Forever Hunted

  Backing away, I cringe into the wall behind me as he walks closer. I've been Zeke's "play-thing" ever since I was 16. Up until then, he'd treated me like a princess. He'd let me go to school, have friends, even have a cell phone and a computer. At least until my 16th birthday party.

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                                                                       ***Flashback***

  "Matya! Get over here! Now!" I hear Zeke yell from the car.

  "I'm sorry, Katie, but I have to go. I'll see you at the birthday party?"

  "Oh, yeah. Totally, girl!" Kate grins and hugs me, then pushes me towards the car. Heading over to Zeke's car, I gasps as I see Dean there, leaning against a pole near the car. I walk over to him, whispering," D-dean, you're not supposed to be here. If he finds out--"

  "What?" Zeke yells."That you've not only gotten a boyfriend, but it happened to be this little punk?!"

  Turning around and facing Zeke, I stutter."Z-Zeke, I--" I'm cut off as he lunges and slaps me across the face.

  Dean snatches me back and pulls me behind him, growling at Zeke."Don't you ever touch her like that again!" He snarls.

  "What?" Zeke laughs."She is my ward. I can do whatever the heck I want to her." I blanch, trying to pull Dean back.

  "D-dean," I whisper,"stop it. He's not worth it. Please, please stop it."

  He turns to me, wrapping his arms around my waist and pulling me closer."I will, but only if you come with me tonight. I'm not leaving you with that creep when he's mad." He whispers to me, looking me in the eye.

  "Dean--" He gives me a look that tells me that he's not backing down, and I sigh."Fine, I'll come with you tonight. But you know that he will not stop looking until he's found me again . . ." I trail off, looking down.

  "Come on, Matya." He says, pulling me with him as he starts to walk away.

  "Where do you think you're going? Don't walk away from me!" Dean stops and turns around, punching Zeke so hard in the nose that he probably knocked him out.

Wringing his hand out, he starts to pull me along towards his car again and, hopefully, far away from Zeke Nikolai.

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  Z-Zeke," I say,"W-what are you doing here?" I move to the left slowly, trying to get away from him. I gasps as he puts both hands on the wall beside my head and leans in, trapping me.

  "Oh, I'm only here to take back what belongs to me." He growls out, his hands gripping my arms painfully.

  Dean and I had changed states, schools, even names to get away from him. And he had still found us."Let me go!" I squirm.

  "No, I think not." He says." I'm just gonna wait here 'til precious Dean gets home from work. When that incident had happened 2 years ago, Dean had been 18 already, so when we moved I became sort of his ward. I'm 18 now. We'd both finished high school, and now we were both going to college with the help of the small jobs. We did everything to get away from Zeke and to start a new life.

  But now he was back.

  Zeke was back.