Chapter 54 - Kidnapped and Released?

**Third person's POV:**

Two and an hour later of the incident,

Only private cars could be available in the road of this aristocratic area. Unfortunately, most of the people were too busy to mind another person's business other than their own. Rarely one or two kind soul did the stupidity of helping other's by wasting their time.

A black car was pulled over to the side of the road. The car had no number plate.

The car door was opened and two men got out of the car, carrying an unconscious Camelia by her shoulder. Her body was swaying. The two men roughly placed her body on the ground with quick movement. They got into the car and the car pulled away in a fast speed.

A few cars ran past her but no one had the time to get down and see what's wrong with the girl.

Someone was driving and saw a girl lying on the road unconscious. He stopped the car and went to her.

The man gasped to see the face of the girl. It was Camelia.

The man was one of Lucifer's workers, and he was returning to the warehouse to fulfil a task. He came here to discuss things with Lucifer. He was shocked to see Camelia at this state.

How the hell she ended up here? Lying on the road like a homeless person, unconscious? He wondered.

He took a good look at her appearance. Her clothes, bag, hair, face- everything looked okay, there's no sign of any injury or assault.

Without wasting a minute, he called Lucifer.

"Hello, Pietro, already reached there?" Lucifer's voice came from the other side.

"No, boss. I didn’t. Something bad happened. I was driving and got just a couple of minutes away from your house but something caught my eyes. A girl was lying on the street unconscious and I don't know what happened boss, this girl is none other than Ma'am Camelia." The man named Pietro said.

"What! What the hell are you saying? Where are you right now?" Lucifer exclaimed.

"Boss, calm down. She is just unconscious. I don't think anything bad happened to her. Please come quickly here. Just drive 5 minutes straight, and I am waiting here."

Lucifer hung up the call and within five minutes, he was there. He got out of his car and saw Pietro's car.

"What happened to her?" Lucifer went to where Camelia was lying and quickly took her in his arms.

"Sir, I don't have any idea. I was driving but suddenly saw her lying here unconscious. How did Ma'am end up here? Didn't you already assign bodyguards for her security?" Pietro asked.

Lucifer also thought the same. He was enraged thinking about the bodyguards’ irresponsibility. If anything bad happened to Camelia, he would tear their limbs.

"Preciosa!"

"Preciosa!" Lucifer patted her cheeks but no response.

Lucifer carried her to his car and gently got her inside. Then took her to his mansion, and he called doctor Melissa to come immediately. He even sent a car to pick her up.

Melissa reached within thirty minutes. Lucifer took her to their room, Camelia was laid on the bed.

"What's so urgent that you sent your car? What happened?" Melissa asked sitting beside Camelia.

"I don't know yet. Half an hour ago, she was found unconscious in the road. I don't know what's wrong with her." Lucifer's forehead creased with concern. He was sweating in tension even though the air-conditioning was on.

"Let me take a good look at her." Melissa assured.

Twenty minutes later,

"There's no sign of any injury or wound. Her body is fine. She wasn’t hurt or assaulted physically." Melissa informed Lucifer.

Lucifer sighed in relief.

"Then why is she unconscious?"

"I think she was chloroformed. That's why. But I don't know about the dose, how much she was given. If she doesn’t get consciousness soon, we must take her to the hospital." Melissa stated.

Lucifer was pacing around the room.

A few minutes later, Camelias opened her eyes. A shaky breath left her mouth.

Her throat felt dry. A strange croak from her mouth made Lucifer look at her.

"Preciosa, how are you feeling?" Lucifer asked her, sitting beside her.

"I a-am-" She somehow uttered.

"I am feeling a bit numb. I have to pee." Camelia said.

Lucifer quickly picked her up and carried her to the bathroom. Camelia was feeling nauseous. Sitting on the toilet she relieved her bladder.

Her head spun, she saw the bathroom spinning. She closed her eyes.

With wobbly legs, she got up after cleaning herself and Lucifer grabbed her.

"How are you feeling? What happened to you, preciosa?" Lucifer carried her back to the room and put her on the bed.

"I want to drink water." Camelia mumbled. Lucifer took the glass from the bedside table and filling it with water, held it before Camelia's mouth.

She took small sips and drank half of the glass. Lucifer put the glass back on the table and turned to her. Melissa was still there.

"How am I here?" She said.

"You were found on the street in an unconscious state. A worker of mine saw you and called me. And I got to know that you were also chloroformed. What happened?"

Camelia was feeling a mild headache and the memory seemed a bit blurred. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

Then she started, "I got out of the University. I was walking, and then I helped a little girl carrying a vegetable bag. She left but two or three people grabbed me from behind and pressed a sweet smelling cloth on my face. Then I lost my sense."

Lucifer was fuming hearing her description. Camelia swallowed looking at him. If he got to know that she sneaked out of the campus without telling the guards, Lucifer would punish her badly. Her face paled looking at him.

"They kidnapped me but didn’t hurt me. I don't feel pain anywhere." She tried to say in her defense.

"What your bodyguards were doing?" He asked her. Camelia was silent, and she lowered her head and her cascading long hairs covered her face.

Lucifer got that something was fishy. He immediately called one of the guards.

"Hello, boss."

"Where are you?" Lucifer questioned.

"Sir, I am on duty. I am waiting for Ma'am in front of her University gate."

"If you are waiting for her in front her university gate, how come you couldn’t see her when she came out? You slack of during your duty? I will kill five of you!" Lucifer barked.

"Sir, believe me. We are still waiting for her and haven’t moved an inch from here. And her classes are about to end at 3pm. So most likely she is about to come around 3.30. That's what Ma'am told us. Please believe me, Sir." The bodyguard from the other side pleaded.

"Five of you, come to my house. I will talk to you later." Saying, Lucifer cut the call.

He looked at Camelia who had her head still lowered.

"Preciosa, look at me." He ordered in a stern voice. But Camelia didn’t.

Frustrated Lucifer yelled, "I said look at me, damn it!"

Camelia's body flinched but still she didn’t look up. A few seconds later, he saw her body was shaking a bit.

"Fuck!"

Lucifer cursed himself mentally and took a deep breath.

Then he drank a glass of water himself and again took a deep breath to calm himself down.

He touched Camelia's arm and stroked it gingerly.

"Preciosa, I am sorry. Please, I look at me." He told in a soft voice. It was so soft that he himself was surprised. He moved hairs before her face.

Camelia looked at him, and she was crying, her cheeks were stained with tears.

"Tell me what happened. Please tell me babe." Lucifer begged.

"P-please don't g-get angry at me. I just w-wanted to g-give you a surprise. I wanted to b-buy you a ring or b-bracelet. I withdrew my money from Atlanta and brought with me. I never g-gifted you anything. So, I planned to give you a ring or bracelet or watch and surprise you. The b-bodyguards always follow me and tell you everything I do. If I bought anything, they would tell you about this too and my w-whole s-surprise plan would be ruined. So, I sneaked out of the campus using back gate b-bunking my classes. I n-never thought something like this would ever happen." Camelia broke into tears, hiccupping hard.

Lucifer listened everything in disbelief. His anger doubled. But Camelia was already traumatized and crying. So, he decided to take it down a notch with his anger.

"Have you any idea, what could have happened?" He queried clenching his jaw. Camelia didn’t speak; she just mumbled a sorry and kept on weeping.

Melissa who was also present there for so long, she finally mentioned, "I don't think there’s any complication with her body. Give her healthy meals in time, if there's any problem, call me. For now, she seems fine to me."

With that, Melissa left.

Lucifer was beyond furious and from time to time he was glaring at her. Camelia said sorry countless times, but he wasn’t having it at all.

"Lucifer, I am so sorry. How long are you going to be mad at me?" Camelia cried.

Her tears made him soft and Lucifer said, “I feel like spanking you so hard that you can't sit a month, I feel like tying your legs and throw you inside a cage so that you can't risk your life this stupidly again. Preciosa, from now on never do this. If something happened to you-” He stopped for a while.

“Shit! I can't even imagine this!” He growled.

Saying, he hugged Camelia.

Finally, Lucifer's anger subsided finally. He took a great care of her, checked her temperature, fed her meals and checked if something wrong with her body. But everything was fine.

**Two days later,**

Camelia woke up from her sleep in the morning. Lucifer was still sleeping beside her. As she needed to pee, she got down of the bed and headed to the bathroom.

After emptying her bladder she was coming out but a scream left her mouth when she looked herself at the mirror.

She was shaking.

A minute later, Lucifer entered the bathroom, and he froze when his eyes fell on Camelia.