A dangerous sign

Sebastian p.o.v

I'm dialing the number of my fool of a friend Ryan repeatedly so, I can apprise him about my deal with Demitri's. I knew he will be quite delighted to finally have his hand over his rival.

" Pick up...pick up..you idi@t"

I mumbled to myself in frustration when he don't pick up my sixth call. If anyone else is in his placement he/she will be seven feet under the ground until now.

But I can't do anything about him, with this thought I dialed his number again and this time cord get connected.

" Where the hell you are Ryan? I'm trying to reach you for the last three days and what the hell are you doing these days...that you don't have time to answer a f*king call?"

I hissed at him dangerously to show him how irritated I am by his behavior. I'm clutching my phone with the strength that my fingertips get void of blood and look pale. I grind my teeth to control my anger.

" Umm ...um...I'm sorry Seb I'm not feeling well these days. I don't know what is wrong with me..?"

He responded to me meekly over the line. His voice is so dull that it turned my anger into worry.

I never discovered him like this. He is always active and over the moon. Therefore, my anger vanished in thin air.

" Let's meet up in the club tomorrow evening around seven. I have to plan out something important and then you can tell me what is bothering you...fine. Take rest until then."

I finally dropped him a massage and plan a meeting. Without waiting for his answer I cut out the line and put my phone down on the table.

I closed my eyes and leaned back my head on the headrest of my chair to calm down my nerves. Suddenly, I felt a presence beside me. I opened my eyes, my sight encounter Alexis standing near my table.

His eyes are cold and he is holding a file in his hands. He bowed his head with respect in an instant as his sight met with mine.

" This is the information you asked for Master and Vincent is already in the dungeon. "

He handed me a folder and stepped aside to wait for my next command. I'm looking at the file while lost in my thoughts. Why did I care who she is? and where she is coming from. I can not help but get frustrated over my thoughts.

" Go ahead with your interrogation and I'll meet you up soon. "

I acknowledged Alexis and he left my study in a blink of an eye. I have my faith in him he would do as I instruct him.

Hesitantly, I opened the file and began to read. It contained all 'Her' biographical data along with some photographs packed in a yellow envelope. I put the envelope aside and let the letters make sense to me.

Name: Erika Carter

Age: 27

Height: 5' 9"

Skin Color: Brown

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Hazel Grey

Education: Gold Medalist in Bussiness Administration. ( Homeschooled all her life)

Father Name: Mr. Michale Carter ( A Business tycoon from Asia)

Sibling: Allen Carter ( Elder brother and the successor of the company after his father's death)

Guardian: Allen Carter ( acquire the whole custody of his 11 years old sister at the age of nineteen)

God Father: Mr. Kevin Carter ( Mr. Michale Carter's younger brother)

Fiance or soon-to-be husband: Mr. Dylan Harrison ( An orphan, the family adopted him at the age of nine)

My chest burned a little when I read about the man. I closed the file immediately and composed myself. After a while, I tore open the envelope and take out the pictures of her with her family.

One of them caught my attention and that one is of her and her so-called fiance. She was facing the camera and the man embraced her from behind. He was holding her by the waist and both of them look so comfortable and happy.

I felt like someone grabbed my neck and squeezed my heart at the same time. I hastily tossed the envelope inside the file and close it. After that, I dumped the file into the last drawer of my table.

But I can feel something is missing as if some dots are not connected well and left behind a lot of questions. Such as, why she is homeschooled in the first place and how she got into Vincent's hands when she belonged to a wealthy family. I needed to talk about my every suspicion with Avi.

Vincent is sure to know something, with this thought, I shoot up from my seat and proceed toward my dungeon. The screaming noise and the smell of blood brought a smile to my face.

" leave me!!! Please leave me, Sir, I know nothing about her."

Vincent's words are laced with fear as they echoed throughout the dungeon implying that Alexis doing a great job.

Passed by every cell, I legged toward the last cell and opened its door in slow motion. There he is, tied to a chair while Alexis having fun with him but not too much just beats him up a bit. His face twisted with pure horror when his sight stopped on me.

" Who is she? And what do you know about her? And who sold her to you?"

Without caring about his expressions, I questioned him calmly and strolled toward the table filled with different types of equipment, placed in the corner of the cell.

" M..Ma...Master t... trust me. I know nothing about her."

He shuddered and his eyes got out of their socket when he witnessed me grabbing a hammer from the table. But his statement is not enough to satisfy me, so I wandered back to him and strike the hammer on his keen.

*Crack!!!!

"Ahhhhhhhh!!!! !!!!!!!!! *gasp"

He cried in pain but the crunching sound of bone-crushing is quite a melody for my ears. I lifted the to strike his other knee but his words stopped my hammer in mid-air.

" Trust me...ahhh!!!!, I'm telling the truth, Master. I...I know nothing about her. A man wearing a black mask and riding in a black expensive car arrived at... ah!!! ....my club to sell her. He looked wealthy and powerful. She is unconscious and he left her there.

He did not even take anything in exchange for her except a penny ahhh!!!!!. The man declared firmly, she is worth only a single penny.

Please!! Don't kill me, Master, believe me, I know nothing about her except this."

He explained while wailing with pain. His voice is low because of exhaustion and he could hardly form his words. His statement opened a new mystery for me; who is that man and why he sold her?

A bubble of inquisitiveness formed inside me and I knew these questions going to linger in the back of my head until they got answers.

" Hmmm... Don't worry Vincent, I'm not going to kill you ...yet but I promise to show you what you lost after selling her to me * chuckles. Just wait for my surprise."

I proclaimed him arrogantly in a calm and soothing tone whilst patting his sweaty cheeks softly with my hand. Then I once again lift my hammer in the air and stroke his second knee.

"Ahhhh...Ahhhh!!!!"

He screamed in agony but it only brought a smirk to my lips. He deserved a lot more than this but it's not my part to do so but someone else.

" Let him go."

I ordered Alexis and left the place but a thought lingers in my head for all the time that she is such a riddle for me and why I'm so eager to solve it. Why do I want to know everything about her or what happened to her? This kind of curiosity is a dangerous sign.