I WAS CHOKED

"Leave it to me," Jake said with a wink.

"Alright, then I'm leaving. Let me know when you make an improvement." They were currently outside the brothel and near Eugene's car.

"You got it. Wait, what about Rose? At this point, I think we need to keep an eye on her as well. Knowing Lucie, your girl could be in danger." Jake said with a worried tone.

He was well aware of how crazy Lucia could be. She was not one to be taken lightly despite how innocent she looked. 

Lucia had the ability to play mind games with you. She was cunning and a bit crooked. She was feared by most of the associates in the mafia business who were controlled by no other than Lord Tobias. 

Her father was a Capo. A captain in charge of one of the crews of the mafia family and was chosen by Lord Tobias himself. She was trained by her father as part of the crew and proved herself to be more competent than they could ever imagine.

Some of their training consisted of spying, going undercover, and the most jarring of them all was assassination. Yes, they were asked to kill as their final training, and she did that without batting an eye which caused most, if not all, of her crew mates to go weary of her.

She was called the BLACK RUSSELL. The slimy viper.

They associated her with the Russell's Viper, a highly venomous snake known for its dangerous bite.

Despite her fierceness and overly outstanding prowess, for some reason, she was obsessed with the Lord's last-born Collin. She would follow him around and do whatever just to get his attention. Also, she wouldn't mind torturing and killing off anyone who came close to him, especially a female. She was that crazy.

Now it seemed she had found herself a new target.

"I know, " Eugene replied and with that, he stepped into his SUV and drove off with speed. Jake stared at the back of the disappearing car with an unreadable look on his face.

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"Who is there?" I started to panic. After standing put for a while and not hearing anything, I decided to turn around but before I did, I felt a hand wrapped around my neck. 

It was that of a man. It was huge and heavy; I knew then that the man was built and bulky. He was choking me but worst of all was that he had a gun to my head. 

I screamed but then his cold, husky and deep voice made me shut my mouth in fear.

"I am going to pull the trigger if you fucking dare to scream again."

I was at the verge of tears. How did it get to this? Why me? What did I do wrong? All these questions were jumbled up in my mind. 

"W..what do you want from me?" I asked in a shaky and careful tone. I was trying my best not to piss him off. My life was literally in his hands right now, but I had to know. 

There were a lot of things happening that I had no answers to, but this, I had to find out. I should at least know who was against me. Who did I wrong?

Seriously, what could I have possibly done wrong to be in this position at this moment where I should be peacefully lying on my bed thinking of what next to do tomorrow. 

"Shut up" he said. "You have no right to ask questions after making my miss unhappy."

I was confused. Which Miss was he talking about and unhappy? When did I make someone unhappy let alone his miss.

"Which miss are you talking about" he held my neck tighter

"You are still talking, aren't you?" he begun to pull me. I held unto his hand hitting it as he dragged me, I couldn't breathe. 

I felt I was definitely going to die, and I would not even have any idea of what I did to deserve this cruel death and for some reason the towel wrapped around me was still in place which I felt thankful for. It was worst enough thinking of being killed by this man but for him to kill me whilst naked would just be too much.

"Will I really die like this?" I thought. He dragged me all the way to the hall. "I've got her come in" I didn't know who he was calling on to, but seconds went and no one came. 

"I said come in" he screamed, and I felt sorry for my ears which tinged with pain due to how deep and piercing the scream was. Yet there was still nothing.

"Shit " he cursed as if feeling something was wrong.

"Stay put" he loosened and let go of his hold on my neck. Still pointing the gun at me he walked back to the door. He held the doorknob, and I realized the lock had been broken, obviously by him. "So that was how he got in," I concluded.

Before he could pull open the door,

"Bang!!!" 

The door flew to the side taking him along and there stood Eugene.