Someone Like You

Chapter 52

Giovanni

I hear a male's voice talking to Zeniyah but she doesn't answer for a while so I ignore the conversation and continue working to triangulate the location of the call, it's giving me an area in Ohio not far from Pennslyvania, 

"Who are you?" I hear Niyah say making my ears perk, I turn to the phone turning the volume up and making sure the call is recording,

"Your worst nightmare," the man responds making my heart race

"Cliche much," she says making me smile. I hear her suck in a breath then I hear a loud thud and my heart drops, 

"Niyah?" I call hoping she's ok, I get no answer and I grip the phone tighter. I hear shuffling on the other line and I perk up hoping its Niyah 

"Hello? Hello? Baby is that you?" I ask looking back to the screen where the tracking has zoomed in on a 1-mile radius, my heart picks up. We're so close, I think to myself

"Catch me if you can," the male voice says into the phone before the line goes dead along with my heartbeat.

Zeniyah

I groan blinking my eyes to adjust to the light in the room, I look to the side and see "my worst nightmare," sitting there making me look away. I wince at the pain in my head and tears form in my eyes at the throbbing. 

"Hurts doesn't it?" he asks teasingly and I ignore him "Don't worry, you'll have some time to heal before the auction, we can't have damaged merchandise, now can we?" 

I freeze remembering where I've heard those exact words before. "We cant have damaged merchandise, now can we?

"Marco..." I whisper in fear

"Close." his voice whispers right next to my ear, "Lorenzo is the name, my love," he says stepping back 

"But you sound and look so much like Marco," I say looking at him

"Well that comes with being his brother si?" he asks cockily

"Why am I here?" I ask in fear

"You see you and my dear cousin, killed my brother, so I'm going to finish what Marco started by selling you, then I'm going to kill Giovanni Russo and everyone affiliated with him, including your brother," he finishes making me livid. I reach for his face attempting to claw at his eyes but my hands are yanks back by chains. 

"Tsk Tsk Tsk, bad kitty," he says "A nurse will be here soon to examine you and in 2 days you'll be auctioned off to the highest bidder and will no longer be my problem," 

I lay there with my chest rising and falling in panic as the situation hits me, I'm back where I started, I'm bad to that 17-year-old girl who lay there scared in a dark basement not knowing what to do. I know Ashleigh won't be here to save me this time. My heart rate starts picking up as I yank at the chains terrified, I feel my pants becoming shorter and shorter until I can barely breathe. I let out a blood-curdling scream before allowing darkness to take me.

Giovanni

Sandro and Tony finally landed we're all back in my office now, I called Malik saying I think I know where she is and he came over. Right now we're listening to the recording of the phone call between Niyah and me from yesterday, I was up all night listening to it on repeat. 

"Catch me if you can," I hear again before the recording clicks off. 

"We need to find my sister. NOW," Malik says as he begins pacing the room. 

"Ok well I've triangulated the call to a 1-mile radius but it's too big of an area for us to scan, its mostly forests, factories, and small towns it would take us weeks to do a proper search," I say sadly 

"We need some intel about that area, a tip that could maybe make the search earlier," Tony says and I nod in agreement.

Sandro pulls out his phone and begins tapping away while the rest of us start thinking of possible options. 

"Ciao," [Hello] Sandro says into his phone making me glance at him. 

"Sì, hai detto di sapere qualcosa sulla zona?" [Yes, you said you know something about the area?], he says and we all look in his direction, Malik asking Tony what's going on

"Sei sicuro?" [Are you sure?], he asks before sighing and hanging up. He looks at me and the look in his eyes tells me its not good news, 

"What is it, Sandro?!" I ask panicked

"The annual auction is being held near the border in 2 days," he says before pausing, "And there's supposedly an exotic closing item for sale," 

"PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME I'VE BEEN IN A HOUSE WITH HUMAN TRAFFICKERS," Malik yells making us look at him

"What no, our family doesn't deal in such things, our father was against it and my so-called uncle found him weak for it. When my uncle went behind my father's back and arranged an auction my father had him banned from the Family, he retaliated by kidnapping me for about 3 years," I say to him causing him to relax physically 

"So if you're against it and you're in charge then why's there an auction coming up," Malik asks making me realize he's right

"The last auction was years ago, and it was arranged by Marco, we shut it down, embarrassing him and once again sparking a family feud," Sandro says to Malik. 

"So this has to be Marco again, I mean that would explain him taking Zeniyah," Malik says 

"No we watched him die, Zeniyah sliced his throat and I shot him, there's no way he's alive," I say definitely. 

"Well does he have any siblings or other cousins?" Malik asks

"Us..." Tony says trailing off

"Oh just great...amazing, I'm chilling in a room with the only known relatives of a man who killed my brother, traumatized my sister, and oh yeah put me in jail for 6 years!!" he says pacing again. 

"Here," I say to him picking up my gun

"What?" he asks confused

"Take my gun, if that'll make you feel safer here take it," I say to him, he steps forward snatching it out of my grasp and making sure the safety on before tucking it. 

"Until I have my sister in my arms I don't trust a single one of you fully," he says glaring directly at me

"That's fair, but you're my future brother in law, and I'm sorry for the way you saw me a couple of days ago," I say sincerely

"This is my sister man, I don't have that much more so you can understand why I freaked at you giving up," he says and I nod

"Did your contact give you an approximate location?" I say to Sandro

"He gave me a town or village I think, he said right outside a place called Lowellville," Sandro says

"Ok we have 2 days to find her," I say with determination in my eyes.