The Greek Billionaire’s Indecent Proposal
Chapter 45

Soraya’s POV

We were back at home and Xander had tucked me into bed. As I lay there all I could think about was how Ajana had been so frightened. Xander had said that Gaia had given her something to help her sleep, I had refused to be sedated. The last thing I wanted was to sleep this away, even though I felt numb right now… I knew that the pain would kick in at some point.

Back at the hospital, I’d been in such a state until Xander got there and put his arms around me. I couldn’t afford to fall apart right now, the kids needed to know that I was okay and my parents would be so relieved when they saw me in the morning. The truth of the matter was that I blamed myself, Stacy had told me to take prenatal vitamins and I was the one that refused to wear that damned dress when Nikolaj told me to. It was my own fault that I got drugged.

I felt the bed dip and Xander sit next to me. “Angel…” he looked so defeated. I hadn’t even told him, he had to hear it from Stacy.

“I don’t want to talk about it Xander…” I closed my eyes.

“I know you are really angry right now, I just want to hold you.”

“Xander we are not talking about this!” I snapped at him.

“Okay fine, come with me.” He said and pulled me to sit up.

“Where are we going?” I looked at him strangely.

“You have to come in order to replace out.” He had this deep hard look on his face.

I got dressed in blue skinny jeans and a black hoodie and black Balenciaga track sneakers then followed him to the car. The entire ride there we were both quiet. He held my hand the entire time but looked forward.

The car slowed down and we got out, we were at some sort of warehouse. Dorian walked up to us and looked at Xander with confusion on his face.

“I thought you would only come here once your shoulder had healed… alone.” He said to Xander. “Hey Soraya, good to have you back.”

“Thanks Dorian, Xander what is this place.” I turned around to face him.

“Follow me, we are going to the basement.” He said to me then gestured to Dorian to follow us.

“You wanted to know who I am Soraya, I’m going to show you. I don’t let people mess with me and think they can get away with it.” The look on his face had become deadly as he looked at me. Something in me felt so freaked out but not for myself because I knew whatever he was feeling was not directed at me.

I looked at Dorian then looked back at Xander. He took my hand and led me into a door then there was a long dimly lit passage that led to a door that had stairs that went down. It was 5 flights going down and each flight we took had sensor lights that only switched on when we got to that area. Dorian was behind us, I could tell he wanted to say something but he looked like he knew not to say anything to Xander when he looked like this. We finally got to the lower level. We walked into another door, a room that was dimly lit. It looked more like a prison ward with stalls more than anything else.

I suddenly got a chill. Xander turned to look at me. “This is what I do to my enemies.”

Each stall had a man in it, they were all bound in chains. Some of the men in there looked like they had been locked up for a long time, they seemed to be out of bounds with what was happening around them.

Xander looked at me like he was assessing my reaction. I couldn’t help but be shocked.

“These men deserve to be in here Soraya, death would be nothing to them, it would be a merciful release. As I walked around looking at them, I saw a man who looked familiar. He was sitting on a vintage looking shelf prison bed hanging on chains. The background or the walls rather were gray concrete stucco walls, they gave of a cold feeling. I went closer to the bars and he looked up, it was Nikolaj… I gasped as my hand automatically went to cover my mouth. “Nikolaj?”

“I told you cupcake, your husband doesn’t do mercy.” He said in a low raspy voice like he had been yelling for his life. His clothes were stained with b***d. “Tell him I looked out for you.”

“Looked out for me?” I was seething with anger. “You are worried about him? You should be more worried about what I’m going to do to you for taking something so precious from me you piece of filth!” I snarled at him. “I am his wife after all.” I glowered at him. My breath suddenly became laboured as tears threatened to fall but I blinked them away. “I was pregnant when you drugged me and now I’m not.”

Nikolaj’s face went white with shock as he realised that I wasn’t there to ease his suffering but to add on to it.

“When I found you, you were laying on a bed drugged up you could barely stand. You couldn’t recognise anything around you. There were s****l paraphernalia on that bed with about four cameras on tripod stands. Some of those men got shot and died in the crossfire but the ones who survived are in here.” Xander explained “If Leticia was still alive.. she would be in here too.

“These men were about to defile you, that’s not something I can forgive Angel, I will torture them and won’t feel sorry for it.” His voice was scary but it comforted me.

“This one is mine.” I growled. “Teach me how you do it.” I shocked myself. I knew that I was about to cross a line that I could not return from and something in me didn’t care. I had so much anger in me and I felt like these men had taken away my power. I felt like this was the only way I could reclaim it back.

“I knew that this was the only thing that would make you feel better.” He said.

I looked back at Nikolaj. “If you thought that was all the fight I had back there, I’m about to show you my worst.” I’d be his worst nightmare. He covered his face with his hands in despair.

Xander walked further into this dungeon looking place and I followed him. Moretti was in the next room.

“Aaah, husband and wife are reunited.” He beamed even though he looked like he was in pain. “How does it feel?”

“You just wait Moretti, I’m going to reunite you with the dead.” Xander smiled at him dangerously.

“There’s nothing you can do to me that I’m not anticipating Adamos. Physical torture, psychological torture… I am prepared for this.

Xander smiled at him deviously and chuckled. Like I said, you just wait Moretti.

For the first time since I met the man, I actually saw a flash of panic on his face. He tried so hard to hide it but it was there.

I didn’t know what it was that Xander had planned for him but I knew it definitely wasn’t going to be good at all for him.

Xander’s POV

I watched Soraya look around her, I didn’t know how she was going to react, I had not planned to ever show her this side of me but watching her lay on that bed looking like she had been stripped of everything including her control and power… I knew that this was exactly what she needed.

I would deal with the consequences later. I watched her reel with shock as she looked at one of the men. She recognised him, he was the one that had drugged her. I had to control everything in me to stop myself from opening that bar’d door and beating the s**t out of him. When he called her cupcake, I clenched my fists. It turned out I didn’t have to show any kind of reaction. She threatened him herself and judging by the look on his face, he knew that she meant business.

As we walked away from Moretti’s cell, Dorian looked at me questioningly. “Do you think this is a good idea Xander?”

“Don’t talk about me like I’m not here Dorian.” Soraya snapped at him.

“I’m sorry Soraya I didn’t mean to, it’s just that… once you cross that line, you can never unsee or go back. Some of the things we do in here will haunt you.” He explained.

“I’m already haunted by my loss, I’m haunted by the fact that I couldn’t do anything about it. I was weak in there.” She said.

“Then let us teach you how to fire a gun and how to fight but not this.” He said.

“She gets to decide what it is she wants to do.” I said to him. He nodded then looked at her.

“I’ll do both, learn how to protect myself and get my revenge.” She said coldly at him.

Was I creating a monster…?