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41
Snow
“Do you plan to keep me here for the rest of my life?” I knew that perhaps snarky comments weren’t in my best interest, but I was tired and my bladder was screaming, I hadn’t used the bathroom since before I arrived. My tummy was rumbling, but thankfully I hadn’t had anything to eat or else I would have thrown it up. I kept trying to loosen the ropes around my wrists, twisting and turning my hands, but it did no good, instead causing abrasions on my skin.
“Just until the overachievers in the office next door leave for the night,” Hunter mumbled. He had been pacing the room on and off for hours. Every once in a while, he would stop and stare me down, with absolutely no emotion in his dark eyes.
“I gave you any day you requested off, any time you wanted it. I did everything for you, and you couldn’t even have dinner with me,” he said as he glared at me, wringing his hands.
“Just because you’ve done nice things for me doesn’t mean I have to fuck you, Hunter.”
His face twisted and contorted into a look of rage that was terrifying. He raised a hand, and I closed my eyes and turned my head, preparing to be smacked, but the impact never came. I opened my eyes and found him pacing again, muttering under his breath, “Instead, you fucked some rich asshole, probably all of them. I thought you were a nice girl, Bianca, not a whore.”
“So what about it, Hunter? If I’m a whore that sleeps with anyone, I guess that says a lot since I wouldn’t sleep with you.”
I had tried playing nice earlier in the day. I had tried everything I could think of, and nothing worked. Hunter wasn’t going to let me go easily, no matter how friendly I acted toward him. He wasn’t stupid—he knew I’d go straight to the police.
There was never an email from Hilda. Hunter had access to all of our email accounts, something I should have thought about before, but I expected a human resources manager to have at least some integrity. I had no idea what type of person I’d really been dealing with. He had been monitoring my emails which is how he knew about my trip. I knew I shouldn’t have used my work email but work was where I spent all of my time and I used that email for everything—even the editors I was talking to. I’d never seen a purpose to having more than one.
Of course, it came back to bite me in the ass.
Hunter stopped pacing, staring out the window, sparing me the pissed off look.
I twisted my hands around again but there was just no use. My eyes fell on his desk and the letter opener. If only I could get to that.… Not only could I free my hands, but I could also defend myself.
Hunter turned around and looked at me, his voice calmer than before, but no less eerie. “You know, I thought going after your little harem would give me pleasure, watching them squirm as I threatened to sue them for millions but that wasn’t enough. Then I thought getting you fired might give me satisfaction, and Hilda was very willing to get rid of you, by the way. I told her I had approval from the board, which I didn’t but it doesn’t matter, they’ve all but abandoned ship anyway. They know a lost cause when they see it. I thought that by not seeing you every single day, maybe I could forget about you but I just couldn’t stop thinking about you. And then you literally ran right back into their arms, which pissed me off even more. I can’t take it anymore, Snow. I’m done with your games.”
His words sent a chill down my spine. He said the last bit with absolutely no emotion.
“What are you going to do with me, Hunter? You know that Rosie will become worried soon and start to question what’s taking me so long, and then what?” I feared what he might say, knowing that a cornered animal was a dangerous animal, but I needed something to happen. Maybe if he tried to move me, I could escape. It was likely my best shot.
“I don’t know yet. What I do know, is as soon as the coast is clear, I’m taking you to my place. I have a finished basement—”
“I’m not going to live in your basement forever, Hunter.”
His eyes narrowed on me. He didn’t answer, but I knew what the look meant, I didn’t have a choice in the matter.
My gaze fell on the letter opener once again. He would have to untie my hands to move me, I couldn’t imagine he planned on carrying me out to his car still tied to the chair . Once my hands were untied, I would reach for the letter opener and make my move. I saw it play out in my head, I was ready.
Hunter followed my gaze to his desk, to where I was looking. “Ahh, that thing,” he said as he picked up the letter opener and placed it in a desk drawer. “Wouldn’t want you getting any ideas.”
Tears welled up in my eyes as I watched my only idea of defending myself slip out of reach.
It wasn’t just me I was fighting for, it was my baby, too. I couldn’t let Hunter take me to his house, I knew I would have to fight. Even if he was bigger and stronger, there was no way I could let him move me to another location. I would do whatever I had to in order to save myself and my child.
42
Sean
“What is the point of the police if they’re not even going to do anything when you call,” Rosie muttered after hanging up the phone. She’d been trying for the last few hours to get someone at the police station to take her seriously, but they said that until Snow had been missing for over forty-eight hours or we had definitive proof that she was endangered, there wasn’t much they could do.
Not much they could do or not much theywoulddo? Nothing Rosie said seemed to be good enough to convince them to go check out the building where Snow had gone on false pretenses to meet Hilda. They said they were not going to open a missing persons case based on a ‘hunch.’ We knew that Hunter had taken her. We needed to act fast if we wanted to save Snow.
As soon as Reed hung up the phone with Jason and told the rest of us what was going on, we immediately hustled to South Carolina. It’s normally around a three hour drive, but we got lucky with traffic and the fact that Reed didn’t bother to adhere to speed limits, even on the twisty mountain roads. We got there as soon as we could, yet it still didn’t feel like we got there quick enough.
Thankfully, the others had gotten started on a plan before we arrived. First, we had to make sure she was even in the building. Gage, having experience with security cameras, was able to figure out how to hack into the building’s surveillance system. Rosie helped him figure out Hilda’s fairly obvious password to the system, and he had just gotten in when the rest of had arrived. Doc was helping Gage with the hacking and Reed joined in to help them, having experience with computers. Anthony would have helped too, but Petey had decided of all the people there, he loved the one allergic to cats the most, and Anthony couldn’t stop sneezing as Petey climbed all over him. We joked he was keeping Petey from walking all over the keyboard, that was his job. He still provided a lot of insightful information, though. Bash was helping Jason make us something to eat.
It was amazing though not surprising how we all came together, using our talents to save the woman we cared about.
