Can two broken souls heal each other

Chapter 16

Pete went towards the vegas’s closet, last night when he was arranging it, he curiously opened one drawer which was locked but had a key in it and when he opened it, he saw some weird stuff in it. Ropes, knives, blades, cuffs, chains, metal balls, some wired equipment and more, so as soon as he opened it, he closed it immediately, cursing Vegas in his mind.

He checked that drawer, the key was still there, he opened it and took out a knife and ropes. Then went towards the balcony to check whether it was locked or not, it was open but Vegas's room was on 2nd floor, although if he would have tried, he could have jumped but there was a big risk of breaking a few bones and to run away he needed fixed bones not the broken ones. So, he decided to make a temporary climbing rope and the ropes he had were thick but small, so he needed something long for a smooth drop to the ground. He saw the curtains and decided to use it. He took out one set of curtains and tied them firmly with the help of rope and then took out another set as well and tied them with the previous one in vertical form making it one long set. Then he put a knot from one side of that rope on the corner of the balcony, while he was checking knot and firmness of his temporary rope, suddenly the door opened and vegas came in, he saw bed was empty and pete was at the corner of the balcony door on his knees with shock on his face and there were his balcony curtains lying next to him. Pete's expression made it clear that he was doing something which Vegas shouldn’t have found out.

‘What are you doing pete?’ Vegas asked Pete in a calm but threatening tone while moving towards him. This made Pete standup in a hurry and he pulled out his hands and showed a ‘to pause’ sign. ‘Are you planning to jump off from the balcony and runaway’ Vegas asked, keeping the same tone and moving towards him. Pete was still and with the sides of his eyes he saw the knife lying on the ground on the other corner of the door. As he swiftly tried to move to grab it, Vegas literally ran and put his one foot on it before Pete could grab it, ‘nope, no knife not anymore again, I had enough of it’ his face showed annoyance.

‘Look vegas, I don’t know want you want, but you can’t keep me locked in here’ finally pete spoke, ‘I have to go’ and with that declaration he went towards the opened door of the room, but vegas suddenly grabbed pete from behind, he tightly hold both of this hand and pressed one hand on his mouth to stop him from shouting and he shouted, ‘noppppp, nopppp come inside quickly’ as he called nope came in running, ‘bottle’ vegas said, ‘huh!!!’ nope looking at vegas confusingly to him, ‘I said bottle you idiot’ vegas shouted in anger, still struggling to hold pete who was fully fighting to get out from his grips.

‘Oh yes, here take it’ nope took out one small bottle from his pocked and tried to give it to vegas, ‘are you that dumb nope, can’t you see my hands are already busy, put it on his nose’ he literally shouted at nope. ‘Oh yes, yes…I am sorry khun vegas’ and then he quickly opened the bottle and put it close to Pete's nose to make him inhale it. And within seconds pete’s body gave in, all the fight and struggle was gone, and his body fell into vegas’s arms.

‘Oh god he is one hell of a strong man’ Vegas said to himself after putting pete back to the bed and pressing his arms like they were aching too much.

After that he cuffed both of Pete's hands and chained it with the corner of his bed and put tape on his mouth and left the room.

It was already dark outside when Pete's eyes started to open again. His head was pounding, he tried to get up, but realized that his hands are locked at the back, and he has tape on his mouth and he is still in Vegas's room. He started shouting although no voice but a little sound from throat was coming out. He tried that for a few minutes then got tired and started feeling thirsty. Then he tried to get up but the chain with which his cuff was attached was small and it didn’t allow him to move much. He was trying to find a way to get out of this bondage. He was tired and hungry as well, so after trying for a few minutes he laid back on the bed.

Suddenly the door opened, and someone came in. It was nop with a food tray, he saw Pete getting up from bed. Pete saw nop and tried to make some noise, asking him to help him, but nop didn’t say anything, he just replaced the previous food tray with the new one and left.

‘is he dumb…how will I eat with tape on my mouth and food out of my reach….god what did I do to receive all this punishment.’ Pete cursed, he was tired and hungry and thirsty, and everything was in front of it yet out of his reach.

Whole night went by, Pete slept back while staring at the food and waiting for some to come and to unchain him.

Next day

Vegas entered his room. Pete was sleeping on bed curled up like a snowball still taped and chained and food was still on the table. He looked the food and then at pete, ‘oh god I never knew my bodyguard was this stupid’. He cursed and took the tray and went out and came back with fresh food after half an hour, he then locked the door of his room, of the balcony and then went up to Pete, unchained his hand and removed tape from his mouth. After that he slowly tried to wake Pete up, ‘pete…get up’ pete slowly opened his eyes, after a few blurr moments he saw vegas sitting next to him on bed. And after a few moments of adjustment, he suddenly pushed vegas and jumped from bed and ran towards the door and tried to open it. When he was not able to open it, he ran towards the balcony and found out that it was also locked. After both failed attempts he sat near the door with his head hung low, feeling lost. All this while Vegas was sitting on the floor where he was pushed and curiously watching the pete’s heartfelt attempt to run away from him. Although he didn’t want to, but after he saw Pete feeling dejected a smirk came on to his lips.

'Rather than running here-there, you should have asked me, it would have saved your energy’ Vegas said and Pete looked up. They were sitting diagonally, Pete near the balcony and vegas near the bed but both on the floor. After this, Vegas stood up, took the food tray and came near to pete and sat next to him, ‘here eat this you haven’t eaten anything since the night before yesterday.’ ‘I don’t want to eat anything I want to go’ Pete roared at vegas.

‘Look pete I don’t want to make this difficult, so I will tell you things which you need to know, and you have to obey me, you have no choice’ vegas stated clearly

‘What things’ pete asked confusingly

‘You have to stay here in this room for a while. You can neither leave this room nor contact anyone. Your only source of communication is me and when I am not available then nop, nobody else.’ Vegas told Pete in a very flat tone like it meant nothing and Pete was in shock.

‘I had my doubts earlier but now I am 100% sure that you are not mentally stable and I will surely request khun kan to take you to some good doctor. You have totally lost it to say all this and expect me to follow this nonsense’ pete said angrily and tried to get up.

Vegas grabbed pete’s hand and pulled him down forcing him to sit back, ‘look pete choice is yours either accept this or I know where you and your bestie big had placed the cameras and recorders in our rooms, offices and car and I will collect it all and take to my father and trust me that after this nobody can save your friend from his wrath. My father is actually waiting very desperately just to catch one mistake from you or your friend and if he gets his hands on them, I am sure that you know what will happen to your friend.’ Vegas literally blackmailed pete.

Pete knows that Big is already in hospital and if he gets caught spying then the main family will also not be able to save him.

Pete was frustrated. He pulled his hair and shouted, ‘aaarrrrgghhhhhh fine I’ll stay here, just don’t do anything and save big please.’ Pete pleaded to Vegas in annoyance.

‘Don’t worry love, he is safe till the time you are agreeing with me, now don't make me angry and eat your food’ vegas pushed the food tray towards the pete. Pete gradually picked up the plate and started eating it. Vegas was looking at Pete, ‘I am sorry to treat you like this love, but I don’t have any other way to keep you safe. I can’t let them touch you at any cost’ he thought to himself.