Zoey was blind folded and cuffed then was moved from the office into a bigger building, the strong stench of metal and grit filled the air.
'Ugh, where is this?'
The vampire removed her blindfold and uncuffed her then she was thrown into a prison-like place he then locked the bars shut.
"Hey wait! wait! " Zoey reached out her hand and called with a croaked voice, her voice got cracked from all the shouting from before.
"Ha, I remember when I was brought here, I was surprisingly calmer than you though" a voice said from behind Zoey,
Zoey shrieked and jumped in fear.
"Hi, I'm Penelope " the other waved with a dry smile, "I don't care who you are, and d-don't speak to me, I'll leave this place soon," Zoey held on to a string of hope that she wasn't even sure of. Xavier. She still couldn't believe that Xavier did this to her and was hoping he'll get her out of there.
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"Agent XR! you're here" a vampire standing on gate duty said with raised brows as soon as he saw a man walking towards him .
"Yes, is boss in?" Xavier asked, looking ahead of the man "yes" the other said and Xavier walked in not giving a second look at the gatekeeper.
"Xavier, what brings you here, did you bring the girl?" A scar-eyed man asked, scanning Xavier with his eyes.
"No, I -" " why are you here then? You want advance payment?" the man asked, faking a confused look.
"Was anyone new brought in today?" Xavier finally asked.
"No, why?" the man lied with a poker face. "Nothing, I just want to know how the business is doing " Xavier said with a smile and stood up "I'll get going now " he said "so soon? No new information about the girl or anything?" the scar-eyed man asked and Xavier shook his head, saying no.
He turned around to leave when he saw something by the wall, something that he knew very well, Zoey had three coral bracelets and she always wore them together, he found two by the barrier and the third one was lying there by the wall, looking at him.
Xavier slowly turned to face the scar-eyed man with a bitter smile "Where's she?" he asked.
The man cackled silently, his shoulders were shaking violently then the laughter slowly turned into a full fledged chortle "Xavier you fool! Did you think I wouldn't know?" The man asked with a crazy smile.
"Kavi, where is Zoey?" Xavier asked rather calmly but his gesture said otherwise, his fists were balled and it was obvious he was gritting his teeth in anger.
"Did you just call me by my name, you've dropped the formalities huh?" "Xavier", he stood up "Your little girlfriend has already been sold to her new master, she fetched a lot of money but since you didn't bring her, you won't get any" he lied through his teeth with a distorted smile, of course Zoey hadn't been sold yet, she was just brought in today.
He only wanted to aggravate the already angry Xavier.
"We told her you were the one lured her to us for money. That shouldn't bother you right, it's not like you've fallen for her, eh?" he said "You son of a b-" Xavier was about to throw a punch when he suddenly felt weird in his guts, he looked down to see a knife sticking out of his stomach, blood spurted out of his mouth and he fell on his bottom, he turned to look at the vampire who did it.
"Good timing Felix, he was about to hit me" Karvi said with a laugh, nodding at the vampire who happened to interfere at the right moment.
"Give up Xavier, Zoey was never yours to begin with, the moment you started talking to her, she was already my property ".
"W-what did you put on the knife?" Xavier turned to face the knife wielder with a dizzy gaze then soon passed out cold on the floor.
"Hahahaha you came to fight for you girlfriend but you couldn't even get past the first stage," Kavi laughed again, signalling to Felix to take him somewhere.
"Xavier, you ungrateful brat, you betrayed the contract and you betrayed me, you shall pay."
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Meanwhile, it was already evening and Scarlett was already heading home after spending the whole day with Kristine.
"I almost forgot to get the medicine, good thing I remembered when I was returning"
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*knock knock* "Zoey, open up" she knocked and waited, but there was no reply from the other end.
"Are you sleeping? Zoey?" she knocked again but it was the same thing, no reply.
"Zoey, I'm here, wake up and open the door" she knocked louder this time, thinking Zoey was probably asleep.
"huh? that's strange " she soon noticed the door was locked outside that means Zoey was not inside "where could she have gone now? Margaret's?" She asked no one as she reached into her bag for her keys.
She opened the door and locked it behind her.
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Somewhere in the civilian zone of the vampire's haven, in a tall white building sat a woman with glowing red eyes, her teeth were gritted in anger as she just got off a call.
"How dare he!? Who the hell does he think he is!? huh? after all we have done for him, he went ahead to fall in love with a measly human?"
"Even after he already has a wife?" A man standing behind her added with a frown.
"Let's hope Yasmine doesn't hear about it, I begged Kavi not to tell her but he said he was going to call her next"
"Xavier must be a bastard, we finally left the bottom of the chain to this level because Yasmine and her family wanted Xavier as a husband now he's fallen in love with another woman, a human at that, that's an abomination!"
"At this point I don't even care anymore, all I know is Xavier will marry Yasmine whether he wants it or not" The man said and was about to leave.
" We'll visit him tomorrow in the barracks " The woman said, looking through the window with a frown and a hint of worry written on her face.
The man stopped a bit, he shook his head silently without saying a word and continued heading up the stairs.