Love is Limitless (Sequel to The Locker) (Completed)

Chapter 24

Riley's P.O.V.

The car door is roughly pulled open, making me jump and the car shake. "Get out!" Christian yells. How am I supposed to get out if I can't even see where I am going? My arm is yanked by his rough hands, my unsteady bare feet hit the ground. The rocks dig into my skin causing me to wince in pain and fall to my knees. I can feel cuts form the longer I stay on the ground. "Get up." he demands, pulling me by my shirt. 

The sharp rocks continue to scrape and cut my feet as we begin walking. I have no idea where we're going, the least he could do is take the bag off of my head. Tears prick the corner of my eyes, I try to breathe through the pain. I feel a soothing breeze over my face and realise the bag has been removed, but the cloth in my mouth still remains. I am greatful that I can see my surroundings finally. We're in the woods, it's so calm and peaceful. I don't understand how something so horrible can happen in such a beautiful place. 

Christian lets go of my shirt and repositions his harsh hands to grip my arm tightly. I grimace as I can feel the bruises beginning to form. Suddenly we're walking quicker like he is in a hurry about something. I stumble and nearly face plant into the ground from my aching feet, but he doesn't seem to care. Instead a sinister chuckle fills my ears, as if he is enjoying my pain. A few moments later I can feel the ground go from unbearably harsh, to moist and soft. I breathe a sigh of relief, I have never been so thankful to be walking on mud before. 

The distance we have covered seems to have been about a mile already, I am panting and struggling to control my breath. We are moving quite hastily, and my eratic heartbeat is amplified by fear. This whole way I have been trying to figure out where the hell I am, all I can make out is that I am forest. I don't which forest or where, there are no familiar signs that I have been here before, I don't know what is going to happen to me. 

When I look straight ahead of me, I can see a small brown little speck. As we get closer and closer I try to make out what it is. Is that a cabin? No, it can't be, I am just seeing things, I bet it's just another tree. My hope fades yet again and I let my gaze fall back to the ground. Christian comes to a surprising holt, jerking me back. "Stay here, and don't move, if you move then I will kill you. Understood?" I let my head do the talking with a simple nod. He leaves me standing there, but uses the rope around my wrists to tie me to the nearest tree before walking off.

His figure disappears behind the trees, and right then I begin wiggling my wrists trying to break free from the rope. My hands move to my mouth, it seems like a good idea to do the easiest thing first. My time is limited but it's hard to get a grip on the cloth around my mouth, my body is shaking so badly. I finally am able to tug at the cloth barely allowing it to move. I walk closer to the tree so the rope isn't stretched out as much, giving me access to the knott in the back. After a few minutes of constant tugging and pulling, I finally loosen the cloth and yank it off of me. The relief that I can breathe again is overwhelming. I quickly return my focus towards my hands, if I could just some how find something sharp. My body spins around and my eyes wander for that perfect object that will set me free.

"That was impressive to watch." I freeze all hopes of escaping have gone straight into the ground. Christain claps loudly in my ear making me jump each time. "Really. You were so close too." he continues to mock me as he circles my body like a ravenous vulture. His ice cold hand reaches up to touch my face, my head instinctively turns away. "But I guess you weren't close enough, that's too bad, cuz' now I'm gon'na have to kill you." My eyes widen as tears stream down them.

"No please, I won't tell anybody. Just let me go and nobody ever has to know this happened." I try to reason with him. He looks at me like he is actually debating it, when he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a knife, I realise that reasoning with a psychopath is impossible. I close my eyes and breathe deeply as  I cherish my last few moments. When I hear the knife connect with something, I look down and discover that the rope is cut.

"Now, why would I do that? Don't you know how much fun we could have together?" His cigarette stained smile widens as my disgust grows. How could somebody be this evil? I don't understand. He grabs the cut rope that is still around my hands and pulls me along like some sort of untamed animal. I try to stay close to him so it doesn't hurt as much. The sun is starting to go down making it challenging to see, and even more challenging to walk. 

We come accross a path that is layed out by random pieces of rocks and wood. I stumble a few times when the ground nips at my feet. As we make our way across the path, I notice a very subtle light peaking out from behind the trees. Christian continues walking in that direction and I follow behind him. As we get nearer and nearer I squint my eyes to get an even better visual. I can see steps, as I walk closer those steps turn out to be a porch. Connected to a porch is a red door, then some windows which the light seaps out of. We're walking to a cabin, that same cabin that I saw? I'm not sure but we went a different way so I am guessing this one is somebody elses cabin. Or maybe it is his? "Wh-who lives here?" I quietly mumble.

"We do now." I swallow hard trying to process his words.

"What do you mean 'we'?" I ask him confused. A half an hour ago he was going to kill me and now he wants me to live with him?

He chuckles, "Don't worry darlin', you won't be here very long." 

We finally make it to the cabin and I am immediately shoved inside. The house looks...lived in. Somebody lives here I know it, and I am almost positive that it's not him. The stairway is right by the red front door, and the corridor leads you straight back to some sort of living room? On the side of the corridor is an opening, I'm assuming that's the kitchen. Everything is made of wood, the walls, the floor, even the stairway. The bright light that I saw all the way from back there is coming from the light fixture that hangs in the middle of the room. Looking down the hallway, I notice that there is barely any furniture.

Christian walks me over to the railing of the stairs and forces me to sit. He tightly ties my hands to the wood post to keep me put. "Please untie me. I won't run I promise, but my wrists are throbbing so badly." I beg of him. He grins at me and tightens the rope. I slump down against the wooden post for support. I am physically exhausted from all of that walking, and emotionally drained. Not knowing, when or how I am going to die makes my stomach churn. 

"Do not make a sound. I'll be back." he garuntees before exiting the cabin. I wait a few minutes to make sure he has left. When I feel it's safe, I try to get out of these ties for the millionth time today. "Somebody please help!!!" I scream at the top of my lungs while shaking my hands to free them. "Help me please!!" I cry out again. Nobody is here, I am all alone. This is not how I imagined I would die, sitting here, like this. I keep fighting against the rope, using my teeth to loosen it.  My wrists are rubbed raw and bleeding, I can't bare it much longer, I need to get this off of me. I scrape my teeth along the thinest piece of rope and manage to cut that part, but I am not free just yet. "Come on, come on." I whisper to myself. I finally undo one knott and wiggle my hands, it didn't even loosen. 

Tired and sobbing I fall to the floor, I have given up. There is no point in trying, these knotts are absolutely impossible to get out of. I lay my body against the cold floor and let my head rest on the first step of the stairs. "please...help me." I whisper aloud. Who am I talking to? The only one I can think of at the moment, God. We don't talk much, and it's definitely been awhile. But I figured, since I will be seeing him soon, might as well? "If there is a God..." I continue. "and you are listening right now. I beg of you, please...just let me live." I let the tears roll down my face, and I don't know why but I suddenly find the strength to stand up. "Somebody help!!" I scream for the last time. I stare up at the cieling as if somebody is going to answer me.

After a few more minutes, I accept the fact that nobody can hear me, and nobody is going to come. I take my seat once again and stair blankly at the floor. Thoughts about my mom and dad, my brother, Kayden, everybody I love so much, start racing through my head. The thing that upsets me the most, is that I never got to say goodbye, I never got to say I love you before I was taken. I have no tears left to cry, my voice is strained, and I am weak. I let my head rest against the post, my eyes close, and I sigh in a final defeat.

A/N: There is Chapter 24 finally!! Haha. Gosh it took me forever to update, I am so sorry guys. I just recently got a new job and it's kept me quite busy, obviously lol. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and I promise I will update as soon as I can, I am hoping it will be this weekend. Thank you to everybody who has been so patient and understanding witht the updates, I truly appreciate it. I love my readers/followers so much and I am so thankful for you guys! If you liked this chapter, you know what to do :) xoxo- Jade