Chapter-5-"Terrifying Dangers"

Gabriel Hernandez's POV

"Anything?" I stride into my office sitting in my chair. Simon and his minion Lance who is working on his laptop give me their attention.

"Nothing. It's like she doesn't exist." Lance answers still typing furiously. I look at Simon.

"She bit you again?" He asks looking at my lips. A side smile takes over my lips. He shakes his head. "No social security number. No public appearance. No nothing really." He explains further. "We are working to see if we can find something. Maybe if we can get her to give her last name..." He trails off. I shake my head.

"She is completely closed off. She won't even give me her middle name. Fuck! I don't even know if she has one!"

"Did she tell you who she is arranged to?" Simon asks.

"Given the fact that I threatened to kill any man that touched her and kidnapped her friend, not really. Besides, whoever that fucker is, I can always kill him if needed." It would not be my first kill and for her... I would kill gladly if needed. "Who the fuck arranges marriages anymore?" Simon looks at me at that.

"Your father arranged your marriage. You are lucky she did before you can meet her." He reminds. "Wait. She is lucky she died." Simon mocks. He is the one person that stood by me since I was ten. He was trained along side me by my father. He is the only person that's close to family in my life. All of our emotions buried deep the day he helped me kill my father.

"Her guard is completely up." It's so damn frustrating! Once she left in the cab, Ryan followed and gave us her hotel name. The booking is already on her chat with her friend. There is only little I can gather from her chats. She hates her arranged marriage. She hates being a prisoner in her home.

SHE. FUCKING. CRAVES. FREEDOM!!!

Simon helped clone her mobile to a new one. Now I will be able to see all her messages with her friend and anything she does on her mobile. Her friend is given a room here and as soon as we came, she is not even surprised by the size of the mansion. She is well off. That much is clear. She ran off to meet her friend with Martha. She wants to put distance between us. I just let her be. Only. This. Once.

What got me though? Her snarky mouth! Her sexy lips! Her Dove eyes that spit fire at me! Her sexy body that fits right into my arms! Most of all... Her pics! Her sexy pics that poped open right when I opened her mobile! There are some even in her bra taken in her hotel bathroom. Definitely not as innocent as she looks!

It might look horrendous even to people what I am doing with her. Just taking her like an animal. But that's what men like me are. We do not ask. We claim what is ours. That what my dead father raised me to be. He was more of a brute than me and I am scared I am becoming what I hate. I am becoming him.

"This is..." Lance trails off scared of the word he was about to say in front of me.

"Crazy. He knows." Simon finishes for him. I smirk. "But when you know, you know." He looks at me. "How are you going to get her to be here after seven days?" He asks.

"We made a deal. She and her friend can do all the things they planned this week and after one week, she stays with me willingly."

"Or?" Simon asks. Lance stares at us curiously. The same question is running through his head.

"She stays with me anyway."

"So, not much of a deal." He says. "She agreed to it?" His curiosity and surprise piques.

"She did." It was not a surprise for me when she agreed.

"W-What if she plans to escape?" Lance asks. Such a basic question.

"She is. That's why she agreed to it." Simon clears his doubt. Simon is more like me. He knows the human nature well.

"She was looking at the exits and the number of guards as soon as we entered the mansion." As I speak of her, the image of her curious eyes trying to remember everything around pops up in my mind and she looked so cute thinking she has a chance to escape. I will give her the freedom. She just has to see it. Kylan enters the room. I so want to end these meetings and go back to her. I need her near me.

"We took care of the body." He informs, talking about Jake. "I have never seen you come to your own birthday party till now, Capo. You are going to come tomorrow?" He asks. As The Boss of New York mafia, there are certain expectations that fall on my shoulders. One of which is these parties. I just make an appearance for a minute, but with her, I want to go. I wonder what she is doing up there.

We will see." I don't confirm. "Did you figure out why she was his target?" I ask. Lance looks up from his laptop.

"I am going through all of his messages, Boss. It seems like she just saw her going into the hotel when they arrived and he took a picture of her to share it in the black market." My fist tightens.

"What the fuck?!!" Anger courses through me. He turns his laptop and shows me the video of him following her into the hotel as she and her friend tried to check in. It was caught on one of the hotel cameras which is not hard to accumulate for my men. Before I realize my fist bangs hard on the table. Black market?! She could have been sold in minutes! She doesn't even know the danger she was in.

"Is her post still up? Delete it from wherever her image is posted on! NOW!!" Simon commands Lance nearly taking the laptop in his hands. Lance nods. "This is big, Capo. She merely missed a huge catastrophe that could have happened!" The things she would have gone through.

She could have been taken from me before I could have met her! We caught Jake at the right time. She doesn't realize the hell that's unleashed on her tonight! She thinks I am the devil! But the evil in the world she is yet to discover would destroy her! Nothing of it should touch her! None of it!

"Cap-"

"Double the security on her. Make sure they are away so if anyone follows her, we can catch them quick. Something about this whole thing is fishy as fuck! We need to get to the bottom of it quick."

"We need to know who her father arranged her marriage to." Kylan says. That's right!

"She looks like a rich kid. Her marriage must have been arranged to someone of the same status or even more. We need to know who it is!" Simon stands up from his chair. "This whole thing surrounding her... It's all mysteries!"

"Very unsafe. There must be a reason more than just protectiveness that her father is hiding her."

I will protect you, Little Dove! From lies and secrets! From all the monsters! Except for one! Me!

I will kill, bleed and destroy anything that wants to harm you!

Bella Devin's POV

"We have a week to escape." I tell her once we hug. She looks completely unharmed.

"Bells, this..." She trails off. "Gabriel..." She looks like she wants to tug out her own hair. "You can't escape him! He is the Capo of the New York Mafia!" Jules never freaks out. Her freaking out is making me very nervous.

"We will escape. He will let us go out as per our plans and we can figure out an escape in the meanwhile. We have no other option." She looks defeated at my words. "Why do you have a gun?! Do not bull shit me!" I say before she can lie again. She sighs.

"I borrowed it from my brother. Just in case." She adds. Her brother works for my father. That is how we became friends.

"Borrowed?"

"Well stole. You don't have to make me admit it!" She goes to sit on the bed and I sit with her. My arms folded near my chest.

"How do you know him?"

"What?!" She asks confused.

"You recognized him when you first saw him and you speak of him like you know him."

"Th-That everyone knows of him. He is on the news sometimes. You just don't watch news no matter how many times I tell you to!" I eye her. My mind is accepting the fact, but something in me tells me she is lying. I am so exhausted for the day that I just let it be. "Did you tell him your last name?" She asks.

"No." I know as much. He can track me down with his resources and contact my father.

"We should talk to your father." She says. My eyes widen.

"NO! WE CAN'T!!" I stand up from the bed. My anxiety taking over. "No, Jules. Let's try. If we can't escape, we can always contact him. We have six more days!" Jules nods, but looks at me.

"Do you like him?" She asks and my stomach drops. I don't! I don't like the way he gives me butterflies! I don't like the way he kissed me! I don't like how much I loved it! I don't like how I want to do it again! I don't like how he calls me Little Dove and how that gives me stupid fucking feelings! Urgh! No!

"No! Jules!" I behave like I have offended by that question, but the truth is far from it.

"Do you plan on going to his party tomorrow?" She asks.

"No!" I shake my head. Today is too much. One hour with him is even too much. I just need to lay down, sleep and forget everything for a few hours.

"He is handsome for sure." She says giving me a smile. A jealous nerve ticks in me. "I heard he is a very dominating and commanding leader." That much is true! "Men like him don't ask Bells. They take. Be careful!"

"Don't worry. I plan on avoiding him as much as possible."

I just have to stick with Jules, pretend to be tired when he wants to meet, plan the escape and run away. Couldn't be that hard!

If only my stupid ass knew there is no escaping him! If only I knew the danger that's lurking outside for me! If only I knew the truth!

What is he is my savior?!

A/N:

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