Chapter 1. Betrayed, Scammed, and Ruined
Your balance is $0.00
Rowena Bailey widened her eyes as she checked an SMS she got a few minutes earlier. It showed her a bank receipt for a remittance transfer she had never made that sucked up all the money she had.
"No way. Don't play with me!"
She looked so panicked. Her hands were even shaking badly because of it. She rechecked the phone again and again to make sure that her eyes were not deceiving her, but nothing changed.
How could this have happened?
It should have been one of the best moments in her life, though. For the first time, she had her first vacation with her boyfriend. She left her life and work behind in Wales, and landed in New Caledonia yesterday.
There were many plans she had prepared. There were many things she wanted to do, but, what the hell?! Only on the second day, the man suddenly disappeared early in the morning after taking all her cash and emptying her account balance without her approval.
"Is this a prank? There is no way Liam would do this to me. He was the one who invited me on this vacation." Rowena held back her tears, trying to contact him on her phone. She looked so anxiously waiting for the new boyfriend to pick it up. "Please, Liam. Answer me," she mumbled in frustration.
The first call was ignored, but she didn't give up and tried again. She got the response on the second try.
"H-Hello? Liam, w-where are you? Why aren't you here when I woke up?" She immediately shouted. "L-Liam, l-look, I got a strange message from the bank. They said there was a remittance transfer which I didn't--"
'Yeah, that's me, Rowena. I sent it to my account. I also took all your cash,' the man sounded so proud when he said that.
No way...
She scanned the inn room they should have occupied for the next week. It looked so messy. Her suitcase was lying on the floor with all its contents scattered around. There was even her wallet, showing just a few cards without any cash. It seemed he had taken it away while she was still asleep.
"But, w-why, Liam?" She felt even worse about that but stayed composed. "Is it a prank? I think it's time for you to stop because this isn't funny at all, Liam. You are scaring me!"
However, instead of getting the answer she wanted, she heard a chuckle from him.
'If it will make you feel better, then you can think so, Row. Dreaming is what you are best at anyway.' He sounded even more heartless.
"But why did you do this?" She couldn't hold her tears anymore. "Did you plan it from the start that you even lied that you loved me?"
'Yeah, it's a good thing you easily believed it, even though you pretended to play hard to get at first,' his words hurt her even more.
"Why did you have to go this far? You even take me on a vacation so far from home like this. Now, how can I come back when I don't even have a penny in my wallet? Tell me!" she yelled at him.
The man offhandedly laughed again before saying, 'Well, maybe that's a sign you should stay here longer. Didn't you say that New Caledonia is such a beautiful place to live? I will grant your wish then.'
"Stop kidding!" She shouted in anger, although she softened again because of the desperation she felt. "Please, Liam, stop this. I don't like your jokes at all this time. Please come back here and let's talk about this," she pleaded.
'No, I can't, Row. Instead, there will be someone who will accompany you there. Just listen to her, then you will be fine. She has paid me a lot.'
"Pay you for what?"
She didn't get an answer. Liam Stone hung up the call abruptly. Rowena was so frustrated that she tried to call him again, but her calls were rejected.
Not long after, there was a knocking sound from outside. It sounded so impatient, as if they were going to break down the door.
“Young lady, open this!”
Isn't that the old lady who owns this inn? The woman was so polite to them, though, but why was she suddenly banging on the door like that?
"Open this immediately!"
Rowena decided to open the door before they tore it down.
"W-What..."
She was never given time to adapt to all these surprises. Her eyes were shaking when she saw that the old woman was standing outside with several burly men around her. They looked at her like a predator ready to pounce on its prey.
"W-What do you want?" Rowena backed away instinctively, but they caught her easily and held her.
"What the hell is this? Why are you doing this to me?!" She screamed in panic, struggling as hard as she could to escape the hold.
"Hasn't your boyfriend told you?" The woman grinned creepily. "That he has sold you to me for $200 thousand?"
"What?!" Rowena stared in disbelief. "Don't lie!"
"Oh, my poor angel, that's not my job, but your lover's. His part is to look for lots of women, deceive them, and bring them here, while mine is to accommodate them till the buyers come to pick them up. That's how we run our cooperative business."
Another piece of news that made her lost for words. She panicked, trying even harder to free herself, but she was held too tightly.
"Oh, don't look at me like that. It's your own fault. Haven't you ever been warned not to trust people that easily, especially the ones you met on the internet? You should have known better," She smiled more cunningly. "He doesn't really love you, Rowena. He tricked you for his own gain, so he could sell you to me for a few hundred dollars. That's all you mean to him," she whispered to her.
"No, you are lying." Rowena was still in denial even though reality kept slapping her in the face. Her heart was broken into pieces so that her tears fell uncontrollably. "He won't do that to me. He loves me!"
"Oh, my poor, poor angel, I feel so sorry for you." The woman reached out her hand to pat her head, pretending she cared about her. "It's okay. You will meet someone new soon. He will give you money instead of stealing it from you. Isn't that amazing?"
The pat suddenly turned into a tug. Rowena winced in pain.
"Now, let's work. You must make a lot of money to pay me back, darling," she grabbed her hair even more.
"No. Release me-- urgh!"
Rowena was just about to scream when someone covered her mouth from behind with a cloth that had a strong scent. She tried to rebel even more, but over time her vision became faint. Her body also felt so weak that it collapsed easily.
From her cloudy eyes, she saw the woman's cruel smile again. Rowena had time to hear the old woman's last remarks before her vision went black.
'You will meet your buyer very soon. You are quite lucky with it, though. You got a good one.'
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Rowena had the strangest dream ever after that. She found herself lying on a bed with an unknown man on top of her. Both of them were not wearing anything.
"You are pretty good. I am amazed," He was out of breath. His face looked so red.
Rowena frowned as she reached out her hand to touch his face. The man was starting to look familiar to her. She felt like she had seen him somewhere. “You… you…” she just mumbled. It was very difficult to stay awake.
"Do you remember me now?" he asked, smirking. "This face won't be unfamiliar to anyone, though. Almost everyone in this world knows me."
No, but she didn't care. She didn't even bother to think about it. Instead, she chose to wrap her arms around his neck to pull him closer. She slammed her lips against his as he hungrily kissed her back.
"Good. I like this. It doesn't seem like a waste of money to buy you." He whispered as he buried his face in the crook of her neck. "Now, do your job. Give me a baby."
Rowena hissed in pain when she felt a foreign object penetrate her down there. However, instead of pushing the man away, she pulled him closer. She wanted to feel more of it.
"Deeper, please. "I want you so badly," she whispered, almost begging him.
"You will get that."
It was the craziest dream ever for a virgin like her. Although sometimes she had wild fantasies like this, it felt different from all that. It felt too real.
"Master, I will give you the baby you want. Not even one. I can give you dozens of them. Just do your part first. F*ck me hard and harder and even harder."
She never meant it, but it just came out of her mouth until she was shocked herself. However, she didn't bother with that, especially when the man immediately fulfilled her desires.
The unknown person rocked her world like no one had ever done before.
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