Suddenly there's confusion in the originally kicking banqueting hall because Troy's woman is missing.
It's a serious problem.
Emmanuel immediately asks his employees to look around for her. The crowd disassembles before the
ball begins.
Karin opens her eyes and she can't see anything clearly.
The pain in her neck reminds her of the memories before she's in a coma-- she's on the phone with
Billie, but she is knocked senseless from the back.
"Ben, are you sure this girl is his woman?" suddenly she hears a man's voice.
She is called "girl" again. Does she really look so lovely?
"Yes, I am. According to the photo sent by Donny, she looks the same as that in the photo."
The man sneers, "No matter whether she's the person we want to catch, since she's here, let's make a
bet. It's better if we win. If not, ..."
She hears footsteps, then he hooks his rough finger under her chin, "She's so stunning. If we lose, you
guys can have sex with her."
Have sex...
Karin looks pale suddenly.
"Who are you? Why do you kidnap me?"
She tries to make her voice calm, but she panics a little since she experiences this kind of thing for the
first time. Besides, she hears them talk about having sex.
"You don't need to know who we are."
The man says frostily, "Tell me! Are you Troy's woman?"
"No, I am not."
She blurts it out instinctively.
"No?"
Another man then laughs, "Then we're gonna have sex with you..."
"Don't you dare! Let me out! Let me out!"
"We dare do anything unless you admit you're his woman. In this case, we may have some scruples."
"Yeah! We dare not have an affair with his woman."
She is in a dilemma of whether or not to admit she is Troy's woman. If she admits, what if she is used
as a hostage to threaten him? If she doesn't, what if she is raped as a comfort woman?
"Have you thought about it clearly?"
That man pinches her crystal clear cheek with his rough fingers.
"Piss off."
She turns away in distaste. She hates to be touched by any man except Troy.
"If you take off my eyepatch, I'll tell you the truth."
"Take off my eyepatch? Are you kidding? The reason why we blindfold your eyes is that we don't want
you to see our appearance clearly. If we take off the eyepatch, we will expose our identity."
"Since you dare to kidnap me, why are you afraid of being seen?"
"Young lady, kidnap isn't a just thing. So of course we have to be more careful."
"Are you afraid that I tell it to Troy after seeing your face?"
"So you're admitting you're his woman?"
She is in a trance and then just admits, "So what? What do you want?"
Now she has no choice but to let things take their course. If Troy finds out she's missing, he will
certainly try his best to look for her. Before he finds her, she can't be raped by these bastards...
"What do we want? We want him dead."
Ha ha ha--
Unscrupulous laughter resounds through the shabby warehouse. When she is furious, she suddenly
hears someone say, "He escaped two years ago. This time we must kill him."
She feels a sudden scare. She thinks to herself, these guys are those who hunted down Troy and
wanted to kill him on the boat two years ago?
"Ben, keep an eye on her. When it's at dawn, we'll begin our plan."
"OK. Leave it to me."
Hearing the footsteps die away, she is wondering what their plan is.
Whatever the plan is, it must be against Troy. She can't let the plan begin so she must think of ways to
stop them from using her as a bargaining chip to control who they want to control.
Calm down, calm down...
"Hello?"
She pretends to ask after not hearing any sound all around.
"What is it?"
"I wanna go to the bathroom."
"Hold it."
"How can I do this?!"
She pretends to look like she feels unwell.
"What a nuisance!"
A man stands up and lifts her up, swearing at her. "Go."
Not knowing where she is led, she just hears him say, "Here we are. This is the bathroom."
"My hands..."
The villain looks as if he's in a trance. "How about me taking off your trousers?"
"No!"
She moves back a few steps and says calmly, "If you touch me, I'll run straight into the wall to death.
Then you'll be unable to explain this to your boss tomorrow."
"So what do you want?"
"Untie my hands."
"No way."
She says gently, "I just need to use the bathroom. I can't run away without any help since I'm a just a
weak woman."
Seeing the man a little bit swayed, she continues, "When I finish, you can tie my hands again."
"All right as you dare not play tricks on me."
He unties the ropes binding her hands and says rudely, "Be quick."
After she closes the door, the first thing she does is to rip off her eyepatch. She looks all around the
room in the dim light. It's an enclosed hut with high windows. So it's unlikely for her to jump from them.
She glimpses an old tool box, gritting her teeth. Then, she bends to a squat and rummages through the
contents of the box rapidly. A sharp iron strip takes her fancy, so she decidedly pins it on her belt.
Although it's rusty, the iron strip may sever the ropes.
There's a knock on the door. "Are you done with it?"
"I'm done."
As soon as she puts on the eyepatch, the door opens. The man comes in and is going to tie her wrists
again.
"Could you please tie them loosely? The ropes are too tight that my arms have bloodstains."
She pleads pitifully.
"No problem. I am the most considerate towards girls among all the guys."
He stands at her back and fastens the ropes around her wrists rapidly. At her pleading, the ropes are
fastened much more loosely than before.
She is taken to a dark world again, sitting on the ground. She pretends to be obedient just to wish the
villains can lower their guards.
"Ben, you guard outside while I guard her inside."
"OK."
Hearing the sound of closing the door, she gropes for the iron strip on her belt and rips it off. Then she
begins to cut the ropes hard. Since her hands are tied loosely, she does it a little easily.
After cutting for much of the night, the ropes are finally broken. She is all excited, but she doesn't run
away immediately. Instead, she secretly tears off the eyepatch after the villains sleep well and snore
loudly.
Creeping up to the door, she doesn't expect it should be locked from the outside by another villain.
Suddenly her excitement disappears.
Is this like the legendary saying goes, "There will never be a way out"? Looking around, she doesn't
find a window in this large enclosed warehouse for repairing cars. She will never ever have the
opportunity of escaping from it.
She feels very gloomy when she goes back to where she sat before. She wants to get a hard thing to
beat the villain until he passes out. But even if she succeeds, what about the other guy outside?
When she doesn't know what to do, she sees the phone beside the villain. She feels hopeful all at
once. This is her last chance so she definitely can't miss it.
She moves slowly to the man and secretly gets his phone. When she's about to call Troy, she frowns
and doesn't do it.
She can't call him here, or the villain will wake up. Then everything is gonna be over.
She stands up and creeps up the other end of the warehouse. Hiding in the corner, she dials a familiar
number.
She gets through quickly and hears an urgent voice from Troy, "Hello?"
She tries to calm down and says in a low and choked voice, "Save me! Now!"
"Karin? Is that you? Karin! Where are you? Tell me where you are..."
"I don't know where it is. But I am now in a shabby warehouse for repairing cars. The villain is asleep
now. So I stole his phone to call you. I can't get out since the door has been locked from the outside by
them."
"OK. Listen, don't be afraid. I'm gonna use GRPS positioning system to locate where you are. I'll be
right there to save you! So don't be afraid."
"OK. I'll wait for you!"
She sighs with a great relief after hanging up. Tears keep running down her face. If she didn't know
Troy, she would never think about she would be kidnapped and had such a thrilling experience.
Next she's just waiting quietly for Troy to come. She has no choice but to wait.
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