Chapter 24 (Lily)

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Cole: "Its alright, I'll keep you safe."

He laughs and keeps driving us to what looks like an old abandoned house.

Lily: "Where are you taking me?"

Cole: "If I tell you, this wouldn't be a surprise now, would it? I have to keep my creepy, criminal image."

I try to untangle the knots he made on my feet while he looks at the road but I was unsuccessful.

Cole: "I'm taking you somewhere your pretty boyfriend or any cop can't find you."

Lily: "What are you going to do to me?"

Cole: "I'm getting back the three years of my life you took away from me!"

Lily: "I didn't commit the crime, you did!"

Cole: "You're right I did, and I'm about to commit another one and guess who's going to be my next victim?"

I can't believe this is happening. He parks the car next to a huge tree, walks around to my side of the car and I flinch at his touch.

Cole: "Don't worry baby, you will do more than flinch when you feel the different ways I'm going to touch you."

As he unties my feet, I quickly stomp my feet on his and knee him in the stomach. He bends over in pain and tries to catch his breath while I try to buy myself some time. There is no way I can find my way home from here but the less time I'm near him, the better.

I run straight towards the house; there might be something I can call with or something to protect me. The door is locked but there's a window on the side that's open. I can hear him screaming my name so I jump in through the window. All of downstairs is completely vacant. I try and look for anything sharp, a knife specifically, but all of the cabinets are empty. I start to run upstairs when I hear him yell, "Don't you dare go up there!"

I trip over a few stairs but I manage to get my self upstairs and inside the first room I can get into. The second I turn around and slam the door, I realize that there are bolts and and locks all over the door. Thank you God. Why would Cole want to lock himself in his room? What was he hiding or better yet who was he hiding it from?

I turn around and I'm completely thrown off. The room is full of personal things; it looks like a room for a ten year old. I start to walk around the room and I realize a sign over the bed that reads the name Mike. Who's Mike? Was Coles real name Mike?

Cole: "Don't touch anything! Get out of there!"

I'm instantly snapped out of the enigmatic trance I was in and start to figure a way out of this house. There's a door that leads to a bathroom and with the little hope I had left there's also another door that leads to the hallway. I push the door open and start running down the stairs until I am pulled by behind and thrown against the wall. He grabs me from the floor and throws me again against a mirror on the wall. Blood starts to run down my arm and when I try to get up, he grabs me and pushes me against the wall one more time. When I finally start to see clearly, I don't know if it was my imagination but I see a tear fall from Coles face.

He slaps my cheek and says, "You little bitch! Do you ever do what you are told?"

He slaps the other side of my face and drags me down the stairs.

Cole: "Aw, your cheeks are turning red for me. You getting shy?"

When we reach the first floor he grabs me by my hair and sits me down in a chair. Then he binds my hands and feet to the chair and wraps a cloth around my mouth.

Cole: "Adrian is a very lucky man."

I don't know why but I have a weird sense of déjà vu. Has he said that to me before?



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