It was crippling and chilling. My friend was gone, dead.. this new Christian was something else.
“Speak or get out” those were the longest words he had said to me in weeks.
My mouth opened and I started speaking in a rush.
“I… Someone said, we..”
“Get out”
I turned to the door, Molly was standing there, she had used me as a body shield. Everyone felt that I was the only one could get to him, that was why I took back my resignation and came to him, to see if I could help. There were wrong.
“It about Jenna” I said.
His head turned to me at the mention of her name but I couldn’t hold his gaze, I looked down at my feet.
“You know how Regalia suggested that we reach out to other countries because they rarely kept the girls in the same country they got them?”
He didn’t reply so I continued.
“In Mexico, Molly happened to find a bunch of Jenna but one without a picture or ID was suspicious… It was roughly documented, so she dug deeper and found Jenna but the last name was listed as Solis”
He still didn’t say anything but I could feel my old friend coming to the surface.
“So, she checked the hospital, gave the information to Harry and he found this”
I stretched the file to him, he took it from my hand, threw the Manila on the floor. I heard his breath hitch.
“We found her” I finally breathed out.
He stared at the picture for so long, it’s been two months since he saw her. The last time her birthday and I could see the longing in his eyes. He wanted to reach into the picture and grab her out.
She was in a hospital reception, holding a small handbag. Besides her was another girl, with blonde hair and blue eyes, they looked the same age.
“What did they do to her hair?”
The longest words he said in two months.
***
Willy was at the edge of the bed massaging my foot.
“You know, if you keep doing those silly jogging around, these cramps might never go away ” she said sternly.
“How do you expect me to run away when my legs are weak?” I retorted sharply.
Her cold blue eyes glared daggers at me but she didn’t say anything else. She wasn’t allowed to, everyone here treated me like a goddess, if they treated me otherwise Solis would have them punished, I never knew what the punishment was but they feared for their lives.
I had won Solis’s heart. He was… Obsessed with me. Not just because he wanted my babies but because he had fallen in love with me and all I had to do was just myself and not push him away, everything I did was leading up to my grand plan.
Telling Willy I was going to escape was going to be used as jest. For two months I’ve been saying the same thing over and over again. I was four months and some weeks pregnant already, I could stay here for years if I didn’t look for a way to get out.
Willy climbed off the bed and picked up the bottle of ointment from the side.
“Have fun running away, I hope you finally succeed so we’d go back to living the way we used to, please run” she said and casually strolled out of the room. I turned to the clock and took note of the time.
Solis was wasn’t in the building, he was a very busy man and I spent weeks working out his schedule. Just as how I spent weeks convincing him to put our wedding on hold.
He was beginning to get suspicious and I had to work fast before my lies come back and bite me in the face. I put on my slippers and walked out of the mansion to the next building. Ruiz lived there with some other of Solis’s men.
I met a few of his men as I went in search for Ruiz, they greeted me as I walked by. Eyes followed me as I knocked on Ruiz’s door.
“Who’s there?” He barked.
“It’s me, Jenna”
It took minutes but the door finally came open and Danielle was laying naked in Ruiz’s bed. Ruiz was flushed and still trying to get his pants in place.
She watched me through heavy lids.
“What do you want?” Ruiz asked me skeptically, he made sure to not invite me into his room, not even for a second. He was aware of the eyes watching us and he knew that I was off limits, Solis would not only send him to the butcher but he would be the butcher himself if he dared lay a finger on me.
He wasn’t even allowed to eye fuck me but for Ruiz, it was hard. Like swallowing pins and he wanted me so hard, too bad.
“I came for my credit card” I purred.
He raised a brow at me and looked behind my shoulder.
“Are you insane, have you lost your mind!” He whisper yelled.
“I came for my credit card, Ruiz” I said softly.
I swear I could feel his arousal and he hate me for it.
“You want to get me killed” he said running his hand through my hair.
He moved back and slammed the door in my face.
This was just a test, I wanted to see how long it took for Solis to get here if something was ‘wrong’.
In case I chose to escape, how long would it take for me to drive off before they come and find me.
I was disappointed when I saw Solis’s cars downstairs, he was being pushed out and his gaze suddenly turned to me.
“What are you doing?” He asked me angrily.
I was the master of expressions. I had nothing else to do but to sit in front the vanity and practice controlling my emotions, I would be the world greatest actress by the time I have this place.
“I don’t understand?” I feigned ignorance.
Boy, he was mad.
“Take me to my bedroom”
I followed behind them as they pushed his wheelchair into the elevator.
Immediately we entered our bedroom, I checked the time, six minutes.
I had six minutes to get away?! Six minutes was nothing, I had no hopes, I knew I would get caught.
“What were you doing in Ruiz’s room?”
“I wasn’t in his room, I didn’t enter. I missed you, you left before I could wake up and I wanted to ask him what time you’ll be back”
“You should have asked someone else, Willy knew!”
“I’m sorry my love, don’t say mad at me”
I walked to where he was and kissed him softly, he kissed me back without hesitate and I knew I’d been forgiven.