Her shoulders start to shake, and her cries vibrate through my entire body.
I don’t have time to cry or dwell on what might happen here. We need to move quick before we are transferred.
“Can you reach my thigh from where your hands are?” I try to shift to move the chair I am tied too, lining up her fingers with my shorts. “I have a small knife high up, if you get it then I can cut us free,”
She nods, tears free flowing down her face. “I can feel it,” Her hands work fast to try and unclip the pocketknife I am so thankful I decided to keep on me tonight. “Almost there,” She grunts, her hands fumbling with the angle we are at.
“Got it,” She shouts but the banging of a door down the hallway has us freezing. Footsteps travel towards us, and I can’t grab hold of the knife fast enough.
“Piper, I am going to need you to cut your binding free but if someone walks through that door, even if my hands are still bound. I will distract them while you run. Understand,”
“What. No way,”
“Promise me. Please. I couldn’t live with myself if anything happened to you,”
“What about me?” She whispers as the footsteps get closer, her hand working fast against the ties. “You expect me to live with myself if I get out and you get taken, or worse,”
“You have a lot to live for Piper,” My heart starts pounding as I search the floor for something to use as another weapon. “I should have never made it this far in the first place. It’s a miracle I made it to twenty-three,” I shrug.
“You think Asher won’t tear the world apart looking for you,”
“If that is true then I have nothing to fear. You will be safe, and Asher will find me eventually,”
“Rue, I am not…” The door handle lowers as Piper’s tie pings open. It lands on the floor beside me, so I place my bare foot on top.
“Keep quiet and try mine now,” I whisper as a head of brown hair on a traitorous bitch walk through the door. The usually timid and shy woman no longer in sight as she holds her head high, a smile on her face as she takes us both in.
“Ah, we are both awake,” Deena smiles. “And I was afraid you would be transferred before I could see that look on your faces,” She chuckles and I bite my tongue to keep from spouting venom.
“Nothing to say?” She asks me directly. “Aw, but you always have something to say Ruella,” She steps into the room, her black boots splashing in a puddle that I am hoping isn’t urine.
“I have to hand it to you though, you aren’t as insufferable as Marlowe was. That bitch thought she was queen fucking bee. Look where her arrogance got her hmm,” She laughs as Piper works on my ties, her arms holding steady as to not give us away.
“I had a sweet thing going until she tried snatching Piper. My job was to work the home while hers was to find suitable girls at the academy,”She continues almost in her own daydream. Like she has been dying to tell us her story and to find her anything but weak and timid.
“Do you know why she chose you Piper?” Piper freezes, her hands halting all movement as Deena comes to stand before her. “Because Asher turned her down then proceeded to shag Darcy,” She cackles. “How hilarious is that Rue. Guess you and your sister have the same taste in men,” My jaw hurts with how hard I clench it.
She comes before me and bends to eye level. “Do you think you would still fancy him if he had fucked Marlowe,”
“Probably,” I shrug unbothered. “Everyone makes questionable decisions when they are unhappy and angry at the world,”
“Hmm.Boring,” Deena’s phone buzzes, her attention flicking to it. Piper uses that time to cut through the last of my binding, this time I keep it in my hands.
“Well ladies, this is where we part ways. Piper have fun with your new man. I should warn you though, everyone’s first time hurts, but by the extra few months he was made to wait plus his list of kinks, I would expect extreme pain,” I feel the terror emanating from Piper and I promise to unleash this pent-up rage onto Deena as soon as I can catch her off guard.
“And Rue, I’m sure you are no stranger to pain,” she grins. “But with you no longer being a virgin, you will more than likely be sent to please the team for a while. Until you are all used up and worthless,”
My fists clench.
“One question before you go,” She spins back around, coming close to me. I clench Piper’s hand in mine and squeeze tight three times, praying she reads my plea to get ready to run. She squeezes back.
“Why do you do it?”
She snorts. “Because girls like us don’t get to live happy lives like them. They treat people like dirt and use and abuse them as they see fit. It is only fair we do the same to them,” She clicks her tongue. “It’s a shame really. I kind of liked you before you started pushing your nose in other people’s business. Even tried to warn you away, but you never listened,”
“The attack and the note, were you?”
“The attack no,” She smirks. “But the note. That was me,” She stands to full height.
