Forbidden Romance

Chapter Sixteen: The Aftermath

     "Who the hell are you?" Mariam said as she picked herself up.

"I'm your worst nightmare." The man replied as he grabbed her and stuck a small needle through her neck, making her pass out within seconds.

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"Remember what happened to my mother last year?" Jasmine asked.

"Yes, I remember," Mariam responded.

"That man, he raped and murdered my mother," She began to manifest.

"Who? I don't understand," Mariam shook her head.

"He killed my mother. His name is Dominique Rasviski, also known as a cold blooded murderer. After he killed my mother, he burned down the house, leaving her with no escape,"

Jasmine reached over to hold her hand, "Mariam, be careful. You're next,"

Mariam began running as the house caught on fire.

"Mariam run, he's here," Jasmine shouted.

Mariam looked left and right, surrounded by burning walls, she was unable to find a way out.

"Mariam run, Mariam run, run." She repeated.

"Run, run.." She began whimpering in her sleep.

She took a huge gasp as she roused.

She began scanning the room she was in, "Where am I?" She rubbed her eyes.

"Don't worry, you're in good hands." The strange man replied.

Mariam looked around, noticing burnt walls and black floors.

He isolated her in a huge burnt house in the woods.

Mariam felt so dizzy and weak from all the drugs he had been giving her for the past week.

"You don't know how long I've been waiting for this day. To finally be able to feel your soft skin," he got closer to her, rubbing his dirty fingers across her skin.

She backed away, "Why do you look so familiar?"

"This isn't our first time meeting, sweet cheeks." He winked.

Mariam began having flashbacks.

"Well, your car looks perfectly fine to me, and I don't recall the parking spot being reserved in your name. See ya, sweet cheeks."

She began comparing their two faces, "It is you,"

"I'm sorry, what was that?"

"The guy who stole my parking spot, twice. It was you,"

He began laughing hysterically.

"But why? Why me? Why are you doing all of this? Why kill Khalil?" She began asking several questions.

"You just seemed like the perfect victim. Oh and Khalil, he was in my way. I was planning on kidnapping you a long time ago, until he ruined all of my plans,"

"You're a psychopath," Mariam shouted.

"Yea, yea, yea. So I've been told."

He chained her to a steel pipe and taped her mouth shut.

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"So I've gathered all of the information for you. I tapped in to Khalil's phone like you asked me too, when I went through his text messages, there was an unknown number speaking of a house,"

Archie began to explain as Zach nodded his head.

"I wasn't able to get the address so I tracked down the number and it belonged to a man named Jabar Rashied. I did some background checks, the guy is clean. But I also found a house registered in his name,"