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God I hated that stuff. It had been a while since anyone had dared to poison me but I’d let her have free reign of this place. She had every chance to do this to me earlier, why now?
Cy raced over to me. Ben and Rusty held my mouth open and Cy dropped the syrup into my mouth. I felt my stomach cramp again, harder this time before I was rolled onto all fours. I couldn’t control it as my stomach emptied itself before the darkness took over.
Paisley
I stepped inside his office as he dropped the phone he’d been holding and stood up.
“Paisley.”
“Hi,” I said, hoping I was playing the innocent escapee I needed to play.
“Are you okay?” he asked. If I didn’t know him so well, I would have thought he was concerned for me but I knew better. It was all a show.
“Yeah, I think so.”
“How did you escape?” he asked me, coming over to look me over. I could feel him trying to feel for wires under the guise he was making sure I was okay.
“I poisoned him.”
“He’s dead?” Zane asked, a little too gleeful.
“I don’t know, I didn’t stick around. I just ran.”
He smiled at me, thinking he had won. “Thatta girl. I’ve been trying to find a way to get you out.”
“No need now,” I said, pasting a fake smile on my face. “I could really use a shower though.”
“Of course,” he said. “Let me take you back to the apartment.”
“You look busy, Zane. That’s okay. I’ll go and shower and then go see my mother.”
“Yes,” he said, trying to act like he had thought of the idea. “Of course, she’s missing you.”
I smiled as I left the office and let out a giant breath of relief as I headed for the apartment suites. My mother’s apartment was a few doors down from mine but I couldn’t handle her yet.
I needed a hot shower and a plan. The hard part was getting away from Halen without him coming to rescue me.
Of all the plans, this was probably the hardest. I had to hurt him in order for him to let me go.
Or maybe I just ignited an even bigger war. The thought of Halen hating me made my stomach do funny things, and sharp pain erupted over my chest, aimed directly at my heart.
We’d only known each other for a week. How could I have these feelings for him already? It was more than a little overwhelming to say the least.
I opened the door to my apartment and could see it had been relatively untouched.
I headed for the bathroom and looked around at the small room. It had nothing on Halen’s guest bathrooms.
God.
Why was I comparing?
I shed the clothes I was in and jumped in under the hot spray. Trying not to imagine Halen’s hands on my body as I washed. I needed to get him off my mind. It would throw off my entire plan if I kept fantasizing about being with that god of a man.
I quickly washed my hair and jumped out, wrapping myself with a towel. It wouldn’t take long before my excuses would wear thin and Zane would expect me to undress for him and be at his beck and call again. I didn’t want to sully my body with him again. I wanted Halen to be the one who touched me, for the rest of my days. I brushed out my hair and got dressed as quickly as I could, picking a bright colored maxi dress and heading down the hall to my mother’s apartment. I knocked.
No answer.
I knocked again and then I realized it may be a work day and she’d be at the office. I headed back to my apartment and looked for my phone. It was still in the bag I’d had it in when I’d been taken but it was turned off.
