Love Like A Delinquent (Remake)

{ chapter 23 }

AN i'm really sorry that i've not updated since april. i know how annoying it is when people do that and i appreciate you all for sticking by me. i promise i'm going to put more effort into this story and pleaes understand that right now i have 1,700 messages and it takes time to go through them all. thankyou guys xxx

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[ h u n t e r ]

One of the rules was that we weren't aloud to phone, text, or use the internet to speak to anyone. But when my phone rang, I wasn't thinking straight. Kat was still asleep next to me and no one else was in the room with us. For a minute, I just forgot about everything.

"Hello?"

"Hello Hunter,"

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I should've hung up, should've hung up as soon as I heard that voice. But it made me freeze. It made everything stop. It was like everything that had happened in the past 3 years was gone. None of it happened. Not Chris, not Kat, nothing. I was back in that headspace where I would do anything that man would tell me to do, just to keep myself alive. And as much as I wanted to throw up and scream and cry for someone to help me, I shut up when he told me to.

"Are you in a place where you can speak? If not, get to one. Now,"

I was up in a second, not bothering if I woke Kat. I held my breath until I got upstairs and locked myself into the bathroom. I turned on the shower so if anyone came looking for me, they'd just think I wa washing. I fell down against the bathrub, pulling my knees up to my chest to have something to lean my head against.

I couldn't breathe.

I couldn't fucking breathe.

"Can you talk now?"

Fuck, what do I do? If I was with him, I wouldn't be able to talk until he gave me permission. Shit, this was a trick question. He was testing me. If I answered him would I get in trouble? Shit, fuck, Kat, I need Kat.

"Answer me,"

I choked. "Yes."

"Calm down," he ordered. He used that voice that I couldn't refuse to, the one that scared me and put me straight into submission. I tried to calm down, not that it worked. Everything felt so weird. This man had ruined me, had ruined everything and now he was just talking to me? I didn't know what to think. Until now, I thought I'd be more scared of him hurting Kat but hearing his voice brought everything back and I realised just how scared I was for myself as well. I couldn't let him hurt me, not again.

"What do you want?"

Bet he could hear the shaking in my voice. I don't know why I tried to act like I could force out a sentence without choking over my own words. Fuck, he was laughing. He was laughing, he knew how pathetic I was and he was going to hurt me even more for that. It was all a game to him.  He hurt me and everyone else to amuse him, I couldn't go back to that.

"I just want my son back," he said simply.

"I'm not your son!"

"We've only been talking for 2 minutes and you've already earned yourself a punishment, how disappointing." He murmured, probably smiling to himself as well. "I was hoping that our reunion wouldn't have to start like that. But you've given me no choice. Chris must be too easy on you. Does he let you get away with everything like your Mom did?"

"Answer me, Hunter."

"I'm asking you a question, now answer."

"You little shit, I can't wait to get you back and teach you how to behave again. I swear to God as soon as you're here, the first thing I'll do is-"