Entrapped

Chapter 1.

"Tiara," she heard him calling her again and could hear his footsteps approaching her that made her smile at how impatient he was when it came to her.

she felt his hands encircling her waist from behind and her back was pressed against his hard chest. "What's taking you so long baby?" He grazed his nose against the skin of her neck seductively to get his wife's attention.

"Just give me a minute, Mason" she said to him and turned off the tap and wiped her hands with the towel.

Mason smiled like a child when she turned around and put her hands on his shoulder, he noticed the sweat on her forehead she had gotten by doing the dishes. He raised his hand and gently wiped the sweat off her forehead and blew air on her face.

"Why don't you let me do the dishes?" Mason asked as he continued to caress her face softly, "see how sweaty you get." Tiara couldn't help but admire how much he cared for her, like she was a fragile doll.

"It's alright." Tiara spoke softly, looking into his light brown eyes where she witnessed the love he had for her. The love that she could do anything for as she had done in the past already.

Mason smiled again when he found her light green eyes locked with his brown orbs. It always felt like a Deja Vu to him, looking at her beautiful eyes he felt like he had fallen in love all over again, it always gave him the same feeling he had felt when he first looked at her.

Her hands slid down from his shoulder to his chest, the tip of her toes slowly helped her to stand a bit taller and Mason slowly, very slowly leaned down. their eyes never broke eye contact, making the kiss more and more anticipating.

A spark of love flew through their bodies once their lips met and slowly moved in a perfect sync against each other making the kiss blissful.

Tiara found herself melting in his embrace, against his lips. Her hand was right above his heart and she could feel it beating fast, telling her how much he loved her. she felt butterflies in her stomach and she always wondered that after all this time his simple touch could still manage to give her those.

"I love you, dear wifey." Mason said softly after breaking the kiss, her face instantly turned red and he liked the effect he had on her.

"I love you too." Tiara replied but Mason kept looking at, giving her a cute face, blinking his eyes at her and she knew what he wanted, "my hubby." she looked down for a millisecond and again looked up at him smiling, a smile that didn't reach her eyes.

Mason, like every other time, noticed her looking down and then that smile. He liked it when she called him her husband or anything related to it but she would always hesitate for a second before addressing him like something was holding her back.

He didn't know much about her past as she had never mentioned anything except the fact that she had no one and Mason didn't think it was important to know her past because it was the future that he craved with her.

He ran his hand down her right arm, feeling the softness of her skin and intertwined his fingers with her and they both moved to their bedroom and closed the door behind.

Mason pushed her softly on the bed and took off her white bathrobe and was surprised to see that she was wearing a sexy satin night gown underneath it. His eyes popped out when he noticed that it was the same night dress, he had brought for her as a gift a few days ago but couldn't bring himself to give her that.

"I hope you like it on me." Tiara blushed when she uttered those words and looked down again due to shyness. She had found this nighty hidden in his side of the cupboard a few days ago, it was inside a box wrapped with gift paper and ribbon and with a little note that read it was for her.

Tiara couldn't control herself when it came to unwrapping the gifts and thus, ended up looking what was inside the box. She was startled for a second when she found out it was a sexy nightgown and she knew Mason was a little shy when it comes to talking about these things and she understood him for that and hence, decided to surprise her shy husband and she found the perfect opportunity today for that.

"I love it, baby." Mason told her and immediately kissed her on the lips, putting his appreciation for her in that kiss and the night went on for both of them, filled with bliss, love and moans and after an hour or so when both of them were satisfied and tired, Mason pulled her closer to him and cuddled with her.

"You are so beautiful, baby." Mason said to her like every other time right after they made love and started pecking her whole face, making Tiara giggle as she always found this habit of his very adorable.

She was thankful to every single god up there who had blessed her with this perfect man as her husband. She was glad that she took that step months ago and got married to Mason otherwise she would never have been this happy. It was her last prayer to keep her future as blissful as her present with Mason before falling asleep peacefully in her husband's arms unaware of the fact that the vicious shadow of her past had finally come to devour her.

At midnight when the night was the darkest, a black car stopped right in front of their house to end the dream they had been living.

A man got out, dressed in a black Armani suit that contrasted his pale skin and with those deadly steel grey eyes. He went up to their door followed by two other men behind him, the door was locked but it didn't hold the power to stop him.

One of his men came forward and smirked at the lock and took out a tool from his suit's pocket and confidently inserted it in the lock and with one swift turn the lock was opened with a clicking sound.

The grey eyed man patted his man's back in appreciation, he was confident that it would be a piece of cake for him and it was.

They pushed the door open and their menacing figure stepped inside that instantly disturbed the warm aura of the house and quietly closed the door behind them.

They stepped inside the living room, his men stood in one corner while he looked around, it was a small house and he scoffed that she chose a place like this over a castle. She ran away, leaving behind her princess like life to be here.

His eyes caught a photo frame, a picture of her in a white dress with a man in black tux and by the look of it he knew that it was a photo from their wedding. His blood boiled in sheer rage and he threw the frame away making a shattering sound when it came in contact with the floor.

Mason woke up when he heard the strange noise in the middle of night, he looked over at Tiara and saw her sleeping peacefully that instantly brought a smile on his face.

He wore his shorts and got up when he realized that the jug was empty and he was thirsty. He slowly made his way towards the kitchen and took out a water bottle from the refrigerator and quenched his thirst.

He was going back to his room but suddenly he felt something under his feet that pricked his skin making blood oozed out. He hissed in pain and looked down to see it was a photo frame, knitting his brows in confusion he kneeled down and picked it up.

He saw his blood smeared on the photograph and he sighed in dejection as he knew it was Tiara's favorite photo of them from their wedding and she would be so sad in the morning to find the frame broken.

He felt a sudden presence behind him and when he looked back to see who it was, he felt a cold metal pressed against his temple. and an involuntary wave of shiver ran down his body when he contemplated that it was a gun.

He slowly looked up to look at the intruder who had broken into their house and his eyes met with the grey orbs that sent the wave of terror in him.

"Who are you?" Mason asked, keeping his voice down as he didn't want Tiara to wake up and come out, "What do you want?"

The grey eyed man smirked at the kneeling Mason, to him he was pathetic and he couldn't believe that Tiara had chosen this pathetic scared man over him, "something that belongs to me" he answered, his voice was deep and laced with obsession and determination and before Mason could decipher the meaning of his words, he was pushed to floor and his men started throwing kicks to him.

"Mason?" They heard a sweet angelic voice coming from the bedroom after a while, the very voice he had longed to hear for years.

Tiara was sleeping peacefully but was disturbed by the noises coming from outside, she rubbed her eyes and looked at his side to find it empty. She frowned and looked towards the bathroom; the door was open so Tiara was sure Mason was not in there.

she heard the noises again as if someone was whimpering and grunting and she thought that Mason had started watching something on television.

"Mason?" she called him from inside as she fixed the straps of her nighty and decided to go out to him, "Mason baby?" She called her husband again and twisted the door knob to drag him back to sleep.

"No! Tiara, don't-" Mason tried to warn her but he didn't get to complete his sentence as he received another kick that caused him to let out another painful grunt, anyway it was too late as Tiara had already come out and the scene in front of her made her blood go cold.

She saw Mason on the floor and two other men whose back were to her and they were continuously kicking Mason and he was writhing in pain.

Tiara quickly ran up to them and pushed the two men away, who stepped away when they felt her pushing them, "Who are you? Why are you doing this?" she screamed at them in anger but when her eyes fell down on him the anger was replaced by pain.

"Mason baby? Are you okay?" She kneeled down in front of him and cupped his face, her eyes started shedding tears when they witnessed the man they love being all beaten up.

Mason held Tiara's hand and with the help of Tiara he sat up while she just kept crying seeing him in pain, "I am fine baby, don't cry" he assured her but she knew it was a lie, she knew he was in pain as she could sense it in his weak voice.

"N-No-" She was interrupted when someone snapped their finger and almost instantly Tiara was pulled away from Mason by one of the men who was beating her husband a few minutes ago.

She screamed when he locked her hands behind her back in his tight grip, "let me go" Tiara struggled against the unknown man but he was way too strong "who are you? why are you doing this?" she shouted again in helplessness.

She heard footsteps and she realized that there was one more person in the room with the four of them and she raised her head to look at the approaching figure of male.

Her eyes widened in shock when she recognized the person who stood in front of her and the shock gradually turned into terror when the past, she thought she had escaped stood before her with the menacing aura that held the power to devour her. She felt goosebumps on her entire body and she shivered in utmost terror.

"X-Xavier?" Her voice trembled just like her entire being because she knew that unlike his name that means savior, he was her doom who could darken her life with his presence only.

It had been years since she had called his name with her melodious voice but this time, he didn't feel a thing like he used to; he didn't feel content, he didn't find her voice soothing.

All the feelings and emotions her presence made to feel him was nowhere, perhaps his mind was rather focused on what his eyes were seeing. He noticed her, her natural blonde hair loosely hanging till her elbow in a perfect wave. her beautiful light green eyes that always reflected how pure and serene she was. Her pale white skin and her beautiful heart shaped lips.

His eyes blazed with anger when his eyes travelled down her neck, she was wearing a skimpy night dress. a good amount of her cleavage was on display, there were several fresh red marks on her chest and on her neck and it didn't take him long to realized that they were hickeys, he instantly looked back at Mason who was held by his other man, the same way Tiara was held. he noticed that Mason was shirtless and was only wearing shorts, there were few scratches on his chest.

His entire body burned with the fire of jealousy and the feeling of betrayal that swept through his heart worked as a fuel making him go berserk.

"You were sleeping with him!" He clenched his teeth trying to suppress the rage he felt inside him but lost control right away and shouted at her dangerously, "what are you? a slut?"

Tiara was afraid of him and there were no second thoughts about it however, she couldn't swallow the word he had just used for her, "WIFE!" she corrected him, looking right into his menacing eyes she dared to retaliate, "his wife and he is my husband." no matter how far away she ran from her family, the blood that was flowing in her vein was the same as theirs and she couldn't run from it and the blood of her father had never backed down.

Xavier let out a chuckled first at her courage and audacity and then started laughing that was as terrifying as his presence and his men who were also his closest friends knew Xavier had lost it and the person who was in control was Lucifer of the underworld.

"Husband huh?" He walked closer to Tiara who tried to move away but the man held her in place.

Xavier stopped when he was close enough to her where her front was almost touching his chest. He put his gun on her temple and she instantly closed her eyes in fear although a part of her knew that Xavier wouldn't kill her because there was a rule that a traitor was to dragged back in the territory and then must be killed mercilessly to kept that fear alive that the ancestors had built in the heart of people but she couldn't trust Xavier as he had already broken or changed some rules and yet no one dared to question him.

"Get away from my wife-" Mason shouted when he saw Xavier invading Tiara's personal space but he didn't get to complete his sentence as a bullet went straight to his forehead, right in the middle between his brows that made him silent for once and all.

"MASON!"