One of the men twisted the door knob and pushed it open, revealing the well furnished but dim lit room. Laura and dorian were huddled into the room and were made to sit on stools, where their legs were tied afterwards.
At the farthest end of the room, a figure was sitting elegantly on an expensive leather cushion while he was sipping on his white wine. He had his back turned to them, so the girls couldn't see who it was.
"All done master. We shall leave at once" one of the men said and bowed his head respectably, after which he retreated the room with the second man.
"Who the f*ck is that?" Dorian asked Laura in hush tone with a confused look on her pale face.
What had they done? Why was a billionaire from nowhere interested in keeping them captives? Had they offended him? Dorian thought in dilemma. She was sure she didn't offend anyone, even if she did, it couldn't be this billionaire here.
"Does it look like I know who he is?" Laura retorted with sharp eyes. " I can only see half his hair, I don't know who he is"
Suddenly, the figure smashed the wine glass to the floor with delibrate arrongance. He turned his face and walked towards them with a sinister look on his face, his lips curved up to a side. It was a smile yet, it wasn't.
Dorian could have dropped dead to the floor if her legs weren't tied to a stool. She was so shocked to her bones that her face turned paler than before. It was darren all along! It was him who sent the men to kidnap them!
Her body began to shiver helplessly as she saw him walking closer to them in his usual protruding elegance, with an aloof and cold aura that spoke volumes. She had said it after all that she was dead!
"You weren't expecting to see me, were you?" He asked with a smirk on his face. He tillted his head up and glared at them " you shouldn't have messed with me. You've just crossed the boundary line" he said and chuckled, settling on a nearby sofa.
Unlike Dorian, Laura was calm and composed as ever as if she were watching a romantic movie. She rolled her eyes and snickered back at darren "I was expecting to see you, Just didn't expect it to be so quick" she said an expressionless face, nonchalant than ever.
Darren was taken aback. Hie expression darkened immediately he heard that Laura said. He wasn't expecting this to be her reaction. He had pictured her crying at his feet and begging helplessly for him to pardon her but that wasn't the case. He furrowed his brows with a smug on his handsome face to disconcert the shocked expression he had on earlier. "What do you mean?"
Laura grinned tightly. "After what I said to you at school the other day, I know you'd come looking for me to know how I got to know about your dad"
Darren sighed and looked away, crossing a knee on the other to potray his domineering aura. "Tell me all you know now or face my wrath" he threatened, shooting her a deadly look.
" All I know? About your dad abusing your mom and the fact that you can't interfere because your mom is love drunken and would not want you to come between them? or that he drinks to stupor and ends up with different girls in hotels everyday? Or the fact that after he sleeping with the girls, he strangled them and buries the evidences?" She gulped " which one?"
Darren's eyes turned blood shot while his face darkened the more. He tightened his fists and gritted his teeth angrily, having that sudden urge to hit her to death, but he just couldn't ; he would be like his dad.
It took him a minute to recompose himself and ask. "now tell me, how'd you know all these?"
"Oh, I don't know. I just knew it without being told" she replied and looked away from him.
Darren was quick to top his patience once more." Who told you?"
"Like I said, I don't know" goes her reply again.
He had lost it. " Are you going to talk or not?" He asked coldly, his eyeballs burning with flames within. Laura wasn't in anyway related to him or his father. There was no way any of his father's friends could have spilt the truth even if they knew it.
Laura was still as calm as she ever was. She tilted her head to one side, her Petit black brunette falling to a side. "if you and your friends stop bullying Dorian, I'll tell you everything you need to know" she said.
That had been her plan ever since. To push Darren to the wall of no return that he would be left with no choice than to succumb to her wish.
"Rubbish!" Darren hollered unexpectedly. He had his patience already. He could not be blackmailed, never! He thought disgustedly. The thought of Laura taming him to a corner made him more angry. What a h*e she was!
"If you think I'll agree to whatever sh*t you've said, then you're mistaken" he retorted, his cold aura making dorian uncomfortable.
She had been silent all these while the two were competing because she had nothing to utter. She was filled with emptiness and deep regret for the action Laura had taken that day because of her, she really was a pain in the ass.
"Laura please just tell him, he's got a look to kill" she whispered with all the strength she had left. She might go crazy any second.
"Forget it. I know my way around things like this" Laura whispered back to dorian with a reassuring look on her face.
Dorian sighed heavily and lowered her head slowly. Everything she wanted were contrary to the things happening to her. Something like this shouldn't be happening to her! It was contrary to all her firm ideas of how to live her own life with a maximum pleasure; it went contrary to her years of training in how to achieve and maintain power over the bullies; it went contrary to all the sophistication she had grown into, beginning at college and then expanding confidently; worst of it all, it went contrary to her deepest instincts of self protection. She was indeed a low life idiot.
She got Laura into this mess, Dorian thought, biting her lower crimpson lip as she tried her best to keep the tears from flowing.