Wicked Games

6-Eliana

Chapter Six | Eliana

And I love you.

"I would rather stick pins in my eyes over and over again, than hear those words come out of your mouth." I hiss at Reid and watch as his face drops, and he recoils back. "You don't love me. You're not capable of loving someone." His face hardens and he purses his lips, looking like he's thinking about what he has to say about my statement.

Reid leans forward on the chair he's placed himself on and leans forward, his elbows resting on his toned thighs. His green eye stares at me with so much intensity, that it has me leaning back against my own chair.

"Is that what you really think?" He questions in a deep voice, a mixture of anger and hurt on his annoyingly beautiful face. "You think I never loved you?"

"You left," I answer simply. "You didn't try to save me that night. You were being selfish."

He chuckles, shaking his head in disbelief, his wavy brown hair drooping across his forehead because he's been running his fingers through his hair constantly. A habit he's always done.

"You're joking, right? Eliana, I thought you were dead! I was told you were dead!" This time I laugh and shake my head. "You find that funny?"

"No, I think you're a liar. Baker showed me CCTV proof of you telling him how you'd choose freedom over me, and that you were sick of the place, so if you had to sacrifice me to live a life you deserve, then so be it. He threatened to kill me, but you just shot him." His face is passive as I explain to him what I was shown like he's waiting for me to continue.

"Okay? And then what happened after that?" He tilts his head, leaning comfortably against the back of the chair. "What happened next, butterfly?"

"I-I...The video stopped. That was all." I stutter.

"Yeah, and that video that was shown to you was manipulated because I never said that. I can recite what I said word for word if you'd like?" I shrug. "During the breach, I couldn't find you. So much was going on that night, but all I could think about was finding you, and getting us out of there. I had found Baker who was already injured and on the brink of death. He asked me for a favour, he told me if I killed you he would let me go."

Reid laughs lightly at the end of his sentence.

"I was desperate to get us out, so I went along with it. But he was only taking the piss, he found it amusing that I would leave you, and he called me weak." I remember Baker saying that at the beginning of the video. "Do you think I'd choose freedom over, Eliana? I'm sick of this place, but if I have to sacrifice her to live the life I deserve, I'd rather die. If I have to die here, then so be it."

My eyes sting.

"Yes, he did threaten to kill you, but I knew we still had an opportunity to escape with him being injured. So, I went to walk away until he told me you were already dead. He threw pictures onto the ground, and they were pictures of your dead body, Eliana. I stood there for ages staring at these pictures of you laying in a pool of your own blood, a bullet wound in your head."

I start to process what Reid is telling me. I try to trace back my memory to that night, because I can only remember half of it, and it was all at the beginning when the police had begun to raid the orphanage. After that, I had woken up in a different place.

"You have no idea how broken I was when I saw those pictures. I shot Baker, I thought it would have finished him off but clearly, it didn't. Yes, I ran. I left, but once I was on my own in the outside world, I wanted to end it all. I didn't want to live a life without you in it, Ellie. The same gun I shot Baker with, I put it against my head and was about to pull the trigger to be with you, until King found me." Reid's voice cracks and bile rises up my throat and I grab the bin in the corner and throw my dinner right up.