CHAPTER 43

Lucius POV.

While I would have loved to spend the whole day cuddling up with my wife Anna, I  have a multi-billionaire business and cartel to run and couldn't lay all day in bed making love to her.

I tucked a stray strand of hair gently behind her ear and placed a gentle kiss on her cheek before carefully getting up to not wake her up from her sleep.

Before I left her room, I looked at her one last time, and something I hadn't felt in years I felt again fear. Fear of losing her gripped me, I let out a breath a left the room  deciding to also put the same code security lock in her room

Don't get me wrong I could just move her to my room quite all right but I had too many enemies and if ever they broke in I wouldn't want her to be in the middle of crossfire.

When I got to my door I typed in my code and went into my room. I picked up my phone to see six missed calls from Bruno, I furrowed my brows in worry.

This is odd for Bruno to call me six times. I dialed his number and he picked up the call almost immediately, “Evening Boss.”

“Yea, Bruno tell me something's on fire for you to have called me six times.”

“I apologize for the intrusion but one of my boys intercepted an anonymous letter addressed to your wife today . I thought you'd want to have a look at it first before she finds out about it Sir”.

“Anonymous letter, huh?”

“Yes Boss,” Bruno responded  I know I should trust my wife and not interfere with her private affairs but honestly I was too curious especially with her stepping out today. Maybe the letter could help me throw some clarity on that.

“Okay send it up to my bedroom through Dominick".

“I'll do that immediately Boss.”

I stretched realizing I hadn't been to my gym today, my muscles were sorely in need of a good ache. Sighting Dominick at the door through my security cameras I let him.

“Good evening sir, I was asked by Bruno to give you this”.

I collected the letter when I saw the Monterio seal on it. I became confused, “you may leave,” I said to Dominick, not wanting him to sense my discomfort.

He bowed his head and left. I shut the door behind him, thinking to myself why a letter with a Monterio seal would be sent to Anna. Well, there's only one way to find out.

I broke the seal and tore up the envelope I couldn't believe what my eyes were reading, what the fuck !?

The letter read :

My dearest Anna,

I forgot to tell you today I won't be able to see you next week and we can't text on social media for now. I'm afraid your husband might use that to track me down, but don't worry once you can get close enough I trust you to poison him and put an end to this for good.

Till we reunite again never to be separated again, my love.

Love, Chase Lancaster Monterio.

The letter fell from my hands, my heart beat sporadically. I just hoped that somehow this was a huge prank. How are Chase and Anna connected? Immediately my brain made the connection Chase! I had heard that name before he was Anna's ex-boyfriend.

My vision felt like it was slightly spinning and I could see it all now, how they planned it from the start it all made sense.

Anna came here to get close to me and kill me as part of Monterio's original plan but what they didn't anticipate was me killing Monterio in Paris.

I could see it all, how she cried and feigned heartbrokenness to get my compassion saying everyone in her life had abandoned her.

My heart hurt and I felt stupid, incredibly stupid. I knew what I had to do and as painful as it was I knew that if I spent even a minute more I'd lose my courage because despite her deceit I fell hard for her.

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Anna's POV.

When I woke up I noticed Lucius was gone and if not for his sweet masculine scent that lingered on the sheets and my clothes discarded on the floor

I would have imagined it was but a sweet dream.

I smiled remembering how gentle and caring he was knowing he was physically much bigger than my small hourglass frame.

Luckily my robe wasn't too far from me and I wrapped it around my body before standing up, in the dark. I couldn't stop myself from thinking about Lucius and smiling like a silly schoolgirl.

Suddenly my door bursts open letting in an uncomfortable ray of light and I see three huge men dressed in black one of whom I recognize to be  Wolf who is supposed to be my bodyguard.

Startled, I shrieked “What the hell is happening, what are you doing here?”

“Is the house under attack?” I continue to ask but none of them respond to me. They look between themselves and nod before moving forward, causing me to walk away backward till I'm up against the wall.

“What's happening?”I say in panic, wolf grabs me, a gag is placed over my mouth, he binds both of my hands with a tight almost unbreakable knot and he flings me over his shoulder as though I don't weigh more than a small bag of salt.

I heard Dominick's voice in the corner “Grab her phone for me, Master Lucius asked for it.”

Wait? Lucius is aware of all this, what could be the meaning of all this? Wolf acted as though he was disgusted having to even carry me like I was some type of outcast.

With the stern look Dominick gave me Wolf carried me out the door and shot daggers. All this was very confusing and baffling to me, I didn't know where they were taking me to.

“Cover her eyes”. My head turned sharply as I heard Mrs. Jones' voice, my eyes met hers and no longer was that soft look of understanding but they spit icy blue fire at me.

I immediately felt afraid and if only looks could kill I'd have been dead already with the look she gave me. A satin eye cover was placed over my eyes and tied tightly so I wasn't able to see even a single beam of light.

I started shaking in confusion and fear, I tried to scream for help but the gag wouldn't budge. Never in my life had I felt this level of utter helplessness.

My biggest fear currently was that they'll throw me into the forest tied up and let the dogs have at me, I guess I deserved it for what I had done to Pamela to win this competition.

I felt a wolf enter an elevator and I realized maybe they wouldn't throw me tied up into the forest, for a second I felt relief.

But my heart told me whatever is where I'm being taken isn't going to be much prettier. The elevator seemed to go lower and lower and I realized it must be an underground base.

Underground? I once heard Constance say that'll where they torture and imprison people, I started shaking till my teeth were slightly chattering.

The elevator came to a stop finally and I felt the men and wolf moving still carrying me.  I couldn't see but the pungent smell of the place hit my nose immediately, it smelt dark, musty, damp, and very stuffy. The atmosphere had a slight chill to it.

“Aha, I see we have a new prisoner,” a very deep and stern voice said.

What the actual hell! Prisoner how?  I felt tears soaking the eye blind used to cover my eyes. All that was happening was so confusing if only I could just talk to Lucius and understand what was going on.

But I knew deep within me that he was very much aware of all that was happening, such a thing could only happen on his command.

“It's been a while since we've had a female prisoner.” The eye blind was suddenly ripped off my eyes making my head jerk, Wolf dropped me coldly on the ground.

When I managed to raise my head I realized I was in a dungeon. More salty tears poured out from my eyes, Wolf walked away and so did a strange big man I figured to be the warden of the dungeon.

The man closed the iron bars behind himself trapping me in before bolting the lock, as if the thick iron bars were not enough to imprison me he securely put the biggest padlock I've ever seen in my life and locked it adding the keys to the set jingling at the edge of the waist of his pants.