The Christmas Eve Secret

Chapter 1

Some time later a lady comes in with clothes and accessories and helps me out of bed and into the fresh clothes she brought soon I looked in the mirror I looked like a lamb being lead into the wolf's trap. When I sit back onto my bed slowly and painfully a knock on the door come "come in" when the door opened slightly the man that I guess was jake poked his head thru and smiled "follow me" he watched me try to get up but it brought pain that seared up to my head as black dots come into my vision soon I felt strong and sturdy hands grab my arms and help me up. A minute later he helped me down a hall and into a dining area with a long table set for two along the table sat a huge flower arangment with lilys, nuctuliptuse, hydriandras, and e.c.t also fethers form different birds at one end sat a man with a suit that had to been up to a million dollar suit he had almost gray blue hair but he looked about fifty-five he got up and walked over to the empty chair and pulled it out as jake helped me over to it and when I sat down jake began to walk away "thank you Jake" he turned and nodded at me and left then I turned to the man and asked "why did you want me here if you just want to have dinner with me and if you did not know theres other ways to do it you could have just come to my shop and ask me or call my number easy to find" I could tell that got him off guard it was a long time before he spoke so I played with a knife when he talked with a man the knife flew into the wall behind him.

The man and the server looked at me in surprise the man waved his hand dismissing the server and he chuckled as he pulled the knife out of the wall and said "you are a surprising girl Lily Anne Bell just like your father who should have trusted me with his little project before he died and you know you act just like him and you have his personality you mostly look like your mother but the eyes and your hair and eyes your hair will probably turn an amber color when you get about twenty like him and your have the same ice color eyes but not with the same twinkle in them like he did" I only half listened because everyone that knew my father and mother says the exact same thing to me everywhere I go in town and in some neighborhoods also in different places outside of town like the homeless shelter to drop off food someone will come up to me and say that also at the mental hospital and in a hospital now this man will not shut up about my parents. When he rings a bell and people brings food out I release my grip on my arm and release the breath I did not know I was holding I did not began to eat until he did. Sometime later Danny and Jake walks in and sits down Jake had a black eye and a bruise on his neck but other than that I could not tell he had gotten beat up by the men he wore a pair of jeans and boots he still had his hat and he had a button up shirt and his hair was combed back he smiled at me as he sat beside me across from Danny. Danny had on a pair of jeans also and boots also his hat but he did not wear his worn leather jacket and he had on a button up shirt that was the color of my mother's favorite hat and mine. His eyes wore the color of chocolate that was mixed with pieces of robin egg shells you could see the shells if you were close enough to him like I was he smiled at me with sympathy in his eyes but also he had grief mixed with kindness and happiness in his chocolate eyes.

No one talked for a long time Danny, Jake, and the man eat while I scooted my food on my plate and only taking bites out of it while I made a picture of Danny and Jake with my food they ended up looking like cartoons so I just finished eating. Before I took my last bite of the desert the man began to talk "Danny I hope you finished the job and did as you were told" danny's smile faded and he nodded grimly and answered "only if you stuck to your end of the deal Valentine" I looked up at the two men and chills ran thru my body like an electric shock in to my bones "you're telling me my father's and my mothers best friend who was missing since my parents funeral is the man who wanted me kidnapped and who almost killed me at there funeral and on my birthday when I turned six and yet he has not almost killed me only scared me and killed my father's beloved horses best friend Ol' red who was the best retired hunting dog and baby sitters son and my grandfather who raised me and was the only one who would talk about my parents death and not act like it never happened!" my voice had risen and I was stared at by Danny and Jake but not Valintine he had a smug smile like he enjoyed the journey to memory lane Danny looked pale and Jake looked at both the two men and also me. Valentine waved his hand at the man who had brought me to the dining room came and waited for me to get up when I did he grabbed my arm really tight to where when I tried to yank my arm away it would not budge. When there was a sound of chairs scraping on the floor we had just reached the door then I heard a yell and the next thing I knew he was on the floor and I was next to him panting and in pain and in a pool of blood not just the man's blood but mine also. The man got to his feet with a knife in his arm while black spots danced in my eyes and I heard him say "stupid girl" then he kicked me in my side and he still kicked and tried to kick me too where i could hardly breath without pain when Jake and Danny pulled him away soon everything went dark and a loud explosion came and the smell of smoke filled my lungs and choked me as I spat out blood and soon I heard footsteps and felt someone wrap their arms around me a carried me into the darkness. 

When I woke I was in a yard surrounded by smoke and two ash covered figures was trying to help people out and put out the fire and then there was a pain in my head and a voice whispered "this is because of your bastard father who was stupid enough to have a family and to get close to a bastard daughter" then it went black and I thought am I dead? What happened to Jake and Danny are they alright? When I woke I was tied up to a chair my hands behind my back and my legs and feet tied together and also my arms and back was tied up to where I could not move my limbs only my head but when I did black dots danced in my vision and my head began to throb even more. Then I heard a door open behind me and someone being thrown into the room they moaned and cursed I recognized the voice it was Danny "Danny is that you?" I asked I heard him get up and walk over Danny kneeled in front of me and said " I thought you were dead valentine said you'd better be dead the next thing I knew we were fighting and him and his men had me pinned and tied to a chair and jake laying in a pool a blood and water and they took me out of the room and then tosses me back in I can see why now he did not want me to see you alive or what they did to jake" I said nothing hoping he would not hear me weeping and hoping he could not see the tears that stung my cheeks and my wounded face but I did not have that luck because he saw and I wept in pain he undid my bonds and used a piece of his shirt to clean my wounds and face as I wept he held me whispering "it's okay everything is going to be okay shhh let's see where jake is an fix him up" I nodded standing up shakily. When we found Jake he was tied up in chains by his feet and hands in mid air he was bleeding and his head was hanging down I let out a muffled scream and began to take off the chains as did Danny.