No Time To Die- ARTHURMORGAN x O/C

part 2- Dune

Next day

It's been boring for Claudia, trying to stay low not getting into any trouble. She walks back to her horse after checking out of the hotel.
"Let's go boy" she mounts up on the horse taking the reins. She decided to set a camp up just near Valentine but not too close to the little town. Today she was hopping to either look around emerald ranch or get stock up on suplies from the general store in Valentine, she makes her way to emerald ranch. Ew the smell of cattle.
"Excuse me Miss weren't you in Blackwater a couple months back" A women asks as Claudia trotted her way through the ranch.
"No ma'am, I haven't been there for years, since I was a little girl to be exact why" She questions the women while stopping Dune.
"I must of mistaken you for one of the women in the Van De Linde gang, their was a big robbery back there" she snears taking another drag of her ciggerette.
"Oh well that's not me ma'am" Claudia laughs and starts riding away, Van De Linde it sounded so familular.
Claudia finishes snooping around Emerald Ranch and leaves to get to the store in time before it closes, she just needed some whiskey, cans of food and some medicine from the doctor. The day goes by quickly as it starts to turn dark, she enters Valentine hitching her horse up outside the store.
"Evening Miss" The shopkeeper welcomes as she walks in.
"Evening Sir" she replies picking up the suplies she needs. She thanks the man and makes her way back outside but there's no sign of her horse. She whistles for it.
"Dune where are you boy" she calls, putting her stuff away in her satchell. Claudia walks around frantically trying to find her horse.
"Miss I found you're horse, it got startled and fled off" A man came rushing towards her motioning her to follow him.
"Where show me" Claudia orders following the man to where Dune is.
She followed him into the trees next to Valentine, to see her horse dead on the floor.
"It is so lovely to see you Miss Jenkins, I've missed you so much" Jullian Thorn appears behind the tree with a rifle in his hand.
"What the fuck do you want" she snaps, holding back the tears .
"Well you of course"
The world went dark.

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"wakey wakey, Miss Jenkins" Claudia's wander as they open, tasting the blood filling in her mouth. Jullian Thorn.
"I've missed you, ever since you ran away that day" he cooed wiping the blood off her face. He stood up and making his way towards a table across the room. Claudia is tied up agaisnt a beam in the middle of the room, trying to keep her head up. Jullian turns around with a newly sharp knife, you can tell as it shines from the light. "You betrayed me and in marriage trust is everything, so if you do it again at least other men will know that your mine". He crouches down to her unbuttening her shirt, he takes the knife and scrapes it across the skin but not too much.
"Rot in hell" she spits and turns her head away from him.
"Fine, I don't care what you think about me but you will always be mine" He sneers as he carves the knife into her skin under her colar bone. Claudia screams in agony as he carves his initials into her making sure it will scar.
"Calm down you whore" He yells trying to keep her still, "I said calm down" He punches her right in the face, knocking her out.
Jullian gets up and leaves the room straight away, "Don't let anyone in" He demands one of the staff member of the house to stay.