Chapter 3 You creep!

Nydia’s POV

“Let me go!” I roared, struggling fiercely with both my hands and feet!

“Slap!”

A harsh slap landed on my face, leaving me dizzy, my head buzzing.

Taking advantage of my daze, the men quickly tied my hands behind my back and tossed me backward carelessly.

Before I could even cry out in pain, a pair of rough hands grabbed my face, forcing me to look up.

The man who had hit me gave me a sinister warning, “Behave! You’re in our hands now, there’s no escape!”

“Why are you doing this to me…” I struggled to speak.

The man sneered, “You didn’t mess with us, but you messed with someone else!”

“Someone else?” I asked suspiciously, though I already had a guess in my mind.

The only person who could come up with such a vicious plan was Olive.

After all, this wasn’t the first time she’d done something like this.

The last time I was kidnapped, it was her doing.

Back then, I didn’t know it was her scheme. I followed the kidnappers’ instructions and called my parents for ransom, begging them to save me.

But just as my parents were about to arrive, the kidnappers suddenly let me go and ran off in a hurry.

I was unharmed, but my parents weren’t relieved or happy. Instead, they were furious.

They thought the whole kidnapping was a stunt I pulled to compete with Olive for their attention, a desperate act to make them care about me more.

No matter how much I explained, they refused to believe me. They stuck to their own conclusions.

This kidnapping had to be her work again!

But now that my parents were already on her side, and Gordon had left me just as she wanted, what was her goal in doing this?

The man in front of me was rubbing my face with his fingers!

The slight stinging from his rough skin made me feel sick, like I was being coiled by a venomous snake.

I quickly turned my head to avoid him, but he forcefully yanked my face back.

“What are you dodging for?” He sneered, his hot breath hitting my face, “Tonight, we’re gonna make you feel real good!”

His crude, vulgar words made my skin crawl.

A bad feeling rose in my chest.

“What are you going to do?” I asked.

The man scoffed with disdain, “What are we gonna do? A man and a woman together—what do you think? I’ll be straight with you. The person who hired us told us to rape you and record it with videos and photos! ”

I couldn’t believe Olive could be this cruel.

“Please!” I pretended to beg, while my hands behind my back quietly worked on loosening the ropes, “Let me go. Whatever she paid you, I’ll double it! My parents are rich, they’ll pay to save me!”

“You think you can fool us, you little bitch!We heard you calling for help earlier! Your parents don’t even believe you!”

I didn’t expect them to come save me either.

I was just saying this to buy time.

I had already managed to call the police with my phone earlier.

I continued to act weak, “I’m their biological daughter! They won’t really abandon me! Please, give me another chance! Let me call them, okay?”

“No way!” The man’s eyes gleamed as he looked at me, “I’ve never been with a woman as pretty as you!”

With that, he lunged at me impatiently, grabbing my face as if to kiss me.

A wave of nausea surged up my throat.

“Hey.” A lazy male voice suddenly broke the tension, “So many guys ganging up on one pretty lady? That’s not very gentlemanly.”

I looked up and saw a dark figure jump down swiftly in front of me. He stood there, shielding me completely in his shadow.

It was a man.

Tall, wearing a leather jacket, with a well-built, balanced frame and long legs. He was casually spinning a gun in his hand.

Suddenly, he stopped, gripping the gun tightly and pointing it straight at the leader of the thugs.

“You!” The thug’s voice trembled with fear, “We’ve got no beef with you. I’m warning you, don’t stick your nose where it doesn’t belong!”

The man let out a short laugh, “Funny, I’ve never been good at taking advice.”

Before he finished speaking, he smashed the butt of the gun hard against the thug’s head.

The thug cried out in pain, and the others rushed forward in a swarm.

In less than five minutes, the last standing thug was kicked down by him.

But I didn’t expect this strange man to be so strong.

“Phew.” He rubbed his neck, turned to me, and winked, “I’m exhausted, pretty lady. Don’t you think this is the part where you give me a thank-you kiss?”

I pressed my lips together, didn’t respond, and walked past him to leave.

He sounded surprised, with a teasing tone, “Hey, pretty lady, I just saved you. Not even a thank you?”

I ignored him and walked faster.

He clicked his tongue, caught up to me in a few steps, and blocked my path.

I had no choice but to look at him, saying coldly, “I didn’t ask you to save me.”

“Wow, so heartless?” he said with a light chuckle.

I wasn’t interested in wasting time on pointless chatter with him. I tried to walk around him.

But then he grabbed my hand!

I instinctively tried to pull away, but even though he didn’t seem to use much force, I couldn’t break free.

I glared at him in frustration, and he raised an eyebrow at me.

“It’s late. Don’t wander around alone. But if you really want to take a walk, I can keep you company. Good guys like me are hard to find these days.”

“You’re really annoying,” I said impatiently, “What do you want?”

I had no idea where this man came from, and I was worried his appearance might be another part of Olive’s scheme to trap me.

I couldn’t help but step back, only to clumsily step into a sandpit and fall backward!

“Careful!”

He tried to grab me, but I ended up pulling him down with me.

He landed on top of me!

This creep!

“Get your filthy hand off me!” I yelled in embarrassment and anger, “Or I’ll kill you!”

He seemed to just notice, quickly raising his hands in surrender with an innocent shrug, “I didn’t mean to!”

“Enough!” I cut him off, “Get off me now!”

This position was way too intimate. I could even feel the tension and strength in his thigh muscles!

He got up, and I quickly scrambled to my feet, brushing the sand off my clothes.

“Didn’t expect…” he started again.

I shot him a fierce glare, and he smirked mischievously, raising an eyebrow, “You’re pretty skinny, but you’ve got a lot going on up top.”

This damn creep!

“Go to hell!” I punched him right in the eye. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the police finally arriving.

I shouted loudly, “Help! There’s a creep harassing me over here!”