Mafia Princess

chapter. 11

I try calling Jim back but he sends me to voicemail. I'm beginning to panic and that gets Ella's attention.
“what is it?”

“we need to get to st. Jude's.” is all I say before turning and walking towards the car aware of Ella following me.

Suddenly a black car approaches and everything happens so fast the next thing I know is receiving a heavy blow on the head and everything goes black.

Not again. Is all I say before sinking into unconsciousness.

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I wake up in a black room full of huge rats and I want to scream when one of them runs to my tied feet but my mouth is gagged. A Few strands of my hair are falling carelessly on my face, I am tied to a chair and I whinces when I try to move and the ropes pinches my skin.

“she’s awake.” a deep voice says and I hear footsteps approaching behind me.

“Hello love.” a very familiar deep voice says and I can't place it until he gets in front of me gesturing for the guy to remove the gagging cloth from my mouth and my eyes grows wide.

“Arnold?” I ask in disbelief. He is in black suit and a white T-shirt, his brown leather shoes are so clean like they could reflect.

“you missed me didn't you?” he smirks like kidnapping me was the best thing he has done in his life.

“Why am I here?” I ask “and why am I tied?”

“you’re here because I needed to see you about why you're tied, that is pretty obvious.” he says pulling a chair and placing it opposite me.

“ You kidnapped me because you needed to see me? You honestly never ceaze to amaze me” I point out “you know normal people use a gadget called a cellphone.”

“thats the point, normal is boring.” he says leaning back on his chair. “Untie her.” he orders one of the men.

As soon as am untied I get on my heel and ran towards the exit only to run into a huge body that doesn't burge with a stone chest. I raise my eyes and I come face to face with a face that should be used in horror movies. His face has a huge scar on his right cheek and his eyes are bloodshot red.

He lifts me up to his shoulder and he carries me while I hug from his back and am facing his butt. He paces me back where I was seated and the tie me once more.

“you’re still asking why you're tied?” Arnold says and am seeing a different side of him from the one I've seen before.

“Why’re you doing this?” I ask when I realize that I might not get back home anytime soon.

“Were you not listening?” he says turning to one of the guys. “Haven’t I told her why am doing this?” he asks the guy and the guy nods.

“why this filthy place?”

“well, it's the last place your daddy is going to look,” he says “well, that is if he's going to survive the heart attack.”

The last part gets my attention and everything makes sense now. Dad must be the reason Jim needed me to go to the hospital. The one thing that I don't get is how did he get an attack? He has been getting checked by his nurse like twice a week which only means someone triggered the heart attack.

“youre the reason behind it aren't you?” I snap.

“no am the good guy here.” he says

“How did you know that he had the attack?”

I get kidnapped on my way to the hospital after my dad got the attack this is too much of a coincidence. Something fishy is going on and I need to get to the bottom of it. The only guy that can give me answers is seated right in front of me so I need to play nice is I want him to open up.

He might be a different person from what I thought but I know he has a soft spot for me.

“looks like someone wanted you out of you're home that he got your dad sick so that you go to the hospital. Such a clever guy.” he says the last part more to himself.

“you know the guy?” he might as well help me find the mysterious fucker.

“I kidnapped you for your safety love, don't see me as the bad guy.” his expression grows serious.

“You have not given me a reason to believe that you're the nice guy in the story.” I say winching again. “ everything you've done so far is making you the bad guy, Arnold. Did whatever we had really mean anything to you?”

“Why are you asking me such questions?”

“because I need the answers.”

“Whoever has been texting you made your dad's nurse inject him with a drug that would trigger the attack, I only kidnapped you to stop you from going to the hospital.”

Hearing him say that makes my heart a little fluttered that he was protecting me.

“you’re not working at home anymore,wanna tell me why?” I ask to change the subject.

Am more at ease since if that is the reason Jim wanted me in the hospital and they got dad there in time then he'll be perfectly okay.

“Am not going to answer that.”

“can I at least got home now?”

“not untill I know that it's safe.” he says standing and walking away.

“you can't leave me here.” I yell after him and one of his guys walks to me and he drags me with him after untying me. “where is he taking me?” I yell but he doesn't say anything,I watch as he goes until he disappears into another room.

He leads me to a room that has everything including a laptop, a clean king-sized bed with clean white beddings, a wardrobe that surprisingly has clothes that fit me like he has been planning on having me here. There is a shoe rack that has shoes of my size.

Is he really planning on letting me go back home?