8. Coercion
“We can’t. Told you that I’m already tired from last night,” Kim complained for the umpteenth time but the man beside her didn’t seem to hear her.
“I just can’t help it. Who asked you to be this beautiful and cute and so… so… touchable? The thought of being inside you again makes so horny that I feel as if I will go insane if I don’t have you,” Ely said and Kim sighed.
“Can’t you just let me rest?” She asked.
“I already did. You have already slept for 5 hours and it’s time you ate,” Ely said had Kik decided that waking up to eat was better than being disturbed by the horny machine on the bed.
“Okay, let’s go eat as you tell me what you want so that you can go back,” Kim said as she got out of bed and went to the bathroom to refresh.
When she came out, the man had the sleeves of his shirt folded nearly to his elbows and he was plating food.
“Do you need help?” She asked.
“Just sit and eat,” the man said and Kim picked her phone from where she had left it and then walked towards the small table where the man was finishing putting the food in plates and she sat down as she turned on her phone.
“Why are there so many missed calls?” She asked when she saw how much we employees had tried calling her.
“What’s wrong?” Ely asked her.
“I don’t know. I think there is an emergency at work. I need to call them,” she said as she rose and walked towards the small verandah at the back of the condo.
“Macy? What’s wrong?” She asked immediately the call was received.
“Kim? Are you okay?” Macy asked.
“Yeah I am. Did something happen?” Kim enquired with a worried tone.
“You had Sammy and I worried sick. Why did you turn off your phone? What happened?” Macy asked and this time, Sammy took the phone from her.
“Boss, what’s happening? Are you really okay?” Sammy asked.
“Yes, I am okay. Sorry for turning off my phone. It’s just that I was tired and I wanted to sleep and didn’t want anyone to bother me. What happened? Why were you calling me?” She asked after making sure that the two girls believed that she was okay.
“People came here looking for you. Macy rushed to alert you but when she got to your condo, there were men at your door and they wouldn’t let her in. They said that you were tired and needed to sleep.
We were going to call the police if you would not have called us by the end of the day though we doubt the police would help us,” Sammy said everything in summary to put Kim in the know.
“Why would the police not help you?” Kim asked.
“Because the mafia was looking for you. Do you think the police would do anything if the mafia wanted you dead? Who did you offend Kim?” Sammy asked in a worried tone?
“Mafia? What mafia?” Kim asked in surprise.
She didn’t remember offending anyone let alone the mafia.
“Elyes Cullen. The mafia lord of our city. He was the one who was looking for you,” Macy said.
“Elyes Cullen? As in the Cullen Enterprise? Imperial Hotels? That Elyes?” Kim asked as everything fell in place.
“Yeah. How did you meet him? What did you do?” Sammy asked but by then, Kim’s brain had shut down.
“I will call you back,” Kim said as she hung up.
“Elyes Cullen? The man I slept with was Elyes Cullen? What bad luck that is?” Macy said silently as she held her head between her hands lamenting at how unlucky she was.
In the big City they were living in, of all the men she could have met, it had to be the mafia.
The man had introduced himself to her but she was annoyed and sleepy then and it didn’t register.
“Are you done?”
Kim was startled out of her thoughts by the man and she jumped with flight.
“I… errrr… I need to go to work. Sammy and Macy told me that a car was brought in and they can’t handle it and I have to go look at it,” she tried hoping that the man wouldn’t see how afraid she was.
“It’s okay. You don’t have to worry. I will take care of it,” Ely said and walked towards the door.
He went out and Kim just sat there wondering what she could do.
She should have known that the man wasn’t simple since he could find out where she lived.
She decided to try to run away but she lived on the 18th floor and this side of the building didn’t have a pipe or any railings connecting the floors and she couldn’t jump and she decided to face it.
“Lemme eat first so that I can have the energy I need to run away later,” she said and then started eating.
She decided that there was no need crying over things she couldn’t control. It was her bad luck to have met him.
When Ely went outside, he sent one of his men to go and make sure that everything at Macy’s shop run smoothly and to look for a competent engineer to run things because, as he said, she was going to be away for a while.
When he came back, they ate in silence and when she went to clear the table, he stopped her.
“I want you to come and live with me in my house,” the man went straight to the point.
“No,” Kim refused outright.
“I don’t want to force you. Let’s just go and then I will explain everything later. It’s safer at my house since I am confident of the security I have put there. You are naked in this apartment building,” he said and from his tone, Kim could hear that it wasn’t a request.
“Oh, lord. What did I get myself into?” She lamented for the hundredth time and she sighed.
“Can’t you just let me be?” She asked.
“No. I know that you will run away immediately I turn my eyes away from you and I want you near me. I can’t stay without you,” he said and she sighed again.
‘How does he know?’ She wondered.
“You are the mafia,” she said in a small voice.
“I would never hurt you. I promise you that I would never hurt you. I will take care of you,” he said and held her hand.
“Kim, I don’t know what happened to me but all I know is that I want you with me. I can’t be without you and so, I beg you, come with me,” he said and she sighed again.
“You will sigh yourself to death at this rate,” he said as he coerced her.
‘If I go with him, he might lower his guard and I can run away then,’ she thought and then smiled.
“Okay. Let me pack a few clothes and some necessities and then we will leave,” she said.
“There is no need. Someone will do it for you,” he said as he hugged her.
“Thank you,” he said but she didn’t say anything.
She was just bidding her time.