Chapter Three:

Hostage

*Three weeks after being kidnapped*….

The Old Kuran Manor…..

Knock. Knock. "Come in." I said dully as I looked out the window. "I've brought you something to eat and some fresh clothes." Ichiru said as he shut the door and set my food on the table. "Thank you." I said. I changed into the clean dress he handed to me. He helped me stand up and walk to the table so I could eat. "Real food. For the past three weeks the only thing I've had to eat were blood tablets." I said to Ichiru as he sat there watching me eat half of the pepperoni pizza. "I have a question." I said looking at him. What?" he said looking at me. "What's happened to my friends?" "They're being kept in two separate rooms down in the basement. None of them have been hurt, either." "That's good. I guess. Ichiru , that letter I asked aunt Shizuka to send. Did it get to Cross Academy?" "Yes, it did."

Knock. Knock. "Who is it?" Ichiru asked as he got up and went to the door. "It's me, Maria." "Okay." He said to her as he opened the door. "Shizuka-sama has decided to take you to your doctor's appointment at the clinic." Maria said to me. "Okay." I said as they helped me up.

"How are you feeling, Lia?" Shizuka Hio asked me. "Fine. I just want to go home and help my friends." I said as I began to cry. A few minutes later we arrived at the clinic.

"I remember this town." I said to myself.

"The baby looks healthy." The doctor said as he moved the ultrasound probe over my swollen belly. "Just another three weeks and the baby will be ready to come into the world." The doctor said to aunt Shizuka.

While they were talking I thought up a plan. The girls' bathroom has two doors. I can go through one door and quietly go out the other door. After that I can run two the church where my uncle, Able Knightroad, is at. I kept going over my plan for a few more minutes, then I spoke up. "Um, aunt Shizuka. May I go to the bathroom." I asked her. "Of course. Go ahead." She said to me. As I went into the bathroom I waited a few minutes, then I quietly went out the other door.

Ten minutes later….

I was standing outside the enormously huge church. Then I remembered something. It was Sunday and it was after eight o'clock. I didn't have time to wait for the sermon to end, so I went around back and found the office.(which looked more like a storage closet) I found a rock and tying a piece of paper to it. I threw it at the window and watched it break the window. As the window shattered into a thousand pieces. I ran as fast as I could back to the clinic. When I came out of the bathroom I saw Ichiru waiting by the door. "What took so long?" he asked me. "I threw up." I told him as we walked to the door. When we got back I was taken straight to my room.

At first I didn't sense him standing right behind me. Then I heard the door lock and the curtains were pulled shut.(Rido Kuran has been coming into my room at night for the past three weeks.) He wrapped his arms around me as he brushed his lips against the left side of my neck. He forced me to the bed and began to unbutton my dress one button at a time. As he took off my dress he lowered his face and kissed me. I tried to resist him, but I couldn't he was to powerful. He closed the curtains around the bed and then laid his hands on my swollen, naked belly as he murmured to himself "yes. Almost. Then she will be mine." As he said that I practically screamed in my head 'Somebody save me! Please save me from this SADISTIC. DEATH WORSHIPPING. PSYCHOPATHIC. HOMICIDAL. MANIAC!' then he looked at me and said. "You're perfection in and of itself. After this child is born. I will make you mine." I just stared at him in shock. Then I realized what he meant by that. ' HE. WANTS. ME. TO. DO. THAT. WITH. HIM!' I reluctantly thought to myself. Then I said under my breath "I'm being held hostage by a sadistic pervert." I came back to reality when he kissed me, again. I realized something as he was kissing me. I wanted him. I wanted to feel his naked body next to mine, but what shocked me the most. I was starting to fall for him. He finally stopped kissing me, as the need for air was crucial.

We were both breathing heavily, when he brushed my hair away from my neck. He held me so gently as he sank his fangs into me.

He wasn't a heartless man, Rido, he really wasn't. he just didn't plan on falling in love with the fragile girl who lay beside him. His plan had been simple at first. Kidnap the girl, keep her there until the baby was born, and then kill her. As he lay there beside her and seeing so clearly the puncture wounds he had inflicted upon her. He thought back to when he first saw her.

*flashback*

She was just a twelve year old child then. He was watching her leave the school on her way home. At the time she had jet black hair with red highlights cascading down her back. She was walking into the public library,that's where she went everyday, to do her school work. He followed her into the library. He quickly spotted her at a table finishing the last of her school work. He followed her as she walked to the very back of the library. He saw his chance when he noticed the storage closet. He grabbed her from behind and pulled her into the storage room with him. She was to shocked to do anything as he ripped off her clothes and then his own. When he was done with that he pinned her down on the floor and forced her legs open. Then he done it. The most un forgivable thing in the world. He heard the librarian approaching and he vanished.

Two years had gone by when he saw her next. At first he didn't recognize her, because she had strawberry-blonde hair that was shoulder length. He seen her stop and look directly at him and with a slight nod of her head motioned for him to follow her. When he caught up with her she had led him to her house. What he heard her say shocked him. "I was wanting to know if you could keep me company for the next few weeks while my mother's gone." She had said as she opened the front door and walked in. he followed behind her and as he shut the door he seen the kitchen(which looked like a tornado went through it.). he heard her muttering under her breath. "I swear. She didn't even bother cleaning up this mess. Thankfully, all the other chores are done." Then she looked over her shoulder at him and with a sheepish grin on her face told him to roll up his sleeves and start helping. After he helped her clean the kitchen he noticed her staring at him. Her face turned red and she looked away. He picked her up and threw her over his shoulder. Then he started up the stairs and quickly found her room. He realized just how lonely she really was. He held her as she broke down and cried all those tears she had kept bottled up for so long. When she was through crying she went and took a shower and it seemed like forever she came out. He grabbed her arm and pulled her close to him. He kissed her passionately and picking her up he carried her to the bed. One thing led to another and that night they decided to get married. Four months later she told him she was pregnant. They had been married secretly, no one knew, especially her mother. Her mother hated him and she would do anything to see him turn to dust.

He took her with him. He had to keep her safe, for the sake of his child in her womb. She had been able to have the child safely. He had a son. She named him Mordacai. That same night her attack the place where they were at. He couldn't bear to see her cry. So, he did the kindest thing for her. He sealed her memories and taking her and his newborn son to the local church where Bishop Laura agreed to hide her. She also agreed to raise his son in the church orphanage. After that her mother sealed him in that coffin. That's all he really remembered until…

Then his mind flashed back to three weeks earlier. He had his followers bring her to his room in that warehouse. "Leave us." He had said. He was at her side in an instant. He picked her up and carried her to the bed. "Please don't hurt my baby."she had said in a small trembling voice. He held her gently as she began to cry. He had seen her unborn child moving inside her. He sang to her as he held her trembling body.

*end flashback*

What will prevail in their hearts? Lia's love for Kain or Rido's love for her? Now that Rido has returned her memories to her. What will happen to them? And a mysterious young boy shows up at Cross Academy. Who is he? What does he want?