I heard a distant yell, growing louder with each passing second.
No fucking way…
I ran in the other direction, but the noise kept getting louder. It was like for every one of my steps, Rowen was taking three or four times that, desperate to catch up with me.
“Get your ass out here, Av!”
My heart skipped beats. My legs locked up with fear. My head spun.
“Beg for my forgiveness, and I might show you a little mercy!”
I could hear his heavy steps snapping twigs and rustling the leaves. When I tried to look around, I ended up tripping over a rock, sending myself face-first to the ground.
I caught myself on my hands.
“Shit,” I muttered as I looked at the cut across my palm, blood already welling up and dripping onto the ground.
“Gotcha.”
She fucking ran.
Cuffed me to the goddamn bed and left in my car.
And for what? Because I loved her too hard? Too much? Made her feel things she wasn’t ready to admit?
She even said it herself.
“The worst part is I still don’t want to leave, even after knowing everything.”
She didn’twantto leave. If anything, finding that box showed her just how deeply and madly I had fallen in love with her.
And she fucking liked it.
Avery claimed trying to get her pregnant without her consent was twisted and fucked up, but even she couldn’t lie about the impact my obsession had on her. She liked the idea of my love being so vast for her, I’d literally do anything to make sure she was mine forever.
But she still ran.
Still abandoned me.
It hadn’t taken me long to rip the cuffs from the headboard, but it was long enough for Avery to take off, leaving me to find alternative methods to bring her back.
Abandoning my car once I shut it off from my phone had been a smart move.
But then she ran into the forest.
Withher phone.
After sending her those texts, already closing the distance between us, I watched her take off like a scared little animal into the woods from the tracking app I’d installed on her phone.
I’d drag her back kicking and screaming if that’s what it took.
The little dot moved quickly in the other direction, but I was faster.
“You can’t run from me, Av!” I yelled.
I continued the trek, closing in on her, stopping ever so often to yell threats, telling her what I was going to do once I got my hands on her.
And then, I spotted her.
