Chapter 164
NIKOLAI’S POV
I shook my head, “I’m not going in there.”
Leah grabbed my arm and ducked as the helicopter flew by over us. There were tall trees all around us, we were in the middle of nowhere; we were not even in New York anymore and it had been just a few hours since I left with Leah’s driver, who I heard Leah calling Marko.
“Nikolai it’s either this or Alessandro!” She whisper–yelled.
Tears stung my eyes but I didn’t let them fall. Taking a long, deep breath, I stepped down the unsteady wooden ladder that led to nothing but deep darkness. I couldn’t see anything, the second my feet touched the ground I heaved a sigh of relief and looked up at the faint morning light coming from the trap door.
“Leah!” I called and there was no answer.
A certain tension and anxiety crept up as Leah didn’t answer, I looked around the dark place, my heartbeat accelerating. Goosebumps crept over the back of my neck.
Did she just leave me down here?!
“LEAH!” I called again and I was ready to climb back up the ladder.
A second later, Leah appeared in my view, she stepped down the ladder and closed the door behind her.
“Nikolai, touch the wall to your left, there is a flashlight mounted on it, grab it and turn it on.”
In the blinding darkness, I touched the wall and moved my hand around until I touched something, my first instinct was to pull my hand away but then I grabbed the head of the flashlight and pulled it off the wall. I touched the flashlight, looked for the ON button, and finally found it. I flicked it on and the dark tunnel–like place illuminated. This place reminded me of the tunnels under Alessandro’s mansion but this was more on the messed up side. The walls were falling apart, the ground was uneven and it looked like it had been over a century ago.
Leah sealed the trap door with a bunch of stuff, including five giant padlocks. She stepped down the wobbly ladder and faced me.
“What took you so long up there?!” I snapped at her.
“The signal is weak down here, I was downloading this for you.”
She handed me a cell phone and played a video. It was from a news channel. My picture was plastered all over the screen with the news of me being kidnapped.
We are here with the parents of the well known celebrity Nikolai, he went missing and now they are looking for him. Please whoever sees him, report to the police, the parents are in pain“, the newscaster announced.
What the fu-
What was going on?!
There was a couple that I have never seen before, they were sobbing, wiping their eyes as if they had actually lost their son.
“I know who took him, it’s the same man that had been stalking my son for the past month, please don’t hurt him, I will do anything you want“, the woman cried, barely holding herself up.
The man sitting beside her wrapped his arms around her shoulders and looked into the camera, “Nikolai, sweetheart, if you are watching this just know that mom and dad are looking for you and we won’t give up until we find you and bring you back to where you belong.
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The camera cut to the newscaster once more as she reported the case, referring to me as the missing son.
*…the 21–year–old model was forcefully shoved into a black jeep by an unidentified individual and taken from the studio this morning. You can: see the picture of car number plate on your screens, the owner of the car is the prime suspect in Nikolai’s kidnapping case. According to Nikolai’s parents, the sixty–year–old man had been stalking him for a month now; she reported him to the police and filed a restraining order against him. Whoever has Nikolai is going to be worked upon“,
Leah grabbed the cell phone back from me and shoved it into her pocket, she snatched the flashlight and held my hand in hers as she led us deep into the tunnel.
“What–I swallowed, “What was that, Leah?”
“That was just the glimpse of the power Alessandro has over this country. The police, the FBI, they all are in it.”
“Who were those people?” I asked referring to the people who were playing the part of my parents.
“It was all false, Nikolai,” she unlocked one of the doors, it was a bedroom. The furniture looked new in the old dirty bedroom, “By now the entire country is probably looking for us, for me.”
She looked so distressed, so tense. I grabbed her arm and squeezed it, “Leah, what now?”
“We lay low, Nikolai.”
I looked around, “Here?”
“Yes…”
“For how many days?*
“Until they come to get us.”
I frowned, “Who?”
“You’ll know soon, my lovey. There is a bathroom, and a kitchen, everything works perfectly fine, my room is right next to yours. There are air vents for ventilation,” she pointed to the other door, “We have enough food and water down here to survive for two to three months.”
“Two to three months?!”
“I have no idea how long all of this will take. Alessandro would never stop looking for you. He has eyes everywhere, he has the chief of staff of the United States in his pockets. We need to lay low until they come to get us!”
“Who? Who will come for us?”
“The person who owns these tunnels. You will know soon.”
“Leah, what if Alessandro finds us first?”
“Then I’m dead and you’re doomed for life.
I shook my head, “I don’t want to go back to him.”
“I won’t let it happen“, She retorted.
“Leah?“, I called her again.
“What?“, She answered tiredly. I was probably starting to piss her off.
Chapter 164
“We managed to escape Alessandro, thank you for helping me…” I whispered still in disbelief. Because I had the strongest weapon I could use against him.”
I looked up at her, frowning, “What?”
“You… you are his weakness, he can’t see clearly when it comes to you. That’s why he never saw this coming because it was something that involved you.”
“That’s where you’re wrong. He doesn’t care, he doesn’t love me. He just doesn’t want to let me go because I’m the only way he could take satisfy his dark desires. He wants to torture me“,
“Nikolai, sweetie, if he wanted to torture you; you wouldn’t be alive right now. You’d be tied in one of his torture chambers begging for death to come and he wouldn’t have given it to you.”
“And he rejected me all because he loves you“,
I squeezed my eyes shut and looked down at the ground. A sinking feeling spread through my chest. That isn’t love, he is just obsessed with
- me.
“I don’t want to talk about him anymore, Leah. I don’t want you to ever mention him again. I want to forget about him, his existence, and- my words got stuck in my throat as my eyes went to the wedding ring on my finger, the diamond shined in my eyes, “…and this marriage.”
I took the wedding ring off my finger and put it on the nightstand.
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