Finding Oriana

Chapter 27

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

I can hear birds. They're all singing and chirping away, along with the gentle sounds of the breeze hitting the trees I hear it. It's rustling the leaves. Wait, what?
I feel arms wrap around me, making me feel the warmth. I also feel cold too, which makes me think Kaiden's opened a window again.

"Mm, baby, please close the window. It's freezing. Or better yet, you can always warm me up."
I feel him tense slightly and just when I think he's going to speak, I feel him pull me closer to his warmth. I also feel his morning wood pressed against my backside. I hear his breathing hitch when I move into him.

"Good morning to you, too..."
I'm giggling as I begin to flutter my eyes open, then I close them when a shooting pain, hits the back of my eyes. That's followed by another pain on the side of my head.

"Careful. Baby, don't move too quickly. You'd taken a nasty bump on the head."
Baxter? Oh god, I'm with Baxter? Oh shit. I ignore what he says and I quickly pull away from him. I'm squinting through the pain just so that I can take in my surroundings. I'm still in the same place the place where we'd sat down. Oh, god, Kaiden he'll be worried sick and my parents, too.

"What the fuck? Bax, what the hell is going on? Why am I still here and with you?"
My hand reaches for the pain, that's now throbbing in my head. There's a huge bump it's not bleeding, but it hurts like a bitch.

"You'd tripped and fell on a rock, knocking yourself out."
"What, and you didn't think to take me to the hospital or call for help?"
He sighed, and I can see the pain in his tired eyes.

"I-I guess I panicked. I mean, after everything I didn't want anyone to think that I'd kidnapped you or anything. Well, I guess that I wanted to stay with you. I-I'm sorry I know I shouldn't have done that but I love you, Ori. I just want to be with you."
I see tears filling his eyes I see them. Well, it hurts my heart.

"Baxter, you really need to move on. I'm sorry, it's hurting you, but you're hurting me, too. I mean, look at me look at you. We'd be terrible together. I-I'm sorry. I need to go. I can't be here with you and I'd like it if you'd stayed away from me and Kaiden. I've allowed this to go on for too long now. Now I'm ending it we're done. Please, please if you love me then let me go."

I end that by standing up and walking away from him. Only the stubborn fool runs after me. He's telling me, not to leave him. Of course, I run. I run as fast as my legs can take me, especially with a throbbing pain in my head. I get as far as the path the same path that's laid along by the side of the river. Obviously, he catches up to me sadly having a heart murmur well I get tired a lot quicker.
Anyway, he's pulling me close, pleading I stay with him.

"Please, don't do this. Don't make this worse, just move on. You need to move on."
He's not giving up. I think he's feeling desperate now. He is because he's digging his fingers into my arms while trying to drag me back into the trees.

"Get off me, Baxter! I've told you, you need to leave me alone. Please, just let me go you're hurting me."

I'm pleading, begging him to let me go, but he's holding on tightly, forcing me to look at him while he's shouting at me. He's getting angry. The more I say no; he became more frustrated. Just when I think he'll kidnap me, I see Gino. Then I see the other man, they call Julian and then Cross. All three of them are running towards us. Gino is the first to reach us and all I'm thinking is freedom. I'm going home but it's short, lived, only because Baxter has lost his shit. He must have because now he's pulling out a knife. What the fuck where the hell did he get a knife from? Better yet, why the fuck did he, have it? And why does he have it held up to my neck?