And Then There Were Four novel Chapter 41

Chapter 41: The Cabin

Ivy POV

The dripping sounds of water off pipes woke me from my sleep. My mind was a haze from the lack of food and clean air. I had reached out to the guys, trying with all my might to show them or tell them where I was, but my thoughts went unheard.

Was this what I had to look forward to? A life with nothing but false love and attention.

Pulling my weight forward, I sat up and tried to make sense of my surroundings. The cool metal of the shackle at my wrist clanging against the hard wet floor, drawing my attention to the hook on the floor.

If only there was something to undo these bolts.

‘Hale.’ I called out again in my mind as I pulled at my restraints. ‘Please talk to me.’

No matter how many times I tried, my cries went unanswered. “I have to get out of here.”

“I’ll do what I want!” Caleb’s booming voice came from up above.

I wasn’t sure what he and Mandy had been up to, but I could only imagine that it wasn’t anything good. The sharp pull of a door at the top of the stairs caught my attention. The slow, heavy footsteps on the stairs caused my heart to race.

“Good Morning, my future wife.” Caleb taunted as he came into view. “Did you sleep well?”

“Are you seriously asking me that? What kind of man would have his future wife and mate sleeping in a cold, damp basement on a dirty mattress?” The sarcastic retort left my lips with a trail of venom.

There was no way this man was going to be sweet when he had been nothing but toxic since the moment he kidnapped me in his house. Too many times had I fallen for his act, and now that I knew who he was, it would never happen again.

“Be it as it may, the harvest moon is tonight, my dear.”

How was that possible?! He said two days.. How is it already tonight?

“That’s not possible. It was just two days..” I whispered, trying to understand.

“Ah, yes.” Caleb smiled, walking closer to me, “when you fell asleep, I injected you with a sedative so you couldn’t escape.”

My eyes widened in shock at what he said. How did I not know that he had done that?

“That’s not possible..”

“Isn’t it?” The smirk that crossed his lips as he walked towards a wooden tool bench set my nerves on edge. This man was more sadistic that I had expected.

“Why would you do that?!” | exclaimed.

Shaking his head, he turned towards the table and started fiddling with the tools on it.

“Tonight things will change for you, Ivy.” He replied slowly. “You will start to see things in a new perspective, and I will give you a life you always dreamed of.”

Every ounce of my body screamed to fight and get away, but whatever he had injected into me left me groggy and my body heavy. “Caleb…”

It was no wonder I wasn’t able to reach out to Hale or the others. Whatever he had put into my body was blocking

the link thing Hale had told me about before.

“You look a bit stunned, my dear.”

Caleb’s voice brought me out of the trance I was in, causing my mind to swirl with likely outcomes of what was going to happen. The trouble that was coming was going to make things a lot more complicated.

“Please…” I wasn’t sure what it was I was asking for, but the look in his eyes told me he understood what I wanted, even without words.

“I’m sorry that this is how things are going right now. I never expected things to be this way.”

“Then why are you doing this?” Caleb made no sense. He would say apologies, then turn around and act like a man with sadistic intention.