Author’s Note:
Here’s a recap just in case you forgot cuz it has been so long
“Riannon, Beau, you have to help us. They took Jessica and Reece” the voice on the other end of the line was Mr. Myers’s
“Just when we thought things were going great” I told him and put on my shoes ready for what was coming next.
“Where are you? We will be there in a few” he told us where they were, which was only a few hours away. we got into the car and were silent the whole way there.
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Chapter Eighteen
Reece’s POV
Great, just great, all Jesse and I were doing was looking over the side of the ship to get a better view of the whales. I told her to stay away from the edge but did she, noooo.
She just had to fall into the water. Instinctively I jumped in after her. The water was like ice even though it was summer outside. We were saved by a fishing boat that scooped us up.
They must have been spying on us the whole time because as soon as I saw similar faces, the same from the house in Texas, I knew we were in trouble.
Only this time I had my Jesse to protect.
I slumped down against that rock hard wall I was chained to. Jesse’s limp body had been lying in the corner the whole time. They must have done something to her to drug her out or something.
The only way I knew she wasn’t dead was she would take deep breaths every so often.
To watch her lay there like a helpless ragdoll pained my heart. She was the only thing in my life I have ever really loved.
After all, my parents lied to me for fifteen years, my real father was some scamming dirtball, and my brother and sister had lived the ‘high life’ while I was ‘slumming it’.
Thinking about this just made me angrier.
Why couldn’t we just skip the country and go away?
Why couldn’t we just kill the bozos that are after us?
I know that Beau has guns and the experience to take on these buffoons. Ri had already been learning how to shoot but they refused to let me go with them.
It would be a hell of a lot easier to get out of these chains with a gun stashed away somewhere on me. The angrier I got the harder I tried to get out.
The chains on my wrists were too tight to move and my shoulders were already starting to hurt. The more I fought to tighter they got.
Who would be so stupid to take a bunch of teenagers?
Even though I knew the answer, it sickened me to think of what they would do to my Jesse and me. These men are sick. I was not going to stand for it!
The door of the holding room opened and I could hear people walking down into the cellar.
“Well, well, look what we have here,” said the same man from Texas .
“You always were my favorite hostage. You gave in nicely to my needs.” He started to unbuckle his pants and I squirmed to get away.
It was no use; I was tighter against the wall. This time I would have to watch what he did to me.
He walked over and stroked my cheek. I flinched away.
“Don’t fight me kid, I will just make it that much more painful for you later,” his gruff voice spoke close to my ear.
I fought tooth and nail to get him away from me but it was no use. Finally, I begged, “Please just knock me out or something. I can;t take this any longer.” He did this surprisingly.
Before I went blank, I said a quick prayer hoping that they wouldn’t hurt my Jesse.
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Riannon’s POV
“When was the last time you saw them,” I asked a very frantic Mrs. Meyers.
“About ten minutes before I called you,” she said as tears fell from her eyes.
“What were they doing when you last saw them,” I asked trying to remain as calm as possible for their sake.
“Jessica said that she wanted to go over to the side and get a better view. I told them to be careful and Reece said that he would take care of my baby girl.” Mr. Meyers spoke this time and I think it was the first time I had ever heard fear in his voice.
“I’m sure he will,” said Beau in a loving tone.
“Okay, so they couldn’t have gone too far because we were in the middle of the ocean. They docked the ship as soon as we realized that they were gone.” I looked around and couldn’t see anything out of the ordinary.
“Okay, well, there is something that we haven’t been completely honest to you about.” I braced myself to tell them the truth about my family and me.
“You need to sit down for this,” said Beau as he started to tell the story about our parents and how mob members were after us and trying to kill us.
Mr. and Mrs. Meyers were as white as a piece of printer paper by the time he had finished telling the story.
“So those bad men have my little Jessica,” she asked standing up and walking over to me.
She slapped me in the face. I was taken aback by this. I felt my face stinging. I stood up to her.
“What the hell was that for?” I was pissed off now. No way was this bitch going to slap me in the face when I had nothing to do with any of this, well sort of.
“That was for getting my family into this. If you wouldn’t have come then we wouldn’t have to search for my daughter right now.” She was hysterically crying now. Her husband was trying to sooth her. Beau wrapped his arms around me. I was crying now too.
Reece had only been in my life for a little over a month and I had already lost him possibly forever. “Beau, what are we going to do?” I cuddled closer against him praying that nothing would happen to him because of me.
We were quiet for a few minutes and we all jumped at the sound of Mr. Myers phone ringing.
“It’s Jessica’s ring tone,” he said as he snapped it open. “Hello,” he said into the phone.
“Hand over the phone to miss Thomas please,” I heard the voice on the other line say.
“Hello,” I replied putting the phone in between Beau and me so that he could hear as well.
“If you want the girl back you will come to pier 22 in one week, alone. We will show her to you and send her home in a cab. If you come with anyone, we will kill her and the boy instantly.” I gulped and looked up at beau with terror on my face.
“Oh…okay,” I managed to stammer into the phone.
It clicked off and disconnected.
“One week,” I asked Beau. Those horrible men could do a lot in one week to helpless kids.
“They will be fine,” he reassured me.
“Well, what did they say?” Mrs. Meyers was running up to me and she took the phone from me. “Hello…hello” she spoke into the phone. She dropped to the floor. “I can’t believe that they have my Jessica.”
“What did they say,” pleaded Mr. Meyers pulling his wife into his arms and wrapping them around her. “They want to meet us on pier 22 in one week,” said Beau.
“One week? That is so far away. What are they going to do with them?” I couldn’t answer that because I knew what they had done with Beau and me. I also knew that Beau had killed one of them.
He didn’t think that I knew but I overheard him talking to Reece about it.
I now resented Beau and I for not letting Reece come along on our trips to the shooting range.
It hit me like a ton of bricks. Beau had killed someone. I don’t remember much from Texas but now I knew what we should do.
“Will you train me?” I looked into his eyes and saw them light up.
“Train you?” I looked at me as if I was crazy.
“Yes, I know that you killed the man who raped me in Texas. I want you to teach me how to train myself so that I can take care of myself.”
Mrs. and Mr. Meyers looked like they were about to explode when I said that the men had raped me.
“They can’t do that to my Jessica. I will kill the man who touches a single hair on her pretty little head.” Mr. Meyers said.
“You don’t have to worry, I am sure that Reece will take care of Jessica because he has feelings for her. I don’t think that he would let them do that.” Beau reassured them.
I just prayed that he was right.
Since they were in no condition to drive them back home and still had Eli and the baby with them I offered to drive them back to their house. I followed Beau in their SUV back to their house.
The air was thick as Beau and I excused us to our room.
“Are you sure you want to learn how to kill someone,” he asked me.
“Yea, I want to be able to protect myself from anyone who hurts me.” I was sure about this more than anything I have ever been.
“Okay, we will start tomorrow first thing.” He kissed the top of my head.
I snuggled into his arms where I felt safe.
I just hoped that we could take on these men before they did anything too terribly to Reece or Jessica.
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