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I’m weak.
I’m one of those awful, weak-willed women that people hate and want to slap.
This is why I don’t kick up a fuss about sailing with him. I just follow, climb on the boat and let him take us back. The second the boat comes into the ship, I take my clothes and head back to his bedroom. I want to go to my cell but that would just prove him right that I do feel something.
Instead I shower the sea from my body after tucking my clothes into a section of a drawer and my phone into a cubby space at the back of it. Ready for when I get time alone to use it.
Tomorrow that’s exactly what I’ll do, call Niall and get the hell out of here.
The door opens as I’m escaping my super quick shower. I don’t shy away when he appears in the doorway, I brush my teeth while he watches and slide between his body and the doorframe. My body, for the first time doesn’t react to him.
A few days ago, I’d have sizzled at that kind of nearness but now I actually feel numb and dead inside.
He looks as though he wants to say something, he’s looked like that since the party ended. He looked like that on the boat when he kept looking back at me and he’s looking at me like it right now.
I meet his gaze and snap, “What?”
When he doesn’t reply I keep going, dropping the towel at his drawers. I stand naked before him for all of five seconds as I yank on one of his oversized shirts. Then, because I know my worth and I know he likes it, I crawl over the bed, flashing him my pussy in a way I definitely know he can’t resist, until I’m on the other side and curled into the foetal position. Purely so he can’t rest his head on me in that way he likes.
One thing is for sure, I don’t know why I’m riling him up, maybe to see if he has any remorse for what he did tonight?
Why do I care?
I guess I don’t. I’ve just always been a vengeful person and held a grudge. I won’t let him get away with this either. He humiliated me.
I stare at the wall while listening to the soft hum of the ship. I’ve found the sound to be quite soothing at times. Tonight, it just makes me miss the silence my bedroom at home brings.
We don’t speak, I’m too much of a coward to say anything and he’s just an absolute dick.
The moment daylight breaks through the clouds, he exits his room, though not without a lingering look my way that has me wondering what he could possibly be concocting in that vicious mind of his. I grab the burner phone, sitting in a position where I can easily conceal it should he walk in and then I turn the phone on with trembling hands, holding the red button until my thumb turns white.
When the screen lights up, tears blur my vision as I hastily dial Niall’s number inputting the country code first while mentally begging there’s a signal. My hands are shaking.
It rings once, the sound cracked and foggy but it’s there.
“Have you made your decision?” Niall’s voice is music to my ears.
I choke back a sob but my chest aches from it. “Niall?”
“Rain? Rain… you’re okay?”
“No… yes… I don’t know. I’m on a ship in the middle of the ocean.” I lower my voice. “I stole his phone.”
His tone is so soft with relief and it pulls on every heartstring making it hard to stay focused. “Rain…”
“I know. I shouldn’t be so stupid, but I need to come home now.”
“I’m trying, baby, we’re following leads and looking, I promise. Where are you?”
I whisper so quietly I pray he can hear me, “We stopped at an island. It’s tropical, the people that sound Hawaiian maybe but it’s not Hawaii.”
“Okay, that’s good. Anything else? Anything at all? Birds, fish? Trees?”
“Really tall palm trees, loads of sand… there was a woodpecker I think. I don’t know. Three days ago we travelled east through a massive typhoon. There were waterspouts and everything. It was terrifying.”
I hear his breath stutter as he says, “I miss you. I miss you so much, baby.”
“I miss you too.” I make my voice smaller, and my body, shrinking into a tiny human ball. “I’m so scared. Niall, they’re all criminals and I’ve done… things have happened.”
“Don’t apologise, not now, not ever. Just do as they say. I’ve told you this, you know this. Keep them happy and stay alive, Rain. I’m coming for you okay? I promise.” I hear him talking to somebody in the background and their excited voice carries over. “I love you. You know that. Remember that. I haven’t stopped fighting to get you back.”
