“When is this shit going to end?” Cane snaps, rejoining us. “Nerd’s looking into it now.”
“We need to get to the clubhouse. If anything, Nerd should be able to access the school cameras to see who took her. Amaya already picked Lincoln up from school since he had a doctor’s appointment for his diabetes,” Venom mumbles.
Nodding, I don’t speak. I can’t. My heart is pumping wildly in my chest.
If something happens to Harper, I won’t be able to live with myself. I finally found someone who I want in my life and now that’s at risk of me losing her.
Chapter Sixteen
Harper
“Ms. Wilde.” I close my eyes and inwardly groan at the sound of Mr. Davis’ voice. I haven’t had the chance to change my name officially to DeRose.
At first, he kept persisting in asking me out. When I finally told him that I’m married, he stopped asking me out only to start coming on to me. Yesterday he’d cornered me in the staff break room and tried kissing me. I threatened to report him to the principal if he didn’t leave me alone. I should have told Whip about Mr. Davis and his advances, but I thought with threatening to report him to the principal he would back off.
Evidently not.
Plastering a smile to my face that doesn’t quite meet my eyes, I turn to the man. “What can I do for you Mr. Davis?” I ask wanting to get this conversation over with, get through lunch and finally get off work go home and be with my man.
God its strange to say it even to myself, but its true, he’s mine, and I love him. In the past weeks he’s not only wormed his way into my heart. He’s consumed every last part of it. I can barely go an hour without thinking about him.
Last weekend when my mom and dad where in town spending time with us, I pulled my dad to the side before they left. I asked him if it was normal for me to feel this way about a man so soon.
“Sweetheart, the heart knows what it wants when it sees it through the eyes. That man out there loves you, whether he’s told you or not, you can see it in the way he looks at you. Harper, I promise you this, I wouldn’t leave you knowing you married a man you didn’t know if I didn’t think he was the right choice. Whip called me before Hart’s homecoming, and when he did that it showed me he respects you and wants the world for you. Just like I want for your momma.”
My parents left and that night, I showed Whip without using words what he meant to me. Every part of me. I gave to him.
This morning, I came to school like it were any other day, feeling safe because of Whip. Because he takes caution for my safety, I felt I could let my guard down. Nothing happened since we got back to town. I thought maybe whoever the creep texting me was, they’d decided to leave me alone.
Wishful thinking on my part.
“I think you should come with me Ms. Wilde,” Mr. Davis states stepping into my personal space.
“What do you mean I should come with you?” I demand.
“You know what I mean,” he sneers, and I feel the press of a blade at my stomach. “You come with me without a scene, and if you don’t, I’ll pull my gun out and start shooting kids.
My stomach lurches at his threat.
Nodding, I do as he says. I didn’t want to alarm any of the kids about what’s happening, so I kept the smile on my face and turned to one of the other teachers asking if she would watch my class for me. Once she agreed, I walked away with Mr. Davis, with the sharp point pressing into my skin.
My life has turned into an episode of Criminal Minds. I wish I could wake up from this like this were just a nightmare I needed to wake up from.
To protect my students, I left with my kidnapper, a man I didn’t even think would be ballsy enough to pull off something like this. I should have known though. How could I be so stupid not to think about it?
Better yet how could he take me right from the school? And where’s was Aries. He’d been my tail this week. Whips orders were to not go anywhere without Aries.
Now he’s got me in the trunk of a car with my hands bound behind my back and my mouth taped shut.
“This way you stay quiet, and I know you won’t make a sound,” Davis snickers.
Davis took my phone from out of the pocket of my T-shirt dress, I picked to wear for the day with knee-high charcoal flat boots. Unlocking my phone, he does something and put my phone to his ear. To my horror he called Whip and told him he’d never see me again. Hanging up, Davis cackles and throws my phone across the way.
“You’re mine, and I’m making sure he knows he’ll never see you again,” he spits, closing the trunk. I could hear him through the barrier now between us. I scream through the tape, but I know it’s pointless. Then the car started moving and music blares, the bass vibrating around me. My ears are hurting from the loudness.
I close my eyes and pray that Whip will find me. Davis made a mistake in calling my man. Whip will stop at nothing to get me back. I’m sure of it. If my dad’s right, Whip loves me as much as I do him, and he won’t let anything happen to me without putting up one hell of a fight.
The car makes a sharp turn, and I roll, unable to stop my head from slamming into the fender weld, causing me to cry out in pain through the duct tape covering my mouth.
Ouch, that hurt. Who knew hitting your head on a fender weld could hurt so badly? Oh, that’s right, anyone who has been stuck in their trunk. None of them I know of.
I don’t know how long we drive for. My mind continues to race with the possibilities of what could happen, and I’m starting to freak myself out more. The thought of him taking me out into the woods to chop me into bits and pieces makes my stomach churn. I don’t want to think he’s maddened enough to do this or worse.
By the time the car comes to a stop and shuts off, I’m exhausted and my head hurts.
A door slams and the truck lid pops open. The lid is pushed up and the sun blares down blinding me.
“We’re here love, not its time for me to wash the filth away from your beautiful body that you allowed to be violated by that gangbanger.” Davis says.
I mumble a FU behind the tape, but I know he doesn’t understand what I’m saying. Davis pulls me from within the trunk and throws me over his shoulder. As he carries me, I look at my surrounds and I start to panic. He’s brought me out to the boonies.
Great he’s going to kill me, skin off my hair, and probably pull some Buffalo Bill mess about lotion on the skin BS.
Davis carries me through the woods, and we hit an opening and then he walks onto a dock. Oh no.
No. No. No.
I’ve seen an episode like this, and I don’t want it to be me it happens to. Lakes like to take their victims to the bottom and I for one can’t swim. Plus there’s water moccasins in these parts.
Tears will my eyes and I start to wiggle hoping to get him to drop me. To keep him from throwing me into the water.
“Stop, love, you’re being naughty when you should behave. You behave and I’ll reward you, sweetheart. I’ll show you just how much you mean to me. I just have to wash the filthy from you in the depths of the water first. You’ll be okay I promise and then we’ll move on. We’ll be happy I swear.”
Oh my God.