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Hunter takes my hand, and we walk out to the car. When we’re both inside, and he starts driving, he says, “He’s in the basement of Max’s safe house. If at any point you need to leave, you can go upstairs.”
I nod as I breathe a deep sigh.
With Craig, I wanted to watch him die after everything he had done to me. I wanted to watch him suffer. With my own father, however, I’m not sure how I feel. I’ve never been super close with him like I was with my mother. Still, he is my father, the man that raised me. He is the first man that loved me, or at least I thought he was. Now, I’m not so sure. I can’t grasp how you watch a child grow and then sell her like a slab of meat to be slaughtered.
When he parks at Max’s and comes around to open my door, he gazes down at me, “Are you sure you want to do this? You don’t have to.”
I nod, “I’m sure. I do have to do this for myself.”
“Okay beautiful,” he helps me out of the car, and we walk to the elevator in the garage.
I gasp when we walk into the basement. I was expecting him to be cuffed to the St. Andrews Cross, but he isn’t. He is chained, his arms to the ceiling and his feet to a large bolt on the floor. I know he’s got to be in pain. His feet don’t reach the floor, he’s being stretched in mid-air.
I approach him, as I look up into his bright red face, “Dad,” I breathe.
He cries out, “Thank God. Tell them to let me go.”
Shaking my head, I say, “I’m not here to save you. I’m here to find out why. How could you do this to me?”
Hunter comes up behind me and puts his arm around my waist protectively as if my father could hurt me.
“Get me down,” he says through gritted teeth, “Set me free and I’ll answer all your questions.”
“No. You will not be set free. Your punishment will fit your crimes.”
He laughs bitterly, “This is your choice then? Let your father die while you run with this wild pack of animals?”
I stand before the monster that is my father with my arms crossed over my chest, seething, “This wild pack of animals protects me. Instead of selling me to the highest bidder, they saved me.”
“And you said thank you by fucking one of them and got yourself pregnant?”
A part of me wonder’s how he knows I’m pregnant. Did Hunter tell him? The men that were going to auction me? Then I realize it doesn’t matter. None of it does. I glance at Hunter, “I’m done here. Do what you need.”
I spot Mia standing next to Hunter with her head tilted, her eyes looking psychotic, she looks nothing like the woman I met in my bedroom at Hunter's house. In one word, she appears unhinged, and I know my father’s final moments will be painful. Good. He deserves every ounce of terror she gives him.
As I walk to the elevator my father says, “Wait.”
When I turn to him, he says, “I never wanted children. Least of all a weak daughter. You never meant anything to me. When I wanted your mother to abort you, she begged me to let her keep you. She paid dearly, but I let her keep you.”
I turn and walk over to the metal table, silently I pick up a large knife, walk over to my father and stab him in the stomach. I don’t remove it as he screams in pain. I turn to the shocked faces and smile sweetly, then take the elevator up to the main floor.
You hear people talk about closure all the time like it’s something important. What exactly does closure feel like? Did I get it? I have no idea. But this feeling of freedom blooming in my chest is exhilarating. I’ve hated my father for a long time. The day he turned me over to Craig, broke my heart on so many levels.
Ten Years Ago…
He told me to get into the car, so I did. Over the years my father had changed, becoming more and more uncaring over time.
“Where are we going?” I asked him but got no answer.
When he pulled into Hunter’s driveway, I was confused. I knew Hunter wasn’t here because he was playing basketball with his friends. So, why were we here? I knew we’d be seeing Craig. But never in my wildest nightmares had I imagined what was about to happen.
Craig opened the door for us, and my father grabbed my arm and pulled me inside.
“You’re his now,” he said.
“What?” I squeaked in confusion.
“You are to be his wife as he wishes. You will do whatever he tells you to do.”
