I Won't Fall For You | ✔️

▪︎\\Chapter Forty

I spent the next five minutes fighting to regain consciousness. My head felt like it was splitting open, and the left side of my face pulsed with unbearable pain.

I forced my eyes open, but my mouth wouldn't move, it was gagged.

"Princess, finally you're up."

That voice. My chest tightened instantly.

I blinked hard, my vision blurry at first, but then it all came into focus, I was in a car. Panic shot through me like electricity as fragments of memory came rushing back.

The bathroom. Tyrese. Zed.

My stomach turned. Tyrese and Zed had to be working together. What if they all were? What if this entire night had been a setup?

No... Akilah wouldn't do that to me. She couldn't.

But the thought dug deeper with every passing second.

I always end up trusting the wrong people and look where it got me. Again.

"We'll be staying at a hotel tonight. Tomorrow morning I'll be taking you back home. But for now, I have a few questions to ask you and you will answer them," he said, a sly smirk on his lips.

I couldn't speak but if I could I would give him a piece of my mind.

"Where have you been staying since you left?" was his first question before untying the cloth from around my mouth.

I felt a relief washed over me as I exhaled. I didn't want to give him any information about where I've been because that would be putting their lives at risk and I don't want that to happen to anyone.

Especially Devin.

"Answer me Vanessa," his voice was stern as he glared at me.

I still remained quiet and braced myself for the hit that was going to come. Zed had a high temper and he doesn't like to talk twice.

He was so delusional to the point where he thought he was the God and we were his damn sheep! At one time, I believed that but that was in the past.

"You'll be punished for this when I take you home. So remain quiet all you want baby," he said, but I only glared at him.

I pushed myself as deep into the corner that I could go and turned my head away from him. I couldn't let him take me back. I didn't come all this way to go back to how things were when I was a dancer.

I didn't want that life again!

As I sat there, Mordechai suddenly sprung to my mind. What if... by chance something should happen between us? I would have to tell him about my past and he would only think of me as a slut.

I felt my heart racing again and I tried to breathe calmly. I had to stay sharp and focused. My head was hurting like hell but I couldn't focus on that right now.

The car came to a halt at a small food shop that was marked 'Macy's'. 

"Just grab something to eat and get back here as fast as you can. I want to reach the hotel before night," Zed said to Romario as he parked the car and got out.

It was only me and him left in the car. I was suprised he didn't have any backup... but as far as I could remember, Romario was all he needed. He was dangerous like that.

"It's just us baby, we could do anything we want," he said in a very sick voice.

I didn't even spare him a glance. My mind was everywhere except on Zed right now. I hated him and that wasn't going to change.