Page 65 of Wonderland Asylum
"There's always a way, Presley Kate. All you have to do is look." He answers smugly.
I don't have time for this bullshit. Kai could walk in here at any moment. "Leo, I'm dating Kai and Gunner now, and nothing you say will change that. You need to leave."
He squints his eyes in anger, and for the first time I notice he looks like hell. Like an addict that's in the need of a fix, his pupils are so dilated I can't see the beautiful color of his eyes. He is baked out of his mind.
Sweat beads at his temple, while his skin lacks its usual healthy glow. "Come with me. Let me take you away from here before it's too late."
Panic seizes inside of my chest, because his gaze leans toward madness. What does he mean too late? "Is that a threat?"
He shrugs. "No, not from me. I'm promising you a better life. He is going to kill you Presley, if you don't listen to me, and bowbefore him. He wants you to be his Queen. I fell hard for you, but I didn't see the bigger picture. You were meant for him, and only him. Please, don't wait too long to bow. Will you come with me?"
The alarm bells start ringing in my brain, because he's insane. I'm surprised I didn't see it until now. He’s giving me cult vibes, and we run the hell away from those.
When he extends his hand, I move out of the way, but he's able to grab a hold of my shirt anyway. When I pull away from him again, the fabric rips in the process. "Don't touch me again!"
With wild fury he doesn’t listen, there's no reasoning with a madman who's one snort away from a drug induced coma. I have to get help, I have to get to Kai.
"Kai! Kai! Please!!" Running toward the door, I scream, but I can't get the door unlocked. The lock is broken. But how?
Leo presses a button hidden underneath the
window sill that is placed high above my head. Then he quickly disappears behind the wall.
In seconds Kai burst through the locked door ready to kill anything or anyone in his path to get to me. Blood flows from two cuts on his bicep, but he doesn't care. I'm his first priority.
Rushing to him, I fall into his comforting arms. "There's a secret passageway, below the window."
The bravado I felt when facing Leo was just a facade, now my limbs have turned into jello. I barely get the words out to explain.
I've got to tell them about TKOH. They're not going to be happy about my silence, but at least no real damage has been done. There could be though, evidently he’s got a type, and it’s me. That is NOT okay.
What's even more scary is that Leo knows who TKOH is, and I'm the woman doomed to become his bride or he'll kill me for rejecting him.
Do they expect me to become the mother of their cult or something weird like that? Online dating is seriously overrated.
Relief washes over me when Gunner runs in, I need them both to survive. He places a sweet kiss on my forehead, and I almost lose it.
However, I won't cry over what happened today. I'll also no longer trying to protect Leo. Whatever they do to him, I'll support it. He's made his bed.
"It was Leo, there's a button under there." Even though I don't see it, I point in the direction of where his finger pushed the button.
It doesn’t take Kai long to find it, he presses the button, and the wall opens just as swiftly as it did before. There's no use in going down that rabbit hole though, he's long gone by now.
Taking a deep breath, I lower my head as I stand before them. "There's something I need to tell you. I've been receiving anonymous letters from a secret admirer. I was flattered at first, but then I got scared. I'm sorry, I didn’t tell you."
With his thumb, Gunner directs my gaze up to his. "Little Lamb, why didn't you tell us?"
My eyes fill with tears. "Because I didn't know how you'd take it. I didn't want you to try and take away even more of my freedom."
"I'm sorry," he whispers against my cheek. "Had we not kept our feelings from you then you wouldn't be in this situation right now."
Kai takes my hand. "We will protect you, and handle Leo."
"Let me show you the letters, and I’ll tell you what Leo told me. Brace yourselves though, because it's bat shit cult level crazy." I admit.
"Do you have them here?" Kai asks.
I nod. "In my purse. I'll meet you back atGunner's office."
