Chapter 31

"Goddamnit!" Aurora heard someone roar in anger.

I knew this touch, it's him. The monster! Why has he scooped me in his arms? I wanted this sleep to fly away but no, I was still engulfed with darkness. What was happening, what was he doing?

She felt scared for herself because the man was not less than a maniac. She wanted to run away from him but couldn't because she felt sleepy. She wanted to open her eyes but as if someone had glued them together. She couldn't open her eyes. Suddenly, she was lifted from the wetness.

Aurora was somewhere in between awake and sleepiness. She was still hallucinating, she couldn't open her eyes but she could hear and feel or so she thinks.

Aurora wanted to get away from him, from his touch but couldn't, she tried to speak but it felt as if her mouth was filled with cotton.

She felt him slap her face, "Aurora, open your eyes, can you listen to me?" He asked, there was an urgency in his voice. It felt as if he was worried for her but how was that possible when he just tried to douse her in the ocean.

"Fuck! Open your fucking eyes and answer me goddamnit!" He let out sharply ordering her. Aurora tried to obey because she feared his punishment but as if her body denied following the command her brain sent it.

Aurora was laying there on the beach like a lifeless body and Liam was angry at himself for being too hard on her. He should have tried some other way to get her out of that drunken state.

"Aurora, open your bloody eyes!" He ordered her again. She felt his voice waver ever so slightly but she knew that her mind was playing games with her because as far as she knew, Liam knight's voice never shook. How could it be, the man was nothing but a heartless monster!

Again, Aurora wanted to heed his order but again her body was not allowing her to do it. She could feel him rubbing her palms, she liked the heat it gave to her body.

Yes, she was shivering in the cold. First, the toxic berries and now Liam's method of getting her out of that inebriated state proved more dangerous to her body than he thought.

Liam knight, for the first time in his life, couldn't word what he was feeling right now or even if he knew he didn't want to acknowledge it. He didn't want to name it.

Because guilt was something he never felt and now he was having that feeling, The feeling of guilt!

Yes, For the first time in his life, Liam knight was feeling guilty. He should have used some other means but he acted out of anger. And now, laid in front of him, his shivering future wife. The woman who he claimed as his, the woman who drives him crazy with her constant tantrums and childishness and her beauty. When Liam saw her for the first time at that jewellery exhibition he was lost. She was not less than an angel, with golden hair and a red dress. She looked beautiful than any goddess. Beauty was one thing, Liam had seen far more beautiful girls than her but it was her attitude which attracted her.

Yes, the vixen gave Liam Knight, the future don of Vancouver crime family a cold shoulder when he asked the host to introduce him to her. He tried twice and both the times she refused to acknowledge him. It hurt Liam's ego and it was decided then and there that he would make her his, no matter what means he used. Aurora Kings was his now even if he had to start a bloody war with her father Ethan king for her.

He will bloody do it! But today the girl he chose was laying on the beach, shivering in the cold and it's all because of him.

He was furious at the situation, at himself. He eyed her body, she needed to get out of her wet clothes and more than that she needed warmth.

Liam clamped his face with his palm, rubbing it in apprehension. He would not have undressed her in this condition but the situation demanded it and he had no other option left. Yes, he was a monster, killing and maiming was his favourite part-time fun but he didn't touch unwilling girls.

Making them come to him willingly to please him was the way he liked. If some girl denies, they can leave it to come back later because they had issues to solve which couldn't be solved without his help or intervention. Liam was a bastard but at least he had some rules, whether one believes in them or not. He did!

Aurora felt him touching the hem of her dress, she wanted to snatch her dress away from him but she couldn't. So she screamed in her mind for him to leave her alone, not to touch her but, of course, he didn't listen to her unspoken words.

She wanted to cry when she felt him getting her out of her dress, she was almost naked in front of him.

"We need to warm you up, Aurora!"

She heard him, the monster. Warm me up? But why?

Aurora felt herself floating one more time, this time not in the water but air.

Air! How could I float in the air? Am I flying? Aurora asked herself.

She was confused, what was happening to her. She wanted to stand up but she was still sleepy. Suddenly she felt herself being dipped into a soft bed.

Soft bed! Wait, I was on the island? How did I end up on the bed then?

There were a lot of questions she asked herself but there were no answers to them.

Liam patted her cheek one more time, "Aurora can you hear me!" He asked again but she didn't answer. He eyed her soft body and gritted his jaw. He needed to dress her and there was nothing else except for his clothes so he slipped her into his shirt which ended up on her thighs.

Aurora started shivering violently, Liam was trying to warm her up with whatever means he could but he was failing miserably. He rubbed the back of his neck and decided that there was no other way to warm her except one.

He needed to give her body heat, with no other option left he joined his body to hers by pulling her in his arms...

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"What do you mean you still haven't found anything about Aurora? I don't know anything, I want my friend here, do you understand me?" Susan snapped at Katie and another cruise staff who were trying to calm her down but she was enraged.

"Look mam, we are trying our best…" Katie started but Emily cut her off.

"I don't give a damn about your trying! If you don't find my friend soon I promise I will sue you and your company."

Katie's eyes went to Alexandros who sucked in deep, his eyes hard as he took a step forward.

"Emily, dear…" he rested his hand on her shoulder but she slapped his hand away.

"Don't! If you can't bring back my friend here then you can get the fuck out of my life. We are done!" She snapped at him.

That made Alexandros stiffened. No girl has ever warned him to ditch, it was always the other way around and today the girl standing in front of him did that.

"We are trying!" He told her tersely. Emily looked away from him but then her cell phone rang and her body went numb seeing the caller ID.

She gulped. "Susan, It's Ethan.. "

Susan's eyes widened. She swallowed harshly and asked her to accept the call. Emily, shaking hands, accepted the call. "Hello, Mr Kings!"

"Hello, Emily, pass your phone to my daughter, please. I have been trying to contact her since yesterday but her phone was not reachable…"

Emily glanced at Susan who nodded at her to inform Ethan about Aurora's disappearance.

"Mr Kings, there is something you need to know about, Aurora…" Emily told him everything and Ethan King was enraged.

"What do you mean she disappeared?" He roared over the phone. Emily stiffened hearing Ethan's dark raging voice. "Mr Kings…" she started but closed her eyes when he ended the call abruptly.

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Ethan king was raging in fury. His only daughter was nowhere to be found and it made him numb. He was one of the cruellest men in North America but when it comes to his daughter he was just like any other parent.

Aurora was the only weakness in his wife, she was the most precious person for him, innocent and naive. He didn't want to kill her innocence by telling her that her father was not only a billionaire but a Mafia Don whom people fear.

He was busy with the Recent threats he received from the Mexicans about his daughter that made him restless and he started the hunt to kill every Mexican in the city to protect his daughter. Her going to Vancouver for the event proved to be a blessing but he didn't know that Mexicans would reach there.

And that made him furious. He would burn down the whole city if a single hair was harmed on his daughter's head. Mexicans better not make the same mistake they did twelve years ago.

But now was not the time to think about the past. He needed to save his daughter and that too immediately. Ethan king had no other option but to ask for help to save his daughter and he would do that no matter what the price he had to pay. So he called his business ally, Ryan who picked the call on the last ring.

Ethan was on the verge of losing his mind when Ryan played it cool. He wanted to smash his old friend into a pulp. "Ryan, Aurora is missing, she was in Vancouver, I asked you to keep an eye on her and that's how you protected her in your city?"

Ryan frowned. Be patted the naked ass of the woman side him and spoke. "What do you mean missing, take it easy, I will…"

"I said my daughter is missing, Ryan. Stop playing it cool, I would forget our friendship and everything if anything happened to her. Call your men and start the search operation…"

Ryan Knight raised his eyes. "Two things, Ethan. First, Nothing will happen to your daughter because my son has chosen her for himself. Second, don't try to threaten me, friendship is one thing but I don't tolerate it when someone tries to threaten me, that too in my own territory."

Ethan clutched the paperweight in his hand, anger shot through his nerves.

"Ryan, my daughter is not a thing, I told you before and am telling you again, nothing will happen against her will. Now, I am coming to Vancouver and I want my daughter there till I reach your good forsaken city."

That got Ryan's attention. "You need to think calmly. They want this from you, Ethan. They knew you would react this way. Trust your old friend, your daughter will come back safe and sound but don't come here, you can't leave your territory."

Ethan closed his eyes, his friend was saying right, he couldn't leave his territory. Not when he was so near to find out about the Mexican head, "Ryan, for the sake of old-time, find Aurora." He whispered, in a broken voice.

Ryan knight closed his eyes, "calm down old friend, your daughter will be safe…" and he ended the call.

"Where the fuck are you Liam?" Ryan muttered, gritting his teeth in anger.

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Aurora hugged her teddy bear and kissed it softly. But today her teddy felt a little different, it was not as soft as before. She hugged it even more closely but it still felt hard. She placed her leg on top of it but instead of dipping softly as it usually does, today his legs felt odd. Hard.

She still had not paid attention to it and touched and swamped her hand to it's back and again it felt odd. Instead of soft furs on its back she felt hard plain skin. Her hand travelled south and she clutched something round and fluffy and warm.

"Fuck!" She heard the voice, not any voice but his voice. The voice of a monster and her eyes jerked open.

She looked around and found that she was still on that island but what more shocked her was, she was lying in the arms of Liam who was sleeping naked, like a baby.

She looked at herself and found that she was loosely wearing his shirt whose buttons were open. She looked down, and she was engaged when she found that she was not wearing her thing as well.

Her body jerked in fear, eyes widened and she was numb, her mind led to one suspicion.

Did he...had he… oh God! Even the thought of being touched by him made her numb. She wanted to know exactly what had happened between them...