I'm standing in the bathroom, looking into the cracked mirror above the sink and I can hardly recognize myself. There's bags under my eyes, from horrible sleep and my skin is so dull. My eyes look so tired but not sleep tired. Last night when Damon told me to get sleep, I couldn't. I kept replaying what was gonna happen today. Killing that lady, is gonna piss someone off enough to get revenge. I'm worried about Harper and if they will come after her. I hear a knock on the door and broke away from my thoughts. I give myself one last look and open the door to be greeted by Hunter, definitely not who I was expecting. He gives me a fake smile before saying " Are you ready, bait?" This time he gives me a real smile. "Excuse me?" This fucker better be kidding cause I'm not going to risk my life for these psychopaths. As he goes to respond, Damon appears "come on. We don't have all day." With that Hunter gives me a wink before turning around and walking up to Damon. I decide to follow, maybe Harper is with too.
They head straight out the door and get into the car without even glancing my way. Getting into the backseat, I realize Harper isn't with. "Harper is at home". Hunter says, almost like he read my mind. Must've seen the confusion on my face. I say nothing and remain silent, they do the same. I'm not sure what's going on or where we are going. Maybe they are using me as bait? I'm sure they won't care if I die. They are just keeping me alive for Harper, I guess. But wouldn't that mean Hunter would have to care about Harper ? Then again, nothing about these people make sense. Hearing Hunters phone going off he picks it up. "Yes?" His face instantly changes with whatever the other person is saying. "How did this fucking happen? I told you to keep an eye on her!" I can sense the rage falling off him. I'm getting concerned he's talking about Harper.. maybe she ran away? "Fucking find them, now!" He hangs up and runs his hand through his hair. "Change of plans, Damon".
"What?" Damon glances over at him for a second before putting his eyes back on the road. "Not in front of her." He points back to me and Damon looks at me through the rear view mirror. "Why?" I say out loud. I'm not sure why Hunter wants to keep it a secret from me. Maybe it's not about Harper then? " it's none of your concern" Hunters stern voice says to me, his eyes reveal the boiling rage he has inside of him. " is it Harper?" I'm so concerned about my friend right now. "Enough!" Hunter says to me. " Damon tell this bitch, to mind her fucking business." Damon breaks hard and I face plant right into his leather seat. Rubbing my face I sit back and stare at Damon in the mirror with such annoyance. "I'm turning around, and dropping you off at the house." Damon completes his u-turn and starts to blast his music before I could utter out a word. I'm getting real sick of being left in the dark and being treated like shit. I lean my head back and take a deep breath to try and calm myself down before I spaz out and make them crash the car. I open my eyes and think maybe I should have them crash the car? If we crash, maybe I could run away? But looking around I see nothing around that I could run to. Probably not the best idea, then.
After a 30 minute drive back, Damon steps out the car and opens my door to let me out. I think he put the child lock on. " come on, Rayna" Damon says with annoyance in his voice. I take a look over at Hunter and he's texting on his phone. I then get out and follow Damon into the house. "Now, remember my people are watching you." Wouldn't have thought otherwise, idiot. " I figured that" I huff. He opens up a drawer and pulls out a gun and shoves it into his pants. " I'll be back, princess". With that he leaves me once again.
One week later
It's been a week since Damon has left. I know because I've been counting the days since he left. My days have been long and boring, but there's one thing that's been keeping my mind busy and it's that locked door. Now I know I could just try and break it down, but I've been trying to picklock it. Hasn't worked, yet. Today I've tried to hurl myself at the door but it didn't move, so I need to find something I can use. I remember seeing a bat in one of the rooms, so I head over to the room and pick up the old bat. Hopefully it doesn't break the bat and not the door. Standing in front of the locked door I start swinging as hard as I can, hearing cracking I keep going. Finally there's a hole in the door big enough for me to stick my hand through. Dropping the bat I put my hand through and feel for the knob to unlock it. I unlock it and open it up, looking down stairs to what looks like a basement. Seeing if there's a light switch on the wall, I click it on. Now I'm nervous to go down, I've never liked basements. Taking a deep breath I pick up the bat and start walking down the steps.
Reaching the bottom I see nothing but a regular looking basement " what the fuck" I say out loud. I literally broke down his door for no reason, but why would he have it locked? I start looking around even more but all I see is a toolbox and old furniture. Walking over to the toolbox I open up the drawers to see if anything is hiding in them, but nothing but tools. Until I reach the bottom drawer with a lock on it. Surprisingly, it opens and I find drugs, " you gotta be kidding me" of course he'd be hiding drugs, I don't know what I expected. Picking the bag filled with white powder I see stacks of cash under it. Well, that's a lot of money I wonder if I should take a stack? I put the bag to the side and pick up a stack of cash. I wonder how much this one stack is? I've never seen so much money in person before. Shaking my head, I put everything back and take myself back upstairs. I can't steal money, I'm sure he'll kill me if he found out. He might even kill me for breaking this damn door. I find a chair to try and cover the hole and it kinda works, maybe that'll buy me a little time until he notices.
After a few hours of staring at the ceiling I hear the door open
"Rayna?" Harpers voice rings through the walls. I shoot up and run down the stairs and see Harper stand there by herself " where is Hunter?" I ask her. Not that I care but it's off not to see the guys here with her. "I left him. I don't have much time, before they find me. I going to try and get you out of this mess." I look at her face of determination and I'm surprised she was able to escape, when I've been struggling to get out of here. "How the hell did you escape? I keep failing " I laugh a little at the end. "Hunter isn't the brightest, he left his car keys laying around and also his one bodyguard is helping me. He's keeping a look out for me, right now." Wow, Harper. " okay, so you're here to take me with you? Hunter is looking for you. I have so many questions! Where have you been for a week?". She gives me a weak smile "I've been hiding low for a while, since if he finds us he'll most definitely kill me and Tony. But enough talk, we need to go". She grabs my hand and we run out to the car. I get into the backseat, while she gets into the front and the guy named Tony reverses out of the driveway and speeds away.
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Life Till Death
AcciónGetting fired from my job was the worst thing I thought that could happen to me. Boy, was I wrong. This is the story of how I died, but let's start with my life first.
