Chapter Thirty-Eight

LEO

I jolt awake from my blank pace when a basin of cold water is splashed over me mercilessly. The summer is long gone by now and the winter is dangerously nearing through the pouring rain. So, it is quite cold nowadays. Shivers break out all over my soaked body as cold air bites into my skin.

I snap my eyes open, my five senses on their peak as every hair in my body raises in alarm.

"Look, look, my pretty cousin is awake!" James jests as his lackeys enthusiastically cheer at his delighted remark.

"Why are you doing this?" Struggling against the tight binding of rope that is tying me against a wooden chair, I bite out through my gritted teeth, not at all surprised that James is the person who kidnapped me.