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I try to sit up and cry out once again in pain along with a clinking sound. "Lacey?" I call out. My entire body is screaming with pain. "What happened?" Confusion sets in as I try and remember anything. I can’t recall anything at all
"Don't move, Mia," Lacey tells me and I frown, why can’t I move?
"Please, tell me what happened? Where are we and why am I in so much pain?" I cry as my heart races. I'm confused. I'm scared, and I just want to go home.
"Mia, I don't know where we are. I was at your house, waiting for you and these guys turned up. Mia, they tied me up and waited for you to arrive," her voice is shaky as she tells me.
"How are you so calm?" I ask her. "Who were they and how did they know I was coming?" I think back to what happened, only the girls knew I was going home. I never told anyone else. Hell, they were the only ones I spoke to since I left Mom and Harrison's house.
"Mia, I don’t know but it’s going to be okay," she reassures me. "You’re okay," she says in a relieved whisper. "I thought they’d killed you when they hit you.”
I shake my head, I can't wrap my mind around this, why is this happening? I grit my teeth and pull myself into a sitting position. The metal clinking has me glancing down, shit, I'm bound too. My wrist has a rusty metal shackle on it as does my foot. Great, there's no escaping even if we tried. My entire body protests but I manage to push through the pain. Now that I'm sitting up, I'm able to see this room much clearer, see things much clearer. We're both hurt, I hate to think of what I look like when I see Lacey's face. Her left eye is swollen, and her lip is split, blood running from the split down onto her chin. Tear stains run down her cheeks. "Who took us?"
Lacey shrugs, "I don't know Mia, I've never seen them before. Although one of them did say that their boss will be happy knowing that he's got two of their girls. Whatever that means." Lacey says and begins to cough, spluttering everywhere as she does.
"Lace, you never said that you heard that." I frown as I take in her appearance, she’s hunched over as she coughs. "Are you okay?" I ask but Lacey continues to cough, the sound rattling in her chest. "Lace, what's wrong?" Something doesn't sound right, she sounds like she's winded or something. Like she can't catch her breath.
The coughing continues for a couple more minutes, the sound ricocheting of the walls, making it sound a hell of a lot worse. "I'm okay, one of them punched me in my stomach and it hurt like hell, I've not really been able to stop coughing since. Hopefully, that was the last of it," she tells me, her voice hoarse, she's whispering, almost as if it hurts to talk.
"Let me know if it gets any worse," I tell her, not sure what I can do for her while I’m tied up.
"What do you think they meant that the boss would be happy?" she asks, and I shrug, I’ve no idea.
I close my eyes when it finally dawns on me. I remember what happened, Mom told me about Hudson, and I ran. I needed to get away, needed to clear my head and think. Tears trickle down my face. "It's us," I tell Lacey, I'm so fucking stupid, this is about payback. It has to be.
"What's us?" she asks confused. "Mia, what is it?"
I shake my head ignoring the pain that intensifies as I do. I was so stupid. I should have listened to her from the very beginning. I should have heeded her words. If I had, we wouldn't be in this position. "I'm so sorry Lace, I should have listened to you."
"What?" she shouts and the coughing begins again.
"Hudson." The tears begin to fall faster. "This is because of him."
"Oh shit," she mutters, her voice sounding hoarse. “How did you find out?”
"Mom told me Hudson is a drug dealer. He's like some big shot dealer. I don't really know, I don't really care. He's killed people, Lace!" I'm still so angry that my mom never told me. She knew that we were getting closer, why she let us get to the point where I loved him is beyond me. Surely if you love your kids, you'd want the best for them, you'd want them to be safe? That should have been the first thing she told me. But she didn't and now here we are.
Lacey's mouth opens in shock. "Are you sure?"
I nod. "You told me before I even knew who Hudson was. You told me that she’d heard things about him, that he wasn't a good man. I didn't believe you." I'm kicking myself now for not doing so. "I'm so sorry, Lace."
She shakes her head. "Don't Mia, don't apologize. He had us all fooled. Are you sure?”
"Mom and I had one of our conversations today," I begin and realize that they need to stop, they bring nothing but heartache. "She brought Hudson up, she told me he wasn't a good man. I was like you, I didn't believe it. But, it makes sense. The secretive phone calls. The way he'd change the subject if his business was brought up. The way he, Jagger, Martin, and Barney would all have secret meetings and then act as if they didn't."
"Mia, what did Hudson say to you once you found out about him?" Lacey asks, as she sits back against the dirty wall. Her lip has finally stopped bleeding.
"Nothing, I haven't spoken to him about it."
She gasps. "Oh Mia, why?"
I shrug. "He's lied to me Lace, I can't deal with the lies." I'm hurt, that's why. He should have told me.
"Would you be with him had he told you the truth?" Lace asks and I look at her, she really doesn’t look good.
I think about it, if Hudson had told me what Mom had, would I be with him? Would I accept it? "I don't know. I don't think so."
"Okay, but surely you'd have asked him questions?" Lacey says and I feel as though I've made the wrong decision in not talking to him.
