8. BREATH TAKING CITY VIEW.

Why did he give her the sedative? And what for? Did he already know that she was going with the men?

She left without even goodbye.. there's no way back now. Is it?

Sitting on the back seat of a luxurious Mercedes Benz, she was thinking about her mother.. her father.. about her life.

She was on the back seat with Richard, far away, touched to the door and looking out of the window.

Amelia lived in a small town where there were no big buildings, or luxurious cars or people wearing a tux.

Just at the bar, she saw a few men wearing a proper suit, looking complete gentleman otherwise, there were only normal kinds of people.

As the road passed by and they were going towards the city, she admired the view lifting her head out of the window, what she saw, took her breath away.

Lights glittered everywhere just like stars dropping to the earth, huge and small buildings collided in a mixture of shadow and geometry. A breath taking, a marvelous, almost frightening dream that made her feel like some fake, unlucky living thing.

Amelia had never seen a city before, she was astonished to see new things appearing in front of her eyes.

"You see this? This is New York, your destiny.." Richard stared out of the window, then turned his face to her, and scoffed.

The city was a vast, intricate, labyrinth of noise, streets, and alleys. You could hear the incessant honking of the vehicles. It was a city of wide avenues and small places to sit and eat, to relax as folk went about their day. There were the sky towers in the center, what was once thousands of homes now took up less ground space than an old shopping mall. The rest was parks and wild spaces, a chance to walk among nature or enjoy the trails on bicycles or horseback.

The car reached in front of a bar, red and green dim lights were shining on the banner.. enhancing the name of it, attracting people.

Amelia looked at Richard in unawareness, while he gave a satisfying look. The two men shut the engine and stepped out of the car.

Amelia and Richard remained sitting, he, in a low and calm voice, spoke, "Be at your best behavior. There are people here who are dying to meet you."

With this, he opened the door of the car and stepped out, making a space for her to step out.

Confuse and frightened Amelia, with a very heavy heart, stepped out, raising her head up to see the name of the bar.

It was a silver moon, the most expensive and popular club there in NY.

She stood up, taking baby steps while Richard along with the two men, strode towards the bar.

Gazing each and everything, Amelia was quite afraid. When she was walking in looking towards her left, to the girls, wearing almost nothing, chatting with each other and laughing, she accidentally got bumped into a man.

"Help me..." her voice was so low as she was thirsty and could not speak properly, she knew there was someone and was hoping that he would help her.

But maybe the man didn't hear her pleading.

Amelia, when noticed, she could not see the face of the man as she, in his arms, fainted.

The last thing she did was her arms flung around his neck, and she inhaled the scent.. the magnificent scent coming from him..after that....blank.

"It's her first day here and look she already insulted us!" one of the men who bring her here, was shouting at Richard who seems to bow his head down in shame.

He had no words for that was all his mistake.

Amelia came around in her senses, hearing the voices of the people talking.

She hissed in pain as she managed to pull herself and leaned back on the bed.. and slowly opened her eyes.

"Oh, look. The princess is awake.." the man said in a mocking tone to which the other replied, "Or the sleeping beauty."

Richard heaved in a sigh as if he's been spared from death.

"Bring her out in ten minutes." said the men and strode outside, leaving the wolf and the lamb alone in the room.

Amelia's eyes bulged out as she noticed there was a sudden spark in Richard's eyes, she could sense the danger.

She tried to stand up, gulping in fear.

"Now, wear this.." he, walking forward with a pair of clothes in his hand, said to her.

Each step he took forward was making her heart pounding really hard.

As he approached her and was about to make a move while she was glued in her place, fearing the man, the door of the room pushed open and a few girls walked in, gossiping.

"Oh, there's a man in the room.." the girl said to others, all of them making the naughty face.

"Excuse me, mister. You are not allowed inside. This is our changing room." said one of the girls.

"Yes, take your romance outside.." the other girl said while the rest of them chuckled, making Richard embarrass in shame.

He, without saying a word, gave Amelia the dress while showing her his evil eyes and turned to leave.

After he went out, she threw the dress on the bed and sighed deeply.

Girls, when noticed, whispered something to each other, then one of the girls who seemed nice walked towards her and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I-I.." Amelia was stammered in her words, her throat was deeply dry and she could not speak properly until one of the girls, handed her the glass of water.

"Easy.." she said in a sweet voice.

"Thank you.." Amelia managed to speak while drinking the glass of water in a gulp.

"Who are you?" the girls asked in curiosity.

Amelia took a deep breath and replied, "I don't wanna be here anymore. This is not me. Please help me, will you?"

The girls stared at each other then back to her.

"I need to get back to my mother.," she added in a begging tone.

"There's only one person who can help you.." the girl said to her, sincerity in her voice.