abruptly getting up from her chair making it fall as she threw her cards on the table during the process putting her hands up in victory.

"UGHHH THIS IS THE FIFTH TIME" The childish man, who she had found out was called Ed, screamed in defeat as he sulked in his seat in defeat staring up at the victorious female who was celebrating her win,

"Wanna play again?" Perla smirked looking down at him as his mood quickly shifted as his smile once again appeared.

"I'll for sure beat you this time" He beamed answering her question as they once again started playing after they had shuffled the cards.

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The phone vibrated in his pocket as he quickly fumbled to get it out only to find it was an unknown number making his frown grow.

"Who's this?" he questioned.

"We have your girlfriend here with us if you want her come to "xxxxxxxxx" warehouse with twenty million, in cash" the anonymous person ordered from the other side of the line making Ace's brows furrow.

"You better not have touched her, if she isn't in one peace I'll kill each one of you with my own hands" he growled his voice laced with venom as he glared at the ground.

"if you want her in one piece do as I say come by five in the afternoon sharp if your late consider not seeing your precious little girlfriend again" the anonymous person threatened as he ended the call before Ace could say anything.

He ran back inside his large mansion springing the door open as he started the duo who had been tirelessly working in order to find their friend.

"Did you find her?" Edna ran over tears pricking her eyes as her dark black eye bags were more evident by the second due to her lack of sleep. The same could be seen one the two males faces as Zen strutted over worry and fear shown in his tired eyes.

"They want twenty million by five in the afternoon" Ace informed making the duo's eyes widen at the large sum of money.

"How do we find so much money in the span of eight hours" Edna panicked as the tears finally rolled down her cheeks at the thought of loosing her friend.

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"GOLDFISH" The amber eyed female once again screamed springing up in her chair in victory as she saw the evident frown on Ed's face.

"your cheating there is no way" he accused her as he got up from his chair pouting.

"I'm going to the bathroom don't go anywhere" he furrowed his brows strutting out the door as he closed it behind him

The long brown haired female hummed in amusement a smirk gracing her lips as she spotted the computer he had left behind.

She quickly grabbed it quickly hacking in as she started to hack the system in order to send her location to Edna.

She quickly typed away just as she heard foot steps approaching she shut the computer finishing the hacking process as she placed the computer back in place as she sat back down right before the door opened revealing Ed with his stupid grin.

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Edna heard her computer ding as she ran towards it with high hopes as she saw a location from an anonymous person making her furrow her brows in confusion.

"Find anything?" Zen asked from the back of his computer as he tirelessly typed away.

"It's a random location from someone anonymous" she explained.

Zen finally looked up from his compute abruptly getting up as he pushed his chair back running across the room towards Edna and her computer as he snatches the computer from her lap.

Ace came into the room the his frown bigger than before as he walked towards them.

"The bank won't let me take out more than a million from my bank account" he explained a sigh leaving his dry lips.

"We got a location from an anonymous number" Edna explained to him her puffy eyes searching the screen of her computer that Zen had gotten a hold off.

Ace's eyes widened as he walked towards them the knot in his stomach tightening in hopes of finding Perla.

To be continued~