Chapter 15: Chapter 15

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Chapter Fifteen

ALEX

I opened my door in a hurry, afraid that it was Lisa. It's Sunday after all and she needed to check up on me before week days rolls in. I look at the shadows and was yank outside.

"Who are you?" I look at the man and was terrified by his appearance. He has bloodshot eyes, scarred forehead and the rest of his face was covered in a black piece of cloth hiding his full identity. He also wore a black coat and a hat.

“Are you from a Halloween party?" I controlled the giggle that almost escapes from my lips. He smirked at me and pointed a knife on my neck.

“C'mon bitch, I don't have all day to listen to you" He grabbed my wrist and yank me farther.

"What are you doing? Someone HELP M-" He dragged me off to the road and cover my mouth with his large hands.

"Hmm, hmmph!mmht!" There was a cloth pressed on my nostrils that made me calm it also stops me from clawing the face of this stupid person who was now kidnapping me.

"Hold on, girl. Boss told us that He really wants you now. I pity you for you would be the payment of Caiden's debt!" He binds my wrist with cable ties and laugh menacingly as I struggled from it. I only heard a few lines of what he said for the place was spinning wildly in front of me.

Caiden?

Debt?

Me wanted for a payment?

Oh, this stupid guys why they are so idiot! They just do things without thinking, it's stupid. He brought me to a car and shoved me into it with no care at all. It's like I'm just a math book being shoved into a locker. The car revs and was brought to life. I heard the screech of the tires as this stupid man drives out into the city.

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"Hey,”

“Hey!" I grunt. Who in the world wanted to disturb my sleep?

"Oh, you don't want to wake up. Ok then" a sharp jab on my side force me to open my eyes and a whimper escape on my dried lips.

There was a hand that holds a knife on my side. It slides down to my stomach and I can't help but to scream my lungs out. I looked down to see my own blood forming a puddle on the car.

"Look what you've done! Now it's dirty." The crazy man said from behind the driver's seat while looking at my blood-stained cloth. He pulled out the knife out of my stomach and got out of the car. He grabbed a fistful of my hair and dragged me off again.

We walked under the blazing sun which made my head throbbed and me keeping my balance off. The man pulled me harder and that made my foot twist making me collapse on the ground. He crouched down at me and sigh.

"What a shame. I didn't know that Caiden the great want a weak one like ya. You know, if I were him, I won't waste my time on you" He stood up and waves his hands in the air. I can't help the tears falling from my eyes. "There are a lot of girls who wanted him. I'm sure as hell that he won't be barging in this sooner or later. He just wanted business and sex. You know him, he only goes hump and dump" He kicked me on my side and I'm pretty sure that I heard a crack. Nice, now I have a pretty long cut on my side and a bruise ribs. My breathing was getting harder and I can feel my heart starting to slow for trying hard to pump more blood on my system. I struggled on the cable ties that bind my wrist but it only makes it harder for me to escape it.

The more movement it accepts the tighter it gets.

We entered a house which was covered by tall trees. It's like we were in a forest that was not that far away from the city. He unlocked the chains and yanked me in. The house is dimly lit and smelt like an old wood and smoke. Tobacco smoke to be exact. He leads me in one of the rooms and tied a chain on my foot. He walked out of the room after saying that I should at least make myself comfortable and went down the stairs; As if I could find any comfort in this boring room that’s painted white and black. I heard a car squeal and I felt like I'm going to burst out crying any second. I'm scared to sleep for I'm afraid that the next time I'll wake up, I'll be dead. I don't know but I felt the loneliness who accompanied me for seven years came back with much force. The pain made my body, even my soul scream for rest and the worst of all, the feeling of being alone creep unto me like a ghost that I had feared.

I grumbled about how I'm such a hopeless person. I plan to stand up and unlock the door but my attention was caught by the pain in my side. The cut was deep and it makes it hard to move. I wanted to stop it from bleeding but the cable ties won't let me. I sighed in frustration as I know that Caiden won't save me. He doesn't even know where I am, does he? But even If he knows and tries to save me, maybe it will be too late that blood has drained out of my body and I am already a cold-lifeless corpse on the floor.

The hours go by.

I am screaming with pain, asking help in the middle of nowhere. I don't even know where I am. I tried so hard to sleep but it won't take over me because of the pain. It's unbearable, excruciating. The sun’s rays seep through the window. I know that night will snatch the light soon and I'll be left alone into this void. No one would even know if I died. As I stare down at my blood stain shirt, the puddles of blood on the bed, my wrist that reddened due to the tightness of the cable ties, I gather up the courage that I have left and tried to stand up. Tried, but I didn't made it, my legs fail me and it sent me fall down face first on the wooden floor. I crawled in the floor in hopes that I could get through the door and try to open it but then I heard some footsteps.

"Help! Please, please" The tears fall down on my cheeks without me noticing it.

“I'm begging you please; I didn't do anything to you! It's not my fault. Please let me out!" I screamed my lungs out and heard faint footsteps approaching the door. I endured the pain in my side and looked down at the door. I can see shadows beneath and that means that someone is standing behind it.

I pulled my feet farther as the chains could. My screams filled the room as the pain in my whole body makes my head hurt. I pounded through the door and that made it open. The person pushed furiously and that made me slide off and banged my head on the table in the far end of the room.

I shook my head and felt warm liquid trickle on my head. I guided my hands unto it and flinched. Oh great! I have a concussion now. What would they add to the list they had, hmm, my death maybe? I look up to see a different man. This one is bulky and bigger than the other one. He pulled my hair and that made me scream even more.

"Shut the fuck up, B*tch!" I glared at him and spit at his face. "Feisty are we?!" He slapped me across my cheek, sending me off flying to the other end of the room.

He pulled me up and dragged me on the bed to remove the chains on my feet. My tears won't stop and I can't find the strength to wipe it. The man pulled me on the door, me sliding off and him striding.

The stairs made it more painful. He just dragged me down it; he didn't care even if I whimper. I tried so hard to keep it in me but my body can't stand it anymore. The pain is too much, I felt like I'm all numb. I can't feel it because of the too much pain. My head bounce, my lips were sore due to the countless times I've bitten at it. I feel like Jell-o right now.

The painful flight of stairs was finished and I saw another man. He's tall like Caiden and they also look very similar but he had a blonde almost gold-like hair. I blink my eyes for a couple of times but I could barely recognize his face for I am really dizzy. He pulled a chair and the bulky man pass me to him. They tied me on a chair and blonde man grabbed my neck."So, you are his girlfriend?" Blonde asked. His voice sounded so similar to Caiden that it gives me goose bumps every time he speaks.

"I don't know I am not sure if he consider me as one." I answered in a small voice while shaking my head.

"Hmm, I thought you are. I was planning to hurt you more by showing you this, but turns out you're not his girl. This is such a waste, I'll just-" He folded the envelope and was about to pass it to that bulky man when I cut him off.

"No, let me see it" I flinched at the sound of my voice. It really sounds awful; like they put a sand paper in my throat.

"Well, well. Turns out you love him but he doesn't love you back. Aww, I'm sad" He mocked at me and pouted his lips. I can't help the tear that fall down my eyes

"Hmm, so it's not a waste after all because you will be hurt and that's my purpose. I pity you though because no one will come to save you" He spread the pictures on the table in front of us and I can't help it but gawked.

There in front of me was Caiden kissing a blonde girl with the body of a model. The picture has a date and it was taken by intervals. All of it explains where he had been for the past two months. She's so beautiful that if she's beside me I'll look like a slave with that beauty. I'm nothing compared to her. She's beautiful, Caiden's handsome, both fit. The pain in my chest intensified the other pictures. My breathing labored and I gasped for air. I guess they didn't need to kill me with brute hands; they just need to trigger a heart attack.

My heart shut down and I can feel my head fall. The impact was unbearable. The pictures, it all explained that Caiden doesn't care about me for he has a gorgeous, not to mention, sexy woman hot on his trail.

Why would he eat a plain sandwich if he had a cheese burger with bacon and ham, right?

I felt them dragging me off from the chair. Someone checked my pulse and I force my eyes to open a little just to see the bulky man shaking his head on the blonde man. My eyes closed immediately, faster than I had opened them.

"Ryder, she's not gonna make it. Let's do the planned B now. Maybe throwing her into the drain would make it all easier"

"You're right about that Flint. C'mon carry her unto the car and I'll be the one to drive her off to hell" He laughed menacingly.

"But Ryder, you told me that I'll get her sexy body on bed tonight. You won't throw this piece of meat down the drain. It'll be such a waste!" The bulky man whined, sounding more like a child.

"Stop that Flint! She's in a comma state meaning, she's like fifty percent dead, fifty percent alive. Do you wan't to have sex with a corpse? Look, why don't you put her now in the car and after that we'll go to the FST club and make that little friend of yours satiated, okay?"

"Okay" I felt the bulky man move and drag me out of the house. He carried me through and I'm grateful for that. He shoved me in the car and that made my sides hurt more. The car rev unto life and squealed out of the drive way.

Minutes passed by and I felt myself slipping off my body but me being as stubborn as ever, hold unto the remaining sliver of life I still have. We came into a halt and my head bounced unto the sit and I fall of with me not having a full control at my body.

They carried me in and I was surprised when the cold water seep through my thin clothes and the pain in my side made my heart bolt. The beats are getting higher and I'm pretty sure that I'll have a chance to live. But my little fantasy of getting over Caiden and me having another chance in life shuttered when a gunshot erupted. I felt the bullet pierce through my chest as my whole body shakes because of the cold and the pain that was making it harder for me to breath. My consciousness was still unreachable but I know that I'm still alive.

"Ryder, I'm pretty sure she's dead now. C'mon bring me to that club you're talking about. My li'l friend is getting swollen by the second" And with that thought my kidnappers left without anyone knowing but me.

Seconds ticked, minutes turned into hours. I fought hard to keep my breathing even and my heart beating. I opened my eyes to see that they left me on drainage down the road. I made my way up by crawling on a snail pace. I was more than happy when I reach the side of the road. The pain in my body was numb due to the cold water they threw me in.

A snow fell on my nose and a small smile crept on my lips. Ha, who would've known that I've got a high resistance? The blood flows on my chest freely. My hands are turning blue due to the cold and there's no doubt that no matter how I tried, I'll be dead before someone could even rescue me. I let out a raspy breath as I tried to laugh at myself for being so idiot.

I look at my blurred surroundings and I notice a familiar hotel maybe 3 kilometers away from my dorm. It would take me hours to reach the hotel but I don't care. I'm sure that he'll help me no matter what. I crawled and crawled and crawled. Snowflakes dropping down on my half dead body, my lungs screaming for air the veins around my body started to turned blue due to the cold and my eyes slowly drooping.

A hundred meters before I reached the hotel, the lights from a car lighten my way. My lungs sigh, a breath of relief when the car stopped. The shadow behind me says that the person was getting nearer and at last I may have the chance to live! That person turns me and I closed my eyes because of the light that blinded me. I heard the person gasped, I tried to look at the person's face but the blood that dried on my eyes made me temporarily blind.

"Lex,, open your eyes couz! I'm here c'mon hold on please, hold on!"

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