"Mariyah, you’re doing fantastic, we'll talk more tomorrow, it's fine, baby steps…" She nodded grateful he understood.
***
As soon as Mariyah walked into her house heading straight for the shower her phone rang.Her heart started beating, she picked up and to her horror the beeping sound came up "Hello…" She wanted to know if it was Zak
"Mariyah..."And oh my lord it was him!
"Zak?Is that you?"
"It's me..."
"What do you want?"
"I want to you to come visit me, I want to see you."Mariyah shook her head to herself.
"Not going to happen.Goodbye Zak, please don't call again."She ended the call before she lost her nerve.Fuck it was really him.Not a minute after and her phone rang again.She picked up and it was from the prison.
"Mariyah, not smart..."
"Zak you need to stop calling.Nothing is going to make me visit you, nothing, you have done enough to me, I will not allow this to continue."
"You’re making a mistake Mariyah.Consider yourself warned."Her heart was pounding.
"What?Your officer friend isn't pleasing you anymore Zak?You’re bored and need a new challenge?"He laughed, Mariyah felt her body shake, she knew that laugh, it meant he was pissed as hell.
"Your smart mouth is going to land you in so much shit kid.Listen carefully, if you do not come to see me, I’ll have to show you how serious I am."
"Goodbye Zak."She hung up and pulled the phone cord out of the wall socket.Shit she needed to tell Caleb.This was bad.
***
Caleb looked exhausted when he returned from work.Mariyah didn't have the heart to tell him about the phone call she received from Zak, at least not tonight, she would allow him to eat and rest and if he seemed a bit better maybe then she would let him know.
Question was what the hell was she going to do?Zak was dead serious, she knew that, he didn't make empty threats, he was going to do something to hurt her or to make her go see him.What the hell was she going to do?Mariyah wasn't going to let this get the better of her, she was going to pretend that she never got the call and would continue life as normal.
Day after day Mariyah was looking over her shoulder, maybe she was just a little paranoid."Come on slow coach!"Brent called out as he jogged ahead of her, she tried to catch up but it was useless.
"Brent, hold up, I'm done..."Mariyah stopped and tried to catch her breath.Brent stopped and jogged back to her.
"What's with you today?We haven't even started."Mariyah just shrugged
"I'm hungry, I can't do this today, can we go have a huge coffee and a doughnut please?"She put her hands together as if praying.Brent laughed
"How about some juice and muesli..."
"Not on your life."They laughed as they made their way to the cafe across the road.
Enjoying her coffee and her chocolate doughnut Mariyah was in heaven."Okay spill."Mariyah looked at Brent and pouted
"Brent trust me it's just too complicated."
"It's either you spill or we train..."Mariyah rolled her eyes
"Don't say I didn't warn you."
"Go we have half an hour."
So Mariyah completed here story about Zak and what he did to her and how she fell for him, she told him that she was genuinely in love with a monster and couldn't help herself.What was worse was her hearing how pathetic she was.She almost cringed to herself.Finally she got to the part of the last phone call and why she was a little off her game today.Brent was wide eyed
