Serenity

Chapter 58: Catch Me If You Can

Jo's POV
Six days, 23 hours, and 7 minutes later; 4:33pm

I'm quite literally running from him.

I don't know how I got away.

But here I am, in my wedding dress, trying to find a way out.

I hear his footsteps behind me. They're scary, daunting even. But I've been through worse. "You can't run for long Josephine," he says and I feel my bones turn to ice as I keep running.

I ditched my heels a while back. I knew they would only slow me down even more then the dress and pregnancy would. I didn't realize being pregnant would have this much of an affect on my body.

I've never been this this part of the house that I'm running through. I never wanna be here again. I don't know where I'm going and I'm trying to not use the walls. He'll head me against the walls.

I don't want him to hear me.

I try not to pant as I keep running. I know if I take a break it'll be the end of me. The end of my freedom. The end of any hope I have if being with Hero again.

4:34 pm

Seconds become longer and longer as I run. Turning left and right. Hoping, begging that one of these turns will be my ticket to paradise. Sweet, loving paradise.

"Come on Josephine, we all know I know this house better then you," he says out loud and I stop for a second. That came from in front of me. Fuck.

I used that second to catch my breath and turn back around, running in the direction I came from. He wanted me to run right into him. He wanted to catch me that way.

It would've been a clever idea had he not tried to taunt me. His weakness will always be his cockiness just like the cocky bastard he is.

4:35 pm

I didn't realize how long I had ran until I was quietly panting under my breath again. Any sound you make let's your enemy know exactly where you were.

I couldn't afford that.

He could though.

He was the predator and I was his prey. He was hoping I would fall into his little trap, but luckily for me I'm smarter then that. I know my right from my left. I know when someone changes positions, when someone's voice gets an octave louder.

Thank my dad for teaching me that shit.

4;36 pm

Forever and ever it feels like I've been running. And I'll keep running if that means I don't have to marry him. "You think I won't find you, but I always do," he says loudly and I turn a different corner then I took last time.

He was behind me to the left when he said that, so now he should be ever further then he just was. I never thought it would be this hard to our run someone.

Normally this so the easy part.

I can't wait to have this kid, knowing I'll be able to finally become myself again while taking care of my love bug.

Did I just call my baby a love bug?

4:37 pm

It's not gonna matter what I called it if he catches me. He already plans on giving my child up for adoption.

He of so subtly told me during one of the times he was screaming at me. Sadly though, I have to stop since I feel so light headed.

"Found you," I hear from behind me and I don't have the strength to run again. "You shouldn't of ran, it's only gonna make this harder for you," he says and grabs my arm. I yank its way only for him to grab it again,