Prisioner In Your Arms

Later, the men went out in search of Sergio, leaving only Emma, Nicole, Rina, and Mara in the house, guarded by the bodyguards. In the evening, Nicole was resting in her room when her phone started ringing. It was an unknown number, and she was grateful to be alone at that moment. She already knew who it was.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

-“Hello,” she answered.

-“Well, you answer my calls quickly, my little dove. Are you already in Milan?” a chilling voice spoke on the other end.

-“Yes,” she replied weakly.

-“Hahaha, I know. You’re at my son’s house. How obvious you’ve been,” he taunted.

Nicole felt shivers running down her spine. Could that man see them?

-“Listen to me. Tomorrow, at four in the morning, a van will be waiting for you at the corner of the house. So, it’s better for you to leave without being seen. When you arrive here, I will release your son. You will stay in your place.”

-“How do I know I can trust you? After all, you’re not a trustworthy man,” Nicole said, her voice filled with doubt.

-“You have no choice. If you don’t come tomorrow, I will send them a gift. Don’t be surprised when you receive it,” he threatened.

Nicole trembled as she cried. She couldn’t believe the evil that resided within Sergio.

-“You’re a twisted madman,” she managed to say between sobs.

-“You better not insult me. Don’t forget that tomorrow you will be in my power. So, see you in the early morning, my little dove. Dream of me, if you can sleep, hahaha,” he mocked before ending the call.

Sergio ended the call, and Nicole lay down on the bed, crying. She felt like her legs couldn’t hold her up.

Later, Bruno and his parents arrived, accompanied by Leandro. Sergio was careful to cover his tracks, and they couldn’t find any leads.

They went straight to bed. Nicole pretended to be asleep when she heard Bruno arrive. After he showered, he lay down next to her.

Nicole caught a whiff of his gentle scent as he embraced her and planted a tender kiss on her cheek. She made an effort to hold back her tears. She was tempted to tell him the truth, but it would only put him and their son at risk. So, she continued pretending to sleep.

Once she was sure he had fallen asleep, she embraced him. She watched him for a while, realizing that she had fallen in love with him all over again in such a short time. She stayed there, feeling the warmth of his body, while their unborn baby kept moving.

Close to the time indicated by Sergio, she got up. She put on warm clothes and placed a letter she had written earlier on the nightstand. With great care, she left the room.

At that time, the bodyguards were changing shifts, and they were distracted. Nicole managed to leave the house unnoticed. After all, their attention was focused on preventing anyone from entering.

Shrouded by the shadows of the night, she distanced herself from the house. Around the corner, she saw a dark-colored van. Two men got out of it and lifted her into the vehicle. Nicole was terrified.

One of the men felt pity for her when he noticed her advanced stage of pregnancy. She looked so fragile, thin, and short, which made her belly seem enormous for someone with her build.

The men didn’t say anything, nor did they attempt to gag her. She silently cried as they left the city and stopped at an abandoned house. Sergio had chosen well. There were no neighbors around, ensuring that no one would hear anything. It was the perfect place for his wicked deeds.

One of the men stood at the door, laughing incessantly as he approached her and hugged her tightly.

“You have no idea how delighted I am to see you here. I will thoroughly enjoy sending your lifeless body and the body of your child to Bruno. He will regret messing with me.”

Nicole turned pale upon hearing his words. She trembled uncontrollably, unable to regain control of her body. She shouldn’t have trusted that monster. He wouldn’t spare her child’s life.

“Fulfill your promise, let my son go. Here I am.”

“Hahaha, Nicole, Nicole, Nicole, you’re so naive, my little dove.” He ran his finger along her cheek. “You resemble your mother so much when she was your age. It’s a shame she didn’t love me. We could have been very happy.”

He grabbed her by the hair and led her inside the dilapidated house.

“Look at how I have to live because of you. You have no idea how much I’ve hated you ever since I found out you were born. Because of you, Rina stopped loving me. It’s your fault and your damn father’s fault. But since I’m not that cruel, tonight you’ll sleep next to your son. Tomorrow, I’ll send Brunito a video so he can witness the death of his loved ones. Not everyone has that privilege.”

He pushed her into a room. A faint light seeped in through a small window high up on the wall. There, on an old mattress, the child lay asleep.

Nicole approached him to check if he was okay. His clothes were dirty, but other than that, she found no signs of physical harm. Even in the darkness, with the little light coming in, she could see his small face.

He was a beautiful child. Warmth and fear surged through her heart simultaneously. In that instant, several memories of being with him flooded her mind.

She lay down beside him and held him tightly. Santi woke up upon feeling her embrace and immediately recognized his mother’s scent.

“Mom?”

“Yes, my love, it’s me, your mother.”

“No, mommy, no.” The child sat up in despair. “You shouldn’t have come. Mr. Sergio is bad, really bad. He scares me so much.”

Seeing her son trembling in that way broke her heart completely. What kind of heartless person harms a small child? No matter how much she wondered, she couldn’t understand it.

Sergio retired to sleep peacefully. He felt happy; he finally had the people whom all his enemies cared about the most in his hands. With that thought and a smile on his lips, he fell asleep.

Early in the morning, he went out to gather everything necessary to carry out his macabre plan.

Meanwhile, when Bruno woke up, he looked for Nicole. He immediately noticed the letter she had left behind, and as he read it, he froze.

“I know you’ll be angry with me for not telling you, but Sergio has asked me to go so he’ll release our son. I’d rather be the captive than him, as he’s just a child. Besides, I don’t want you to put yourself in danger. You’re the only man I’ve fallen in love with three times. I don’t remember if I loved you with the same intensity before, but I know I love you, perhaps like no one else ever has. I hope to return safely. I don’t forget that I carry our baby in my womb, and I must protect him. I hope Santi will be with you soon. I love you.”

“No, no, no!”

His parents rushed to him upon hearing his screams. Bruno was pounding his forehead against the wall, trying to comprehend why she had done it, how she could have trusted the word of that heartless man.

“Bruno, son, calm down. You’re hurting yourself. What happened? Where is Nicole?”

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Bruno handed out the letter she had left, and René turned pale instantly.

“What was this girl thinking when she decided to do this? And what about the security guards? What the hell were they doing?”

Everyone had gathered upon hearing the screams. Leandro stood near the door, completely pale and terrified. He didn’t even want to imagine what Nicole might be going through in the hands of her father.

“We need to mobilize quickly. The cameras must have captured something.”

They hurriedly made their way to the surveillance room. Upon seeing the guards, Leandro felt the urge to kill them, but that wasn’t the case at hand.

They reviewed the footage until they found the images. It showed Nicole leaving, crying. The exterior cameras recorded her until she disappeared around the corner.

“She knew exactly where she was going. Sergio must have found a way to communicate with her. I’m such a fool. I should have tapped her phone to monitor her calls.”

They checked the street. After the corner, there was an area without cameras. Sergio knew that area well, searching for a blind spot where they couldn’t be recorded.

They scoured the streets for a couple of hours, but no one had seen anything. In the early hours, it was almost impossible for anyone to have noticed.

“Oh God! I don’t know what to do. This is too much.”

“No, son, you can’t fall apart. They need you,” René said, taking away the bottle he had grabbed.

Rina approached and took the photo where Nicole and Santi were with Leandro.

“My daughter is beautiful, and my grandson is a little angel. I remember that bracelet Nicole is wearing. Your father gave it to me before he abandoned me. After giving it to me, he made a promise that we would be together forever.”

“Wait, Mom. I just remembered the bracelet. Did anyone see if Nicole was still wearing it?”

“She never took it off,” Bruno replied.

“Thanks to that bracelet, we’ll find Nicole.”

Leandro grabbed his phone and hurriedly called the security company. Before giving the bracelet to Nicole, he had a GPS chip installed to know her whereabouts at all times. He feared that Bruno would find her, and he could rescue her if necessary. Since it had been years since he gave it to her, he had forgotten about it.

“It’s done. They will send us the location in a moment. Let’s get in the vehicles. We need to hurry.”

Bruno and René got into one of the vehicles, accompanied by Noah and Gío.

In another van, Leandro and several men got in, followed by another van. Leandro’s van would lead the way as he would be guiding them. Now they just had to wait for the location to be sent to them.

Their nerves were on edge; they didn’t know how Nicole and the child would be. They hoped to arrive in time and finally put an end to this nightmare.