The CEO's Painted Skin

~Unknown Location~

Catherine was sitting on the wooden chair in the veranda, the gentle breeze of the wind was pleasant and heavenly, she placed her hands on her baby bump, and she's been five months pregnant and also five months in captivity. Time flies too fast. If she let despair and desolation consumed her consciousness she already died of depression and sadness. But if there's one thing that gives her strength and the will to survive it's no other than her unborn child in her womb. The baby infused her determination to keep on living and hoping for a miracle rescue amidst the stark uncertainty hanging in the air around her.

Her gaze traveled from the backyard to the inside of the house.

This place has become a new normal for her.

Her home away from home.

Dana put the slice of ripe mangoes in front of Catherine in the veranda. "Here's your favorite fruit, preggy lady!" she said fondly.

Catherine loves the ripe and green mango, it becomes her favorite snack during the afternoon siesta.

Dana sat down beside her. "You know what, there's something odd and unique about our kidnapping," she commented.

Catherine nodded her head. She too was thinking that their kidnapping was weird. "We are not harmed in any way, we're not starving, we're not tied in the hands and feet, we can roam freely inside the house and in the backyard. And I am given free milk and vitamins for my baby. I find that too weird to comprehend!"

Dana scratched her head in bafflement. "Weird indeed. Who is the mastermind of your kidnapping and why? I now I realized that the reason why I'm being kidnap is to become your companion and to take care of you here," she concluded.

Catherine stopped eating the rest of the mango and was in deep thoughts. Are they waiting for me to give birth before they do something to me or was it, my baby, they were after? She needs an answer! But no matter how many times she asks questions those masked men will never answer her because she realized that they too have no idea who is the mastermind of the kidnapping, they were just ordinary people who were paid to do their job. If they were waiting for her to give birth that would be four months from now. After four months her fate will be decided by those who orchestrated the kidnapping. Right now, she was sure that she was not being kidnaped for ransom because if that was the purpose in all these, her husband already provided them the money for her quick released.

Her kidnapping is something else, and who is the mastermind? She can't think of anyone. Everything was blurry in her mind.

"The one who kidnaps you is probably someone you knew or someone who likes and cares for you and the baby," Dana commented.

Catherine brows snapped together. "And why would you say that?" she asked.

"Because that person gives you milk and vitamins fit for a pregnant woman, that person cares for you and the baby. For kidnapping of this magnitude, it's kind of puzzling. Kidnapping should be horrific, we should be exposed to any kinds of horrible things by now, yet what is happening to us is the complete opposite. I sometimes feel like we are just vacationing here," Dana observed.

Catherine was thinking of the same thing too. The mastermind of her abduction probably someone she knows or John know. What did they want from her? Would they kill her and when? She will plead for her baby to be saved, but whom to plead? She's getting frustrated. But every time she drinks her milk, she realized that they would not give her the milk if they didn't care about the baby. As long she was pregnant they won't do something bad to her? And after giving birth what are they going to do to her and the baby?

Aargh! Lots of questions were swirling up in her mind, she thinks she's going crazy just thinking how absurd her situation becomes.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www.readwn.comfor visiting.

Could it be Mike?

How about Jerome?

But it would be impossible for Jerome to stage her kidnapping while he was doing undercover, besides he would be lacking resources to execute something like this.

How about Mike? He's rich, he has all the resources, but if he was behind her kidnapping she would have seen him on the first month of her captivity. Why would he wait for a long time to see her?

She was beginning to think that the mastermind of her kidnapping was someone she doesn't know and never meet yet. Unless that person will reveal him or herself to her then she will be forever guessing who kidnap her.

Dana finished eating the mango in the platter. "I'm just thinking what they will do to me after you will give birth to your baby?" she asked worriedly. "If they want to kill me I prefer a painless death," she added.

The uncertainty of their situation was like a dark poisonous curtain that hangs in the ceiling. You will be grateful that it did not fall yet, but every day, you will also keep guessing when will it's going to fall and choke you with its venom.

It's all just a waiting game...

Catherine shuts her eyes. One thing she realized in life, it never fails to give her surprises, and some surprises can be life-threatening and not pleasant at all.