Chapter 4

Gianni

“Run!”

 The voices in my head yelled at me but I couldn’t even move. How do I escape him when he was standing right in front of me? I didn’t dare to look at him. I kept my eyes down and I hated how I couldn’t even meet his eyes when I should be yelling at him for sending his men to kidnap me.

I felt like a fool for trying to hide in fear and that made me realize that I had no reason to be scared of him. I haven’t done anything to him for him to keep me in his house and I can leave. I lifted my head to look at him for the first time and gasped audibly. Did I say gorgeous before? I take that back. I mean, drop dead, panties dropping gorgeous.

He looked everything like a living, breathing, walking sin. He had the look, body, and height that could bring any woman and even men to their knees. I wish I were joking but I wasn’t at all. It took a moment to get my senses back and when I opened my mouth to speak, he beat me to it.

“You are bleeding.”

 I gasped when he spoke. His voice was surprisingly soft. I shrank back when he touched my forehead and I almost fell. I touched my forehead and gasped in fear when I touched something that felt like blood. I didn’t even realize I had been bleeding until he said it.

“Did you fall while trying to run away?”

 I opened my mouth to respond to his question but couldn’t get the words out as I suddenly felt lightheaded. I blinked and steadied myself. This wasn’t the time to feel lightheaded. I already fainted once and woke up in a strange room, I wasn’t about to faint again after risking my life to jump down that window.

“We should go back inside, you need to be treated.”

 He tried to reach for me again and I stepped away from him.

“Don’t fucking touch me!”

 I felt proud of how firm my voice sounded. He listened and took his hand away.

“Okay, I won’t touch but get in the car.”

 He said in a calm but commanding voice that caused a shiver to run through my body. I shook my head.

“I am not getting in your car. I am not going back to your house! I don’t belong here and you know it! I don’t know what you think you will gain from kidnapping me but you are wrong! I have nothing and you are only going to catch a criminal charge.”

 I warned him. He didn’t even act like I just said something. I was forced to meet his eyes for a slight second. How can he look so calm and dangerous at the same time? For the brief moment I met his eyes, I couldn’t read him. I tried and could only hold for about five seconds before I looked away again. I can’t read him and I am very good at reading people.

“Dolce, I think you don’t have much of a choice right now, you either get in the car with me or bleed to death before you make it to the main road which I might warn you will take you at least five hours on foot. That’s if you don’t get eaten by one of those wild animals that roam the forest part of the area.”

 I couldn’t believe any of the words that came out of his mouth. I refuse to believe he was telling the truth.

It didn’t even take an hour to arrive here by car. Surely it won’t take me five whole hours to find the main road! He was just exaggerating and trying to scare me.

“Liar! I am not getting in your car. You don’t even know me! You don’t even know my name yet you sent your men to kidnap me? You brought me here against my will and I am going to leave!”

 I fired at him. He shrugged his shoulders and smirked. I wanted to slap the smirk off his face but I knew better than to do that. Just one look around and I saw the men who got out of the other cars and they all had guns.

 Guns! My eyes widened when I looked properly and saw the numerous men with their guns. I realized that I might not make it out of here alive. Forget the wild animals he mentioned. There’s no way all these men would let me go without shooting me. I swallowed in fear and tried a different approach.

“Please let me go, I beg you. I am just a foreigner who moved here today. I have no money. My family isn’t rich or influential. They can’t pay any ransom. I b----“

 I stopped talking when he started laughing loudly. His laugh should have been annoying but it wasn’t and I hated myself for not hating his laughter. He was mocking me for pleading with him yet I didn’t find his laughter offensive. I think the jet lag is messing with my thinking ability.

“Stop fucking laughing like a sicko! I don’t think I said anything funny!”

 I yelled at him. Begging him was obviously not going to work seeing as he found me begging funny. He stopped laughing after I yelled at him. I spared a look at his men and they all looked surprised. Okay, maybe they were pissed that I just yelled at their boss. Maybe they were about to yell ‘fire’ right before they all started raining bullets on me.

“Dolce, do I look like I need ransom money?”

 Was that why he was laughing? He didn’t kidnap me to get a ransom, then why?

“If that’s not the case then why did you kidnap me? What do you want from me? I don’t know anything! I haven’t done anything wrong!”

 I blinked as I started to feel lightheaded again. l touched my forehead and realized blood was still rushing out.

“You are going to bleed to death if you don’t stop being so stubborn.”

 I opened my mouth to respond to his words but I couldn’t speak because I had to fight to steady myself and keep the darkness that suddenly gathered in my eyes. Blinking and shaking my head didn’t help, it only made me feel dizzier. I didn’t know when I started falling but I knew when he caught and after that, nothing.