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Chapter Nine

Mila

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His arm is wrapped firmly around the back of my thighs. Despite my kicking, punching, and screaming, he remains unfazed. My Valentinos grow smaller and smaller the closer we get to the door. My forearms burn from the tape ripping away hair and skin. If I can’t fight him off alone, how the hell am I going to fight him and his ‘colleagues’ together? He can’t take me in that house. Yet, trying to work my legs free from his hold is pointless. The man has a steel grip on me. 

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He pauses, and I expect him to knock or call out to the person inside. Instead, there’s a beeping noise, which indicates he’s entering a security code. We step inside the shadowy home, and he sets me down on the floor after closing the door behind us. He confirms my suspicions when he secures the exit with another code. 

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“Where are we?” My voice shakes in the echoey foyer. 

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He flips on the lights, and I get a hint of the masculine and spooky decoration. Deep grayish-blue walls, a picture frame with the painting of a ghost over a console table blends into the wall. A staircase appears to lead to nowhere and for the most part, the area is bare. It doesn’t appear to be used much. 

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“Home,” he responds. 

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My eyes widen, and I glance around like I’m in a scary movie, and the ghost in the frame just made a sound. “Home? As in, whose home?” I ask. 

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He looks at me like I’m brainless. “Mine.” His face shrugs as he takes hold of my hand and pulls me along. 

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Breaking free, I rush back toward the front door; my head just grew several sizes. If this is his home, he’s clearly well off, which means he wouldn’t have kidnapped me for money. No wonder all those attempts to purchase my freedom fell flat. Three million dollars is probably chump change for him. But if he didn’t kidnap me for a ransom, why did he bring me all the way out here? 

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The air within the house is heavy on my lungs. My spit won’t move past my throat. Banging on the alarm system with my fist, I kick at the door before grabbing the knob and trying to pull it open. In the logical part of my brain, I know calling for help is pointless, but my hopelessness is clutching at anything. Screaming and sobbing, I throw my body into the door, calling for anyone who might hear. 

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There’s warmth at my back and as I spin around, I shriek from the closeness of his body and the silence of his breathing. He wraps his hand around my neck and rests his forehead on mine. 

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“Please.” I shake. “You’ve got to let me go. I don’t know what you want. You must have the wrong girl.” 

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He moves his head from side to side, as it bores into mine. “Shhhh,” he says. 

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“Please. Please!” I cry. 

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His hand moves from my neck to cover my mouth. “Please,” he breathes. “For the last time, shut the fuck up. You’re giving me a headache.”

 

My lips move, but no words come out as he takes my hand and pulls me away from the door. At that moment, there’s a switch in my body. It clicks for me, there’s no way out. This is it. My fate is in his hands. My body almost falls limp as he tugs me forward and stands in front of a wall. I look at him, believing he’s more crazy than I thought, when something in the wall beeps, and it makes way for a steel elevator door. Uhhh, how did he do that without touching anything? This is some next-level spooky shit. 

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The elevator doors part, and he pulls me in. For a second, my human instincts and desire for self-preservation kick in, and I forget that I’m helpless. My feet skid before the entrance as I pull myself back. But he tugs me past the threshold, and the doors close behind us. Gulping in the suffocating silence, my knees knock together. My best bet at this point is to clock out of the whole experience; go somewhere else far in my mind. If I want to survive, I’ll have to comply with his demands. 

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My palms grow clammy. He must have felt it because he drops my hand and wipes his hand across his pants before folding his arms across his chest. My cheeks shouldn’t burn in embarrassment, but they do. The shiny interior reflects like mirrors. He must have an amazing housekeeper. I hope he pays her well. I wonder if she’d help me escape, woman to woman. That’s if it is a woman, and if she isn’t forced to work here against her will. 

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Glancing at him through the reflection, I try to gauge him. His eyes are closed, and his head is rested back against the metal wall. He looks as if he’s fed up, and I get a kick out of that. He’s strong willed though; I doubt his frustrations will allow him to release me. If I want him to release me, I have to find another way to convince him. By following orders and being obedient. Ugh. 

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I saw the way he looked between my legs like a hungry animal. If I were to willingly give myself to him, would it hurt less? Would surrendering give me some sense of control over my circumstances? If he weren’t a psycho, he’d be hot. His muscles and jawline are striking. He’s handsome as hell. He has the bad-boy image down pat. If I imagined that there was an attraction between us, would I be able to give my first time up to a sicko like him? My body wouldn’t take much convincing, based on the way it keeps reacting to his hand around my throat, over my mouth, or around my thigh, the back of which still throbs from his grip. Trauma is a strange son of a bitch. 

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My mind would need convincing and my heart. I haven’t given my body to anyone because, well, I don’t trust people. That’s why I keep to myself, and if there’s anyone I trust less on this earth, it’s this man. Surrendering to him would be a mindfuck. Unless he’s telling the truth. He hasn’t made any moves toward me. 

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Well, I’m not saying that if he’s telling the truth, I’d be more than happy to give myself up to him. 

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I’m saying, if he wanted to have his way with me, he would have done so already. He’s had more than one opportunity, standing over me as my heart tried to climb out through my mouth. Heck, he even has the opportunity now. Either he’s telling the truth, or he has some fantasy in his head that he’d like to live out. We’re in his home, after all. He has time to put his sick fantasies in motion. Get me to trust him and relax around him, buy into the delusion, so it’s more authentic for him. It’s like one of those movies, where a man stalks a woman and becomes so fixated with her, that he captures her and forces her to live as his wife. 

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Despite his looks, he lacks charm. He appears to be in his mid-to-late thirties, about the age when men want to settle down. The idea isn’t so far-fetched. I can see him being someone like that. Unable to find a woman willing to be with him, so he has to go out of his way to kidnap one. 

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If he’s telling the truth, I have a lot to unravel. But at least, I’ll be able to hold onto my dignity. If he’s a delusional psychopath, playing along will buy me some time to come up with an escape plan. Ugh, my head hurts, and my stomach is swimming. I have so many questions.

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