**Wintershall mansion
Adrian looked at his watch while he descended from the stairs.
"My brother looks so cute" Ellie chuckled as she saw Adrian. He was all dressed up.
"You should loosen up a bit bro, you're going to a birthday party, not to the office, " Ellie said as she unbuttoned three buttons of Adrian's chest, exposing his broad chest a bit. " Now this is better, " she said, smiling.
"Give this to Emma for me, since I wasn't invited " Ellie added.
"Emma is trying to protect you, so don't get mad at her, okay?" Adrian said.
Ellie pouted her lips before answering Adrian. "All I wanted was to go to a celebrity's birthday party "
" Ellie, at a celebrity birthday party, there is no security whatsoever and I don't want anyone taking advantage of you, " Adrian said, patting Ellie's cheek lightly.
"But who can hurt me when you're there?" She asked
"No one, absolutely no one," Adrian said seriously.
"Well you should get going so you won't be late, see you later bro," she said.
"Hmm" Adrian nodded with a smile then he walked out of the house. He brought his phone as he got into his car and opened the message icon, Emma had sent him the venue of the party; "see you at 8 pm, Bando Hotel, room 228". He smiled and then drove away.
**Bando hotel
Ivy stood in awe at the sight of the hotel. It was a second home for the wealthy and most influential in the city. She deeply exhaled as she walked into the hotel, she already had a reservation with her client, Mr Diaz in room 214 so she went directly to the room.
"Hello, Mr Diaz" Ivy said as she opened the door. She had been knocking for a while without getting a response. She walked into the room and was shocked at the bed's decorations; it had petals of a rose flower scattered on it, there was a table that had wine and candles, and the plates were covered.
"I guess I'm in the wrong room" Ivy mumbled before turning to leave.
"And where did you think you're going to?" A man said. Ivy quickly turned around to face the man who spoke but she was stunned by who she saw.
"B..b.. Big boss?" Ivy stammered in fear.
"Why do you look so shocked?" He said. " Where are you expecting someone else?"
"Actually, yes I am expecting a business client, Mr. Diaz " she replied trying to hide her anxiety.
Big boss burst into a frightening laugh which startled Ivy. "Mr. Diaz? I am Mr. Diaz, the business client you are supposed to meet with, " he said.
"No, you must be mistaken, I came h…"
"Ivy, right? You're prettier than Janice, I wonder why I didn't choose you the other night?" Big boss said as he approached Ivy.
"What do you mean? What's going on here?" Ivy said as she subconsciously stepped back.
"Seems like your parents didn't brief you on tonight's meeting. You are the collateral I'm taking in exchange for the fifty million " he said. "You're quite expensive, so I'd be holding you down for a long time "
Ivy could hardly breathe as she heard the big boss's words. Her father and Miranda sold her out.
"Now I know why Janice was smiling when I got home," she thought as she fought back the tears she had in her eyes.
"You're quite tempting and I want to have you now, every other thing can wait," he said as he gently held her chin. Ivy slapped his hands away and turned towards the door to run away but the big boss grabbed her back roughly and threw her to the floor.
"You wanna play feisty, huh?" The big boss smacked as he grabbed her hair and kissed her. Ivy kept hitting his chest violently to push him off her body. The big boss got angry and slapped her hard on the face, before tearing off the little hand of her dress while he dug his nails into her shoulder.
Ivy screamed, hoping it would attract people's attention but she didn't see help coming. She angrily kicked the big boss in his groin before running towards the door escape.
** Bando Hotel's lobby
Adrian felt angry at the gawking eyes of women on him, so he went to the receptionist, got the reservation for the room, and went upstairs in the room's direction. He decided to tell Emma of his presence.
*Room 228
"Girls, time to leave! Adrian is here" Emma said to her friends.
"Gosh! You're something else Emma " Julie said.
"I have plans for tonight, so please don't ruin it," Emma said with a smirk as she opened her robe, she was wearing red lingerie.
"Ohhhh" Julie and Claire said, chuckling.
"I might be late for my party though," Emma said with a wink.
"Alright, alright, we get the picture already," they said before leaving the room.
"Tonight, I'd make you mine Adrian," Emma said, smiling mischievously.
*Room 214
Ivy took advantage of the big boss's pain, she grabbed her bag and ran out of the room in tears.
"Get her, don't let her escape boys" she had the big boss said as he groaned in pain.
"I need to run, I need to run" Ivy kept chanting in her head but suddenly got weak as she saw two men chasing her.
" No, no, no, no, no" Ivy kept crying and running, she needed to get away from this man. She was in the section E area, room 210- 230 corridor, she could only get help if she was out of the section E area.
"Help me! Somebody help me" she said as she continued running.
Adrian got to the Section E area; room 210-230, as he walked into the section, someone bumped into him and fell.
"What the hell?" He turned around to yell at the person and saw that she had already gotten up and was running. Two other men ran to the girl's front.
"Oh no," Ivy muttered as she turned around only to realize that she had been cornered.
"Please leave me alone, let me go, please" Ivy pleaded. Adrian looked closely at the girl, who was like a prey begging for her life from the predators.
"Did you get her boys?"