'Long time no see Len.'
Glancing at the backseat through the rearview mirror, Yelena's' sleeping face was all that flooded my head.
"What are you thinking Enzo, this can't possibly end well, drugging her?, Kidnap?, what the hell are you thinking?"
Already I felt crazy enough, drugging and kidnapping this seemingly random 'stranger', though this was certainly not the first time I'd
indulged in kidnap, however too add to it I was talking to myself, what the hell was happening to me?
"Turn around, yes, just turn around, deliver her safely back, when she wakes up leave her an email, apologizing, and say it was all a misunderstanding, then just never show your face to her again, she'll understand and it'll all be fine."
"Who am I kidding, she'll probably call the cops, this is after all illegal."
See I've never been one to care about the law, it can easily be tampered with, if the price is right that is, but still, there had to be better ways to do this.
"Snap out of it!, you're Lorenzo De Luca, since when did you fear the law?"
"You do not doubt yourself, you do not shy away from the illegal, and you certainly do not leave apology notes to people, drive, and stop being ridiculous."
Okay, so talking to myself did lose a bit of the doubt I had, and surely people talked to themselves when feeling stressed.
After about an hour of driving, I pulled up to the gates of my villa, as I made my way inside, the doubts I had in me an hour ago, dissolved instantly, the deed had already been done, there was no going back now.
I steeled my resolve, and stepped out of the car, going over to open the doors, and bring Yelena out, however the minute I opened the doors, a leg flung out, kicking me straight in the stomach, I stumbled back, and Yelena took the opportunity, jumped out and half staggered, half ran to the gate.
Still as feisty as I remember, I watch in amusement as she struggles to get the gate open, obviously not realizing that it needed specific personnel authorization to be accessed.
After watching her struggle for a good minutes, I slowly approached her.
I came up behind her and touched her shoulder, only then did she finally acknowledge me.
"Get away from me you psycho!"
"Calm down princess, nothing good will come of you flailing your arms around like a headless chicken"
The amusement was definitely plastered on my face because one look at my face and she lost it.
"Calm down?, calm down?!, is this some sort of sick joke to you?"
"You drugged me, kidnaped me, and are now keeping me here, against my will, I don't even know you, what the hell is wrong with you you twisted freak?"
"Let me go, right now!"
I sighed and faced her.
"Okay princess, that's about enough, let's go insi-"
Her eyes widened to the size of saucers; yup, she was pissed, this'll be fun.
"No, do not, do not, call me princess, you hear me, and I will not be going anywhere with you, you can't just do whatever you want because you are rich, return my belongings and let me go right now, or else I will ca-"
Cutting her of I said...
"Call the cops, yes I'm sure you will, but it'd be in your best interest to not do anything stupid, calm down, come inside, I'll have a bath set up for you, we can eat, you go to sleep and then we'll talk in the morning."
I know I must have sounded delirious to her at that moment, but I just needed her to come inside, she could catch a cold out here.
Then she suddenly began laughing, maybe I pushed her over the edge of sanity.
"Wow, this is a new one, either you were dropped on the head as a baby, or you are just plainly delusional, the only way I'd be going anywhere with you, is if I'm hanging dead from a tree, and you have to drag my cold, lifeless body with you, you crazy fre-"
She never finished her sentence, because I picked her up, tossed her over my shoulder and headed inside, all the while she wriggled and squirmed on my shoulders.
"Put me down, put me down you psycho, I swear I'm gonna have your ass put your behind bars once I get out of here, you just wait."
"I look forward to it then."
Still screaming, she continued;
"Just who do you think you are?"
Then she bit down on my arm, already pissed that she was making that much of a fuss, I walked towards the nearest guest room, and dumped her on the couch.
"Look here princess, as I said earlier, it would be in your best interest to not say, or do anything stupid, you will behave whilst you are here, and you'll do as you are told, respect my instructions, and I'll respect you"
"You're delusional"
I smiled;
"Ah yes, so I've been told."
"This is insane let me go."
I sighed, this was going to be hard, just as she began hitting me again, I put my hands on both sides of her head, caging her in.
"Stay still."
"Or what, just who do you think you are?"
She tried to put up a confident front, but I could tell she was slightly intimidated, she shrank into the couch a bit and gulped.
Leaning closer till our faces were only inches apart, I whispered;
"Wouldn't you like to know"
That's all I said, then I stood calmly and walked towards the door, grasping the handle I spoke without looking at her.
"The helps will be here any minute, they'll draw you a bath, then they'll get you ready an-"
"Ready for what?"
"They'll get you ready Len"
Then with that I stepped out, and instructed the guards to watch her room.
Half an hour later I heard Yelena screaming, as the helps tried to get her to calm down.
"No! This is insane, that dude you work for, he's insane, insane I tell you, run while you still can. No, let me go!"
I need to remember to give the helps a raise after this, they don't get paid enough to have to deal with this kind of madness.
Then one of them came down and spoke;
"Excuse me sir, we are done with the lady, and she will be brought down, any minute now, the dinner table has also been set, however she did try to escape, and unfortunately bit a few of us."
"Very well, thank you."
Yes, I definitely needed to give them a raise.
When I arrived at the dinner table Yelena was already sitting there, looking beautiful, but agitated.
I took a seat opposite her, and began eating, then she spoke;
"I need help cutting my steak."
I was just about to signal for a help when she spoke again.
"No, I want you to do it for me"
I stood up and approached her cautiously, she was certainly plotting something.
Just as I'd thought, the minute I got within arms length of her, she picked the knife on the table that was part of the cutlery and shoved it straight in my shoulder.
But it looked like we where both shocked at the outcome, however she spoke first.
"I-I'm sorry, I didn't think it'd actually do any damage, it was a part of the cutlery, I didn't know it'd be sharp."
However, the concept of being stabbed was not foreign to me, and I'd dealt with much worse, and it seems, neither I nor any my workers were fazed, one of them simply walked forward, and retrieved the cutlery from my shoulder, and handed me a napkin to place against the wound.
I took in Yelena's horrified expression and matched it with an amused one of my own, for someone who seemed to hate me, she looked genuinely horrified.
Backing away from her, I finally spoke.
"Well that's the end of today's meal, let's go."
Getting up, I took her hand, and led her upstairs, back to the guest room, I assumed that she was still in shock.
When we got to the room, I gave her a slight push, so she could go inside, she finally seemed to regain her voice cause then she spoke.
"I'm really sorry Mr. Luca, I didn't mean to, honestly."
"Lorenzo."
"What?"
"Lorenzo, my name is Lorenzo, so just call me that."
"How, are you so calm, with all this, I mean, I stabbed you for crying out loud and you didn't even flinch. Just who are you?"
"Don't ask questions you don't want answers to."
Before she could speak, I said "Goodnight Len, I'll see you in the morning."
And shut the door.