Kidnapped by a Dragon Billionaire - Chapter 49

Zi Mei was chatting with Jazzmine on video in her hotel room when Jazzmine looked surprised and gaped at something behind Zi Mei. Feeling goosebumps racing across her skin, raising the little hairs on her arms and neck, Zi Mei whipped around.

It was Darren. Her first response was shock. How did he find her? Most importantly, how did he get in? Surely, Thorin didn’t let him in!

“Darren? What are you doing here??” she asked. Her best friend looked sad and a tiny bit different. He saw Jazzmine on the screen and he waved.

“Hey Jazzmine. You want to come over and join us? We can have a party here,” he said. Jazzmine blushed and shook her head.

“It’s getting late, I was just checking in on Mei, you guys have fun, good night!” she said and immediately signed off before Zi Mei could say anything. Zi Mei put down her phone and turned to Darren.

“How? Who let you in?” she asked him.

He didn’t reply her. Instead, he looked around the room and whistled.

“Wow, you sure do live it up! This must be an expensive suite,” he said.

“Darren? How did you get in here?” Zi Mei asked again. She is getting goosebumps again. She is suddenly afraid of Darren. She backed away from him slowly.

“Your door was not locked, you know it’s dangerous for a girl to be staying in a hotel room alone and you forgot to lock the door!” he said.

He looked at her and smiled. It creeped her out. He looked like Darren. His voice sounded like Darren but she knew deep in her heart that this is not Darren. There was something different about him and she can’t put her finger on what it was that was different.

He walked towards her and she backed away again.

“What’s the matter? Why are you afraid of me?” he asked, still grinning that creepy grin. Still walking towards her. She shivered. There was definitely something off about this person and it is not Darren.

“Thorin! Where are you???!!!” She suddenly shouted. Darren or the thing that looked like Darren glared at her.

“Why are you calling for that old man? I told you that you are better off breaking up with him isn’t it?” he hissed as he continued to advance towards her. She shrank away from him, backing up and reaching the balcony doors.

“Darren…what are you doing…” she mumbled, fear snaking down her spine.

“You are better off with me, Mei, come with me, I will be a better boyfriend,” Darren said, smiling sweetly at her. The smile still creeped her out. It was like a mannequin suddenly cracking a smile.

She sidled past the balcony doors, trying to find a way to run from him. He suddenly lunged and before she could jump out of the way, he grabbed on to her arm and dragged her close to him. A thick putrid stench hit her nostrils.

Nope. This is not Darren, her brain told her. A scream swelled in her throat and she let it loose. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! She struggled against the thing that looked like Darren but its hold on her was strong, like a vice.

“Thorin!! Thorin!! Lim! Jessica! Anyone! HELP!!!” She screamed as loud as she could. The thing dragged her along with him, ignoring her screams and struggles.

“They can’t hear you,” he said in Darren’s calm voice.

He dragged her back to the balcony doors and then flung it open with one hand. Then he was pulling her over to the balcony as she struggled and kicked and pushed at him to no avail.

She continued to scream.

“Help! Murder!!! HELP!!!!” hoping someone, anyone, would hear her. He chuckled. A cold, brittle sound that sent shivers down her spine.

“You can scream all you want, no one can hear you,” he told her. They are now at the balcony railings and he is holding her against it. “Stop struggling or I will chuck you over easily,” he warned her and she stopped immediately. They are high up on the 13th floor. They are far from the ground.

He gripped her throat and pushed her against the railing, his body leaning on hers. The thick putrid stench making her gag.

“I could have had my fun with you but you are too smeared with the dragon’s essence but no worry, your friend seemed delicious, I can have fun with her later tonight,” he said lecherously.

Zi Mei glared at him even as he choked her, his strong fingers closing her airway bit by bit.

“Stay…a….way…..from…friend!!!” she choked out in between gasps.

“You are such a troublesome human, I only wish I can get rid of you but the boss wanted to keep you as collateral,” he said. He looked at her for a moment, as if thinking.

“You know, I don’t understand what the dragon sees in you. Sure, you are fresh and delicious but only as a plaything but why is he going all out to keep you safe?” he asked her. He loosened his grip on her neck for a moment.

“Well? What have you got that the dragon wanted so badly?” he asked. All pretence as Darren had fallen off that thing. His voice is now a grating brittle sound, like the sound you hear when metal scrapes on metal. His face rippled and morphed, its shape changing and morphing as if thousands of worms are crawling under its surface.

She was staring at him – at it – in horror. This must be a demon. This is not Darren. He shook her.

“Well? What do you have that the dragon wants??” he demanded again.

She shook her head, reaching behind her to hold on to the railings.

“Hmmphh…determined to keep it a secret eh?” he muttered. He shook her again, as if she was nothing but a rag doll.

“I suppose, your cold dead body can work too,” he mumbled. Then before she realised what he meant he had thrown her off the balcony.

She was suddenly falling, the ground rushing up to her and everything went black.