The Billionaire Mafia’s Slave

CHAPTER 20: LILY IS MISSING

NIKOLAI’S POV:

“You heard me Irina, apologize to Lily… right now”, I repeated myself.

They all stared at me in surprise.

Just because I didn’t say anything to Irina doesn’t mean I wasn’t aware of her hateful side talks on Lily out of what? Jealousy? I scoffed at that.

I know Irina has some romantic feeling towards me, she hasn’t approached me about it. We have all been friends with Ivan and Lev since our childhood, Irina was the daughter of one of our housemaid back then in Russia, I was 13 years old when I first saw her, her mother brought Irina to our mansion to assist her in the house chores.

I first fucked Irina when we were 18 years old and she has been my convenience-sex since. Don’t get me wrong, I care about her but that’s about it.

“Why?!”, Irina asked, bringing me back to reality. I raised a brow and moved closer to her and the usual fond smile I always show her was gone.

“Don’t let me repeat myself”, I said and she knows when not to test my patience.

She looked away from me, bit her lower lip and sighed, then cussed in Russia.

“Sorry”, She murmured and left without us. I didn’t mind, as far as she apologized to Lily. I looked at Lily and saw she looked dumbfounded.

‘I don’t care about Lily’, I cared more about Irina than I did Lily, but Irina needs to know when not to test me.

“Let’s go”, I announced to Ivan and Lily and we continued our hiking with Irina far in front.

I looked at Lily’s direction and I caught her staring at me, she quickly averted her eyes, embarrassed that I caught her staring. I half smiled and walked away.

***

We were deep into the forest, stepping through rocky grounds and enjoying the nature.

It might sound weird but I have been a fan of nature since birth, I could kill a human just to save a tree. The first hunting I went to was with my father and my brother when I was 10. My father taught me how to work a gun from the early age of 8. He would always say how fearless I was and I looked so intimidating. I could remember killing a pheasant in my first hunting, my old man was so proud.

I heard murmurs behinds me from Lily and Ivan, I’ve always had sharp ears for catching on to little noise.

“I… I r-really have to go”, I heard Lily tell Ivan.

“Go where?”, He replied her.

“Uhm… li-like pee”, She said again.

“Ohh”, Ivan said.

I was getting tired of their chitty chat, I stopped walking and they did too. I turned around and face Lily and I could see her holding her breathe.

“Why didn’t you do your business back in the mansion. We are only out for 15 minutes and you are already pressed”, I told her.

“Wha… what did you expect w-when you practically for-forced me to get ready in such a little time?”, She sassed.

I frowned, she talked back again, it’s becoming a habit that I need to help her stop.

I wasn’t very impressed when I gave the order of hiking and she refused in front of everyone. When she did that, I could feel my whole insides boil with rage.

I will just this one slide because I’m blaming her current predicament for her attitude.

“Don’t give me that Lily… Go behind that big tree and do your business, I’m giving you just 2 minutes”, I pointed at a tree and left, dragging Ivan with me.

“What’s up brother?!”, He asked as he could feel my anger. I shook my head and licked my lips.

“That girl, Ivan, that girl”, I finally said.

“What’s with her?”, He asked again.

“She!- She’s driving me nuts!”, I whispered yelled.

“Come on man, she’s just like every other girls you’ve met, what makes her different?”.

“Oh you are wrong… Other girls would obey whatever gibberish that comes out of my mouth just because of my money and they want me to fuck them! But with Lily, She talks back, she doesn’t obey me, she’s like a baby and I’m the fucking babysitter! She– she doesn’t know when to stop brother”, I explained to Ivan as we slowly continued our hiking, while also waiting on Lily who was taking so long.

“This is much… See why I told you you were crazy for spending 50 million dollars on her?!”, Ivan said.

“You are in no position to tell me that when you were the one who took me there!”.

“And you broke my nose for that so we’re even”, Ivan quickly defended.

I sighed and stop walking, the idea of this hike was to make me relaxed but it’s clearly doing the opposite.

“You guys coming or what?”, Irina who was way in front, stopped to ask.

“We are waiting for Lily”, Ivan answered.

“Ugh, what does she need this time?”, Irina asked.

I pinched the middle of my brows and told Irina to go get Lily. She rolled her eyes and went to the tree she was supposed to be taking her pee.

“She isn’t here”, Irina said.This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

“What?”.

“No one’s here Nikolai”, She repeated. I went to Irina and truthfully, Lily was nowhere to be found, I checked the other trees and the same.

I frowned, ‘Where have she gone off too?”.

She better not try to escape again or she’s dead meat.

“Ivan! Look for her at the west, Irina? to the north, I’ll take the east… We’ll meet back at the mansion”, I instructed to which Ivan nodded.

Irina was reluctant and I didn’t have time for her shit.

“Oh come on Nikolai! If she wants to leave just let her leave!”, She said.

I walked to her and pulled her by her hair to make her listen carefully to me.

“Now listen. If Lily isn’t found before sunset, I would have you locked up in one of my dungeon in Russia where I will have my men fuck you to bits every other day, got it?!”, I threatened her and she nodded vigorously in understanding.

I let go of her hair and I didn’t even look back to see if she was hurt, I set to the east side of the forest to look for Lily.

I know every inch of this forest like I’ve lived here my whole life, I bought this mansion two years ago when I moved to America, I liked that it had a never ending forest with wild animals.

‘You better be dead when I find you Lily’.

***

I wasn’t getting any signal on my phone as I tried to call her, she wasn’t at home as I have checked. I issued a command to 20 of my men to scatter the whole forest in search of her and it has been nearly 6 hours and nothing.

‘Did she vanish?’, I asked myself. It could be possible because my men aren’t weaklings.

“LILY?!!”, I called out again for the 100th time but no response. With every step I took I got angrier, she was going to pay if I see her.

I searched everywhere, on the trees, under dried leafs, inside old dead log of wood. I saw something bright stuck to the thorn of a tree from the corner of my sharp eyes, it so happened to be the same color of the shirt Lily was putting on today.

“She is close”, I said to myself.

I heard the sound of the thunder in the sky, it was already getting dark and I was out of phone battery.

“Fuck! It’s about to rain”, I cussed.

I moved faster, now looking out for foot prints and I saw them.

“Lily?!”, I called again but nothing.

I followed the foot prints, praying it wouldn’t rain and he rid of them.

It was already showering and dark in the sky, the preys of the forest have already gone into hiding from the predators of the night.

“AHHHHHHHH!!!”, I heard Lily scream from afar and for the first time in a very long time, my heart raced. I bolted to the direction of her voice, hoping nothing happened to her.

“LILY?!! Lily!”, I called out to her if she could hear me.

“Nikolai!!!”, She called back and I was relieved, I ran faster and the rain started pouring down seriously.

“Nikolai help!”, She yelled again, crying.

I tried listening carefully to where her voice was coming from and I ran towards it. I finally saw her but something was wrong, a large snake was in front of her.

‘Fuck shit, it was a Boa!’, I cussed in my head.

“Lily, try not to move, stay as still as you can, I will come and get you”, I assured her and walked slowly towards the snake, she held her mouth with her palms.

I slipped on a wet leaf and almost fell making the snake hiss from the noise. I had to think fast.

“Listen Lily, I need you to close your eyes really tight and block both your ears with your fingers”, I instructed her.

“What?! what are you going to do?!”, She asked, I sighed as she was stubborn as ever.

“Just listen and trust me for once in your life Lily!”, I said and this time, she did as she was told. The snake has already started wrapping itself around Lily’s leg.

I took out the gun I had carried with me from the beginning of the hike. I stood straight and aimed it at the snake’s head and with just one shot… the snake came crashing to the ground.