Back In Black- Book 2

Chapter 47

This chapter is dedicated to fatamyarmy and Unstable_Rainbow for all of their votes. Means a lot! ♥️♥️ Because of my 93 notifications, heres another chapter super early. ♥️
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After i woke up, Troy started in on interrogating me and when I wouldn't answer his questions he resorted to beating me senseless. The questions he asked I couldn't answer and i wanted answers to, too.

My whole body screamed in agony but i never let it show. Cole used to give me beatings every day, nothing like this but enough for me to be able to handle pain better than most people. For the first time I'm actually thankful for all the misery he brought me or right now id be pleading for death. Up until now i almost forgot what it felt like to be so defenseless and feel real physical pain.

During the torture all i could think about was how much i cared about Cole. All his past mistakes aside, id do anything for him. Somewhere along the lines he snuck past my walls and cold exterior and made me fall for him. Nothing was suppose to be this way. Apparently all it took is being beaten within inches of my life to realize i love him.

When Cole came into the room, i thought he was there to rescue me. My body flooded with relief just to have it stripped away. He made it clear he had no intention to save me from the hell hole i was in and it felt like he ripped my heart clean out my chest cavity.

Whatever lies his father told him must have been pretty well thought out for Cole to believe them so easily. When he asked if everything had been a lie, I wasn't in the condition to have a conversation much less safe with his father watching. I figured it was easier to let him believe his fathers twisted lies. Now that they had me, they were going to kill me anyways.

Cole would be better off hating me than loving me and watching me die by his fathers hands. At least thats what i convinced my self.

Call it denial but I'm calling it self preservation. Cole hating me is the only thing holding me together right now. Instead of my heart breaking for him its breaking because of him. Im not sure which is worse but I'll probably never find out. As long as I'm chained to this chair, i don't have a fighting chance.

I don't know how long i sat there slouched over struggling to stay conscious, but it felt like hours. In reality it probably was only 15 minutes. The door opened again and I didn't look up to see who it was, nor did i care. A pair of black dress shoes crossed my eye sight and it took everything to pick my head up on my own to look at my visitor.

Right away i knew it was Cole's father. The resemblance was striking but unlike Cole, he had steely grey eyes and jet black hair flaked with grey.

"I must say i am beyond impressed you are still conscious. No one has ever made it this long with Troy, especially a female." I could see amusement dancing in his cold eyes. He's a sick twisted man and I'd love nothing more than to put him 6 feet under my self. Actually I wouldn't even bury him, id let the wild animals pick him apart. I waited for him to continue because i had nothing to say to him.

"It's clear you aren't going to tell me what I'd like to know so ill make a deal with you." He tapped his finger against his chin in thought.

"Ill give you until your 18th birthday to live as long as you don't harm Cole or come after me. Run, hide, stay here I don't really care. Just out right killing you seems boring and i like a good chase. As long as you keep to the deal ill see it you live until than." He gave me a bone chilling smile.

Relief and hope flooded my body. Maybe i have a fighting chance after all. All i had to do was find his weakness and exploit it and manage to be one step ahead. "Deal." I kept my face neutral as Troy came in to un chain me. He sneered at me with his taped nose but said nothing.

Another man came in and blindfolded me. Before i knew it i was being dragged up a flight up steps with someone holding on to each arm. I struggled to keep up with them as my body screamed in agony. My legs wouldn't work properly so i kept stumbling only to be harshly yanked back up. They roughly shoved me into a vehicle and slammed the door.

Im sure blindfolding me was part of protocol to make sure I didn't find my way back to them. Little did they know, i already knew right where they were. I may not have been one step ahead but i did know where they were once Giovanni met with me.

After 10 minutes the blindfold was taken off and i realized that we were in front of my apartment building. The man next to me shoved me out of the door into a heaping mess on the sidewalk. It took everything in me not to cry and to try and get up. My bag was thrown out after me as they drove off. Thankfully no one was outside to see me like this. Red flags would definitely be raised.

Somehow i managed to stumble up to my apartment without being seen. I found my track phone by my bed and called someone who could help.

"Hello?"

"Please come get me." Before i could hear his response i blacked out.