Nikolai POV.
I don’t like seeing her hurt, seeing her in pain, but I think we’re getting somewhere, we’re getting closer to each other, she’s more open for me, open for my affection, she wants me, and I want her back. The way she’s asking me not to leave her, I’ll never leave her, she’s the only light I have in the darkness I call my life, I chose my life, but I always craved the light, even before I met her, I knew I needed her in my life, one way or another, she was to be mine.
I dropper her back at home, I didn’t want to leave her, but work was calling things aren’t going well for me, I still had to deal with the one who calls themselves pure bloods, they are making themselves more known now, they are trying to leave a mark, make themselves known, try to show everyone how strong they are, a pain in the arse really. Add to that the Irish who got in troubles for losing Devil, they were going to sell her but they lost their package, they weren’t annoying us much anymore, but they still want to know who’s responsible for losing their package, it was a long chance for them to know it was us who did it.
I had to finish my work, I’m a man who’s busy most days, but I’ve been trying to make more time for her, more time for Elle, I’m sleeping at home most night, I try to take her out, to be there for meal times, make sure she knows I’m here.
Ever since she got in my life, I became happier, I might not show it for strangers, but with her, she knows the better version of me, the one who loves her, the one who’ll do anything to make her happy. I tried my best to come back early, to be there for her, I knew she was hurt, something happened, Paul wouldn’t call unless something have happened for real and she needs me, he was right she did need me then, and I came back just for her.
Now it’s time to be there for her again, it’s time to hold her and know the truth, she’s going to tell me the truth, I know she won’t hide things from me, not unless she won’t bum tanned. I can’t help her unless if I know what happened, unless if I know what the truth is, whoever hurt her is dead, I don’t care if it’s a he or a she, someone who did it on purpose or by mistake, the one who made my baby cry is going to pay for it.
I made a half turn before going back home, I bought her some chocolate, I knew her favorite kinds and bought them for her, chocolate would help make her talk, god knows she loves chocolate, and when she’s feeling safe, she’d tell you everything, I never wanted her to shut up, I enjoy her voice, the giggles, how she break the silence I’m always living in.
At the supermarket, I bought everything I needed, I might have done a semi turn and got her a teddy bear, she likes teddies, a new one would make her happy, I hope, that was the plan. I made it to home around midnight, I expected her to be asleep, but sometimes she can’t fall asleep, not when she’s hurt or overthinking, I know my baby is a big over thinker.
I parked my car and made it up to my bedroom, I opened the door, the bed was unmade, she clearly slept in it, the bathroom was closed without any light coming from it, her phone was on the table, along with her laptop.
“Elle” I call out for her, but she doesn’t answer, I call her again but no answer either, I start looking for her, but she wasn’t in our room.
I left this room and moved to the next ones, she wasn’t at Paul’s room, or at any of the common rooms, the entertaining room or the kitchen, I was getting worried, I called to Paul and Marco telling them to start searching for her along with me, she got to be here, she can’t have left the house without telling me.
I went back to our room, turning the lights on looking around, the bed wasn’t just unmade, it looks like she did was either turning all over the covers or had some kind of a fight, the balcony door was open, the one she’d not supposed to have it open, cold air was blowing inside the room, I went to the door and looked out. Our balcony is open over the backyard, did she take off, but why would she do that? Why would she run away, I got angry, why would my baby run away from me, my anger was having the best of me, I called for Marco, telling him to find her, to find how she got away.
Our house have surveilling camera all over the place, they should be able to at least know how Elle got out of the house, she’ll need a car, the only way out of the place is a car and for the guards to let her out. Marco went to get the videos, he was watching them, I couldn’t take looking at those, I wasn’t simply angry, I was furious. I threw the chocolate and the teddy I got for her into the trash, no more nice Nikolai, she took advantage of it, she got my trust, pretended to be hurt before finally taking off.
“Got something for you Nik” Marco says I turned my angry glance to him, he had a big frown on his face, this wasn’t going to end well.
“She was taken” he says, taken, that’s maybe a little bit better than having run away but who took her.
“By whom?” I ask through gritted teeth.
“I think…boss you better see this” he says, zooming in on a face, I knew this woman, I knew those eyes, the bone structure, she didn’t look like her old self, but I knew who that is, I knew why she’s here, she thinks she could have Elle back, but she’s wrong, she’s mine and I’m having her back.
“Devil got her” I say through gritted teeth, but how did she find her, how did she knew she’s with me now, but the most important question, how dare she come back, put a gun to my girl back and take her out of my house! She’s dead meat now, I’m not going to show any mercy, Elle is mine now. I went toward our room and got her phone, I opened the phone and started searching her messages, there was no messages from any foreign numbers unless if she was too smart and deleted them all. I kept searching but could found nothing, this doesn’t make any sense, how did she know she’s living with me now, Devil and her must have communicated somehow, I opened her writing application, I checked her messages, someone was leaving her comments about how her psycho is looking for her, Elle was replying with her not knowing it’s Devil who’s leaving the comments, she replied saying she lost her psycho.
It was Elle last update that got my attention, she wrote about being hurt, about being in pain, about how she was heartbroken from being accused of being a whore, she didn’t like that, she explained how she had to exchange her life, how she never cheated, how she had to exchange her freedom for Nathalie life, I understood what happened then. The person who she met was Devil, the chap was her explanation, and Devil decided to take her back, this is her worse decision yet.
“Find Devil, we’re getting my baby back” I order calling to Marco, Paul and all of my trusted men.
“Elle didn’t run away, did she?” Paul asks, he sounded just as hurt as I felt, but I’m much better at hiding my true feeling.
“She was taken, but she’s coming back” I growl.
“Elle didn’t have anything to do with this did she?” Paul asks worried about his friend.
“No, but the one who did are going to pay” I answer him with a growl.