Suicide Forest

Chapter 14: Caged

Recap:

I closed my eyes and tried to keep my breaths steady before I was picked up off the ground by someone and a dirty hand was clamped over my mouth as I somehow teleported to where the cult was and was thrown into a cage.

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Anna's POV

I tried pushing myself up and off the ground when a figure in the corner of the cage caught my eye. My arms were sore from hitting one of the metal bars when I was roughly thrown in here so I decided to try using my legs to help me stand up.

Determination flowed throughout my body as I couldn't help but have hope that this person could somehow help me escape.

"Yeah and the last time you hoped for the same thing the guy just so happened to be part of a cult," My mind reminded me and I sighed, ignoring the voice in my head as I quickly hoisted myself up.

The person's bare back was facing towards me and as my eyes scanned their back, I recognized something that instantly set off an alarm in my head. They had a tattoo on their back that only one person could have and that's the very man that cheated on me.

"Ryan..." My mind confirmed, causing my heart to thump in my chest as tears found their way into my eyes.

Dammit, he doesn't even deserve my tears!

I stepped over his body and stood in front of him with his face near my shoes, causing the strong urge to stomp on the same guy who stomped on my heart. I was on the verge of hurting him in more ways than he hurt me when I realized there were dry blood stains on his chest.

Ryan stirs in his sleep before I squat down and lightly run my fingers on his chest where the dry blood was. Ryan jumps up and raises his hand to fight off whoever touched him and his eyes widen when he realizes it's just me.

There's an awkward pause of silence and even with tension thick in the air, my heart fluttered as a result of his intense gaze and I had to remind myself what he had put me through. I couldn't give in to him and end up in the same place I was in before all because he broke my heart.

"I-I'm sorry," Ryan finally stated, breaking the silence and I laughed.

"You're sorry? It didn't seem like that when your dick was inside of another girl," I scoffed and Ryan reached out to put his hand on my arm, causing immediate heat to radiate throughout my body.

The memory of Ryan having sex with another girl instantly popped up in my head seconds after, causing me to roughly brush his hand off of me.

"Don't touch me," I snapped, causing shock to cross Ryan's face as hurt was clear in his eyes.

"Anna... what happened to you? The Anna I knew would forgive me no matter what and used to be sweet and never snapped at me, no matter the situation," Ryan said, causing my irritation to increase and I could not believe he really just said that.

"You cheated on me for god sakes, we were in a committed relationship and you just cheated on me as if our relationship meant nothing, as if I meant nothing," I replied with a scowl as I tried calming myself down and reminded myself not to show any weakness.

"Anna, if you were nothing then I wouldn't have come here to kill mys-"

"No, don't try and pull that bullshit on me, I became nothing to you as soon as you knowingly started your affair with another girl," I continued, not even caring that I just interrupted him.

"Listen, you refused to have sex with me and said we would do it when you were ready and we spent 5 years together. Even then, you were never ready to take it to the next step. After all, I am a guy Anna and I along with every other guy have needs!"