Chapter 17

Gia struggled her eyes open.  She looked around the room and saw that she was laying on a sofa in a luxurious living room.  With a great deal of trouble, she managed to sit up.  Her eyes fixed on the two men sitting in chairs nearby.

Luis Alcazar, who was the man that abducted her, was sitting next to a man that she thought was dead.  It was Nikolas' father, Stavros Cassadine.  The two men were so deep in conversation that they had not noticed that she was awake.

She stared at him a moment before she was able to speak.  "You're the one behind this?" she finally asked.

Stavros turned to face her.  "Gia my dear, so nice of you to join us," he said with a smile.  "Welcome to my home."

"Is this a trick?" she asked suspiciously.  "Luke said you fell down a bottomless pit.  You couldn't have survived."

"No, its no trick.  I am really here.  As for Mr. Spencer, well he should have stayed around longer.  If he had, he would have noticed that there was a ledge about fifteen feet down the hole.  A grabbed onto that ledge and pulled myself up on it.  I waited there for someone to rescue me.  Then we left through a secret exit even Nikolas didn't know about."

Gia shook her head.  She couldn't believe what she was hearing.  "What… what do you want with me?"

"I want to use you as bait my dear," Stavros said with a laugh.

"Bait?  Bait for what?"

"To lure Jason Morgan here.  You see when I learned that Mr. Alcazar here was helping A.J. Quartermaine to set up his brother with a murder charge, I thought I could use it to my advantage."

"A.J. set Jason up?" Gia asked in disbelief.

Stavros nodded.  "I thought with Mr. Morgan in jail, I would have an easy time getting to you.  But…"

"You wanted to get to me?  Why?" Gia interrupted.

Stavros glared at her.  "You do not interrupt me when I'm speaking," he said.   "However,  I will answer your question.  I intend to get you back for Nikolas."

"You intend to… Does Nikolas know about this?  Have you talked to him?"

He shook his head.  "No."

"Then you should know that Nikolas broke up with me.  He doesn't want me back," she said as her anger grew.

"Nikolas is young and foolish.  He let Mr. Morgan steal you away from him.  Soon you two will be married and back on our island, where you will both be under my control," Stavros said.

Gia started to comment, but she saw Alcazar place his hand on the gun in the waistband of his pants.  She decided now was not the time.

Stavros smiled at her before he continued.  "Like I started to say, you had to interfere with the plan and break Morgan out of jail.  So now I'll just have to do things my way."  He stopped talking and waited for her response.

"Your way?" she asked.  "What do you intend to do?"

"I intend to get Jason Morgan out of your life forever.  In fact he will be out of everyone's life."

"You mean…" Gia started to say before Stavros interrupted her.

 "Yes," he said with an evil smile.  "I intend to kill Jason Morgan."

The color drained from Gia's face and she fainted again.