Saving Grace *Body Guard series*

Saving Grace: Chapter 8 Melancholy Part 1

 It has been about a week since we came back from Italy. I tried calling father to let him know that we got back safe, tried calling him to check in and I feel like something is wrong. I asked Terrell if he would try calling Father and he tried and it went straight to voicemail. We both sent texts to him and received nothing.

Maybe he's just busy? He said that he had a lot of things to get done.

It is getting late so the staff says their final goodbyes then leave us alone in the living room.

Terrell and I have gotten so much closer over the last week. He finally reciprocates the touches and kisses even around the other staff. He was so worried about them reporting back to Father but I promised him I would handle Father if he wanted to know what was going on between us.

Terrell calls me babe and it makes my heart melt. I never would've guessed that with him coming in to protect me that a year and a half later we would be dating.

I look back at how I treated him in the beginning and there is not enough apologies in the world for that.

I've apologized a lot for that and he just tells me that he thought I was endearing.

Terrell told me he was going to the basement to work out. I told him I was going swimming.

We got to the point where as long as he knows that I am in the vicinity of the area he is he no longer follows me around. Besides, our backyard is fenced in with a gate.

I got in the pool, shivering a little from the water being chilly.

I began to do my laps trying to get some exercise. While underwater I hear something loud hit something. So I come up from the water and look around. I look around and don't see anything so I go back to finishing my laps. I got out soon after because the water was cold.

Terrell was inside and I wanted to go check on him.

Ooh maybe I can catch a nice sneak peak of him working out.

I walk up to the chair grabbing my towel and wrapping it around me. Suddenly I feel an arm wrap around my waist pulling me into a body. At first I thought it was Terrell until another hand shoves a cloth over my nose and mouth and after a couple seconds of trying to fight the person behind me I feel my body go limp and I fall asleep.

I begin to come to and open my eyes to pitch blackness. It takes my eyes a couple seconds to adjust to the darkness and see concrete walls, a dirt floor and a light bulb hanging in the air by a few wires being the only source of light. I glance down seeing that I am laying on a dirty twin size mattress without a sheet or blanket.

It's cold and musky down here, I have no clue where I am and I bet Terrell has no idea where I am or who took me. I don't want to die, I just turned eighteen!

I hear footsteps walking down stairs and then the door in the far back corner opens and two men walk into the room. They talk amongst themselves in a different language then walk towards me. When they step into my line of vision I recognize them instantly. Simon and Antiono Ramirez.

" My father will kill you both and stick your heads on stakes for taking me." I say to them. A wicked grin flashes across their faces as they look at each other then laugh. Simon steps forward, staying a couple feet in front of me.

" It'd be hard for your father to save you when he's dead. All the calls and texts from you and Terrell? What a shame he never got those. Serves him right for trying to protect you by sending you home and not putting you somewhere more isolated and protected." He walks forward stopping just within a foot away from me. "How pathetic of your bodyguard to leave you all by yourself outside.." His voice trails off.