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"This is the second time." Stella hissed clenching her shaking fists. "First Jason, now Elena."

"We'll find her." Her husband said placing wrapping his hand around one of her shaking fists.

"What is this man trying to get from this?" She snapped turning to face him. "Nothing. He is just plain evil and tries to just hurt us." She said shaking her head. "But not with my daughter."

They had let this go too far. That man got out of hand years ago, but she's just now realizing that jail shouldn't even have an option for him. Kevin was just far too gone.

She used to think that going to prison would have made him realize his mistakes and change. He came out hating them even more than he did before. And this time, without even a real objective, except to cause pain.

The man doesn't even seem worried about his brother and nephew and she's not even surprised by that. And she honestly couldn't care less what was going on in his head.

"And Victoria. She got in this mess because of our family's problems in the first place." She said placing her fingers on either side of her temple.

"We'll find them." He said trying his best to use a calm voice for his wife. "I just need you to stay with Rose."

"I know we will. That doesn't make it okay. That bastard is done for, Hunter. I mean it." She slightly turned to look at him as her fists clenched even more at her sides as he led her to the front door.

"I know." He said again in a calm voice, that hid the storm inside of him, looking at her. "Just make sure Rose stays calm."

"I'll take care of her." She nodded wiping her tears away as they walked out of their front door. "Please, just find my girls."

I will. He thought. And this is the last time he will let the man touch his family.

*****

"Where is she?" Rose asked looking around her frantically. "I told you." She hissed looking at the man in front of her. "Those devils took her."

Steve took a look at her agitated form after finally managing to stop her tears. He knew that asking her questions won't get him anymore and will only increase her anxiety. She was just as confused as he was and seemed unable to answer his questions without going into a state of panic.

The fact that he was asking her questions without letting her know that their daughter was missing makes this situation even more complicated and frustrating for her.

Though hearing her talk, there was no doubt that she knew what was going on.

"Stop worrying." Steve said pushing her toward the couch. "She's with Elena, remember? They are shopping for the wedding."

"You're lying to me." She shook her head as her hands found their way into her coils before letting out a sob. "You're lying to me. Where is she? Where is my little girl?"

"Ro-"

"They took my daughter? It's because of them? Those devils! They got my daughter in this. The crazy man promised that he would make her happy, and now, where is she? He doesn't even know." She said and her voice kept getting lower with each word.

"Please. Calm down. Our girl's fine." He said grabbing her shaking hands but she quickly pulled them away.

"You're lying again!" She shook her head anxiously again as her loud voice resonated in the room. "Where is my daughter!?" She yelled abruptly standing up. "Where is she!?" She yelled again as her nurse came rushing into the living into the living-room a glass of water in her hands.

Steve attempted to grab her hands again and this time succeeding. "Look at me." He whispered and she shook her head again. "Please."

The pleading in his voice made her do so. And he could feel his heart breaking all over again at the sight of her teary eyes. She looked so distressed. The desperation in her eyes broke his heart and did nothing but increased the hole in his heart, and his anger toward Kevin.

Her wide eyes stared into his own before he lifted one of his hands and placed it on her cheek swiftly wiping her tears away.

"Trust me, okay?" He whispered staring into eyes and stared back without saying another word as he slowly made sit on the couch. "I'll bring her back."

He motioned for the nurse to come closer and got the glass of water from her as she did.

"I'll go get Victoria and bring her home." He smiled lightly as the nurse gave him the glass of water and the medication. "Take this." He said softly before bringing the pills to her lips. "I'm here now. I know what Victoria means to you, and you know what she means to me. I'll go get her."

She took them quietly and drank slowly as he brought the glass of water to her lips.

*****

"Let me do it." Sebastian said looking at his older brother. "You're too hot tempered for that. You'll kill him." He said placing a hand on his shoulder in a attempt to calm him down, which proved to do the contrary.

"I don't have time to waste with your games, Seb. And you've wasted way too much time with him." Jason snapped shoving his brother's hand off his shoulder. "We need to find them."

The brothers stared at each other silently.

"That's why I'm telling you to let me handle it. I know how to work him. He's almost at his limit." He said looking at the man behind his brother. "Marco talk to him. He listens to you. You're both too impatient to question him without killing him."

Sebastian looked back at his brother knowing well what was going on in the older man's head. But he also had to understand that Sebastian wanted to find Elena and Victoria just as much as he did. And he wouldn't do anything to slow down the process.

Twenty-four hours was far too long and they both knew it and that's why he needed his brother to work with him.

"The brat is right, Jason." Marco said moving closer to the both of them. "Let's give him a few more minutes." He added before turning to the younger man. "You've got five before I go in."

Sebastian turned back and walked toward the room without another word.

Five minutes.

That was enough to crack this motherfucker.

He walked in the poorly lit room and his eyes landed on the tied-up man in front of him. Florine's head was lowered but he immediately looked up as the approaching footsteps.

"Where are they?" Sebastian asked pulling the iron chair closer to the tied-up man.

"I don't know." He said, his voice cracking toward the end. "I d-don't know."

Sebastian let out a small laugh before lowering his head a little. "Where are they?" He asked again.

"Please." Florine sobbed, his eyes glued on the man before him.

"This is why I didn't send you to jail or killed you. Now you have to show me how grateful you are." He said in a calm voice, that didn't calm the storm in his eyes. "Where is he?"

Florine lowered his eyes when the other man looked back at him. He was feeling a lot of things but gratefulness wasn't one of them. He's been kept her for who know how long with his only contact with the outside world being the man before him.

A man he had underestimated. He's always thought that the only people he should be worried about were Hunter and his older son, but the young man before him only proved him wrong. He's the one he should have been most worried about. The time spent in this room proved him all that.

"I-" He sniffed as his body started shaking once more.

"Okay." The young Knight's gruff voice was heard.

He reached for a bolo knife on the floor cause Florine to gasp and started pulling harder on the binds.

"I have been nice to you so far. Because I am patient." He said before pointing the bolo at the shaking man. "But I gotta find my little sister. So, if you don't tell me, I'm letting my big brother handle it, and he's not as patient as I am. he would kill before getting an answer without a doubt."

Another sob broke into Florine's throat. "Please."

"I am pleading too." He chuckled. "Please tell me where my sister is before I cut you open."

"I h-haven't been in contact with K-Kevin. You know that." He cried.

"Even if you don't know, I need a list of locations. You haven't been in here for that long. And you've worked with him before." Sebastian hissed lowering the knife to man's abdomen and sinking it in cause a long piercing scream to leave him. "Sshhh. Why are you being so loud? My sister was taken, I'm in pain too, but you don't hear me scream like that."

"Please." Florine gasped and shrieked as the knife was harshly pulled out of him. "I do-on't k-"

"Like I said. I need a list of locations." He shrugged pointing the knife toward the other side of his abdomen.

"Okay, okay." She panicked as a sob left his mouth. "I d-don't know where he is, b-ut I know a few places you can look into."

"Now we're talking."

*****

"Elena." Victoria said into the silent room moving her arms a little trying to reach for Elena.

Elena shifted beside her. "Hmm."

"I thought you were sleeping."

"I can't even if I wanted to." Elena whispered turning her head a little to look at me. "What's taking them so long?"

"He took your bracelet. So that's going to make it harder." Victoria said turning her head to the side to look at her friend.

They don't even know how long they had been here. There was no window, no way for them to know how many times has passed.

She let out a small humorless laugh. "Kevin is stupid anyway."

"Elena." Victoria said softly in a scolding tone as her lips turned up slightly.

"If he was any smart, he wouldn't have done this. I guess he's that desperate." Elena said with a small shrug.

She nodded in agreement. "He is."

She let out a small sigh and continued. "But he knows he's got nothing else to lose. And that's also not good for us."

"Talking about me?" Kevin voice said followed by the opening of the heavy metal door. "You must be really bored." He chuckled leaving the door wide open before moving closer the them with black hoods in his hands.

He crouched in front of Elena and moved a hand toward her.

"Don't touch me with your disgusting hands." Elena spat moving her leg to kick the hand that was moving toward her.

"You little bitch, aren't you tired of fighting?"

"Still asking stupid question." She scoffed looking directly into his eyes. "And I could ask you the same thing. Aren't you tired? After all these years."

"Just shut up." He sighed rolling his eyes at her words.

"You don't even have a life anymore Kevin." She said in a soft tone that only brought his anger back.

"Didn't I tell you to shut up?" He snapped grasping her chin harshly and holding the black hood in his other hand.

The action caused Elena's eyes to harden again. "All this because dad didn't make you COO? You're pathetic."

His jaw clenched. "Come here." He snapped roughly putting the black hood over her head. "I'm happy to finally be getting of you out of my way so we can move on." He said before moving to Victoria and putting another black hood over her head.

Both girls hold their breaths as footsteps were heard approaching them and another person entered the room.

"It's the one on the left." Kevin said moving back.

The footsteps got closer causing Elena to frantically moved back pushing herself against the wall.

"Please stop this madness!" Victoria yelled.

Elena blindingly kicked her foot in the air and gasped when a hand grabbed her ankle seizing her movement.

"I told you she was crazy." They heard Kevin say on the other side of the room. "But since that's how you like them, you'll be served."

"Don't touch me!" Elena screamed kicking her other leg, only for it to get caught too. "I said don't touch me!" She yelled when the man grabbed both her ankles and held them together in one of his hands.

She heard the sound of zip ties before she realizes that her legs were bound together.

Hands grabbed her waist and she was pulled up and over broad shoulder. Her heartbeat considerably increased as fear overtook her body once more. All other sounds were background noises except for her and Victoria's screams.

The moment she came back to her senses was when the cold air of the outside hit her bare legs and all she could do was fight and try pull herself out of the man's iron hold. Another sob escaped her and she felt her will dying on her.

Why? She asked herself as she feels the increasing pressure in her chest.

"I'll be waiting for the rest of the money." She heard Kevin's voice say and her anger came back in full force at the sound of a closing door.

She groaned slamming her elbows against the man's back as her knees slammed against his stomach causing the man to let out a small groan.

"Calm down."

She froze at the all too familiar voice,

"M-Marco?"

"Hm." Was his only response.

The way the relief her body almost made her dizzy as she felt more tears coming out of her eyes. Tears she couldn't stop even if she wanted to. But the tension still hasn't left her body as she felt herself being moved until her head rested against his shoulder.

A position that would have no doubt made her lose herself under normal circumstances, but her brain was filled with too many thoughts and questions all at once and she found herself unable to wrap her head around it.

She heard a car door being opened and she was seated on the backseat before he slowly pulled the hood from her head. She looked up in surprise when she wasn't blinded by daylight but realize that it was night time as she looked around at her dark surroundings. Her big eyes moved to the man in front of her. He stood in front of her staring at her without saying anything.

When all she did was blink at him, he pulled out a pocket knife before cutting her binds. Her eyes were lowered and she moved to rub the wrists once she was freed.

She straightened her back and started looking around again. "Victoria?"

"Don't worry. She'll be fine."

He closed the door and she watched with wide eyes as he walked around as got into the driver's seat. She stared at him as he just sat there staring ahead.

"Victoria is still in there."

He nodded slightly turning his head toward her in acknowledgment. "We're gonna get her."

"When!?"

"Be patient."

Patience? He is asking for the one thing she hereditary lacked. Especially now. How can he expect her to stay patience when she doesn't know if her friend is okay? And more importantly with Victoria thinking that she was taken by some strange man.

"I don't have patience!" She sobbed in frustration and he let out a barely audible sigh before turning to face her.

"Elena, we're not leaving without her. So, sit back and be patient." He said in his usual calm voice.

Another sob escaped her and she buried her face in her hands, hating this situation and hating the man that was causing all this.

Her shoulders trembled a little when she felt Marco's large hand grab one of her wrists lightly.

"Did he hurt you?" He asked, his deep voice bringing her more comfort than she could have hoped for at a moment like this.

"N-no." She shook her head sniffing a little accepting the wrath of his touch spreading across her body. "I'm fine."

"Don't cry. We'll get her." He said as his thumb rubbed softly against her wrist.

*****

"You bastard." Victoria turning her angry gaze toward the man in front of her. "You are going to pay for this."

"You want to have a big mouth too now." Kevin said going down to her level. "You are not like Elena. You are not like these people. So, don't act like them."

"You have no idea how much I fucking hate you." She hissed, his words not registering at all and shook her head in denial. "You don't know what you've just done."

"Victori-"

"I hope you die a slow and painful death." She said before looking up at him.

The expression she held caused the man to stand up looking taken aback. The anger was evident in her voice, but her face didn't match her tone at all. Her expression was empty, as were her eyes. It's like she was looking at him without seeing him. Her eyes were looking right through him.

"Give her back."

"Victori-"

"Give her back."

"You know it's too late for that. She's gone and it's better that way."

"Give her back."

He took another step back when her eyes finally moved to his and this time, he was sure that she was looking right at him. The discomfort he felt at the blank look in her eyes caused him stare at her as if he's just now meeting her.

"I'll kill you." Victoria said above a whisper staring at him with a look so calm that it made him take another step back. "Release me."

He turned back without another and walked out of the room closing the door behind him. That was when he let out a breath he didn't know he was holding. He slowly moved up the stairs, his mind unable to stop replaying her expression.

"I'll kill you." Her words also kept repeating in his mind.

He left a breathy laugh before slapping his forehead.

Yeah right.

That woman was far from being like that. Those Knights are just toxic and she's been spending too much time with them.

"She's really my daughter, isn't she?" Steve's voice caused his whole body to tense up.

No.

No.

No.

"But I don't want my little girl to do the dirty work, so I'll do it for her." He said shoving him back. "Or maybe I let your family have the pleasure."

"Thank you, sir." Kevin froze at the new unfamiliar voice behind him. "Hi Uncle."

Kevin's head whipped around to find Jason and the man who had just spoken to him.

*****

The metal opened again and this time, Victoria didn't even look up to look at the man. Her body felt too heavy, the only thing she knew was that she needed to be untied. All she could feel was her hatred for this man.

How did it come to this?

She never thought she would ever come to hate another person like that. She truly always believed that "hate" was a strong word to describe one's feeling toward a person. But right now, there wasn't another word that could describe her feelings toward the man.

"Sweetheart." She jumped at the all too familiar voice as she felt her wrists being released.

She slowly looked up and her eyes met her father's. She blinked at him wondering if her desperation was causing her mind to play tricks on her.

"Flower." He whispered and a sob of relief left her as she felt her father take her in his arms. "I was so worried."

No tricks.

He was here.

"Dad." She murmured wrapping her arms around him before being lifted up.

"I'm here." He murmured back. "I got you."

His words brought her more comfort than she could have hoped for. She dropped her head against him as her body started shaking again when she recalled what happened a few minutes ago.

Elena.

"Elena-"

"She's fine. She's safe." He said and let out a breath as soon as he felt the tension leave her and sagged against him. "Let's get you out of here."

She didn't say anything as he turned around and walked out of the room.

"Did he hurt you?" He asked as soon as they passed the room's doorframe.

"No." She mumbled looking at her bruised wrists tiredly.

It only took a few moments before she felt the cold air hit her warm face. Her eyes looked around slowly without doing the effort of moving her head.

"Vicky." Elena's voice was what finally made her move her head to the side.

Elena was already in the backseat of a car looking at her with wide teary eyes. Victoria felt her own tears rolling down her cheeks as she was placed on the backseat beside Elena who wasted no time wrapping her arms around her.

"Lena. Thank goodness you're okay." Victoria said wrapping her tightly around her friend.

"Let's go." Steve said closing the door and moving to the passenger sit.

Go?

Elena looked up. "But-"

"We'll see the others later." Steve said as Marco started the car. "The two of you are fine. That's all that matters. We need to get you out of here."

*****

"I don't think we've officially met." Sebastian said eyeing the man before him with a glint in his eyes. "I'm Sebastian, the baby of the family. Nice to finally meet you, uncle Kevin."

Kevin looked at the younger man before his eyes shifted to Jason, who hasn't moved from his position at the entrance. Unlike his younger brother who was obviously concealing his real feelings, Jason made his hatred and disdain for the man very obvious. His eyes were glued on Kevin not once shifting or straying from his target.

Kevin felt a lump in his throat, not knowing which one of the two man he should warier of. Though the younger man had a calmer, and dare he say friendly expression on, the glint in his eyes told another story. Jason's unmoving stare was what practically caused his knees to buckle. Those eyes reminded of the man that has once made him beg and cry.

And his dilemma only caused his unwelcomed anxiety to come to the surface. But his last thoughts caused he fists to clench in a mix of both anger and anxiety.

He hated them. The youngest member of the family and his sister just proved to him once again that he couldn't bring himself to regret his actions. The arrogance and insolence were just something none of them could just wash off.

"Well aren't you going to say that it's nice to meet me?" Sebastian's voice snapped him out of his thoughts and he clenched his fists when he sensed the edge in the young man's voice.

"What's certain is that you'll die tonight and in this place." Sebastian chuckled looking at the wide-eyed man. "Don't look at us like that. At least we're letting you know. And you picked out this isolated and soundproof place." He said leaning his head back before looking back at him.

"Dad will be here soon. But to make it fair, only one of us will do the job." Jason said sitting on one of the chairs, eyes never leaving him.

"And we'll let you choose who." Sebastian said.