Monster (BWWM) complete

Done Deal

Let me know what the thoughts you guys have on this chapter, it's the catalyst some could say.  It took a long time too get here though. What do you guys think of Bryce's mental state??

His first time out of Maria's house and off her property was overshadowed by what was going to happen.

Bryce sat squeezed between two other men in the back of black car. It was a long drive, very,very long drive. They stopped only five times in the whole 16 hour drive for gas and food. Marcus sat in front of the car, on the passenger side as silent as ever. Krissy had been left behind with Maria. He was leaving, but Krissy had been left behind.

He would have to come back. He would come back.

He found out they had been in Mono County, California, many miles from his and Krissy's home in Tails, Virginia.. It was sometime before sunrise when they left and sunrise a full day later when they reached Colfax county, New Mexico. They were going to Santa Fe Marcus had said to the man driving. Bryce thought about Maria being so confident that she would let him leave, let him out of the house with only Marcus as supervisor.

She really was in control of everything, he realized. She had Krissy, she had money, she had confidence that even if he were to escape Marcus, that there was nothing that could touch her. The thought had been daunting and had his already shattered hope blowing away in the wind. Bryce winced slightly as one of the large men pressed an elbow into his ribs, squeezing him against the other man. The man chuckled. Bryce pressed his hands into the cool material of his new black slacks and tugged at the cuffs of his black button-up. He ignored the men and their conversations and attempts bating and riling him.

"Maria finally let her little attic flower out of the house. We're going to make him into a man, huh?" One man chuckled pressing him into the other, speaking to him, rather about him, in two hours. "He won't be able to hide behind the girl's skirt anymore, the one he stares at as if he's a dog in heat.." The man laughed again and hit him in the back with a rough hand.

"Déjalo en paz, Charles." Leave him alone, Charles. Marcus grumbled.

"Está a sólo un poco burlona , Marcus. Lighten up, Man." Charles complained. "Let's stop someplace I have to take a piss."

'AD' the driver pulled into a convenience store's parking-lot five minutes later and all of the men except for he and Marcus piled out of the car, to relieve their bladders and get food.

"We're staying in the car, Bryce." Marcus said quietly.

Bryce had guessed as much. He unfolded his limbs from his lap and rolled his stiff shoulders, trying to loosen up his bones before they were once again mushed into his sides. He gazed out of the back window at the comings and goings of the early morning workers stopping in for coffee and gas at the convenience store. They all walked by and into the store without giving the car and him in it a glance.

He felt invisible.

Then, a cop car pulled up on the left side of the car. Bryce's heart froze in his chest as he watched the uniformed officer step out of his vehicle and enter into the store. All of this could end right now.

He glanced at Marcus and flinched, the large man had turned around and was watching him, face blank.

"You can follow that officer in if you want to." Marcus said with no inflation and no deflation of his voice. "You can go in there and tell him your story and what happened. I won't stop you." Bryce stared at him. "What will it be, Bryce?"

Bryce swallowed and glanced back out of the window. There was no way Marcus would really let him go, right? He couldn't believe him. And what about Krissy?