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Chapter 5 • Runaway Bride •

"Miss Nicole?! Uh, We really need you down here." The head maid, Samantha, yelled from outside as she continuesly knocked on the door.

"What?!" Nicole yelled back.

"Um...Uh...Your uncle wants you downstairs. Um, like right now."

Nicole panicked. Running towards window, she peeked out the window. About ten unknown cars stood outside their mansion before they rolled through the gates.

Oh fuck. They were here.

"And, he said you should get ready as fast as possible." Samantha explained.

"Ok I'll be there the soon." After that I heard Samantha's footsteps descend downstairs.

The cars stopped right in front of the mansion. Nicole felt a lump in a throat as she watched everyone step out except the car in the middle, most probably where the boss was.

"What the hell am I supposed to do." She asked herself. She felt like pulling her hair out as she thought of her next move. She had no game plan.

She glanced back to the window only to see a pair of eyes starring right back at her. She jumped in surprise, clutching her chest as she looked back out. There he stood, in a black dress shirt rolled up to his elbows, in matching dress pants and a cigarette in his mouth with his bodyguards in behind him.

"My future husband." She scoffed at her own thoughts.

They finally moved into the mansion.

"Nikki?! Get down here." She heard uncle Theo from downstairs.

She let out a breath.

"Let's just zing this bitch." She thought

And finally she opened the door. She decided not to do any touch-ups. Didn't even brush her teeth nor change her clothes from last night, because she didn't care.

Nicole quickly made way downstairs. "Finally, get in here. There on there way to here." Madelein scolded just as Nicole entered the dining hall

"Why didn't you change? What is wrong with you..." Madelein frowned as she glanced down at her pajamas. "Is...Is that blood?"

Nicole smirked, "Yeah! your son's blood."

They both stopped when they heard loud footsteps enter.

Nicole's eys immediately went wide as the large figure entered the room with about six bodyguards next to him. All of them were big but you could tell that he was the boss. And he was fucking scary.

With coal black hair and emerald green eyes, standing around 6'6 or 6'5, completely over towering everyone in the room. But that wasn't even the scariest thing about him. It was his large scar that ran right over his face. Starting from his left ear and running all the way down to his chin, touching a little bit of his lip. But damn it looked fucking hot.

Shivers went down her spine as his eyes focused on Nicole.

"So?!" He glanced between the two of them, a dashing smile smile never leaving his face. His italian accent obvious. " Which one of you is my beautiful bride."

She watched as Madelein blush. Nicole let out a loud un-lady like snort followed by a laugh.

"Ahh! We finally meet!" Uncle Theo exclaimed, walking into the room.

"You must Theodore black? The one you gave me the wonderful news that I would would finally meet my bride."

"Yes! Yes!" He walked over to her, "This is Nicole Black."

Nicole watched as her uncle grabbed onto elbow rather roughly. He squeezed it, as if warning her not to do anything stupid. She raised a questioning brow at his actions. And definitely wasn't the person that noticed it.

"Don't fucking touch me!" Nicole exploded before yanking her arm out of his hold. Surprising the mystery man.

"Nicole!" Theodore yelled.

Nicole simply rolled her eyes.

"Uhm, we're sorry. She...Uh...Let's just say she doesn't have any home training." Madelein added, stepping into the situation.

The man's eyes ran with wildness. "Oh no. I don't worry about that. By the time I'm done with her..." He took a step closer, completely in closing her view and breaking all personally space. He grabbed her chin. "There will be nothing left of her to disbehave." And with that, he used the strength he had in holding up my chin in pushing back, completely throwing her off her balance.

Oh fuck no.

A scowl frozen onto her, she pushed herself up and stared into the monsters eyes.

"God! I really want to punch him." She thought

But she knew she couldn't do that. His guards all held their guns in their hands and if she dared to do try anything, she would definitely end up dead.

She released a soft sigh and lowered her head.

Madelein watched with amusement. Nicole had always been stubborn and always had something to say. "Look at her now. Helpless."

Madelein walked up to the girl and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Your bags have already been pack. There's nothing left of you here. Dont be stubborn. Just go."

Nicole jerked her shoulder, making Madelein's hand slipped off. And before Madelein could process anything, Nicole was already one her way upstairs.

"Dont worry, I'll go talk to her." Theo suggested, before he ran upstairs.

"Nicole!" He knocked on her door.

Nicole heard the knock from from her bath room as she glanced up her bathroom window onto their swimming pool that was the size of 4 olympic swimming pools.

"Nicole! Open up this doors now!"

Contemplating whether to jump or not, Nicole took another step closer to the window. Looking back to the the door as her uncle banged on it. He was going to break it.

"Nicole! I will kick this door open."

She glanced back one last time, her heart banging against her chest. Then she jumped.

Her body now completely under water as she swam as fast as she could, knowing that at the otherside of the pool was her freedom. Nicole was lucky, because by the time her uncle had kicked the door open, she was already halfway across the pool.

Uncle glanced around the room, "Nicole? Where are you?" He looked everywhere around the room. "Where could she have gone?" He asked himself. He knew he couldn't go downstairs and explain how his bride had just vanished into the air. He would have his head blown out.

He walked into the bathroom, slamming his hands down on the counter. Staring at himself in the mirror, he cursed our loud.

"What the hell?" He questioned as he watched the figure scaled the large fence in the reflection of the far end of the mirror. He whipped around and ran towards the window. He eyed the figure closely, before confirming who it was. "Oh my God!"

He ran to the staircase and announced to everyone below, "She's running away!"

"Ouch!" Nicole cursed as after jumping off the fence, scraping her knee in the process. She turned back to the mansion, quickly hiding behind a bush. "Huh! Looks like word got out."

She watched as their soldiers got into their cars suited guns as they drove off before she herself sprinted off into the woods.

Her long wet blonde hair bounced against the wind as she ran past the trees and rocks of the forest.

She heard the soldiers cars drive back but she was already too deep the woods for them to spot her.

Adrenaline ran through her veins as she forced herself to keep going, although her feet begged her to stop. With all the splinters and scrapes she really couldn't continue, but she knew her destination was near.

"Come on! I think she went through the forest."

"Fuck." She thought before running faster.