ON THE WAY TO DARKMOON MANSION , 3:23 AM

"Tell me something I don't know," I said and she rolled her eyes at me and started the gorgeous car .

Too exhausted to say anything else, I looked out of the window and the dark sky devoid of any stars and filled with grey clouds greeted my vision, and I didn't realize when my mind dozed off.

Keeping my eyes closed,

I can't afford to sleep.

Giving away all the promises,

I know which I can't keep,

Nothing fills the emptiness,

that has seeped into my chest...

Well, darkness has a hunger, that's insatiable,

And lightness has a call that's hard to hear,

The voices inside,

Has been eating me,

Whatsoever I've feared has come to life,

How would I know,

That this could be my fate?

I'm only faking when I get it right,

When I get it right....

The deeper I go, however much I've exposed,

The more I search in my heart,

I just can't find the answer,

I end up finding many questions.

I am feeling mixed up, and it's difficult to escape,

With a dark path that I can't seem to find an exit to..

In a whirlpool, I must endure and suffer,

Turn down the lights,

Turn down the bed,

Turn down these voices inside my head.

You're so blue

Am I still breathing?

Nobody had found that deeper meaning

Everyone has gone blind?

Only I know it's not the truth when I say, "I'm fine"...

After some time, I felt someone shaking my body and I groaned in sleep.

"Wake up sleepy cat, we don't have time to waste on your sleep.'' a hot voice commanded, and I reluctantly opened my eyes and my eyes met with the grey eyes of my kidnapper and it seemed like she had forgotten I was awake, as she just continued to watch me intensely.

"Ahm-" I made a noise and the lady diverted her gaze from me and I took a deep breath which I didn't realize I was holding till then.

"Come out and follow me." She said and opened her door and elegantly went out of the door and then she walked towards the other passage door and opened it for the cute black giant and he immediately jumped out of the car on the lady and she struggled to keep up her balance making me giggle at her state and she glared at me.

"I told you to come out of the car, Didn't I?" She asked in a commanding tone but it didn't work on me since I was used to it .

"For a gentleman, you sure lack manners my-lady." I batted my eyes with an innocent smile and she raised her eyebrows at me.

"And why is that so?" She seemed to be amused by my drama.

"You should open the door for me too, my lady." I pouted and she gave me a weird look saying ' Are you out of your mind?' .

"You are realising that you are under captivity, not on some date, right? " She asked, constantly maintaining that weird look and I rolled my eyes.

"One can at least dream." I said teasingly and she huffed.

"Keep dreaming all you want after I lock you in the car outside the garage, semi-naked in 38 degrees centigrade." She coldly said and by her face, I knew she was serious so without wasting a second, I came out of the car and she smirked.

Then without saying anything else she just walked inside the marvelous mansion's ground floor and typed some pin code, which I couldn't read from the distance so I just rushed in her direction.

Then she came out of a door and handed me a towel and the dog was nowhere to be seen, I looked around the hall and saw three doors and a single closet in the right corner of the room.

"Go take a shower while I'm taking one too, don't even think of running away as this building is highly secured, you can try running away if you want to try but I will not take the responsibility If you lost some limbs afterward." She commanded with a straight face and cold tone and I gulped knowing that she was probably telling the truth.

"Do you understand?" Unable to say anything I just nodded .

"Use your words, Kitten." She commanded in a low husky voice making me gulp.

"Y-Yes.'' I mentally facepalmed myself for shuttering but there was something in that woman which was making me submit to her. No - No I have to fight this weird feeling; I shook my head a little to shoo away the weird thoughts but to make things weirder she patted my head as if I'm really some cat.

"Stop it -" I was annoyed to myself.

"Stop what kitten?" She asked, smirking in my direction and I huffed and stormed into the bathroom.

I closed the door of the bathroom and opened the robe which I was wearing till now, I turned on the shower and sighed as the water glided down my body, I should think of some way to fucking get out of here but as long as I'm here I should probably obey their demands as Darkmoon Empire is famous for their punishments.

Only if I checked the background of the account holder first of doing anything, I sighed, and worked on the coffee-scented leather of soap bubbles and after some minutes of mentally cursing myself, I heard a knock on my door.

"YES?" I asked.

"I'm giving you some of my clothes, open the door." The familiar voice of my kidnapper answered and I opened my door a little and her hand came inside the space and I took the grey t-shirt and black baseball shorts from her hand and again closed the door.

"There are no undergarments!" I yelled from inside the bathroom.

"It's 4 am, I will call Linda to get you some after some hours, you better be grateful that I'm at least sharing my clothes with you." She answered from outside and I rolled my eyes and wore the clothes which she had provided me.

The shirt was way too large for me, hanging below my knees and the shoulders kept slipping down showing my clavicle bone and I mentally groaned at being half feet shorter than my kidnapper, reluctantly pouting I came out of the bathroom.

My kidnapper who was scrolling through her phone wearing a fresh black t-shirt and white basketball shorts looked up at me and for a moment I saw her mouth opened but maybe I was imagining things because next second she stoops up from the sofa and gestured me to follow her and not wanting to be lost in the hallway.

I followed her steps and we entered a lift and she pushed the second floor's option.

Soon as the lift opened an old man wearing an apron rushed in our direction and my eyes went wide as I remembered the face as the Leader of DarkMoon but to my surprise, he ran in our direction and hugged my kidnapper and she too hugged him back.

The scene was somewhat heart-warming but then the old man immediately freed him from the hug and smacked my Kidnapper causing her to groan in pain.

"What was that for?" She asked, rubbing her head where the man smacked her and then she received another smack on her head opposite to the place where she was rubbing and she again groaned in annoyance and I looked at them amused by seeing this side of the Lady.

"It's Fucking Four Thirty AM and Pumpkin you didn't even bother to call me at least!" He dramatically yelled in a high-pitched voice.

"Language Old Man-" The lady said and the man again smacked her head and I chuckled a little and now gained their attention.

"Hii-" I awkwardly mumbled when the old man looked at me from head-to-toe and unconsciously, I hid behind my kidnapper.

"Welll- Who do we get here? It's your first time bringing a girl in this mansion, and she looks pretty cute-" The old man commented moving a little closer in my direction.

"Long curly brunette hair, beautiful emerald eyes, cute freckles, Pumpkin I'm impressed your taste changed and yes she looks so cute." The old man cooed at me and I smiled awkwardly.

"Naah old man, my taste is still the same she is just-" My Kidnapper started but she was cut by another smack on her forehead and now that was quite harder than the smacks before and she groaned.

"WHY THIS GIRL HAS A ZODIAC SYMBOL? DON'T TELL ME YOU CAPTURED ANY GANG MEMBER FROM THAT GROUP!" The old man yelled and demanded an answer in a strong voice pointing at my lion tattoo on my neck wearing a crown and a rose and I flinched at his tone but my kidnapper seemed to be used to it.

"No, I didn't capture any zodiac gang member." She said and the old man sighed.

"Then why is this young lady right here?" He asked.

"Errr- It's just T-That ."

"What Pumpkin?"

"I kidnapped the leader instead."

"WHAAAAT!!!!!"

"S-She stole from us-" she shuttered awkwardly, and the old man gave me a look and I nodded looking down at my barefoot.

"Let's discuss this afterward. Pumpkin do you like to eat something? " He asked and I looked at them with shock, like seriously it looked like he was going to kill the woman and the next minute his voice was filled with honey and chocolate, ohh now I'm hungry and to my embarrassment, my stomach growled and the old man chuckled.

"Now let's give this young lady some food, I'm going to warm the Choco lava cakes, you guys go and have some rest." The old man smiled and happily rushed towards what seems like where the kitchen apparently is, leaving me alone with my hot kidnapper who was yawning and scrolling through her phone.

"Now Miss Pumpkin can you give me some wat-" before I could complete my request, she grabbed me by my neck and pushed me on the wall and I winced at the impact, she lowered her face in the crook of my neck and bit my earlobe.

"Don't ever dare to call me pumpkin again Kitten." She whispered in my ear and increased the force on my neck making me choke and then she left my neck and I fell on the floor coughing, I took deep breaths to regain my normal breathing pattern and she just looked at me with cold and empty emotion.

"But I don't know your name -" After a moment I pouted and she huffed.

"You could have asked before." She said and I rolled my eyes.

"I am asking it now-" I mumbled, still pouting.

"Krystal, Krystal Blake." She answered and I mentally repeated her name in my voice, indeed her name is also hot as her, besides being a little-bit asshole, she is kind of fine but we all are fucked up in this line anyways-

"Now let's go to our room -" she said and without looking backwards she started walking and I immediately stood up and followed her.

We entered a room and immediately a large cute dog jumped on me, and I fell on the floor and he started licking my face and I giggled at him and patted his head and then I noticed another person in the room , The old man was standing at the door with a tray of Choco lava cakes in his hand, looking me with shocked eyes.

"Why Kartos is being so friendly with her?" He asked my kidnap- err Krystal and she shrugged.

"I don't know you tell me; you were the one who trained him-" she said casually while taking a cake from the tray.

"Well- Maybe the girl is not showing him any fear? I don't know-" He mumbled, and I rolled my eyes at them and stood up from the floor.

"Here take one-" the old man offered and I bowed before taking the cake .

" What's your name?" I asked him, munching on the heavenly delicious cake.

"Machenzie William at your service, but you can call me Max. And what about you, young lady?"

"Adriana Styles."

"Beautiful name for a beautiful lady," he said and I chuckled.

"You guys are not forgetting that I'm still here, right?" Krystal gestured to the dog and he jumped on the bed beside her and she started gazing her left-hand's long fingers in his fur while holding the cake in her right hand.

"Yes, Pumpkin ,we need to talk."

"Okay- " she said while standing up from the bed.

"Wait, so it means Krystal is the leader of DarkMoon?" I asked and Max chuckled .

"Yes Kitten, I am." Krystal said and he nodded.

"Yes, yes, first you need to message your manager saying that you are on a vacation and don't say that you can't because I know you have had done it before." She said and my eyes went wide.

"WHA- hOW do you know?" I exclaimed and both smirked.

It looks like things are going to be interesting, she gave me her phone and I typed my manager, Brett's G-mail and messaged him stating as I was told and soon the lady and the old man left me all alone in the room with a sleeping dog on the bed and too tired to do anything I too joined him and soon my body drifted into the sleep.

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Love - K