With them all gone , a few minutes went by before l heard keys turning into the lock. I knew it that they were back but shockingly that was accompanied by whines and cries from a girl on the other side. The door flew open and someone threw a tiny figure in the room. She landed on the floor and l gasped in disbelief.
"Lanna", l gasped out and then I quickly slid my hands from the hoops and crawled quickly to where she was. She lifted her head slowly towards me. She surprisingly had a busted lip and a pink cheek.
"Oh my god Hailey", she threw herself into my arms. " You alive, l looked everywhere for you and didn't see you", she cried into my shoulder and l smoothed her hair. "Wait how did they kidnap you?", I asked baffled. "I don't know, l found myself tied in the car and when I tried to fight, they beat me", She responded.
"We need to get out of this place , these people...", Before l could complete the sentence, the door out of blue flew open and the bodyguards entered. "They are the ones", Lanna said in a hushed whisper. "Why are you kidnapping us you bastards?, We have done nothing to you", Words escaped out of my mouth as soon as I saw the guards walk in.
"Language", One of them replied in a harsh voice. "Have you heard what he said", When l continued to glare at the bastard , one of guards made his way to us. When he leaned down to my level , l punched him with all my strength on his nose. He fell back from the impact , holding onto his nose and staring at me in disbelief , alarmed and maybe shocked. He didn't see that coming . My knuckles were burning from the impact. I felt like l broke my own hand. I have never punched anyone before.
"Wonderful! That's my girl, always defiant", All the room fall silent when we heard someone clapping hands.
"He is the hot man, Hailey", Lanna nudged my shoulders in panic. I was also frozen in place and couldn't utter out any word.
"So you thought that you had ran away from me", He started with a mischievous grin on his face.
"Why have you kidnapped us?", I spoke the word that was on the tip of my tongue.
"Am surprised that you have the guts to say that, kidnapping is nothing to what you did to me", His jaw clenched with anger at the last words.
"Me?", I asked shocked.
"Do you know him?, Have you ever met him before?", Before he could respond, Lanna interrupted. I didn't respond to her, l think I was freezing. "Hailey what did you do wrong to him?", Lanna shook my shoulders but still I didn't respond.
"You trying to gather up yourself", He laughed. "You ain't going to stop me this time Scarlett", He laughed and this time it sure pissed me off.
"AM NOT SCARLETT ANYMORE", The loud words that fall out of my mouth were also strange to my ears. It was as if something possessed me because within minutes l was shaking terribly. This time I was frozen in place and couldn't do anything.
"Don't think that you gonna win this time...not this time",
"An gonna hurt you just like you did, starting with this", l heard his deathly threat but I couldn't even react anymore. I was weak. I was drained out.
"Hailey help me..... Help me Hailey", My body quickly reacted when I heard that whine.
"Lanna you... ", Words died in my mouth as soon as I raised up my head. Above me was Lanna pressed on the wall and the mishapen silhouette. The strange man was no where to be seen. It was the silhouette who was sucking the life out of Lanna. "You can't stop me Scarlett this time", It was what I heard before I watched the bloodless Lanna fall on the ground. I couldn't help her, l couldn't no part of me was working.
I did watch her now dead body but I couldn't even scream. I didn't know what was happening to my body.
The silhouette later straightened into what I assumed was a man then wiped his face.
"Hell .. this is hell... He is an enemy, wake up", The words were in my mind but I couldn't do anything.
Lanna was on the floor in blood. Splatters of red were everywhere, on the floor and on the walls. The silhouette was illuminatng showing a tall man in an expensive suit. It was the suit he was in before but now covered with gore. His glowing eyes looked at me with nothing but amusement.
Totally weak , l just collapsed on the floor and vomited in the blood that was now coating my hands. I heaved until there was nothing in my stomach. I was trembling badly. It was as if l was going to die. Soon his footsteps squelched against the blood soaked floor. I gasped for air through my tears when I heard them. I saw his black leather shoes appear in my vision but instead of fighting, all l did was to clench my eyes shut as underrated fear froze me more in the place.
I couldn't run away from the monster.
Fingers soon gentiy ran through my hair. My body tensed up at that but I couldn't do anything. My breath hitched in my chest and got stuck there. I could no longer breathe. I don't know what was weakening me. Cold fingers slid down my cheek and gripped my chin. My face was pulled up and saw the strange man squatting in front of me. "You have seen me do worse things , why are you now so scared?", He asked.
My lower lip tingled when I stared at him. Red eyes. Glowing red eyes it is what I was seeing, he was no longer the handsome man, Lanna was showing me. I noticed a trail of red from his lips to his chin. It was Lanna's blood. "It's so shameful but even though you betrayed me, my heart still aches for you" His voice was deep and sensual. "Why did you betray me and yet you knew that I did love you", l felt his face next to mine and his soft breath against my ear.
'Mi amor', l gulped hard when he tilted my chin and ran his nose along the side of my neck. He was speaking Espanol calling me his love. He was now breathing hard. His breath fanned the sensitive skin and l stopped breathing. His lips later traced my racing pulse. "Mi amor , as sweet as you smell , am not going to do it tonight", He dropped my face and my head sagged away.
"Take her in my chambers", Darkness took over my mind as soon as l heard him say that.
I blacked out with in seconds, my mind drifting back to where this all started.