Chapter 28

**Daisy's POV**

"Daisy" I hear my mother call but I was already fading into unconsciousness.

The lights flicker on for a minute and my groggy eyes meet my mum's from afar. My mum shouts and calls the security team that followed us to the grocery store.

She runs towards us followed by two bodyguards. When she reaches where we were, I was almost out of consciousness.

"Let my daughter go, Levi" My mother pleads. I hear a maniacal laughter then feel something cool and sharp like a blade pressed against my neck.

"Take one more step forward Elena and she's gone" Eve's father says from behind me pressing the blade harder to my neck.

"Do something" My mother screams at the bodyguards.

A bodyguard brings out his gun and shoots the other one before hitting my mother on the head with the back of his gun rendering my mother immediately unconscious. I wanted to scream and thrash my body. I wanted to run to my mum but my body was too weak.

"You've done a good job Tim, you'll be handsomely rewarded" Eve's father says to the bodyguard before turning back and shooting him in the head and that was the last thing I saw before my body gave in to unconsciousness.

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I groan at the horrible migraine in my head before forcing my eyes open. My eyes was met with stark darkness with no hint of light anywhere.

How long have I been here?

Where is my Mother?

That question is answered when I hear a soft voice call out to me.

"Daisy, are you awake? Are you okay?" She asks and I trace the direction where the voice was coming from and when I finally reach her, I curl up into her, hugging her.

"Mum, I don't like it here, I miss Dad and I wanna go home" I cry into her chest and she hugs me tighter.

"I'm going to get us out of this baby. Don't cry anymore" She pacifies me her voice breaking at the end.

"We're gonna get out of......" Her words were cut off when the door was slammed opened.

Eve's dad saunters in holding a gun. The door closes halfway leaving us in semi-darkness.

"Seems you're both awake, I would offer you food but what would be the point, you're both gonna die anyway" he says and an uncontrollable whimper escapes my mouth.

His eyes turns down to mine and he walks forward then squats in front of me. He holds my jaw and turn my face from side to side.

"Hmm, such healthy skin. And such beautiful clothes..... " his eyes suddenly turn feral. "Why should you have what my daughter can't have?" his words were followed by a hard slap.

Tears well up in my eyes automatically and I cry out from the sting of the brutal slap. My mother tries to fight him off but she was too weak. He brings out a gun from his pocket and points it at us. Before he shakes his head and puts it back to where he took it from.

"Before you die, let me tell you a story" he says his eyes looking unfocused. Is he on drugs?

"Once upon a time, there were two boys and a girl. The girl and one boy were from poor families but the other boy was the golden boy, he was filthy rich and all the girls wanted him.

Poor boy then fell in love with the girl who was his best friend but the girl didn't want the poor boy. She ended up falling in love with the rich boy because he could bring her out of her misery and poverty" he says his eyes fixed on my mum.

"You know that isn't true Levi, I fell in love with Tristan because of the kind of person he was not because of his money" she defends.

Tristan was my dad's name and I start to piece together that Levi was probably talking about him, and my parents in high school.

Wait, They went to the same high school?

"Liar! You were in love with me but money blinded you and you abandoned me to lick my wounds alone" he spat.

"Back to the story, the poor boy brought himself back up and worked hard through high school and college to build a better life for himself. That plan succeeded and he had the biggest chains of hotels in the country and was further thinking of expanding internationally. But then, the girl moved back to the city with the rich boy. Turns out, they had gotten married and given birth to a bastard daughter" he says the last part with his eyes on me.

"The poor boy was devastated because he had secretly been hoping he would meet the girl again and she would come back to him because he was now rich despite the fact that he now had a daughter. When he met up with the girl, she claimed to still be in love with the rich boy. And after a few months of being in town, their hotels start to rise up to the top and started beating down the poor boy's hotels.

Investors started to pull out their shares one by one and he received advice from people to propose a partnership with the rich boy's hotel. The poor boy didn't listen because he'd rather chew his arm off than ask for help from the rich boy who stole the love of his life. His sister then fell sick and required expensive treatment, this treatment drained all his accounts dry and drove him into debt" he glares at both of us.

"You shouldn't have moved back here Elena. You ruined everything for me. You took over making me a mere spectator in my own game. Then I find out that you're pregnant again with another bastard child." He snares and my mother's arms protectively wrap around her stomach.

My mum was pregnant?

I'm gonna have a sibling?

How did I not know?

My happiness was dampened by his next words.

"You're all gonna die one by one, I'll make sure of it"

Footsteps echo and Eve appear at the entrance. A little flicker of hope lights up in my chest.

"Eve! Help us, please tell your dad to not do this" I plead at the top of my voice scared by the gun being currently pointed at our faces.

She looks unsure for a second, and she glances at her dad. Her dad sees the doubt in her eyes and he immediately kills it.

"Remember darling, they did this to us, and when they're gone, you can have your old life back. You can have everything you've ever wanted" He says and her face hardens again.

"I want that necklace" she says pointing to my the necklace my mother gave me for my last birthday. I immediately protect it by trying to cover it with my hands.

"Hand it over. what my girl wants, she gets" Levi says pointing the gun at my head and stretching his other arm out.

"No. It's mine, my mother gave it to me" I shout in defiance.

He drags me up by my hair and slaps me on my other cheek. He tries to break it away from my neck but I fight him with all the strength I had.

"Please leave my daughter alone, she hasn't done anything wrong" my mother cries trying to sit up while holding her stomach. She looked so frail and fragile.

I manage to escape his grasp and try to run and hide behind Eve. But she moves away and I'm left to face her father's wrath. At this point, he looked beyond livid and absolutely crazy.

"Hand. It. Over. Now. or. I. Shoot" He says with his teeth gritting violently.

"Daisy, give him the necklace" my mother pleads. "Levi, you have a problem with me not my daughter. Do anything you want to me but please spare her" my mothers begs in tears.

He turns to face her and I see it as the golden opportunity. I run forward to push him with all my strength but before I can reach him, Eve warns him.

"Dad, look out" she yells.

Her dad moves out of the way and I fall down from the force I wanted to put into the push.

"You fucking piece of shit" he curses his face resembling that of the devil in that moment as he aims his gun to me.

And then he fires.