Betrayed By My Parents; SOLD TO THE MAFIA

Daphne Green drops her bag at the door when she noticed others presence in her house and hurried inside to meet with her parents, with the way her mother sounded on the phone something is definitely wrong so she panicked and took the first flight she could to get back. She reached inside the house and saw a man who looks formidable sitting on one of the chairs with two other men standing behind him and narrowed her eyes to see if she could recognize who they are but nothing comes to her head. “Mom, Dad!” Daphne called and rushed to hug both her parents who lights up on seeing her. “Oh Daphne, thank God you are here” her mother breathe in her ears and pull away. “What’s wrong?” she questioned giving the man sitting on the sofa a hard stare wondering if he is a creditor but doesn’t get an answer immediately from them and asked again. ‘Who are they?’ Edgar stood to his feet swiftly after watching the girl he is here for rush in and hug her parents then signal to his men to accompany her. ‘Get your bags and follow me” he said authoritative to her and Daphne stood to her feet upset. “Who on earth are you to create fear in my parents like this?” she asked to him standing akimbo and glare as hard as she can. His intimidating gaze almost sent her flying on her knees but she stood her ground and glower more, “Edgar Gregorio” Edgar uttered hoping that will set her attitude right and it did, Daphne shift away from him and stare back at her parents who seems to tremble more at the mention of his name and hide their faces away. Gregorio! Only one family bears that name in the whole country and Daphne knows very well who they are, notorious for being ruthless and never let go of anyone that offends him but what is he doing in their house of all places? “Miss Green, I don’t have much time to spend here. Pick your bag and let’s leave” he repeated again impatiently and this time Daphne didn’t glare at him but turned to bend closer to her parents to get answers to her questions. “Mom, what is going on? What does he mean by asking me to follow him dad?” Daphne questions her parents who couldn’t look into her eyes and gets afraid. “I am sorry my child, we had no other choice. He was going to kill my husband” Mrs. Green open up and Daphne blinks her eyelid confused. “Am I not your child?” she queried although she knows well that the both of them aren’t her biological parents but picked her up when she was abandoned by her mother and took care of her for sixteen years. “Dad, say something. What do you mean by this?” she held onto his hand her voice shaking but her father pushed her hands away and looked at his wife instead. “We already promised to give you to Mr. Gregorio years back and we are only fulfilling the promise today, we have taken care of you for years now it is time to pay us back” he said viciously with no iota of remorse and turned to Edgar who is watching them. “Our daughter is here now, please can you spare us and take her away?” he pleaded and tears fell from Daphne’s eyes. They are the only family she has lived with and loved all her life, without even a care they are giving her away to a man who will probably kill her or hurt her forever. They are not even pretending to care. “Take her with you” Edgar ordered to his men not having the patience for either of them anymore and walks out of the house to sit in the car while Daphne rides in another clinging to her bag while crying her eyes out. Daphne trembles as one of the men grabbed her arm and pushed her into one of the room roughly before slamming the door in her face and she sank to the floor in tears. Daphne looked around the room and saw nothing inside except a huge broken mirror and stare at her reflection speechless, she told her friends and boyfriend back at school that she will only be gone for a few days to visit her parents and had no idea she wouldn’t get a chance to return to them. Next week is her group presentation and as the group leader, she has all the files with her but Daphne knows better than to worry about something trivial like that and held her tummy in fear of what her fate is now. Edgar’s men picked up the bag she dropped as she entered the house earlier so he probably means he has no plans of killing her, at least not at the moment. She needs to find out what the deal between him and her father is to ensure her safety and knows what his plans are. Daphne soon doze off after sobbing for long and gets kicked awake by a young woman who placed a plate of soup in front of her with barely anything inside and left without giving her water. She stare at the miserable food with a hiss and kicked it away from her then rolled around on the floor feeling cold due to the winter season and cuddles up to herself to fall asleep again. The next morning, a bowl of water woke Daphne up from the ground and she stood to her feet quickly remembering where she is and stares hard at the same maid who came to attend to her yesterday glaring with annoyance. “You are needed outside” the young woman told her and Daphne wonder what she means by that but took a step outside the door and made her way towards the space she could see. A number of Edgar’s men were playing poker and they all turned around at the sight of an intruder in the room alerted to shoot their guns but when they saw who it is, they dropped the guns and laugh. “Come here little girl, let’s have some fun with you this morning” one of them beckon to her and Daphne paused knowing she is in for trouble. The men noticed her hesitation as well and walk over to her while she stood not daring to move for fear that it will infuriate them and gets dragged over to the middle of the room. “Brother, we haven’t had fun with a younger woman like this in a while. Why don’t we use her to refresh our strength” another said sizing her body up and took a big leap over to her. Their boss normally doesn’t take a girl captive and it’s even more strange that he left her in the empty room over night without any order concerning her fate, he must have no use of her. “Don’t touch me” Daphne fights slapping the hand that touched her away and they laughed at her innocent request. “Blast”!