Chapter 16: Deserted

Chapter 16: Deserted
Next Awful Morning
Her eyes could barely hold the weights of her eyelids, squinting them through her blurred lenses to limit the effect of a bright sunlight gazing into her face. For a moment, her expression maintained its blankness, passing through some few seconds of mental madness before her consciousness partially returned.
Cool air lightly stroke her bare skin while she moved her head slowly to her right _ a sight of the endless ocean which she happens to be too close to. She turned to the opposite, setting her vision into the vast and pure looking beach sand, some few tall trees but with not a single person in sight.
Feeling the sensation of her own naked body in contact with the pile of soft sand, an intense feeling of fear started creeping into her soul. Her heart palpitated so hard and it almost stopped working when her lower limbs refused to move. It felt as though she was a mermaid washed ashore. Only that she can’t risk being a mermaid right now. What the hell happened to her legs? What is she doing on a beach? She has no memory of coming on her own. Is this a lucid dream?
“Help...” She blurted out an unprepared whisper. A thought crossed through her mind in the passing seconds and she quickly scattered her fingers into the sand, searching for any sign of a golden phone case. She thought hopefully that she would find her phone, something helpful, but her desperate search yielded no any result.
“Help!”
“Help m-me...”
“Hel...” She croaked out like a toad with a bitter dryness caught inside her sore throat. She managed to bury her nakedness into the pile of sand before she fell back flat on her back. Instantly, tears gathered in her eyeballs and began to spill down. This horrible nightmare... She will wake up from this horrible nightmare soon.
But more than an hour passed and she did not wake up from her nightmare. Miserably lying down in deep confusion, she heard something like the sound of a chopper managing to whisk her back to reality. She slowly looked towards her left and she saw something like an army green helicopter landing on the vast faraway sand. A tall figure of a man was frantically running towards her, but her vision was blurry and she could not see the face. As the man approached, she felt herself being pulled out from the pile of sand and wrapped into a heavy fabric and into a warm embrace. Whoever was doing that to her did not said a word. She couldn’t hear anything much more than the loud sound of his heartbeat thumping in her ears. And then his smell... he smelled so familiar yet, she cannot place it because her mind is messed up. Whoever he is, he made her felt a little bit... safe in his arms.
Marco did not allowed his men to touch or see Anna’s naked body. When he set his eyes on the dirt on her skin, an arrow pierced through his heart with a rush of panic and anger which made him feel as though he was at the verge of going crazy. He saw the look in her eyes before she sealed them shut. Dazed and helpless. Even though he does not have feelings for her, Nate has clearly broke the rules. He clutched the frail woman’s body in his embrace and quickly rushed her into his helicopter.
Time Skipped
Marco moved around in his kitchen gulping down some cool water in his burning throat. His medicine is of little help to him when it comes to the pain and fever he is experiencing. Everything has been going wrong with his body since the past few weeks but that didn’t frustrate him as much as how Nate’s attitude is frustrating him now. His physician has confirmed an overdose of cherry meth in Anna’s blood. It clearly meant that the psycho drugged Anna before he raped her and sent her naked photos to their private group. He was on his night flight from Cuba when he saw the photos. One of his spies had leaked the location where the woman was dumped so he quickly went and fetched her as soon as he’d landed. Nate is a psycho with so many identities, but he had never thought that he could go to the extent of raping a woman with drugs. The rule was to make her fall in love and willingly throw herself. Now that everything has gone the wrong way, hell will break loose if Anna’s condition goes public. The only way to stop that from happening is to get rid of all evidences and make her disappear!