I stood there my legs shaking, my hands trembling. And all I could think about was how I wished Ryder was here to help me..
Flashbacks from when I first met Ryder begin to appear as the man before me gets closer and closer..
I try to swallow but my throat tightens as i do.
He grabs a hold of both my arms and ties them together with a rope he had on him the whole time.
"P-please don't hurt me." I say with a stutter.
"Hurt you?" The Man Chuckled his eyes dark and unreadable.
"No, I wont hurt you. But I will hurt Ryder one way or another. And if that means taking you away from him then so be it."
He backed away from me a few inches and pointed toward a boat, docked at the only docks on the island.
"We can either do this the easy way.." Then he looked to his two dogs as they had their eyes locked on my ankles, ready to nip at any second.
"Or they will make you do it the easy way."
Without eye contact or another word I begin walking towards the boat.
My heart felt like it was sinking in my chest the closer I got to this boat. I felt like I was losing Ryder.
He had no idea where I was or how to find me, I had let him down and he didn't even know it.
"Where are you going to take me?" I ask trying my hardest to stall this man.
"That doesn't really matter right now does it? All I have to do is make Ryder think you are dead and then I know his life will be ruined." He says in the most sinister voice I'd ever heard.
I think to myself for a moment, "How do you know he will care that much about me? He can find any other girl to replace me with and still be okay with me being dead." I say.
"Because I'm his father. And I have been watching that boy grow." He pauses for a second. "And if I've learned anything, It's that he is in love with you. He could never have feelings for anyone else."
I look at the man in disgust, "If your his father why are you trying to hurt him?"
Just then as we were walking up ramp onto the boat from the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of a security camera pointed at the dock catching the whole side of the boat with the name on it.
I giggled to myself at just how stupid this guy thought Ryder really was.
"Because he Ruined 12 years of my life by throwing me into jail for 'child abuse' and claiming I 'raped' someone."
My body went into fight or flight mode. I knew Ryder would never lie about something like that.
But I had to stay as calm as possible to keep this man away from Ryder until help came.
After what he said I kept quiet, trying to think of a plan to get out of here as fast as possible and get back to Ryder. 1 thing was for sure, those dogs could outrun me in a matter of seconds. And 2 being I had no idea if this man had a gun or knife or weapon of some kind on him.
After about 15 minutes of the man being on the phone to someone I cleared my throat to get his attention, "I need to use the restroom."
The man rolled his eyes and waved for me to follow him. He takes me down the dark hallway and points to the gross, moldy, wet bathroom.
"You have 5 minutes, and no I'm not taking off the rope."
Once as I am in there alone and have made sure that Ryder's father has walked away,I lock the door and search around for something to cut myself free. But the whole place is literally empty besides toilet paper.
'Shit shit shit!' I think to myself as i pace the tiny room.
I keep look around for literally anything to get this rope off of me before this guy comes back and realizes I'm not using the bathroom.
I spot a hole in the floor that leads to another room in the boat, but I'd need my arms to crawl in the small space to get in there.
As I keep looking around, something shiny keeps blinding me from the mirror, that's when I remember I have the bracelet that Ryder gave me before we left still on my wrist.
I carefully slip one if the charms under the rope and begin sawing at it.
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After a few minutes of sawing at the rope, I'm about half way threw it. A knock is at the bathroom door.
"Just a moment, I'm almost done." I holler nervously. Now sawing as fast as I can.
"Your 5 minutes is up! Come on, let's go!" The man yells, slamming his fist against the door and trying to turn the door nob.
The rope finally snaps and I hurry and squeeze my way down into the hole in the floor, my heart beating as fast as it possibly could.
But now that I was down in the damp crawlspace, what was I gonna do? I had no other plan from getting down here.
The man bursts into the room I had just left and he starts yelling into the hole, but I was safe. The hole was way to small for him to fit, I was almost unable to fit but I did.
I look around but the only thing I see is a light from the outside that keeps coming closer and closer.
"Casey?!" I hear the person call out. But it wasn't the deep raspy voice of Ryder's father and it wasn't Hallin.
I want for the person to call out again to know for sure it was't this crazy man.
"Casey? Come on, I'm sorry!" It was Ryder, of course it was. I sigh to myself.
"Your little girlfriend is in here." I hear the old man call out to Ryder.
At that moment I felt my life drain from me as the footsteps approached the boat. What was he gonna do to Ryder?
What if he really did wanna kill him?
What was I gonna do to save him?..
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Hidden Addiction
Romansa🚫Not for anyone under 18 years old🚫 Casey King used to be some nerdy, simple girl who was happy all the time. Until she was dumped, lost her job, and had to move in with a roommate. That's where she met a man who would give her the world, Ryder Bl...
