22. Taken
By the time they were done feeding Claire and making her take everything she had spiked to give to Elyes, Elyes was ready for her.
He had prepared a few men that he knew would be glad to have a taste of her and by the time they were done, Claire didn’t know what had hit her.
She had no control over her body and to make matters interesting (depending on whose side someone is looking at the story from) everything had been recorded.
After he made sure that he had enough of what he wanted, he wasn’t in a hurry to leave.
For the first time since he met Kim, he didn’t sleep at home. He waited until Claire was awake and looking as beat as she did, he explained everything to her.
He knew what she was up to and thus, he returned the favour to her since it wasn’t the first time she had done it.
“Claire, the first time we slept together, you spiked my drink. I knew about it but I decided to keep quiet given our past relationship. After that you did it again and that was when I decided to stay away from you because if you did it a third time, I would kill you and I didn’t want to do that.
Given who I am, that was mercy on your part but you took it for granted and decided to meddle in my business by letting your brother do whatever he wanted in my turf.
I kept quiet about all your brother’s misdoings like the human trafficking he does and drugs and again, you two took it as weakness when I let it go although he has been doing it in my city.
Your uncle… where should I start? I have him reign over your parents’ businesses because I didn’t want you to live in poverty. But again, what did you do? You stole my files and gave them to your uncle who thought that he could outdo me.
For what?
Did you think that you two have the capability to bankrupt me so that I can be under you and thus end up marrying you? Did you think I was oblivious to that? Did you think that I wouldn’t know what you were doing and I would just let you take my files from my turf without me knowing?
I am Elyes fucking Cullen!
I am the boss of this city and I am the king!
What gave you the gull to storm my house and insult my woman and even plan on killing her?
I was onto you since the first night you followed us. Why did you think I had sex with her in the car? It was to show you that I had made my choice Andi thought that you would read the message but no. I didn’t know that you were such an idiot!”
Elyes, all that time, was giving Claire a death glare and her mouth opened and shut so many times because every time he would say anything, he would leave her agape and then wordless.
She had thought that she had planned everything meticulously and now, she knew why he was the boss.
She was the idiot and she felt embarrassed that he had been watching as she made a fool of herself.
Then again, he wouldn’t be the most feared mafia capo on these sides if he didn’t have eyes and ears even at the back of his head.
“I… Ely, I am sorry. I swear that I will take my brother and my uncle and leave this place. We will go to another continent and live there and I swear that you will never hear from us again,” she said as she tried to plead her case but the look he gave her told her that she was dreaming.
“If you were a wise woman, you would have taken any of the million chances I have already given you. You have exhausted them all.
And I will let you know that your brother was arrested last by the police because he was caught red handed transporting women in a lorry that was supposedly transporting leather.
Also, coincidentally, your uncle was also found in possession of thousands of kilograms of hard drugs and he’s also in and I hear what he has been in the most wanted list of the FBI for more crimes,” Elyes said and gave Claire one last look and then walked out.
Not even her shouts or cries could make him look back.
She and already exhausted his patience and he wouldn’t have had any problem if she had gone after him. Her only mistake was touching the woman he loved.
Yes.
For Kim, what he felt was love even though he had never been in love again.
One of the reasons why he had never been in love was because in his line of work, having a family would mean him having people his enemies would exploit to get to him and he didn’t want that.
But since he met Kim, he found that he would die for her and he would do anything to protect her. That was why he was even afraid of letting her live in her condo because his paranoid brain told him that she would be taken.
He got to his car and left his men to handle the rest. As far as he was concerned, he didn’t care what the did to get but after that, they were to make sure that they dump her half way across the country in an asylum and make sure that she was well taken care of to atone for her sins for the rest of her life.
He sat at the back of his car and the driver started it and he closed his eyes thinking of how much he had missed her and it had only been one night.
Before he took that final step to destroy Claire and her family, he had made sure that Kim would stay with him and with that assurance, he didn’t have a problem fucking them over.
Then, his phone dinged and he took it out.
A message: one line.
We have your woman.