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I shake my head. “I don’t think so.” It sounds so stupid not knowing, but I don’t. He could have been the man that knocked me unconscious at my parents house.
He pulls me closer to him, kissing the top of my head as he walks us to the car. Not once saying a word but yet his actions speak volumes. He’s once again showing me the love that he’s always shown me, I press a soft kiss against his neck.
“Dad, let’s get the hell out of here before the cops show up,” Hudson tells Harrison as he places me on my feet and helps me into the car.
“You okay, Mia?” Harrison asks as I settle into my seat. “You look a hell of a lot better than the last time I saw you.”
Frowning as I glance at Hudson in confusion, when did he see me last?
“Dad found us the doctor and the house so that you wouldn’t have to go to a hospital.” He explains as he reaches for me, lifting me once again out of my seat and onto his lap. “You look tired.” He comments as he places a kiss against my lips.
“I am, I want to sleep.” But I’m too afraid of what nightmares may come.
“Sleep princess, I’ll keep you safe.” He promises me, pulling me close to his body.
Tucking my head into the crook of his neck, I close my eyes and pray that if I manage to sleep, that it’ll come peacefully.
I come awake and confusion sets in. I’m shrouded in darkness, fear grips me with a choke hold. I’m back in that damn basement, a whimpering sound breaks through the silence. It sounds as though there’s a cat’s dying.
“Princess.” A guttural sound. A voice that I know, a voic
e I trust. It’s then that I realize it’s me that was whimpering. “Princess, it’s okay.” There’s that word again.
“Light. I need light.” I breathe, trying to fight back the anxiety and fear I have.
The room instantly becomes illuminated. It takes me a while to gain my bearings. This room is familiar, it takes me a while before I realize why. I’m in Hudson’s bedroom, a room I haven’t been in since the night we met in Synergy. It hasn’t changed a bit. Arms tighten around me and I lean into them. Hudson’s holding me as we lay on the bed.
“I’m sorry,” I whisper, I feel weak, useless, and pathetic. What twenty year old is afraid of the dark?
His hands tighten on me, turning me around to look at him. “Don’t. Never apologize for anything. Not with me, not ever.”
“I feel stupid, I’m afraid of waking up in a dark room.”
He places a kiss against my lips, shivering at the coldness of his touch. “Talk to me, tell me what happened.” His fingers caress my arm, I let myself give into the hypnotic feeling. “Nothing is going to hurt you, Princess. I promise you, I’ll die before I let anything happen to you.”
“You’re the second person to tell me that today.” I remark and watch as Hudson smirks. “You’ve spoken to Jagger?” I should have guessed, but when did they have time to talk?
“I did, talk to me Mia. What happened to you?”
I lie into his body, not wanting to see the pity in his eyes as I tell him everything. As soon as I get comfortable, his arm goes around my back and he holds onto my ass, his thumb rubbing circles as I begin to talk.
“I got to my parents house, I remember finding it odd that there was another vehicle parked out front. I was so unaware of what was about to happen. I was hurt and betrayed, I wasn’t thinking straight. I remember walking up to the house and wondering why Lacey hadn’t come out to greet me, she always did, and we always did. It was our thing. I didn’t think much of it, when I pushed the door open, I was hit across the face and everything went blank.” I close my eyes, reliving the pain again. How it burst through my face and pulled me into a black abyss.
“Fuck,” he says through gritted teeth. “What happened next?”
“I woke up in a dark room. Only a tiny sliver of light was shining into the room, I glanced over at Lacey and saw that she too was hurt, worse than I ever was. She couldn’t breathe properly, she kept coughing. I knew that it wasn’t a good sound but we were both shackled, I couldn’t get to her. I couldn’t move and when I tried I was in so much pain that I wanted to cry out.” Telling Hudson this, it should make me feel vulnerable, but it doesn’t.
“The man that was in the car, he spoke to us for days, weeks. I don’t know, I couldn’t work out how much time had passed. He’d bring Lacey and I bread and water twice a day.” I don’t tell him about how he’d leave each of us a bucket for us to go to the toilet. It was humiliating and degrading, something that I don’t ever want to admit too. “I saw his face daily, I remembered each and every single detail that he has. From the birth mark on his neck, the freckle on his earlobe, to the scar on his eyebrow. Every single marking I have etched into my brain.”
“That’s good baby, you did good.” He’s full of praise but I don’t feel as though he should be happy about it.
“Then the man came, I never saw his face, he always came in the dead of night. There was no light shining through. When he grabbed me, and began undressing me, I fought, I tried with all my heart.” I want him to understand that I never wanted this to happen.
“God, Mia.” He’s in pain, I hate that he’s hurting.
“I didn’t want it. I tried to stop it.” I promise him, hoping that he believes me.
His arms tighten around me, “Fuck, Princess, you’re killing me here. I know that you didn’t want it. I’m going to kill him, he’s going to wish he never met me, or you by the time I’m finished.” He vows, the anger in his voice is palpable.
