Chapter 29: Chapter 29

Author’s POV

Cara blinked her eyes feeling a sharp pain in her eyes and head.

Her eyes seemed so heavy and the swelling around them made it difficult for her to open them without feeling any pain.

Ignoring the pain she again tried to open her eyes slowly, ready to be blinded by some sort of light which will definitely make her headache worse.

But nothing of that sort happened. Her eyes fell on the dirty ceiling of the room she was in right now.

The only light that was illuminating this cold room was coming from a window.

You couldn’t actually call it a window. It was more like a small hole on the wall, almost touching the ceiling.

The lack of light in the room was causing her eyes to ache even more.

She tried sitting up pulling her hand to rub her aching temple but then she felt something heavy restricting her movements.

She looked at her wrist to find a heavy chain stopping her from moving her hand.

She instantly sat up. The floor she was sitting on was cold. She tried to pull her wrist out of the chain restricting her, using her free hand but it was to no avail.

She again looked around to check her surrounding but couldn’t see anything because of the darkness.

Tears of frustration started blurring her vision as she kept struggling to free her hand. Her wrist was getting bruised because of all the movement but she didn’t care about it at the moment.

The only thoughts which were clouding her mind were of Chase.

‘He must be going out of his mind due to worry. He must be blaming himself for not being able to protect me. Don’t know what kind of game Albert must be planning on playing with Chase’ all of these thoughts were making her concerned.

“Finally we met”.

Cara flinched hearing a familiar voice coming from the other end of the room.

Her head snapped in the direction from where the voice came to see a silhouette of a man sitting on a chair in the darkness.

Cara swallowed her saliva when the man got up on his feet and came into light.

“I have been waiting for so long to meet you face to face and finally the day has come. I am feeling happy” he said.

He started walking towards her making her scoot back in fear. She flinched again when her back hit the wall.

“Why do you look so scared? Aren’t you happy to meet me, huh?” he asked crouching down beside her making her pull her knees to her chest, as if she was trying to hide from his psychotic gaze.

Because of the fear she was feeling in her heart, she didn’t notice the disappointed in his tone. As if he wanted her to be happy after meeting him.

“Why is that? I am sure your boyfriend told you about me. Then why aren’t you happy to meet me when I am feeling ecstatic, huh?” He asked tilting his head to the side as if he was confused.

“Why… why are you doing this?” gathering all of her courage Cara asked with her trembling voice.

“What do you mean why am I doing this? I think Chase didn’t tell you anything about me. So let me tell you” he paused to sit comfortably beside her.

“Your boyfriend and I have a long history. I know him since he was maybe eleven or twelve years old. But it feels like he forgot all about me when I always thought about him. That is why, I am trying to remind him about me” he said.

The look in his eyes was scaring Cara out of her wits. This man was completely out of his mind. And the worst thing is that he seems obsessed with Chase.

“Please leave him alone. He has already suffered more than enough. Why are you giving him a hard time, huh?” Cara shouted the last part getting angry as everything Chase told her about himself and his past came to her mind.

“Ahhh…” she screamed in pain when he grabbed her hairs in a tight fist, jerking her head backwards.

More tears started flowing on her already wet cheeks. His grip on her hairs was so tight and painful that she felt as if her scalp was on fire.

“Shut up you b**ch. I didn’t ask for your advice, did I?” he shouted making her close her eyes.

His gaze roamed all over her wet face until it fixed on a tear leaving her eye slowly sliding over her cheek to her jaw.

“Now that I am seeing you up close, you are even more beautiful” he said and her eyes snapped open.

She tried to struggle out of his hold but it resulted in nothing but him tightening his hold even more.

“Watching you from far away for past two weeks, didn’t do any justice to your beauty” he whispered while stroking the line of her face with the finger tips of his other hand.

A cracked sob left Cara’s mouth when he touched her like that.

“I am starting to get impatient” he paused to rub her lower lip with his thumb making her feel disgusted as well as afraid.

‘What is he planning on doing? Is he….’ She started thrashing even more as that horrible thought crossed her mind.

“But I have to wait until your boyfriend comes, right? After all I have done all of this for him. He has to see with his own two eyes, what I am going to do with you”

Saying this he left her hairs and got up on his feet. He turned on his heels and started walking away.

Cara could only hear his footsteps as the room was still dark. His footsteps stopped and her heart stopped beating for a moment thinking that he will again start walking towards her instead of leaving.

She sighed in relief when she heard him opening the door of the room she was in.

Her eyes got shut when suddenly a bright light illuminated the place. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around to find herself in some kind of small warehouse.

It looked old and looked like it was not being used for a very long time.

She shifted her eyes to look at Albert who was standing near door, talking with someone.

She squinted her eyes to see the face of the man but couldn’t, as bright light was coming from behind him and his front was still in the dark. She could only see his silhouette.

After talking with Albert for few minutes, that man started walking towards Cara and her heart again started beating loudly.

She tried to push herself more into the wall behind her. She would have gotten up on her feet and tried to run away from here if it was not for the metal chain which was restricting her movements.

The chain was not too long that is why she couldn’t even take few steps away from where she was sitting.

But still she started pulling her hand to free her wrist from the hold, even when she knew it would be useless.

The man finally reached near her and came in the light. Cara’s eyes widened to see this familiar face here.

She shook her head and wiped her tears with the back of her free hand to take a better look at the person and make sure she was not mistaken.

But unfortunately she was not wrong.

“Law…” a whisper left her mouth.

“Long time no see, right Cara?” he asked as he sat down on a chair, Albert was sitting on earlier. He brought it close to Cara so that he can sit beside her.

“What… what are you doing here?” she asked with a stammer, still not being able to believe her eyes.

“Why do you think?” Law asked.

“Don’t tell me… are you…” Cara couldn’t complete her sentence. She was very shocked right now.

“Yeah, you are right. I helped him in kidnapping you. I was the one giving him all the information on you and Chase” Law said with a shrug as if it was not a big deal.

Cara was just staring at his face with her wide open eyes.

She knew that Law hated Chase. He hated him very much. That is why they always get into flights.

Cara also knows that Law had been trying to use her to hurt Chase. That is why he has been bothering her.

She still remembers how he sent that delivery box with those disgusting things inside to her dorm room in the middle of the night.

But she never thought that Law hated Chase to this extent where he is willing to hurt her like this by helping a man who is completely insane and psychopath.

Why does he hate Chase so much? What could be the reason?

“Why are you doing this Law? Why are you helping that criminal? Do you hate Chase to this extent that you are ready to go to this length?” Cara asked.

“I can do anything if it can hurt Chase and give him pain” Law replied.

“Even if it can hurt you in return? That man you are helping right now is a murderer Law” Cara tried to make him understand.

Yes, she doesn’t like Law. But still she doesn’t want him to get involved with a person like Albert who can kill people just for his satisfaction.

Law is almost same age as her. He is still young. Him helping Albert in his crime might put him in trouble. He might get put behind bars for good, for the charges of kidnapping and God knows what.

Because Albert is an insane person, who can even kill people. And if Law gets caught as his accomplice, probably even his father won’t be able to help him.

“I don’t care. As long as Chase becomes miserable, I am good. And the only thing which can break him down to the brink is you getting hurt in front of his eyes. So that’s what I want albert to do” Law spat.

Cara knew that he was determined to see Chase get hurt. She thought if Law changed his mind then he might have helped her.

But it doesn’t look like he would change his mind and try to think rationally.

“But why? Why do you hate him so much?” Cara couldn’t help but ask.

“It’s because he deserves it. He took my Kate away from me” Law said. His eyes turned sad as all the past memories came to his mind.

“Kate?” Cara wondered with a frown on her face but Law had already zoned out as he whispered

“He separated me from the love of my life”.