A Country Girl.

Chapter 15

                                                                                    Hailey

I woke up in a dimly lit room my head pounding. I tried to move my hand to see if there was any blood but my hands were tied to the chair I was sitting in. I looked around the room finding I was the only person in here and that there was nothing else but a couple boxes. 'where am I?' I thought, then I heard and ear splitting whinny. "Peach!" I yelled trying to get my hands loose. As I struggled I heard the door open. I looked up to see a man, who looked to be in his early thirties, standing in the doorway "Hello Hailey" he said walking over to me "who are you and how do you know my name?" I said coldly "my name is James, and I know your name from my daughter Malory" "wait, Malory works for you?" "yes" "I knew she wasn't a bank rep." "nope, she works for me, but she really has no choice cuz I am her father" "ok well why am I here?" James' phone rang. "sorry I have to take this" he said and walked out. "WHAT!! how could you be so careless" I heard James yell. I didn't hear the rest of the conversation, but after a minute James came back in seemingly angry but he hid it. "sorry about that, Malory just call saying that your sister found out that she wasn't from the bank and refused to sell" "good." I heard another screeching whinny "peach!! what are you doing to her?" I yelled at James and began to struggle to break free of my bindings.

 James walked closer and leaned closer to me "you're never going to get out of those and we haven't done any thing to your beautiful mare we just took her foal"  he whispered in my ear, sending shivers down my spin "WHAT, you can't do that hes too young to be away from her" I said squirming around still trying to get free, he took a step back but was still too close for comfort "well that's too bad but I had to cuz if people knew she had a foal they would never buy her" "what!?! you can't sell her she's my horse no auction would let you sell someone else's horse" "who said I was selling at an auction" he said. My heart dropped "no, you can't mean" "yes, I'm selling Peach on the black market, and soon when I get your ranch I will sell all the horses and you and your family will be gone for good" "ha, you must of forgotten that sister is't selling." James stepped forward and grabbed my chin forcing me to look him in the eyes, the contact made me very uncomfortable "ahhh, but you also must have forgotten that I have you and I'm sure your sister would do anything to get you back including selling the ranch." I glared at James "you wouldn't dare hurt me" I growled "oh I most certainly would if it means that I get your ranch and I don''t have to deal with you all stealing my horses" he said sweetly, still gripping my chin. I was getting irritated and I had had enough of him so I thew my head back then headbutted him in the face. "You'll never get away with this" I yelled. James stood and felt his face blood was pouring out his nose. He looked to me anger written all over his face. He looked like he was gonna kill me but I didn't move I just stared at him calmly. He walked over to me and back handed me "don't you dare disrespect me or I'll kill you" he threatened "no you won't" "try me" he bit back and walked out the door locking it behind him.