After the incident that happened, I avoided Lucian like a plague. Lucian had overpowered the other night, snatching the keys from my hands thereby ripping part of my fingers off. He swept me off my feet and carried me into a dark and cramped up room where he locked me up overnight.
My insides were on fire and I wondered if what Eren and Stacy had done to me was not way worse than what he was doing to me right now.
The door to the room opened up and that was when I realised that it was morning already. Lucian made his way in casually, a stoic expression on his face.
"I hope you slept well princess!" He let out with sarcasm dripping from his tone.
My insides burned with anger as I barely got any sleep. The aphrodisiac had finally worn off and I was my normal self again. The events of the past night flooded through my memory and I immediately regretted the way I had thrown myself at Lucian, he probably thought that I was done cheap prostitute.
Lucian whipped out a pocket knife and moved closer to me with it. I gulped as I looked at him, trying to put as much distance between myself and him but there was no where I could go to, my hands were tied and there was a wall behind me.
"Stay still and let me cut the ropes on your hands." Lucian said and crouched down, reaching his hand toward me.
I felt my stomach churn as his hand grazed my skin. Without warning, he cut me lose and stood up immediately.
He stood there staring intently at me. I looked down at myself to make sure that I was properly covered and none of my nipples were sticking out or something.
Lucian dropped the knife he held feebly between his fingers and walked out of the room, leaving me to my thoughts. I tried to stand up immediately but adrenaline flowed to my legs and caused my knees to buckle under me as I fell back onto the floor.
My heart was beating fast against my chest, threatening to explode. My eyes caught the knife that Lucian had dropped on the floor and I felt my blood run cold.
'What have I gotten myself Into' I intoned internally as I clutched my head tightly with both hands, tears streaming down my face.
"How could you do this to me, Eren!" I muttered under my breath. It was then that it dawned on me that I had been sold. My own boyfriend and my best friend had connived to sell me to a man that I barely knew.
I looked around the room searching for the window, maybe I could escape through but there were no windows and no ventilation in sight, my whole body was drenched in my own sweat.
With all the strength I could muster, I stood up from the ground. If I couldn't escape through a window, then I would escape through the front door. I strolled casually to the door and was about to open it when someone from the other end beat me to it.
The door swung open and I quickly drifted back, else the door would have hit my face, bruising me badly in the process.
"I am so sorry madam, did I hit you by accident?" The woman who had opened the door asked as she made her way in. There was a look of dread on her face as she inspected me. She wanted to come closer to me to get a closer look but I could see her reluctance even though she wanted to.
"No...I'm alright." I managed to reply. I hadn't noticed that she had had been holding her breath all along until she had released the pent up air inside and her shoulders descended back to their normal position.
My brows creased in confusion as I looked at her. Why had she been so afraid of hurting me.
"Thank goodness." She said aloud, much to herself than me.
"You have to come with me, madam." She said.
"Why....I am not going anywhere with you." I affirmed.
"Please madam, you have to, the boss awaits you." She said.
I stared at her for a while, trying to process what I was about to say. The woman looked years older than me but way too old for age, I could tell that she was about thirty five from her charisma but she looked way over fifty, her eyes were sunken and there were huge bags under her eyes. Those same eyes held mysteries that she had probably encountered in these walls.
"I need you to tell me all I need to know before I follow you." I said to her. I saw that she was desperate for me to follow and I was going to use that to my advantage at least for the moment.
"Anything you need to know, I'm going to tell you madam." She let out, intertwining her fingers nervously.
"Who is Lucian and waht does he do?!" I asked and the woman's eyes bulged, as if I had just asked her to reveal her darkest secrets to me.
"No madam!!" The woman shrieked, "Please do not let him hear you refer to him by his first name." She warned.
"Why not?" I asked her, my confusion aggravating. "I have called him by his first name several times....in front of him." I added.
The woman paused as if processing what I just told her. "I must warn you, madam, no one dares to mention the boss' first name, not even his father." The woman said, ignoring what I just told her.
I felt my heart sink into my stomach. Why was this woman so afraid of Lucian. Even the sound of his name made her shiver like a leaf in winter.
"But...but why is no one allowed to mention his name?" I asked, making an attempt to dissolve my confusion. The woman looked at me as if I had just asked the dumbest thing.
She moved closer to me with a worried look on her face. "You do not know who the boss is?" She asked and I shook my head in the negative.
"Hi ya ya yai!" The woman exclaimed and stepped back.
"You have not answered my question, who is he and what does he do?" I asked.
The woman looked at me as I drew her attention before looking round the room. She went to the door and opened it, inspected the whole area before she came back in.
"I am only telling you this for you safety." She paused to take in breath.
"The boss is a...he is a drug lord...the most dreaded in the country." The woman said and immediately clamped her hand over her mouth as if she had just said a taboo.
I felt my heart constrict inside. Even though she had revealed Lucian's identity to me, I still felt like she was keeping back something from me.
"I'll tell you all that you need to know, first you need to follow me, the boss is waiting, I do not want to delay the boss, else I'll end up the same way the others before had," she said with a look of dread on her face before she grabbed me by the arm and yanked me out of the room.