The man who stepped out of the SUV was uncomfortably handsome. Men who were to good looking always made me on edge even more than men in general but this man hasn't even looked at me and I already feel like I am about to pass out. "Um I am going to go in the back room." I tell Patty but stop when one of the men grabs me around my wrist.
I try to keep my breathing calm but start hyperventilating some making the man eye me strangely before letting me go which calms it down. "The boss is going to want to speak with you girlie." He tells me so I just nod my head and go to stand next to Patty hoping this will be over with soon. When the man walks in his eyes fall on me and a frown comes onto his face.
"Sir this was the girl we were talking about." The man says to who I am presuming is Mr. Westbrook. "Apparently she is Patty's cousin." The other one says with a knowing look on his face. "Mr. Westbrook looks between Patty and I before he sniffs the air and his frown turns to a small grin. Mr. Westbrook comes up close to me making my subconsciously step backwards away from all of them especially him.
As he watches how I react to him coming closer to me the frown he had once again graces his uncomfortably perfect face. "I am Tate Westbrook and you are?" He asks me seeming very curious about me. Curious isn't what I am looking for. In my defense I didn't choose the best town to go by discreet but I know here he will never be able to find me. At least I pray he isn't able to.
"Haven." I tell him quickly making sure to keep distance between us. "Is there a last name that follows Haven?" He asks me like he is trying to pry a secret from a young child. "There is, but it happens to be none of your business Mr. Westbrook." I tell him making his smile grow a little. "Call me Tate." He says before moving his eyes to Patty.
"Haven would you be a dear and step outside while I talk to your cousin Patty for a few minutes." He asks me drawing out the word cousin like he already knows all my secrets. "Um, sure." I say before grabbing my jacket and walking outside to sit on the bench right next to the diner's entrance. About ten minutes later one of the men walks out and motions for me to come back inside. Slowly I get up and do so.
"When I walk in the first thing I notice is the look of fear on Patty's face. It seems to have gotten worse since when I was sent out. "Well Patty it was a pleasure doing business with you. Snowflake I hope to see you again." He says once he turns away from Patty and looks at me. I just nod my head at him making him give me a satisfied smile, like my one head nod gave him a reassurance of some sort.
Once there car is gone Patty lets a deep breath. "Um you can go home for the rest of the day I think I am going to close up early." Patty says to me. Not wanting to pry I just nod and head back to my room I am staying in. When I get there I turn on the small television and change it to a random channel. I turn the volume up before heading to my bag and grabbing my pill bottle. I look and see I don't have that many left.
I am probably going to have to go to some big city to get a doctor that'll give me some. I take three pills which is way over my prescribed amount to take and lay down on the bed. When I first had started getting medicine the amount they told me to use wouldn't work so I started taking a little more till I was going way over so I felt numb to the pain I felt for home many I take until I thought that they could just end the pain all together.
I pick up the pill bottle before dumping a handful out. This has to be enough to end it. Slowly I take all of them one at a time before they are all gone and I sit in the tube full of freezing water. I don't know how long I sit there until my vision starts to fade. It feels nice like I am floating on a cloud. That is when the first bang sounds. "Haven open this door right now you have been in there forever." My mother yells out as she continues to bang. I try to remember if I locked the door or if I had forgotten to but I couldn't think about that all I could think about was the banging. That's when I hear the sound of the door being shoved in and my mother's shocked gasp as she sees her daughter in a tube barely breathing. "Haven no oh god." My mother yells while he just grabs me out of the tube and shoves his fingers down my throat causing me to gag before I throw up all the contents of my stomach.
