Chapter 59

**Lily**

I tried to calm myself down as well as I could. I was still captured and stuck in the back of a van after all! I took some deep breaths to bring my heart rate down, and to allow my brain to be thinking straight again. There must be something that I could do!

I was kicking my own ass for not speaking with Matteo about what I should do in situations like this, and for not asking for self-defense lessons from one of them. I’m sure they could all teach me some basics. Instead, I knew nothing that could help me.

I kept looking in the van to find something that could help me, but they had stripped the back of this van completely bare. There was nothing. So, I switched to thinking of what I could do when they finally stopped driving to where it was, they were bringing me. I just couldn’t think of much more than protesting, squirming, trying to knee them in the balls, and trying to get away from them. I also had little faith in myself that I would manage even one of these things.

After a long time, they stopped driving. I heard them talking to a third person, so I guessed that we must be at the end of the journey. I sat down in the van, with my back against the driver’s part. I squinted my eyes when the doors suddenly opened, and someone came in to drag me out. See? I couldn’t even do this properly! The sun had taken a chance away from me to do something, anything really.

I didn’t recognize the person who grabbed my arms tightly behind my back and pushed me roughly out of the van. I stumbled out, falling down on the ground. He tied my wrists together with a tie-rip and gagged me with a piece of cloth. The man dragged me up by my arms again and pushed me over to where a group of men were standing.

“Lily. My dear Lily.”, I heard a familiar voice say. Tommaso. He walked up to me, and trailed his index finger under my chin, and then harshly lifted my chin up so that I would look up to him.

“Bellisima. So lovely to see you here.”, he smirked at me. Then he slapped me across my face, when I didn’t even see it coming. “You fucking bitch! Fuck you for snitching!”, and he slapped me again.

My eyes were breathing fire, and I was trashing against the man who was holding me up. I wasn’t going down without a fight. My eyes narrowed while I looked at Tommaso. He was looking excited, arrogant, and nothing like the man she had gotten to know before.

“If you think he will come and save you, you are mistaken. He only needed you for what you know. I mean, you didn’t think he would really love you, right?”, Tommaso mocked and taunted me. I was determined not to let his words hurt me, but the longer they played in my head, the more I started doubting myself. Tommaso laughed at the look on my face.

“Take her away to the usual.”, he ordered, and he dismissed me with a wave of his hand. The man pushed me forward to a little cabin in the middle of the grounds. I didn’t know where we were, and I had no idea if there were any people living in the area. But seeing this cabin out there made my hopes disappear. There was no way anyone could hear me even if I screamed at the top of my lungs.

We entered the cabin, only to see that there was a stair going down into the earth. The man pushed me down the stair and into a hallway that was illuminated by fluorescent tubes that were so bright that they hurt my eyes. He roughly pushed me into a cell, and I tripped over the doorstep. The man let me go as I fell to the floor, and he laughed. He pulled on my arm to get me up and hung them up on some sort of hook from the ceiling by my arms. I could still stand with my feet on the floor, but I had no doubt that it would get uncomfortable very quickly. The man said nothing, but slammed the door shut and left.

I looked around and for the first time noticed how professional it looked. It was the first time I allowed myself to be scared. I didn’t believe that I was going to get out of there alive, and I didn’t think Matteo would come to save me. I didn’t want to believe Tommaso, but this devil on my shoulder kept asking me why it couldn’t be the truth? Maybe he just fooled me to make me believe that he liked me to get me on his side? Had I really been this stupid?

I don’t know how long I was in this room alone, but I guess that was the point. My arms were aching, and I could stand on my feet anymore. I was hanging on my arms, trying to find a position that wouldn’t hurt as much, but I didn’t find one.

I was lost in my own thoughts when the door opened with force. In stormed Tommaso with some men that must be his bodyguards. They were as wide as they were tall and looked intimidating as fuck.

“Dear little Lily.”, he ridiculed me. His eyes shone with glee at having me in this position. “We’re going to have so much fun!”

If my look could kill, he would be six feet under by now, but I couldn’t do anything. My arms and feet were hurting from hanging in this position, my mouth was dry and hurting because of this stupid gag they had left on. I was thirsty and hungry, and I needed to go to the toilet.

“Here’s what will happen. You will surrender to me first. Next, you will call the feds to say you regret your statement and that you lied. And finally, you will start working again and do the things Simon and I ask of you.”, Tommaso stated as he circled me like a predator. My eyes followed him around the room.

Tommaso stopped in front of me. “Don’t you worry about dear Matteo. I will send him another video. One where you are getting fucked by my men. He’ll get the message.”, Tommaso roared. I felt sick to my stomach. That thought hadn’t crossed my mind before he mentioned it, but I got increasingly scared in that instant.

“So, what do you say, Lily? Will you be a good girl?”, Tommaso asked, cracking his knuckles. My mind was racing with possibilities. It wasn’t the calling or the working for them that was scaring me out of my fucking mind. But I didn’t want any of those men to put their filthy hands on me. Tommaso nodded to one of the men behind me. I felt the cloth being removed from my mouth, which I was grateful for.

“Well?”, Tommaso asked again impatiently.

“Fuck you!”, I said calmly. Way calmer than I felt inside. Immediately, Tommaso slapped me hard in the face.

“Wrong answer, Lily. But keep trying.”, Tommaso chuckled. He nodded again to a man behind me. I felt his hands grip my breasts from behind, while he pressed his hard dick against my back. I retched at the feeling, but the man did stop his groping, and groaning. I trashed in order to get out of his hands, screaming that he should get his hands off me.

Tommaso was laughing.

“Well, Lily?”, Tommaso asked, holding his hand up to tell the man to stop. I was out of breath from trying to get out of his hands. I looked at him like he was yesterday’s trash.

“No.”, I answered with full conviction. Tommaso punched me in my face, and before I could recover, the man was in front of me. He was as sleazy as I expected him to be. He grinned widely, showing off his golden teeth, and he ripped my blouse open. I yelled hard, but they only laughed at my efforts. The man gripped my breasts again hard, so hard that it hurt. I kept squirming trying to get his hands off me.

“Last chance, Lily. What’s it going to be?”, Tommaso asked, watching his watch. I saw someone whispering something in his ear. Tommaso seemed to be surprised but composed himself quickly. He whispered something back and a group of men left this room.

“Seems like lover boy is already here. Too bad that he will reach you too late”, Tommaso taunted me, trying to get a rise out of me. I felt hope in me. “Tony, go ahead.”

Those were the words he had been waiting for. He grabbed my pussy through my pants, and groaned as he did. He fumbled to get my pants opened and pushed down. I think I saw him drool when he ripped my panties off my body and forced his fingers in me. It hurt like hell.

I did all I could to keep moving to make it as hard for him as I could. I kept screaming, hoping that someone would hear me. I kept hoping that Matteo would make it to me before… before… I didn’t want to think about that.