Sold to be the Mafia's Doctor

Chapter 4

Just like the dark starless sky that was once filled with twinkles of hope, Laura has finally retreated searching for a miracle. At this moment, no lights—even a glimmer—have shone on her anymore. Only the abyss of hopelessness.

She knew it, the moment this man appeared with a heavy dense of aura—it was as though the hopes in her were getting sucked on by the swirling of jarring accompany around him.

“Is she the doctor?” Adam asked in his chilling and shuddering voice that never fails to arise the hair on Laura’s body. Her dad nodded at him. At the cue, she was once again gazed by those cyan blue eyes as though a laser that only focuses on her, which signifies a threat if she was to budge.

“Perfect.” She heard him muttering under his breath as he looked at her intently with a grin. “It’s a close deal, then.” The man remarked and extended his arms.

Hopeful to get his hand accepted, Adam spoke, “I’m Adam Adamson and I’m excited to have your assistance as my personal doctor, Miss Garfield.” But terrific and skepticism is still whispering in her. Laura just stared at his hand without intention to accept it.

With heart beating fast, Laura opened her mouth, “I will get this over soon, Dad.” In spite of the subtle tremble voice of the woman, conviction and bravery still harmonized with it. Laura casted a glance at her father who couldn’t bear returning the gaze.

“I’m looking forward to it.” Adam replied to her remarks. There was a tinge of tease in his voice that seemingly led into the rough idea of getting her challenged. Laura took a huge gulp as she toughly stared at the man whose smug face brings infuriation yet fear to her.

It didn’t take time for them to stare at each other and stand there for too long, when Adam has finally announced their departure along with Laura.

“I want you to come with us, Mr. Garfield. There’s a ceremony that has yet to be done that will witness the closure of our deal.”

With that being said, Laura and her dad are now riding on the same car with the Cosa Nostra—the very organization that they have been warned about. Strangely enough, Laura’s father is wearing a blindfold during the whole time of travel. It was a huge perplexity in her but, seeing the odd place that they are passing through is vanishing that curiosity right away.

A place that she didn’t know existed in this state—where tall trees are governing the side ways of the road mixed with wide and huge plants peeking through the edges of the trees’ trunks. This is almost a way to the forest.

But her initial thought was abruptly killed when a gigantic gray-colored wall was caught in her eyes. Approaching that way left her even more astonished as she realized how giant the wall is.

This is ridiculously tall!

“The boss is coming! Assemble!” A sudden exclamation suddenly rose when the car successfully passed through the gate.

And what met the woman’s eyes feels like a different world. This place is like a small city because of a few buildings standing. But what stands up more is the cube-like structure that is bigger than any buildings here. The car approaches to that way until it stopped in front of the men in a black suit who are neatly lining up horizontally.

“We’re pleased to have your safe arrival, Boss.” A man leading the men remarked but Adam didn’t even cast a glance at his direction when they passed through them.

Walking behind him are Laura and his blindfolded father with a few men tailing them. They went through a dim lit passageway with only weak firelight lighting the way. It was as though they are going to the dungeon that Laura couldn’t help but to think of such thoughts that brings great fear and shivers in her trembling body.

After a few minutes, they found themselves in a small dim lit room befitting for three people only, consisting of Laura, her dad, and Adam. Finally, his father can see with blindfold off.

“Christopher Garfield. The moment you have stepped foot onto our territory signifies a close relationship between Cosa Nostra and Garfield family.” Adam took a dramatical pause and pulled out a needle from the wall. “In the presence of Laura Queen Garfield, I therefore shall remark her as the third-party to witness the closure of our deal.” Laura widened her eyes in surprise.

A third-party? What’s going on? Cluelessly, she turned her head to him. In the middle of confusing so-called ceremony, Laura expressed her perplexity in regards of what he means.

“How come I’m the third-party?” furrowed brows, she looked into his eyes that lit in her direction, seemingly dismissing her concern. For a moment, there, she regretted interrupting.

“Because you’ll remain here, for as long as I wanted.” Surprisingly, he replied to her as menacing as his cold voice. “With that being said, I, the promisee shall keep Laura Garfield whenever I want. The third-party, Laura Garfield shall do whatever the promisee wants. And lastly, Christopher Garfield, the promisor, shall not disclose anything in this deal, even the littlest thing related to Cosa Nostra.” He announced and picked up the wrinkly hand of Christopher.

Right in Laura’s eyes, Adam suddenly pricked her father’s thumb finger. He guided his finger onto the figure of a demonic horse that he held on the other hand. He smeared his blood on it, and burnt it in an instant.

“The moment you betray Cosa Nostra, your flesh will also be burnt like this saint…” The fire that lit from the luxurious cream paper brought light to the dim lit room, which did not fail to give an electrifying shiver in Laura’s body. “Along with your daughter.” Adam casted a brief threatening look on her. Coldness and pale then briefly took her body over.

That was a nerve-wracking way to have a contract! Even until now, when the ceremony has already done and now in her respective room, Laura couldn’t still get her mind off of it! Especially the condition of their contract.

Sulking on the bed, Laura nervously roamed her eyes around. It’s a huge room here, screaming with luxury and emptiness. But then, she almost jumped out of surprise that her heart almost shrank, when a loud knocks suddenly ensued. She gathered the strength in her body first and slowly approached the door.

“The boss is looking for you.” The same man who found her at the airport earlier, is now standing in front of the door to fetch her up. His remarks regained the fear that she had tried to forget. But being under the jurisdiction of Cosa Nostra doesn’t give her the rights to refuse, thus, she went along with him.

It took them a few turns inside this enormous house-like building to reach the private room of the boss.

“She has arrived, Boss.” The man opened the door for her. The coldness of the room inside then splashed against her skin, adding a bucket of nervousness to go in.

She took a huge gulp first before stepping her foot inside. She has to not appear weak here! Otherwise, these people would take advantage of it!

“I heard you looked for my presence, Mr. Adamson.” She remarked, trying hard to sound confident, while standing beside the door. Should something untoward happens, she’s just one step away to escape.

“You’re way too far from my sight, Laura. Inch closer, so that we’ll have a proper talk.” His deep playful voice echoed in her ears for a moment before she did as she was told. “Kidding aside, I called you here to check up on me. All you needed are all here, so just do your job well as my doctor.” He looked intensely at her as though his cyan blue eyes are intending to suck her existence.

Laura was caught off-guard when she noticed the stethoscope and sphygmomanometer clinging around the man’s neck as he casually sat on the couch. She cannot help herself to furrow her brows at him, subsiding the fear inside her body.

“Those things in your neck aren’t a toy to use it that way, Mr. Adamson.” She regarded, not concerning who this person is. As a doctor herself, it isn’t such a sight to see those valued materials just having them around his neck like some sort of toys.

“Then, take it off and use it on me.” A vivid hint of arrogance and tease surfaced in his voice, Adam challenged her, basically. When he found her halted, he cannot help himself arching one end of his lips.

That caught the woman by surprise, daring such a thing to a Cosa Nostra boss. Laura just got her permission to take it off from him and being a doctor who thinks highly of this profession, she slowly got up to her feet and went to his direction.

A smile of satisfaction then didn’t escape from the man’s lips like a puppet master being proud of his doll.

Trying to stay composed with those serene and terrifying gazes on her, Laura slowly lifted her hand to get those things out of him, so she can use it afterwards. Those things are on her grasp already, and she’s readying to pull them off of him, when something even more surprising happened.

Adam suddenly caught her small wrist that ended the woman pulled down on the couch. His wide and hard hand that almost covered the entire arm of Laura.

“Wouldn’t it be boring if you’re only staying here to be my doctor, hmm?” Adam suddenly muttered in his low voice, leaving the woman flustered because of their skins touching that left a shiver in her.

“What about a little fun, yeah?” frozen, Laura dilated her eyes at him. It was as though the mafia boss that she initially knew based on the public’s description has instantly brushed off of this man’s menacing complexion. Still, vivid hint of horrific didn’t fail to signify Laura from Adam’s actions.

She nervously stared at that smug face of his while Adam is scanning her face with careful observation until his eyes ran down to her chest, resulting a great shock in her. A soft gasp escaped from the woman’s lips as she was about to cover her body with her free hand.

But Adam caught it again.

“You’re not too bad…” a mischievous grin was then plastered on his face as he pulled himself closer to her ears. “For a pet, are you?”