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He kneels between my legs, holding his hard cock and moving closer and closer to my body. I attempted to squirm away because of my awareness of what was about to happen, but he held onto my hip. “Stay still, Ava. I don’t want to hurt you, but I will.” He threatens. My body stills. “Good, that’s good.” He smiles. He pushes his cock at my centre and I want to die. The pain as he pushes his cock into my body hits me. I can feel a burning sensation and I cry out when he pops inside of me. “Fuck, such a tight little virgin.” He gasps. He thrusts on top of me, and the friction of his penis stings with each movement. At first, his movement is slow, but when I pant, he speeds up. Burying his nails into my skin. I close my eyes and pretend I’m not here, that this isn’t happening, but with each thrust, a moan falls from my throat, causing him to move deeper and faster with every breath I give. “Yes, that’s it, my pretty girl.” He cries out. “Fuck, yes, cover me in your cum.” The pleasure from his act moves through me once more and I can’t help the screams that fall from my lips. “Fuck, yes, my little Ava, fuck.” He cries and I can feel him pour his desire inside of me.
When he finishes, he says nothing. He just puts his clothes back on and leaves as if he was never in there to begin with. I have no words for what he’s done. I just lay there with blood smearing my thighs. The man who I thought saved me had just taken away the only thing that was mine to give and he wanted me to be grateful. I hated him.
I curl up in a ball, and I cry. I’m not sure why tears won’t solve anything. Now he knew he could do it, I knew he would do it again. He didn’t want to save me; he wanted to use me and own me. That was his plan all along.
Every night was the same. I learned to not tell him to stop because after a while I said those words he would hit me hard across the face and I was powerless to do anything but take his beating. He had trained me to be whatever he wanted me to be. I was trapped with no way out.
When I hit twenty, Nikoli was in his element. I was the bait for every poor schmuck he deemed owed him. I would get sent to bars all over New York and all I had to do was get them so drunk that when they fell asleep, I would transfer their funds to Nikoli’s account. Simple. Nobody would ever suspect that a sweet young woman would con them.
I wasn’t permitted to have sex with any of them, just gave the illusion that I would have sex with them. I belonged to him and Nikoli didn’t like to share his toys. The night I met Chase, something changed inside of me. Sure, I broke the rule by sleeping with him, but his one act of kindness saved me.
A week later, I was free. Free from the life I had been subjected to and free from Nikoli. I never thought his daughter would go through with it, but any tears I had cried, she had cried them right with me. She, of course, played her role well and acted sad when I was gone, but unbeknownst to her bastard father, she knew where I was all along.
Every day I lived in fear, fear that one day he would catch up with me. One day, he would find me and I would once again endure a life that no longer belonged to me. I had stayed undetected for ten years, but somebody had found me. I thought it was Nikoli, but it wasn’t.
It was the man who had saved me.
14
YOUCANRUNBUTYOU CAN’T HIDE
CHASE
I give her time to leave. She wanted to run let her run. This didn’t show that I wouldn’t catch her. It meant I was giving her a head start. Let her believe she escaped me. I could not release her, even if I desired to. I wasn’t the only one hunting her. Nikoli knew I was here with her. He had found her. She was the priceless item I possessed, and he desired her to be given back.
I knew little about the history of Nikoli and Ava. Audrey would never give me details. All she had told me was if her dad got his hands on Ava again, he would kill her and I couldn’t have that.
Upon hearing Damon’s words, my heart sank. Shit. It never crossed my mind that I possessed a heart, but upon discovering who was after her, my chest felt the sting of pain. It was at that moment I realized that perhaps the little beast meant more to me than I cared to admit. Sure, in her eyes I would be the monster and I would let her believe that as long as I could keep her safe.
I wait a little while. Being in a spot in her room where I saw her from the forest. If my obsession with getting close to the little beast hadn’t been so strong, she might still be hidden from sight. He would have never found her if I had just let her go, but I couldn’t do that. I wanted her to tell me why and after a while; I wanted to make her mine, but now, now, that didn’t seem possible. I’m sure Nikoli only existed to fuck up my life.
I sigh as I walk down the stairs and see Audrey sitting there, looking rather sullen. “Where is she?” I’m not sure why I was asking because I already knew the answer. Ava would’ve left after she fled from me—once again.
“She’s gone.” She mutters. “She hates me.” Tears spill down her face.
“She doesn’t hate you.” I try to reassure her. “She’s just—she’s angry.”
“She thinks I betrayed her.” She swirls the liquid in her cup and keeps her eyes down. “She will never forgive me for what I have done.”
“Yes, she will.”
She raises get head to look at me. “She’s gone, Chase. Ava has gone.”
“Oh, don’t worry, she won’t get far,” I smirk.
I turn to walk away to search for the little beast. I granted her a sufficient period to establish an early lead on her brief runaway adventure. “Chase,” I turn my head and look back at her. “Why don’t you just let her go?”
Those words caused a shooting pain to hit my body. The idea of never witnessing her beautiful, innocent eyes brimming with vitality caused a chill to crawl over my body. I shake my head. “I can’t do that.” I mutter as I walk into the frosty night air.
As I step into the forest, nostalgia washes over me. This is where it all began, how poetic that this is where it would conclude. She walks. I spot her hiding behind a tree. Why isn’t she running? She’s wandering around as if she’s unaware that I’ll go searching for her, but Ava isn’t that clueless. She knows I will come after her. Isn’t it the reason her head twists, in search of any signs of life, and then she does something that causes my heart to flutter? She sits by the stream, sliding her fingers through the clear water. She looks so innocent. I wait until she stands before I come out from the trees.
“Little beast,” I call out to her. I can see the stiffness in her back and she turns like there is imminent danger in the area. I would never hurt her. Hasn’t she realized this yet? I longed to set her free. No, it wasn’t true, but I would’ve allowed her to go. I will allow her to begin a fresh chapter in a different location where she was a stranger, if that’s what would bring her happiness, but as long as Nikoli remained alive, I couldn’t make that choice. I couldn’t let her go.
“Little beast,” I call out to her once more. “You can run, Ava, but you can’t hide.” Confusion hits her body like she didn’t know I would find her. “You have been running from me for so long, why not make it easier on yourself and just stop?”
“Why would I want to do that?” She lets a smirk display across her lips and it takes everything I have not to smile back at her because that fire, that fire that had been missing, was back and lit her up from the inside out.
“You’re just prolonging the inevitable,” I warn.
