- Meeting Reaper.
“Wake up!”
I groan, but I don’t open my eyes. The voice sounded so far away and I thought that I was dreaming
because how else would the voice sound so familiar?
“Ava, wake the fuck up!”
This time I open my eyes. The voice sounded too real to be a dream. Also, why the hell would I
dream of her?
My vision is blurry as my eyes try to adjust.
As the seconds go by, the memories of earlier come back to me.
Shit! I’ve been kidnapped again.
My brain was still fuzzy from what I assume is the chloroform I inhaled. I take a quick note of
things, hoping that the chemical won’t affect my baby.
I was seated on a chair with my hands tied behind my back. Trying to moves proves to be a moot
point. The ropes were tight and they cut into my skin. Whoever took me probably didn’t want to
risk me escaping.
“Are you done?” she asks.
I thought it was just my imagination, but it’s not. I sharply turn to my left to find Emma also tied
to a chair. She looked more alert meaning she was here longer than I was.
“What the hell are you doing here?” I ask her dumbly.
I survey the area. It was one big room with absolutely nothing. No chair or furniture except the
one Emma and I were sitting on. There was nothing to give a clue of where we were or who this
house belonged to.
“Isn’t it obvious? We were both kidnapped” she answers sarcastically.
I roll my eyes at her. “Of course I know that! What I meant to ask is why whoever it is would take
both of us”
I don’t know who took us, but I have my suspicions. The only threat that was remaining was from
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Emma was more important to the Sharps and Rowan than I was.
“I don’t know”
“How long have you been here?” I tried calming my breaths. It wouldn’t do me anything good to
panic
The more I try the more I’m taken back to the night Ethan betrayed me. Didn’t things happen almost in the exact same way? With the difference being Letty was the one kidnapped alongside
me instead of Emma.
Fear grips me as I think of that day. Fear that the same thing would happen again. That I was
about to find out that someone close to me had betrayed me again.
“I’m not sure. I gained consciousness just as they carried you in” Emma’s voice pulls me back from
the painful memories.
“And how long have I been out?”
“Maybe fifteen or twenty minutes or so”
I’m quiet after that. Trying to do the math. It doesn’t help though. Because I’m not sure how far out
they drove from the ice cream shop.
I start to panic again when I think of Noah. Oh my god, who was going to pick him up? School
ends at three thirty and when I got to the ice cream shop it was already around noon. What if they
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‘Calm down‘. I tell myself. ‘You know the school will call Rowan if you’re unable to pick him up.
He’ll be safe‘
I keep telling myself that until I calm down and my breathing stops being so erratic. Noah is going
to be fine. Right now I just needed to concentrate on myself.
“So it is true, you’re pregnant” Emma speaks, making me turn to her. She was looking at my baby
bump.
Even when she was being held hostage, she still looked damn beautiful. How the hell is that even
possible? Maybe she was a goddess in her previous life or something.
Instead of answering I ignore her and face forward. My pregnancy was none of her fucking
business.
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To be honest, I don’t even know why I was pushing his buttons I didn’t want to feel helpless, so
this was sort of a defense mechanism.
I don’t see his hand move, but when he strikes I fell it all the way to my bones. I say this again,
being hit by a man fucking hurts.
My vision blurs and for a while there is ringing in my ears. My mouth fills with blood, probably
from biting my tongue.
When things right themselves, I look at him before spitting the blood on his shoes. He literally growls and lifts his hand about to hit me again. A deep and rich voice interrupts before he can.
“What the hell is going on here?”
“Sorry boss, she got on my fucking nerves” the big guy says.
The man who he called boss walks to us until he becomes clear. He had tattoos, but he was gorgeous. Bright green eyes. Midnight black hair, high cheek bones, a jaw line to die for and the
fullest lips you will ever see on a man. (5)
He oozed confidence and power. The guy could give Rowan a run for his money and that’s saying a lot because Rowan was damn good looking and has confidence the size of the universe.
I turn to Emma to find her gawking at the guy in awe. I guess I wasn’t the only one who was struck
by his looks.
“I don’t care what she did, you’re not supposed to lay a fucking hand on any of them!”
The only way I can describe the sound coming out his mouth is to call it a snarl. His eyes turn cold
and a certain danger fills the atmosphere. The kind that gives you chills down your spine.
The spell I was under breaks and I shake my head to clear the remaining cobwebs. Was the damn
guy a kind of siren or something?
“Who the hell are you and what do you want with us?” I ask, making both men look at us.
The tattoo guy gives me a blinding smile.
“Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Ronny” He starts. “As for why you’re here it’s simple
really, I want revenge against your ex–husband”
My heart starts beating wildly against my heart, but I don’t say a thing. I remain quiet as he
continues to talk.
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