The Greek Billionaire’s Indecent Proposal
Chapter 37

Xander’s POV

“Xander, Gaia dear how are you doing? Please come in.” Soraya’s mother smiled at my mother and I as she opened the door wide for us to walk in.

Hi Alessandra, is Matthew in as well? Xander and I have something important to discuss with you.” My mom gave her a slight smile. I had never seen my mother nervous ever in my entire existence. She had insisted on coming with me to inform Soraya’s parents about the kidnapping.

I had argued with her that I didn’t need help but she countered that I didn’t have the decorum to handle this sympathetically.

“Yes Matthew is in the den, come on in. You know this move to Greece has done him a lot of good. Even the doctors are impressed with his progress. She beamed as we walked towards the den.

“That’s wonderful news Alessandra.” My mother could barely look at her. I could see that Soraya’s mom was confused by the reaction, she turned to look at me and raised her eyebrows.

Matthew honey, he have guests. Gaia and Xander are here to talk to us.

Matthew got up from his chair to greet my mother then he acknowledged me. “To what do we owe the pleasure, where is Soraya?.” He smiled.

“Matthew I’m afraid we have some terrible news.” My mother started to speak but she lost her nerve, she went silent.

“This is about Soraya isn’t it? Where is she? Is she okay?” Alessandra began to panic.

“Sweetheart, give them a chance to speak, Xander, what is going on?” Matthew asked sternly.

“There’s no easy way to say this. Soraya and Sofija have been kidnapped, I am doing everything in my power to make sure they come back home safely.” I said bluntly. There was no point in beating around the bush.

“Oh meu Deus…” Alessandra’s face went white with shock. She held on to the side of the chair that her husband had been sitting on.

“What do you mean kidnapped? When? By who? Xander you told me you would protect her and my grandson!” Matthew raised his voice at me, walking towards me he grabbed my shirt by the collar and shook me. “Where’s my daughter?!” He yelled.

My mother rushed to restrict him but I held up my hand at her. “It’s okay mother. They were ambushed after they left the gala together.” I indicated for my mother to see to Alessandra who was sobbing uncontrollably with her hand on her chest. My mother guided her to a chair and sat with her, trying to comfort her.

“And where were you when all this took place? Why were you not with her?” He growled at me.

“The reason why Soraya and I married so quickly is because my family status has earned us some enemies, and I wanted to get you all to safety before it was found out that I had a son with her. I have never lied to her about the dangers that come with being my wife and the mother of my son.” I could see that he was getting angrier by the second. “Soraya and I had an argument at the gala and she decided to leave without me. I regret my decision to let her leave, Matthew I know what it is you are going through.” Suddenly I had a lump on my throat, I felt my voice break but I tried to compose myself. “I am going to bring her back home.”

“Can you promise me that?! Why would anyone kidnap her?! What did you do?!” He was raging now. “I trusted you with her! You told me you would keep her safe and protected!”

He took a swing at me, even though I saw it coming I didn’t weave. The punch landed on my jaw, he took another swing and again it landed on the same place.

“She’s my daughter Xander! My one and only! My baby! You get her back. He began to sob as well. I guided him to his chair and helped him to sit.

“I know, Matthew, I swear to you I will bring her back home.” I swallowed hard.

“Call Dr Mariolis.” My mother instructed. She looked very worried. “We are going to need him tonight.”

“The baby! She’s pregnant” Alessandra exclaimed and then she fainted.

Soraya’s POV

Sofija and I had sat in silence since the waiter had brought us the food. I wished we had been put in separate rooms, I also wished I had clothes so that I could change out of my dress. I was starting to feel very uncomfortable.

I walked over to her side of the bed and took of the cloche from one of the plates to see what was in it, burger and chips. I grabbed my two bottles of water and took my plate.

“You’re going to eat that?” Sofija looked disgusted.

“Yes, we are not at the four seasons or the Hilton’s Sofija. You heard the man, you don’t eat and they stop bringing food and besides, I am hungry. I barely ate at the gala, personally I would like to keep my strength up. I plan to get out of here.”

She rolled her eyes and scoffed at me. “No wonder you have wide h**s, this is the kind of food you are probably used to anyways.” She got up and started to pace up and down.

“Let’s see how long you will last in here with that attitude of yours princess Sofija.” I sat down and began to eat. Surprisingly it turned out to be the one thing that didn’t make me gag. For the first time since my morning sickness started I was able to finish every morsel of food that was on that plate. I drank some more water then I put the plate on the side table.

Sofija was still pacing up and down then all of a sudden she ran to the door and began to bang on it. “Listen to me you filthy waiter man! You need to open this door right now! I demand to talk to you right now! I will not be ignored.”

She kept banging on the door and all of a sudden there was a sound on the other side of it like a key was being turned, she backed away slowly from the door as it was being opened.

The waiter stood there with a menacing look on his face. “Do you have a death wish or something?” He glared at her.

“I demand that you speak with me right now!” She walked up to him and yelled in his face.

“You are in no position to be making demands lady. Sit down and shut the f**k up before I make you.”

“I will be heard! Take me to whoever is in charge here because clearly I am talking to a redundant small boy!” She hissed at him.

Before she knew it he back handed her with so much force that she fell to the ground.

“How is that for a redundant small boy? Now shut the f**k up before I get the other guy to tie you up and put a gag in your mouth.” She remained still on the tiled floor.

He turned to look at me and then his smile went from menacing to cocky. “The lady of the show, so composed. Do you also have any requests?”

I stayed silent as I assessed him. He stalked up to me and let his eyes travel up and down my body. This cringy moment made the hairs on my arms stand up as I realised how unstable this man right in front of me was.

“You know you are quite something to look at, small waist, curvy legs and let’s not forget about that innocent looking baby doll face.” he smiled coyly and licked his lips.

His face kind of reminded me of an angry rabid dog that was ready to attack at any moment. A very different change in demeanour from the gala.

“Why are you looking at me like that, do you want me as much as I want you?” He asked and winked at me. “I can give you what you want.”

“I’m wondering when is the actual man who is in charge going to get here.” I said to him quietly.

He laughed out loud. “You would be better off dealing with me cupcake. At least I’d make you enjoy what I’d do to that little body of yours. I’m excited to see that you are not shy after all.” He reached forward with his hand and his fingers went to my chin, he caressed my cheek then moved his finger to my mouth, slowly he massaged my bottom l*p.

I didn’t flinch or look away. I wasn’t going to show him weakness but I guess my stomach had other plans. My tummy chose that moment to bring up everything I had eaten. I leaned forward and the vomit went all over the front of his shirt and his pants.

He started cussing in another language. I heaved a couple of times and he backed away. My stomach settled as I slowly breathed in through my nose and out my mouth to settle myself.

“Well I guess that should answer your question.”” I smiled innocently. “I am not interested.”

“You b***h!” He hissed as he walked towards the door.

“It would be nice if you could also bring us a change of clothes as well you know while you get yourself some.” I called out as he banged the door and locked it.

I got up and walked towards Sofija to check on her. It didn’t matter how much I disliked her, she was still Xander’s sister.

“He’s gone, you can get up.” I said as I knelt next to her. Tears were running down her cheeks and a big bruise was starting to form on her left cheek and eye.

“Don’t touch me!” She flinched as I tried to take her arm to help her up.

“Sofija like it or not we are here together. My main goal right now is to stay alive because I want to see my son grow up and I definitely don’t want Xander to go through the same thing he went through with Hera. It would be better if we could look out for one another instead of fighting.” I said to her.

She looked at me, regarded me then pushed my hand away from her. “I’m not interested in being your friend and if you had just left Greece with your little brat! None of this would have happened at all! I wouldn’t be locked in here with you.”

“Correction, if you hadn’t come into the car to gloat over Bella then you would have been just fine. I’d say this is Karma for your stupidity! And watch your mouth, I warned you that Kai was off limits. I said to her in a stern tone.

Sofija’s POV

“You think you are soo special don’t you?!” I wanted to tell her I was the reason she was here so that she could stop gloating. But the fact that I was in here too stopped me. If I wanted to get away with what I did I had to make sure that no one knew that I was involved.

How could this have gone so wrong! I got up from the floor and walked to the bed.

“Fine then suit yourself, I really was just trying to be nice to you.” She shrugged and also went back to her side of the bed but she started to heave again. She got up and ran towards the bathroom. I could hear her wretching out into the toilet bowl. It served her right for eating that disgusting food. But then again that’s probably the kind of food she was used to.

I hoped that whoever was really in charge would come so that I could speak with him and replace a way to get myself out of this mess. Xander would never forgive me for this, he would disown me.

It had been so easy for me to plan the kidnapping, When I went to the venue a while back to scope out the place to see where would be the best place to grab Soraya, I had met the waiter. He had been there for an interview, I had noticed how tough looking he was and asked him if he would like to make extra money. He had refused to tell me his name saying that I would need total deniability, I had paid him his first half in cash so that there be no traces.

The idea had been to grab her at the gala when she went to the ladies room we had anticipated that the security would be tight so he had explained to me that he needed a plan B and that he had a cousin who would join in and if I could tell them which routes the security detail would take then they would grab attack the car. I had actually given up thinking that bit would be impossible to do so, I still got him what he needed. When I had seen him at the intersection I was shocked that he had managed to pull it off but when he shot Cassius, I knew that he was more than just a waiter.

The information about the routes that would be taken that night were also easy to get, Joud had been out of the office and all the routes for the night of the gala and which drivers would be used were on his table. I had taken pictures with my phone, there was no way that they would suspect Joud. He was very loyal to my brother.

Just as Soraya walked back into the room, the door opened again and the damn waiter walked in with a camera and a newspaper in his hand.

“Here, take this.” He handed Soraya the newspaper. “Now let’s take a group photo shall we? I know that there’s no love between the two of you but I’m going to need you to huddle up.”

“What do you mean you know that there’s no love between the two of us? Soraya asked him and he chuckled.

“Open the newspaper cupcake.” He instructed her.

I gave him a stern look and he continued to laugh. “Stand together like that, ooh, your face looks bad.” He said to me and laughed. “I don’t think your brother will care much for this anyway.” He continued.

“Can you stop speaking in riddles and say what you mean.” Soraya snapped at him.

He made Soraya hold up the newspaper in front of her and took some shots with the camera. When he was satisfied he shut the lenses off.

“Your sister in law is the reason why it was so easy to snatch you. She provided me with the routes that your security detail planned to use.”

I looked at Soraya and shook my head. “He’s lying.”

Her face had gone pale with shock.

Hector’s POV

“Dorian, get in here.” I ordered my brother into the warehouse office.

“What’s up?” He said.

“The kidnappers knew our routes. There is no way they could have grabbed The women at the gala. The security was tight. There was also no way of knowing which routes were mapped out unless…”

“Unless we have a leak but that’s impossible brother. Those routes were only revealed to the drivers and security detail that night before we left for the gala, we only revealed the routes to the gala, not the routes back home. Before that it was just you, Xander, myself, Joud and Simon who had those details.” Dorian looked like he was deep in thought.

“Dorian I don’t need to tell you that our loyalty as brothers is to Xander always. You know this, there’s nothing in the world that would make me betray him.” I stated.

“And there’s nothing in the world that would make me betray you. I owe you and Xander my life. You know this.” He countered.

“Then help me figure out how this happened, help me replace the person responsible.”

“I will gladly do it and help you torture that damn person myself!” He looked pissed.

“Simon is too terrified right now. He’s admitted to me that he’s gone over the details over and over again because he feels like it’s somehow his fault.” Dorian admitted.

“I still have to question him, and you know what that means. It will be bloody.”

As we were speaking, Joud walked in. “I couldn’t help but overhear what you were talking about. I think I know how the information was leaked.” He had a look of disappointment and fear in his eyes.

“You think you know or you know?” I questioned him.

“Where’s Xander? I have to speak to him.” He said as his eyes clouded.

“What did you do Joud?” Dorian asked him.

“I will only speak in front of Xander.” He insisted. Dorian walked up to him and held him by the collar of the shirt. “Did you betray us Mizrahi?”

“Dorian go get Xander.” I instructed my brother.

Xander’s POV

“Xander, Hector asked me to come and get you.” Dorian disturbed me from looking at the message that had just come into my phone.

“What is it?” I asked him.

“Joud has information about the security details that were leaked.” He looked like he was revolted as he said this.

“Let’s go.” As we walked towards one of the warehouse offices I remembered I had a message. I took my phone out and clicked on the notification and a picture of both Sofija and Soraya popped up. Relief flooded my body. I didn’t realise I had stopped walking.

Soraya was holding on to a newspaper with today’s date. I zoomed in just to get a close up of her. She looked okay, unharmed. I let out a breath like I’d been holding on to it for long time. Sofija had a bruise on her face, why wasn’t I surprised.

“What’s wrong?” Dorian asked.

“I just got confirmation that the women are fine.” I handed him my phone. “Call Jackson and see if he can trace this number and trace the coordinates of where this picture was taken.” I instructed.

“Okay but you go ahead and talk to Joud right now.” I nodded and headed that way.