Chapter 3 3

Hailey's POV.

I felt the car stop.

I heard doors open.

After what felt like hours of driving, I'd gotten to an unknown destination.

"Wh... Where are we-"

I felt a force roughly take off the cloth over my head, and I was immediately blinded by neon lights from a distance.

"Get down!!", One of the men barked and dragged me out of the car without even waiting for me to respond to his instruction.

"Take it easy on her", the gang leader my father called Axel warned the man.

For the first time, it felt like I was so precious to a stranger - only, I was only useful for material exchange.

I was dragged into the building, and from the blaring music and red lights, I knew we were in a club.

I was led into the club like a lamb led to slaughter, and I wished I didn't have that blindfolded taken off my eyes.

It was a different kind of chaos. The pleasure filled Sodom and Gomorrah chaos.

Drunk men yelling loudly over the booming music, filling the air with a foul stench of alcohol. Young ladies half naked dancing for the entertainment of the drunk men, filling the air with sweat and heat.

Nobody even cared to see that I was tied and abducted by these men.

"What are you staring at? Move!", The man behind me pushed me and forced me to follow Axel through the back.

Soon enough, we were walking through a long corridor with dim, failing light bulbs.

The air was foul here, but not with alcohol. The corridor smelt of blood. It smelt like an indoor abattoir.

"I don't know anything about it! I swear I don't!!"

Some of the doors were half open, and this cry came from one of them.

It picked Axel's attention, and suddenly, he headed towards that noise.

Before you know it, we were in a room with no windows. There was only one dim light bulb, and directly under it was a tortured man who had blood falling from his torn lips.

He caught sight of Axel, and he suddenly began shedding, as if he'd concluded within him that his life was over.

"Has he confessed yet?", He asked.

"Not yet boss", the tormentor who was in the room with him replied.

I heard a trembling chuckle exude from Axel.

He simply walked over to the metal table across the room, picked up a bottle of alcohol and walked back into the light.

"I see you have a lot of endurance for pain", he muttered as he gulped down half of the hot drink. "I'll ask you this question, one last time and if you don't give me the answer I want, I'll shoot both your knees and pour this gin into the holes. Where is the money you stole?"

"Boss, I swear I did not have a hand in what happened-"

"Okay. You chose the hard way. Don't say I didn't warn you", Axel shrugged and immediately fired two shots into both his knees, making him cry in extreme pain.

"Arrrrghhh!!! Shit!!!", He cried in pain.

He felt hot liquid flow on his legs, and he shrieked even more in extreme agony. It felt like hot liquid metal at a million degrees was poured into his legs, and it sent pains rippling throughout his entire system.

The pain in his eyes was so intense that I was already shedding tears on his behalf.

"The next one is going to be at your groin!! This is your last chance to talk!!", Axel warned.

He was literally shaking in his seat, his whole system shuddering violently from hurt. He didn't think he could hold up much longer.

"You asked for it-"

"It's in Mexico!!", He finally shrieked in terror. "It's... It's in Mexico. That's where the money we stole was kept", he cried.

"So, you did steal it."

"I'm sorry boss. I swear I didn't mean to join them. I just needed the money badly to help my sick mother, and I didn't have the mind to ask you for it-"

"Your mother... Is she still sick, or is she dead now?", Axel suddenly asked out of the blue.

"She... She died yesterday, boss. Why..."

"Good. She won't be lonely after all."

"Wh-"

Before anyone could stop him, Axel smashed the bottle of gin against the man's head and stabbed him on the neck with the pointed end of the bottle, spraying blood all over his black suit.

"Argh!", I let out a shriek at the horror I just witnessed. I felt my knees get weak under me, and my head got dizzy just replaying the action.

For the first time in my life, I'd witnessed someone murdered in cold blood, and it was by this heartless being.

My yelp got his attention, and he slowly turned to me, an evil, bloodstained smirk on his face.

He began advancing, and my legs kept taking a step back until my back hit the wall.

But he didn't stop.

He kept advancing with the shattered, blood dripping bottle in his hand.

He was inches away from my face, and I could feel his hot breath on my face. The evil aura of power from his eyes drew up so much fear in me, I didn't know when tears began falling from my eyes.

But without saying a word or laying a finger on me, he walked out of the room, and his men made me follow him.

We walked into another room with a slender woman sitting at the table. The dark eyeshadow and dark lipstick against her whitewashed face made it known that she was no different from the rest of the men.

"Have you killed him?", She questioned Axel.

"Yes."

"What next... And who's this?", She questioned as her eyes scanned my body with an emotionless face.

"She's the payment for Edward's stupidity. Take care of her and make sure she's well-fed. Do not lay a finger on her. I repeat, do not-"

"I heard the first time, Axel. She'll be treated like the princess you want her to be", a tinge of sarcasm was laced in her words.

There he was, making me feel like something special again.

"Good. I'm going to Mexico tonight. That's where they kept the money they stole from me", he said.

"Why can't you just send someone?"

"I want to kill their source over there myself. I want my face to be the last thing he sees before going to hell. I'm off", he said and walked out of the room.

If his conversations were not violent, his actions were full of it.

How the hell did my father cross paths with this man in the first place?

"Hey you!", The woman called me like I was a stray dog.

She threw some shiny rags on my face. "Wear them and go make some money for me", she ordered.

I stared at the clothes for a moment and realized that they were thongs and bras that would expose everything but my nipples.

"Didn't you hear what I said? Or does stupidity run in your family?"

"I'm not going to be stripper-"

Before I could finish, she slapped the words right out of my mouth.

"Don't be a fool. You have no choice here. You obey my orders, or you die!! If you haven't figured it out yet, then let me spell it out for you - you don't own your life anymore! The Black Daggers are now in possession of you, and you'll do exactly as we say!!"