Only in my dreams ( Book one of the Secret Embrace Series)

Part2

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My eyes flutter open as rain drops slide down the window in my room, tonight I am going to stay with Emma. We are suppose to stay at her house until Scott, her guardian, returns with a plan to help Adien escape.

What they don't know is I already have a plan of my own and if Emma knew what it was I wouldn't have to worry about dying because she would kill me for this.

I get out of my warm comforters and face the cold world determined for once in my life as I take a deep breath in and out. For once I don't know how my day is going to go or what is going to happen next, part of me is filled with fear of the unknown but another part of me, the part of me awaken by Adien and his love for me, is ready to fight with everything I have to save him from the Hell Liam has put him through, put all of us through.

I take a deep breath again as I get ready in the mirror this might be the last time I ever see my reflection again, to be in my house again, and all I can feel is hope and determination to see this through.

I finish in the bathroom as I grab a few clothes to take with me to Emma's, along with a tooth brush, my cell phone which was laying on the floor with, you guessed it a missed call from Emma, and some other personal things like a picture of me and my mom taken just a few years ago.

I smile at the old memory so long ago who would have known my life would turn out like this? I for one didn't.

I walk down the stairs with my bag and throw it next to the stairs as I grab something to drink and dial Emma's number.

" Hello?" I say when the phone is finally answered which I find kinda of weird since she always answers on the first ring.

" Ash..." Emma says her voice shaking, before the phone is moved making shuffling noises and her voice is muffled by a new voice that comes across the phone.

" Why.. hello.. love.." An evil voice says wickedly, freezing me in mid step.

My heart drops to my stomach making me weak. I feel my hands begin to shake as I hold onto the phone for dear life.

"What do you want Liam?" I ask my insides turning into ice as I think of how this could have happened.

" You of course, it has always been you." He says seductively. I can feel his smile on the other side of the phone as I grab a hold of the counter for support.

No this can't be.

He has Adien and now he has Emma! I take a deep breath to control my racing heart.

" Let Emma go." I say my voice controlled as I listen for the reply on the other side of the phone.

I can hear Emma in the background telling me to run, telling me not to trust him, and to just stay where I am.

" Shut up." I hear on the other side of the phone followed by a slapping sound before her warnings are muffled again.

I freeze my heart stopping at the sound as the other end goes quiet, " Let her go and I will come to you. " I say again this time my voice shaking with anger and worried, mixed. My heart not knowing what to feel begins to feel everything at once causing me to become dizzy.

" I am done making deals with you Ash, " He says seriously and I hear more shuffling, " You come to me or else I will kill Adien...and if that doesn't get your attention your sister will be next."

I hold the phone listening closely to every word spoken to me hoping to get some kind of answer besides the one given to me.

But I can only think of one.

I have to go to him.

I have to save Emma and Adien even if it means my life.

What other choice do I have? As I think of a life without them, I shake my head. No, that is not an option.

" I will find you." I say coldly as he laughs a deep, dark laugh that chills me from the inside out.

" ASH NOOOOOOO!!" Emma screams and then the line disconnects.

I hold the phone for a mintue and stand there in shock as my brain tries to comprehend what just happened.

I know what I have to do now, I think as I stand there looking at the picture of me and Emma on the fridge our smiling faces captured in a more care-free time.

I can barely feel my feet on the ground as I run out of the house, my bag on my shoulder as I throw it into the car and jump into the drivers seat slamming my foot on reverse out of the garage.

I have to save them, I think, as I look at my little town blurring around me in my haste to make the care move faster, the speed of light wouldn't be fast enough for me at this point.

I have to save them...even if it is the last thing I do.

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My thoughts race in my mind as memories of me and Emma go through my head. The first time we met in middle school, our first movie, our first sleep over, when she had her first date and how I helped her find an outfit, the way we laughed, how we talked for hours without end, always having something new to say, and now how everything is.

Emma, My past sister, who has come back to save me, only now the roles are reversed and I have to save her.

Before it is to late.

" It is not to late." I tell myself pulling up to her house. " As long as I do what he says everything will be alright."

I walk through the door almost falling over a chair in the doorway. You can definitely tell she didn't leave without a fight. I can picture her angry and uncompliant and with hope still inside me, I pray that she is still here, maybe tied up, but still here. But the further I go into the house the more things I see on the floor, things that were once hangining on the walls in the hallway, or sitting neatly on tables, now broken and discarded on the wooden floors, and up the stairs.

Something has to be here to point me in the right path. I say to myself as my hands and eyes search through the debris.

I search the house looking for anything that might tell me where he has taken her. I find a piece of her shirt that must have been ripped during the fight and tears form in my eyes as I hold it close to me. I see a half broken vase laying beside me and throw it roughly at the wall as I watch it break into a thousand pieces.

Just like my heart.

' This can't be happening.' I think as I wipe my eyes and go search in her bedroom up the stairs. I open the door carefully and her room seems to be the only thing intact as I stare at all the memories we have shared here on the walls and around the room. Pictures of us from middle school and up line the walls, along with pictures of her and her guardian, Scott, places she has seen, and wanted to go to.

Not wanted..wants.. she wants to go. I shake my head my brain already trying to tell me she is gone but my heart not wanting to believe this.

I can still save her.

He wants me, only me.

And maybe just maybe I can use that as an advantage.

One lonely picture lays ontop of the comforters as I stare at it for a moment before picking it up.

' Why would there be a picture on her bed when everything else is where it is suppose to be?' I question internally as I stare at the picture, the only thing out of place, in her otherwise normal looking room.

I look at the writing on the back before flipping it over to the actual picture.

' Meet you there.' Is written in black, elegant writing as I turn the picture around, my hands shaking, as my heart stops beating in my chest once realization kicks in.

The Willow,the place I hold dearest in my heart, the place I last saw Adien, the place I felt my happiest in his arms, in my field of dreams.

The place Liam has now made our battle ground.