Bargain Bride: The Billionaire’s Forced Wife

A GROAN ESCAPED FROM Nick’s lips as he woke up. He can feel his hands tied up behind him, and not just tied up but very tightly tied up. He is sure that if he can see his hand, it’s already turning purple from the loss of blood and oxygen.

Nick tried to open his eyes, but it’s still black. Only darkness can be seen from his eyes. However, he can feel a piece of cloth covering his sight. Like how his hands were tied up, the cloth covering his eyes was also tightly sealed, making it almost squeezing his head.

“He-, ” his words of asking help was cut short as it was interrupted by his own cough.

The way he coughs sounds like his lungs wanted to go out from his body. Nick’s throat were so dry that it is starting to hurt more as soon as he tried to speak.

The whole place where he’s currently in smells awful. The smell is a mixture of iron, piss, and other things he cannot recognize. Nick tried to stand up, but his legs doesn’t have the strength to do so. Every time he tries to get up, he ended up falling on his knees.

Nick tried to remember what he was doing before this happened. His mind is still foggy. He cannot remember a single thing, and everything looks blurry in his mind.

“Fuck,” he spoke to himself while squeezing his brain for information.

At last, a single memory of prior events became clear. Nick saw himself walking out of the Philippine Airlines office after securing a ticket to Italy with the help of his connections.

He just crossed the pedestrian lane when a van pulled up in front of him. Several hands pulled him inside and before he could fight back, a metal thing hit his nape, turning him unconscious.

Nick shook his head. “I should have been morr careful,” he whispered, blaming himself for the unfortunate event he is currently facing.

Suddenly, sounds of footsteps echoed from the outside of the room. Nick tried to find out where the door is, but before he could that, a creaking sound was heard and the footsteps became louder and clearer.

Nick can hear different footsteps, maybe from more than five people. Just the thought of having several people helding him captive is enough to bring chills to him body.

“You’re finally awake!” a man’s voice spoke. “After several days!”

“His head must have been hurt pretty badly,” another man spoke with a mocking tone. “Do you want daddy to kiss it so it won’t hurt anymore?”

The men laughed in unison. Their laugh was like a devil who had an evil idea on how to torture a sinner. It was chilling and scary.

“Who are you?” Nick asked with a cracking and weak voice. His sound is enough for the captors to know that he is not in a good shape, much to their delight.

A man with long blond hair walked towards him before squatting so that their face will be on the same level. “We’re the power rangers!”

All of them laughed again, as if the condition of Nick amused them. Some of them even copied the pose of power rangers to mock Nick even though he can’t see them.Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

“What do you want from me?” he spoke bravely. “Money? I can give you that. Tell me what you want, I’ll give it to you, and let me go!” he screamed to them. He is not even sure if he’s facing them the right way.

“We don’t want your money,” another man’s voice spoke. Nick smelled and felt a smoke of cigarette hitting his face.

“But sure! We can you tell you what we want,” Nick can hear him grinning against his voice. “Boys, what do we want?!”

“A punching bag!” they shouted in unison before laughing evilly.

Chills ran down to Nick’s spine upon realizing what these men meant: for him to be their punching bag. He hurriedly moved backwards while kneeling, until his back hit a cement surface.

Before a sound escape his lips, Nick felt a strong force hit his stomach. The force was too much for his already weak body to endure. He curled into a ball, trying to hide his sensitive area from the abuser.

“Stop! Stop!” he screamed at them, but his words fell on deaf ears. Another hard object hit hit arm, another one targeted his leg. Some even kicked him to his side, exposing his back before hitting the same spot.

Nick tried to kick back the captors, but one hand caught his feet before hitting it repeatedly. He screamed and screamed, hoping that someone might hear his plead for help.

He doesn’t know how many minutes passed, but the men stopped violating his body. He heard the clanging of metallic bottle caps falling to the ground and sounds of gulping.

Nick threw out blood from him mouth. He tried to crawl, looking for a way out when suddenly, someond held his shoulder.

The hand of a man grabbed the cloth covering his eyes before pulling it down to his neck. Nick was greeted by a man who’s the top half of the face was covered.

He looked around and saw several men wearing the same mask. They were drinking liquor while looking at him, and he doesn’t like the way they look at him.

The man infront of Nick grabbed his chin before making him look back. “We’ll give you a chance. If boss arrived in a minute, then we will go easy on you. But if not,” his left hand went down to Nick’s intimate area. “Then all of us are gonna have fun using your body.”

The man grinned and licked his lips, making Nick feel disgust. When the man let him go, he looked around trying to find the exit.

He found two doors: one on the floor they’re in and one on the higher floor, just above a ladder. He saw that the first door is unlocked. It must be the real exit.

Seconds later, Nick heard footsteps from the outside and shadows getting near to the door. The man who was talking to him earlier spoke, “Today must be your lucky day.”

Nick wanted to punch him in the face, but the only thing he can do is glare at him which received a manic laugh from the man.

“Boss,” the man greeted the other person who is wearing a golden mask. He bowed down to the person he called ‘boss’.

The boss walked towards Nick, his shoes making squeaky sounds on the floor. “You must be Nick,” the boss said.

Nick looked up and glared at him. “Who are you?” he asked with the strength he has left.

“You don’t have to know you I am,” the boss replied and grinned. “I’m just here to tell you not to meddle with my business.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Nick replied before he coughed out blood. Some of the blood almost reached the shoes of the boss, who immediately moved backward.

The boss smirked at him. “You know what I’m talking about, ” the boss squatted down and his pointing finger found Nick’s chin. “You’re investigating about Ariti Gomez’s death, aren’t you? I suggest you stop what you’re doing if you still love your life.”

“Why?” Nick asked cheekily. “Are you afraid I might find something?”

Even if the man hides half of his face, Nick can still recognize him. He had investigated about him a lot before. He had seen a lot of his photos.

“You know, I can kill you here right now and no one will know about it,” the boss replied, ignoring Nick’s question. “Tell me, do you work for Chiara Vitali?”

Nick didn’t hesitate to deny the truth. “Who’s that? I don’t work for that person.”

“Stop lying,” the boss gritted his teeth. “Tell me who you work for. I know you work for Vitali’s bitch.”

Although Nick is annoyed as someone called his friend a bitch, he hide his emotions. “I don’t know who that person is. I don’t just work for any person. I work for the government,” he spoke.

The boss ran his fingers through his hair and smiled evilly. “Let’s play a game, Nick,” he said. “You are quiet a pretty man. It’s a waste if I will kill you easily.”

“I will give you five minutes to leave this place,” he added. “If you did that, then I will let you go. But if not,” he caressed Nick’s cheeks before continuing. “You’ll be our playthinh until your we got tired of you.”

Two men released him. Nick felt relieved when the rope on his wrists came undone.

“Your time starts now. Goodluck, Nick.”

Upon hearing that, Nick rushed outside, not minding the pain his body is feeling. He didn’t think of anything. He focused on his goal of escaping, because he knew he will face more suffering if hef failed to escape. This is his only chance.

The moment Nick ran outside, the boss thought to himself. “He won’t be able to escape. I’ll make sure of that, ” he said confidently to himself.

However, his confidence won’t do anything. Because as soon as Nick left the warehouse, he clicked on the small button on the button of his pants. He just hoped the signal will reach the people he hoped will save him.

God must have heard his prayer, because as soon as he heard the captors getting near to him, a familiar car of his senior dashed towards his direction.

“Hop on!” Detective Javier shouted as she opened the car door. Nick reached for the car and pushed himself inside. The moment the door was closed, a bullet hit the window. Nick was thankful it was bullet proof.

Detective Javier drove back to the city, swerving the car fo avoid the bullet from penetrating any wheel. From the backseat, Darwin opened a small hole and fired his gun towards the enemies until they finally escaped.

On the other hand, the boss gritted his teeth as his captive escaped from his hands. “I should’ve killed him, ” he spoke with anger before shooting one of his men who was shot by Darwin on the leg. His bullet penetrated his brain, leaving him dead.

Frustrated, the boss entered his van. The moment he stepped inside, he removed his mask, revealing his face.

“Drive to the airport. We’ll go back to Italy,” Giovanni told the driver before resting his back on the chair. “I’ll have to take care of Ezio’s cara.”