Chapter 5 Lucian Vale
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It was then she realized that someone had been in here all along. He was one of the guys from last night. She walked towards him and demanded, "Where are my children? Where am I?"
She held his shirt and the guard raised both hands up. He couldn't dare touch her. "Ma'am..."
"Do you know who the f**k I am? My husband wouldn't sit still once he found out that I'd been kidnapped."
"The same man who divorced you?" Natalie heard someone reply to her. Her fingers holding the man's shirt froze because the voice sounded familiar.
Next thing she heard was the door being opened, and she turned around.
It was the same guy from last night.
Her gaze made Lucien's heart beat faster. "Does she remember?" He thought to himself as he walked towards the other side of the room.
But it took him just a few seconds to realize that she didn't.
She was only looking because of his face.
He cleared his throat. "What are you staring at?"
Natalie heard the handsome man who walked in less than a minute say and she immediately blinked before shaking her head.
"No... nothing."
She had gotten carried away for a minute. But then again, how could she not? He looked even better in the day.
"L... Let me go." Natalie shook her head, this wasn't the time for her to be distracted. "How did you know about my divorce? It's barely been a day." She added.
Or did... Did Jullian publicly announce their divorce?
If he did, then her father might already know.
"You can't lock me up like this..." Natalie continued. She inhaled before bluffing again. "Even if my husband doesn't do anything, my father will!"
"Your father?" Lucien scoffed again.
'Does this woman think she can lie to me?' he wondered as he stared at her. " The same man who pushed you to marry your husband despite knowing that he had no feelings for you... You think that man would save you from me?"
Natalie's eyes went wide.
He knew about that too.
She panicked, backing away until her back touched the wall.
"Just who the f**k are you?!" She cried.
It wasn't her father... it was Jullian... she had no enemies. "What do you know about my family? How do you know about them?!"
That wasn't the main issue.
Julian and her father didn't exactly keep their hate for her hidden.
Fuck it. "Give me back my children!" She yelled again.
Children... That reminded Lucian.
He gestured to the man in black who quickly went to stand next to him.
"Boss..."
"Prepare the nursery, and the pediatrician on standby." He instructed, ignoring the shocked expression on Natalie's face.
Confused, the man nodded. "Yes sir."
Before he could turn around, Lucian continued. "Instruct the chef to make postpartum meals for the mother."
Meals?
"Y..yes sir." The man nodded again. "And double the security around the entrance." Lucian paused, for a second before he continued. "It's unlikely that anyone would save her, but it's possible."
"Yes, boss." The man in black nodded before he turned around and left the room.
"I'm right here," Natalie spoke after the man left, and Lucian nodded. "I know."
Bluffing wouldn't work on him... Natalie realized that. "This isn't acceptable, I don't even know who you are. Please... Just let me go."
Lucian walked towards her slowly, a brow raised. "Why would I go through the trouble to get you if I'm just going to let you go?" He asked.
'So he wasn't going to let her go?' Natalie wondered, her heart beating loudly in her chest at his proximity.
She got her answer almost immediately from his next words.
"You're never slipping out of my hands ever again."
Her heart dropped. "What?"
The next thing she heard was a sharp cry...
"What's that sound?" Lucian stepped back.
Natalie realized the cry... It was one of the children. But before she could say it, the door was pushed opened and a woman walked in holding the boy.
"Boss..." The woman greeted Lucian with a bow.
Natalie's eyes followed her. "My baby..." She breathed.
"This one wouldn't stop crying, boss." The woman holding the child explained, gesturing to the baby.
Natalie forced herself to stand up so she could take him from her hands, but before she could get there, she heard the handsome man say "Give him to me."
"Boss..." Even the lady holding the baby was surprised. But she handed the baby over anyway.
Natalie panicked. "Hey, you..." The rest of the words she wanted to say disappeared as soon as the handsome man held her baby.
Why?
Because he stopped crying.
Natalie's eyes went to the man's hand. His suit had shifted downward a bit revealing the tattoo on his wrist... Something she hadn't noticed last night because he was wearing gloves.
It was two letters.
LV
Then her eyes went back to look at his face, at the way he held her baby.
It was soft... And calm.
Jullian didn't even bother to hold their child, he didn't even want to see them.
She felt something in her chest as she watched the harsh man being so gentle with her baby.
Harsh... Could she even classify him as that?
Apart from kidnapping her, everything else he had done was gentle.
So what did he want from her? And more importantly... Why her?
“Don’t mistake kindness for softness,” she heard him suddenly say, and Natalie shook, snapping out of the trance she had unknowingly been in by watching him. "... I'm not the person you should stare at like that." The man said, his voice back to being cold.
"You asked who I was right?" He turned away from her baby to look at him.
Natalie stared at his seemingly family face, and the tattoo on his wrist flashed in her mind.
LV.
V...
There was only one powerful family that had the initials V, but they only had one son.
Wait... Her eyes widened as she stared at him.
They had two!
She stumbled backwards... But the son was banished from the country... How could he be...
"Lucian Vale."
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