angel of darkness (18+) WLW

part 9- the date 🔥

The car ride is silent but i happily look out the window. Enjoying the fresh air, I realize this is the first time ive been outside in about a month. I dont think ive ever gone this long without being out in nature. Its just part of who I am.

Hell, i got kidnapped because of my predictable schedule of going out into the garden every morning to watch the sunrise.

Breaking the silence I ask her

"how did your men know that I would be outside? How did you plan it?"

"What?"

She asks confused so I clarify

"when you took me adrienne. How did you know I would be outside, how did you lock the doors preventing me from going back in?"

Her eyes stay trained on the road.

"oh that was easy. You would go outside every morning at the same time. I had surveillance on the palace for weeks in advance. That was always the door you took. Once we learned what lock was on it, we crafted a key for it and just locked it. The door is a special type that it has a lock on the outside and the inside and you need both keys to reopen it, but only one to lock it."

"oh"

i furrow my brows. Was our security that lousy?

"why me. Why not my brother or sister? Or even better, why not just kill my father in an ambush."

"you were the firstborn so it only made sense. And annalise you must think me a fool if you truly believe i will divulge my thought process and reasoning behind my choices when you are to be sent home soon."

We turn down a winding road and i huff. Shes right.

"how soon?"

I press

"soon enough princess"

At the nickname i scoff

She spares me a glance and the heavy emotion behind her look sets a feeling of unease off within me. How can she make me feel so exposed in a single glare?

The car purrs to a stop on some crunchy gravel and she turns it off opening her door.

Adrienne comes around to my side opening the door for me and offering me a hand to step out but i dont take it. As much as i should considering this ground is uneven and im in heels.

She laughs at my blatant rudeness.

"fine. suit yourself."

"this was your whole plan wasnt it, take me here to murder me?"

I half joke with her knowing if she wanted to kill me right now she would get away with it and nobody would ever even consider her a suspect.

"yes how did you know"

Her tone is serious but when I widen my eyes in fear she presses her lips together and raises a single brow as if to say 'really?'

she walks ahead and i rush to follow her down a gravel path. Shes in combat boots and I do my best to keep up with her but she moves too swiftly for me.

"adrienne slow down"

"what, want me to carry you princess?"

"no adrienne. I dont want your hands on me. I want you to slow down because I am in heels and cant walk as fast as you. Short legs, remember?"

"oh yes. some of us are vertically challenged."

I mutter the word 'bitch' under my breath as she leads the way but this time she slows down.