Chapter One:She Yearns To Be Free.

Preview on 'Wrongfully Wedded To The Cold Ceo.'

Manhattan, New York city.

10:pm.

In the late night of midsummer's, through the dark woods that surrounded the area. A petite young lady hurried through the dark, perilous woods, tears streaming down her face.

With a terrified expression marked by bruises and cuts, blood oozing from a wound at the side of her face, she glanced down at her torn, thorn-adorned clothes. She seemed indifferent to her disheveled appearance, as if she was running away from a wild animal.

One wouldn't think twice, without figuring out that it's unusual for one to be found mountain hiking so late at night, especially in these dangerous woods. 

In a haste to get to the road, to get help from whoever it was or whatever that was chasing after her. She frozed at the sound of a gunshot, stiffling a whimper of fear with her hands.

"Don't be foolish, Valerie. You know the rules. I won't hurt you if you cooperate and be a good girl, but perhaps you enjoy punishments too well. But regardless, you know the consequences if i catch you."

That voice!

It lives rent free in her head, she didn't know how many months that she was locked away from the outside world, but if there's one thing that she has learned and gotten used to, it has to be him.

Donovan Castillo, better still known as Don Castillo, her captor.

His voice!

His scent, perhaps his shadow too.

 Everything about him haunts her!

 In her dreams that has been occupied by nothing but the thought of him, and when he will finally put her out of her misery by killing her. Even though she figured out it was her being paranoid, and uneasy anytime that he's around her.

But Donovan was cruel..he's the kind of man mothers warn their daughters to stay away from. He's the devil. But it's not entirely easy to do that, because this said devil was too angelic to look away from.

She could still remember the first day she has seen him, at that moment she has forgotten for the main time that he had kidnapped her, and mistakened her for her twin sister, who apparently was the rightful person he's looking for.

But having stayed months in his torture room, she knew that this is the last place that she will ever wish for her enemies to end up, because Donovon will make you beg for death but it won't come so easily.

She had no idea what her sister had done to cross parts with this devil, and left her to be the scape goat whereas she was no where to be found. 

Telling the truth got her nowhere close to her freedom, in as much as she tried to make him believe that she's Valerie Blackfield and not Vanessa Blackfield, her elder sister.

Valerie had come to live with the fact that this devil was obsessed with her, he loved and took immense pleasure in watching her suffer, and beg for help from where she knew that it wasn't coming.

But this night was different.

Even after hearing him say that he won't hurt her if she does the right time, the young lady took a brave step forward to her freedom. The only thing she had in mind was getting away from here, and saving her nephew from the crazy obsession this crazy man had with her.

This wasn't the first time she had done this, try to get away from him. But this is the first time that she's going to succed in escaping here. Going to the police to report him was useless because he taught her a painful lesson for doing that the first time.

So, she was not stupid anymore. Being his slave had taught her to be strong and tough because in Donovan's world, it is survive or be killed and that's what she's choosing tonight.

Her survival.

She yearns to be free again!

"She couldn't have gone far Don, I will make sure we find her." Marco, Donovan's second in command said, which made fear crept her entire resolve that he's involve in this search.

This gave her more reason to leave, because if Donovon doesn't kill her because he claims that he's intrigued by her. Marco will make her wish for death in thousand different ways.

Unlike Donovan who still found this to be a cat and mouse game, Marco creeps her out and she won't wait for him to do whatever it was that was going through her dirty mind.

"I don't care who you have to kill to bring her back here, just make sure that she's still alive for what i have planned for her." She heard Donovan say, as she felt goosebump fill her entire body.

"You hear that sweetheart, you can't escape me tonight. You are all surrounded, so why don't we just call it a night by you ending this little game of yours, huh?" He asked, before letting out a dark chuckle that made the young lady see her life flash in front of her eyes.

But she knew that he's only playing with her, if there's anything that Donovan is good at. It has to be the fact that he's a manipulative freak, who will make you question your life and make a normal person go crazy.

She stayed hidden in the same place that she hide, and waited for Marco's men to leave the arena. When she felt the coast was clear, she made her move only to stumble into a trap set by a farmer.

A painful scream tore from her lips, one that she couldn't hold even if she wanted to. The pain was so unbearable that she didn't have the mind to remove the trap, no! She didn't know how to.

But her gate to freedom was looking right at her, because at that moment she saw a car drive past the empty road, that she should have been by now had it not been for this.

She sat up, and wasn't able to carry her weight, coupled with the pain of the punishment that Donovan has taken out on her body. She nearly fell back down, but strong hands reached to her and she was met with a strong chest.

"Caught you." 

She heard Donovan said, and tried releasing herself from his hold but he heard onto her tightly before seizing her by her neck.

"It's game over, sweetheart. Time to go back to your prison." He laughed, which made her cry out in fear but before she could say anything else, she felt a sharp pain at her neck.

She looked at her right hand side to see Marco holding an empty syringe, before she felt her visions getting blurry.

"Help.." She whispered.

Hoping that a miracle will happen and someone, somewhere. Her knight in shining armour will come to save her from this big bad devil holding her hostage.

But all she heard was Donovan's voice, "You will regret this, Valerie!" 

With that being said, she was out like a light but not without knowing that she's back with the devil once again.

The Don of the dragon jade Empire, the biggest Mafia conglomerate in the world and she was nothing, but a mistake caused by her sister for involving herself with the wrong set of people.