Bloodlines

Chapter 27

Chapter 27

Maddie sat on the bed, keeping her gaze down on the ground as Cole paced around the room, holding a knife in his hand. Maddie looked around and saw Luke's stuff still in the room, but not him in the room. Luke was probably getting what he wanted. Cole was going to kill Maddie tonight for sure. How did Cole even find them to begin with?

Maddie felt her chin lift up and saw Cole standing right over her, holding her chin with force. She felt her body go on high alert as Cole studied her body. What the hell was he going to do? She looked at the devil himself as he smirked at him. His smirk was like a deathly gas that polluted the room; it was ghastly.

"Wow, even after last night, you both are still trying to kill me!" Cole said, cheerfully. "How many attempts is this now?"

"Why does it matter to you?" Maddie asked him. "You're just going to give me off to your boss, aren't you?"

Cole nodded his head and laughed. "You know, my boss really does want you alive."

"Zeus, right?" Maddie stared at him bravely.

Cole knelt down to her height and touched her nose lightly. "I think I'll just kill you, and preserve your blood for my boss."

Maddie's stomached dropped as she tried to come up with words to save time. "You sure you want to do that, Skinny jeans?" Maddie managed to say.

Cole paused and looked down at her, taken back at what she just said. It started to all make sense now why Cole wanted to complete the ceremony. Cole wanted her dead because of his horrible relationship with Annabeth. He was the epitome of petty. There had to be a way to get under his skin to peel back a weakness he had.

"I also know you were in the hospital the day of my surgery," Maddie blurted out to him. She saw his body twitch as she was hitting the patch—his secrets. There we go. "It's funny. You've been blackmailing Luke and I for weeks, and now it's like that Justin Timberlake song—What Comes Around Goes Around. If you even touch me, I'll let it slip about everything you did. Everything from attacking a vampire, to attacking a hunter, to attempted rape, kidnapping, and murder. You'll be killed!"

Maddie waited for him to explode so she could kick his ass. Maddie looked at the table in front of her and saw Hope's dagger there next to a phone. She just had to grab both of them and she'd be all set to protect herself. Anticipation grew into a flower that soon died when Cole Masterson just turned around and laughed in her face. Maddie felt her stomach drop. Why wasn't he freaking out?

"Damn, Olivia was right," Cole said, chuckling. Cole wandered over to the closet and stood suspiciously by the door. "You are very good at blackmail, blondie. However, there is one thing you don't know how to hold very well. Leverage."

Cole opened the closet door and dragged out a wooden chair with chains on it. Maddie stared at the chair and felt her heart rip in half as she saw Luke tied to it, wounds all over his body. Maddie's mouth dropped as she fought the urge to go and unchain Luke. She looked at his arms and saw a lot of burn marks all over his body as there were wounds filled with blood. She saw his face and saw that he was in pain from the wounds and chains. How did Cole torture him so quickly? Luke looked like he just survived a horrendous car accident.

"He was a tough one to hold down," Cole explained. Cole took out a stake from his coat and held it gingerly in his hands. "I injected him with some holy water and then I chained him up to a chair. I put holy water on the chains so that he couldn't break them. Then, I stuck this very stake in every part of his body to show him the pain he had caused me over the past few days. Now, he can't break free and save you."