Third person's POV:Adam reached America."How is everyone?" Adam asked the doctor who checked his unconscious men and maids."Boss, I have found the presence of a strong yet harmless sedative in everyone's body. They are still half unconscious. But I hope they will be conscious by tomorrow morning. To get the drug out of their system quickly, I have already advised making them drink enough coffee, tea, drinks. Thus, the drug will leave their body through urine." The doctor answered."Sir, security footage couldn't be found because the whole time power was off. And I think Miss Fiona used the secret back door of this Mansion because front gate's CCTV camera operation is separate from the whole mansion's and it was still working. We haven't spotted her in the footage." Lucas described to Adam.It was clearer than water that someone who really knows well about the mansion helped Fiona. Because Adam never let Fiona get out of her room. Her own room and the basement dungeon were the only places she knew. And not even all the employees know about the secret door.Someone trusted back-stabbed him. In an onslaught of fury, Adam wanted to kill everyone and burn everything down. Veins of his neck popped up as he was breathing hard."Lucas! Her family is dead to the world. She has nowhere to go. But for now search every bus stops, rail station, subways in California. And also announce a good amount of money for the person who will give her whereabouts." Adam said determinedly.He would get her back and only God could save her that time from his volcanic wrath."Okay, Sir."Adam couldn't help, his feet took him to the room where Fiona stayed before he throwing her back at the dungeon again.He could smell the very faint yet sweet smell of her lingering in that room. But her absence, her escape awakened his monster.She was mine, she is mine. She is my whore. Why dare she escape from me!I will teach her a good lesson this time. When I will get her back, I will make her a real whore.Adam thought.His phone beeped.He opened the message in app It was an image. He didn't want to look over the text from an unknown number. He had many important tasks.But he left transfixed when he took a good look over the picture. His eyes widened in wonder. It was none other than Fiona, she was sitting on a chair, with her hands and feet tied. Her eyes were closed. It was apparent that she was unconscious. He read the text.Now you know that where she is, stop searching for her. If you want her back, you have to give someone too.Adam instantly called the number. A familiar voice picked up his call. He instantly recognized whom it belongs to."Hello, Mr. Knight. You called earlier than I thought.""Dev, you bastard. How dare you to kidnap her? I can destroy you in a second." Adam snarled in the phone. His blood was boiling in rage.Adam heard a deep chuckle from the other side."The same thing I can tell you too. You dared to capture my brother. " Dev's tone hardened."Your fucking shit of a brother was caught red-handed while trying to force himself on one of my employees when she denied leaking my company information to him," Adam shouted angrily."Whatever, you have to leave him by tomorrow and then I will let her go." Dev stipulated his condition.Adam didn't say anything. He was silent.He never wanted to leave his brother. It would hurt his ego greatly if he had to leave him for the sake of Fiona. But it was for Fiona. He thought but couldn't understand what to do. If it was someone else he would never think twice. Because brute Adam Knight doesn't care for anyone. But he was thinking again and again for Fiona? Who is Fiona to him? That's a hard topic.Whatever his heart says, she is nothing but a scapegoat."And also I want 80 million dollars cash. I want you to come alone and hand me my brother and the cash. Then you will be able to take your girl." Dev added breaking the phone silence.Adam couldn't help but chuckle at his statement this time."Dev, can you count money correctly or you think that I make money from air. You want 80 million dollars cash by tomorrow!" Adam ridiculed."Adam I am a businessman and an experienced one. I ask a high price only when I am sure enough that the product is worth the high price. And I am sure that girl is worth the money. Aren't I right?" Dev snickered nastily.Adam clenched his jaw and gnashed his teeth in extreme anger. He wanted to tear Dev's tongue off. A strange type of jealousy surged inside him which was foreign to him."You don't have enough time, Adam. Do hurry and arrange the money. If you delay, she will not be happy because I will sell her in a brothel." Dev warned him."Don't you dare!" Adam's voice boomed. But Dev didn't care."And another thing, don't you know that people say very beautiful girls shouldn't get out alone. They can get kidnapped easily. It's not men's fault if they can't control themselves around such beauties and want to have them. But no, these beauties are always such stupid, they get out alone and if something happen to them they blame these on men. Your Fiona is stupid too. Who told her get out alone? If I didn't kidnap her, she wouldn't be kidnapped by another person. No real man can control himself when such irresistible beauty is right before him. And remember Adam, I am a man too. Whatever, I am sending you the address." Dev cut the call leaving a implication in his sentences.Adam looked at the address in his phone when the screen light flashed with a beep.Adam's calculative mind was busy on calculating.If Dev kidnapped Fiona then what about the person who helped her? Is he secretly working with Dev?Or Fiona escaped herself and got caught by Dev? Dev has been always keeping an eye on me trying to take me down. Even his brother tried to get secret information about my company.Then the deal came into his head. Then Dev's last words.80 million dollars!Fucking crazy motherfucker!Adam can pay 80 million dollars but does it worth?Why would you pay 80 million dollars for Fiona anyway?For Fiona? Stop kidding me.Fiona is not my girl.Fiona was just a pawn of revenge to begin with. Just a collateral, nothing else.If she is caught by Dev then I should be happy.Dev will make my action easier if he kills her.Because it's not like I was gonna canoodle her if she were with me.And 80 million dollars for her!She doesn't worth it.I feel a strong pull, a strong type of attraction towards her. Maybe it was a strong sexual attraction, my body caves for her body. That's it. Nothing more.But nothing changes the fact she is my enemy's daughter. By destroying her, I will extract my revenge from Brian, the bastard.Your Fiona is stupid too. Who told her get out alone? If I didn't kidnapped her, she wouldn't be kidnapped by another person.Dev's last words were ringing inside his head.Fiona was my whore, she belonged to me. But no she dared to defy me, escape me. Now suffer, there is no way I am coming for that disobedient, defiant whore!There is no way that I am going to pay 80 million dollars for that wench.If she is not a whore, then she will be... very soon. Dev is a man of words... he will sell her to a brothel. She will become a real whore.I couldn't do this even when I hated her guts, I wanted her to die. But if Dev does this for me then why stop him.Let her be a real whore, then Brian will realize what my mother had to go through when he sold her in a brothel. Brian you didn't know but karma is a boomerang.The sadistic thoughts were ringing inside his brain. All of Adam's thoughts changed.She tried to escape from me. How dare she. She should get punished. She deserves punishment. Let her get punished, suffered. Isn't it what I wanted from the beginning?What big difference it will make whether she is here or not. It's good that she is not here. This nasty bitch makes me weak from time to time. She makes me think like a human. She forced me to behave like a human.But I am not a human at all. I am a monster. Human is just my form. And monsters don't feel empathy, mercy.