Selena

25 | Fight or Flight

SELENA MONTGOMERY

I freeze in my heels. He is here right in front of me. All the memories I tried to keep away come flooding back.

I won't cry. I won't show them weakness.

Control, Selena, control it.

I want to kill him. Make him pay for everything he's done.

And we will, but not like this, not in front of Adam.

I breathe in and I breathe out.

It's takes every bone in my body not to break every bone in his.

My voice saves me from ruining myself. If I kill him now I will get no satisfaction.

Selena, don't go down that road again. We have Adam everything is different.

He's mafia. We can't trust him. Isn't that what you told me?

That was then and this is now. Everything has changed. You will see, just breathe.

So I listen. My conscience has never failed me.

"You are even more beautiful than when I last saw you, Katrina."

"How do you know my girlfriend, Johnson?"

Woah, hold up, why weren't we informed of this new status update!

It. Doesn't. Fücking. Matter.

He seems a little astonished and looks back and forth between Adam and I.

"Oh!" He grins an evil one. "I see what's going on here. You," he points at me, "left me to whorè around with Adelram here. Wow! What a slùt you are." He exclaims and even Adam can't hide the look on his face.

But it wasn't what I was expecting.

Anger.

Before he can react, Adam has his hand against his throat. None of Clay's men bother to pulls gun because they know if they do they will be shot down in a millisecond.

They may not of shot me at the warehouse, but that's just because I was faster.

I didn't even realize that I kind of said his name in my head.

Clay.
Clay.
Clay.

Okay, okay, we get the point. Just don't overdo it.

"First of all, it's Valentino to you scúm. And second of all, don't. you. dare. call. my. girl. a. slut. ever." Adam drops Clay to the ground. "When I ask you a question, you better answer it."

Clay coughs a little before standing up again. He is an inch or two shorter than Adam.

"Would you like to tell him, or should I?" Clay grins at me. He's going to manipulate Adam.

"Well, I guess that's a no then," he turns towards Adam again and his face turns serious, "We were fùcking, having sèx, hòoking up, making love, or whatever you want to call it."

I see Adam's body harden. "Is this true, Selena?"

But instead of me getting a chance to answer Clay does. "Oh yes it is, Valentino. She said she loved me and we were going to have children, until she ran off to fûck some other gang leader." Adam turns around to look at me. I see a look of betrayal in his eyes.

None of this is true. None of it.

I felt tears collecting at the brim of my eyes.

We weren't fùcking, we weren't having sèx, and we definitely were not making love to each other.

He was râping  me.

My breaths shudder as they exited my lips. I can't loose Adam too. Who would believe me over Clay?

You have to tell him Selena.

I know.

I opened my mouth and no words came out.

So I tried again. The words came out this time, but in fragments.

"W-we d-d-did-n't"

Adam's face got even angrier, "You're lying to me, Selena."

I shake my head, but I can see he doesn't believe me.

Clay won.

So I run. Not inside the house but towards the woods.

I don't stop branches scrape my arms and tear through my clothes. Ripping my pants and blouse. Some branches are sharp enough to break through skin a release the blood from my skin.

I don't care if they find me because it won't matter. Adam doesn't believe in me. He doesn't trust me.

Selena, stop running.

No. You told me not to do anything and look what happened!

You can't let them track you.

Fine.

So I stop.

I tear my pants and break the heels off my shoes. I wrap my wounds so the blood doesn't end up on any branches.

I take the straight path making sure to break branches along the way.

Then I head back in the same direction and take a zigzag route making sure not to even step on the grass a certain way.

I don't want them to find me.

Is running away really the only answer?

Yes, yes it is.

Come on, we never run away.

You may never run away, but I do.

Fine, Selena. You run away, but if they catch you, then you are telling the truth. Deal?

I doubt they will catch me, so it's a deal.