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I grit my teeth and hiss at Jack, "I'll find you, and when I do, I'm going to make you scream the same way you made every child you took scream." I glare at him, our eyes locked. "I'm going to make sure that you will never hurt—"
“You really think you can find me? You’ve been hunting me for so long but nothing.” He pushes Hope to the ground again, as he walks over to me.
"Hope run!" I shout, and I watch as she scrambles to her feet and sets off as fast as her legs will carry her away from this.
“Get her!” Jack shouts at one of the guys. Then he turns back to me. “I have to know one thing. How did you do it? Escape and not just alone but with Jackson?”
Where the fuck is Jackson? He said he was going to stay close, so he should be here now. “I wouldn’t tell you anything,” I look behind him as I hear Hope screaming and I try to fight to see if she’s okay, but the guy smacks me in the face again.
"Now I'm going to get what belongs to me, and you're time now begins." I look at the guy coming back and smile at the fact that Hope isn't with him.
I look to the side when I hear a gunshot, hitting the man to my left. I look at Jackson, "Go find Hope, now!" I tell him, and he knows that I can look after myself. I watch Jackson running in the same direction that Hope ran. I turn to face Jack again. "If anything happens to her, I promise you one thing. Your death will be very,verypainful.”
“You have to find me first.”
The guy hits me across the face once more, and it's fucking hard enough to knock me back a little. I watch them walking away and I try to get my balance, my ribs are hurting from the amount the fucker was kicking me.
I walk in the direction that Jackson went. I need to find her. I told her I would find her.
I find Jackson but no sign of Hope. "Where is she?" I ask as panic grips me. "What's that?" I point to his hand.
“Her phone and I found a knife with blood on it. It could be anyone’s—”
"I heard her screaming, and it's fresh blood." I take the knife from him. "Hope!" I yell her name a few times to make sure that she can hear me. We search the area, but there's no sign of her. Where the fuck is she?
“Leo, let’s stand for a moment,” I hear Jackson say from behind me. Ignoring him I continue to walk through the park, she can’t be too far. Then my mind takes me back to the first night at the restaurant, she was gone at a click of a finger, nowhere to be found. If she’s out there, she’s gone far enough to hide.Reallyhide.
I stop and stand in the middle of open space, looking around as I wipe the blood from my lip. My face fucking hurts. Rubbing my forehead, I feel Jackson standing next to me.
"Breathe and let's focus. You want to find Hope, I want to find Hope. But first, tell me whathesaid so that information is out of your head and you can focus on her.”
“The only thing I can think about is Hope!” I shout, but he knows me well enough to know that in a small part of my head I’m replaying what he said to me.
I let out a long breath. “He’s here for a week, that’s the timeline he’s given me. Then he’ll be a ghost to us again.”
“We have a week and when we find him just put a fucking bullet between his eyes. There’s no way that we can get him to a warehouse.” Jackson stands in front of me. “Just finish this nightmare for all of us and then live a happy life with Hope.”
“I need to find her first,” I tell him as I shout out her name once more, she needs to know that I’m here.
CHAPTER27
HOPE
I bringmy knees closer as I hideaway. I have no idea if they're still after me, but I ran. I ran so fast that I didn't get a chance to look behind me. Leo told me to run, so I did, but then Jack sent someone to get me, and when they grabbed me I thought that was it. He was going to take me back to the place I had finally escaped. But I didn't want to go back. Ican’tgo back. I’ve seen what my life can be like away from him; seen what my life can be like with Leo and that’s the life I want. I want to live my life with Leo.
The moment the man grabbed me, I saw the knife in his hands, and I panicked. The second my body hit the floor I started kicking my feet and I got lucky. I kicked him in the face, and he lost control of his hand and just cut me a little on my forearm.
So here I am. I found this little tunnel a long time ago on a night out walking. It seems like no one else knows about it, or they don't come here as I've never seen anyone here before. I don't blame them it's so small in here; you could get maybe three people inside. And at the moment I know that no one will find me here and that's good with me, although, that also means that Leo won't find me. Closing my eyes, I take a deep breath. If I leave when it's dark, I can make it back to Leo's house and go back to being a ghost on the street and just hope that Jack won't be out there.
“I thought I’d come to see how you’re behaving.” Uncle Jack sits on the bed, his hand moving up my thigh. “I’ve heard that you’re starting to fight a little, do I need to show you the rules again?”
I shake my head. I don’t want him to ever touch me again, ever. I still feel him on my skin; feel his breath on me.
His hand starts moving up my top, resting on my stomach.
Taking a deep breath as I open my eyes, my body shivers at the memory.
The words he whispered in my ear made me cry inside. I can’t let him find me; I can’t let him get me.“The moment we get back, I’m going to make sure that every part of your body remembers me again.”The fucked up thing is, Idoremember everything, the only time I don’t is when Leo is touching me.
