**Prologue**
As soon as she was awaken, the beautiful brims of sunlight was what fell on her face. With the bright sunlight reflecting so much of light in her eyes, she winced and wiggled to keep herself away from them.
She shifted her head to another side and blinked her eyes couple of times before she viewed and comprehended the situation around her.
She searched her hand as soon as she opened her eyes but found that they were tied together behind her back with the tight ropes and so were her legs. Her mouth had piece of cloth which made her unable to speak, cry and shout to anyone. She was laid down on the bed and her whole body was tied on it.
“Good Morning, Mademoiselle,” a rough, rude, arrogant and hunky voice hit her ears and she turned her head towards the voice originating from another side.
With a big round wide eyes she stared at him. She was literally trembling and her body was shivering with the huge terror.
The man who was as perfect as some athletics, his height almost 6 ft 4 inches, wide, rough and broad chest, accompanied by tight regular exercised muscles toning with the perfect tanned shades of skin. His body was as if he was some model for the perfect fashion shoot.
The upper torso of his body was uncovered, without any piece of clothes while his lower body was wrapped in white clean towel. His body was drenched as if he had just came from the rain. Maybe, preferably a shower.
When he realized that, she had already woken up, he twitched his lip lopsidedly with a light smile which seemed more as mockery rather than the smile.
On seeing her wiggling her body on the bed, he treaded his feet towards her, towards the bed and her wiggling was increased more than that of before.
“Sh…Sh… Don’t move,” he shushed her and then, removed the cloth in between her upper and lower jaw, slightly sliding it downwards.
As soon as he slided the cloth from her mouth, he looked at her and then extended his hand to her face and then, brushed her lips with his thumbs gently. She tried to avoid herself from the touches of him fondling on her face.
“Who the hell are you? Why have you brought me here? Where am I?” she shouted on seeing him so close?
Handsome would be the small word to describe him. He was damn hot, sexy and was full of good physiques that would melt any woman out there.
“Sh…Sh…No more of a questions. I don’t want to hear any of them,” he pressed her lips placing his forefinger on her lips and then, slowly untied the cloth of her mouth and slowly inserted his one of his hand below her waist and then, raised her and made her sit down on the bed with her hands still tied on.
“Why am I here? Please, let me go,” she appealed.
“Don’t try to pretend like you don’t know anything. I know you have seen it and I know where would you run as soon as I release you from here. So, NO- MORE-PRETENTIONS,” he stressed the last sentence.
“I swear I didn’t see any of the thing, yesterday night,” she sobbed as she was trembling so much.
He smiled as he heard her words. “ I will give you two days time to tell me the truth about what you saw and if you don’t want to say then, I have a different medicine for you. A medicine for telling a lie and I hope you have seen it already. I am talking about the medicine that you saw yesterday,” he said firmly.
“ No…, No…, I am ready to tell the truth. I saw it… I saw it clearly. I promise I wouldn’t tell anything to anyone but please spare me my life. I want to live long. I ran away here after I got fed up from my fiancé. I promise I would return back to Chicago and never return back I promise,” she said trembled.
He raised his hand and then, clenched her jaw and then said,” You know what? I don’t even trust my parents and my people then, who are you to trust? On what basis should I believe that you won’t be betraying me? On what basis should I believe that you won’t go to cops when I release you,” he increased the grip on her jaw.
“I promise. I’m not like that. I won’t do that. It hurts so much. Please let me go,” she pleaded. But, he being one of the cruel and ruthless person in the dark underworld crimes, didn’t dare to listen to her pleas.
“I’m not covering your pretty stupid mouth for now, so you can tell me what you actually decide. But your body will stay as it is until you tell me your decision. And, yes I don’t have habit of listening ‘No’. I prefer the word that comes out of your mouth should be ‘yes’ or else you know the medicine,” he sneered and walked out of there.
In a bemused expression, she looked around the room. It was as dark as his heart. “ I shouldn’t have done this. I shouldn’t have come here on the first place. At least, he was better than this man though he was a total man whore. At least he wouldn’t threaten me with my life,” she thought as the tear rolled down her red swollen eyes.
Why was she being captive? Who is she? What mistake has she done? Will she ever be free from him?
Echo’s Pov:I am Echo Belle Johnson. Really long name, right? Many people gets confused when I actually say that I own both the name Echo and Belle.Both of the names are contrasting with the actual characters I own. I don’t even understand why I have the name Echo when I was the most silent person when I was kid and why I got the name Belle when I was an ordinary beauty who wasn’t even in the top twenty beauty of the classes I attended to.Honestly I felt like these two names were the mockery to my existence, a total mockery I say. You can openly call me an introvert as I had really less of friends and I interacted with people quite less. You see why the name Echo sounded funny to me.I turned to a college student some four years ago and, yeah college life was really a dope one. I mean parties, club, disco, liquors, hook ups, break ups, patch ups, make outs, long crazy drives, unplanned trips.
Echo’s Pov:"Marry me, Echo. Please, marry me. I need you,"he said.His eyes seemed to be true and it made me almost believe him until I heard his next words." I will promise you you will get all the things that you want. I will provide you with all your luxuries that you want. Please, marry me or else my dad won't inherit his property to me. I know that you love me. Can't you do that much for me? For the one you loved all this time?" he asked."What? You're marrying me for the inheritance? And you knew I liked you? Since when?" I asked.I was broken apart when I heard that.Before I was mad at him, I despised myself for loving him before but now I feel like dying of shame over here.I had imagined my life beyond any imaginations with him but...my life turned out to be worst of worst...He knew that I liked him but still he did that?He co
Echo’s Pov:“ You,” I said as the same lady who guided me yesterday was standing on the door with a some parcel in her hands. I couldn’t ask her name the previous day.What’s your name would be silly question to ask like a kindergarten children. So, I peeped on her badge on her chest pocket.‘Amanda’Her name was Amanda.I didn't want to ask her name again after gazing at her name card.I took the uniform and changed into it and then set off for the work.We were all called in the President's office in order to get the counselling and disciplining.I was taken together with some of the workers to his office. His comfy chair was empty.We waited for sometime but he wasn't there. We were tired of waiting but he wasn't there.The president has always been different to be as I read quite lots of novels about t
Echo's POV:When I opened my eyes, the only thing I saw around me was the darkness. It felt as if I have been locked in the darkest dungeon as in the movies. I could feel coldness beneath my body. I was laid on the cold floor maybe.The darkness was giving me a fear. For some seconds I even thought that I was dead but the sounds of my own heartbeat which was scaring me to the hell assured me that I was still alive.I tried to cry out for help but then realized that my mouth was corked with some clothes. My voice wasn't able to get to people clearly.I could feel the warmth on my cheeks and I could comprehend that my tears were on their full speed in fear and anxiety.I felt that my hand was tied and even my legs. I was unable to move both my hands and legs.After sometime, I was scared even to cry. I was scared someone would just come and kill me if I make sounds.
Demonte’s Pov:Lucifer!That bastard dared to touch the most precious thing that ever belonged to me.Although, we were apart and I could never live the life that she always wanted me to live still, I always loved her. Though she had given me the betrayal and pains to me, I couldn't stop myself from getting affected from her.That bastard really enraged me with the extreme anger that I wasn’t able to control it.The day I knew that he was the one behind the murder of Gabriella. I did each and everything to get him. I wanted that fucking bastard to kill with my own hands. I didn’t want him to even get caught by the police.When I caught him, my anger was in top notch that I didn’t even had a single thought not even for a millisecond to leave him and to set him free.So, I gave him the right punishment that he deserved. I had never left clu
Echo’s Pov:My eyes flinched as the soft skin on the shutter of my eyes felt the bright illumination of the light which compelled me to twitch my brows and open my eyes towards it.As I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was the blue eyes gazing at me with an evil smirk.“You're up,” the same guy said as he untied the ropes from my hands and then threw the ropes with his full energy to one of the corner of the room.I was rubbing my wrist which were now sore because of the ropes being tied on my hands for a quite a long time almost two days.Wasn't I suppose to be dead right now? Wasn't I suppose to be on heaven right now? Why am I still here? I hate being here with him?I was looking around my body when he roared.“ For your confirmation you're not dead.Do you think I would give you such an easy death? Do you really think that your last wishes would be
Echo’s Pov:“There is no freedom here. The only freedom you get from here is when you have your death,” he said in a raspy voice which made me scared to death.I gulped down the lump of saliva which was formed in my throat in a really difficult manner.Fear was noticeable on my face and tension covered all of my body. My knees went shaky as he kept on increasing his steps towards me.“I…I…” I had no words to explain to him. What the hell would I explain to him?“You have no explanations?” he said as he held my wrist and flipped me on his shoulders to carry.No...not again. I kept myself on the huge problem one more time. I shouldn't have tried to run away. I really shouldn't have.“No…No… Just leave me alone. I don’t want to be here. I want to go back to my home. Just let me go,” I hit on his back as hard as I could but it was of no use. The more I hit him
Demonte’s Pov:I loathe myself. I loathe myself for touching her unknowingly and trying to comfort her. I didn’t know the sudden change of my emotions when I saw her tears.I didn’t know what happened to me when I saw her pain. What had really happened to me?I thought they would be fake, her tears. They would be fake like the one Gabriella always showed to me but when I saw her eyes why do they felt like that they were hurting since a long time and they were innocent.The more I want to make her guilty of my Gabriella's death the more I feel her pitiful.The situation was rather confusing. What should I exactly do with her?"Fuck," I swore underneath my breath as I strode roughly in the aisle of the mansion.I came back to my comfy room and them plopped on my bed and resting both of my hands under my head, I went into the deep thoughts about her.