15 Kidnapped again

The whole world was holding their breath. Everything went silent.

The silence lay so heavily on them that she could have cut it with a knife.

She also held her breath.

The sounds of heels were coming nearer. Not the clacking sound of high heels but the heels of those leather shoes the businessmen would wear. They were approaching her.

She could feel something brush past her face and the blindfold was being pulled off of her.

The bright light shone directly into her eyes and she blinked a few times to get used to it.

When she opened her eyes properly again a face appeared before her that she didn´t expect to see.

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Her mouth was wide open but no sound went out.

The person standing before her charmingly smiled. He then leaned down to look her into her eyes.

"Didn´t expect to see me here right, Eira?"

He chuckled lightly.

Eira still couldn´t talk. She was confused, shocked...

"Why so silent? Are you still drunk? The mojitos were great weren´t they?"

Slowly Eira pressed out every single word.

"You... is this... your doing?"

"Well yes of course. Or do you think this prince charming here is going to save you?" He laughed but that laughter just sounded like the evil laugher of the villain where bolts of lightning were striking in the background.

Eira was disgusted to see him like that. And foremost she was disappointed in herself to again misjudge someone.

"Why all this? What do you want?" She asked.

"Oh, you´re back to business huh?" He said. "Well then let´s talk business."

He nodded to some of his underlings and they immediately gave him a chair to sit down opposite of her.

He nonchalantly crossed his legs and looked at her amused.

"I just want one thing. You know that."

"What is it?" Eira glared at him trying to intimidate him. To show him that she wasn´t afraid.

"I want you to marry me of course. I did such a good job seducing and wooing you. I did everything to make you fall in love with me and I gave you a perfect proposal. I was there in your darkest hours. So, of course, you should marry me."

Eira sighed.

"John, did you get hit on your head or something? I already said I don´t love you and I can´t marry you. Please let me go."

John again laughed like a maniac.

"No, I can´t do that. You have to marry me. It doesn´t matter if you want it or not. I tried to play nice but you just won´t. Now I don´t have a choice but force you."

"You are insane. I will never marry. Over my dead body."

John raised a brow questioningly.

"Oh? Over your dead body? I don´t mind killing you and just releasing the last testimony of you that you already married me. That is not a problem but I think you also want to live."

Now it was her turn to raise a brow.

"And why is that so?"

John leaned nearer to her before answering her.

"Well I just want your name and it doesn´t matter if you are alive or dead. But you... there is still something unsolved you should know the truth about."

"What do you mean?"

"Think of... your mother and your father. Do you think it was an accident that you were kidnapped then? Do you think your mother just left you because of her undying love for Mr. Henning?"

Realization hit Eira. Cold sweat was running down her spine and she looked terrified at John.

"What do you know?"

"Oh, so you really want to know it." John changed his smile into an evil smirk. He leaned back again and enjoyed the different emotions that went through her face.

He loved to torture her a little bit more but he had his reason to kidnap her here. So he went on.

"Eira I know a lot. But I can´t just tell you those secrets for nothing. I mean I could get a very good deal when I go to the competing companies with it."

Eira couldn´t believe she was being blackmailed and forced to agree to John´s proposal. She never had thought that he was such a scheming bastard. The gentle and charming John turned out to be the villain himself.

But still, she couldn´t just marry him. He clearly was after her company and her heir. Even if she was dying to know the truth behind her mother and to find the reason why she got kidnapped back then that led to her father being shot... she couldn´t agree.

"John I won´t marry you. That´s final." She said firmly.

He stood up and rubbed his hands.

"Alright! Like you wish." He nodded to a man standing at the side and that man went out of the door to come back shortly with a paper. The man handed those papers to John.

"I already prepared our marriage registration form. All I need is for you to sign here. Now, would you be so nice to sign it? Or else I´ll shoot you." He grinned and put the paper before her while he pulled with the other hand a gun out of his back and aimed it at her.

Eira shortly looked at the gun and then at John. She saw something glittering and laughed.

She laughed.

She laughed the maniac laugh like the one John had used before.

John was just looking at her amused and smirked. When he saw that she still hadn´t stopped he sighed and unlocked the gun with a click.

"Sign now!" His voice is a bit louder and more demanding than before.

Eira still laughed and said.

"Are you dumb? How can I sign this."

John looked at her confused.

"What?"

She continued to giggle.

"My hands are tied you idiot." She couldn´t hold herself back anymore and had another laughing fit.

That just made her opponent angry.

"What are you fools standing there!? Untie her hands!" He demanded and looked at her.

"You better sign this." He growled.

Two men came to each of her sides and undid the ropes on her hands. They then stepped a step back. John still held his gun pointed at her ready to shoot her if she made a wrong move. The man at her side also had taken out their guns and pointed it at her.

Eira massaged her hands for a bit and then wiped her laughing tears away.

"If I knew you were such an arrogant and bossy man I would have probably fallen in love with you for a long time." She laughed.

John still looked at her confused.

"Why would you?"

"You have to know something about us woman. We sure like a charming man but more so the good girls always like the bad boy more." She started to laugh again.

That made John very furious. His hand shook violently.

"Don´t tease me. You will die sooner or later. Now sign this, quick!"

Eira looked at him mockingly.

"Pah as if."

With these words, hell came upon them.