'MIA REGINA' ✓

EIGHTEEN

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Bella PoV

The first thing I noticed when I got up was the glass ceiling above me. My hands involuntarily rubbed the bed sheets and felt the soft velvety feeling beneath my palms. I moved my eyes around and sat up slowly. I was in a room, a bedroom to be exact. I racked my brain over thousands of places I have been because this place looks oddly familiar.

I remember passing out when I jumped in the water. I remember Pearl reaching out to me. I got up from the bed and noticed the clothes I wore were different than the dress. I walked around the room, noticing the cream colour wallpaper and the huge wooden book shelve, I stopped in the middle of the room. I moved my eyes around and then the realization dawned on me that I was in my old room, I was in Salvatore's mansion.

No fucking way!

I gasped at realization.

The sudden news made me stumbled in my steps and I ran towards the closed window and hastily open it. The greenery, the garden, it was all same. I was in his mansion. He brought me here and he did it without asking me.

I battled through the room, pacing across it like a mad woman. The train of my angry thoughts was broken when the doorknob turned and Pearl walked in. He wore a white tshirt with blue pants. I glared at him as he walked in smiling at me.

"You're awake!" He exclaimed walking upto me.

"Where am I?" I asked clenching my fist and glaring at him.

He stopped and then looked at me, " I guess you figured it out, didn't you?"

"You brought me to the mansion."

He nodded, still analyzing my reaction.

"You have no right to bring me here without my permission." I said pointing my finger at him.

"I know."

"You have basically kidnapped me," I exclaimed with wide eyes, "Again!"

"That's not it looks like."

"Oh yeah? I asked him angrily. " You brought me here without my will. You have kidnapped me twice! You're unbelievable."

"Both the times for your own good." He answered.

"Own good?" I asked frustratingly. "The first time you brought me here because of some fucking contracts."

He narrowed his eyes for a fraction of seconds and then his lips tugged in a smirk, "That contract you're talking about is our marriage contracts."

I scoffed.

"Why did you bring me here, Pearl?"

He remained silent.

"Pearl?" I asked again.

Still silent!

I closed my eyes and take a deep breath and said, "I want to go back."

"You can't."

"Why?" I asked.

"Because I won't let you and besides Costello's are still here. And even though if they weren't here you're staying here." He answered.