Taken by the Heartless (HEARTLESS, Book 1) (NOW EDITING)

APOLLO

       Cassandra didn't believe her eyes and she blinked twice to make sure she was not hallucinating, but he was still there. Suddenly, her wetness that was throbbing stopped abruptly.

"Apollo..." she whispered, but Apollo put his finger between his lips, motioning her to remain quiet. She nodded and suddenly felt naked, her whole senses quickly sipped back into her.

Even behind the mask of beards on Apollo's face, she could still recognize him. She knew him too well to not recognize him. He walked up to her and started to untie her from the bed. Someone has to wake her up from this dream sooner because she didn't understand.

"I have come to save you," he whispered in her ear after untying her hands.

She had to grab his shoulders to make sure he was real, she needed to be assured that his solid form was there with her, her heart almost collapsed with relief when she felt him. He will have a better explanation for this. He slowly untied her legs too and she sat there for a while, looking at him.

He was a tall man with a chiseled chest, which was now concealed by a khaki jacket. She watched the magazine hanging across his chest and wondered if he walked into the mansion as a hero. In the movies she watched, the hero always walks into the tyrant's den, shoots everyone, and rescues his lady. Was that just what happened? If not, why was Apollo having a gun and magazine hung across his chest?

He smiled at her. His smile filled her whole body up with joy and she glanced back at the bathroom door where Eros has disappeared and looked back at Apollo.

"From now henceforth, I will be the guard in charge of keeping you. Don't mess with me because I am not a happy man," Apollo said aloud in a gruff voice so that Eros could hear from the bathroom.

Cassandra was almost confused before she understood what he was talking about. He has come to save her as he said, but not the way she has envisioned. He has not come as a thriller movie hero, but he has come to work for Eros to find out all he could use against the man. It was going to take long but Cassandra knew that they would escape.

Apollo dragged her up from the bed as soon as Eros came out of the bath and shoved her forward. Eros stood at the door of the bath; his hands fisted on his waist as he watched them.

"Take her to the room that Bully showed you. Make sure that the room is secured all the time and do not let her escape, she can be quite stubborn. Bring her to me whenever I request."

"Sì jefe," Apollo replied and led Cassandra away from the room.

They didn't say anything to each other until they were in the room where Cassandra had been locked up. Once Apollo closed the door, Cassandra jumped on him and wrapped her arms around his neck. He lifted her off the ground and his lips crushed hers, his hands pressed her to his firm body and he held her tight.

They kissed passionately for a while before Cassandra pulled away, tears in her eyes as she looked at him.

"You came for me," she said with a smile and a cracked voice, looking him in the eyes.

Apollo looked her all over. "Look what they did to you. I swear every one of them will pay for this."

Cassandra was so relieved to even say a word. She flew into his arms again and he held her tightly against him and closed his eyes.

"I'm sorry I didn't come sooner," he kept whispering.

They stayed like that for a while then Apollo pulled away and looked at her again. "What did that bastard do to you? Did he touch you? If he did, I swear I will punch his face until all his teeth have fallen off, then I will make sure I stab him all over his body and I will use a very blunt knife to butcher him and feed his body to the sharks... "