Chapter 29

Colton's POV

The night had come. The night when we would give him the last will in exchange of Lia's safety.

I drove the car to the Huston Parking Lot. I drove there slowly, not knowing where it placed. I had never came here before, but I had been told that the place was dark and silent. It was like an abandoned parking lot. I used my GPS to track the place.

"Are you sure this is the place?" Kallum asked me.

"No. At least this is where the GPS told me. Keep looking, the GPS said it is near here." He and I kept looking outside, searching for the place.

"Is that the place?" He pointing at an empty place with a small light.

I squinted my eyes, "I think it's not. It's too dark for a parking lot."

"It's an unused parking lot right?" He asked me. I didn't know if he really asked or just questioning my knowledge. I couldn't read his expeession because his part of body that was facing me was his back not his face. We talked but we didn't look at each other's face because we focused on looking for the plce.

"From what you have said, from my research team, from what I know. It is unused parking lot."

I cpuldn't sleep last night, my thought was full of Lia. I even bothered my research staffs in the middle of the night until this evening. I had asked my research team to found informations about that parking lot. They even found about the contruction and hidden places. Luckily, there was no a really good hidden place.

"Then it can be the place. I can see a white van there." He exclaimed. I nodded in respond.

I parked the car in front of a warehouse. I quickly removed my seatbelt and hoped out from the car. Kallum did the same thing.

We ran to that dark place.

It must be the Huston Parking Lot. The place was so big and wide, but we could see few person was standing in the middle of the parking lot with a white van parked behind them, quite far from where we stood.

We kept running, decreaseing the distance between us. I could see Lia's small figure near a tall man. She had a black eye. Her mouth was plastered by a black duct tape. Both of her hands were tied by a rope. Her eyes were wavering. I could see hatred, revenge, sadness and fear in those dim tired eyes.

"My, my, here they come. The heroes!" Someone in the back shouted. And I knew who he was.

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Cornelia's POV

"Hurry up! Let's go! You are too slow!" He shouted and banging the old already broken door.

"Come on, cupcake. Let's say goodbye to your old love." Richard said softly to me. I cringed in disgust.

Today was the time, the time of the exchange. I hoped Colton found the ladt will. And I hoped they were not stupid.

"Colton is not my old love, Richard. You are! I will not say goodbye to him." I snapped.

"Aw.. Keep that sweet mouth, will you?" He looked at me in adoration. I sicked each time I saw that disgusting face.

"Too bad, cupcake. I must shut that tempting lips and sweet mouth of yours." He put black duct tape on my mouth.

He smiled. "Don't worry, you can still enjoy my kisses because I can still kiss you." Then he leaned in and kissed my neck. I cried in disgust.

Each day, he grew even more disgusting. In less than 24 hours, he had kissed me more than 10 times! And I felt so stupid because I couldn't do anything. He had tried to touched me once today, but luckily, my dear cousin and his girlfriend saved me by their presence. His action disgusted me. Even looked at his face disgusted me. He always had that disgusting smile on his face.

"Don't cry. I will stay next to you. That Colton won't hurt you." He kept babling trash. Then he dragged me out to a white van, the same van that used to kidnapped me.

He sat me in the second row and he sat next to me. My hands were still tied by the rope, but they had untied the rope on my legs. He didn't let me go, he put his hand on my waist. I kept trying to struggle but he just smiled at me and strengthen his grip on my waist.

"Wait! Let me go to the restroom first. I won't take long." Dmitri said.

"You useless son! Max, guard him! Make sure he doesn't run away. Be quick!" He demanded.

"That stupid son. Why he can't let me live in peace? It must be curse. He should not born from the beginning. He only makes my life harder." Jacob kept cursing and saying bad things about Dmitri while Dmitri was in the restroom.

"I'm ready." Dmitri joined us after he had finished his business in the restroom.

"Come on!" He yelled to the driver.

"You better be ready." Jacob said in a low dark tone with a smirk drawn in his face.

We enjoyed the trip in silence. We didn't talk. Behind the duck tape, I muttered my silent prayer. Hoping thta everything will went well without hurting anyone.

We arrived at an empty place with a very dim lights. The place looked like a parking lot, I could say that because there were lines drawn there and usually the lines were used as a parking are. Yeah, at least I tried to guess it.

We waited for Colton outside the car. Richard didn't let go of me, he held my waist in his hand.

Not too long, I saw 2 person was running toward us. One is Colton, and the other was my brother.

"My, my, here they come. The heroes!" Jacob shouted and then he laughed.

"Where is the paper?" He asked Colton and Kallum when they both had stood in front of us.

"I have it. Release Lia first then I will give you the paper."

"Huh! No can do. You give me first, then I will give this little bitch to you."

I elbowed Richard, signaling that I wanted to say something.

"My cupcake wants to say something, Jacob."

"Cupcake?" I heard Colton growled in anger.

"Remove the tape!" Richard removed the tape. Then he leaned in and kissed me.

Could he stop kissing me! I elbowed Richard again, this time was to removed his lips from mine.

"Where did you get this thing?" I asked both Kallum and Colton.

"In your box, under your bed." Kallum answered.

They were smart.

I couldn't help but smirk, "Give it to him."

"But--"

"Give it!" I yelled in frustation.

Kallum stepped foward and gave him the last will. But Richard still didn't let me go.

"Richard, give the bitch to her owner." Jacob said after receiving the last will from Kallum.

"But Jacob, she is mine!" Richard claimed. I was not his! I was never his. No one owned me.

"Just give her to them! I can find you another bitch." Jacob yelled.

One of Jacob's minion shoved me to Colton and Kallum.

The next thing I heard was a loud gun shot and me being shoved to the ground.

I looked back and there laid Dmitri on the ground, with blood stained his chest.

"Dmitri!" Sandra shouted. She struggled trying to let go of Jacob's minion's hand. Once she succeed, she ran to Dmitri and held him in her hands.

Kallum and Colton ran to me. Trying to help me up.

"You stupid son! Trying to be a hero when you are not. And you!" He pointed the gun at me.

"Do you think I'm stupid? You must have faked this last will. I know you are smart, Lia. You will not give the real last will to me this easily."

He put his finger in the trigger, "Any last words, my dear niece?"

Colton potitioning himself in front of me.

"No?" Jacob asked again.

"Be prepared then." He prepared the gun. When suddently there was a noise.

"Drop the gun!"

"Who the hell called the cops?" Jacob shouted.

"I called them." A low voice said. Everyone looked whose the voice belong to. It belonged to the pale Dmitri.

"Enjoy your life in the prison, father." He smirked before he closed his eyes.

"Dmitri! Dmitri! Stay with me!" Sandra shook Dmitri. Some of the cops ran to Dmitri and brought his body to their car.

"Why? Why everyone hates me? Why!" Jacob cried. He still didn't drop the gun, the gun was still pointed at me.

"I loved your mother, Delilah, with all my heart. But she choose my brother! They lived happily leaving me alone in despair. And then I found Samantha, I fell in love with her. But my happiness didn't last long. My evil son took my wife's life! He killed his own mother!" He still crying. I cried too. I didn't know he suffered so much. I didn't know about his old love and his wife. I could feel his pains, the pains he suffered for a long time.

"Why you are all so mean to me? Why you make my life suffer? Why!" With a trembling hand, he moved the gun. He put the gun near his forehead.

"Drop the gun or we have to shoot you!" The cops said.

"Shoot me! I'm too tired of living." He closed his eyes. He was going to shoot himself but a cops managed to dodge him. The gun flew meters away from him.

"I get him." The cops held both of Jacob's hands.

The cops brought him and his minions, include Richard to the car, but I stopped them, "Wait. Jacob, the one who makes you suffer is yourself. It's your own choice to make yourself suffer. You can't see how much the others love you. You can't see how much my father adored you. He loved you so much. You ruin everything."

Jacob looked back, looking at Colton and me, "Thank you for the advice, Cornelia. But it seems it's too late now. Colton, take care of my niece and nephew for me."

The cops brought them to the car, "What are you doing? Let go of me! I'm innocent here!" Richard struggled.

An officer came to me, Kallum, and Colton. "Good night, sir, ma'am. We will proceed the case sooner. For that, we need your testimony and information. Please follow us."

We nodded. Colton helped me stood up and followed the officer.