Billionaire's Hidden Princess by Alegna Ciee (romance novel chinese novels TXT) 📗

Chapter Forty-One: Kidnapped and Traumatized Over Again

Leticia doesn’t know where exactly everything went wrong.

At one point, she’s just talking with Livius in the comfort of their home. But on the next, she ended up in a downright harrowing and terrifying situation.

Everything happened in a blink of an eye.

The chaos stormed in when she least expected it. What followed right after was how danger came pouncing on her with such an impeccable timing.

Leticia was out in the open for everyone to see when she got kidnapped. She’s standing right in the middle of the crowd – that one place she used to fear the most.

Now, hours passed by since that incident.

She found herself all tied up and restrained in what seems like a decent-looking office. While sitting on an armed chair right in the middle of the room, she took time to scan her surroundings and found several picture frames as well as furniture.

But even then, she still ends up with no clue about where she really is. 

“L-Livi…” Leticia breathed out in despair and fear, horrified to an unfathomable degree.

She keeps calling his name silently, hoping that Livius will show up right then and there. She’s been trying several ways to calm herself down for a while now, and doing this has turned out to be the only thing that did the trick in the end.  

Leticia regretted not staying with Gabriel earlier, but at the same time, she’s relieved that he didn’t get caught up in this trouble either. She feared that something bad might have happened to him as well had she not walked away.

It’s futile to recall what happened after she got carried away from the entrance of that karaoke bar since her kidnappers did something to her that time. She knew that she lost consciousness after they covered her mouth, which probably only meant that she inhaled something that could knock people asleep.

At any rate, rather than reliving that scene in her head, Leticia just thought of holding onto any thread of hope that she could find, wishing for rescue all the while.

“Hello there, princess…”

Then, she froze.

As soon as someone whispered in her ear, she swerved to the side in flummox and horror. Her eyes then bulged in nonplus at the sight that greeted her.

“M-Malcolm… Rupert?” she stammered out in disbelief.

“Indeed, it is I.”

With a wry smirk splattered across his frame, the red head who made a chaotic scene during the Apollon Group Holdings’ anniversary three months ago had appeared once more. This man had committed several offenses to both her and Livius, including sexually harassing her, trying to ruin her boyfriend’s image, and making a huge mess during the company’s special gathering.

“It’s been a while, Leticia Selene,” Malcolm started before walking in front of her self-assertively, a hand shoved in his pocket.

“Y-You… Y-You’re behind this…?” Leticia barely managed to say, her voice breaking in the end.

“Sure, I am… But by the looks of it, you appear to be really clueless that something like this was bound to happen.”

“H-Huh?”

“Oh, didn’t that young model warn you?”

“Y-Young model…? You mean… G-Gabriel?”

“Yeah, that Gabriel… Apparently, he used to work part-time in my agency but moved to another one eventually. In a way, I was his first producer – the reason behind his fame now… But then, that ungrateful b*stard…”

She flinched a little the moment his voice picked up a murderous tone. He hissed underneath his breath as his face contorted into a scornful expression.

“That f*cking brat turned his back on me over and over again… He overheard my scheme at one point, but I decided to just let him be since he held no evidence and I had threatened him right then and there. I made him zip his mouth yet he still kept interfering…” Malcolm continued, turning around and pacing towards his office desk.

“He actually even worked together with that damn president. Apollon had actually agreed to make him your bodyguard.”

Then, she paused.

Thunderstruck by that revelation, Leticia went rigid still with her eyes widening like that of an owl’s. Now, she understands why Gabriel is behaving that way earlier.

Only then did she also realize why Livius didn’t leave her any bodyguard this time. He used to hire at least one for her before.

But now, it seemed like her boyfriend did get her one but only in secret.

Then again, Leticia didn’t find having a bodyguard comfortable. She just couldn’t stand someone watching her day in and day out, which Livius must have noticed.

She remembers that after that time when she voiced out her discomfort of having one, no more men in black have followed her ever again.

Little did she know that they really didn’t disappear. Rather, he just didn’t let them appear in her sight anymore.

 “Oh, but it’s alright now, though…” Malcolm chimed in once more, his figure turning more and more malevolent in each passing second.

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